Solaris Photonics Ltd are developing the next generation of clean energy systems, multiplying the output of solar panels. The Solaris Photonics Multiplier is a power electronics device which can be retrofitted to solar panels to increase their power output by up to 4 times. The Alkaline Photovoltaic is a versatile photovoltaic cell, which can transform any surface into a solar panel.
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£585,000
Innovate Recycle (IR) is a company that aims to reduce carbon emissions from burning discarded carpets. It asserts that only 2% of the 400,000 tonnes of discarded carpets in the UK is recycled, with the rest going into a landfill or being incinerated. IR further points out that burning waste carpet leads to an estimated CO2 impact of £16 million per annum in the UK. It wants to solve this crisis. IR is building a new carpet recycling plant in Northamptonshire that would be able to recycle carpets into reusable materials. They have already received grant funding of up to £2.35 million. IR claims that a single production line in the plant, at full capacity, can recycle up to 20,000 tonnes each year and generate 12,600 tonnes of polypropylene pellets. It will use the investment to expand to a second production line by Year 4 at the same facility.
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investment:
£2,650,000
A current account for small business owners and the self-employed that automates their accounting and taxes. Coconut informs customers about transactions on their account that that are eligible for a tax deduction and automatically completes a tax return. It also provides a tax bill forecast and shows guidance on tax rules and regulations. Coconut currently looks after 3,000 accounts and has pre-registered 5,000 limited companies with total transactions processed exceeding £12m.
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investment:
£1,857,450
Landbay is a marketplace lender that's main focus is on prime residential mortgages. They match investors' funds directly to loans. Landbay plan to use the proceeds for general working purposes.
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£1,601,371
Lenderwize are a SEIS approved, UK based Crowdlending platform for Telcos. They seek to bridge the cash flow gap for telecom operators which sell to big operators and must pay their vendors upfront whilst waiting for their own clients to pay them. Lenderwize currently has a working platform with over £5,000,000 in requests from borrowers and over £9,000,000 from institutional investors.
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investment:
£78,076
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
Wombat is an investment platform that encourages millenials in the UK, Europe and beyond to invest in some of the world’s best-known brands for as little as £10. Their mission is to empower the generation of millenials to manage, save and grow money by breaking down barriers to traditional investing. The Wombat app was launched in the summer of 2019, and the company has already acquired more than 5,000 customers. Moreover, the company was nominated as Best Newcomer for the Robo Investing Awards and received positive press coverage. With the proceeds, Wombat is planning to build a strong customer base, fulfil growth strategy with a significant increase in marketing, product development, and to educate customers about investing.
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£435,717
Maven Leisure Limited, or Maven, is being established by the current owners and senior management of ETM Group Limited, which operates 13 premium bars, pubs and restaurants in Central London including, rooftop bar Aviary, The Botanist Sloane Square, premium sports bars Greenwood, Westwood and Redwood and its brew and sports pub, Long Arm Pub and Brewery. Maven's founders aim to take advantage of favourable market conditions and raise third-party capital to fund anticipated growth over the next three to five years. ETM asserts that it has grown from a single site to a business turning over c.£35 million and generating c.£3.2 million EBITDA with no external equity funding since its formation in 2013. It aspires to take Maven towards profitability. Maven cites data stating that sector experts predict a rapid return to previous levels of business in the hospitality sector once the Covid-19 lockdown is relaxed. It aims to capitalise on this sentiment and use the investment to grow its profitability across different verticals.
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PonchoPay aims to change the way parents pay for childcare and access the government funding they're entitled to.
Hundreds of millions of pounds of government support available to parents is going unspent each year due to poor awareness, clunky processes and a low adoption of technology. PonchoPay is making it easy for any source of funding to be aggregated at point of checkout, saving parents money and saving childcare providers a significant amount of time in the process.
Using Poncho Pay's intelligent automation engine, our vision is for parents to be able to quickly access and use this funding across all childcare providers that are registered to receive them nationwide.
As we build our prominent role in the payment journey, PonchoPay will be well positioned to offer additional services in future to parents and childcare providers alike. Growth capital and insurance solutions for childcare providers, Buy Now Pay Later for parents and AI-powered booking curation tools are a handful of additional revenue sources that we plan to explore in the future.
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investment:
£405,860
Lifetise is a financial planning platform that enables prospective clients to plan significant expenditures such as buying a home, marital expenses, child-rearing and retirement. Presently, they have come up with two major offerings: Homefinder and Childminder. The first one acts as a tool that shows money required to afford a home in the UK and the amount of time taken to save the money while the latter helps parents to calculate the costs of childcare along with their work. Lifetise is targeting the 25-40 age group in the UK whose population numbers are approximately 14 million. To date, they have been featured in prominent publications like Evening Standard and Stylist with an active following on Reddit. The company has secured 12,000 customers after their partnering with Accenture's Fintech Accelerator Programme. With the investment, Lifetise will spend more on developing its applications with a focus on all major life expenditures, marketing on social media channels, build partnerships and human resources.
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investment:
£254,240
