Hungry Tomato is a successful children’s educational publisher that makes fun and illustrated non-fiction children’s books. It has created 170+ successful soft-learning titles, enjoying global interest with 700+ title licenses sold. Hungry Tomato is an established brand, with proven sales in North America. The company's EBITDA is positive for the last 2 yrs with turnover £361,107 EBITDA £98,135 (27%), Dec '18. The funds will be used for growth, for expanding the product range and for launching in the USA.
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£160,830
WTL is an early leader in “intelligent” clothing, selling consumer and industrial garments with embedded washable electronics through retailers globally, including Halfords. We focus on safety. At the intersection of garments, electronics and data, building an IoT connected platform. An IP100 Award 2015 winner, with over 40 granted patents in fabric sensing in which Apple and Google have shown interest. The company was Innovation Award honoree at CES 2015 and has gained media/TV exposure in 30 countries. Massive future opportunities to enhance worker safety and productivity through embedding cameras, sensors, comms into garments. WTL is currently working with Intel, BP, and Accenture.
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£524,943
ThinkCyber combines theoretical and practical behavioural science with its proprietary software to reduce cybersecurity risks for its users and safeguards them through user-centric solutions. The company's 'Redflags' software understands and tracks user behaviour at a point in time whether they're opening a suspicious email, changing a password, and plugging in a USB stick etc. The software nudges users to make secure decisions, delivering ongoing behavioural change. ThinkCyber aspires to become a contender in a security awareness training market worth $2.5 billion which is expected to grow to $10 billion by 2023. ThinkCyber has won clients at TescoBank, Cambridge University and signed paid trials with Vodafone, Unilever and Qinetiq. The company states they will use the investment to scale its sales team, scale-up product development to deliver enterprise features for current trials, and boost marketing/speaking events to attract more customers.
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£293,500
FutureBricks is an asset-backed lending platform for SME housebuilders and retail investors. It is a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform for SME housebuilders who have limited access to mainstream finance. In 2018, the company launched an online platform and mobile application with full-fledged automated lending. It has raised more than £2.8 million from just retail lenders across 16 projects. FutureBricks also maintained a 100% track record and 0% default rate of expected returns to investors to date. FutureBricks is named one of the most promising high-growth tech firms in the UK, by SVC2UK. FutureBricks was also shortlisted as “One to Watch” by London Business Awards 2019. With the investment received, the company will scale its marketing efforts and expand its commercial team to uplift and expand revenue-generating streams.
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£474,120
Breezie helps people who struggle to use the Internet by providing a combination of software, services and the latest breakthroughs in touch screen tablets.
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£600,768
B-North intends to revolutionise the business lending industry, which is often outdated, impersonal and slow. The fintech company uses some of the most advanced cloud-based technology, coupled with face-to-face relationship teams to get the best lending solutions for borrowers and their businesses. The company is powered by a team with prior experience in starting and scaling challenger banks, and profitability is its focused goal. B-North has submitted the banking licence application, and the result is expected by 2020.
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£2,135,456
World of Expats is a business designed to support expats with the tools, services and information they need to make the most of their live as an expat.
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£49,153
Genuine Impact is the next generation financial terminal made exclusively to empower DIY investors by providing experts with automation tools, portfolio enhancer, unbiased data and insights. Genuine Impact is more cost-effective in comparison with traditional financial terminals, and it makes financial research effortless and efficient. Currently, the company's beta app has 500+ users from more than 27 countries. With the proceeds, the fund raised will be used for new product development, enhancement of existing product and for marketing and branding.
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£500,920
A mobile gaming platform offering discounts and vouchers at major brands. Users earn points by simply playing games on their devices, which can be redeemed at local stores. Pointvoucher utilises ads as one of its main sources of revenue and is in the process of developing a software development kit so game developers can create and share their own content on the platform to attract even more users to the service.
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£639,904
TheCarCrowd is a Passion Asset Investment (PAI) platform that intends to address the lack of investment options for the 8 million UK millennials by allowing them to take a real equity stake in a classic car and benefit from the potential appreciation. The company argues that classic cars appreciated 194% over 10 years up to Q4 2019 as per expert reports. TheCarCrowd points out that its portal allows interested investors to buy shares in cars from just £20 and unlock the benefits of potential appreciation. The company asserts that its business idea has found traction amidst users with over 620 investors registering on the portal since the company's launch in November 2020. TheCarCrowd will use 12% of the investment for Public Relations (PR), 48% for marketing, and 40% for working capital.
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£379,108
