Actve is on a mission to change the way people connect with their favourite fitness creators. The company aspires to help creators earn an income and build a subscription business. Actve asserts that it caters to a variety of creator needs allowing them to live-stream their workouts, offer guided programs to customers, or use Actve's software to manage their clients. The company aims to become a contender in the digital fitness market that is projected to be worth £21 billion by 2022. It aims to launch its platform in September 2021. Actve will use the investment to develop its platform, hire key staff, build its user base, and work towards becoming an industry champion for fitness creators.
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£165,627
Bua Fit is easy to use, a simple way to book web application for outdoor fitness classes. It eliminates all the trouble by connecting the trainers to clients for group fitness classes and gives the customers a diversity of trainers. The company has been a finalist in The Great British Entrepreneurial Challenge, has a network of 100 trainers and 42% active user rate since launch. With the proceeds, the company will earn more users, more trainers, more revenue, invest in product development and expand the team.
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£205,378
GymBuddy is an online platform that enables consumers to find, book, and attend a gym location, services, or products offered and operated by fitness studios, gyms, trainers, venues, or other third parties. Users can easily, through filtered searches on the app, view descriptions, and contact information of specialists within the fitness industry such as personal trainers, nutritionists, and physiotherapists. The UK fitness industry alone is currently worth over £5 billion. Based on recent statistics, the average gym membership in the UK costs members £40 a month, which often ties them into lengthy contracts. The GymBuddy app will enter the Health & Fitness club sector as a multi-gym membership feature that gives users access to gyms and various fitness plans, without the need for bricks-and-mortar locations under its brand. The company is seeking an investment of £400,000 to expand its brand identity and bring more users to its ecosystem to generate profits.
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Bright Salon is a smartphone app that is designed to allow hair and beauty salons grow their business. The app can be used to fill in the gaps from last minute cancellations. The app can also be used as an alternative to paper-based loyalty schemes. Using the app for a loyalty scheme allows customers to see exactly how many points they have and the milestones they have to reach to acheive certain rewards.
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£28,640
WELD is a fitness company on a mission to make on-demand health, fitness and wellbeing available to all ages & abilities. The company allows users and instructors to set the time and place for the training session, rent out their home or commercial spaces for activities, or interact 1-2-1 online. This approach, the company believes, helps personal trainers, hit by the Covid-19 lockdown, find clients. WELD also allows trainers to set their prices and keep 90% of their fees, and lets customers enjoy a 2% commission on referrals for every future session taken in perpetuity. WELD aims to tap into the $94 billion global fitness and wellness market that grew 8.7% from 2018/19. The company's primary target audience is Generation Z that, the company believes, embraced wellness. WELD will use the investment to improve its platform, boost marketing and plug the fitness & wellness gap.
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£199,227
miiCARE is a MedTech specialising in AI applied to geriatrics (elderly care). Its key product miiCUBE offers cutting-edge home-based and customised healthcare, helping the elderly enjoy their independence while being comprehensively connected to their families, friends, and neighbours. The company aims to provide these benefits to one billion people by 2028, comprising older people, family members and carers. Till date, miiCARE has secured partnerships with the UK’s largest NHS trust, Ebbsfleet Garden City, O2, Bristol Careline and Microsoft, and won multiple social impacts and digital health awards during the last 12 months. Funds raised will be used mainly for fulfilling pre-orders and close interests for large contracts with corporates, marketing and logistics, product development, sales and salaries.
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£103,672
Elite Training Experience (ETE) aims to become the de facto provider of warm weather triathlon training camps, not just to the UK's 140,000 triathletes but to the estimated 2,000,000 triathletes around the world.
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£139,470
PlusGuidance is an online counselling/therapy platform that gives people immediate access to counselling. It provides secure video, voice, IM and email sessions directly through the site, and booking in-person sessions too. Our Mission - Immediate access to counselling for everyone. Business Model - Software-as-a-Service for counsellors, who pay a monthly fee to use secure online sessions, practice management tools to manage their clients, and a public web profile in our directory.
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£64,987
Reset Paris offers a wide range of high-end wellness services including spas, massage, sports and therapy classes. These services are delivered by highly qualified and experienced professionals with a holistic approach. Workshops based on matters like stress-relief, nutrition, focus, memory and sleep are also provided right at the office. The company has recruited a team of freelance professionals and tested their performance with B2B and B2C customers, developed a CRM platform and started collective classes with exceptional feedback. Reset is well-positioned to grow by selling health weeks to companies and increase its visibility through digital marketing.
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£111,430
Her.9 is a Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) female technology brand that caters to the needs of women during pregnancy. It cites research arguing that up to 40% of women taking prenatal vitamins may not be able to absorb the folic acid within the UK’s leading pregnancy brand. Her.9 aims to resolve this by employing DUOCAP technology. The company asserts that DUOCAP is a capsule-in-capsule delivery system which contains solubilised prebiotics in the outer capsule and probiotics in the inner capsule. The prebiotic releases immediately and the probiotic releases later allowing for targeted supplement delivery in the body. The prenatal supplements market is set to be worth $56 billion globally by 2024. Her.9 aims to be a notable contender in this segment. The company is raising investment to build its already established partnerships and execute its marketing strategy effectively.
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£215,946
