ETHOS are a established unique health yoga and fitness studio looking to build a second studio in London Spitalfields.
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£709,460
iHuman Fitness Ltd brings the gym into the 21st century. The company offers fitness classes that move away from conventional gyming methods – big room with lots of people and perspiration – instead downsizing it into compact, personal training sessions where people interact with instructors on a human level. Sessions are a maximum of five, meaning a low ratio of participants to instructors.
The company established its flagship gym in St. John’s Wood in May 2014. Since then it has grown to run 8 classes a day with 371 members. Along with its pop-up gym in Canary Wharf, which has attracted 100’s of people through its doors since opening in Summer 2015, the company is currently making sales of £7,560.
With £80,000 investment for 10% of the business, iHuman Fitness will open a second permanent location in Canary Wharf – to be called The Office – with its pop-up site proving that there is a market for its popular take on fitness in the area.
All going well, a third branch will open in Liverpool street by the end of 2016, and with all three sites bringing in business, by the end of 2018, the company expects to make total revenues of £1,876,700.
The idea for iHuman was born from a rather somber chain of events. Owner Mohamed El-Kadey was only young when he suffered the loss his father to a heart attack. At the age of 26 he realised his own health was taking a downward spiral and feared he might suffer the same health issues as his late dad. This prompted him to re-evaluate his health and fitness, taking on a variety of fitness challenges including the London 2010, Berlin 2011, and Paris 2013 marathons as well as taking a new approach to nutrition.
He decided he wanted to help people benefit from health and fitness – much in the same way he has in an attempt to prevent ill health for as many people as he could reach. This led to the opening of the first of his gym’s in 2014, offering small scale fitness classes that enable participants to actually learn about health and nutrition on a personal basis from instructors.
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£13,320
Much Better Adventures (MBA) is a specialist adventure travel, media and lifestyle platform built for the time-poor, experience-hungry millennial generation. MBA's curated collection of award-winning adventures span 46 countries and counting, covering weekend trips or long expeditions to exotic places. It aims to become a contender in the $683 billion adventure travel market. MBA grew revenues 187% Year-on-Year (YoY) for 6 months leading up to February 2020 and recorded sales worth £1.24 million in January-February 2020. It also launched the 'Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency' campaign and became the first travel company to release a carbon label for all trips. MBA will use the investment to expand and diversify its range of trips worldwide and grow its customer base in international markets like the USA.
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£1,338,400
Caldera is a heat battery company that seeks to institutionalise zero-carbon energy solutions for the masses. Its patented breakthrough, Warmstone heat battery, can store 100kWh of heat for a standard home for 24 hours. Caldera asserts that it takes renewable energy using a flexible green tariff with prices as low as 5p/kWh and stores it as heat, providing carbon-free hot water and heating via Warmstone. The company has raised over £1.5 million through grants and investment to date, installed its first pilot Warmstone product in a family home, established a manufacturing and R&D base, and acquired the support of an energy think tank, Energy Systems Catapult. It aspires to become a contender in the estimated £3.5 billion renewable energy storage market in the European Union (EU). The company is working with König Metall to build and sell Warmstone units via approved UK installers. Caldera will use the investment to install a small number of pilot units in trial homes in 2021 before a full commercial rollout in 2022.
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£1,572,524
An online marketplace offering people to invest in global properties. Wealth Migrate allows investors to diversify their portfolios through a safe and simple platform that uses SMART Investing technology. Investors from 55 countries have performed over 2100 transactions, with each transaction averaging £29.4k and receiving returns ranging from 7% to 12%.
In 2017, over £1.1m of revenue was generated from 846 transactions. Wealth Migrate's main sources of income are derived from equity raising fees, investment management fees and exit fees on the demand side. The company intends to reduce its minimum investment amount to attract more customers to the marketplace.
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£1,980,450
A P2P property platform designed to help developers acquire credit and deliver high returns for property investors. Propifi plans to bridge the demand for finance in the UK by providing an alternative lending channel, which differs from the traditional model. Funds raised will result in parallel development of a website and smartphone app, as well as cover legal costs and allow the business to obtain FCA Registration.
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£389,760
Landbay is a Buy-to Mortgage (BTM) lending platform that provides investors access to a flow of whole-loan high-quality BTL mortgages that can be securitised or held on a balance sheet. Landbay asserts that it does not deploy any of its own balance sheet nor take any credit risk. The company has completed over £600 million of mortgages to date. It argues that it has the mortgage funding, technology and capacity to grow significantly in the £250 billion mortgage market. The company was rated 'Excellent' on consumer review website Trustpilot. It will use 50% of the investment towards technology upgrade, 25% towards marketing and brand development, and 25% towards general marketing expenses.
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£5,129,548
The Booking Factory is designed to create and maintain hotel websites so you don't have to worry about it needing updates or security fixes. The Booking Factory will create you a hotel website that will allow you to easily manage your bookings, automate your admin and engage more with your guests.
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£33,560
Gomingo is an accommodation booking platform which provides a tidy and experienced user journey for travellers. The company attracted immediate booking interest in the first month of its launch. Since launch, 40,000 host rooms signed to date and, in August, the company received 18 bookings in 19 days. Additionally, it has been ranked over booking.com and many other competitors. Gomingo has been featured in travel press like PhocusWire, Travel Weekly and Travolution and it has signed a partnership contract with My Air buddy. The funds will be used to scale technology and connectivity to grow listed inventory.
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investment:
£102,180
VPS work with vehicle manufacturers to provide labour such as fitting air conditioning, leather seats, etc. to their cars as they arrive at port from overseas. VPS's main focus is the manufacturing of Number Plates within the Approved British Standard and selling these directly to the car manufacturers.
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investment:
£851,620
