Brompton's bicycle hire allows people to hire folding bicycles from hiring stations. The hiring stations (docks) are sold to partners. The company have already sold 44 docks to partners. They are looking for investment to prepare the business for international expansion. The funding will used to increase the size of their network by placing more docks in strategic locations. Their service will also be developed with the funds, working on their customer service and developing their skills.
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investment:
£380,000
Over the past 8 years, Advatech Healthcare has created Hippo, a proven disabled and non-emergency patients transportation services (NEPTS) in the Essex area. Due to its dependability and efficiency, Hippo is now poised to become the UK's best national wheelchair accessible healthcare services on a wearable technology platform. According to the Office for Technology Statistics data, there are 13.37 million people disabled in the UK who lack dedicated non-emergency transportation. Hippo could save the National Health Service (NHS) up to 60% on transportation costs increasing faster hospital bed rotation and providing dedicated transportation for disabled and non-emergency patients with a medically trained staff. It also offers medical and technological necessities not offered by many leading operators. Currently, the company operates within the Essex area. By the end of 2020, the company aims to commence seven new contracts it has signed with the NHS. It also signed a deal with Cambridge Adult Social Care that is expected to close, within a 5-year term and generate over £200,000 per year.
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Triple Tread is a tricycle that has been designed for people who lack the balance to ride a bicycle or that have neurological illnesses such as MS and are therefore unable to ride a bicycle. The Triple Tread was designed to look similar to standard bicycles and uses many standard components.
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investment:
£10,770
Karshare connects renters with owners, giving those with cars the opportunity to earn extra income while those in need of a car can rent from their local community. The company aims to unlock community car sharing by tapping into the estimated 10 million cars parked at UK airports each year and 38 million vehicles parked on UK streets. Karshare's platform features telematics and keyless technology allowing for cars to be booked instantly and unlocked using facial recognition. Karshare has a TrustScore of 4.9/5 and 852 reviews. It has onboarded partners such as Allianz Insurance, OCTO Telematics, Rentalcars.com, and RAC. Karshare has featured in press publications like The Times, Huff Post, BBC and Evening Standard amongst others. The company will use 25% of the investment for business operations, 45% for growing the business, and 31% for developing User Experience (UX) and functionality.
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investment:
£1,444,182
Carbaya are an easy way to buy and sell a used car. They are an online peer to peer marketplace that puts convenience, value and trust back into the used car industry, offering buyers and sellers better value for their car and money. The marketplace will serve all used cars less than 6 year old and with less than 60,000 miles and once a sale is made they will drop the car off, washed and with a full tank of petrol to the buyer.
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investment:
£351,273
Electric cars designed for the city that are both innovative and affordable. In 2020, Uniti will be launching their first mass produced electric vehicles in the UK and Nordic countries, with a US launch planned soon after. The cars will be built in their pilot plant at Silverstone, which will be fully digitalised. Partners of the business include Siemens, E.ON, Kuka and Tele.2 amongst many others. A prototype was built in 2017 and the next production model will be revealed in 2019.
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investment:
£1,101,820
Book My Garage has been launched to help the independent garage market in winning the online race by giving them all the tools to keep their business profitable, win new customers and to keep their diary full.
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investment:
£668,189
Driving instructors struggle to acquire new pupils regularly themselves so they pay substantial amounts to franchises such as RED and AA for regular pupils. These franchises are expensive and inefficient but instructors have little choice. Our disruptive proposition offers all the benefits of a franchise in addition to new core features exclusive to Lessons Per Hour such as having a choice of pupils, exact travel distance and guaranteed payment from pupils before initial driving lessons.
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Expired
investment:
£7,448
Autotrip accurately records business mileage taking away the hassle of manually recording a trip. Using a simple plug and play technology users are also able to review the results before submitting the data.
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Expired
investment:
£121,638
Asap water crafts have developed an electric power-assisted watercraft for beach lifeguards that blasts the user through the water, for the ultimate adventurer, or for rescue to reach people faster. Their aim is to help lifeguards save more lives. In production and selling worldwide, they have been granted EU Design Registration and have EU & US patents pending. Asap has grown the production setup by making significant improvements - lowering assembly skill level with a modular/practical design. Its goal is to reduce product costs by at least 30%. With the proceeds, Asap will scale with a big marketing push by lowering the manufacture costs and providing the required capital to fulfil orders quicker.
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Expired
investment:
£154,380
