Nova launches growth focus, tech-enabled startups, putting passionate founders at the heart of everything they do. It creates a more rewarding experience for startups with its co-founding model. The company conceives and scales digital businesses thereby solving the real-world problems, open new markets and disrupt existing ones. 46% of Nova co-founded businesses are still trading. There are 140+ staff over Manchester, Liverpool, London, and Islamabad. There is a 3% portfolio valuation growth YOY, thereby creating more than £72m valuation of the portfolio. The company made a turnover of £7.2m in 2018/19. Nova is raising funds to leverage the company's growing network of Founders, Funds, and Talent in the UK.
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£744,880
Feral horses are a platform that allows people invest in art, giving people the possibility to buy shares of artwork. They have a primary market where people can buy shares from artists and galleries from all over the world. Their secondary market allows you to trade the shares you have acquired in the primary market.
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£135,342
Whoomies is a PropTech company focused on improving people's lives by implementing digital solutions to share accommodation. The company is now developing solutions tailored to the needs of big shared buildings such as university campuses, students and co-living campuses. Whoomies is working with Paris Dauphine University and Flatmates, the biggest entrepreneur-focused co-living residence in the world. The company's goal is to improve the daily lives of millions of people by bringing them together. The company is raising capital for growing its international user base to 200,000 users within the next 15 months, for improving its products, and for expanding its team.
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£454,294
AgeWage is a pension scoring system that provides customized information to the customers. By bringing together your pension pots, AgeWage scores each of the pension pot out of 100 and tells you how well they have worked for you. The scoring system offers information that helps the customer make decisions on how to consolidate pots, reinvest their money and most importantly, how to get their money back. The company has signed an MoU with Royal London to enter into B2B arrangements. It was also chosen for the Direct Support Innovate programme with the FCA. AgeWage has been voted the best new idea in the BGL partnership awards(2018). With its proceeds, the company is planning to invest in digital development, marketing the application to the general public and other organizations. Also, it is trying to build out the infrastructure to support the development of the product with third parties such as Annuity Providers, IFAs, and Drawdown Providers.
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£317,760
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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£12,580
Nanusens is the manufacturer of small sensor chips that are mainly used in smartphones and earbuds. Its integrated circuits with built-in nano-sensors are reliable, better performing and have a lower cost. Nanusens' patent-pending technology uses an already existing standard manufacturing process known as CMOS, and do not have any mechanical moving parts inside, thereby creating more valuable space within the devices that can be used for other components. This company's first target is the mobile phone industry, which approximately sees 1.5 billion smartphones sold per year, then it has added another growing target market, earbuds. The earbuds are sold mainly by the same companies but require even smaller chips than currently available which Nanusens believe that it can do much better than its competitors along with providing for other future requirements.
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£557,290
Petalon is a business that delivers flowers across London and Britain on bicycles. Incorporated in 2016, Petalon was the culmination of two simple ideas delivering flowers to clients and ensuring carbon-neutrality. Petalon's aims to simplify flower delivery by cutting out waste and not compromising on aesthetics or affordability. For every 100 deliveries, Petalon donates 5% of operating profits to bee conservation charities and plants a tree in Britain. They have been praised by renowned publications such as Vogue, Vanity Fair and Stylist. Since incorporation, the company has secured a turnover of £700,000. With the investment, Petalon seeks to develop more brand awareness outside of London, build a dedicated following on social media channels and fund a nationwide marketing campaign to bring beautiful, sustainable floristry to clients across demographics.
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£93,850
Artfinder is the art world's first certified B corporation that is on a mission to create a world where art benefits everyone. Operating in the $55 billion+ wall décor and online art market, the company is backed by Wellington Partners, and private investors in the UK, US and Switzerland. It has 60,000 customers, 6,000 artists and a collection of 470,000 artworks. The company believes in establishing direct contact with artists to select or commission work and negotiate prices. Customers have rated the company highly with 4.8+ Trustpilot reviews. The company will use the investment to supercharge its growth, grow its team and improve its platform.
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£834,056
Watneys Beer is a craft beer business with a difference. It has reinvented its product for today’s consumers with a single-minded mission to make its brands great again. It has grown quicker than its peers and has built a business turning over of £400,000 a year. Since 1837, it brewed in London and still has etched into the architecture of pubs around the country. Though the brand disappeared in the 1980s, now it's back and set to become a great brand once again. It has established key distribution partnerships with great regional and national pub companies including Star Pubs and Bars, Admiral Taverns, Stonegate Pubs, Antic Pubs, and Enterprise Inns. This year it will look to continue to build distribution with existing customers and believes there is significant headroom in the market for it. Additionally, it will aim to launch its modern cask range of beers, which take inspiration from Watneys' past, all delivered with a modern twist.
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£400,287
A well-established money transfer service with more than 10,000 account holders, aiming to bridge the gap between unbanked businesses, merchants and individuals, no matter their locations in the world. Omanye is seeking investment to expand their current sites in Asia and Africa.
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£129,090
