Rockit design innovative sleep products that centre on child sleep issues. The company has launched an award winning portable baby rocker and since the launch in October 2017 over 14,000 Rockits have been sold. The product will be in John Lewis stores in spring and also in JoJo Maman Bebe in the summer. The funding will allow them to increase their marketing in the UK and overseas. It will also to produce the tooling for the first follow up product.
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investment:
£253,120
A rapidly growing printing, merchandising and clothing brand with customers including Google, Amazon and Nike. Awesome Merchandise produce all their products in-house and ship internationally. The company has created over 65 million items for more than 70,000 customers and have been in profit every year. Investment will help to build a new factory based in Austin, TX, USA and to create US and European websites.
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investment:
£654,870
Chip is one of the fastest-growing Fintech companies in the UK. Chip has built an app that uses the user's banking app to make personalised decisions about their money. Its user base has doubled since its previous fundraising in 2018. The company has 153,000 accounts, and it has processed more than £130m of savings. ChipX is the company's revolutionary returns platform and it has a waiting list of more than 50,000 people. The company is a winner of the British Bank Award, 2 Crowdcube awards, and 1 World Banking Award. It has welcomed many management executives from Funding Circle, Monzo, and Purple Bricks. Chip is now scaling with market-leading returns on ChipX. It aims to build the biggest savings account in the world. With the proceeds, the company will double its team and expand ChipX in the €10 trillion European savings market.
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investment:
£3,768,260
Steve Grindrod Amplification (SGA) creates guitar amplifiers designed by Steve Grindrod, arguably one of the best electric guitar amp designers in the world. SGA already have over 50 global distributors ready to go once they have the funds for their marketing campaign.
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investment:
£3,300
Based in the UK, Bolin Webb are a designer of mens grooming products. Bolin Webb bring design and functionality together when creating their products. This is one of the many reasons they have picked up four international design awards in the past year.
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investment:
£309,222
Grabr is a social platform that connects users with their passions such as; wine, books, cars etc. Grabr's first site Games Grabr, is a social platform for gamers that allows users to showcase the games they're currently playing/ favourite games. They soon followed with another site called Book Grabr, which did very much the same think but for book lovers.
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investment:
£120,440
StepLadder is a financial technology company dedicated to helping people buy their first home. The company asserts that it is tackling the housing crisis with its 'StepLadder Circles' that is based on the Rotating Savings and Credit Association model (ROSCA). Users have to state a monthly monetary contribution and a financial goal. The portal then adds them to a group of people with the same goal wherein all users contribute the same amount each month. The portal then randomly allocates one person in the circle each month the total contribution received. This repeats every month for the duration of the circle until everyone has received their deposit. It has awarded over £750,000 to members on its portal. The platform has featured in The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, and The Independent. It also won 'Innovator of the Year' in the Women in Tech Awards 2020. StepLadder will use the investment received to improve its pan-UK growth via referral and ambassador programs.
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Expired
investment:
£161,420
aylo's goal is to expedite the shift toward a circular economy. With £22 million in annual recurring revenue, backing from venture capital, and certification as a B Corp, their technology platform facilitates the leasing and reusing of consumer products, making sustainability more accessible and affordable. Raylo recognizes that consumers and retailers will embrace this transition if it's both cost-effective and straightforward.
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investment:
£1,282,150
Lifetise is a financial planning platform that enables prospective clients to plan significant expenditures such as buying a home, marital expenses, child-rearing and retirement. Presently, they have come up with two major offerings: Homefinder and Childminder. The first one acts as a tool that shows money required to afford a home in the UK and the amount of time taken to save the money while the latter helps parents to calculate the costs of childcare along with their work. Lifetise is targeting the 25-40 age group in the UK whose population numbers are approximately 14 million. To date, they have been featured in prominent publications like Evening Standard and Stylist with an active following on Reddit. The company has secured 12,000 customers after their partnering with Accenture's Fintech Accelerator Programme. With the investment, Lifetise will spend more on developing its applications with a focus on all major life expenditures, marketing on social media channels, build partnerships and human resources.
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Expired
investment:
£254,240
Upside Down House (UDH) is a family-friendly attraction offering a zero-gravity illusion photo experience. It has venues in Brighton, Bristol, Essex, Manchester, and Great Yarmouth with more in the pipeline. The company asserts that its two-storey house structures, complete with furniture on the ceiling, allows guests to take surreal images of themselves hanging from the ceiling to share on social media. UDH witnessed a turnover of £1 million since the company's launch in November 2018. The company was chosen to exhibit at Hyde Park Winter Wonderland London over the 2019 Christmas period, which attracts around 2.5 million visitors per year. It has also received coverage in publications like BBC Breakfast, Today Show, The Daily Mirror, Ideal Home, BBC Radio Essex, and more. UDH will use 60% of the investment to procure new sites, 15% on marketing, and 25% to hire personnel.
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Expired
investment:
£100,406
