Loowatt is delivering safe sanitation and generating energy from waste for sustainable business growth. Loowatt argues that poor sanitation leads to more than £150 billion being lost every year due to health care costs, decreased income and productivity. It aims to change this with its patented toilet. The toilet's waterless flush seals waste hygienically away and is the starting point for Loowatt's unique closed-loop processing system. Loowatt works closely with the local utility partners and ensures that waste is safely collected, treated, and transformed into biogas to generate electricity and heat with nutrients captured for organic fertiliser production. Loowatt has processed 555 tonnes of waste and served more than 250,000 people. The company will use the investment to scale-up manufacturing, complete development of the Loowatt Pro data transmission system, and develop an aftersales monetisation strategy for large international contracts, starting with the City of Manila.
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£1,101,180
Smartway2 is a software solution that allows organisations to book their meeting rooms and desks. Smartway2 is sold directly in the UK, is revenue generating and is also sold through partners in the USA and Australia.
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£1,111
FETCH states that is a fully developed in-venue food and drinks order and pay solution built by POS8. The app allows customers to view a menu, order food and drink and pay securely, in a matter of seconds from their smartphones. POS8 claims that Fetch's 'Intelligent Ordering System' sends orders to a venue staff’s devices according to who has the fewest orders waiting. FETCH has helped 109 venues go live and processed 26,000 transactions from 87,000 registered users earning a platform flowthrough of £265,000 in March 2021. It has partnered with multiple Point of Sale (PoS) and payment systems including, Zonal, Oracle, Stripe, Square, and Adyen, to create an end-to-end solution, easy for venues to adopt. FETCH aspires to take a healthy share of the £98 billion food and drinks market. It says it will use 60% of the investment towards sales and marketing, 20% towards operations and 20% towards product development.
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£2,011,196
Truckk simplifies the LID market with an online price comparison and booking platform. It matches the delivery needs of customers with hundreds of transport providers and allows them to compare and book careful, friendly, trustworthy and professional transport providers. Within two months of trading, the company has facilitated 200+ jobs, 270+ providers, and 600+ registered customers. Truckk is focusing on signing up the first 10,000 drivers, and advertising online with the latest digital marketing techniques. With the proceeds, the company will grow its online price comparison and the booking platform for the LID market, which is worth nearly £1billion a year.
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£23,460
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
My Tree has launched a Memorial Park in the UK that enables people to plant a tree with the ashes of their loved one. It is the sole exclusive UK memorial park which offers ashes burial with the planting of a tree. The company is in discussion with DoubleTree Hilton and First Funerals. My Tree has launched its first park five miles outside of Reading and 38 miles from London. The company will use the funds to promote the site, do pre-planting to maximize usage of space and support plans to open more sites by the end of 2020.
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£160,380
Prepaired is a global platform for university students to learn from and teach each other via video calling. Students can post a study request on the portal with the questions they have regarding a subject, and others can offer to explain it via a one-on-one video call. The company asserts that its technology is an ideal platform in the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic allowing students to share notes and chat on classroom syllabi. Prepaired has tied up with GlobalExam, an e-learning content provider, to further its mission of remote teaching. It will use 67% of the investment in product development, 12% in sales and marketing, and 21% as operations cost.
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£115,209
PlanSnap have created an app to help friends get together faster. The app suggests plans that would work, including who, what, where and when, helping everyone agree on details in just a few taps. Even if friends dont have the app, they will receive a text with the plan.
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Your Cloud | Your WayEveryCloud Computing has developed a white label platform for resellers to become leading cloud providers. Sold through the reseller channel, EveryCloud offer three cloud packages that can be tailored to fit a customer, through subscription based pricing:Managed BackupHosted ServersCloud DriveResellers wanting to offer cloud services need to build new platforms and design new services, which have the appropriate support, billing processes and service delivery to support their customers’ demands. As businesses look to source a variety of different cloud services, increasingly from one trusted supplier, it can be hard for resellers, especially those on the smaller side, to have the funds to develop such infrastructure. Through EveryClouds products and services, resellers can deliver innovative storage and data management solutions that satisfy their most demanding customers. Cloud computing will reduce hardware investment, minimise maintenance costs and allow the customer to focus on their own business.The EveryCloud PortalThe web portal enables its customers to purchase online services and software from a range of vendors including EveryCloud. The portal is also used to manage the deployment of these purchases to the customers’ users. This includes adding & removing users, upgrading between products and adding & removing products. Uniquely, this portal can be white-labelled to allow resellers to brand it as their own, allowing them to operate to their customers as it they were direct suppliers of Cloud services. Amongst the services that can be purchased from the EveryCloud portal are a number of EveryCloud products including; EveryCloud Virtual desktop, EveryCloud e-mail, EveryCloud Virtual Servers and a range of data protection solutions. The OpportunityThe reseller channel represents 60% of all IT spend, which means that £36bn in the UK alone can be attributed to the reseller channel. There are tens of thousands of IT resellers in the UK, with a turnover ranging from hundreds of millions of pounds down to tens of thousands. This is EveryCloud’s target market.It appears that resellers are struggling to adapt to selling Cloud services in the new paradigm of monthly subscriptions versus single one-off purchases of hardware, software and licenses. In addition, the directors believe that providers of Cloud services have failed to offer resellers what they need to be able to successfully sell these services.EveryCloud is sold as a product to the reseller who will then sell onto their client. There is no direct sales channel from EveryCloud. The EveryCloud Platform will allow resellers to offer cloud solutions built on the latest technology, without the capital investment currently needed to develop their own system. Following previous funding rounds through Acceleris Capital, shareholders are supporting this development funding round of £200,000. The company are now prepared to offer the remaining amount of the funding round to Investing Zone investors on the same terms as the original shareholders at a minimum investment of £1000. Why is EveryCloud different?Enables end users to buy what they want/ need in a single, flexible, variable monthly transaction. The current alternative is similar to buying groceries one item at a time, with a different transaction for each item.EveryCloud provides its resellers with generous profit margins through the provision of:• The ability to offer multiple services through a single transaction, branded in their own livery, as if they were a Cloud provider in their own right; • The ability to provision and de-provision users quickly and efficiently; • Transparent automated billing so customers only see the reseller as a sole supplier; and • Training in the sales process and comprehensive support in customer enablement.Initially targeted at companies and resellers of a smaller size, EveryCloud has the capability to grow as the demand for the service increases. You need to be registered as an investor to see thisJoin Now
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'Time is money' - for e-commerce businesses that statement couldn’t be truer. From the moment a potential customer lands on an e-commerce business’s product webpage the clock begins ticking. The more time that elapses, the more chance there is for distractions to take the customer away from the buying process, perhaps never to return.
Accelerating the decision-making process would, therefore, go a great distance in minimising the potential for disruption and improve chances of the e-tailer making the sale. But how does such a business go about spurring the customer into quicker clicking?
Step in Taggstar Ltd - a unique company leading the way in its respective sector, having developed state-of-the-art software which is provided as a service (SaaS) to help online retailers improve conversion rates and increase overall sales.
The intelligent software overlays persuasive messaging containing product-related information on webpages in real time, impressing on the customer stats such as how many people are viewing the product at that moment in time, how many purchases have been made over a certain period and the quantity of stock remaining.
The software, which uses a patent-pending algorithm, can also display special messages such as product reviews from satisfied customers, or messages derived from trends such as fast selling ‘on fire’ products. The system leverages real-time data to combine messages to best effect so as to create a sense of urgency and/or engagement with the customer to evoke a ‘buy now’ response.
The solution has been designed for all types of e-commerce, including: retail, property, entertainment, travel and finance, and works across all desktop, tablet and mobile devices as a responsive solution. Since it launched, Taggstar has served over 400m messages to some of the largest e-tailers, generating order conversion rate uplift of up to 10%.
Taggstar launched with Shop Direct Group, a £1.74 billion retailer with a roster encompassing Littlewoods, Isme and very.co.uk, in February 2014. Taggstar is now embedded across 100% of site traffic of very.co.uk, serving more than 70m messages each month. Very.co.uk has experienced a 2% uplift in order conversion by using Taggstar Basket Module, one of Taggstar’s flagship products.
Taggstar is also doing a phenomenal job on its current trial with Argos – in just 27 days from the start of the trial, Taggstar’s technology has generated a 2.28% increase in order uplift, resulting in a significant increase in revenues for Argos.
The company is actively demonstrating the power of the solution by providing free trials that are on-going with other retailers including Thomas Cook Online and lastminute.com, which gives some insight into why the company is looking for a minimum of £200,000: to fund working capital while any trials are converted to formalised contracts and any sales are finalised.
Advanced discussions are currently taking place between Taggstar and other leading UK multinationals, including ASOS, Tata Group and BA. There’s also a key to unlock the international market in the pipeline in the form of the company signing a trial with Naspers, a Johannesburg-listed global group of ecommerce and media brands with presence in over 130 countries worldwide.
More recent times have seen the company attract prominent backers to the business including Sir Stuart Rose (former Chairman of M&S); Rob Hersov (Invest Africa), Bentworth Holdings Ltd and Ariadne Capital.
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