PitPat is an activity monitor for dogs, it helps owners connect with their pets in a fun and useful way. PitPat is waterproof, small and lightweight and fits any breed. PitPat are also working on their Dog Care Intelligence Platform that is designed to connect thousands of PitPet users into a worlwide network of dog owners.
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£767,990
Kite edge has created a cognitive search service which has been built to specifically meet the needs of asset managers. Individuals can search and set up feeds that draw insight from their specific work (email, news, investment research, internal documents)
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£433,000
WildHitz.co.uk is a 24 hour online music TV station, showcasing videos from top current artists. Within 18 months of launch, WildHitz already has a community of around 200,000 daily users[1], with ad revenues of over €340,000 [2] in 2014, their first year of operation.
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£2,390
Prosper is creating a customer-focused brand, aiming to offer free access to public and private funds, competitive cash rates, and instant financial advice via a mobile app. They charge a platform fee based on the customer's assets. The experienced team behind successful ventures like Tandem Bank and Nutmeg is targeting the UK's expensive and underperforming savings and investment market. They've raised £3.2 million from investors including Tom Blomfield (Monzo) and Charlie Delingpole (ComplyAdvantage).
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£1,022,665
Green is a tech-focused energy supplier that focuses on utilising its bespoke technology to make managing energy simpler, offer customer support through multiple channels with extended phone line hours and 24/7 live chat, and deliver 100% green electricity to its customers. Green has received a 4.8/5 rating on Trustpilot with over 3,200 reviews. The company has achieved a peak of 2,000 members in one week and saw 40,000 members joining its platform in the first 12 months of its inception. The platform has an 86.5% platform utilisation on a regular basis. The company will use the investment to bring its offering to the business and prepayment side utilising its smart technology and apps as well as tailor its marketing campaigns and technology to boost its business.
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investment:
£286,726
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
Ceryx Medical is a medical technological entity that is developing bioelectronics based on a unique, patent-protected, chip technology that can mimic nerve centres within the body called Central Pattern Generators (CPGs). CPGs help to control a range of autonomic or rhythmical processes within the body such as peristalsis, heart rate, and even walking. The Ceryx system resembles a traditional cardiac pacing device that holds a lot of promise in potentially alleviating incidences of heart failure leading to a therapeutic effect on patient health. In the UK, this is a day surgery procedure under local anaesthetic with a basic system costing around £3500. The device, therefore, offers a cost-effective, single procedure solution for this currently intractable disease. Treatment expenditures on heart failure cases in the EU amount to almost £35 billion. The Ceryx system is a potential disruptor in this segment and offers multiple potential applications. The company is targeting £500,000 as part of £1 million round. With the investment, the company aims to produce a data package that mimics those used to support 510k/NDA applications, as mandated by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for current devices and drugs used to treat heart failure.
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People Matter (PM) is a wellness platform that offers an online space where a user can measure and improve his/her mental wellness at work. The company's app, Okina, aids the user in getting mental stability and avoiding stress. PM asserts that over 264 million people suffer from depression globally. For its efforts, PM won the Tech Nation’s Rising Stars competition in 2019, Tech Nation’s Applied AI cohort in 2019/20, and Start-Up of the Year by Tech SouthWest in Dec 2019 amongst others. It will use 70% of the investment to fund the development of its app as well as the PEAK data science engine, and 30% to support its operation and launch its proposition and product to market.
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investment:
£321,700
Passing boxes began in 2012 after Donna's Father falling ill; he produced a red folder containing memories, birth certificates, photos, bank statements, passwords, and lots more. This gave Donna the idea to create the world’s most comprehensive website for dealing with death enabling people to talk about death. It provides services to help secure your digital legacy and pass on the things that really matter.
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£186,630
Nextfin is an FCA approved aggregation and rating portal for equity and debt crowdfunding investments.
AIM is shrinking, legacy stock markets are too expensive to maintain and do not serve the requirements of SMEs, banks are closing branches, lending less and are paying little or no interest to investors. As a result of this, there is a huge growth in equity crowdfunding and P2P lending which has seen the launch of hundreds of alternative lenders & platforms that has created a new c.£3bn marketplace, expanding at 66% p.a. There is no single portal or trusted ratings index for investors to compare on a like for like basis and no secondary market to facilitate exits.
* NextFin is the new trading name of Business Agent Ltd
The solution
NextFin aggregates equity and debt crowdfunding investments to create the alternative finance marketplace. This makes it easy for investors and lenders to find and compare opportunities by presenting all investment offerings in one place. With the addition of a free of charge ratings service investors will be able to view ratings of every equity crowdfunding pitch, every P2P site, and every equity crowdfunding site. NextFin’s technology will constantly track these companies and investments providing the investor real-time intelligence on which to base investment decisions. The platforms and entrepreneurs will be self-promoting and marketing their ratings driving thousands of visitors a month to the NextFin site, in the same way, businesses refer their potential clients to Trip Advisor and Trustpilot. There is an estimated 10 million website/platform visitors per month across the whole of the alternative finance market. NextFin is targeting to direct 5% of this highly profiled traffic to its platform from which it will earn between £5-£8 per click from advertisers and partners. In addition, an in-house brokerage service also earns between 1%-6% commissions on loan placements. A future revenue stream (not featured in the financials) will be developed once visitor traffic reaches critical mass. This will see Nextfin being able to realise the full value of its captured ratings data and visitor traffic by launching a secondary market, which is estimated to be a £5bn marketplace.
NextFin is raising £500k at a pre-money valuation of £2M to: • Develop P2P and Equity site ratings• Expand the management, infrastructure and marketing resource• Increase visitor traffic to 6m a year via rating referrals
Owing to the size of the market and rapid growth of the industry, enterprise valuations in alternative finance are based on visitor traffic, market share and registered users. Recently published valuations of companies with visitor traffic of over 6m per year are in excess of £70m. NextFin is the market-leading aggregator and has first-mover advantage. It has the potential to exceed these valuations because it is the whole of the market aggregator and is currently the only ratings service provider as it grows to achieve 500,000 visitors p.m.
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£274,057
