Lighting Design, Luminaire Development and UK Manufacture. Our core products are street/ industrial lighting. LED lighting is the future and ALed's will continue to design and develop ground breaking products that challenge. Our design technology means we provide highly efficient lighting solutions that maintain a quality of light far longer than our competition. A £1.5 Billion spend on street lighting upgrades (UK) planned by 2020 provides the market for our continued growth.
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£393,256
Africa New Energies holds an oil exploration license in Namibia, where it has applied its unique surface exploration method to identify a gross unrisked prospective resource of 1.6 billion barrels of oil equivalent.
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Antaco is a clean technology company that has come up with a solution to process any type of organic waste, both wet & dry (including woody), into a solid biofuel and a direct replacement for fossil coal. The company aims to disrupt current methods of organic waste disposal. Antaco won the 2013 Shell Springboard & 2014 WEX Technology Awards. It has received an £857,000 grant from the UK government and was voted the top UK & EU Cleantech start-up by Climate-KIC & EIT (European Institute of Technology & Innovation) in 2013. Antaco is seeking £400,000 (Future Fund matched) in further investment to expand operational capacity on-site, build its team, and capitalise on growing market opportunities.
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£661,410
AnyGood? is a crowdsourced talent platform that aims to reshape the UK's recruitment industry by ensuring that employers get access to the best candidates at a lower cost. AnyGood?, partnered with Beam, is also involved in tackling the increasing crisis of UK homelessness by connecting people with training and skills. Recognized by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as a quality startup, the company has hit several milestones in 2018 such as 320 candidate referrals, the addition of 117 new roles, and recognition by Sharing Economy UK. AnyGood? is now on a Business Growth Programme, and has a forecasted global growth of $335m by the end of 2025.
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£439,427
Aiming to prevent further deterioration and leakage of water and sewerage pipes, Aqualiner has developed their Melt in Place Pipe (MIPP). This patented technology consists of a sock insertion, which when heated, expands and melts onto the inner pipe and forms a solid glass-reinforced thermoplastic layer. This process can increase the longevity of existing pipes and is the only product of this type to be approved to be safe-for-use in drinking water pipes. The UK has more than 251,000 miles of water pipes, where almost 75,000 miles of pipes are classed as damaged.
Aqualiner firstly plans to sell the initial equipment in return for a small profit margin, but the materials and consumables used in the process will be sold to the licensed contractor directly as a second income stream. The third source of revenue is derived from fees charged to International territorial licensors for any Aqualiner sales.
The product has been developed with support from Anglian Water, Severn Trent Water and Yorkshire Water and is approved to be installed in US drinking water pipes.
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£642,471
Bank of Telecom is the global marketplace for secure voices trade. Members have access to live traffic and pricing and can post routes on their own terms and pricing to ensure simple and secure trading.
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£450,000
After a successful fundraise with Funding Tree last year and subsequent growth since, specialist wedding planning service Bespoke Weddings Ltd is raising funds for a second time as it seeks to finance further growth and expansion.
Note to investors:
This loan is underwritten by Jeff Sills who has provided us with a personal net worth statement which exceeds the amounts outstanding on Funding Tree loans.
Business growth
Prior coming to Funding Tree in June the business only covered one UK region, bringing in around 73 bookings. One venue in particular, Shottle Hall, generated £42,120 for the business from 52 weddings in the time prior to the Funding Tree loan.
Since securing said loan from 31 Funding Tree investors in June 2015, Bespoke has been scaling the business in line with its long-term strategy to cover more UK regions.
As part of developing a network of venues and planners, the business hired a new divisional coordinator and four new regional coordinators. It also trained 18 new wedding planners and appointed a further 9 wedding venues in the East Midlands. Furthermore, the business created a new wedding website for all the Brides & Grooms.
This has enabled the business to increase bookings from 73 to a forecasted 180 a year, which the planners are on target to achieve.
Revenue Model
Under the name The Platinum Wedding service, Bespoke charges the Bride and Groom £500 for each booking plus a booking fee for the wedding suppliers, which is £185 (on average), plus ‘on the day’ wedding planning which is a minimum of £125.
Each wedding booking is bringing in around £810. Further revenue streams include the business offering ‘exclusive offers’ at venues, which brings in a commission of £500 per booking.
Looking ahead
Jeff Sills and his team are now targeting further growth opportunities in the Midlands and London/South East, followed by the South West and North of England.
To carry out expansion plans, the business is seeking a further loan of £25,100 over 36 months. This will be used to raise the number of venues in each region to 20.
With more wedding venues on his books, Jeff expects to increase the number of enquiries into the business to around 800 each month per region, with around 600 bookings expected per year.
Case study
The growing success of the business is evident from the following case study. In just 12 months The Platinum Wedding Service achieved the following for one of Bespoke’s wedding venues - Shottle Hall, Derbyshire:
52 Additional Wedding Bookings (an increase of over 50%)
Increase in Sales of over £300,000
Increase in Net Profit of £167,423
Increase in Net Profit of over £600%
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£10,040
Innovative marketplace platform that is disrupting the rapidly digitizing global outdoor media market.
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£739,406
Blow LTD. is the leading UK based tech-enabled beauty business which offers expert beauty services at the doorstep to busy women at a place and time which suits them. The company only uses premium beauty products and maintains customer satisfaction. Since the launch, the company has delivered over 360,000 beauty services across the UK. Blow LTD. has been featured in high-profile media such as Vogue and Elle. Moreover, it has built partnerships with leading brands such as Kerastase and Decleor. With the proceeds, the company will accelerate its growth and launch its first international market.
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£1,930,470
Buildy is an online platform that aims at making construction hiring easy by eliminating the expensive middlemen, thereby, saving time and money for both employers and employees. The platform was shortlisted as the Best Recruitment Innovation at Building Innovation Awards. Buildy has already signed up around 100 tradespeople and 46 employers. The company will streamline the hiring process through automation of job by bidding for jobs, matching algorithms, ratings, online chat, reviews, and providing the skilled workers and tradespeople more control via a better user interface. With the proceeds, the company will seek to fast track the Buildy app and help the company become the top recognised brand in construction staff hiring.
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£17,380
