Connecting boat owners with guests looking to rent a waterside experience. Beds on Board's platform offers owners to gain an extra income, or even offset costs, by renting out their vacant boats for those who wish to visit unique locations. Beds on Board is the accommodation service that has attained support from British Marine, the largest marina group in the UK.
More than 30,000 members have signed up to the platform with over 1,500 boats listed in more than 80 countries. To date, over 2,500 booking have been made with an average cost of £340. Revenue is generated from both boat owners and guests during the booking process. Additional options are also available for an extra fee, such as managed services in 5 star marinas.
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investment:
£192,704
Family Traveller aims to help and encourage families to have amazing experiences together. In 2013, Family Traveller launched their multi-platform media business to provide a trusted guide for families to help solve the problems and de-stress the process of family travel.
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investment:
£287,550
Finisterre is an outdoor brand dealing directly with consumers, designed to inspire a love of the sea. The company is famous for product excellence, sustainability, creativity and has received 4.8/5* rating. It has over 75k consumers globally and, revenue has grown to 60% over the year. Finisterre has investment led by active partners including Rapha and Soho House. With the funds, the company will accelerate growth, open further stores and manage product innovation.
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investment:
£3,935,140
Fizzbox is an online marketplace created to sell and organise group booking. This platform also offers customers benefits like free cancellation and booking with just 20% deposit. The company's website has a mission to become the world's largest event company that does not organize events. The company has completed over 1,626 bookings that resulted in £79,000 of commission and £478,000 of revenues in the first year of trading. With the proceeds, the company will complete application development, marketing, recruitment, and fund general working capital.
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Spontly is a mobile application that allows users who attended the same event to share their photos and comments to the event stream, along with eveyone elses so you never miss a moment. The funds raised will be used to expand the sales team and increase revenue.
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investment:
£206,201
CityUnscripted connect travellers to like-minded locals around the world who reveal the places, things and people that make a city unique. Since inital fund raising in January 2016, CityUnscripted has rebranded, fine tuned the concept and expanded to 13 cities globally.
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investment:
£87,160
iHuman Fitness Ltd brings the gym into the 21st century. The company offers fitness classes that move away from conventional gyming methods – big room with lots of people and perspiration – instead downsizing it into compact, personal training sessions where people interact with instructors on a human level. Sessions are a maximum of five, meaning a low ratio of participants to instructors.
The company established its flagship gym in St. John’s Wood in May 2014. Since then it has grown to run 8 classes a day with 371 members. Along with its pop-up gym in Canary Wharf, which has attracted 100’s of people through its doors since opening in Summer 2015, the company is currently making sales of £7,560.
With £80,000 investment for 10% of the business, iHuman Fitness will open a second permanent location in Canary Wharf – to be called The Office – with its pop-up site proving that there is a market for its popular take on fitness in the area.
All going well, a third branch will open in Liverpool street by the end of 2016, and with all three sites bringing in business, by the end of 2018, the company expects to make total revenues of £1,876,700.
The idea for iHuman was born from a rather somber chain of events. Owner Mohamed El-Kadey was only young when he suffered the loss his father to a heart attack. At the age of 26 he realised his own health was taking a downward spiral and feared he might suffer the same health issues as his late dad. This prompted him to re-evaluate his health and fitness, taking on a variety of fitness challenges including the London 2010, Berlin 2011, and Paris 2013 marathons as well as taking a new approach to nutrition.
He decided he wanted to help people benefit from health and fitness – much in the same way he has in an attempt to prevent ill health for as many people as he could reach. This led to the opening of the first of his gym’s in 2014, offering small scale fitness classes that enable participants to actually learn about health and nutrition on a personal basis from instructors.
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investment:
£13,320
Tiger and Butterfly is a high end children’s hair salon in central London aimed at children aged 2 - 14. They will offer services from the first cut to fantasy party hair and offer party packages. The investment will be used to secure a premises and building works, stock and salon expenses.
(EIS and SEIS Pending)
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investment:
£33,140
Eco Hotels is the world's first carbon neutral premium value hotel brand of its kind. Building its first hotels in India, the vision of the group is to create a £1 billion premium value hotel brand that supports sustainable living without compromising on the standards of hospitality.
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investment:
£306,644
