Scent & Co is a fragrance subscription service provider that offers choice, portability and flexibility with high-end fragrances at fair prices. Customers get a 30-day supply of 10ml bottle of their choice of fragrance or the choice of scent determined by fragrance experts. Since May 2017, with minimal marketing spend, Scent & Co has attracted 1500 customers and currently, has 850 loyal subscribers. The company has a loan-to-value ratio of £24 while 96% of its revenue is raised from the subscriptions. By next April, it aims to reach 7000 subscribers and to enhance customer experience to reduce churn.
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investment:
£12,750
Licklist is a social marketplace for nightlife. It is the only website that allows users to keep up to date with the latest news, reviews and events across the UK. For nightclubs and bars, they provide innovative tools for the users to fill a venue both cost-effectively and efficiently. They have a directory of over 6,000 venues to the community on their platform and operate the UK's largest photography agency with over 1,200 photographers, covering over 2,000 events per month and uploading over 50,000 photos per week. Till now, they have more than 600,000 registered users and they are growing by 10k-15k new users per month with positive cash-flow. With the proceeds, they will build a sales team, spend more on marketing and technology.
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investment:
£140,727
Okappy provide cloud based job sheets enabling the user to send jobs across to engineers or sub-contractors and watch the status of the job change as it is updated online. This reduces the need for paperwork as it is all done online and enables managers to be more in control of the jobs when working with a number of sub-contractors, clients or worksites.
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investment:
£251,022
ThinkCyber combines theoretical and practical behavioural science with its proprietary software to reduce cybersecurity risks for its users and safeguards them through user-centric solutions. The company's 'Redflags' software understands and tracks user behaviour at a point in time whether they're opening a suspicious email, changing a password, and plugging in a USB stick etc. The software nudges users to make secure decisions, delivering ongoing behavioural change. ThinkCyber aspires to become a contender in a security awareness training market worth $2.5 billion which is expected to grow to $10 billion by 2023. ThinkCyber has won clients at TescoBank, Cambridge University and signed paid trials with Vodafone, Unilever and Qinetiq. The company states they will use the investment to scale its sales team, scale-up product development to deliver enterprise features for current trials, and boost marketing/speaking events to attract more customers.
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investment:
£293,500
ORSTO has well publicised 5 years of R&D and is recognised as leading experts in the field of wearable technology, specifically ‘wrist worn’ devices. ORSTO Smart Watches can work independently of a smartphone and can freely sync or communicate with any brand. The first product is planned for March 2015 production. In January our first 10 Days for giving hands-on experience to retailer management resulted in LOI/Orders for 16,500 units (Retail value £2.54 Million).
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investment:
£14,752
Bank of Telecom is the global marketplace for secure voices trade. Members have access to live traffic and pricing and can post routes on their own terms and pricing to ensure simple and secure trading.
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investment:
£450,000
Southbourne Brewing brew, sell, and distribute ales in the South of Dorset. They have been brewing since 2014 and have won an 'International Brewing Award' and 'The Label of the Year' in 2015.
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investment:
£41,620
Autotrip accurately records business mileage taking away the hassle of manually recording a trip. Using a simple plug and play technology users are also able to review the results before submitting the data.
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investment:
£121,638
Supper aims to be a unique delivery service focusing on quality and service for high-end restaurants. It argues that its commercial metrics and lack of reliance on 'Gig-Economy' workers sets it apart from competitors. The company intends to become a contender in the food delivery market that grew by 35% in 2020 and by almost 150% over the last 5 years. It has partnered with 130 notable establishments such as Zuma, Park Chinois, Milos, and Cova, to name a few. Supper has 61,000 customers on its portal that is further growing by 1,500 new customers every month. The company delivers 1,000 orders each week and has fulfilled 100,000 orders to date with the average order costing £100. It delivers orders via its purpose-built, gyroscopically-stable, and temperature-controlled vehicles. Supper will use the investment to focus on its growth in London and expand globally.
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investment:
Withheld
Solent Automation specialises in developing, deploying and supporting automation robots to perform and tackle common manual labour-intensive tasks in factories. To solve the 'pick-and-place' challenges in an industrial setup, these robots are created with proven reliable components coupled with proprietary software to solve 'pick-and-place' challenges in an industrial environment. Two of the company's noteworthy products are 'SOLPAL 8' and 'SOLPACK 1XP, both are equipped with an all-in-one gripping tool, and can handle 16 boxes per minute and 60 packs per minute, respectively. Backed by a team of experts from manufacturing and robotics, Solent Automation provides on-site installation, training, and remote support for its products. There is also a rent-to-buy option through a 3rd party finance company. With the investment, the company aims at providing more robotic equipment most needed in factories focused on labour-intensive work functions.
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Expired
investment:
£76,000
