33Fuel is a natural sports nutrition brand that aims to dominate sports nutrition with healthier and natural alternatives. Its products consist of ingredients like organic flaxseeds, Tibetan goji berries, organic walnuts, and raw coconuts, to name a few. The company has received over 10,000 orders and multiple 5-star customer reviews. It has 12,000 email subscribers and a podcast with more than 65,000 plays. The company wants to dominate the sports nutrition market that is forecast to reach almost £2 billion by 2024. 33Fuel has attracted superstar shareholders including 4x Ironman Triathlon World Champion Chrissie Wellington and customers such as Tour de France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins. The company has won 'Health Product of the Year' and 'Best Meal Replacement' and has featured in fitness and mainstream media such as The Telegraph, Independent, and Men's Fitness. It will use the investment for marketing to accelerate sales.
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£367,124
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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£254,240
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
Leading Edge Only (LEO) is a platform that connects global corporations to innovators, startups, small and medium enterprises and scale-ups. Since 2018, LEO has worked with over 25 major corporations such as Britsh Petrol (BP), Marks & Spencer (M&S), Tarmac, Walgreens Boots Alliance, and Ford. It is currently in talks with Salesforce, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Costa Coffee, as well as, 600 universities such as Harvard and Imperial College to build plausible tieups. Its innovations have grown from 2000 to 16000 in the last two years. The global R&D budget of the world’s Fortune 1000 is $782 billion, growing 11% annually. LEO aims to be a strong contender in this segment connecting innovation seekers to innovation providers. Since its launch, LEO has attracted over 25 blue-chip global clients who have paid to have access to over 16,000 cross-sector innovations. The company will use the investment to develop its Intellectual Property (IP) and build LEO into a valuable global brand.
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£377,690
WyzePay is a platform for the issuance and sale of corporate digital currency. It helps businesses by giving them access to advance working capital, customer acquisition and retention, and consumer behaviour analytics into one turnkey platform. It gives customers access to a marketplace to avail discounts, where they can buy, manage and spend their currency. The company strives to ensure that customers receive tangible financial benefits while helping local businesses to prosper. WyzePay claims that its coins are stored in a digital wallet that can be used as a payment method on NFC terminals or online. It further stresses that its coins can’t be lost or stolen, are fully transferable, and never expire. WyzePay states it will use the investment for product development and team growth.
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£617,214
Sendit.Money is a remittance entity. It argues that individuals sending or receiving money in emerging markets can face insecure processes, slow transaction times and incur high costs. Sendit.Money asserts that this is because non-fiat currencies are changed multiple times before they are received. The company aims to change this. Its prototype application for African markets was received amidst positive feedback. It is now building a cost-effective mobile wallet providing a secure and inexpensive way to send and receive money that also allows users to compare transfer fees of different remittance agents in real-time. Sendit.Money was shortlisted as Best Global start-up at the 2020 Wales Startup Awards. The company will build and launch its Most Valuable Product (MVP) in Q3 of 2021. It will also use the funding to begin work with an authorised entity to become an approved representative.
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£182,732
Learn Amp is now a multi-award winning an employee experience platform which combines SaaS learning, engagement and performance management software in one intuitive platform that helps deliver a better overall employee journey. Company's vision is to transform the way businesses engage, align with and develop employees and want to dominate space the way HubSpot has done with content/inbound marketing for better employee experience. Till now, they have secured multiple integrations and content partnerships, having three-year deals with Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, Metro Bank, Paragon Bank and Boon Edam. They won numerous awards: including 2019 Winner of the Employee Experience Award (use of technology) as well as two years running the global no.1 Learning Experience Platform. Funds will be spent majorly on marketing, building tech, product, sales team and marketing team and covering all the central costs.
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£400,730
Nutrifix is a web platform that provides companies with a virtual staff canteen and employees with a personalised weekly meal plan from local restaurants and catering companies that deliver straight to the user’s workplace. Their mission is to take away the stress of healthy eating, making personalised nutrition a reality. Nutrifix also featured in Forbes in April 2019 and has recorded 15,000 app downloads till now with over 8,000 newsletter subscribers. The proceeds will be used for product development, marketing, engineering and operational purposes.
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£268,160
Alyve provides personalised subscription nutrition powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI). It argues that 8.2 million UK vitamin users are looking for personalised nutrition in one capsule. Alyve asserts that its product can fulfil this demand. Users complete a 3-minute questionnaire where their responses are recorded by Alyve's intelligent algorithms. These then, based on the responses, help the user select one of Alyve's nutritional pills best matched to their goals and needs. Alyve then delivers the pills to the user's doorstep every 30 days. The company has recorded 4000+ questionnaires and completed 800+ orders in 25 countries since Q4 of 2020. It aims to become a contender in the $21 billion supplement market. The company will use the investment received to increase marketing efforts, transform Alyve into a household brand, introduce new product lines, increase staff, improve technology, and transform both digital and physical User Experiences (UX).
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£227,782
Elfin Market is an FCA authorised peer-to-peer lending platform offering fair and affordable alternative to credit cards. There are over 60 million credit cards in the UK and the outstanding credit card debt amounts to £72 billion. The company plans to disrupt the credit card market by making financial services simpler and cheaper for everyone through technology and innovation. Elfin Market has already launched the beta version of their product and has achieved 60% monthly growth since its launch in September 2019. With the proceeds, the company will hire two developers to further build up in-house capabilities and for the smooth working capital of the business.
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£804,890
