GymBuddy is an online platform that enables consumers to find, book, and attend a gym location, services, or products offered and operated by fitness studios, gyms, trainers, venues, or other third parties. Users can easily, through filtered searches on the app, view descriptions, and contact information of specialists within the fitness industry such as personal trainers, nutritionists, and physiotherapists. The UK fitness industry alone is currently worth over £5 billion. Based on recent statistics, the average gym membership in the UK costs members £40 a month, which often ties them into lengthy contracts. The GymBuddy app will enter the Health & Fitness club sector as a multi-gym membership feature that gives users access to gyms and various fitness plans, without the need for bricks-and-mortar locations under its brand. The company is seeking an investment of £400,000 to expand its brand identity and bring more users to its ecosystem to generate profits.
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Virtual Reality Universe provides location based virtual and augmented reality experiences. Expensive systems and hardware requirements put such experiences out of reach for most consumers. Virtual Reality Universe aims are to change that by placing units in busy shopping areas and sports arenas.
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£57,900
The Trip Advisor by Kids. KidRated is a review website where all the days out, attractions and experiences have been reviewed by kids aged between 5 - 15. It helps families plan better days out as they know what they're spending their money on and also helps businesses talk to the lucrative family market by engaging the kids' point of view via user generated content.
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£99,979
An instant messaging app feature for friends and families to communicate with each through song lyrics. PlayHit users can type a message and the service will scan through a library of audio clips that matches the user's message. PlayHit works with almost any existing instant messaging platform.
The app launched on Apple and Android devices in December 2017 and within the first week saw 10,000 downloads in the Google Play Store, with an average of 1,600 audio clips being shared daily.
The brand aims to generate revenue by forming licensing deals with mobile companies to integrate the PlayHit service into keyboards, similarly to the Emoji keyboard. Proceeds from this funding round will be used to improve the PlayHit technology and produce a marketing campaign for a worldwide audience.
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£38,690
Good Sixty is an online platform where you can find and buy the best independent food from artisans, retailers and producers. Their vision is to enable people to buy great local food from independent retailers. Good Sixty are looking to expand into London, Bath and Cardiff in 2018.
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£188,650
Holidaymakers tend to return home with around £110 in foreign currency, which tends to go un-exchanged possibly due to hidden fees, lack of ease and simplicity, or poor buy-back rates. Bedwig aims to solve this issue by creating a P2P platform for buyers and sellers to exchange unused currency whilst taking a commission to support the service.
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£39,570
Drop Drinks creates vintage beverages with a distinctive taste. Theses beverages are inspired by traditional British sweets like Pear Drop and Cherry Drop. The company has sold more than 10,000 units since its launch in 2018. With more than 9,000 followers on social platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, Drop Drinks aims at increasing its product range to become a popular and leading drink brand domestically and grow globally. The company is now raising funds to increase production, execute an extensive go-to-market strategy, and hire key staff.
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£127,690
Staark makes cycling clothing that aims to cater to all body shapes. The company argues that current premium cycling and spin brands are cut to a single shape, optimised for the top 20% of cyclists. Staark intends to change this and bring its products to 80% of cyclists with high disposable income who are not ‘elite’ shaped. It delivers a fit based on specific body shapes using Dimensioning Technology (DT). Staark asserts that its innovative designs target cycling and indoor/spin for both men and women, with future diffusion into the wider Athleisure market, which is set to be worth $517 billion by 2025. The company has indicated that Spring 2021 is when it expects to launch its products. Staark will use the investment to enable the company to run its first productions, fueling the initial product launch.
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£161,035
Thyngs are connecting real world experiences to people's digital mobile lives so any marketer can transform their existing promotional objects into interactable encounters. Thyngs has already developed ground-breaking services in events, entertainment and the charitable sectors since being founded in March 2016.
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£50,000
Balkerne is designing a commercial insurance product based on Risk Management technology and Property & Casualty Insurance. Through this way, the company helps enterprises defend their property and people. The company will make sure that no property owner suffers from theft, fire or flood. It has generated net revenue of £21K in January 2019. The revenue model of Balkerne is to charge a percentage of the premium to distribute insurance and support customers with risk management by managing claims. The company has come up with an exit strategy that is to improve the performance of the acquiring company and to quickly acquire the skills and technologies at a lower cost.
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£150,000
