A Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) offering speeds from 20Mbps up to 1Gbps in Hard to Reach Areas (HTRAs) of the UK. Wildanet began its digital rollout in Cornwall, covering 4000 rural homes and is now raising funds to expand to the rest of the county, targeting around 12,000 customers over the next 3 years.
Widanet has built its network using The Lizard as a foundation and deployed its services to HTRAs in South Wales, Devon and Dorset. Within 5 months, the company has built an Operations Centre to distribute their network, which is reportedly more cost effective than current methods such as satellite and fibre.
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£897,790
HairFare is an end-to-end hair and beauty chair rental platform that connects beauty professionals to salons, studios and barbershops across the UK. It asserts that the hair and beauty industry was worth £10 billion in 2018 and is set to increase. HairFare aims to be a contender in this segment. HairFare asserts that it has expanded to five cities within the UK with no marketing budget. The platform has featured in media platforms including The Barber Magazine, Islington Gazette, Startups of London, Business Daily, ITProPortal, ExBulletin, Compsmag, and LinkedIn News, to name a few. It will use 40% of the investment for creating its proprietary app, 40% towards marketing to increase the number of business owners and beauty professionals on the platform, 10% towards setting up its merchandise line, and 10% towards establishing the HairFare Academy.
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£57,736
Themis is a Regulatory Technology (RegTech) company that helps organisations mitigate the risk and impact of all forms of financial crime such as money laundering, bribery, corruption, cybercrime, theft, slavery/human trafficking, and fraud. The RegTech sector is expected to become a GBP 10 billion industry at the end of 2020. Themis aims to be a major contender in this segment and also plans to stop financial frauds that it asserts costs companies globally GBP 3.2 trillion every year. The platform is designed to provide insights on the latest threats, trends, and criminal techniques whilst helping clients complete due diligence on their clients, staff, and supply chains. Themis's key clients include Dow Jones, TSB, Fiserv, Mitmark, Ebury, Natwest Group, Acuris, Glasswall, Evolution AI, and Kingley Napley amongst others. The company envisages exiting via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) or selling to a technology company or to a big consultancy wanting to have a specialized Financial Crime (FC) arm to their business, including a RegTech solution
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£567,027
Themis is a regulatory technology company that helps organisations mitigate the risk and impact of all forms of financial crime such as money laundering, bribery, corruption, cybercrime, theft, slavery/human trafficking, and fraud. The platform is designed to provide insights and intelligence on the latest threats, trends, and criminal techniques whilst helping clients complete due diligence on their clients, staff, and supply chains. Themis works alongside the Themis Charitable Trust to ensure the reduction of financial crime. The company also supports the UN Global Compact taking into account the fundamental responsibilities of business in the areas of human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption. Themis will use the investment to grow its business across different verticals.
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£1,300,000
Splendy Interactive produce live action video games for pc, mac, console and mobile. Splendy's first and the worlds first live action game was called 'The Hunting', this was a horror app and critics claimed it was one of the scariest apps of all time.
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£56,578
FutureBricks is an asset-backed lending platform for SME housebuilders and retail investors. It is a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform for SME housebuilders who have limited access to mainstream finance. In 2018, the company launched an online platform and mobile application with full-fledged automated lending. It has raised more than £2.8 million from just retail lenders across 16 projects. FutureBricks also maintained a 100% track record and 0% default rate of expected returns to investors to date. FutureBricks is named one of the most promising high-growth tech firms in the UK, by SVC2UK. FutureBricks was also shortlisted as “One to Watch” by London Business Awards 2019. With the investment received, the company will scale its marketing efforts and expand its commercial team to uplift and expand revenue-generating streams.
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£474,120
We provide a unique toolset that measures and tracks ship emissions from a computer on land or at sea. 75 countries have signed up to the UN's "MARPOL" regulations, but none of them have an automated system that can cope with the numbers of ships involved, or can measure emissions to the level of accuracy required. We have a patent pending on our design for the monitor and the tracking software which allows regulators - coastguards and port authorities - as well as shipowners to track vessels.
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£57,519
Wizme is a single-integrated Software as a Service (SaaS) platform for global meetings, events and group booking management that consolidates organisation, venue, and intermediary activities. It claims that handling meetings and booking events is still phone and email-based, with highly manual, slow and costly processes. Wizme intends to change this through its services and become a contender in the $1 trillion events market. The company states it has signed Blue Cube Travel, a top 32 UK Travel Management Company (TMC), and partnered with Global Secure Accreditation (GSA) to tackle managing hygiene security in a post-Covid-world. Wizme was awarded the 'Most Innovative Meetings & Events Management Software 2021' by Lux Life Magazine and onboarded a major hotel representation company that gives them access to 1,000 hotel members globally. Wizme intends to use the investment to bolster big clients/partnerships on a global level and launch its upgraded portal by July 2021, to deliver scalability.
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£193,482
Relevant Mix is the UK company that is disrupting the online dating industry with its brands Temptr, DatingBeyond and JustTXT.
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£34,580
The Face Recognition Company (FRC) produces 90%+ accurate face recognition solution. In 2016, the company came up with the objective to develop the most accurate and cost-effective facial recognition solution. This technology is suitable for commercial applications or crime and other security uses. Additionally, the FRC's go-to-market strategy incorporates working through large integrators/partners/approved installers, eight of which are ready to promote and install its product to their own customer base. The FRC team has technically developed this solution by combining 100 years of experience in facial recognition. In June 2018, FRC had filed for two patents: first, ‘Recognition of 3D Objects’ and second, 'Method of and System for Recognising a Human Face’. Where suitable, FRC has also set-up an EIS tax relief.
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investment:
£215,600
