Mash Paddle Brewery (MPB) aims to join South London’s brewery scene wherein its members brew their customised beer. MPB wants to provide members, for a monthly fee, with access to a professional kit, guidance, ingredients and a community who share the same passion to create unique brews that a regular consumer can’t buy off the shelf. MPB claims that the UK home-brew market is estimated at over 2 million people. It intends to capture this market and grow its business. The company won the City LaunchLab CitySpark “People’s Choice” and Santander Scholarship, planned a collaboration with a leading London cheesemaker to create a ‘beer & cheese’ experience, and raised £10,900 on Crowdfunder. MPB has also featured in CAMRA’s BEER magazine and Beer52’s FERMENT. The company will use the investment for its first, fully-kitted site identified on Bermondsey Beer Mile, and build a taproom serving fresh beer brewed on-site.
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£88,950
Nooro makes cannabidiol (CBD) snack bars. Company founder J.D. Furlong asserts that blending CBD and certain nootropics lead to better cognitive functions in individuals. Nooro also argues that it is the UK's first CBD snack bar seller that is plant-based and gluten-free. The company's products are stocked across 250 retail outlets, cafes, gyms, and delis across the UK. Nooro pivoted to Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) sales during COVID-19 to get better margins. It invested in creating a business model with four distinct revenue streams with 60% earnings coming via e-commerce D2C sales, 15% via digital affiliate sales, 15% via direct sales to partners, and 10% via wholesalers. The company will use the investment to launch an additional three new flavours by February 2021 and grow its business across different verticals.
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£235,819
Altr is an e-commerce startup that specialises in male grooming and cosmetics. It is a brand that is committed to helping men look and feel more confident. The company adopts a B2C business model with the aim to reconstruct male cosmetics from a niche into a mass-market essential. The company retails through its own website and supplies across the UK, the US, Italy, and Spain through Amazon. In December last year, the company recorded a monthly turnover of £45k, doubling sales month on month (Oct-Dec). The funds raised will be used to increase product range and expand internationally.
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£103,530
Tom & Teddy Limited is a family-centric global swimwear brand started by Bristol-based female-founder. Tom & Teddy is a beachwear brand for men & boys that has sold more than 55,000 shorts in 2018 generating a revenue of approximately US$1.8m. The shorts are made in a quick-dry microfibre fabric with UV protection and a super-soft finish. The company aims to grow to £8m by the year 2023 (with significant upside potential), £1.6m EBIT.
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Thefullworks are an end to end E-commerce service, providing webshops, storage, and distribution. They aim to make online stores available for all size businesses by using a single, hassle-free platform which handles all online retail sales, from the sale to delivery. The system can work with countless integrations and easily syncs to many other systems.
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£138,710
Pynk is a fintech that is doing things differently—it relies on Artificial Intelligence, crowd wisdom and expert analysis to boost social investing, allowing its users commission-free investing. Users on the Pynk platform make short term price predictions and long term forecasts on financial assets. Pynk then aggregates the data and runs it through its 'Rose' AI and experts team to give accurate trading and investment analyses. The platform has more than 27,000 users from over 180 countries. Pynk also won the 'Best AI' startups award at the AIBC Blockchain Summit in Malta. It is also a part of the London fintech accelerator programmes with National Westminster and Royal Bank of Scotland. The company will use the investment to launch a retail investor wallet in the 4th quarter of 2020, recruit £10 million Assets Under Management (AUM) by end of 2020, and build out its team across different verticals.
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£574,550
Leaseum is a Business to Business (B2B) Software as a Service (SaaS) provider based in London that offers white label capital raising portals to its clients and targets alternative investment managers who deal with private equity, venture capital, real estate, hedge funds and private credit. The company claims that fundraising for alternative investments is time consuming, expensive and involves many compliance and regulatory aspects. It aims to change this by bringing together all the tools needed to raise capital such as an investor portal, a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, an email marketing module, e-signature facility, and investor onboarding compliances. Leaseum claims that it allows its clients to streamline their fundraising processes and convert more leads into investors via its portal. It will use 40% of the investment to strengthen its sales team, 40% to strengthen its IT team, and 20% for marketing.
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£76,440
Ensuring an organisation's activities are compliant with key regulations. Evidology is a software program that can be easily integrated into a business's existing infrastructure. The software will check the business's data against more than 40 local and international legislation's and provide a real-time report to management that will highlight whether the business is following compliance, or not.
Evidology's revenue model consists of a 3-year subscription package, in the form of a standard, or enterprise-level product. The company has tested their software within nine businesses, including HSBC. Evidology has predicted to break even as soon as 15 months, based on selling their product at a modest rate of 3 clients per month.
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£50,003
Elizabeth Henley® Ltd is designing the world's first smart window shutter developed with microprocessor technology. The product is designed to automatically close the blinds at the time of dusk. It can also turn on LED switches, thereby offering mood lighting to a room. It has a license contract with Apple to promote integration with HomeKit tech. Elizabeth Henley® Ltd. also has design patents for wingtip® and shutter design with which it aims to cover the central and higher end of the market. The company has attracted interest from customers in the UK, USA, Europe, Dubai and Australia. With the proceeds, the company will further improve the prototype and buy tooling and machinery.
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£26,700
Rachel JAMES is a luxury casual menswear label that featured in London’s men’s fashion week in January this year.
The Creative Director, Rachel James is a British menswear designer and BA (Hons) graduate of Fashion Design from the University of Westminster. During her education she gained invaluable experience working within all areas of the fashion industry, from design to production, pattern cutting to print, PR to Sales at companies including Acne Studios, Todd Lynn and Christian Dior.
However it could be argued her rise in the fashion ranks is owed to a rather fortuitous event during a graduate internship at an Australian fashion house.
People who eventually go on to become huge successes often get a lucky break somewhere along the line. Rachel had hers in 2013 when she was interning at Australian fashion designer Josh Goot in Sydney. While working in the fashion label’s studio, the brand’s design co-ordinater unexpectedly went on leave, leaving Rachel to take charge of many of his duties as well as her own – leading a team of around 10 employees and overseeing both design and production of the collection at that time. She performed her impromptu role so impeccably well that she was instructed to lead a project to re-define and re-design the whole design process within the company – ultimately setting her on the path to understanding what it takes to become a fully-fledged menswear designer.
Fast forward a few months to 2015 and Rachel’s passion for her work and hunger for recognition were two characteristics that helped her secure an invitation to show her new collection at men’s fashion week in London (LC:M) earlier this year. For a graduate designer this is unheard of; applicants typically have 4/5 seasons behind them before they are considered for any space at such a prestigious event. The exhibition proved a great success for showcasing, networking and publicising the brand: Rachel JAMES has since been invited to showcase again this season, has been featured in Italian Vogue and has had pieces requested to style British artists Calvin Harris, Tom Odell, Mark Ronson and Skepta.
From the debut, the label’s PR team have been inundated with press requests and website traffic was given a huge boost. The company is now ready to start making sales with the online shop having just opened for business.
The designer is offering a 25% equity for £50,000 investment.
This is a brand that designs and produces creative, exciting, casual menswear, using luxurious fabrics and impeccable 100% British manufacturing. It is offering investors the chance to come onboard at an early stage.
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£8,050
