Artists Ahead is a company that enables music rights holders to retain a greater proportion of the royalties generated by their music and protect their copyright. They argue that music royalties generate around £2 billion in revenue each year in the UK, but many artists receive a very small proportion of the income generated. Artists Ahead aims to change this and charge around 8% of royalties with the rest going to the artist. The platform collects both recording and publishing royalties, uses blockchain to provide proof of ownership, and holds all digital assets and royalty data in one place, accessible to the customer on any device. The company claims that its business model is transparent. They intend their business to reach maturity in 2025. It anticipates the purchase of its brand by potential buyers as a foreseeable exit plan. Artists Ahead also envisage an IPO permitting investors to trade their shares as another exit opportunity.
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investment:
£229,500
Avanatta is a fun micro-video app that both safeguards its users and rewards them for great content.1 in 12 Twitter users have been trolled and even more on Facebook, Instagram and others. Yet these companies don't take the matter seriously. At its worst, the abused have committed suicide. Avanatta has market-disrupting software that profiles and predicts user behaviour. It automatically blocks, suspends or bans anti-social content. It is the world's first social network to do this.
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investment:
£22,625
Baanx is a Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C) banking platform that is Application Programming Interface (API) driven and digital-friendly. It aims to become a contender in the digital asset financial services market that is expected to rise and expand to over 580 million people or 7+% of the world population by 2022. Baanx argues that it is disrupting the slow and expensive banking sector by leveraging blockchain to launch secure and low-cost banking products and services, with a few lines of code. Baanx offers its users 'Digital wallets' (via API or a custom mobile app), crypto-friendly debit cards in physical and virtual formats, and allows users to send fiat or cryptocurrencies to anyone in their contact list with 'zero' Foreign Exchange (FX) fees, through its proprietary software, TextBit.
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investment:
£9,500,000
Balkerne is designing a commercial insurance product based on Risk Management technology and Property & Casualty Insurance. Through this way, the company helps enterprises defend their property and people. The company will make sure that no property owner suffers from theft, fire or flood. It has generated net revenue of £21K in January 2019. The revenue model of Balkerne is to charge a percentage of the premium to distribute insurance and support customers with risk management by managing claims. The company has come up with an exit strategy that is to improve the performance of the acquiring company and to quickly acquire the skills and technologies at a lower cost.
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investment:
£150,000
Beezer are a SaaS platform allowing SME's to create their own app quickly and cost-effectively whilst bypassing the app stores. Beezer offers effective distribution as companies only need create one app which is compatible across all devices and operating systems.
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£335,464
BerryClever is a social commerce website for parents, featuring baby and kid product reviews and a product suggestion engine. The site creates a social community that allows parents to provide honest advice about products they’ve used, and to research and solicit advice about products they want. A product discovery engine ranks products based on users’ social and personal profiles, enabling the site to suggest products to registered members. The site is optimized for mobile internet use so that users can discover and review products easily.
www.berryclever.com
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investment:
£90,007
BidSpace is a digital sales & account management platform for enterprise B2B. Using BidSpace, sellers create a secure, personalised, interactive, mobile & social experience built around their buyer to improve their relationship. Buyers see decreasing value in sales, struggle to stand apart from competitors in new pursuits & fail to retain & grow existing contracts. BidSpace gives improved relationship leading to better contract performance, enabling B2B sellers to win, retain & grow business.
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investment:
£170,246
Billon have created a technology that enables zero cost global payments by the use of a simple mobile app. Billon's mobile app allows you to instantly pay for the rest of an article from the Guardian or even donate to your favourite Youtubers with a few clicks of a button.
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investment:
£1,406,667
Helping insurance companies tackle fraudulent claims by using a combination of blockchain and artificial intelligence. BlockClaim aims to reduce the time spent by car insurers processing false claims, by performing data calculations on a driver and their driving behaviour. This information is fed into the BlockClaim system, which produces a fraud probability risk score.
BlockClaim's technology has been piloted by large insurance firms such as Admiral and Generali. The company's tool consists of a plug-and-play module that is integrated into existing systems used by insurance firms. Revenue is generated via a fixed fee per claim processed via BlockClaim’s product, as well as an initial set-up fee.
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investment:
£400,011
Bodytrak is a wearable technology that monitors physiological activity such as heart rate and core body temperature. This real time data is analysed using cloud based technology and algorithms to supervisors or commanders so early action can be taken on the event of illness or injury.
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investment:
£1,123,119
