Future Planet is an investor-led, co-investment platform giving entrepreneurs a reliable and profitable platform to solve the world's greatest challenges like health, climate change, education, sustainable growth & security. Until now, venture capital has been accessible mostly to insiders, institutions and some high-net-worth individuals (HNWI's) but Future Planet is democratising this stage of investment. It allows world-renowned institutions such as Tel Aviv University, Stanford University and Cambridge University and more to have a stake in Future Planet and access the growth generated by its participating companies in Silicon Valley, the Eastern Seaboard, Europe, Israel and Asia. Since its founding, the company has brought $100 million from some of the world's largest investors, raised and invested its first fund and invested with important companies and renowned managers. The company plans to use the investment and momentum to launch the second Future Planet Fund in 2021 and continue its growth with a target of $500 million in Assets Under Management (AUM) by 2025.
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£1,553,118
Project Imagine (PI) is a startup focused on financial equitability for all. The company aims to build a financial service that doesn’t profit from short term unsecured debt, but one that grows with its customers and does everything it can to help them achieve their financial dreams. PI launched a current account, smart budgeting, saving tools and access to investment products from the likes of Blackrock and Vanguard in January 2019 in the UK consumer market. It has raised over £18 million to date. The company was named one of the UK’s 'Top 10 Best Banking Apps' by finder.com and recognised alongside Samsung and Apple in the technology section of the Global Brand Awards as the 'Best Innovation in Fintech'. It will use the investment to become the go-to platform for managing a user's money, bring together diverse fintech innovation from around the world into one common standard, and retain the most driven execution talent to boost company profits.
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£2,160,625
Abundance is an alternative finance platform that lets people get directly involved in the transition to 'Net Carbon Zero' by enabling them to engage in 'Green Investments'. The company has a base of 6,800 customers who collectively share a desire to create a greener world. Abundance launched its new product 'Community Municipal Investments' (CMI) in July 2020. Its first investment with West Berkshire Council already has over 400 investors. It has also launched other financial products such as 'Innovative Finance' Individual Savings Account (ISA) and a Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP). Abundance has already put over £100 million into green energy and green social housing projects. It will use the investment to establish CMIs as the way to fund councils and engage citizens in green activities, cement its position in 'Net Zero' investments, and secure a strategic partner to grow more quickly.
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£702,620
Incorporated in Luxembourg in July 2018, Glu is a friendly, free-to-use community where users can explore the 'cryptoverse'. Glu is the 'TripAdvisor' for cryptocurrencies or the 'Money Super Market' of crypto exchanges. It serves as a guide to its users through a world full of jargon, mistrust and disjointed information about cryptocurrencies. Glu is working on an integrated B2B & B2C strategy for revenue. It aims to develop B2B customers and build website traffic and then focus on B2C revenues. 41% of the proceeds will be used for product development, 26% for Operations and Customer Support, 17% for Sales and Marketing, and 16% for G&A.
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£158,319
RemitRadar is a platform for sending and receiving money transfers or remittances. The company has 350,000 monthly average users and 1.2 million remittance agencies on its portal. The remittance sector comprises more than 250 million migrant workers who send money home and more than 700 million recipients who receive the money with a total transaction value of over $2 trillion. The company aims to be a major contender in this segment. RemitRadar is also working with the United Nations (UN) agencies to ensure that migrant workers and their families face negligible hassles sending and receiving money. The company will use 35% of the investment for software development, 35% to increase market penetration, 10% to recruit retailers and financial institutions into its lending model, and 20% to manage overhead costs.
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£360,126
ExpoCart is a marketplace that helps businesses in easily hiring and buying furniture, printed displays, floor coverings and more for exhibitions and events by a chain of suppliers. The company has built a customer base of 3500+ companies from 75+ countries. It has a strong supplier network and connections formed with a range of UK event and exhibition suppliers and, it has received a score of 8.5 on TrustPilot. The funds will be used to accelerate product range, strengthen the digital marketing channels and launch new technological platform features.
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£269,841
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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£405,860
Recasher is a e-money based loyalty programme offering real cash back instantly. One app replaces hundreds of loyalty cards offering users significant savings on day to day items and providing merchants the information to make personalised promotions.
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£153,200
Assetz Exchange ('AE') offers an efficient way for retail investors to invest and trade in housebuilding projects residential property for both income and capital growth. AE allows investors to produce a customised property portfolio in minutes. The company has launched its website in May 2019, and it is fully live. The funds will be used for the development of the website, development of the property, hiring team members and for launching marketing and PR.
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£690,453
Using artificial intelligence to accurately match a person's CV with a business's job requirements. Recruitment Smart have developed SniperAI, a tool created by specialists and a researcher from Carnegie Mellon University to quickly search and scan the ideal candidate for a specific job role.
This technology can be integrated into a company's job listings to automatically screen submitted CVs and returns a suitability score. In addition, as HR departments are under constant scrutiny to provide information on equality in the workplace, SniperAI can offer a list of appropriate candidates without bias. Recruitment Smart will generate revenue from initial set-up costs and licensing the product to businesses.
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£272,650
