HalalEat is an on demand marketplace platform with listings of halal verified menus for Muslim consumers. Halaleat.com is, to their knowledge, the UK's first online takeaway portal listing halal takeaways and restaurants for the growing Halal food martket.
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£115,933
Better Universal Grub (BUG) aspires to make edible insects mainstream and asserts that it is a sustainable and delicious superfood. BUG's argues that its recipe kits make it easy to cook tasty insect meals at home. It will initially sell its kits Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) and expand into retail and food services by 2022. The company averaged a 30%+ Month-on-Month (MoM) growth rate of meals that it sold during its beta testing. It aims to become a contender in the estimated £1.1 billion insect protein market across the UK. The company's recipes have been showcased by celebrity Chef Prue Leith. BUG has been featured in media entities like The Guardian, The Grocer and Business Insider. It will use the investment to scale the business and begin getting its tasty grub on dinner tables across the country
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£372,855
Cannabrew is one of the UK's first Cannabidiol (CBD) infused craft beers. It aspires to become a contender in the CBD market that is expected to reach £1 billion by 2025 in the UK. The company has sold thousands of cans across the UK despite COVID-19 and aims to become carbon-neutral soon. It assets that it plants two trees for every case of beer sold and has planted over 14,000 trees through a sustainability initiative in Madagascar by partnering with 'Ecologi', removing an estimated 350 tonnes of CO2 in just six months since the company's launch. Cannabrew was nominated for three awards at the World CBD Awards. Its product, Soul Lager, has become the highest-rated lager on Untappd in the UK achieving a score of >3.96. The company will use 25% of the investment in marketing, 50% towards team expansion, and 25% to scale production and boost New Product Development (NPD).
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£216,695
The Noo aims to redefine the delivery space by facilitating the delivery of anything, anywhere, anytime from a single application. It is on a mission to create a new micro-logistics delivery platform with no infrastructure needed besides a smartphone. The company also aspires to create a space where the local high street can compete with today's delivery giants. The Noo is backed by serial tech entrepreneur, Ant Sharp. The company has collected substantial data and insight, after 1.5 years of R&D and testing, to cater to the needs of its target audience and produce an app capable of changing the way things get delivered. It has also gained over 440 'Confirmation Of Interests' (COI) from potential investors willing to back the product. The Noo will use the investment to cover marketing costs, app development and maintenance costs, and general business running costs.
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£47,828
The Urban Collective is an app that allows tenants find properties that match their lifestyles. The app allows the user to share and rate properties. They intend on using the investment to add more functionality to the app.
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£283,428
Koor is an application that enables choral singers to improve their vocal technique by interacting with personalised online guidance driven by machine learning-based algorithms. The company asserts that over three-quarters of people who sing in choirs struggle to learn their parts due to their inability to read music fluently. Koor aims to change this with its app. It is also developing AI functions that will help singers improve pitch, sound quality, breathing and pronunciation, which will form the backbone of its premium subscription. Koor was ranked 28th in noted organisation Tech South West's Top 50 Most Innovative Startups in June 2020. Koor won the £175,000 Sustainable Innovation Award from Innovate UK in August 2020. The company will use the investment to hire more software engineers to speed up its premium app functionality, record the most commonly sung choral works, and acquire more users through presenting online activities till COVID-19 persists.
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£88,110
RightIndem is a white-label insurance software platform designed to deliver fast claims to claimants on its portal. The company develops and sells its own proprietary cloud-based digital claim process management software ‘as a service’ to the global insurance market. Insurtech is a vast market and attracts large amounts of investment, with $4.36 billion invested in the first three quarters of 2019. Till date, it has contracted clients such as Axa XL, Archipelago, NN Belgium, NN Netherlands, and Mapfre, with engagements at various levels of implementation and progress in the UK, Italy, Peru, US, and South Africa. They have also earned regard for automating claims processes form some of the world’s largest insurance organizations allowing for the settlement of low to mid-value claims within hours instead of days or months. With the proceeds, the company will connect operating expenses to the point where client revenues from claim volumes match operating costs.
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£200,001
Themis is a Regulatory Technology (RegTech) company that helps organisations mitigate the risk and impact of all forms of financial crime such as money laundering, bribery, corruption, cybercrime, theft, slavery/human trafficking, and fraud. The RegTech sector is expected to become a GBP 10 billion industry at the end of 2020. Themis aims to be a major contender in this segment and also plans to stop financial frauds that it asserts costs companies globally GBP 3.2 trillion every year. The platform is designed to provide insights on the latest threats, trends, and criminal techniques whilst helping clients complete due diligence on their clients, staff, and supply chains. Themis's key clients include Dow Jones, TSB, Fiserv, Mitmark, Ebury, Natwest Group, Acuris, Glasswall, Evolution AI, and Kingley Napley amongst others. The company envisages exiting via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) or selling to a technology company or to a big consultancy wanting to have a specialized Financial Crime (FC) arm to their business, including a RegTech solution
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investment:
£567,027
Themis is a regulatory technology company that helps organisations mitigate the risk and impact of all forms of financial crime such as money laundering, bribery, corruption, cybercrime, theft, slavery/human trafficking, and fraud. The platform is designed to provide insights and intelligence on the latest threats, trends, and criminal techniques whilst helping clients complete due diligence on their clients, staff, and supply chains. Themis works alongside the Themis Charitable Trust to ensure the reduction of financial crime. The company also supports the UN Global Compact taking into account the fundamental responsibilities of business in the areas of human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption. Themis will use the investment to grow its business across different verticals.
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£1,300,000
Effie is a machine designed to automatically iron your clothes at home. The prototype of the machine was created to automatically iron the shirt regardless of its size, colour, or cut. This technology is patent-pending that underpins this process. There are over 350,000 registrations from customers who are willing to buy the product. The product has been covered by many reputed media platforms like Evening Standard, House Beautiful, UNILAD and many more. With the investment proceeds, the company will take its patent-pending technology and further develop it into a fully-completed prototype which is fully user-tested.
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£1,021,600
