Kalendit removes the middleman (agencies) and provides UK nurseries with temporary staff while helping them save up to 50% on staffing fees. Since September, over 150 users joined Kalendit, and it is continuing to add about two workers daily. This company had launched its services in November with four nurseries, and since then, have been successfully processed 49 bookings. With the funds raised, it will hire people and serve thirty nurseries in one year. By the fifth year, it wants to take 45% of the London market, which equates to 1400 nurseries.
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£82,180
Launched in 2015, Gone West plans to disrupt the commercial forestry sector by adopting regenrative forestry systems in place of traditional ones, thereby creating environmental and social benefits. The company has planted millions of trees and has become pretty good at it. The company's product development team is engineering solutions for environmental problems, such as its Green Light app. The company's business model is structured to provide diverse yet interconnected revenue streams. Gone West has been self-funded to this date with increasing year-on-year revenue growth since launch. With the proceeds, the company will invest 30% for operations, 20% for Marketing, 5% for Business Innovation, 20% for Forestry Services, 15% for Product development, 10% for Plant and Protect.
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£159,300
In 2015 “CUT” aims to become the world’s largest e-book publisher by author numbers. Over 700 pro-writers pre-registered before CUT even went live. CUT is a writers’ e-publishing community, powered by leading-edge technology. Imagine a LinkedIn for writers that is also an on-line destination for contemporary writing. CUT sells e-books, readable on ALL e-readers. Writers create content for CUT and this content drives traffic to the site. Leading edge publishing technology minimises costs so that e-Book publication carries no charge to writers. In turn, CUT receives 99 year rights on a 50/50 revenue share. CUT building huge content, over 300 e-books published already.
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£106,306
The Five Points Brewing Company (TFPBC) is one of London's best-known craft breweries that brews modern, flavourful, craft beer, The company asserts that its beers are stocked nationwide in pubs and across major chains like Waitrose, Tesco and Nando's. TFPBC claims that it has grown from £173,000 worth of sales in 2013 to £4.8 million in 2019. The company's first pub, The Pembury Tavern, has been graced with awards and recommendations from multiple entities. TFPBC argues that it has developed its e-commerce site in the wake of COVID-19 achieving online sales of over £300,000 from selling three million pints in draught, bottle and can form since March 2020. It also won the Champion Beer Of London 2019 Award. The company will use the investment to open its new on-site taproom with a large outdoor area for beer sales direct to the public, build a new flagship brewery site in Hackney, drive new sources of revenue whilst reducing costs, and maintain its commitment to East London
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£841,392
Tribe are a modern, natural nutrition brand, based online and tailored to the customer. The UK sport nutrition market is growing at 23% a year and Tribe have already gained 25,000 members purchasing products from them. All products are formulated for performance and made from the highest natural ingredients.
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investment:
£1,747,470
MusicGurus.com is an online learning company that allows anyone to learn music from the world's top professional musicians. We offer high quality, short video courses that teach students the secrets and techniques behind the music they love. Target customers are hobby musicians aged 16+ who continuously seek out exciting ways to indulge their passion. Students are motivated to learn from professional musicians who are carefully selected for their immense musical talent, passion and pedagogy.
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£228,590
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
Launched in October 2016, Big Drop Brewing is a world-leading alcohol-free craft brewer. The company brews beer naturally by using specialist brewing methods to ensure the alcohol never exceeds 0.5%. The beer is not only Alcohol-Free, but is also gluten-free and many are low in sugar. Their award-winning lager is vegan-friendly. The company does not have a brewery of its own but partners with reputable breweries around the world, who share their brewing values to produce the beer. Big Drop Brewing has secured private funding already and meaningful distribution in the UK and 12 overseas markets. They have also secured off-trade listings in Tesco, Morrisons and Ocado. Half of the investment will be used for Sales & Marketing, 30% for new branding launch and related marketing, 10% for production costs and the remaining 10% for product development.
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investment:
£617,566
Opportunity Network is a digital network that provides equal growth opportunities to Chief Executive Officers (CEO). The portal's algorithm vets prospective users, allows them to buy, sell, raise or invest in an asset, gives them the option to choose the industry they wish to do business in, and then post their requirement for the same. The user can then select the best deal for their business from a list of responses and scale profitably. The company's platform connects 32,000+ qualified CEOs in 130+ countries to $295 billion worth of commercial, financial, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals. 86% of the deals on the portal find at least 1 counterpart in 48 hours. Opportunity Network aims to reach full scale by the end of 2020 and find 10 counterparts for 95% of the deals in 1 hour. The company has also been featured in publications such as Forbes, CNBC, Financial Times, and The Economist. It will use the investment to scale its business across various verticals.
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investment:
£962,500
Swoopos is a mobile point of sale system, which brings together innovative software and hardware, cloud reporting and data analytics, mobile and ecommerce ordering and beacon marketing technology for retail, hospitality and stadiums. Swoops have already built long term relationships with leading brands and are now looking to expand throughout the UK and beyond.
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investment:
£64,480
