Sweat IT is a fitness studio in London, which provides supreme high-intensity training experience with the hardest workouts. The UK fitness industry continues to grow high at a value of over £5 billion because of increasing demand for a healthy lifestyle. Sweat IT redefines this with healthy eating and exercise. The company has the vision to take its business growth to the next level and become the leader of boutique fitness. They have partnered with Gympass, the world’s leading corporate fitness platform to deliver high-intensity fitness classes to London based corporate clients. Till date, they have had over 50,000 class bookings with more than 13,000 Instagram followers and a database of 10,000 customers. The company intends on using the investment for marketing and product branding and next-level growth. They are also looking to fund their second studio in London and have ear-marked a potential site in the City.
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£211,220
Thrillz is a portal that aims to create life-changing moments for users by allowing them to personally connect with their favourite celebrities. The company intends to become a leader in the global gifting market that is worth £450 billion. It argues that its average monthly revenue growth of 157% in 2020 was driven by the recruitment of high-quality celebrities with 75% of sales accomplished via organic growth, by word of mouth, product virality, and PR in national outlets. Thrillz was named as a 'Top UK Startup in 2020' by Startup Pill and has featured in press publications like The Sun, The Times, and The Evening Standard, to name a few. The company has launched its app on iOS and Android platforms and achieved a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 82. It will use the investment to scale its celebrity network, usher New Product Development (NPS), and hire personnel across marketing and operations.
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£552,304
GeoDB is a decentralised peer-to-peer big data-sharing ecosystem, powered by Blockchain Technology, which rewards you for data generated. Users upload their data to the ecosystem and in exchange get rewarded for the data generated and datasets are purchased by buyers to access the data pool. It aims to solve the existing inefficiencies of the data industry. Till now, the company has launched Data Generator Network and Data Generator App GeoCash. The company has secured partnerships with five big data companies from Europe & Latin America. Their app is available on the google play store. Also, they have over 15,000 social media followers, including Telegram, Wechat, Twitter, Linkedin, and Medium. The proceeds will be spent on team building, marketing and growth of their Token to increase its visibility and presence in more significant and liquid exchanges.
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£1,527,399
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
Padoq is a creative game-changing mobile application development platform for organizations and businesses which enables customers of all forms and dimensions to engage, organise and monetise. Its functionality includes Photo, file and video sharing, Event Management, Payment collection etc. The company is listed on the G-Cloud public sector procurement framework, is ISO-certified and, it has won Venturefest in the NW and membership of the Maserati 100 by the Sunday Times. With the proceeds, the company will target the release of a self-serve advertising platform that will allow communities and businesses in benefiting controlled advert inclusion.
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£850,117
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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Percayso is a Business-to-Business (B2B) insurance technology entity that aims to become a contender in the £220 billion per year UK insurance industry. The company claims that conventional methods of finding the best insurance premiums has its share of hurdles. Percayso intends to change this. It points out that its portal allows users to find relevant premiums, reduce chances of fraud and increase profit, all in a transparent layout. The company has already signed four clients. It argues that it has a strong pipeline of 25+ opportunities and aims to convert at least 50% of these. It will use 45% of the investment for platform development, 20% for third party integrations, 20% as working capital, 10% for product and international development, and 5% for marketing and networking.
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£437,134
Effie is a machine designed to automatically iron your clothes at home. The prototype of the machine was created to automatically iron the shirt regardless of its size, colour, or cut. This technology is patent-pending that underpins this process. There are over 350,000 registrations from customers who are willing to buy the product. The product has been covered by many reputed media platforms like Evening Standard, House Beautiful, UNILAD and many more. With the investment proceeds, the company will take its patent-pending technology and further develop it into a fully-completed prototype which is fully user-tested.
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investment:
£1,021,600
Using artificial intelligence and robotics to increase farming efficiency whilst reducing the environmental impact. Small Robot Company is utilising Farming as a Service (FaaS) and has created three robots to perform a farmer's usual tasks. These lightweight machines do not damage and compact soil, as heavy tractors do which leads to decreased plant growth and increased time spent ploughing to revive the topsoil.
Their three robots, named Tom, Dick and Harry, each have unique responsibilities. Tom collects information on the farm, Dick looks after crops and Harry plants individual seeds. The company's AI, dubbed Wilma, provides a digital scope of the farm and dictates which plants require the most attention Small Robot Company has already received a £5,000 deposit from 20 farms and manufactured concepts of their machines.
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investment:
£1,173,940
