Radical new technology changing how global companies think and work.
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Expired
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£387,247
Endurance Sports TV (ESTV) is a portal that focuses on events like live racing, race reports, athlete biographies and documentaries. It aims to deliver engaging high-quality content via a Subscription-Video-On-Demand (SVOD) service available via web, mobile and TV mediums (Apple, Android, Firestick, Roku and Chromecast). ESTV has 81 million endurance sports fans and participants globally. The company’s app has seen more than 5000 downloads in over 100 countries. The platform also offers advertisement-free curated viewing to its viewers. ESTV has curated over 600 sports videos since 2019. The company will use the investment to focus on making video content broadcasting special features with global sports talent and covering top events. It will also use its PR & marketing teams to reach out to sports journalists and utilise social media channels to connect with fans and participants everywhere.
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Expired
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£82,220
Hexis is a fitness application that helps users become fitter scientifically, fuel smarter and feel on top of their game. The company argues that despite users becoming knowledgeable in fitness, courtesy of the internet, nutrition hasn’t become a core area of concern. Hexis asserts that its proprietary 'Carb Coding' tool amplifies the human body's response to exercise, enhancing performance, recovery and adaptation. Hexis stresses that its tool removes the guesswork from nutrition by predictively personalising a user's requirements as per their workouts and lifestyle. The company points out that its beta system was tested on 1,000 users. It aspires to dominate the personalised nutrition market that is set to grow to £11.7 billion by 2027 and counts athletes like Paul Dunne (Golf), Rohan Dennis (Cycling), and Lauren Delany (Rugby) amongst its star users. Hexis states it will use the investment to democratise nutrition and increase its user base across global markets.
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Expired
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£398,234
Bike.Rent is on a mission to become the world's best bike rental platform. It has over 350 bike stores across 18 countries, and each year connects hundreds of thousands of bike renters to tens of thousands of bikes across the globe to provide a consistent, high-quality booking experience. The company is working on upgrading its platform for the benefit of bike renters so that rental fleet details of all its bike stores are available from a single application. It asserts that this will allow customers to save time by booking bikes from any of the company's bike stores using the app instead of the conventional route of visiting the store and making a booking in person. The company witnessed over 200,000 bookings last year. Bike.Rent will use the investment to grow its business across different verticals.
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Expired
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£310,220
Grid Duck (GD) is an intelligent energy control system. It argues that only 14% of commercial buildings have a Building Management System (BMS) that allows them to switch off appliances when they are not needed automatically. GD is trying to bring the remaining 86% of buildings under its network. It has launched a wireless cloud-based system for companies to manage their energy consumption. Companies can check their energy consumption on an easy-to-use dashboard. GD is also evolving its technology into a self-learning system that supports time-of-use tariffs, demand response and renewables balancing. The company won the 2020 Rushlight Energy Reduction Award, and is ISO27001 certified for cybersecurity with regards to 'Penetration Test'. With the investment received, the company will grow its revenues and invest in New Product Development (NPD).
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Expired
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£339,771
BitcoinPoint is a financial technology entity that allows anyone to buy Bitcoin easily. The company remarks that registration on crypto exchanges and the extremely high fees non-tech savvy users encountered with Bitcoin ATMs made Bitcoins unviable. BitcoinPoint aspires to change this by creating an ecosystem of agents, Point of Sale (PoS) machines and ATMs to make it easier to acquire cryptocurrency and even use it for remittances. The company has developed a 'Bitcoin Online Wallet' with zero network fees for its clients. It has overseen 21,500+ transactions, registered 2,500+ accounts, and signed an agreement to connect and provide services to 320,000 locations globally in Q1 2020. The company argues that its platform was supporting a network of 25 agents reaching over £200,000 in monthly transactions before lockdown. BitcoinPoint will use the investment to build a remittance service leveraging its crypto expertise via Bitcoin and the Stellar blockchain with stablecoins, allow cross-border instant transfer, and increase its UK network of agents.
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Expired
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£410,580
Human Forest (HF) is a social impact and digital marketing platform that combines sustainable micro-mobility and digital marketing by providing dockless e-bikes which are free for everyone to use for 10 minutes daily with no unlocking fee. HF aims to be a significant contender in the projected $150 billion micro-mobility market in Europe by 2030. HF's pilot project launched in the London Boroughs of Islington and Camden over summer 2020 witnessing almost 10,000 eco-enthusiasts making over 27,000 trips avoiding 10 tons of CO2 in the process. HF has onboarded entities like FT, Whole Foods, and Rude Health. The company is raising investment to build an even bigger human forest opening in more Boroughs with more e-bikes available for use.
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Expired
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£1,275,383
Hinterview is a technology entity that has come up with a video platform that enables professional recruiters to engage and communicate more effectively with their target audience. The company believes that 'remote is the future of work', accelerated by COVID-19, that will drive more interest in their technology. The company asserts that its technology can aid agency, in-house or even college & campus recruitment drives producing satisfactory engagements between recruiters and job seekers. The company is white-labelled, ultra-secure, and cloud-based with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance providing data privacy & security protocols to its clients. The company has 61,000 users active on its platform with 230+ active contracts. It will use the investment to further develop its sales and marketing functions and build departments internally as its business scales both in European and global markets.
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Expired
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£421,505
ALVÁTECH is a sustainable water technology company on a mission to revolutionise the $1.3 trillion per annum agriculture industry that consists of 537 million farmers. It claims that the agriculture industry uses 70% of global water consumption. ALVÁTECH aspires to change this. It argues that its technology disrupts water molecules in an ecological way, helping farmers grow more with less water. The plug and play solution runs entirely off solar energy and is chemical-free. ALVÁTECH claims that it has installed its water treatment devices in 17 countries across six continents and established an international distribution network since its product launch in August 2020. The company has also signed agreements with entities in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the US, Europe and the Middle East. ALVÁTECH will use the investment to expand its distribution network, sales teams and subscription plans to reach more farmers and develop Hydro devices for vertical farming, boost hydroponics, and create ALVÁ personal home devices.
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Expired
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£504,932
Circle Squared bridges the gap between companies and their customers by collecting and rating company environmental and corporate social responsibility data and then, providing this data to consumers through its forthcoming app. By feeding back to companies consumers reactions to their products, Circle Squared gives consumers a voice and encourages businesses to do more and help change the world. Right now, the company has 2000+ followers on social media. Circle Squared will have a 3-fold business model—affiliate marketing, use of mini-game, selling data—to tackle the £51bn market.
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Expired
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£48,670
