ClickMechanic offers car repairs, servicing, Ministry of Transport tests (MOTt), diagnostics and pre-purchase inspections through its nationwide marketplace of vetted mechanics. The company cites research group Mintel's data stating that 50% of drivers got ripped off by car service centres. ClickMechanic wants to change this and become a leading contender in the £23 billion UK automotive servicing industry. The company takes a 20% commission on every completed booking and has secured a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 85+ for its services. Their exit strategy is via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) or trade sale.
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Expired
investment:
£100,000
Publisher Discovery, using AI & Machine Learning technologies, provides recommendations to Advertisers of highly relevant Publishers in the affiliate marketing sector. The company has built a uniquely curated database of over 2 million publishers and 330,000 advertisers, which are then analysed, compared, and matched to make recommendations in ranked lists, matching the best publishers with each advertiser. The affiliate publishing market is worth 16 billion dollars per year but is still largely dominated by human-based agencies and is uniquely suited for automation. Publisher Discovery aims to capitalise on this aspect and establish itself as the market leader. The company has signed up over 50 publishers and is negotiating contracts with two large distribution partners. It is currently raising £1 million investment with £675,000 committed so far, to grow sales and operations and reach over £2m Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in the following 12 months.
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Expired
investment:
£800,000
Good Club is an online grocer that aims to sell sustainable household food and products across the UK. The company's sales have grown from £18,000 to £234,000 in May 2020. The potential demand for sustainable food and products is £61 billion in the UK, and the company finds itself as a strong contender in this domain. COVID-19 has led to an increased interest in home-delivered grocery products amongst consumers. Good Club responded to this by opening its first distribution hub in North London. It has also carried out a 'Life Cycle Analysis' of its proposed process and prototype packaging to ensure that its sustainable and eco-friendly. The investment raised will help the company grow its revenues, establish scalable marketing foundations for future growth, and roll out 'Closed Loop' service to strengthen customer loyalty.
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Expired
investment:
£1,001,337
Invisage is a cloud-based platform that helps asset managers optimise their performance and research costs by identifying the true value of investment research. The company asserts that Directive 2014/65/EU has led to the investment research market falling from $16.5 billion to $14 billion as managers look to reduce costs and increase value. Invisage asserts that its platform helps asset managers identify, objectively measure ‘value’ added by research, and consume only high-impact research. The company also offers a web-based research consolidation, valuation and attribution solution that gives a quantitative assessment of value added by research to client portfolios. Invisage will use the investment to enhance deep learning-based Natural Language Processing (NLP) models that detect the implicit ideas from research narrative, build partnerships with data providers and other solution providers, and market scale its sales function
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Expired
investment:
£75,000
Makerble is an easy-to-use mobile app and web-based tool for charities to track, improve and share their impact. Currently only 8% of charities use software to track their impact and so far Makerble's beta users have reduced time spent on data collecting by 50%.
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Expired
investment:
£21,429
Ever Insight (EI) offers professional analytics services catered to a customer's needs. The company platform draws valuable insights from data ensuring that business managers can make efficient decisions. EI specialises in three main verticals namely, Predictive Learning Analytics (PLA), Financial Analytics (FA) and HR Analytics (HA). EI's current mission is to deliver an innovative and supportive analytics system to institutions that facilitate learning and eliminate roadblocks to student success. Its team has already developed the software and implemented it in India, but the company needs further refinement and adaptation to suit the UK educational market requirements. It will use the investment to get its Start-up visa approved and establish its business at different verticals.
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Expired
investment:
Withheld
'Time is money' - for e-commerce businesses that statement couldn’t be truer. From the moment a potential customer lands on an e-commerce business’s product webpage the clock begins ticking. The more time that elapses, the more chance there is for distractions to take the customer away from the buying process, perhaps never to return.
Accelerating the decision-making process would, therefore, go a great distance in minimising the potential for disruption and improve chances of the e-tailer making the sale. But how does such a business go about spurring the customer into quicker clicking?
Step in Taggstar Ltd - a unique company leading the way in its respective sector, having developed state-of-the-art software which is provided as a service (SaaS) to help online retailers improve conversion rates and increase overall sales.
The intelligent software overlays persuasive messaging containing product-related information on webpages in real time, impressing on the customer stats such as how many people are viewing the product at that moment in time, how many purchases have been made over a certain period and the quantity of stock remaining.
The software, which uses a patent-pending algorithm, can also display special messages such as product reviews from satisfied customers, or messages derived from trends such as fast selling ‘on fire’ products. The system leverages real-time data to combine messages to best effect so as to create a sense of urgency and/or engagement with the customer to evoke a ‘buy now’ response.
The solution has been designed for all types of e-commerce, including: retail, property, entertainment, travel and finance, and works across all desktop, tablet and mobile devices as a responsive solution. Since it launched, Taggstar has served over 400m messages to some of the largest e-tailers, generating order conversion rate uplift of up to 10%.
Taggstar launched with Shop Direct Group, a £1.74 billion retailer with a roster encompassing Littlewoods, Isme and very.co.uk, in February 2014. Taggstar is now embedded across 100% of site traffic of very.co.uk, serving more than 70m messages each month. Very.co.uk has experienced a 2% uplift in order conversion by using Taggstar Basket Module, one of Taggstar’s flagship products.
Taggstar is also doing a phenomenal job on its current trial with Argos – in just 27 days from the start of the trial, Taggstar’s technology has generated a 2.28% increase in order uplift, resulting in a significant increase in revenues for Argos.
The company is actively demonstrating the power of the solution by providing free trials that are on-going with other retailers including Thomas Cook Online and lastminute.com, which gives some insight into why the company is looking for a minimum of £200,000: to fund working capital while any trials are converted to formalised contracts and any sales are finalised.
Advanced discussions are currently taking place between Taggstar and other leading UK multinationals, including ASOS, Tata Group and BA. There’s also a key to unlock the international market in the pipeline in the form of the company signing a trial with Naspers, a Johannesburg-listed global group of ecommerce and media brands with presence in over 130 countries worldwide.
More recent times have seen the company attract prominent backers to the business including Sir Stuart Rose (former Chairman of M&S); Rob Hersov (Invest Africa), Bentworth Holdings Ltd and Ariadne Capital.
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Expired
investment:
£464,680
TellJO is a company that comes with a mission to help 25M people of the UK who are susceptible to vulnerability. The company's TrustTech platform 'TellJO digital' is an intermediary between businesses and their vulnerable customers. TellJO has been utilised by 3 companies, and it is supported by Bethnal Green Ventures. The company is looking forward to developing "Team TellJO" that will help it achieve sustainable but rapid growth. With the proceeds, the company is looking forward to scaling its 1st to the market solution and develop the TellJO team.
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Expired
investment:
£82,290
Secret Saviours have created the anti-stretch mark pregnancy band. Used in combination with the day gel and night cream, there is now a way to prevent stretch marks from forming. The band has special pads that are placed to diffuse and spread the tension of the stretching skin.
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Expired
investment:
£185,863
Themis is a Regulatory Technology (RegTech) company that helps organisations mitigate the risk and impact of all forms of financial crime such as money laundering, bribery, corruption, cybercrime, theft, slavery/human trafficking, and fraud. The RegTech sector is expected to become a GBP 10 billion industry at the end of 2020. Themis aims to be a major contender in this segment and also plans to stop financial frauds that it asserts costs companies globally GBP 3.2 trillion every year. The platform is designed to provide insights on the latest threats, trends, and criminal techniques whilst helping clients complete due diligence on their clients, staff, and supply chains. Themis's key clients include Dow Jones, TSB, Fiserv, Mitmark, Ebury, Natwest Group, Acuris, Glasswall, Evolution AI, and Kingley Napley amongst others. The company envisages exiting via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) or selling to a technology company or to a big consultancy wanting to have a specialized Financial Crime (FC) arm to their business, including a RegTech solution
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Expired
investment:
£567,027
