Killing Kittens is a women empowerment brand, promoting positivity for females of all ages and sizes by creating amazing experiences - both online and offline. The company's social network application has over 120,000 liberated members and, its world-famous events are held in over 12 countries. The company has been expanded globally to Ireland Australia on popular demand. Killing Kittens is also a part of the female-empowerment movement, including the #TimesUp campaign and, the female-first dating application like Bumble. The company will use the funds for growth marketing, product innovation, hiring and operations.
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Expired
investment:
£490,408
A thought leadership media platform working with trusted experts to bring innovative advancements to organisations through journalism. The Future Shapers aims to re-imagine how information is delivered globally and the ways it can help small to large communities innovate further, avoiding the use of advertisers and paywalls.
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Expired
investment:
£41,610
Storemates is a self-storage company that puts people looking for cheap storage in touch with people that are looking to earn some extra cash by renting out a spare room, attic or garage. The online platform allows users to: contact a seller using a secure messaging system, see previous reviews of the seller and then finally book a suitable space online.
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Expired
investment:
£80,453
Precursive's web and mobile application helps customers to manage their resources more efficiently. Precursive does this by helping employers to schedule and plan all of their employees who are working on client chargable work.
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Expired
investment:
£250,000
Cloud-based SaaS software with the purpose of efficiently generating corporate management reports to reduce operational costs and improve data quality. Synapse's service can be implemented into pre-existing financial reporting systems to produce automated reports, even in large companies. Customers include Lloyds Bank, who have signed a 2-year term and the Bank of England have contacted Synapse to potentially integrate the system.
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Expired
investment:
£894,056
JustUs plans to offer its own ISA's directly to consumers via IFA's and by doing so they are disrupting the £1.5 trillion lending and savings market in the UK.
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Expired
investment:
£12,580
Qynn is an investment opportunity and the world’s foremost provider of corporate information and insight on the unlisted UK SME market. The company has four live products: Hunter, QBase, Playground, and Qynn Score. In the next six months, the company will release many new products to multiply the current data stack. Qynn aims at creating the world's most advanced company search tool. With the proceeds, the company will be able to drive sales and product development.
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Expired
investment:
£310,009
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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Expired
investment:
£1,866,500
Prosper is creating a customer-focused brand, aiming to offer free access to public and private funds, competitive cash rates, and instant financial advice via a mobile app. They charge a platform fee based on the customer's assets. The experienced team behind successful ventures like Tandem Bank and Nutmeg is targeting the UK's expensive and underperforming savings and investment market. They've raised £3.2 million from investors including Tom Blomfield (Monzo) and Charlie Delingpole (ComplyAdvantage).
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Expired
investment:
£1,022,665
Nextfin is an FCA approved aggregation and rating portal for equity and debt crowdfunding investments.
AIM is shrinking, legacy stock markets are too expensive to maintain and do not serve the requirements of SMEs, banks are closing branches, lending less and are paying little or no interest to investors. As a result of this, there is a huge growth in equity crowdfunding and P2P lending which has seen the launch of hundreds of alternative lenders & platforms that has created a new c.£3bn marketplace, expanding at 66% p.a. There is no single portal or trusted ratings index for investors to compare on a like for like basis and no secondary market to facilitate exits.
* NextFin is the new trading name of Business Agent Ltd
The solution
NextFin aggregates equity and debt crowdfunding investments to create the alternative finance marketplace. This makes it easy for investors and lenders to find and compare opportunities by presenting all investment offerings in one place. With the addition of a free of charge ratings service investors will be able to view ratings of every equity crowdfunding pitch, every P2P site, and every equity crowdfunding site. NextFin’s technology will constantly track these companies and investments providing the investor real-time intelligence on which to base investment decisions. The platforms and entrepreneurs will be self-promoting and marketing their ratings driving thousands of visitors a month to the NextFin site, in the same way, businesses refer their potential clients to Trip Advisor and Trustpilot. There is an estimated 10 million website/platform visitors per month across the whole of the alternative finance market. NextFin is targeting to direct 5% of this highly profiled traffic to its platform from which it will earn between £5-£8 per click from advertisers and partners. In addition, an in-house brokerage service also earns between 1%-6% commissions on loan placements. A future revenue stream (not featured in the financials) will be developed once visitor traffic reaches critical mass. This will see Nextfin being able to realise the full value of its captured ratings data and visitor traffic by launching a secondary market, which is estimated to be a £5bn marketplace.
NextFin is raising £500k at a pre-money valuation of £2M to: • Develop P2P and Equity site ratings• Expand the management, infrastructure and marketing resource• Increase visitor traffic to 6m a year via rating referrals
Owing to the size of the market and rapid growth of the industry, enterprise valuations in alternative finance are based on visitor traffic, market share and registered users. Recently published valuations of companies with visitor traffic of over 6m per year are in excess of £70m. NextFin is the market-leading aggregator and has first-mover advantage. It has the potential to exceed these valuations because it is the whole of the market aggregator and is currently the only ratings service provider as it grows to achieve 500,000 visitors p.m.
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Expired
investment:
£274,057
