Mr Lee’s Pure Foods is an innovative food/tech company creating award-winning premium healthy noodles-in-a-cup and will be launching its new instant Congee Asian rice porridge. All products are certified low sugar, gluten-free, low on calories, Vegan options and 100% recyclable and compostable packaging. The global instant noodle market is expected to reach $57.5 billion by 2024 which the brand aims to capitalise on and establish itself in as the market leader. Mr Lee's has won 50+ global awards and nominations including Grocer Gold Exporter of the Year, Great British Entrepreneur winner, and The Sunday Times Maserati 100 winner. Noted publisher Penguin Random House has published Mr Lee’s 100 Noodle Recipe cookbook which has been met with critical acclaim worldwide. With the investment, the company will invest 25% of it in marketing initiatives and entering into the US market, 10% in product development, 20% in working capital for food production during scale-up, 5% in upgrading its Hot Noodle Kiosk and vending machine facilities, and 40% in global group operating and personnel costs runway for commercial functions and scale-up activities within Australia, the UK, and the USA.
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investment:
£1,835,892
Lovetovisit is a platform that seamlessly combines inspiration and convenient booking for a wide range of family-friendly activities, ensuring that they enjoy memorable experiences at the best prices. They utilize data-driven content and their proprietary API technology to transform how people discover and purchase tickets for various attractions, events, and experiences.
Their mobile-first API technology ensures quick ticket purchases, enhancing convenience. Lovetovisit provides an extensive selection of unique attractions and events, fostering customer loyalty and network effects. Leveraging two decades of supplier relationships, they offer exceptional deals and discounts.
The platform is now expanding internationally and enhancing the user experience with video and AI-driven content, continuing to be a mobile-first destination for families seeking affordable and exciting attractions, events, and experiences.
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investment:
£328,705
Cloud-based SaaS software with the purpose of efficiently generating corporate management reports to reduce operational costs and improve data quality. Synapse's service can be implemented into pre-existing financial reporting systems to produce automated reports, even in large companies. Customers include Lloyds Bank, who have signed a 2-year term and the Bank of England have contacted Synapse to potentially integrate the system.
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investment:
£894,056
Morso London is a modern community-centred restaurant that serves hand-crafted freshly made pasta and Italian bites with grappa-based cocktails. Launched in June 2018, the restaurant is created by a team of industry veterans. Paolo Vernetti is the Co-founder, head chef and CEO of Morso. Since Dec 2018, Morso has been TripAdvisor's Top 50 restaurant. The restaurant has received more than 100 5 star reviews. Morso was covered by Fay Maschler’s “Week in Food”, The Upcoming, The Infatuation and many other important food/media publications. Morso has achieved a 3x weekly sales growth from June 2018 to Jan 2019. It is achieving a positive site EBITDA on the 6th month of trading. Morso is planning to grow by opening two more sites in 2019.
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investment:
£99,950
JustUs plans to offer its own ISA's directly to consumers via IFA's and by doing so they are disrupting the £1.5 trillion lending and savings market in the UK.
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investment:
£12,580
Qynn is an investment opportunity and the world’s foremost provider of corporate information and insight on the unlisted UK SME market. The company has four live products: Hunter, QBase, Playground, and Qynn Score. In the next six months, the company will release many new products to multiply the current data stack. Qynn aims at creating the world's most advanced company search tool. With the proceeds, the company will be able to drive sales and product development.
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investment:
£310,009
Assetz Capital is an FCA authorized, major business secured by property and P2P lender in the Europe and UK. Funded by 30,000+ lenders, the company provides loans to property developers and SMEs in the UK. Assetz Capital was ranked 53rd out of the UK’s top 100 fastest-growing technology companies in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100. Moreover, the company has witnessed a 78% average revenue growth over three years. Having achieved critical mass and proven business model, Assetz Capital is headed towards meeting the multi-billion funding gap faced by SMEs. With the proceeds, the company will strengthen the cash levels and balance sheet and provide further opportunities to shareholders and customers.
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investment:
£1,866,500
A healthy and nutritious Chinese fast food brand with vegetarian and vegan options available. Green Kitchen has opened their first restaurant near Anfield Stadium and are already making plans to open 3-5 more this year. Their central kitchen is 1,400sqft and is estimated to supply food for up to 8 restaurants within Liverpool. A centralised kitchen reduces cost, as no on-site kitchen will need to be built when opening new restaurants.
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investment:
£42,190
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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investment:
£1,022,665
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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investment:
£274,057
