The Jackal is an exclusive and upmarket lifestyle media brand targeted towards the affluent, urban male audience. The media brand’s the Jackal Magazine does away with traditional newsstand magazines and their circulation model and adopts a free distribution model, making the Jackal the UK’s second biggest upmarket men’s magazine. The media brand also runs a creative studio and has worked on projects covering brand direction, content strategy, print, film and digital. The Jackal's combined digital audience is about 45,000, and it has worked with over 40 luxury advertisers already.
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£182,842
QFinds is a purpose-built hiring tool that enables employers to easily and efficiently pre-screen candidates, conduct interviews and generate employment contracts. The company asserts that it is a UK government vetted 'Kickstart Scheme' representative and can get small businesses grants to hire interns having already processed over 100 job applications. QFinds claims that its app has been downloaded 2 million+ times garnering 24,000 reviews averaging 4.8/5 stars. QFinds also points out that bad hirings cost the UK up to £6.7 billion in turnover, productivity, and training. It seeks to change this and disrupt the £39 billion recruitment market. The company has partnered with notable entities like University College London, Kings College London and Brunel University London, intending to use them as strategic partners to increase job seekers signing up to and using its app. QFinds will use the investment to grow its business across different verticals.
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£222,866
The House Crowd aims at creating a better financial future for its members through high-quality property secured loans. It has 27,560 registered members and it has raised more than £112M. The company has funded a total of 400 properties and a total of 38,930 paid back investments. The company has won multiple prestigious awards including 'Property Wire’s Crowdfunding Platform of The Year 2017' and 'AJ Bell Shares Magazine: Peer to Peer Lending Platform 2018'. With the proceeds, the company will fund a mixture of technological improvements, it will target three new markets, and fund a mobile app (Money Mog) and a new millennial brand.
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£751,191
Conferences designed for C-Level executives in finance and insurance, with greater control over the content discussed and building new networks within the industry. Club2020 has more than 1000 customers with 25 sponsors and has been in profit since its inception. The company have launched four financially successful events in two years and is now ready to expand further.
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£35,870
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
A personal fitness app that aims to provide affordable and accessible training on demand. Auro offers classes for specific needs via an audio coach; from increasing stamina, to losing weight. Each class includes a motivational trainer with a dedicated playlist. The company also utilises artificial intelligence to personalise workout programmes for each user and has filed a patent for this technology.
Auro’s app has already received more than 10k downloads and is backed by top investors, such as the founders of LoveFilm, Zoopla and Passion Capital. The company is raising funds to scale the business further in the UK and expand into Europe.
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£262,230
rais is a virtual customer data analyst designed to stop socially unintelligent marketing and save the customers heaps of time in the process. The clever software platform of rais imports customer data from first-party sources to automatically deduplicate records. The monthly recurring revenue of rais is above £20K, and it has worked with more than 50 brands. Its software is trusted by many businesses like Original Cottages, Heartier, and Warner Edwards. Analyses engines kick in enriched customer meta-data that syncs with marketing channels to stop, start, or adjust marketing messages automatically based on individual customer circumstances. rais' vision is to build a virtual data-analyst for SMEs who do not have the time and ability to really leverage their customer data assets.
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£150,000
VINEX is a digital Business-To-business (B2B) trading platform that connects buyers and sellers to source, sample, negotiate and execute contracts related to wine. The company has traded more than 115 million bottles of wine across 26 countries since 2016. It has also witnessed 3,200 monthly visitors on its platform with an average of 80 million litres of wine traded each month, from 16 countries. The company recently launched VINPay, an industry-first financial technology service customised for the wine industry, providing wineries with guaranteed payment and increased access to capital liquidity. VINEX argues that VINPay attracts wineries with earlier access to cash and empowers buyers to buy better, with up to 150 days to pay. The company aims to become a contender in the wholesale wine market that is set to exceed US$381 billion in 2021. VINEX will use the investment to help wineries invest and flourish.
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£114,218
PCL Health is a Business-to-Business (B2B) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) entity that aims to bring hospital-level care to anyone remotely. It asserts that the correct use of remote monitoring can reduce mortality by up to 45%. PCL Health intends to become a contender in the remote healthcare market that is set to touch $30 billion by 2023. It has developed CE rated medical-grade devices that use health algorithms combined with sensors and its proprietary range of apps to allow family members to proactively monitor the health of their loved ones, alongside carers and doctors, remotely. PCL Health has completed two pilots with 65 people and received a Letter Of Intent (LOI) from a National Health Service (NHS) Trust for a clinical trial. It won the 'Innovative Startup' competition at the 2019 Healthcare Unblocked event. PCL Health will use the investment for technology enhancement, running further pilot studies, and working capital.
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£394,680
Intelligent Health aim to get the whole community active by providing games and incentives such as ''beat the street''. By providing schools and communities with friendly competition to walk and cycle more by tapping their cards on ''beat boxes'', and with prizes and league tables on offer, Intelligent health are bringing communities together.
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£700,000
