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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Taking runners to live in unique international locations and race in countries such as Kenya, Nepal and Guatemala. Impact Marathons supports charities and communities, primarily the UN Global Goals project. Impact Runners are provided with food and accommodation, in exchange to fundraise with charities and run between 10km and 42km. In the past 3 years, the business has almost 300 runners and has raced 6 times over 3 continents.
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£82,710
Invite Agents is free of cost online platform which directly connects homeowners with agents to compare fee quotations and valuations. It helps homeowners to find & connect local estate agents to sell their home. The company has successfully tested its concept with local estate agents including Ocean, Andrews and Hunters. It has an estimated to make 850,000 home sales every year with a market opportunity of 25,000 agents. The company is seeking funds for further development of its platform and launch across Bristol, before 2021.
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£44,200
Baanx is a Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C) banking platform that is Application Programming Interface (API) driven and digitaly-friendly. It aims to become a contender in the digital asset financial services market that is estimated to rise to $40 trillion by 2030. Baanx argues that it is disrupting the slow and expensive banking sector by leveraging blockchain to launch secure and low-cost banking products and services, with a few lines of code. The company has witnessed £1.4 million in revenue in 2020. It will start shipping its cards to 30+ EU countries in 2021 and roll-out its ‘plug-and-play’ wallet/card/exchange/mobile app on leading open-source blockchain network, Tezos, targeting the latter's 3 million+ global user base. Baanx will use the investment to increase its staff to 40-50 personnel by the end of 2021, expand into Asian, Middle Eastern, and North American markets with regulatory approvals, and invest in digital asset-backed lending and investing.
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£9,990,280
Travark is a holiday and travel brokerage platform that allows people to research and book holiday experiences. Travark aims to make the researching and booking process as clear and fun as possible with the use of its powerful user-interface and trip management system.
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£34,409
For those interested in learning to ski or snowboard, Maison Sport allows customers to book private sessions, from a single website, directly with over 350 instructors of which 96% were rated 5 stars. Lessons can take places in more than 130 resorts in France, Italy and Switzerland. A commission fee of 10% per transaction generates revenue and a subscription fee is earned via instructors using the service to schedule lessons and payments.
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£408,857
Sweep is an expense management tool that relies on Open Banking and helps Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) automate highly manual and time-intensive processes to cut costs and increase productivity. The company argues that Covid-19 has necessitated the use of automation and remote work. Sweep asserts that its technology can automate expense management flow from capture to expense report while detecting fraud in real-time. The company has raised more than £400,000 to date. It recently won a £456,000 grant from Innovate UK in August 2020. Sweep will use the investment to improve its current tools while developing new features, launch in other European markets like France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, and grow its business across different verticals.
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£129,350
My First Five Years is an award-winning app on a mission to redefine the relationship between parents and child development. With over 3,000 UK parents already benefiting from the app, it provides tools, knowledge, and support for parents from birth to five years, and it's now seeking funding to expand its user base and create a happier, healthier approach to parenting in the age of social media-induced guilt and anxiety.
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£572,669
Hop Stuff are a rapidly growing London brewery which was founded in late 2013, they have grown over 400% in just 3 years. They are now looking to expand both their brewery and bars, becoming one of London’s biggest independent brewers.
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£744,850
Pocket App are the largest independent app development company in the UK. They have had a number of high value clients such as Coca Cola, Samsung and Adidas. Pocket App are also starting to do work in partnership with the likes of Microsoft and IBM.
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£837,115
