Billmonitor is a revolutionary price comparison site/tool that provides the best money-saving deals. Founded by the quintessential Oxbridge boffin for mobile phone services, Billmonito is accredited by Ofcom, the UK telecoms regulator. Its tool analyses the user's ACTUAL usage via the last three months' billing data. The company's fully digital, consumer-based, and consultancy-led business services are managed by a highly competent staff. In 2018, Billmonitor delivered growth of more than 400% via Business Renewals. In May 2019, it increased its connections from less than 100 to more than 2500. The company's aims to further expand its client reach by targeting revenue growth of 75 percent in the coming three years. 50% of the proceeds will be used in consumer services, 30% in business services and 20% in working capital needs.
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£235,272
Strowz is an innovative, all-in-one financial lifestyle App that allows users to create multiple savings buckets earning 2% interest, link bank accounts and credit cards, invest in high growth funds, and set up customised round-ups. The Strowz App combines technology, finance, lifestyle and helps users save and invest intuitively. As of May 2020, Strowz savers have targeted over £3.6 million across 260+ savings buckets. The company also won the 'Best Programmatic Technology For Trading Award' for three consecutive years in 2017, 2018, and 2019 from WSL and Fund Technology awards. The company's growth strategy will include 'Word Of Mouth' referrals, social media & digital ads, strategic partnerships, amongst others. The company will use the investment funds to increase growth, focus on product development, and launch Strowz in Canada and the US.
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£275,009
Unifi is a social community app designed by university students for university students. The app allows students to discover one another, connect, debate, find local work and interact in the campus marketplace. Unifi aims to create micro-communities across campuses. The company aims to solve the problem of isolation and lack of inclusion on university campuses, which have populations of anywhere between 20-40,000 students. The company conducted surveys amongst 1,000+ student participants where over 85% ultimately responded that they would use Unifi. They will use 40% of the investment for marketing expenses, 21.5% for paying staff, 25% for app development, 11% as working capital, and 2.5% as administrative costs.
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£243,038
Decimal Factor arranges payments and lends to small and medium-sized businesses with stable funding. The company is working on open-banking-enabled data capture to build a digital campaign with portals, applications and merchant management tools. The company aims to use cloud-based technology to make payments. The funds will be used for marketing, technology, operations and management.
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investment:
£860,387
Elfin Market is an FCA authorised peer-to-peer lending platform offering fair and affordable alternative to credit cards. There are over 60 million credit cards in the UK and the outstanding credit card debt amounts to £72 billion. The company plans to disrupt the credit card market by making financial services simpler and cheaper for everyone through technology and innovation. Elfin Market has already launched the beta version of their product and has achieved 60% monthly growth since its launch in September 2019. With the proceeds, the company will hire two developers to further build up in-house capabilities and for the smooth working capital of the business.
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£804,890
Brickowner aims to become the leading service provider for property developers and asset managers, ensuring benefits for both parties. The company undertakes background checks of investors on its portal for the benefit of asset managers. It also ensures that investors can easily navigate its portal and find deals that suit their financial appetite. Brickowner successfully exited five investment rounds despite two investments happening in the wake of COVID-19. The platform has over 3,000 investors registered with over 700 active investors. It has overseen £14 million worth of investment on its portal to date. Brickowner will use the investment towards technology up-gradation, hire strategic personnel to expand marketing, and increase its marketing spend.
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£132,528
MiiCARE is a company that provides AI-based in-home companionship & health support for the elderly. miiCARE provides an 18-month product validation process with the NHS and the elderly. Its innovation miiCUBE is a cloud-based assistive technology solution that can detect an emergency and inform a designated responder. miiCARE already has 250 prospective clients who have already expressed interest to purchase the product. The company was accepted for the 'Microsoft for Startups' program in 2019 and Microsoft's 'AI for Good' acceleration cohort in 2020. The company will utilise the investments to create an emergency stock to support future orders, fulfill orders for clients, strengthen its team, and create a small inventory for orders.
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£354,632
Brickowner aims to become the leading service provider for property developers and asset managers, ensuring benefits for both parties. The company asserts that it undertakes background checks of investors on its portal for the benefit of asset managers. It also ensures that investors can easily navigate its portal and find deals that suit their financial appetite. Brickowner successfully exited five investment rounds despite two investments happening in the wake of COVID-19. The platform has over 3,000 investors registered with over 700 active investors. It has overseen over £15 million worth of investments on its portal till date. Brickowner will use the investment towards technology up-gradation, develop its B2B capacity, and increase marketing initiatives to support company growth
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£290,362
Green is a tech-focused energy supplier that focuses on utilising its bespoke technology to make managing energy simpler, offer customer support through multiple channels with extended phone line hours and 24/7 live chat, and deliver 100% green electricity to its customers. Green has received a 4.8/5 rating on Trustpilot with over 3,200 reviews. The company has achieved a peak of 2,000 members in one week and saw 40,000 members joining its platform in the first 12 months of its inception. The platform has an 86.5% platform utilisation on a regular basis. The company will use the investment to bring its offering to the business and prepayment side utilising its smart technology and apps as well as tailor its marketing campaigns and technology to boost its business.
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investment:
£286,726
Logically uses advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help governments, businesses and people uncover and address harmful misinformation. Its flagship consumer-facing product is an intelligent fact-checking and news curation app that combines the best of machine learning with human intelligence. The company's app has witnessed over 100,000+ downloads and completed over 10,000 fact checks. Logically's investigation has covered topics such as 2020 US Elections, regional Maharashtra Elections, and QAnon Central Hub Hosting Phishing Scams to name a few. It has featured in press entities like Forbes, Bloomberg, The Economic Times, and BBC amongst others. The company will use 28% of the investment towards sales and business/partner development, 25% towards technology and data science, 20% towards platform investments and additional data sources, 20% towards marketing and sales enablement, and 7% towards administrative expenses.
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investment:
£2,110,694
