Untied is a groundbreaking app that gathers information, claims costs and allowances, and prepares tax filings on the go. All of these can be sent to the tax authority from the application. The app connects across existing accounts, making tax sense of transactions and gives the assurance someone needs. Backed by Accenture's Fintech Innovation Lab and Barclays Techstars, the company became the first overseas winner of Israel's biggest fintech prize at Fintech Junction. The business will earn a turn over of £100m in ten years making it ready for an IPO. With the proceeds, it will create new software platforms, publishers, banks, and accounting firms.
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£350,000
Zapaygo is a lifestyle application that simply makes life easy when ordering and paying for any type of product or service. Users can order/pay for anything to be collected or delivered and also make instant payments. The team have secured contracts to increase the potential reach into the millions.
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£450,000
ALVÁTECH is a sustainable water technology company on a mission to revolutionise the $1.3 trillion per annum agriculture industry that consists of 537 million farmers. It claims that the agriculture industry uses 70% of global water consumption. ALVÁTECH aspires to change this. It argues that its technology disrupts water molecules in an ecological way, helping farmers grow more with less water. The plug and play solution runs entirely off solar energy and is chemical-free. ALVÁTECH claims that it has installed its water treatment devices in 17 countries across six continents and established an international distribution network since its product launch in August 2020. The company has also signed agreements with entities in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the US, Europe and the Middle East. ALVÁTECH will use the investment to expand its distribution network, sales teams and subscription plans to reach more farmers and develop Hydro devices for vertical farming, boost hydroponics, and create ALVÁ personal home devices.
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£504,932
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
An interactive podcast app that offers users the ability to engage in their favourite shows through exclusive content. Entale podcasts are divided into chapters that contain relevant information and web links for a more immersive experience.
On the Entale platform, more than 1.6m podcasts have been downloaded and played by over 30,000 active users. In the last 3 months, the iPhone app has been downloaded more than 20,000 times. Revenue will be generated via a subscription service that will remove adverts on podcasts. In addition, Premium shows will be offered which will be available for a small payment. Funds will be used to develop the Android app and integrate further with OK Google, Siri and Alexa.
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£300,997
Datam is a new Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that enables businesses to start taking card payments in just 5 minutes. The company claims that in 2020, more than 50% of all payments in the UK were made using cards. Datam asserts that banks have to navigate between entities ranging from the initial salesperson (ISO), the bank (acquirer) and up to 4 other different stakeholders before they can start taking card payments. It intends to simplify this process. The company has raised £715,000 in Q1 of 2021 funding additional delivery, sales resource and repaying previous loans. Datam is working with VISA to demonstrate the value of its platform and seeks to make its services available to 450,000 UK Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that renew their card services each year. The company states it will use 30% of the investment for service deployment, 20% for sales and marketing, 20% towards new product modules, and 30% towards working capital.
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£727,322
A Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) offering speeds from 20Mbps up to 1Gbps in Hard to Reach Areas (HTRAs) of the UK. Wildanet began its digital rollout in Cornwall, covering 4000 rural homes and is now raising funds to expand to the rest of the county, targeting around 12,000 customers over the next 3 years.
Widanet has built its network using The Lizard as a foundation and deployed its services to HTRAs in South Wales, Devon and Dorset. Within 5 months, the company has built an Operations Centre to distribute their network, which is reportedly more cost effective than current methods such as satellite and fibre.
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£897,790
UnderPinned gives freelancers a single, dedicated platform to learn how to build a successful business, find clients, manage their work, and help them get paid on time. The company aspires to build a connection with users that ensures everyone thrives through its accelerator programme, community, and content. UnderPinned asserts that its accelerator programme allows it to achieve day one unit profitability before converting users to subscribers. It claims to have made £12,772 in revenue with £8,000 spent on marketing in its first month of programme sales in January 2021. The company argues that COVID-19 has accelerated freelancing, moving away from traditional employment. UnderPinned has a community of over 20,000 subscribers and growing. It says itvwill use the investment to scale its team, marketing and product development as it focuses on expanding in the US and EU markets.
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£629,086
EverUp is the UK's first digitally-native prize-linked money account. The company's objective is to shift consumers from the conventional savings account to an application that rewards users with virtual coins for the money they save. Users can then use the virtual coins to play EverUp's online games or lottery events and win tax-free, cash prizes, or more virtual coins to play. The company envisions to build a full-scale financial hub where its customers can accomplish all types of financial transactions. EverUp will reward users for solidifying good financial behaviours through a prize-linked suite of products. EverUp has been accepted by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Innovation Hub to act as a registered Electronic Money Institution (EMI). EverUp is soon going to launch its application across iOS and Android. The company will use the investment to fund its initial operations and earn market traction.
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investment:
£478,889
Turning homes into renewable energy generators by offering homeowners the ability to create, accumulate and redistribute electricity via an app. Resilience is enabling customers to sell electricity generated from their homes to the National Grid and potentially reducing their energy consumption bills by up to 80%. The company will provide customers with the necessary software, hardware and means to produce electricity that can be stored and sold, as well as monitored through an app.
Resilience's technology is designed to be future-proof and integrate with upcoming and emerging tech. Their monitoring system can also detect any faults in advance to allow action to be taken before issues arise. The company is developing sales channels by working alongside housing developers and energy firms. The initial target market is the 23m homes that used traditional energy suppliers in 2017, as well as the 800k homes that are fitted with solar PV panels.
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investment:
£151,900
