gowithYamo aims to make art more accessible to everyone, from art newbies to experienced gallery-goers through its application. Users can collect Yamo points by checking-in to galleries and exchanging them for rewards such as art prints and exhibition tickets from the company's in-app store. gowithYamo provides support to galleries, museums and artists by exposing them to an active community of art lovers. The company also offers custom-built virtual exhibition spaces where artists can show and sell their work to a sizeable digital audience. gowithYamo has collaborated with art entities like Roy's Art Fair, The Other Art Fair, Harlesden High Street, and many others. It has a social media presence of 50,000+ followers. The company will use 30% of the investment to expand across different demographics, 25% to further finetune its virtual exhibition platform, 20% for marketing, and 25% to implement Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the gowithYamo app to help recommend exhibitions to its users.
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£161,105
Flender is a social lending platform that will transform the way people use peer-2-peer finance. From funding friends to backing businesses across multiple countries Flender has taken a mobile first approach. Flender allows the borrower and the lender to set their own interest rates, as well as allowing users to lend to people they know.
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£501,700
Tred is the UK’s first green debit card that lets users track, reduce and offset their carbon footprint as they spend. The company plants trees with every sustainable purchase the user makes. It aims to become a contender in the challenger financial technology market that is projected to be worth £365 billion by 2027. Tred won the 'Pay360 Award' at the 2021 Fintech Pitch Live event and has featured in the Evening Standard. It will use the investment to launch the Tred card to the public and develop more features like a personalised carbon coach and green investment options.
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£1,000,004
The British Design Fund invests in and provides support for early stage UK product design and manufacturing companies. The Fund seeks out extraordinary entreprenuers with scalable products ready to accelerate growth and build long term businesses.
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£350,000
Assetz Capital is an FCA authorized, major business secured by property and P2P lender in the Europe and UK. Funded by 30,000+ lenders, the company provides loans to property developers and SMEs in the UK. Assetz Capital was ranked 53rd out of the UK’s top 100 fastest-growing technology companies in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100. Moreover, the company has witnessed a 78% average revenue growth over three years. Having achieved critical mass and proven business model, Assetz Capital is headed towards meeting the multi-billion funding gap faced by SMEs. With the proceeds, the company will strengthen the cash levels and balance sheet and provide further opportunities to shareholders and customers.
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£1,866,500
A money transfer service allowing customers to send money worldwide at a lower cost compared to traditional methods. TransferGo has been gaining 1,000 customers a day since May 2018 and currently has over 700,000 users. They have processed almost £781m on their platform through 1.3m transactions and operate on a gross profit margin of 6.7%.
TransferGo has 5 offices located in London, Berlin, Istanbul, Warsaw and Vilnius, with more than 100 employees globally. The company recently launched their new product, dubbed 'NOW', that enables users to send and receive monies in less than 30 minutes across borders.
Revenue is generated via fixed transfer fees and currency conversion fees ranging from 0.0% to 2.2% per transaction. These fees are dependent on the currency's origin and the amount being transferred. A free option is available to customers whose transaction may take a couple of days to transfer.
Funds are being raised to expand the business into emerging markets and introduce new products and services. This also means that TransferGo is aiming to provide local-language support and build new partnerships to attract more customers to their platform.
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£11,297,362
KogoPAY is a start-up fintech mobile payment company which offers quick, simple and economic regional & global money transfer with the help of an application. The company has a UK FCA licence, and it is on the last step for EU EMI licence. KogoPay has 1000 customers signed up and has been chosen to join the Mayor of London Business & Partners Accelerator. The company is planning to use the funds to complete rollout over Europe and Asia and to invest in advanced performance and customer service using Artificial Intelligence.
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£198,620
Similar to the functionality of workplace pensions, employees can invest part of their pay into an ISA and start to build a healthy saving habit. Smarterly's current clients include Rolls Royce, Samsung and OVO Energy and they have identified 85 other organisations with a collective 600,000 employees as potential opportunities. Due to the fundamentals of Smarterly being automated, there is no need to pay for a large staff and revenue is generated via small fees.
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£1,638,150
A financial assistant that helps you to save and invest money all from within an app. Plum connects to your existing bank account and uses machine learning to save money you're not spending every month by looking at your transactions history, without any input required.
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£1,005,249
Arca is helping to build the market for property market risk transfer by dealing in derivatives for domestic and commercial properties. Nick Ruddell has held senior roles for the last 30 years with banks and big interdealer brokers.
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£676,500
