Trippki is a live and operational hotel booking platform with more than 1.6m hotels around the world. The platform accepts payment in cryptocurrency for a growing crypto community who want to grow the ecosystem. The company caters to both the new traveller and the experienced traveller for offering a user-friendly hotel booking portal where users have access to hotels globally at competitive prices through Trippki.com. The company's standard booking platform is 'The Trippki Travel Club' where users become exclusive members to get access to discounts up to 60% off the public price. 45% of the proceeds will be used on towards the company's marketing and sales campaign to drive users to the hotel booking platform, 35% for team building and the rest of the 20% for the development of the platform.
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£40,220
Square Mile Farms (SMF) is a company that installs innovative and productive vertical farms in a workplace to engage employees and help businesses create a culture of healthy, low-impact living. Its 'Office Farming' model creates green spaces for engagement and collaboration. In 2019, it was invited to build a vertical farm in Paddington Central by British Land, one of UK’s largest landowners. The setup now acts as a hub for the company's office farm installations and a base from which it can conduct Research and Development (R&D). SMF's customers include Grosvenor Group Limited and Vodafone. Moreover, the company has been covered by media platforms such as BBC One and BBC Radio. It will use 45% of the investment for sales and business development, 15% for design and technology up-gradation, 15% for raising its profile and increasing brand awareness, and 25% for operations.
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£504,118
Ortharize is a business travel platform that enables companies to cut their travel bills by rewarding their employees for spending less on flights, hotels and trains. With a proven business model, the company is confident that their innovative incentives platform coupled with competitive customer pricing will lead to rapid growth. They are in talks with Expenses Software Company to rollout to 1000+ customers. Moreover, through its partnership with Travel & Transport, Ortharize also has access to global airline and hotel inventory with pre-negotiated discounts and commission from launch. The company is planning to exit within 5 years and expect this to be through a trade sale.
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£435,360
pluumo makes sustainable thermal packaging material from waste feathers. The company asserts that fresh food deliveries need thermal packaging to keep ingredients frozen and prevent spoilage. pluumo claims that plastics such as Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) are used in this process, leading to 141,000 tons of plastic waste generated in the EU in 2019. pluumo asserts that its patent-pending material matches the performance of EPS, keeping items chilled for up to 40 hours. The company has secured £450,000 in grants/awards, including £140,000 via InnovateUK. It aims to be a contender in the $137 billion online food delivery industry. pluumo argues that 74% of consumers would pay more for green packaging, with e-commerce sustainable packaging predicted to be worth $65 billion by 2023. The company will use the investment to scale production and expand into the wider UK market.
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£511,325
envoPAP is a company that specialises in manufacturing printing and packaging materials from agricultural waste. Started in 2015, the company has achieved £7.3 million in revenues across 45 countries. The European packaging market is valued at over £100 billion and the European Union (EU)are looking to ban some single-use plastic products with effect from 2021, envoPAP aims to capitalise on these developments. The year 2019 saw envoPAP introducing its product 'envoBarrier’- a material resistant to oil, water, and grease which won the 'Packaging Innovation of the Year' at the Business Green Technology Awards. In 2020, envoPAP became a certified B Corporation rendering it a business that balances purpose and profit. The investment will be used to protect its Intellectual Property (IP) and expand its team.
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£381,128
Almond provides businesses and consumers with a method to understand their carbon footprint and use the company's proprietary offset tools to become carbon neutral. Consumers can earn Almond Tokens when purchasing products from Almond's partnering sustainable brands. The Almond Tokens can be spent on their website The Almond certification label on products enables them to demonstrate their commitment to protecting the environment, consumer health and building a better society for all. The core idea is to build a market that's geared towards sourcing and selling sustainable products. The green economy market is worth $4 trillion. The offset market was $300 million in 2018, having grown over 140-fold in 10 years. Almond seeks to be a market leader in this domain. It has also partnered with reputed institutions such as the World Wildlife Fund, and the Stockholm Environment Institute (carbon analytics). With the investment, the company aims to further the popularity of its existing Almond App and have more people join its ecosystem.
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£522,540
YellowWood Adventures Limited is an adventure travel company that pioneers in small group adventures in destinations like Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Lebanon, Ladakh, and soon, Oman. The company believes in supporting local economies, discouraging littering and adopting sustainable tourism, and supporting charities while taking its clients on tours. The global adventure tourism industry is projected to reach $1,626.7 billion by 2026, and the company finds itself as a suitable contender in this category. YellowWood has been featured in publications such as The Telegraph, Times, CNN & NatGeo. The company will use the investment to expand its team and marketing budget, enhance its products catalogue, and structure its website to further communication with its clients to boost its business.
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£61,810
SkiYodl is a technology-led business that intends to transform the knowledge of people who live in the mountains into an online marketplace of handpicked accommodation and experiences. The company's growing network of in-resort fixers aims to bring customers the best resort discovery and handpicked accommodation, so they can book the exact trip they are looking for. SkiYodl asserts that it has generated £350,000 in booking revenue since its inception, built a community of 30,000 followers, and has a registry of 2000+ handpicked properties in the Alps. It will use the investment to expand into more locations, increase its property portfolio across the Alps and into North America and Japan, build the SkiYodl App and pocket concierge, and expand Yodl Group beyond SkiYodl and HUSH to include SunYodl and CityYodl.
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£778,159
Elemental is an agricultural food technology company that converts 78% of beef processing waste into sustainable fertiliser. The company claims that its technology can potentially reduce global beef CO2 emissions equivalent to 50 million cattle. Elemental asserts that its technology has been developed through extensive R&D and protected by patents in 60+ countries. The company raised £1.5 million on Crowdcube in late 2019, signed agreements for 14 projects in the UK and Europe using its technology, built a demonstrator plant and agreed to install its technology on commercial terms at 6 UK abattoirs. The company states they will use the investment to operationalise their first plant by December 2021 and grow their business across different verticals.
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investment:
£1,395,801
ClearWaste is a price comparison website for waste removal and a provider of enforcement services to councils across the UK. The company argues that the cost to local authorities and taxpayers for cleaning up fly-tipping in England in 2016/17 was £57.7 million and is now thought to exceed £100 million. ClearWaste is on a mission to combat it through its app and web platform utilising reporting and prevention methodologies. The company links consumers with govt-registered waste removers backed by a £1k no-fly-tipping guarantee. ClearWaste argues that the UK waste industry is worth over £6.8 billion and supports more than 103,000 jobs. It aims to be a contender in this segment. ClearWaste has featured in press entities such as BBC, ITV, Channel 5, Sky, Times, and The Guardian. It was also a finalist at the National Recycling Awards 2020. ClearWaste will use the investment to develop its sales and marketing functions and further raise brand awareness.
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investment:
£199,599
