Howsy is a property management app that aims to make renting a satisfactory experience for landlords and tenants. The company claims to have created a digital ecosystem that removes traditional agents, bringing down the cost of managing a property by an estimated 75% and delivering satisfactory customer service. Howsy has 7,000 properties on its platform mixed between recurring revenue and one-off customers. It has also acquired two of the largest online agents in the UK, Upad and Happy Tenant Company, in December 2019 and September 2020, respectively. Howsy asserts that it has achieved a 130% year-on-year revenue growth despite the COVID-19 pandemic and has featured in press entities like Forbes, The Guardian, TechCityNews, and Startups.co.uk, amongst others. It will use the investment for working capital allocation across marketing, general/admin, and technology. It will also use the funds to provide a stable runway to its Series A funding round, which it hopes to complete by January 2022.
days to go:
Expired
investment:
£824,280
CapitalRise is an online property lending platform offering market-leading returns of 7-12% per annum from secured lending to prime real estate. Till date, the company has lent £71.9 million against assets worth over £410 million, repaid £28 million of capital and return to customers, and saw a 354% increase in revenues in 2019. CapitalRise is ranked #1 in both 1-year and 3-year net returns as verified by leading loan analytics firm, Brismo. The company has won awards including, the British Bank Awards 2020 - Best Alternative Finance Provider. It has also received press coverage from publications such as The Times, Forbes and Daily Express. It will use the investment to take advantage of the UK government's Future Fund given the positive feedback from its investors, improve its technology platforms, further its marketing and lending initiatives, and satisfy customer expectations.
days to go:
Expired
investment:
£2,214,280
Emission Solutions (EMSOL) empowers organisations to take everyday steps to reduce emissions through their real-time emission monitoring and analytics system. EMSOL's open framework platform is built with networks of sensors like air and noise pollution, vehicle tracking, and working with any asset tags and emission sensors which enables EMSOL to perform real-time measurements with location tags and calibrated sensors. Data from these platforms are easily shared on dashboards, through notifications and gives detailed real-time data on urban noise, air quality, and vehicle pollution. To date, EMSOL won Rushlight Environmental Analysis Award, achieve yearly income targets, rated 5th place in the national PowerUp Index and 4th in the London and South East region. Moreover, EMSOL also won a fully funded project sponsored by DFT to deploy EMSOL technology into the rail sector. The company will use the funds to expand its customer base and increase the number of deployment sites.
days to go:
Expired
investment:
£316,884
Innovate Recycle (IR) is a company that aims to reduce carbon emissions from burning discarded carpets. It asserts that only 2% of the 400,000 tonnes of discarded carpets in the UK is recycled, with the rest going into a landfill or being incinerated. IR further points out that burning waste carpet leads to an estimated CO2 impact of £16 million per annum in the UK. It wants to solve this crisis. IR is building a new carpet recycling plant in Northamptonshire that would be able to recycle carpets into reusable materials. They have already received grant funding of up to £2.35 million. IR claims that a single production line in the plant, at full capacity, can recycle up to 20,000 tonnes each year and generate 12,600 tonnes of polypropylene pellets. It will use the investment to expand to a second production line by Year 4 at the same facility.
days to go:
Expired
investment:
£2,650,000
nHouse makes clean, spacious, green, eco-friendly, and tech-packed designer homes in factories. Each nHouse (nHouse3 and nHouse4) is built in an offsite precision production facility. All these houses are made with high-quality materials and have healthy home attributes. The company aims at selling hundreds of homes annually. It has 1000+ private investors and 60+ homes in the pipeline. Since 2016, the company has raised £1.17m from 1,200 investors. The proceeds will be used for employment, marketing activity, developing additional nHouse products, Research and development, and sales.
days to go:
Expired
investment:
£433,805
Viritech is a clean technology engineering company that is using F1-derived engineering to develop hydrogen powertrain solutions and related technologies for the automotive, aerospace, marine and distributed power industries. Viritech asserts that the Hydrogen Council forecasts that hydrogen will meet 18% of global energy demand by 2050. It aims to capture this demand through its technologies. Viritech argues that its location in MIRA Technology Park allows it access to R&D facilities used by many of the world's major automotive manufacturers, allowing it to scale its resources to meet the demands of every type of project. Viritech will use the investment to produce test hydrogen tanks, build the Apricale hypercar, complete designs for a Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV), Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) and a power generator, plan a larger raise and listing on AQuis Stock Exchange (AQSE) in 2022, and eventually commercialise its technology with its partner.
days to go:
Expired
investment:
£726,807
Elemental is an agricultural food technology company that converts 78% of beef processing waste into sustainable fertiliser. The company claims that its technology can potentially reduce global beef CO2 emissions equivalent to 50 million cattle. Elemental asserts that its technology has been developed through extensive R&D and protected by patents in 60+ countries. The company raised £1.5 million on Crowdcube in late 2019, signed agreements for 14 projects in the UK and Europe using its technology, built a demonstrator plant and agreed to install its technology on commercial terms at 6 UK abattoirs. The company states they will use the investment to operationalise their first plant by December 2021 and grow their business across different verticals.
days to go:
Expired
investment:
£1,395,801
Property Regions has been designed to give people the opportunity to invest in property in the UK. They will be focusing on East Anglia and East Midlands before eventually expanding out to other regions.
days to go:
Expired
investment:
£102,510
Glovebox Direct is an online automotive parts, accessories and merchandise marketplace selling original equipment direct from the car and bike brands.
days to go:
Expired
investment:
£181,670
ClearWaste is a price comparison website for waste removal and a provider of enforcement services to councils across the UK. The company argues that the cost to local authorities and taxpayers for cleaning up fly-tipping in England in 2016/17 was £57.7 million and is now thought to exceed £100 million. ClearWaste is on a mission to combat it through its app and web platform utilising reporting and prevention methodologies. The company links consumers with govt-registered waste removers backed by a £1k no-fly-tipping guarantee. ClearWaste argues that the UK waste industry is worth over £6.8 billion and supports more than 103,000 jobs. It aims to be a contender in this segment. ClearWaste has featured in press entities such as BBC, ITV, Channel 5, Sky, Times, and The Guardian. It was also a finalist at the National Recycling Awards 2020. ClearWaste will use the investment to develop its sales and marketing functions and further raise brand awareness.
days to go:
Expired
investment:
£199,599
