C-Major is a medical technology company. It asserts that over 2 million people suffer a Needle Stick Injury (NSI) every year and are at risk of contracting blood-borne viruses such as Hepatitis and HIV. It aspires to resolve this crisis by bringing to market its patented medical device, Controlled Helical Retraction Device, to prevent NSIs. The company argues that the device contains a ‘Helical Track’ mechanism for controlled acceleration of the needle during retraction as well as a ‘Sealed Port’ to minimise any blood splatter. C-Major endeavours to disrupt the $5.5 billion safety syringe market with its product. It is backed by the UK 'Innovation Seed' fund. C-Major will use the investment to complete the final design of its product for manufacture and assembly ahead of a Series A funding round in 2021.
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£211,595
Troubadour is a London-based menswear brand specialising in designing minimalist bags & accessories by combining performance design with a clean & modern aesthetic feel. The company has delivered its products to 60+ wholesalers. It is backed by Pembroke VCT, a luxury-focused venture capital firm based in London. Troubadour is planning to work with non-traditional retailers including Ritz Carlton, Four Seasons, and Equinox. It has also collaborated with many world-renowned brands such as British tailors 'Thom Sweeney' and British essentials brand 'Sunspel' that is famous for clothing James Bond. The company has also been a case study for classes at the Harvard Business School. With the investment, the company will support sales growth to its customers and retail partners and also fund working capital requirements from its forecast growth plan.
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£621,240
Sweep is an expense management tool that relies on Open Banking and helps Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) automate highly manual and time-intensive processes to cut costs and increase productivity. The company argues that Covid-19 has necessitated the use of automation and remote work. Sweep asserts that its technology can automate expense management flow from capture to expense report while detecting fraud in real-time. The company has raised more than £400,000 to date. It recently won a £456,000 grant from Innovate UK in August 2020. Sweep will use the investment to improve its current tools while developing new features, launch in other European markets like France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, and grow its business across different verticals.
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£129,350
Wealthify is an online investment platform that lets you choose the parameters in which you want to invest such as; how much you want to invest, how long for and the risk level of the investment.
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£1,117,523
Specilaing in making a wide variety of award-winning pies and pastry products for the public. Eat Square's 2017 funding round has resulted in their turnover more than doubling in 2018. This growth has led to Eat Square expanding their business and begin to sell franchises to market their goods. Production and capacity have also increased and products that are vegan and gluten-free are being produced. This funding round will see the business sell up to 14 franchises by the end of 2019 to buy their pies.
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£34,019
Manigo will provide an easy, secure and cost-effective way to manage everything around your money. We want to be the go-to place for everything around banking and payments - think of it as the Amazon for your money and related services. To do this, we’re building an open architecture, designed for other companies to integrate and operate within our ecosystem- we see Blockchain technology as a natural fit.
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£510,630
An app designed to help families manage their household bills in one place. Onedox have increased their user base over threefold to 16,000 users since June 2017 and manage more than £21m worth of customer expenditure with over 700m bills downloaded for their customers to view. The company has participated in the 'Accenture Fintech Innovation Lab' and 'NatWest Entrepreneur Fintech Accelerator' programmes, as well as being finalists in the 'British Banking Awards 2018'.
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£358,120
RightIndem is a white-label insurance software platform designed to deliver fast claims to claimants on its portal. The company develops and sells its own proprietary cloud-based digital claim process management software ‘as a service’ to the global insurance market. Insurtech is a vast market and attracts large amounts of investment, with $4.36 billion invested in the first three quarters of 2019. Till date, it has contracted clients such as Axa XL, Archipelago, NN Belgium, NN Netherlands, and Mapfre, with engagements at various levels of implementation and progress in the UK, Italy, Peru, US, and South Africa. They have also earned regard for automating claims processes form some of the world’s largest insurance organizations allowing for the settlement of low to mid-value claims within hours instead of days or months. With the proceeds, the company will connect operating expenses to the point where client revenues from claim volumes match operating costs.
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£200,001
Founded in 2012, Holly and Beau is an award-winning kids-wear brand which offers a unique collection of colour changing rainwear. The company sells its products directly through its website and via distributors in the UK, the US, Europe and South Korea. Holly and Beau is in the process of patenting its technology, which will enable it to develop a unique product range of rainwear and skiwear. Moreover, the company has successfully maintained an average revenue growth of 80%-100% YOY.
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£218,570
Garbanzo Snacks is a profitable businesses, currently selling their chickpeas with a sprinkling of flavour in 725 Holland and Barrett stores. They use 100% chickpeas with minimal processing, this keeps the products as pure and unadulterated as possible.
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