POS8 is a company that has developed an app, Fetch, that allows customers to order and pay from their phone. The company feels that 'Fetch' holds prominence against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic. Using the app, customers can view a menu, order food & drink and pay securely, all in a matter of seconds with no need for contact, from the comfort of their smartphones. The app's 'Intelligent Ordering System' sends orders to a venue staff’s own devices according to who has the fewest orders waiting. The company believes that its pay-per-transaction model allows it to dominate the £98 billion restaurants industry. POS8 is also developing a LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) & beacon location technology to pin-point guests to an accuracy of 10 cm for faster serving times. The company will use 10% of the investment to complete its location technology, 20% in Point of Sale (POS) integrations, 20% in operations, and 50% in sales and marketing to build customer and user base.
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investment:
£438,660
We Are Fetching is a free application that helps parents manage the school run amongst their trusted friends, whilst keeping the school informed. The app allows parents to earn credits to use as per their necessity when they collect a friend’s child as well as their own. Fetching asserts that 56.2% of mothers have made a change to their employment due to childcare in the UK. The company points out that its portal can address the aforementioned concern. Fetching also includes a walk-home option and contact reporting in response to COVID-19. The company's platform aims to get more parents back to work and reduce administrative pressure in schools in the wake of COVID-19. Fetching will use the investment to grow its parent user base and make its platform live in 20% of UK schools by 2022.
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investment:
£41,976
Avanatta is a fun micro-video app that both safeguards its users and rewards them for great content.1 in 12 Twitter users have been trolled and even more on Facebook, Instagram and others. Yet these companies don't take the matter seriously. At its worst, the abused have committed suicide. Avanatta has market-disrupting software that profiles and predicts user behaviour. It automatically blocks, suspends or bans anti-social content. It is the world's first social network to do this.
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investment:
£22,625
FilmDoo is a new film discovery platform where you can discover, watch and share films alongside a community of film lovers. FilmDoo allows emerging film makers in emerging markets the chance to show their films in the British market and internationally.
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investment:
£156,415
Turning homes into renewable energy generators by offering homeowners the ability to create, accumulate and redistribute electricity via an app. Resilience is enabling customers to sell electricity generated from their homes to the National Grid and potentially reducing their energy consumption bills by up to 80%. The company will provide customers with the necessary software, hardware and means to produce electricity that can be stored and sold, as well as monitored through an app.
Resilience's technology is designed to be future-proof and integrate with upcoming and emerging tech. Their monitoring system can also detect any faults in advance to allow action to be taken before issues arise. The company is developing sales channels by working alongside housing developers and energy firms. The initial target market is the 23m homes that used traditional energy suppliers in 2017, as well as the 800k homes that are fitted with solar PV panels.
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investment:
£151,900
Heard is a social networking company that aims to connect people and foster deeper relationships. The company believes that current social media is broken. It aims to change this and transition virtual interactions to real-life interactions. The Heard app allows users to scan for their near and dear ones and maintain a friend list. All the data is safeguarded by privacy and security protocols. The company's app has seen over 11,000 downloads across iOS and Android. It was a finalist at the Great British Entrepreneur awards 2019. The company will use the investment to promote their app and reach a wider audience by collaborating with a Public Relations (PR) firm and social media agency, Social Republic.
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investment:
£52,191
eSole is a maintenance-free intelligent shoe insole that uses GPS and GSM technology to help you care for the ones you love. eSole will track and monitor those with a high propensity to get lost such as people living with Alzheimers and Dementia.
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investment:
£12,530
EMERGEiQ is a cloud-based platform targeted towards Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and large corporate organisations. The company plans on having an extensive suite of algorithms that simplifies Data Science (DS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at low cost, across all sectors. EMERGEiQ asserts that its analytics can help businesses improve operational productivity, cut costs, and eventually generate more revenue. It has worked with companies across a variety of sectors such as finance, medicine, stock market, and insurance. The company will use will 30% of the investment for R&D, 25% to purchase software and hardware to improve platform capabilities, 25% to market its new product line, 10% as working capital, and 10% as miscellaneous expenses.
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investment:
£150,000
Victor Mobility have designed a mobility device to bring a disabled person into an able bodied environment. The mobility device will be modular so it will adapt to the users disability, it will go up and down a kerb, it will go inside and out so you don't have to buy two devices and it will enable the user to be at social height or eye height of 1.5m.
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investment:
£716,150
Arcade is an innovative provider of technology (patent pendinG) that empowers telecom carriers to offer life-changing gigabit broadband over existing networks, with rapid deployment and ROI in under a year. Their solutions enable gigabit speeds everywhere, complementing fiber strategies and avoiding extensive cable replacements.
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investment:
£350,000
