Killing Kittens is a female empowerment brand that is leading a global movement to promote positivity for women, men and couples of all ages and sexualities. Its social media application has around 140,000 members worldwide, and the brand has hosted events in 12 countries. Killing Kitten's members use this platform to connect with like-minded people, improve their sex lives through education, and engage with brands and content. The company has raised £1 million in two previous successful funding rounds. In this round, 45% of the investment will be used for marketing, 45% for product innovation, 5% for preparing for funding, and 5% for operations.
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£340,930
Synatus is a virtual consulting group that enables senior level experienced sole practitioners to work together to service and develop client business. The Group provides the individual with a total support structure for their business which includes visible profiles on the web site, centralised marketing initiatives and saving money on services they buy for their business. They also earn fees for referring colleagues and introducing third party products and services to clients.
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An audio trading platform enabling music lovers to buy and sell CDs, vinyls and cassette tapes. iHaveIt aims to be the prime location for audio listeners to collect and trade physical mediums with each other. Since launching in June 2018, more than 100,000 visitors have reviewed over 1.6m items.
Partners of the business include Gardners and Proper music. This has enabled both brand new and pre-owned products being listed. The platform is free-to-use and revenue is generated via a 6% commission to sellers on any sales made. A future revenue stream starting next years will be comprised of advertisements and marketing.
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£48,280
MusicGurus.com is an online learning company that allows anyone to learn music from the world's top professional musicians. We offer high quality, short video courses that teach students the secrets and techniques behind the music they love. Target customers are hobby musicians aged 16+ who continuously seek out exciting ways to indulge their passion. Students are motivated to learn from professional musicians who are carefully selected for their immense musical talent, passion and pedagogy.
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£228,590
WildHitz.co.uk is a 24 hour online music TV station, showcasing videos from top current artists. Within 18 months of launch, WildHitz already has a community of around 200,000 daily users[1], with ad revenues of over €340,000 [2] in 2014, their first year of operation.
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£2,390
Taking runners to live in unique international locations and race in countries such as Kenya, Nepal and Guatemala. Impact Marathons supports charities and communities, primarily the UN Global Goals project. Impact Runners are provided with food and accommodation, in exchange to fundraise with charities and run between 10km and 42km. In the past 3 years, the business has almost 300 runners and has raced 6 times over 3 continents.
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£82,710
VieLoco are a growing lifestyle app matching people on shared passions. They match users for networking, friendships and romance and helps build genuine relationships through the use of detailed searches. Users can select from hundred of 'passions' such as music, travel, food and many more!
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£91,521
Wooshii (www.wooshii.com) is a video production marketplace that matches clients to video producers.
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£302,000
Rebel Book Club is a developing subscription business of six hundred members who have read fifty-two books in four years. It delivers one non-fiction book every month and hosts a secret meetup featuring a book-inspired cocktail. The company has 600+ paying members in London, Bristol and Oxford, etc. and it receives 130+ average number of new applications monthly. The company hosts meetups at Entrepreneur First, Airbnb HQ, and WeWork. Rebel Book Club has collaborated with authors Matthew Syed (Rebel ideas), Kate Raworth (Doughnut Economics), Seth Godin (This is Marketing) and many more. The company aims to make the world's best non-fiction book club by growing a membership experience, build a reach code and support literacy projects.
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£148,070
One Year No Beer (OYNB) is a community support platform that helps people change their relationship with alcohol. It does this by allowing its users to choose a plan from the company's subscription-based models that consist of a 28-day, 90-day, and 365-day challenge to stay away from alcohol. The platform has empowered 70,000+ people in 90 countries through its challenges. Excess alcohol consumption leads to 3 million deaths per year and costs up to £59 billion to the UK economy alone. OYNB aims to resolve this crisis through its platform. For its efforts, the platform has been mentioned in publications such as the BBC, ITV, Metro, and Daily Telegraph. It also has an online presence of 130,000+ Facebook and 50,000+ Instagram followers. The company will use 42% of the investment to hire personnel, 33% for technology and product builds, and 25% as overhead costs.
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£1,757,111
