GENEROUS APE is an online shopping destination for the style-led conscious shopper. The company asserts that the word 'APE' is an acronym for 'Animal, People and Environment' and is targeted towards sustainable shopping. GENEROUS APE argues that it has completed eight weeks of beta-testing with an average of 450 visitors showing interest in its website and 47.62% being returning customers. The company asserts that the average basket value was £89 with partnerships signed with 80 style-led sustainable brands. GENEROUS APE onboarded 'DHL GO GREEN' as its primary delivery associate and partnered with World Land Trust on the 'Buy an Acre' scheme to facilitate wildlife protection in perpetuity. The company will use the investment for optimising marketing, boost organic growth channels and paid media, improve the consumer experience, and develop a personalised dashboard for each customer.
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£208,525
Seatfrog allows users to upgrade to 'First Class' on trains running in the UK via its app. Users need to enter their booking credentials on the app and are shown a list of available options. Upon selecting their choice of an upgrade, users can either set their bid price for each seat or skip the auction and upgrade instantly with Seatfrog's buy now option. Upon winning, the company will send the user the new barcodes on their phone. Seatfrog asserts that 42 seconds was the record time for the fastest upgrade on its portal. Its app covers over 560 destinations. The company was named in the UK’s 'Top 30 Fastest Growing Tech Scaleups' in 2020. It has onboarded 340,000+ customers to date securing a 4.8 star App Store rating, earned revenue worth £2,095,091 YE 2020, and secured ~£10 million from some of Europe's leading technology investors. The company aspires to become a contender in the £160 billion European rail market. It will use the investment to expand across Europe and build a better future for rail travel.
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£2,488,943
Bodytrak is a wearable technology that monitors physiological activity such as heart rate and core body temperature. This real time data is analysed using cloud based technology and algorithms to supervisors or commanders so early action can be taken on the event of illness or injury.
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£1,123,119
Finmo is re-imagining financial services by building tailored services and products to help the independents, self-starters and challengers of the world in attaining financial success. The Finmo solution helps users understand how much tax they owe to the government. It is the simplest way to track taxes for contractors, freelancers, and self-employed people. Finmo has made a user-friendly mobile application that has many advanced features for the self-employed who finance their business with their personal bank account. It monetises by cross-selling products and services and licensing its product out to accountants. The company has monetised the maximum investment amount of £100,000. The Goal of Finmo is to build, a sustainably profitable company.
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£150,000
TiPJAR is a cashless and contactless tipping platform that allows guests to tip workers in under 8 seconds via their phones, with no app required. TiPJAR's distribution engine empowers staff to control and share their tips and takes the admin burden and risk away from business owners. The company estimates the global tipping market to be worth a combined $100 billion per year, and it aims to be the worlds first multi-currency, scalable solution in this segment. The company's clients include Honest Burger, Yard Sale Pizza, and BrewDog. TiPJAR will use the investment to have live clients by November 2020 and expand across Europe and Australia.
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£699,748
Say It Now specializes in enabling audience interaction with audio and TV advertisements through smart speakers, recognizing the impact of advertising in the home via digital audio and TV. With smart speakers present in 60% of UK homes and 90 million US homes, consumers can seamlessly engage with advertising offers using voice commands, offering convenience and real-time insights for advertisers. Collaborating with top-tier advertising groups, publishers, and brands, Say It Now facilitates engagement through voice assistants like Alexa, providing valuable data to optimize advertising campaigns and offering access to their technology through a CPM or license fee model based on hundreds of millions of tracked impressions and engagements.
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investment:
£670,733
Rana's Artisan Bakery was the brain child of Rana Roushdi and was created after her frustration with a lack of great tasting bread with proper crusty crusts. All products sold are gluten-free and suitable for vegans.
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£124,691
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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investment:
£339,771
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£260,150
FlairBox is an end-to-end hiring platform that allows performers to share a wide range of their work and entertainment industry professionals to hire their choice of performers. FlairBox uses proprietary 'Intelligent Casting' AI, to rank performers based on suitability for a role. The company has 2,900 performers on its database, 2,500 of which are active on the platform and 438 of which are on paid premium accounts or premium trials. FlairBox has been awarded a £277,000 Innovate UK SMART Grant to fund its 'Machine Learning' and AI development over the next 18 months. The company points out that casting directors of notable films like 'Mission Impossible', 'Harry Potter', and 'Top Boy' have used FlairBox's services. FlairBox will use 42.88% of the investment on marketing, 34.5% for paying salaries, 9.6% towards paying office rentals, 5% towards legal expenses, 4% towards software expenses, 2.25% towards design expenses, 1.2% as accountant fees, and 0.57% as insurance fees.
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investment:
£338,151
