Perfectly Spoken offers English learning courses online for free in response to the global demand for learning the English language. The user base of this company has grown exponentially to 125,000+ users in less than a year and forecasted to grow at the rate of 30,000+ new users in a month. Perfectly Spoken has grown to 65,000 active followers on social media and is likely to attract book subscriptions from companies and higher education institutions. The additional revenue streams on the consideration include advertising and sponsorship, licensing of content, potential joint ventures, white labeling and develop parallel language services starting with Spanish.
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£60,750
WhatsInStore is the best way to shop for deals to save time, money and energy. It is the world’s first AI engine (patent pending) that empowers shoppers to make buying decisions by sending information to the user’s phone about the products they are interested in. WhatsInStore will focus specifically on the UK grocery market, which has a potential of 28 million shoppers. There are 87,041 physical outlets selling groceries in the UK and the company has signed up with 23 retail stores so far. The complete system has been built and is fully operational. The company has approval for SEIS and EIS tax scheme for the investors. The money invested will be used to grow the user base, secure more retailers, promote via predominantly social media and sell subscriptions to retailers
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£51,500
The Pension Lab offers an interative platform for employees and individuals, helping them reconnect and engage with their pensions. Its mission is to provide the customers with better knowledge of pensions and promote long-term financial decision making. The company has reached the finals of 'Pitchfest' competition held at the NEC as a component of “Venturefest”, and it is also a finalist in the “Innovation in Business” category. Some of the best Fintech solutions providers and pension services such as Yodlee and Origo are in partnership with the Pension Lab. With the proceeds, the company will develop its working capital, infrastructure development, and customer acquisition.
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£38,024
The Green Light Change (GLC) team provides a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform known as 'Insight'. Insight is a new way to deliver projects that are proven to bring up the corporate margins in less than four months. The Insight platform has been adopted by customers, such as, Ramboll Group A/S who has received astonishingly rapid results. The team of Greenlight Change has years of experience in delivering and producing successful software products and complex project portfolios. The company has two revenue models, namely, SaaS Annuity Stream and Professional Services. Furthermore, it should have a minimum raise of £220k for a cash runway of 7 to 9 months and a raise of £440k for a cash runway of 12 to 15 months.
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£25,064
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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Go Local UK provides a hyperlocal marketplace which is community-driven and it brings together the best local independent businesses and local producers. The Go Local application is a smart, geo-located directory and discovery platform showcasing the best independent business in your community. The application detects and finds the current location of a customer to determine the nearest registered product or service for that customer. The Go Local has on-boarded more than 4000 merchants/partners and has over 1200 subscribers. Go Local’s aim is to encourage and champion the “go; eat, shop and buy local” movement.
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EMSOL is a collaborated, passionate, expert, professional business and local authority. It intelligently focuses on air pollution that needs to be urgently reduced. The company provides an IoT platform and sensor-based service to unlock environmental insights that enable permanent, feasible, and rapid change. EMSOL measures air and noise pollution by using the latest calibrated sensors with its clever mathematics it targets interventions to reduce pollution. The company's team is a range of committed, top-quality domain experts. The company is already working with fleet operators, local councils, and developers by generating data-led insights to act on the causes of transport pollution.
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