B-North is a UK-based business lending company. It has combined cloud-native technology with face-to-face relationship banking. The company asserts that SMEs account for over 60% of private-sector employment in the UK, have driven job growth over the past ten years, and are central to driving economic recovery. It intends to disrupt the £150 billion UK Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) lending market. B-North has raised a seed capital of over £6.8 million including a six-figure investment from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority to establish its core team, as well as, build lending and deposit-taking platforms. The company is now seeking further investment through a bridge round to extend the cash runway from the end of Q4 2020 into Q1-Q2 2021 to achieve the necessary regulatory capital to become a bank and commence lending.
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£2,149,256
DABBOUS is a highly successful, Michelin starred, modern fine-dining restaurant and bar in central London. Opened in January 2012 by Ollie Dabbous and Oskar Kinberg, DABBOUS offers innovative style and creative interpretation of modern European cuisine in an industrial setting.
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£3,124,165
B-North is a financial technology bank combining cloud-native technology with face-to-face relationship banking to disrupt the £150 billion UK Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) lending market. It argues that it delivers cash to SMEs faster than the competition by combining its lending origination platform with a locally delivered servicing and relationship model overseen by experienced bankers. B-North asserts that it is engaging in a positive dialogue with several potential investors with a committed investment now standing at £18.6 million since June 2020. The company has also raised a seed capital of over £6.8 million that includes a six-figure investment from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority to establish its core team and create both the lending and deposit-taking platforms. The company will use the investment to provide a cash runway to the end of Q2 2021 as the team finalises its Series A round and secures its banking license.
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£883,835
LXCCoin, a 2nd generation crypto currency company with the worlds first 100% asset based cryptocoin with an increasing base value, bridging real-world finance to crypto currencies with its own cryptocoin/P2P loan exchange
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£47,079
Accunea is the world’s first real-time continuous organ function monitoring company, specializing in biomarkers for kidney transplantation. Targeting NHS hospitals in the UK undertaking renal transplantation, the company aims to provide relief to patients awaiting organ transplants by ensuring availability of more organs for transplant and reducing the numbers of deaths due to increasing waiting list times. For this purpose, the company has designed a miniature analysis device which constantly monitors markers of kidney function and metabolism through a standard dribble line put into the vein of a patient. Accunea is raising £400,000 at a pre-money valuation of £2,230,000. The funds will be used to achieve clinical utility in Kidney and Pancreas.
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£388,038
Growth Capital Ventures (GCV) is a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) approved fintech company. GCV's mission is to back the game changers, innovators and value creators. It is operating at three different levels namely, G-Ventures, a specialist software development division; Quva, a private investor network; and G- Labs, an innovation lab. The company aims to provide investors with access to well researched alternative investment opportunities that are selected for their potential to deliver better returns than traditional mainstream investment products. GCV has structured property transactions worth £14.7 million, has 5000+ everyday investors, and seen 500+ jobs created by portfolio companies. GCV will use the investment to grow its business across different verticals.
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£1,295,410
Jupiter Diagnostics provide a patent-protected portable reader and test card to provide reliable and cost-effective blood results. Each test card has the ability to measure multiple tests from a prick of blood from the finger and can deliver laboratory-quality results in just ten minutes.
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£2,005,050
The Asset Exchange Ltd is an asset-backed lender within the UK used car finance market providing cars and loans to borrowers who are unable to use traditional lending sources for vehicle finance. They use compliant Hire Purchase Agreements which provides customers with high levels of consumer protection.
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£63,064
NoshyCircle intends to disrupt the £8.5 billion UK takeaway market by offering healthy home-cooked meals with ingredients and their nutritional value clearly displayed on deliveries. Consumers can use the app to order their meals prepared by cooks in their neighbourhood. NoshyCircle ensures that the cooks are registered with their local council having a food hygiene rating of three or above. The company also strives to make sure that all its deliveries arrive in an eco-friendly packaging and delivery solution. NoshyCircle enables anyone passionate about cooking to register themselves as cooks and start their virtual kitchen. It currently has 20 such people on its platform. NoshyCircle will use the funds to scale its presence to the rest of London by the end of 2021 and expand its social media presence to attract more consumers to grow its business.
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£91,424
WhiskyInvestDirect leverages BullionVault’s proven model of crowdfunding wholesale bullion bars (25,000 UK clients) and applies it to maturing whisky. The model eliminates the key working capital constraint experienced by producers, whilst users can potentially profit as the whisky increases in value. The team includes the founder and CEO of BullionVault and an ex-Commercial Director at Diageo who has been building whisky brands for the last 24 years.
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£1,076,472
