The Cauldron is a technology-led entertainment studio that aims to deliver immersive experiences to its guests by combining technology with food and drink. Upon entering the company's venues, guests are given a magic wand, which acts as a control device for their visit. It helps them pour pints, activate lights and locks, explore science experiments, and stir cocktails. The device is also programmed to act as an open bar tab to track user spending. The Cauldron has served 1 million potions till date and welcomed 260,000+ guests. It has also inked ticket and product selling partnerships with entities like TimeOut, Airbnb Experiences, Secret London, Virgin Experience Days, and others. The company has featured on publications like Thrillist, NBC, Forbes, and Edinburgh News. The Cauldron will use 70% of the investment to open a central-London Cauldron flagship and provide additions to Wands & Wizard Exploratorium, 20% to finish the build for three new pop-up venues to open in markets across the US and Europe, and 10% to pay staff salaries.
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£304,690
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
An alternative to vodka, gin and many other spirits, with a deliciously smooth and unique, light taste available across the best bars in the UK and most recently in Italy and New York. This multi-award winning spirit is sustainably sourced from wild Northern Europe birch trees and distilled from birch sap.
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£252,647
AP Brands are now launching their fourth brand, Create-A-Crisp. The first three brands consist of Awfully Posh, The London Crisp Co. and The London Popcorn Co. The product is unseasoned, crinkle cut crisps with reduced fat in a 5-bag multipack. Included are 10 different seasoning sachets to allow the consumer to control the amount of flavourings they would like to apply to their crisps, as well as combining sachets to create unique flavours.
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£124,804
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
