Assetz Capital is a leading property-secured business marketplace lender in the UK and Europe. It provides loans to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and property developers in the UK, financed by retail investors, institutional investors, government bodies and banks. The company has arranged loans of over £1 billion since its founding in April 2013. It ranked 53rd out of the UK’s top 100 fastest-growing technology companies for two consecutive years in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100, and funded the equivalent of 1 in 100 UK homes in the last two years. Assetz Capital aims to utilise the investment to fund legal and structuring work around the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Schemes (CBILS), have working capital for business development, grow its team, and possibly launch an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in the future.
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£760,600
Bioepic is an app which enables users to easily and non-invasively measure their health status in just 30 seconds using just a smartphone. The app calculates pulse wave velocity, body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate variability chaos, vascular stiffness and the effectiveness of inhalers.
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investment:
£12,500
Brain Füd manufactures functional energy drinks made with natural caffeine, electrolytes, B-vitamins, and no artificial sweeteners. Since 2018, the company has been selling its drinks in universities, corporate offices, and online platforms such as Amazon and Ocado. The company's trial listing is in selected Sainsbury's stores nationwide. Brain Füd is in conversation with Amazon, Morrisons, and many more. With the proceeds, the company will directly appeal to its target audience and bag more distribution.
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investment:
£110,307
Turning homes into renewable energy generators by offering homeowners the ability to create, accumulate and redistribute electricity via an app. Resilience is enabling customers to sell electricity generated from their homes to the National Grid and potentially reducing their energy consumption bills by up to 80%. The company will provide customers with the necessary software, hardware and means to produce electricity that can be stored and sold, as well as monitored through an app.
Resilience's technology is designed to be future-proof and integrate with upcoming and emerging tech. Their monitoring system can also detect any faults in advance to allow action to be taken before issues arise. The company is developing sales channels by working alongside housing developers and energy firms. The initial target market is the 23m homes that used traditional energy suppliers in 2017, as well as the 800k homes that are fitted with solar PV panels.
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£151,900
Innovate Recycle (IR) is a company that aims to reduce carbon emissions from burning discarded carpets. It asserts that only 2% of the 400,000 tonnes of discarded carpets in the UK is recycled, with the rest going into a landfill or being incinerated. IR further points out that burning waste carpet leads to an estimated CO2 impact of £16 million per annum in the UK. It wants to solve this crisis. IR is building a new carpet recycling plant in Northamptonshire that would be able to recycle carpets into reusable materials. They have already received grant funding of up to £2.35 million. IR claims that a single production line in the plant, at full capacity, can recycle up to 20,000 tonnes each year and generate 12,600 tonnes of polypropylene pellets. It will use the investment to expand to a second production line by Year 4 at the same facility.
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£2,650,000
We are a property Market Place matching Buyers and Sellers, Landlords and Tenants without the use of estate agents. The online portal will dramatically reduce the fees that sellers and landlords pay agents to find buyers and tenants for their properties
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Seatfrog allows users to upgrade to 'First Class' on trains running in the UK via its app. Users need to enter their booking credentials on the app and are shown a list of available options. Upon selecting their choice of an upgrade, users can either set their bid price for each seat or skip the auction and upgrade instantly with Seatfrog's buy now option. Upon winning, the company will send the user the new barcodes on their phone. Seatfrog asserts that 42 seconds was the record time for the fastest upgrade on its portal. Its app covers over 560 destinations. The company was named in the UK’s 'Top 30 Fastest Growing Tech Scaleups' in 2020. It has onboarded 340,000+ customers to date securing a 4.8 star App Store rating, earned revenue worth £2,095,091 YE 2020, and secured ~£10 million from some of Europe's leading technology investors. The company aspires to become a contender in the £160 billion European rail market. It will use the investment to expand across Europe and build a better future for rail travel.
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investment:
£2,488,943
Actve is on a mission to build a platform that caters to the new wave of instructors, social media influencers and athletes becoming online content creators. The company aspires to help creators earn an income and build a subscription business. Actve asserts that it caters to a variety of creator needs allowing them to live-stream their workouts, offer guided programs to customers, or use Actve's software to manage their clients. The company aims to become a contender in the digital fitness market that is projected to be worth £21 billion by 2022. It aims to launch its platform in September 2021. Actve will use the investment to develop its platform, hire key staff, build its user base, and work towards becoming an industry champion for fitness creators.
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investment:
£166,670
Holiday Online is a holiday listings business that aims to capture the holiday listing market in the coastal and rural regions around the UK. Partnered with Airbnb and Booking.com, the company aims at helping holiday home owners in these regions to generate online bookings without any hassles. NorfolkHoliday.com, the company's first brand, was launched as an owner acquisition site to appeal to holiday home owners in the Norfolk region. With its proceeds, Holiday Online is planning to build a new brand known as 'SuffolkHoliday.' The company plans to scale up the number of property listings that they have around the UK and to launch into multiple areas helping holiday home owners to benefit from the £200M market in the UK.
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investment:
£105,052
Brewbroker is an online platform that makes buying, selling & sourcing anything in beer an easy process. Thanks to its Intelligent DealFlow software that uses algorithms to match demand with supply instantly, the company aims to eliminate fragmentation across the beer industry. With the number of UK breweries having reached 2,274 in 2018 from 1,352 in 2013, Brewbroker aims to enrol a major chunk of these establishments on its platform. Post launch of their beta application in July 2018, a quarter of the UK’s brewers became members. 750 entities signed up and completed 373 tenders on the platform. 2020 saw the company launching Version 2.0 of its platform. With the funds received, the company plans to scale marketing further and onboard more clients.
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investment:
£154,870
