aterhaul converts harmful ocean plastic, specifically ghost gear, into high-quality eyewear and adventure-oriented products. With £2 million in revenue, notable collaborations, and praise from Sir David Attenborough, we're seeking funding to propel our next phase of growth, expand our reach, and increase our positive influence. Through recovering, recycling, and redesigning ghost gear into premium eyewear, we're turning waste into value while engaging a community through our recycled litter picking equipment to join us in our mission.
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£596,567
Stagedoor is a new generation theatre guide and hassle-free booking platform. It is London's first discovery-led theatre application which makes purchasing theatre tickets easy. Stagedoor is the official application for the Camden Fringe and VAULT Festival, and currently, it's having discussions to bring Stagedoor to the Edinburgh Festival. The user growth of the company has increased and reached 53,000 downloads. Furthermore, it has raised 730K from angel investors & an EU innovation grant. Stagedoor will use the funds raised in growing its user base and in improving its application and website.
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£193,450
Ripple is a clean energy ownership platform that allows consumers to own a small part of a large scale wind farm and have the clean electricity it generates supplied to their home via the grid. The company makes clean energy ownership affordable for people who rent or live in flats or plan to move home in the future, as well as those that find the £4000-8,000 cost of installing solar panels beyond their budgets. Ripple has been selected to take part in Free Electrons 2020, the global utility start-up program which will enable it to pilot its ownership model outside the UK. The company was awarded the 2019 'Startup of the Year Award' by Seedrs and BusinessGreen technology awards. Ripple is also in talks with Centrica (owner of British Gas, UK's largest utility) about a supply partnership covering household and business customers. They are looking to use the investment on: 27% of it on legal and transaction costs for follow on projects, 25% to develop pilot projects outside the UK, 22% on business costs, 16% on building applications and website management, and 10% on marketing and new product offerings.
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£331,220
Maecenas is a fine art investment platform, allowing collectors to raise funds and investors to own a piece of fine art they would not normally be able to afford such as a picasso or even a Rembrandt! The investment made in the Artwork can easily be re-sold using the Maecenas platform and all investments are fully protected by insurance and a strong legal framework.
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£218,249
planarTECH is an engineering company founded in 2014 as a provider of process equipment for the growth and characterisation of graphene and other emerging 2D materials. Its core product line is the planarGROW Chemical Vapor (CVD) system. The company has the ability to deliver scalable production systems that allow lower-cost production of graphene in comparison to other options currently available in the market. Moreover, from 2014 to 2019, the company’s cumulative revenues exceeded £5 million. The company's products have been installed and used by faculties and students at prestigious universities like Stanford University (USA), IIT- Bombay (India), Deakin University (Australia), and many others. From the investment, the company will utilise 45% as working capital, 30% in Capital Expenditures (CAPEX), 15% in R&D and 10% in hiring additional staff.
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£425,061
Fully Charged is a broadcasting, digital and events business with the aim to become the world’s no.1 consumer channel for everything related to clean energy technologies & electric vehicles. The company's work has been met with more than 3 million monthly episode views globally on its YouTube channel with a record 4.6 million views in August 2019. Fully Charged is receiving ~£8,000 per month from YouTube advertising. It has successfully crowdfunded its first book, 'The Fully Charged guide to Electric Vehicles & Clean Energy'. Fully Charged LIVE has also won the ‘Pioneer Award’ at the British Renewable Energy Awards. With the investment, the company will hire additional staff/freelancers to drive audience, invest in audience growth through merchandising, hold more events, and establish a larger production office at Bristol & Bath Science Park to manage its increasing workflow.
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£558,734
Biohm is an eco-conscious bio-technology company that is revolutionising construction through nature-inspired innovation. The company has adopted methods such as circular construction system, biomimicry, and triagomy. Some of the company’s carbon-negative bio-based materials include building insulation made out of Mycelium (the root structure of mushrooms) and ORB (Organic Refuse Biocompound), a 100% natural sheet material made out of food and agricultural surplus. For its innovation, Biohm won the Waitrose and Partners Plan Plastic Prize: The Million Pound Challenge and a Power to Change grant worth £600,000 to build sustainable living premises. It has also been shortlisted as one of The United Nation’s ‘Young Champions of the Earth’. The company will use 38% of the investment to grow its team, 22% to scale Research and Development (R&D), 22% to protect its Intellectual Property (IP), and 18% for product accreditation.
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£790,700
Klymat's SaaS business model transforms vehicle fleet management for organizations and fulfills employees' transportation requirements. Through a centralized online platform offered via monthly subscriptions, Klymat empowers businesses to monitor their entire vehicle fleet and employee journeys, regardless of transportation mode. The software computes total business mobility costs and carbon emissions, providing a simpler, more visible, flexible, cost-effective, sustainable, and eco-friendly approach to corporate travel.
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Almond provides businesses and consumers with a method to understand their carbon footprint and use the company's proprietary offset tools to become carbon neutral. Consumers can earn Almond Tokens when purchasing products from Almond's partnering sustainable brands. The Almond Tokens can be spent on their website The Almond certification label on products enables them to demonstrate their commitment to protecting the environment, consumer health and building a better society for all. The core idea is to build a market that's geared towards sourcing and selling sustainable products. The green economy market is worth $4 trillion. The offset market was $300 million in 2018, having grown over 140-fold in 10 years. Almond seeks to be a market leader in this domain. It has also partnered with reputed institutions such as the World Wildlife Fund, and the Stockholm Environment Institute (carbon analytics). With the investment, the company aims to further the popularity of its existing Almond App and have more people join its ecosystem.
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£522,540
Toraphene is an environmental technology company that aims to eliminate plastic waste. It has released with its product, Toraphene, to solve this crisis. It claims that Toraphene is a biodegradable, compostable and commercially-viable plastic packaging substitute for conventional plastic. The company asserts that its product is biodegradable even in the ocean, and has been developed using graphene technology. It is focussed on eliminating carrier bags and food containers in its first-round which account for 23% of marine waste. It aims to be a segment leader in the projected $25.4 billion biodegradable plastic industry by 2026. The company will use the investment to make Toraphene accessible to companies worldwide and make plastic packaging obsolete.
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£1,000,000
