Kandu is a platform that helps organisations running entrepreneur/innovation leadership mentoring programs to source, classify and build online mentoring teams for faster, systematic business growth. It is a B2B business selling to 60k+ global corporates, universities and accelerators. Kandu’s software makes it easy for such organisations to set up, manage and track the progress of the best in class business growth mentoring and advisory programmes. Now, Kandu is seeking investment to further enhance its product/services and create a full-time sales operation.
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investment:
£168,512
Folio is an automated savings App, allowing users to create intelligent savings goals easily. They have over 4000 active users and are growing by 6% every week. Folio aim to help people build better financial habits by focusing on the future.
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investment:
£183,360
QFinds is a purpose-built hiring tool that enables employers to easily and efficiently pre-screen candidates, conduct interviews and generate employment contracts. The company asserts that it is a UK government vetted 'Kickstart Scheme' representative and can get small businesses grants to hire interns having already processed over 100 job applications. QFinds claims that its app has been downloaded 2 million+ times garnering 24,000 reviews averaging 4.8/5 stars. QFinds also points out that bad hirings cost the UK up to £6.7 billion in turnover, productivity, and training. It seeks to change this and disrupt the £39 billion recruitment market. The company has partnered with notable entities like University College London, Kings College London and Brunel University London, intending to use them as strategic partners to increase job seekers signing up to and using its app. QFinds will use the investment to grow its business across different verticals.
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investment:
£222,866
FLY LDN is a fitness brand that imparts sports and fitness instruction via its digital platform and its studios in central London and Fitzrovia. The company launched its video-on-demand and live-streaming fitness platform, FLY LDN Online (FLO), in September 2020. It asserts that within six months of launch, FLO scaled over 28,000 monthly views across 80+ countries with users having viewed over 2.5 million minutes of FLY LDN workouts. FLY LDN won the Men's Health 'Best Studio 2019' award and was commended at the 2018 and 2019 Tatler Gym Awards. The company has also received press coverage in publications like Women's Health, Forbes, Esquire, Elle, Vogue, GQ and Glamour. It has also partnered with brands such as DKNY and ASOS. FLY LDN aspires to become a contender in the global online fitness market that is expected to reach $59 billion by 2027. The company will use the investment to further develop additional functionality and TV apps for FLO and fund marketing campaigns to fuel growth.
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Expired
investment:
£340,928
Lifetise is a financial planning platform that enables prospective clients to plan significant expenditures such as buying a home, marital expenses, child-rearing and retirement. Presently, they have come up with two major offerings: Homefinder and Childminder. The first one acts as a tool that shows money required to afford a home in the UK and the amount of time taken to save the money while the latter helps parents to calculate the costs of childcare along with their work. Lifetise is targeting the 25-40 age group in the UK whose population numbers are approximately 14 million. To date, they have been featured in prominent publications like Evening Standard and Stylist with an active following on Reddit. The company has secured 12,000 customers after their partnering with Accenture's Fintech Accelerator Programme. With the investment, Lifetise will spend more on developing its applications with a focus on all major life expenditures, marketing on social media channels, build partnerships and human resources.
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Expired
investment:
£254,240
Intelligent Health aim to get the whole community active by providing games and incentives such as ''beat the street''. By providing schools and communities with friendly competition to walk and cycle more by tapping their cards on ''beat boxes'', and with prizes and league tables on offer, Intelligent health are bringing communities together.
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investment:
£700,000
The first wholesaler to offer insurance products for B2B and B2C firms in the Sharing Economy. Inlet aims provide insurance for assets that have been peer-to-peer rented for the short term, or for the provision of services such as letting properties online, as these markets are not currently covered by traditional insurances.
Inlet generates revenue from commissions via insurance products at the point of sale and at policy renewal. Income in the form of interest payments is also earned from customers that choose to pay via direct debit on a monthly basis, as well as from fees applied to customers who wish to amend their policies.
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Expired
investment:
£256,514
Earth Broadband stands out as one of the UK's pioneering green broadband providers, revolutionizing the way people use broadband services for environmental good. Founded by Luke Chapman in 2022 after witnessing climate change effects in Indonesia, the company aims to reshape broadband services, offering wildlife-themed packages and facilitating monthly contributions to planet-saving initiatives. Using innovative AI technology, Earth Broadband enhances customer service while empowering users to contribute to environmental causes by planting trees and removing ocean plastic through their app. The company's strategy focuses on achieving large-scale impact with a small, efficient team, aiming to revolutionize broadband provision.
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investment:
£308,580
RheEnergise is an energy company that plans to transform pumped hydro technology and boost its capacity with its patented High-Density Hydro (HDH) technology. The company asserts that, by installing HDH on smaller hills and combining it with its HD Fluid R-19, businesses could produce 2.5 times the energy compared to low-density pumped-hydro. RheEnergise aims to install multiple HDH projects to meet the UK's growing energy needs. The company has agreements with entities like SSE, WelshPower, GreenCat Renewables and REG-Power. It is currently using its funding grants of ~£270,000 over the next nine months to build a defendable "Moat" of IP (Patents, Design and copyrights, know-how, and trade secrets) across six critical integrated sub-systems. The company will use the investment received to hire key personnel, progress patents, and accelerate its activities.
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investment:
£850,000
For Good Causes turn Loyalty points into donations for charities, giving people a new way to give to causes closest to their hearts. Brands are given a while new CSR opportunity and charities are given much-needed funding. Research has shown their is over £7bn unused rewards in the UK, values which could be donated.
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investment:
£292,220
