EV Hub plans to offer fast charging for fleets of electric cars, vans, and couriers at sites with 15-30 bays each. The company uses the latest stable technology that needs only c.30 minutes per charge in comparison to 1-2 hours ‘Fast’ chargers and overnight for ‘Slow’ home/work charging. EV Hub's goal is to start with London’s 3,000 electric taxis, and it will expand quickly to serve vans, hire cars, minicabs, and couriers. With the proceeds, the company will lease and run two first flagship, high-traffic sites, King’s Cross and Heathrow Airport, which will help boost the working capital to profitability.
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Lux is a premium alternative that rewards high-spending customers, without devaluing restaurants’ brands. Powered by the latest card-linking technology, LUX offers premium reward schemes that give users up to 10% of their restaurant spend back as luxury rewards. So far, Lux has attracted more than 50 restaurants including JKS & Mews of Mayfair and Browns. Moreover, accountants, banks, law firms and consulting firms have accepted to distribute LUX. The company will use the funds to grow the customer base and the business.
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£241,580
Cloud-based SaaS software with the purpose of efficiently generating corporate management reports to reduce operational costs and improve data quality. Synapse's service can be implemented into pre-existing financial reporting systems to produce automated reports, even in large companies. Customers include Lloyds Bank, who have signed a 2-year term and the Bank of England have contacted Synapse to potentially integrate the system.
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£894,056
Howbout is a millennial-focused social calendar and planning application. The app allows a group of individuals to instantly find when they’re all free, easily organise any social plan & quickly manage what they’ve got on. The company soft-launched in December 2019 and after strong early traction raised £100,000 – co-led by mobile heavyweight Claire Valoti – to refine the product ahead of its full launch in July 2020. Howbout argues that its app downloads have grown >500% since then. The company has been featured 3x by Apple and >75,000 events have been organised by users in >100 countries, despite 100% UK marketing focus. Howbout was also named in TechRound’s 2020 list of top 100 startups. Howbout sees a socialising boom waiting to happen and believes itself uniquely positioned to capitalise on overdue drinks, catchups and holidays in a post-pandemic world. It will use the investment to focus on company growth and begin monetising.
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£505,010
Rockabox is a global leader in programmatic technology for rich media marketing and is at the forefront of a revolution that is occurring in the $118 billion online advertising industry.
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£4,274,422
Silverfriend is a start-up offering older people protection from scams and fraud. 53% of over 65’s have been victims of a scam and it’s getting worse every year, with fraudsters preying on the lonely and isolated. The team aim to take away that isolation and vulnerability.
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£177,320
The Asset Exchange Ltd is an asset-backed lender within the UK used car finance market providing cars and loans to borrowers who are unable to use traditional lending sources for vehicle finance. They use compliant Hire Purchase Agreements which provides customers with high levels of consumer protection.
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£63,064
what3words is a company whose mission is to make finding and sharing exact locations a simplified task. It has divided the world into 3m squares and given each square a unique combination of three words. what3words is backed by organisations such as Mercedes-Benz, Intel Capital and Sony Innovation Fund. The company's app provides a precise location to drones, driverless cars and voice-controlled devices, in turn, boosting businesses. Emergency services and NGOs are also using what3words for critical services and saving lives. Till date, the company has received over £50 million of funding and was the 'App of the Day' in 143 countries. The company will use the investment to become a global standard for communicating location.
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£7,155,716
Taggstar UK Ltd is a leading provider of e-commerce technology that's designed to convert online browsers into buyers. The cloud-based solution is delivering increased revenues for large UK and global e-commerce brands, such as Argos, Thomas Cook and Shop Direct, by influencing site visitors with data-driven product page messaging.
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£64,440
Husky is the UK’s only open, SaaS platform for workplace pensions. For employers, the platform deals with legal and compliance burdens of auto-enrolment while helping reduce pension costs. For individuals and company directors, the app is instrumental in bringing profitable and responsible investments with the Husky for Everyone app. And for advisers and accountants, it ensures strong client relationships amidst transparency and efficiency. Close to 1.4 million employers & 22.6 million workers are affected by the UK’s automatic enrolment (AE) legislation. Within this market, a conservative estimate of fees charged on employees by pension providers is £2 billion a year; Husky aims to disrupt this market & is ready to scale. Its method of operation has led to it achieving important milestones. With more than 1000 firms onboarded, a 92% renewal rate, and an average annual fee of £438, Husky charges its onboarded firms (including Crowdcube) with monthly recurring fees laid out as part of a 3-year subscription model. With the funds received, the company aims to disrupt the relatively stagnant workplace pensions industry with innovative products and empower its customers.
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£417,338
