FloatWind manufactures mass-produced floating offshore wind turbines. It seeks to disrupt the £20 billion offshore wind energy market. The company argues that conventional offshore wind farms, installed at sea, use expensive and slow installation methods that are also dangerous to the marine environment. It further stresses that the high cost of installation is often borne by the consumer. FloatWind asserts that its business model is different. The company claims to build its products on land and then floats its ready-to-float turbines out to sea. The company points out that this reduces environmental damage, substantially reduces costs, and makes offshore wind energy cheaper. FloatWind was selected for a 6-month UK Innovate Edge business mentoring programme and appeared for SetSquared Business Mentoring Seminar in May 2021. The company has 3,000+ followers on LinkedIn. FloatWind states it will use the investment for product development, expanding its team, IP protection, promoting marketing and PR, and boosting its manufacturing capabilities.
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£311,497
Virtual Reality Universe provides location based virtual and augmented reality experiences. Expensive systems and hardware requirements put such experiences out of reach for most consumers. Virtual Reality Universe aims are to change that by placing units in busy shopping areas and sports arenas.
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£57,900
Apps4Arts turns the once paper driven medium of festival programming into an elegently designed app. Organisers can now publish interactive guides from their desktops. No coding or design experienced is required.
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£27,980
Empowering landlords with the tools they need to efficiently manage the letting process of their properties. Honest Homes aims to cut out intermediaries and instead offers transparent systematic guides via their online platform to save UK landlords and tenants time and money. Their service provides users with abilities to create contracts, ensure compliance and perform monetary transactions for the collection and payment of deposits and rent.
Honest Homes' all-in-one solution aims to reduce average landlord admin costs from 12%, to 3%. Their service is designed to be fully automated and includes features such as reviews and ratings for both landlords and tenants. The company is aiming to host 1.8% of UK addresses by their fifth year, which represents around 60k listings and they are also planning to expand their services into Europe.
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£166,670
Ofixu is an online platform that aim to help you with your office requirements. If you have underutilised space then Ofixu will help you earn extra cash by listing it at no extra cost. On the other hand, if you're an entrepreneur looking to rent an office, you can find one local to you by using Ofixu's worldwide search function.
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£151,762
Big Couch is the 'crewfunding' platform that empowers filmmakers to connect with crews that invest in projects they believe in. Crews accept lower upfront fees in return for profit shares and deferred payment. Film producers optimise their budgets up to 20%.
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£403
Propnology is a crowdfunding platform specifically designed for property. Founded in 2014, their aim is to encourage a more diverse group of individuals to invest. Propnology allows users to invest in property from as little as £500.
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£57,209
Like a lot of young independent British film companies, 721 Productions had only a modest budget with which to enter the $36 billion global film industry in 2014 (an industry that seems recession proof given that global box office revenues have seen a 22% increase since 2009).
Despite the low budget, director Paul Emmanuel still produced a piece of brilliance with ‘The Maid’ - a romantic drama that hit the silver screen in early 2014 and subsequently went on to pick up various film accolades, including multiple awards, a nomination for Best UK Feature Film and screenings at the prestigious London and New York film festivals.
Since the overwhelming response to what was 721 Productions' very first film, the team has been hard at work on its latest film ‘Secrets of the Lost Souls’.
Paul Emmanuel is once again steering the ship second time around – albeit with a greater depth of industry connections and knowhow compared to the first. He is working alongside other talented and versatile filmmakers David C. G. Hare – who himself has built an impressive career over the past 15 years – and the award-winning cinematographer Steven Marshall who has over 9 years experience in his field and has worked on movies screened at film festivals in Cannes, Venice and Berlin.
The latest film production will cost £80,000 – you'd be forgiven for thinking that that's a small amount for the production of a movie. But with advanced digital cinema technology available to modern-day filmmakers at reasonable prices, costs can be contained. The film ‘Paranormal Activity’ for example, cost $15,000 to make and grossed over $107,000,000 at the box office – testament not only to the relatively small investment these types of productions need, but also to why Horror/Action genres are widely recognised as offering the highest rates of return on investment in the movie industry.
Like Paranormal Activity ‘Secrets of the Lost Souls’ is a supernatural horror thriller aimed at the more lucrative US market.
Production is scheduled to begin early next year and 721 Productions wants to make investors become part of the journey – one featuring ongoing film updates, special mentions, exclusive screenings, site visits, film previews and a wrap party. How far you travel on that journey with the production team depends on how much you invest.
Investors pledging money to this pitch will receive exciting investor rewards and shares in a movie from what is an emerging British film production company. Check out the 'rewards' section for more details.
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£24,700
Beatstream allows users to listen live to bars, clubs and music venues all around the UK using it's music streaming app that's entirely venue centric. Beatstream also gives artists the opportunity to showcase their music and creativity without having to get people to invest by buying a ticket.
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£32,240
In 2015 “CUT” aims to become the world’s largest e-book publisher by author numbers. Over 700 pro-writers pre-registered before CUT even went live. CUT is a writers’ e-publishing community, powered by leading-edge technology. Imagine a LinkedIn for writers that is also an on-line destination for contemporary writing. CUT sells e-books, readable on ALL e-readers. Writers create content for CUT and this content drives traffic to the site. Leading edge publishing technology minimises costs so that e-Book publication carries no charge to writers. In turn, CUT receives 99 year rights on a 50/50 revenue share. CUT building huge content, over 300 e-books published already.
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£106,306
