Career Masterclass (CM) is an e-learning platform that seeks to level the playing field for professionals from under-represented or under-served groups by giving them practical guidance from successful industry leaders. It aims to become a contender in the Learning and Development (L&D) market that is valued at £40 billion in the UK. The company asserts that there is a 57% consensus amongst leaders that soft skills such as communication, negotiation, personal branding, and leadership are more important than technical skills. CM aspires to fulfil this objective. It has onboarded clients such as Google, Natwest, HSBC, Barclays Bank, and McDonald's. CM's female CEO and founder has been listed on 'The Powerlist of Britain’s Most Influential People of African and African Caribbean Heritage' for 3 years running. CM will use 45% of the investment for growing its team, 30% for platform and content production, and 25% for marketing and administrative expenses.
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investment:
£412,939
Laka Insurance is a collective insurance provider. The company is disrupting the cycling and e-mobility industry. It aims to become a segment leader in the aforementioned industry that is forecast to reach £100 billion by 2025. Laka argues that the traditional insurance model is based on insurers taking a customer's money and profiting from not paying out claims. It aims to change this. Members on Laka share the cost of all claims, and the company earns its share when settling claims for the member. Laka has insured over 10,000 bikes till date. The company launched its new product, Laka Club, in 2020 that offers third-party liability insurance. Laka has won the Best Cycle Insurance Provider at the Insurance Choice Awards multiple times. The company will use the investment to expand its customer base, bring new offerings, and expand its business across different demographics.
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£2,056,630
Crowd for Angels (UK) Limited is an FCA regulated crowdfunding platform that provides investors and companies with an opportunity to invest and raise funds. The company was launched in 2014, since then, it has funded dozens of bond pitches and shares. The company has recently specialised into the crowdfunding of tokenised assets. The company has tokenised assets or securities that differentiate from a normal crowdfunding event. With the proceeds, the company will work on its working capital, expand its registered user base, and further its funds and investments.
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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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investment:
£702,620
Butterwire is a professional research and portfolio analyst platform designed for high conviction low turnover active equity managers. Butterwire's AI web application was launched in June 2018 and is used by all active equity investors aiming to generate higher returns, with faster stock selection, longer investment horizons, lower portfolio risk, and less trading. The application assists active investors with their top 3 challenges: find opportunities, minimise risk, and keep aware. It is built by and for professionals but is accessible to individual investors, too. The company will utilize 10% of the proceeds to operations, 25% to development, 15% to research, 40% to business development, and 10% to administration.
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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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investment:
£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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investment:
£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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investment:
£690,453
