Invluencer is a Venture Capital (VC) company with an economic model designed to bring VC to the masses. Invluencer believes in boosting greater investment capability between investors and company representatives. This is undertaken by creating a smart-contract enabled 'Intelligent Wallet' for autonomous investment in vetted high-growth companies facilitated by Invluencer’s unique Multi-Asset Platform (I-MAP) and Intelligent Distributed Due Diligence (i3D) platform. Through these platforms, the company aims to simplify investment and open liquidity between worthy companies and accredited investors. The company will use the investments to continue the development of due diligence and fund management platforms, strengthen the investment team and analysis team, strengthen relationships and partnerships within the VC ecosystem.
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£154,000
Elute Intelligence is an online platform that makes searching documents fast, simple, and accurate. The platform is optimised to handle a variety of tasks such as plagiarism detection, patent searching, fraud detection, governance and compliance, and e-discovery to name a few. Using a unique AI-based system, users can upload long-form documentation, and the system will analyse, tag, and find related articles across a wide range of academic journals and data sources. The company is looking to engage in partnerships: with government and commercial R&D teams to help accelerate research into Covid-19, with development partners to help expand the system into other research areas, and with investors interested in an AI and big data platform that can transform scientific research processes.
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Themis is a regulatory technology company that helps organisations mitigate the risk and impact of all forms of financial crime such as money laundering, bribery, corruption, cybercrime, theft, slavery/human trafficking, and fraud. The platform is designed to provide insights and intelligence on the latest threats, trends, and criminal techniques whilst helping clients complete due diligence on their clients, staff, and supply chains. Themis works alongside the Themis Charitable Trust to ensure the reduction of financial crime. The company also supports the UN Global Compact taking into account the fundamental responsibilities of business in the areas of human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption. Themis will use the investment to grow its business across different verticals.
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£1,300,000
Buyerdock is a Software as a Service (SAAS) global discovery platform that allows retail buyers instant access to compliant ready brands through the company's intelligent cloud technology. Buyerdock enables each supplier to upload details like product information, barcodes, images, and pack size on the portal. Retail buyers can then scrutinise all the available information within specific product categories and select the inventory they wish to purchase intuitively. Buyerdock received a mention from the former CEO of Sainsbury's that the former will speed up the buying process from 6 months to under 3 for retail buyers. The company is in talks with the top six UK retailers, such as Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Home Retail Group, Sainsbury's, Asda, and Morrisons. It will use the investment to grow its business and target the approximate 306,000 retail outlets in the UK, of which around 200,000 are independent retailers.
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£121,157
HighCandi is a drone services business that specialises in providing operational support to large companies, for example, in telecommunications and renewable energy sectors. It brings together independent drone service providers under one brand and uses these drones to inspect infrastructure, providing photo analysis, video inspections, and 3D digital models of facilities to help clients manage their assets in an affordable manner. HighCandi’s app, which can memorise and automate inspection regimes, makes sure that each drone delivers consistent imaging and data. The company's aerial videographers are Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) licensed and adhere to legal restrictions wherever they film. The company's strategy is to target 10% ($520 million) of two key sectors, namely The Global Industrial Inspection market and European Real Estate market, by 2021. HighCandi is a potential disruptor in the drone sector which is expected to boost the UK economy by £42 billion. With the investment, the company will start recruitment to drive sales, pilot engagement, and brand marketing.
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Quotall is a specialist insurance technology software entity that helps large, high profile enterprises to enter the insurance market. The company claims that to date, brands have struggled to extend into insurance due to significant up-front costs, regulatory concerns, legacy technology in the insurance sector and a lack of in-house expertise. Quotall claims that its insurance ecosystem service aims to remove these barriers and enable rapid market entry. The company asserts that it can arrange regulatory approval for the client and link the latter's customers through to its fully client-branded, quote, buy and self-service insurance platform. Quotall's earned revenues in 2020 reached close to £500,000 and it has raised £4 million to date. It states it will use the investment to resource the implementation, development, and servicing of new client accounts as they are contracted.
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investment:
£708,805
Pocket App are the largest independent app development company in the UK. They have had a number of high value clients such as Coca Cola, Samsung and Adidas. Pocket App are also starting to do work in partnership with the likes of Microsoft and IBM.
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£837,115
YAYZY has created a platform that calculates the carbon footprint of a user using their spending data land helps the user make up for it using carbon offsets and guides the user towards more sustainable choices. The company believes that the shift in the use of money from high carbon to low carbon choices will accelerate the transition to a new era of sustainability and responsibility. YAYZY raised a £120,000 pre-seed amount, experienced a 26% organic week-on-week growth only driven by referrals and is in conversation with three major banks that are interested in using its technology. YAYZY will use the investment to launch its Android app, convert 25% of users to subscriptions, introduce impact investing, and onboard at least two B2B customers.
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investment:
£722,793
Gigrev is a powerful direct to fan social platform for artists to connect directly with their fan base, enabling them to own their fan data, generate a new revenue stream and save on social media advertising costs. Fans can get exclusive behind the scenes access to video blogs, insights of their favourite artist, event tickets and buy merchandise direct.
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investment:
£296,200
savvy navvy (SN) is a technology company that aims to save sailors hours of frustration by finding the best and safest routes to their destination. Users need to drop a pin on the SN map and it will work out the best route in seconds. The company has raised more than £600,000 from more than 1,200 investors, calculated 15,000,000 miles of routes, and onboarded 56,000 registered users. SN has also secured partnerships with Sunsail, Navily, Dockwa, GJW Insurance, XShore, various yacht clubs, and marine brokerages around the world to increase its business. SN will use the investment to increase its Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), execute nine marketing campaigns across 17 countries, and improve the application with additional features.
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investment:
£858,524
