Patch is a modern plant shop for contemporary plant people. It helps in finding the most suitable plants and delivering them to the door. The company has delivered over 2,50,000 plants to over 82,000 customers in Paris and London. Patch has witnessed solid growth at +124% vs last year, reaching £4.48m in revenue. The company has a 4.6-star rating on TrustPilot and, it has been featured in The Times, The Telegraph etc. The funds will be used to expand across Europe, eliminate the middle-man and expand into the B2B market.
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Expired
investment:
£2,412,150
Wedding Planner is an online wedding-planning marketplace that provides an easy way to plan and book a wedding. Around 20,000 couples are using this platform to plan their dream weddings. Besides being a pre-COVID profitable business in the UK, it is the UK's number one ranked site for 'Wedding Planner' as per Google. The website has been created by combining a digital wedding booking system, curated venues, planning tools, and supplier search options. The platform generates 8,500+ leads for venues and suppliers per quarter and has a registered base of 3,000+ venues and other suppliers. With the investment, the company will use 25% to update their booking system catering to couples and suppliers, 12% in creating new and tested standardised contract templates between the couple and the supplier, 13% in developing a partnership with a wedding insurance provider, 30% as substitution funds for supplier and venue subscriptions frozen during COVID-19, 13% in continuing the platform's growth in Sweden, and 7% in costs associated with fund-raising.
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investment:
£25,010
Travala.com is an easy-to-use blockchain-based Online Travel Agency (OTA) hosting over three million travel products worldwide. Travala.com's users can pay for bookings by using both traditional payment options and cryptocurrencies. The company intends to become one of the world’s largest blockchain-based OTAs. It believes that its unique infrastructure allows it to offer value-added services to both travel suppliers and travellers. It has established key partnerships with entities like Expedia, Booking.com, and Agoda. The company's mobile app is live on iOs and Android. It has recently launched its 'Homes' vertical and also offers flight bookings. The company will use the investment to disrupt the travel industry with next-generation technology, providing the best prices and unmatched loyalty rewards.
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investment:
£1,251,360
Not In The Guidebooks (NITG) is a travel agency that believes in making tourism sustainable and enjoyable for travellers and local communities. NITG has raised a £250,000 seed funding to build its platform and connect with local partners. It's contracted agent partners include British Airways, Mid counties Co-Op, Spear Travel, and Intele Travel, amongst others. The company is set up as a global collective, ensuring 10% of its profits go to its local partners. NITG has also acquired and integrated Go Learn To, an experiential holiday provider focusing on immersive learning experiences. The company will use the investment to build a team to create content, secure new partnerships, build consumer brand awareness with a strong social media presence, and develop technology with geolocation and live availability to enliven trip itineraries.
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investment:
£128,899
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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Expired
investment:
£222,866
Doc2UK is a specialist UK medical recruitment and candidate support platform. Based in London, the platform places qualified doctors in the National Health Scheme (NHS) roles around the United Kingdom. The British Medical Association (2018) reported that patient care is at risk due to a critical shortage of doctors across multiple medical disciplines. At present, the UK only has 24 medical schools to fill this gap, whilst India, in comparison, has 468 medical schools, with 68,000 doctors graduating each year. Moreover, uncertainty about the status of EU nationals after Brexit, changes to immigration policies, and the impact of changing language testing requirements for international nurses have made this crisis worse. This situation necessitates recruiting doctors from overseas an important endeavour. This is where Doc2UK aims to become a key player and ensure that lack of medical personnel doesn't disrupt any medical services. The company is seeking an investment of up to £300,000 which will be used to develop the platform with more features, expand the team, marketing and sales.
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CoinBurp is a uniquely user-friendly crypto trading platform. It has a long-term vision to become an international brand and an integral part of the banking ecosystem. The company has acquired more than 1,000 users and facilitated 1000+ transactions, accumulating a trading volume of more than £1m. As CoinBurp enters its second phase of product development, it aims at providing banking facilities such as provide customers with prepaid cards, offer secured crypto loans and have initiated the process to become FCA regulated.
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Expired
investment:
£274,630
A decentralised banking platform with already more than £13.5m dedicated for software development. BABB intends to become a licensed bank in the UK and is raising funds for the capital required to do so. The company aims to allow anyone access to a bank account, as well as a mobile app for customers to make payments, lend money and exchange currencies.
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investment:
£1,362,430
Zvilo aims to become a major challenger bank in the Balkans for Balkan people living in the European Economic Area (EEA). It plans to disrupt the outdated Balkan banking sector and become a contender in an estimated remittances per annum market worth €14 billion. The company asserts that it has procured a letter of intent for a pilot program that would allow it to offer business lending to 800+ Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and financial services to 45,000+ potential personal banking customers. It has also initiated a licensing application with the Central Bank of Kosovo and partnered with Mastercard as its card partner. Zvilo will use the investment to formalise its application for Supply Chain Finance (SCF) licensing in Kosovo, execute its strategic partnership agreement with its Kosovar partner retailer, prepare for a second fundraising round, and expand its services.
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investment:
£666,085
Travala.com is a leading blockchain travel company with over 2 million listings covering 90,124 destinations in 230 countries and territories across the globe. Offering travellers payment options through 20+ cryptocurrencies in addition to credit/debit cards, Travala aims to be 15% cheaper than the rest of the market. Moreover, the company is in strategic partnership with Booking.com. Travala's user base has also increased to over 20K registered users with over 90% organic growth to date. With the proceeds, Travala plans to release its native iOS and Android apps, increase customer support operations worldwide, boost marketing activities, secure more high-profile partnerships from both the blockchain and travel space.
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Expired
investment:
£367,580
