The Jackal is an exclusive and upmarket lifestyle media brand targeted towards the affluent, urban male audience. The media brand’s the Jackal Magazine does away with traditional newsstand magazines and their circulation model and adopts a free distribution model, making the Jackal the UK’s second biggest upmarket men’s magazine. The media brand also runs a creative studio and has worked on projects covering brand direction, content strategy, print, film and digital. The Jackal's combined digital audience is about 45,000, and it has worked with over 40 luxury advertisers already.
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£182,842
Dynamo is an app that enables users to schedule and share luxury events with new and interesting people from the local community, making them available independently and on-demand. The company has developed the iOS application and launched a pilot in Mykonos, Greece. It has also received interest from providers in 20 cities globally. The Dynamo team consists of highly-experienced professionals from Hotels.com and best consulting firm. The company has re-branded as Dynamo and is ready to launch in London.
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£172,600
Frunbu is a mobile application that aims to fill unexpected gaps in tradesmen's schedules at short notice. Frunbu allows tradesmen to post their availability for the coming seven days and customers can either give them a call or post a job.
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£120,888
Bagboard is an advertising platform and sustainable reward app that empowers people to shop from planet-friendly brands. It is backed by leading investors, including Sky Ocean Ventures and has partnered with brands such as Ben & Jerry’s, WWF, Loop, and Sky Ocean Rescue. The company promotes its planet-positive brands' campaigns on smart paper bags and incentivises people to reuse these smart bags instead of using single-use plastic bags through its app. For their effort, users earn conscious coins to spend on eco-friendly products and services via the company's in-app marketplace. The UK ethical market is now worth £83.3 billion and the company sees itself as a strong contender in this segment. It has also been featured in publications like the National Geographic, Sky News and The Evening Standard. The company is aiming to raise an investment of £600,000 to kickstart the next stage of its new advertising platform and reward scheme and accelerating its growth with both consumers and advertisers.
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£616,580
A digital ski instructor technology that can be placed into any ski boot to deliver real-time audio coaching via pressure and motion sensors. Carv has shipped more than 2,100 units, which has generated more than £580k of revenue since launching in 2017.
Thier boot inserts house 114 sensors that feed information to a smartphone app wirelessly to provide the skier with data on their performance. Their technology has been created with guidance from Olympic and World Cup skiing athletes, including their coaches. Carv is further enhancing their product by developing a subscription service that will deliver premium lessons and coaching drills.
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£996,710
A chocolate company ready to shake up the industry with their tailor-made range of lollipops, by using the latest manufacturing technology. Candy Mechanics customers can personalise chocolate gifts for friends and family with their own designs. One of the company's USPs involves 3D-printing a person's face in a few minutes as a tasty treat.
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£408,650
Recap is a cryptocurrency portfolio tracking, analytics and tax reporting platform. The company claims that market participants engaging in cryptocurrency have to deal with complex issues such as tracking all of their transactions, valuing cryptocurrency transactions in their tax currency and understanding capital gains tax legislation laws. Recap aims to solve this issue by enabling said participants to calculate any tax they owe on their cryptocurrency trading activity in a matter of seconds on its portal. The company has plans to launch a mobile application enabling investors to track their portfolio on the move. It also intends to come up with a Business-to-business (B2B) offering which Recap asserts will enable crypto native companies to account for their cryptocurrency activity with automatic accounts reconciliation to accounting software like Xero and Quickbooks. The company’s exit strategy is a trade sale within 3-5 years to a cryptocurrency exchange or accounting software provider.
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£120,472
Docandu is an innovative digital health platform designed both for patients & doctors, making digital healthcare accessible from anywhere. Docandu aims to be a key tech health service provider, starting from Greece, improving the existing national and private health care services. The global digital health market is estimated to be worth $536 Billion by 2025. To date, they have developed two separate apps for doctors and patients. They have also received an angel investment of 100,000 Euros and sponsorship of $25,000 from Microsoft. The company has initiated early-stage relationships with a couple of Greek public and private health entities. With the proceeds, they will execute their go-to-market strategy and make global health ID a reality, by expanding its affiliate network of doctors, health providers and public health systems.
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£70,900
The developer has secured full planning consent for the demolition of an old milk processing factory and development of 49 residential units and one commercial unit, pre-let to the Co-op on a 15 year lease. The residential development will comprise 39 private units (1 bed flats, 2 bed maisonettes, 3 and 4 bed houses) and 10 affordable units where a sale has already been pre-agreed. The scheme will also include car parking, cycle storage and landscaping.
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Chessable applies learning styles and gamification to make it easy to get started with learning Chess. Chessable allows you to select a opening book you'd like to play and then when you have learnt it just once the Chessable system will use it's algorithms to make sure you review what you learnt in the most efficient manner possible.
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£8,046
