tickr was created to give people the power to invest in companies. Designed for the next generation, the company specialises in Impact Investing. tickr has 1,000s of users across both iOS and Android platforms. 70% of tickr's users are first-time investors, and about 90% are under the age of 40. tickr has won Tech Nation Rising Stars Award in 2019. It is also a part of the Wealthtech 100 in April 2019-annual list. With the proceeds, tickr will continue to build its user base, focus on product improvement and team expansion.
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£1,147,481
Itasca Wines is a Hampshire-based vineyard and winery that produces fine English wines. The company is raising funds for its contract winemaking facility, to fulfil the growing demand from vineyards. There are over 760 vineyards in the UK currently, 111 have their own winery and only a handful of these provide contract winemaking services to other vineyards. Itasca Wines aims to become a major winemaker and create award-winning wines at Penn Croft. The company planted its first vineyard of 16,000 vines in May 2019 and has featured in Vineyard Magazine in February and May 2019.
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£1,147,003
Ayoa by OpenGenius is an intelligent digital workspace for remote teams to manage meetings, build plans and action tasks. Launched in June 2019, Ayoa already has over 12,000 paying users and c. 300,000 users who have signed up for the free product. Ayoa is used by many people at reputable organisations such as the BBC, Ernst & Young, and Cambridge University. It has an average customer rating of 4.5 stars from 1,000+ reviews across the Apple App Store, Google Play and Capterra. Moreover, the company's CEO, Chris Griffiths, has been featured in several publications such as the BBC, The Times, Forbes, GQ, and The Telegraph as an expert on topics such as creativity and productivity. With the funds received, the company will further develop its product by releasing newer features such as Smart Meetings, and Intelligent Digital Workspace, smoothening powerful integrations and integrating AI tools into the application.
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£1,143,029
Screach is a global live streaming and advertising platform that aims to bring together whatever people want to watch on one single app. The company has partnered with content providers and advertisers to bring different streaming services on a single portal to deliver access, simplicity and cost savings to all. Screach wants to become the segment leader in the projected $130 billion streaming service industry. It has featured in news publications like SportsPro, Propel, and The Morning Advertiser. Screach will use 40% of the investment for sales and marketing, 36% as technology and product expenses, and 24% for customer operations.
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£1,132,840
Bodytrak is a wearable technology that monitors physiological activity such as heart rate and core body temperature. This real time data is analysed using cloud based technology and algorithms to supervisors or commanders so early action can be taken on the event of illness or injury.
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£1,123,119
Dr. Will’s is an all-natural condiment company started in 2015 by real-life doctor, Dr Will. The company has grown from farm shops and Selfridges food hall to nationwide availability, with listings on Ocado, Waitrose and Tesco since its 2017 launch. It has sold 10,000 bottles in Tesco in its first two months, donated £10,000 worth of sauce to food charities up and down the UK and became a fully certified B-corp. Dr. Will's claims to have a thriving 'Strava Club' to get its sauce lovers outdoors. It has sold over 450,000 products and registered over £1 million worth of sales to date. It will use the investment to increase trade marketing spend with Tesco, Waitrose and Ocado, increase brand awareness through online marketing and sampling, grow its e-commerce (DTC) channel, build its team, and invest in packaging and innovation to make its business greener.
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£1,122,376
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
Sustainable Accelerator 4 (SA) supports and invests in the UK’s best SEIS and EIS sustainability start-ups. Its goal is to empower the next generation of businesses who are redefining the way people consume, manage waste, produce food and apply smart resource technology. SA 4 argues that COVID-19 has led to a situation wherein innovative companies with sustainable solutions are more in demand. SA 4 aims to invest £100,000 - £150,000 into around 6-8 high potential sustainability businesses. It has made 22 investments across a variety of companies. SA 4 has helped start-ups gain a profitable track record. Some of them are Rovco, Airex, Zeigo, Sennen, Vendi, and Tandem. SA 4 will use the investment to grow its business and help emerging businesses get a boost by guiding them on different verticals.
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£1,106,100
Riversimple’s purpose it to pursue systemically the elimination of the environmental impact of personal transport. They manufacture and develop environmentally friendly, clean, safe and fun hydrogen cars. Their business model of a "sale of service contract" will mean they never sell a car and customers will have a contract of 1-3 years to include the cover of insurance and fuel. They plan to trial 20 Rasa cars over 12 months in Monmouthshire and are crowdfunding to raise funds towards the build of 10 Beta cars.
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£1,101,348
Loowatt is delivering safe sanitation and generating energy from waste for sustainable business growth. Loowatt argues that poor sanitation leads to more than £150 billion being lost every year due to health care costs, decreased income and productivity. It aims to change this with its patented toilet. The toilet's waterless flush seals waste hygienically away and is the starting point for Loowatt's unique closed-loop processing system. Loowatt works closely with the local utility partners and ensures that waste is safely collected, treated, and transformed into biogas to generate electricity and heat with nutrients captured for organic fertiliser production. Loowatt has processed 555 tonnes of waste and served more than 250,000 people. The company will use the investment to scale-up manufacturing, complete development of the Loowatt Pro data transmission system, and develop an aftersales monetisation strategy for large international contracts, starting with the City of Manila.
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investment:
£1,101,180
