Launched in 2016, Scoop is a printed kids magazine which publishes original work from some of the world's best-amazing writers and illustrators including Malorie Blackman, Jacqueline Wilson and Neil Gaiman. Scoop's magazines are sold in 35 retailers globally and has a readership of 6,000. Moreover, the company has also partnered with UK literacy charities including the National Literacy Trust and Love Reading. The funds raised will be used to raise subscriptions, add new formats and generate new revenue streams.
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£161,840
Scoota was founded in London in 2008 and is an online advertising company that allows advertisers to create and manage their own scalable brand campaigns. Scoota have won a number of awards for their technology including best overall programmatic technology at The Drum Digital Trading Awards and Silver for Best Ad Tech Provider at the 2015 British Media Awards.
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£1,700,449
Solar for Schools aims to reduce the amount of carbon emissions produced from schools by installing and maintaining solar panels. Currently schools produce 50 million tonnes of carbon emissions a year. Installing solar panels would drastically reduce this number and would also save schools money on their energy bills.
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£497,410
Spearhead provide over 250 high quality, practical, training courses via their network of experienced trainers and their new online training platform. Spearhead have secured large corporate clients nationally, from various sectors.
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£140,660
Spiral is a leading classroom learning platform which encourages active learning and collaborative atmosphere for school, teachers and students.
The Social Learning Network (TSLN) is building a world-class education technology company, providing innovative well-researched collaborative apps to help teachers make the most of mobile learning that is being rolled out to students in schools around the world. TSLN’s founders have spent two years in field research, identifying the key issues faced by teachers and students as they adopt technology into their day-to-day practice. The outcome is Spiral - a suite of individual apps that mirror common learning activities used in schools all over the world; empowering teachers and providing unique real-time data to support assessment and school-wide monitoring. Spiral’s first two apps – Quickfire and Discuss - were launched in July 2015 with over 2,800 schools and 18,000 users registering in the first 4 months. This November, an average of over 57 new schools have signed up every day and registration figures are growing exponentially month-on-month. Spiral is used by primary age to university students, in all subjects, from over 100 countries across the world.
TSLN is seeking to raise £400,000 of investment (£85,000 already raised) in exchange for 22.2% equity (17.5% available to CrowdBnk investors), to match-fund its remaining £130,000 SMART grant from Innovate UK and proposed Horizon 2020 grant-funding to continue growing Spiral as a global mobile learning brand, with the intention of acquisition from a global education service provider by 2019.
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£91,653
The Jackal is an exclusive and upmarket lifestyle media brand targeted towards the affluent, urban male audience. The media brand’s the Jackal Magazine does away with traditional newsstand magazines and their circulation model and adopts a free distribution model, making the Jackal the UK’s second biggest upmarket men’s magazine. The media brand also runs a creative studio and has worked on projects covering brand direction, content strategy, print, film and digital. The Jackal's combined digital audience is about 45,000, and it has worked with over 40 luxury advertisers already.
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£182,842
Providing musical-entrepreneurs with the tools and facilities to succeed and thrive in the media industry. The Rattle offers new and upcoming musicians and technologists with a mentorship and community to help them run their own music businesses in the new digital world.
The Rattle is currently processing more than 800 applications and has already accepted over 100 candidates for membership that have come from numerous backgrounds with various aspirations. Since February 2018, the company has seen their monthly revenue grow by more than 300% to over £11k. The Rattle is expanding their business to Los Angeles, with New York City planned soon after.
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£1,112,210
WHO WE ARE We are a social network that gives creative writers as well as artists (actors, film producers etc) the opportunity to market their work and establish themselves in the world of entertainment. Whether you are a professional writer, or write as a hobby, this site is perfect for you. Users are able to upload samples to their portfolio and share their work for free. BUSINESS AND THE WRITE HUSTLE All types of business that use writers whether it is magazine companies, film companies, record labels, recording artists, managers, producers , speakers or simply a company that’s looking for a script to advertise their new products or services. The Write Hustle is perfect for you to quickly find that talented writer you need and gives you the ability to have direct contact with them and build relationships as well as with other businesses.
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£500
TutorTap in an online platform that connects tutors with children who need help or even children who are overacheiving and want to learn beyond the classroom.
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£169,700
Unbound is a book publishing company that only produces books which readers want to read by getting them to pre-order through pledging. Its 200k users from 191 countries have pledged £7m+ to fund 436 books including bestsellers like The Good Immigrant and Letters of Note. Unbound is particularly useful among online influencers and content creators, who often have large audiences but fewer ways to monetize. Furthermore, it aims to be the most innovative publishers in the world. Unbound combines data science, crowdfunding and an award-winning publishing brand with an online marketplace. By foretelling future trends, it is better placed to reach instant, data-driven acquisition decisions.
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£1,293,050
