Curious Brew is a well established brewing company that for the past 4 years have been creating beers and ciders. They are looking to expand by building another brewery location in the Kent area.
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investment:
£1,749,100
The Juggling King (TJK) is one of the UK's first Seed-to-Bottle rum production companies from Guernsey. TJK argues that its product is the first rum ever to be distilled with cultivated sugarcane grown under glass in Guernsey and to be produced on the island. The company has appointed English former footballer Michael Owens as its global brand ambassador and featured on James Martin's Saturday Morning show. TJK has also onboarded 18 trade customers including hotels, restaurants and bars since its launch in August 2020. It will use the investment for working capital, customs & excise duty expenses, input costs, and other verticals.
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investment:
£402,059
A street food company, specialising in cheese-based products, is now ready to open their second site after success of a 2016 Crowdcube campaign. The Cheese Truck Ltd are raising funds to open "The Cheese Bar" in Covent Garden by the end of 2018. Four more sites are planned before 2021. The original site in Camden has served more than 90,000 customers within a 50-seat area, with sales of £996k in Year 1 and a YOY increase of 20% in Year 2.
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investment:
£197,690
A protein energy brand that offers its products in round balls as an easy-to-eat pre and post workout snack. Boostball's multi-award winning products are made from raw ingredients that have been cold-pressed and only contain natural sugars from fruits and plants.
Boostball sells almost 50,000 units per month across 13 countries and have their own production facility, which creates products for other companies too. Boostball has partnered with Virgin Atlantic and Wimbledon to market their range and their customers also include Google, WHSmith and Graze.
Funds are being raised to launch their next product range, Boostbutter, which is nut butter in squeezable pouches of various sizes. The business is also seeking to grow their market share by entering other territories such as the USA.
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investment:
£251,300
Elemental Digest is a clean-tech Agri-Food technology manufacturing business that transforms the industrial waste problem into high value-added sustainable products with impressive economic, nutritional, and environmental benefits. The company recovers valuable food extracts and creates organic 'clean' phosphate-rich fertiliser for soil and crop enhancement. These products are tested and validated by Rothamsted Research. Elemental Digest is partnered with a well-known leading international meat producer. It has qualified its final products and is ready to produce to scale. The raised funds will be used in building the fertiliser plant, developing the team, expanding markets, and research & development to qualify crop-related precision applications.
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investment:
£1,525,240
Itasca Wines is a Hampshire-based vineyard and winery that produces fine English wines. The company is raising funds for its contract winemaking facility, to fulfil the growing demand from vineyards. There are over 760 vineyards in the UK currently, 111 have their own winery and only a handful of these provide contract winemaking services to other vineyards. Itasca Wines aims to become a major winemaker and create award-winning wines at Penn Croft. The company planted its first vineyard of 16,000 vines in May 2019 and has featured in Vineyard Magazine in February and May 2019.
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investment:
£1,147,003
Silo offers a unique dining experience by promoting a pre-industrial food system that generates zero material waste and celebrating whole pure foods born from clean farming. Aspiring to revolutionise the food industry by being ethical and productive, Silo is evolving as one of the world's first zero-waste and environment-friendly restaurants. Silo is confident that it has a profitable untapped market that can be exploited with its unique concept. The funds raised will be used to make a zero-carbon delivery system, using non-native goods such as green coffee beans, red wine and cacao.
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investment:
£48,000
ioLight makes microscopes that fit in a user's pocket or inside laboratory incubators and display high-resolution images of cells on any mobile phone. The company claims that climate change is driving scientists to the most remote places on earth to look at its impact on the smallest, most fragile organisms. It also stresses that pandemics are driving bioresearch, which relies on monitoring cell growth in incubators. ioLight argues that its products address the aforementioned objectives. The company has sold 400 units to date and aspires to dominate the global microscope market that is worth $9.5 billion and growing at 7.9%. The company has raised £815,000 in equity funding since its launch in 2014 and has featured in two National Geographic videos on Mount Everest and in the BBC Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. It states it will use the investment to accelerate its company revenue and win new opportunities to expand its business.
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investment:
£259,586
Yumbles is a leading UK online marketplace for artisan food. It currently connects over 600 independent food makers directly with consumers. The company is targeting the UK’s estimated £10bn+ UK Speciality Food & Drink market, having seen £1m+ sales in the last 12 months resulting in £400k+ revenue.
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investment:
£262,080
Crafty Nectar are a cider subscription service, sourcing ciders from independent producers and delivering to customers UK wide. They have £85k revenue to date and the aim to widen the availability of craft cider for all. They connect people with traditionally made ciders which are often not available in supermarkets.
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investment:
£145,810
