BOS Films specialises in creating and producing african themed films for mainstream audiences. The Directors first film, a love story about immigration, was a big success. It screened across the world, in the UK and the US and was also released in Africa.
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£1,560
Business Finance Market (BFM) is a financial technology platform that stimulates the market towards Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) lending via data in the UK. BFM claims that SMEs are gradually being excluded from mainstream banking. The company cites that in 1988, 40% of all bank lending went to SMEs. BFM points out that lending today is closer to 4% with an estimated £22 billion funding gap to the 5.9 million UK SMEs. BFM asserts that almost 90% of SME loan applications are stuck due to a lack of choice and transparency when it comes to securing finance. BFM aspires to solve this dilemma. It states that its technology allows SMEs to experience quicker finance decisions based on true addressable market access and allows lenders and intermediaries access to its platform to help manage the end-to-end application process, improve deal flow, and deliver faster credit decisions. BFM intends to exit via a trade sale within the financial sector.
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Carbaya are an easy way to buy and sell a used car. They are an online peer to peer marketplace that puts convenience, value and trust back into the used car industry, offering buyers and sellers better value for their car and money. The marketplace will serve all used cars less than 6 year old and with less than 60,000 miles and once a sale is made they will drop the car off, washed and with a full tank of petrol to the buyer.
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£351,273
Caretoshare gives users the opportunity to share years of experience with others and learn a new skill in return, whilst also building new friendships.
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£4,420
Cellar Rats, led by Founder and CEO Matt, aims to disrupt the wine industry by changing the way people discover, buy, and enjoy wine. With a background in successfully transforming consumer brands, they're determined to revolutionize the UK's £17 billion wine market, which currently faces challenges due to a lack of consumer wine knowledge. Starting with a subscription service and extending to shake up traditional wine retail, Cellar Rats is poised to reshape the wine industry from the ground up.
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£282,164
A coffee roasting company using ethical means to produce and supply sustainable speciality coffees. Chimney Fire Coffee serves their products to more than 50 retailers, 10 offices and an increasing number of online customers. Their product range varies from espresso blends, to complex filter coffees.
Funds are being raised to launch the Office Coffee Club, a service aimed at those working in an office environment. Trials have already taken place at 10 office sites and the company has received praise for their flexibility, quality and price. Whilst at the same time, Chimney Fire Coffee is able to achieve a gross margin of 63%. Over the next 5 years, the company aims to sign up 4,000 customers to the Office Coffee Club.
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£155,550
Choc Chick is an established chocolate brand that markets free from and organic raw chocolate. It is also launching a range of gluten-free and vegan chocolate products for the fast-growing healthy snacking market. Chik Chok’s products have been listed with three of the UK's largest healthy and organic foods wholesalers, namely Tree of Life, Infinity Foods and CLF. The company aims to be No. 1 vegan and free from healthier chocolate snack brand in the UK. Moreover, its raw chocolate making kits and organic raw cacao ingredients are amongst the first products of their kind in the UK and have been winning awards since 2014.
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£94,397
Conferences designed for C-Level executives in finance and insurance, with greater control over the content discussed and building new networks within the industry. Club2020 has more than 1000 customers with 25 sponsors and has been in profit since its inception. The company have launched four financially successful events in two years and is now ready to expand further.
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£35,870
CYWL has grown organically since its formation, with its own investment capital and resources. Considering the realistic insight into the global demand for an online sports specific coaching portal to the market, we will need to move from R&D pre-reveune traction stage to Sales and Profit stage. This can be achieve via a £100k Second Seed/Angel round.CYWL has very ambitious plans to expand the company. To realise the full potential of becoming a world class company CYWL plans in January 2015 to raise by way of debt/equity a sum in the region of £1.5M growth capital. Each of these proposed plans will provide extended global reach across the sector, consumer acquisition and increased return on revenues. It has aligned its sales, marketing and operations to become a major participant in a rapidly expanding market. Revenues of £80M growth scenario are expected with a strong EBITDA margin over the next 5 years."CoachAnyWay is a online sports coaching portal, giving you the opportunity to learn any sport, coached in a variety of ways"www.coachanyway.comProblemAccess to Free sports coaching content and saving time searching the web to find right type of coaching content and resourcesSolution An all in one sports coaching portal/service, helping users find a variety of coaching content and resources for them to use as they progress CoachAnyWay has no barriers to entry, this is what makes it appealing to users!Coach Your Way Limited’s strategy will be to deliver www.coachanyway.com globally, that penetrates the global market and establishes itself as “the” world” destination as a provider for its digital marketing platforms for the general public seeking sports tuition, educational systems, coaches and sporting organisations. CYWL provides a service that can directly benefit society, by encouraging active behaviour, whilst generating high revenues and growth.CYWL is targeting consumers with and interest in 8 vertical sports; Football, Tennis, Golf, Cricket, Rugby, Basketball, Netball and Boxing, underpinning their objective of capturing a segment of the global sports market, which is set to be worth $145 billion US dollars by (2015) and the worldwide e-learning market is estimated at $91 billion In the US alone (2013).Unlike sport sites that focus on their own specific channel, CYWL will perpetuate and support initially 8 channels of sports education and tutorial, the ongoing conversation and social network via the web and mobile platforms, to then increase this number to 32 sports channels over 5 years. • There is no global destination for sport education. • A platform where users can produce and broadcast their coaching methods to the public • There is no true personalisation for sports. Facebook, YouTube and others try, but they have not accommodated segmentation of sports users. • Latest sports products will be targeted to users via advertisements relevant to their specific interest. • Delivering a continually expanding and evolving library, always providing current information • Website structure that encourages ‘social activity’ and ‘networking’ between coaches and other members, www.coachanyway.com is the’ Linkedin for Sports Coaches’ Our Proposed Business Model:1) During the Beta stage of development we will be able to track the top 8 leading sports that havetriggered the most interest from the public. Using this information we will engage with sportingbrands allied to those top 8 sports to explore opportunities for them to advertise on the www.coachanyway.com website. For example the Golf channel is selected via a user, with up to 20 videos per page, alined brands in Golf such as Callaway, Adams, Bridgestone, Cleveland, can all compete and be inline with these videos down the side, to sell their products to an extremely targeted audience interested not just in Golf, but in recreating a Golf Swing, Putt. This will be an added incentive for users to buy from these advertisers offering these products, thus saving them time having leaving CoachAnyWay and search across the internet for these items needed to play Golf.Over time, as determined by user interest in over 32 sports, we expand the opportunity for advertisers to use our website, from initial 32 advertisers on 8 sports to 128 potential advertisers on 32 sports and increasing there after.The top 4 biding companies in each sport will be able to choose from a starting advertising priceand method of advertising, as per the following examples:Pay per impression [8 initial advertisers pay £3 per 1,000 hits (0.1%)]Pay per click [8 initial advertisers pay £.20 per 100 hits (1%)]Cost per engagement [8 initial advertisers pay £.20 per 100 hits (1%) year 1 and £.30 year 2]Pay per lead [8 initial advertisers pay £2 per 200 hits (0.5%) year 1 and £3 year 2]2) 50% of content will be Premium Content, with starting costs at £1 per download in year one and £2 in year two. We currently have over 80,000 video downloads a month on our prototype so the usage is there!3) IOS and Android Applications will go on sale for £2 year one and £3 year two4) Directory referral fees on a monthly basis,A Directory to find coaches in your surrounding area A Map Directory, for individual sport governing bodies coaching courses for users to learn how to coachA Businesses Directory using google maps, so users can find local coaching businesses providing coachingTotal sales are forecasted at £691,703 Year 1 (2015) to £25,506,908 Year 5 (2019)Net cash flow forecasted at £134,996 (2015) / £3,942,175 (2016) / £9,779,542 (2017) / £15,446,959 (2018) / £20,412,881 (2019) You need to be registered as an investor to see thisJoin Now
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Cranes develop acoholic, cranberry flavoured drinks. Currently their product range consists of 3 different variations of cranberry cider and also a cranberry liqueur. Current stockists include the online supermarket Ocado, as well as many other local shops and bars.
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£194,634
