Care Messenger is a personal, direct means of communication delivered through our televisions. The mobile app gives you a simple message template to fill out that then displays directly onto the recipients television.
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£26,871
Sol-Gel Materials and Application (SGMA) is a sustainable technology company that is using its new sol-gels to create sustainable solutions to plastic environmental waste. The company has researched and developed a non-plastic, non-toxic coating for products, from food packaging to electronics, that is water and oil resistant yet recyclable. Its product is the world’s only biodegradable, compostable, and recyclable (BCR) solution. The company's founder and CEO, Dr Fanya Ismail, has won the award 'Women in Innovation 2019' by Innovate UK and the company's work has been covered by BBC South East Today. The company plans to function as an IP management company, sub-contract manufacturing to chemical firms moving from bulk to advanced materials, and outsource distribution to partners, whose packaging customers serve brand owners.
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£611,040
GENEROUS APE is an online shopping destination for the style-led conscious shopper. The company asserts that the word 'APE' is an acronym for 'Animal, People and Environment' and is targeted towards sustainable shopping. GENEROUS APE argues that it has completed eight weeks of beta-testing with an average of 450 visitors showing interest in its website and 47.62% being returning customers. The company asserts that the average basket value was £89 with partnerships signed with 80 style-led sustainable brands. GENEROUS APE onboarded 'DHL GO GREEN' as its primary delivery associate and partnered with World Land Trust on the 'Buy an Acre' scheme to facilitate wildlife protection in perpetuity. The company will use the investment for optimising marketing, boost organic growth channels and paid media, improve the consumer experience, and develop a personalised dashboard for each customer.
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£208,525
Cocoon is the smart new security system that protects your whole home with one device and alerts the users on their smart phone if something unusual happens, it also learns the usual rhythms of your home avoiding false alarms.
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£2,394,620
Car Quids gives the opportunity for anyone with a car to make money by advertising on their car. Car Quids also gives advertisers measurable results. They currently have over 8,000 car owners signed up and currently there has been over £75,000 in advertising booked. Car Quids aim to expand to further parts of the UK and even into Europe.
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£154,500
'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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£464,680
PitPat is an activity monitor for dogs, it helps owners connect with their pets in a fun and useful way. PitPat is waterproof, small and lightweight and fits any breed. PitPat are also working on their Dog Care Intelligence Platform that is designed to connect thousands of PitPet users into a worlwide network of dog owners.
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£767,990
TIME-TO-FIND is a reverse marketplace for luxury Swiss watches that helps customers locate the watch they want from the company's network of brand authorised stockists. The company's complimentary service allows customers to communicate with and compare authorised retailers without any commitment with a simple sign-up process. When the customer is ready to transact, they can choose TIME-TO-FIND's bespoke concierge service to hand-deliver their desired watch to their doorstep. Customers can also opt for the secure courier service from their chosen authorised stockist to their nominated delivery address. TIME-TO-FIND garnered £80,000 worth of sales at retail value in its pilot period from August to December 2019 with zero returns. TIME-TO-FIND will use the investment to create marketing and PR campaigns to boost sales, increase site visits to 500,000 within 2021-2022, improve its website's user experience, and hire key personnel.
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£281,731
Online checkout and form abandonment is costing retailers $billions in lost sales [Source: BusinessInsider]. Formisimo is an analytics platform that measures user behaviour in online checkouts and forms, and shows companies what they need to change in order to increase sales. Trading began in 2014, and Formisimo is now used by companies like Experian, Shop Direct, Secret Escapes, Arsenal, and Starcom MediaVest. There have been 1,800 signups in over 100 countries with the company targeting the UK and Europe.
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£438,962
Graphene Composites is a nano-materials technology company that creates the strongest, lightest, most resilient material by combining aerogel, graphene, and other nano-materials. Founded in 2016, the company, in partnerships with US/Global defence/aerospace contractor, is one of the few graphene nanotechnology companies who are developing bulletproof graphene/aerogel armour. Moreover, it is also extending its GC Shield technology to military/police applications. Besides these, GC's technology can also be used to improve the strength and reliability of wind turbines.
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£597,360
