Wellbeing Sisters (WS) is a company that offers wellbeing advice, hosts an online shop, and sells a subscription box full of toxin-free health, beauty, and nutritional products by and for women. The company first launched its subscription box in 2019 for women trying to conceive. WS witnessed a sell-out of its series of one-off boxes tailored towards conceiving, pregnancy, early motherhood, midlife and menopause in 2020. WS aims to be a contender in the UK subscription box market that is set to be worth £1 billion by 2022. The company asserts that it has organically grown its social media following consisting of over 5,000 supporters. It will use the investment to invest in technology, product development, and marketing/PR.
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£153,394
Alyve provides personalised subscription nutrition powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI). It argues that 8.2 million UK vitamin users are looking for personalised nutrition in one capsule. Alyve asserts that its product can fulfil this demand. Users complete a 3-minute questionnaire where their responses are recorded by Alyve's intelligent algorithms. These then, based on the responses, help the user select one of Alyve's nutritional pills best matched to their goals and needs. Alyve then delivers the pills to the user's doorstep every 30 days. The company has recorded 4000+ questionnaires and completed 800+ orders in 25 countries since Q4 of 2020. It aims to become a contender in the $21 billion supplement market. The company will use the investment received to increase marketing efforts, transform Alyve into a household brand, introduce new product lines, increase staff, improve technology, and transform both digital and physical User Experiences (UX).
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£227,782
Gameroo is a mobile application that offers an alternative for game buyers and sellers, allowing them to trade directly with each other, offering market-beating prices and passive earning potential. The app allows customers to buy or earn credits in the process. The company's app has witnessed more than 3,500 active downloads since its launch in August 2020. It has 600 registered customers with hundreds of items already listed. The company aims to become a leading contender in the video games and consoles market valued at $1.8 billion in 2020. Gameroo will use the investment to build its app and product line based on the feedback of its community of early adopters and drive customer acquisition.
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£117,755
Electric Assisted Vehicles Limited or EAV is a new generation vehicle design and manufacturing company providing a world-class solution. In August, the company has been revealed at the UK EV summit in Oxford. DPD is the technical partner of EAV and it has issued Letter of Intent for 50 more EAVans. With the proceeds, the company will expand into the international market, develop the product and will set its business lease plans.
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£215,130
Coinrule is a smart assistant designed for millennials looking to automate their investments in cryptocurrencies, financial assets and build trading strategies without having to program a single line of code. The platform empowers regular traders and investors to compete with professional algorithmic traders and hedge funds. Users can pick 'building blocks' via a simple interface to create trading strategies which also get backtested on historical data. The company aims to make trading an accessible option for all. They have received awards such as MKB Fintech Lab - Cohort 2018, Pioneer 500, and Alpha Startup at Web Summit 2018. Their exit strategy would be a sale to a larger player either in the crypto space (i.e. Binance/Coinbase) or in the traditional brokerage space (i.e. IG Index, Fidelity).
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£160,000
Debtech is a legal intelligence platform that aims to become a global automation portal for every type of finance agreement - from simple mortgages to billion-dollar corporate loans. Debtech has a two-tiered format for its business. Its Tier 1 'Platform' connects finance stakeholders - from lenders and lawyers to CFOs and borrowers - on one single platform so that everyone is in one place for the lifecycle of the agreement. Its Tier 2 'Marketplace' is an 'App Store' of simple, plug-and-play apps where one app automates one manual workflow. The company asserts that the global legal intelligence market would touch £29.5 billion by value in 2026. Debtech cites that its portal allows finance organisations to achieve time savings of over 90% and cost savings of up to 50x compared to conventional offline platforms. The company seeks to raise £150,000 (SEIS) of equity funding to upgrade the platform's infrastructure for Most Valuable Product (MVP) Version 1 within 90-days to create MVP V2, onboard its six early corporate customers for paid trials on MVP v2, and build five core apps.
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£159,512
Trippki is a live and operational hotel booking platform with more than 1.6m hotels around the world. The platform accepts payment in cryptocurrency for a growing crypto community who want to grow the ecosystem. The company caters to both the new traveller and the experienced traveller for offering a user-friendly hotel booking portal where users have access to hotels globally at competitive prices through Trippki.com. The company's standard booking platform is 'The Trippki Travel Club' where users become exclusive members to get access to discounts up to 60% off the public price. 45% of the proceeds will be used on towards the company's marketing and sales campaign to drive users to the hotel booking platform, 35% for team building and the rest of the 20% for the development of the platform.
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£40,220
Solent Automation specialises in developing, deploying and supporting automation robots to perform and tackle common manual labour-intensive tasks in factories. To solve the 'pick-and-place' challenges in an industrial setup, these robots are created with proven reliable components coupled with proprietary software to solve 'pick-and-place' challenges in an industrial environment. Two of the company's noteworthy products are 'SOLPAL 8' and 'SOLPACK 1XP, both are equipped with an all-in-one gripping tool, and can handle 16 boxes per minute and 60 packs per minute, respectively. Backed by a team of experts from manufacturing and robotics, Solent Automation provides on-site installation, training, and remote support for its products. There is also a rent-to-buy option through a 3rd party finance company. With the investment, the company aims at providing more robotic equipment most needed in factories focused on labour-intensive work functions.
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£76,000
Ticketpass is a ticketing platform that is set to disrupt the traditional ticketing industry with an ethical approach by donating to charity every time a ticket is sold. This 'Tech for Good' company aims to create a fair platform that uses ticketing to create a positive impact, allowing anyone to enhance their events for better social impact at no extra cost. Ticketpass won the Warwick Startup Venture Cup in 2016. It also launched its iOS and Android check-in apps in 2018. In 2019, the official launch of Ticketpass was featured by National Industry Media and Forbes. The company will allocate 56% of the funds to team/tech development, 17% to new hires, 10% to marketing and the remaining 17% to Office & Operations.
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investment:
£282,667
Genomes.io is a private and secure DNA data storage and sharing application. It aims at resolving the problem of DNA data breach and exploitation by allowing users to manage, store, sequence, and commercialise their genomic data. It aims to develop technology partnerships with population sequencing initiatives, rare disease organisations, as well as pharma and biotech companies. Genomes.io will allow its researchers to benefit from having better access to genomic data while protecting individual data owners. With the proceeds, the company will bring its B2C and B2B products to the market.
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£109,080
