Findr aims to automate the creation of business partnerships by providing easy access to hyper-targeted opportunities in minutes. The company asserts that its platform allows any business, regardless of its size, to sign up, post its partnership requirements, and explore opportunities for free. The company's portal allows users to request a 1-hour 'Discovery' call with a potential partner when the said user spots a relevant opportunity. Findr argues that it has made 'Discovery' for free for the first few months to build its user base. The company has onboarded 140 business users ranging from early-stage to global brands such as Mastercard, Uber and Visa since November 2020. Findr has featured in Forbes for helping businesses navigate COVID-19. The company will use the investment to develop two new price plans – Unlimited and Enterprise, introduce new platform features, hire a machine learning expert, and undertake digital activity to grow its user base.
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investment:
£396,288
Growth Capital Ventures (GCV) is a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) approved fintech company. GCV's mission is to back the game changers, innovators and value creators. It is operating at three different levels namely, G-Ventures, a specialist software development division; Quva, a private investor network; and G- Labs, an innovation lab. The company aims to provide investors with access to well researched alternative investment opportunities that are selected for their potential to deliver better returns than traditional mainstream investment products. GCV has structured property transactions worth £14.7 million, has 5000+ everyday investors, and seen 500+ jobs created by portfolio companies. GCV will use the investment to grow its business across different verticals.
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investment:
£1,295,410
Husky is the UK’s only open, SaaS platform for workplace pensions. For employers, the platform deals with legal and compliance burdens of auto-enrolment while helping reduce pension costs. For individuals and company directors, the app is instrumental in bringing profitable and responsible investments with the Husky for Everyone app. And for advisers and accountants, it ensures strong client relationships amidst transparency and efficiency. Close to 1.4 million employers & 22.6 million workers are affected by the UK’s automatic enrolment (AE) legislation. Within this market, a conservative estimate of fees charged on employees by pension providers is £2 billion a year; Husky aims to disrupt this market & is ready to scale. Its method of operation has led to it achieving important milestones. With more than 1000 firms onboarded, a 92% renewal rate, and an average annual fee of £438, Husky charges its onboarded firms (including Crowdcube) with monthly recurring fees laid out as part of a 3-year subscription model. With the funds received, the company aims to disrupt the relatively stagnant workplace pensions industry with innovative products and empower its customers.
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investment:
£417,338
FinOptix is an innovative FinTech company that solves real business problems. FinOptix’s objective is to become a significant player in a rapidly growing FinTech market by developing systems that provide financial clarity to decision-makers. FinOptix has a well-established user base, as well as a sales pipeline that covers multiple geographies and sectors. Their verification and validation procedures applied during the development process and operational trials have led to engagement with commercial partners. With the proceeds, they will design an Evaluator for the future, apply AI techniques to solve complex problems, develop their skill set and framework and hire a team of data scientists based on the assessment.
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investment:
£125,000
Brother Cycles' bikes are designed in the UK and handcrafted from steel to be ridden all around the world. Their products are sold at independent retailers throughout the UK and Europe, in addition to their own website. Since 2015, Brother Cycles has seen an increase of 119% in turnover and is trading at a net profit with 2018 currently being their strongest sales period.
In the summer of 2018, the company launched their B2B website and within the first week, more than 40 stockists had signed up to trade with the business. Brother in the Wild is Brother Cycle's annual cycling festival, which saw 180 cyclists joining in 2018 and predicted to grow exponentially in the coming years.
Current revenue stream include their wide product range with continually improving profit margins, B2B sales and B2C sales through customers purchasing goods directly from Brother Cycle's website. Funds are being raised to launch two new products in 2019, which consist of a technical adventure bike and a high-end road bike.
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investment:
£105,497
Precursive's web and mobile application helps customers to manage their resources more efficiently. Precursive does this by helping employers to schedule and plan all of their employees who are working on client chargable work.
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investment:
£250,000
Cyclr is a cloud-based software that allows the user to connect the apps that they already run their business on. This makes it simple to synchronise data with another system.
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Expired
investment:
£100,490
UnderPinned is an end-to-end application designed for building the future of freelancing with technology at its core. It offers an innovative one-stop solution for freelancers to find work, manage work and get paid; and for clients to manage their project-based workforce. The initial target of the company will be an audience of 13 million in the UK. They have already launched their Virtual Office in January 2020 with over 2200 users. The portal has more than 110,000 users engaged with its educational media content and has an existing partnership with IPSE, Starling Bank, Digital Risk, and Banked. They have highly curated content leading to £0.05 cost per click and 5.92% clickthrough rate and an acquisition model with a 7 times lower cost per acquisition (CPA) than the industry average. The funds will be used to scale UnderPinned, helping the company to reduce its customer acquisition cost.
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investment:
£514,380
QFinds is a purpose-built hiring tool that enables employers to easily and efficiently pre-screen candidates, conduct interviews and generate employment contracts. The company asserts that it is a UK government vetted 'Kickstart Scheme' representative and can get small businesses grants to hire interns having already processed over 100 job applications. QFinds claims that its app has been downloaded 2 million+ times garnering 24,000 reviews averaging 4.8/5 stars. QFinds also points out that bad hirings cost the UK up to £6.7 billion in turnover, productivity, and training. It seeks to change this and disrupt the £39 billion recruitment market. The company has partnered with notable entities like University College London, Kings College London and Brunel University London, intending to use them as strategic partners to increase job seekers signing up to and using its app. QFinds will use the investment to grow its business across different verticals.
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investment:
£222,866
Screach provides consumer focused venues with the ability to intelligently engage and interact with their customers via installed digital displays (TVs) and mobile phones. The Screen Reach software dynamically changes the screen content to improve its effectiveness in driving more sales by displaying relevant engaging content and promotions.
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Expired
investment:
£590,000
