NoshyCircle intends to disrupt the £8.5 billion UK takeaway market by offering healthy home-cooked meals with ingredients and their nutritional value clearly displayed on deliveries. Consumers can use the app to order their meals prepared by cooks in their neighbourhood. NoshyCircle ensures that the cooks are registered with their local council having a food hygiene rating of three or above. The company also strives to make sure that all its deliveries arrive in an eco-friendly packaging and delivery solution. NoshyCircle enables anyone passionate about cooking to register themselves as cooks and start their virtual kitchen. It currently has 20 such people on its platform. NoshyCircle will use the funds to scale its presence to the rest of London by the end of 2021 and expand its social media presence to attract more consumers to grow its business.
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£91,424
Sugar Crave is an award-winning treat delivery service that has sold more than 13 tonnes of Pick N Mix in their first year. The company have won the Best Online Business 2019 award with Shropshire Chamber of Commerce and has also seen growth of 4000% in Year 1 to £67,959 with a profit of £27,291. Additionally, from covering 5,000 postcodes, the company now caters to 79,500 postcodes in Yr 1, with the aim to deliver within 60 minutes from order, Sugar Crave is working towards increasing its coverage across the UK by 2022. With the proceeds, the company will increase the range and expand coverage to all 52 major UK towns & cities.
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£131,940
Fuudel seamlessly connects food operators to consumers using an on demand service. Their platform goes beyond ordering, providing cutting edge tools and services to help food businesses to thrive. Founder Dabier Miya previously had a highly successful enterprise software sales career and in 2004 began what was intended to be a one off investment in a restaurant venture which then led to a decade journey and half a dozen restaurants.
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£70,675
EMIXIT has built a B2B ecommerce platform wholesaling products from UK suppliers directly to trade buyers across Europe. Over 40 brands with 250+ products have already registered on the platform paying a fee. EMIXIT allows buyers to make up mixed pallets from different suppliers, in their local language, over labelled and delivered to the door – a “one-stop-shop”. Their service is aimed at buyers from small retail or foodservice chains to large multiple supermarkets and hotel/restaurant chains. www.emixit.eu.
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£58,320
Erpingham House is the UK’s largest vegan restaurant whose aim is to make plant-based dining into the mainstream and provide delicious, healthy food and drinks to people. The company has earned nationwide recognition and, it has been listed in The Times top 20 vegetarian restaurants. It has also been featured in The Guardian and on channel 4’s “what Britain bought.” EH has served over 12,000 customers in its first year and, it has risen to over 20,000 followers on Instagram. The funds will be used to expand the brand & open a second site in Brighton.
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£192,280
Kiddyum have won multiple awards for their nutritious and delicious frozen meals for young children. They are currently stocked in over 320 sainsbury's nationwide and on Ocado.com. All ready meals are made from natural ingredients with no added sugar, preservatives, GM ingredients or artificial colours or flavours.
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£61,310
Champion & Reeves is a confectionery brand that manufactures and distributes 100% natural, high quality confectionary. They currently have orders placed from locations such as Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.
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£156,540
Stroodles are straws made from pasta, which eliminates the use of plastic and wet paper straws. It lasts over 1 hour, is tasteless, 100% biodegradable and edible. The company has received worldwide brand exposure through viral content via Unilad and BBC. It has B2B and B2C clients including Marriott and Ibis in Europe, and it has stockists in the UK and Austria. The company will use the funds to scale marketing and sales and to become the market leader in the straw market.
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£214,980
CRATE Brewery is a popular London-based Brewery, and their taproom a “mecca” for fans of craft beer from across the globe. The brewery was launched with the aim of creating a fun and stimulating environment where people can enjoy themselves, drink, eat, socialize. In FY2018, CRATE achieved a turnover of £3.95m with an EBITDA of £88k. The brewery also secured a national listing in 1500+ Tesco stores. It has set foundations for future growth by having invested in sales & marketing and extended its venue's (the White Building) lease and workspace.
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£962,480
YurOn is a video platform that cultivates authentic interaction between prominent personalities and their fans. The portal allows people from different walks of life–drag queens, mountaineers, activists–thirty seconds to ignite a conversation, start an Ask Me Anything or co-create a skit. YurOn shuns away filters, anonymous commenting, vanity metrics or validation-driven algorithms and endeavours to bring to the public an unadulterated conversation between stars and their fans. The portal soft-launched in Q2 of 2020 and has seen over 5000 downloads, 2000 active users, and 32% of users retaining over a month. The company will use 80% of the investment to grow its tech team and cloud infrastructure, and 20% towards marketing and partnerships to accelerate growth.
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investment:
£222,110
