A Smart Garden company offering customers to dive into growing a personalised garden in their homes at the push of a button. Gartenzwerg is a Hardware as a Service (HaaS) business utilising technology to enable people to sustainably experience nurturing, growing and caring for their indoor gardens via an app. The software is fully automated and actively informs users the current state of their gardens and displays instructions and measurements to ensure their plants continue to grow. This means that customers can enjoy high-quality home-grown food, sustainably and conveniently.
Gartenzwerg has offices in the UK and USA with B2B partnerships in Singapore and the UAE and their products are sold in 12 countries worldwide. The company currently has two product variations available, a standalone unit and a wall-mounted option. Their Smart Gardens use the latest technology and therefore Gartenzwerg is in the process of protecting their IP, as well as seeking valuations and commercialisation options.
The company's revenue stream consists of hardware sales, subscriptions to the service, licensing agreements and advertisements. Gartenzwerg also works in conjunction with businesses such as cafes, offices and garden centres to display their products.
Funds are being raised to scale the business further by accelerating the manufacturing process and offering a premium package subscription to customers. In addition to this, investments will be used to expand the team, develop new products, certify and protect IP and produce marketing campaigns.
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£167,722
Fortu Wealth is a Business-to-Business (B2B) Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for private banks, wealth managers, external asset managers & multi-family offices. The company aims to be a segment leader in the $158.3 trillion personal wealth market. It has developed and launched the beta version of its Fortu Wealth mobile app and a desktop version of the application with essential features during the first three quarters of 2020. It has also signed partnership agreements with top service providers to provide facilities like Foreign Exchange, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and Know Your Client (KYC). Fortu Wealth will use the investment to enable further product development, manage operating expenses, and invest in customer acquisition.
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£500,045
MortgageGym is a technology business that makes mortgages easier and digital for everyone. Its technology was authorised by the FCA, delivering first-to-market digital innovations. This company has provided free online advice to over 45,000 consumers and has got £100m+ of mortgages arranged to date. Moreover, it also has integrated 65% of the 20 largest UK mortgage lenders into live eligibility. MortgageGym has multiple revenue streams such as revenues generated from the arrangement of appointments with brokers, commission shares, and referral fees. From the funds raised, MortgageGym will accelerate its ongoing proposition development by investing in people, particularly focusing on technology and product. It will also use the proceeds to develop new technology features which are not currently offered by its competitors.
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£443,086
MiiCARE is a company that provides AI-based in-home companionship & health support for the elderly. miiCARE provides an 18-month product validation process with the NHS and the elderly. Its innovation miiCUBE is a cloud-based assistive technology solution that can detect an emergency and inform a designated responder. miiCARE already has 250 prospective clients who have already expressed interest to purchase the product. The company was accepted for the 'Microsoft for Startups' program in 2019 and Microsoft's 'AI for Good' acceleration cohort in 2020. The company will utilise the investments to create an emergency stock to support future orders, fulfill orders for clients, strengthen its team, and create a small inventory for orders.
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£354,632
Oval is a smart tool created to help its customers spend smart, invest consciously, save easy, and pave the way to a better financial future. Oval has helped save its users £110 per month on an average. Moreover, the company has categorised £3.1 billion worth of transactions. Oval has onboarded 350,000+ users in 2.5 years into a new financial journey. Oval users also enjoy many other services such as Oval Coach, Oval Activities, Oval Pay, and Oval Future. It has also been awarded Best Mobile App at the Robo Investing Awards 2019. With the proceeds, the company will enhance its product offering in the Oval Future section and expand the Oval platform from the UK and Italy.
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investment:
£1,318,338
Supper is an online marketplace that allows customers to order healthy home-cooked food straight to their door.
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investment:
£102,666
Billmonitor is a revolutionary price comparison site/tool that provides the best money-saving deals. Founded by the quintessential Oxbridge boffin for mobile phone services, Billmonito is accredited by Ofcom, the UK telecoms regulator. Its tool analyses the user's ACTUAL usage via the last three months' billing data. The company's fully digital, consumer-based, and consultancy-led business services are managed by a highly competent staff. In 2018, Billmonitor delivered growth of more than 400% via Business Renewals. In May 2019, it increased its connections from less than 100 to more than 2500. The company's aims to further expand its client reach by targeting revenue growth of 75 percent in the coming three years. 50% of the proceeds will be used in consumer services, 30% in business services and 20% in working capital needs.
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investment:
£235,272
Aceify is a booking, scheduling, and performance tracking app currently used by the world’s leading tennis coaches. Aceify will help sports and fitness lovers to be able to find and book high quality training sessions in a location that is convenient for them at the right price. So far, the application has received positive feedback from both coaches and athletes. The application is endorsed by some of the top names in tennis coaching, including Leon Smith, who has coached Andy Murray. Aceify is planning to make their service available to coaches and trainers in all different sports. Its strategy is to concentrate on expanding its network in London and the whole of the UK.
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investment:
£153,998
WATR is a low-cost, easy to deploy, solar-powered, multi-parameter solution that can be deployed in remote locations to monitor water quality. The company cites a recent report from the Environment Agency stating that not one of the 4,600 waterways in the UK meets safe water standards. The company argues that its product communicates live data 24/7. The product can be programmed such that alerts/notifications can be set to enable early interventions to upcoming issues. Users can access the data through WATR's app or web portal. WATR claims that its product can monitor multiple water bodies such as reservoir water, fish farms, quality of drinking water, and river/lake pollution levels. The company aims to become a significant contender in the £4.29 billion water safety market. WATR has received multiple Letter of Intents (LOI) for 108 units to be installed in catchments and reservoirs. The company will use 40% of the investment for manufacturing and assembling 500 devices, 10% for product roadmap development, 10% for marketing, 20% for hiring key personnel, 10% to ramp up production facilities, 5% to strengthen its board, and 5% for Intellectual Property (IP) expenses.
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£336,730
Logically uses advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help governments, businesses and people uncover and address harmful misinformation. Its flagship consumer-facing product is an intelligent fact-checking and news curation app that combines the best of machine learning with human intelligence. The company's app has witnessed over 100,000+ downloads and completed over 10,000 fact checks. Logically's investigation has covered topics such as 2020 US Elections, regional Maharashtra Elections, and QAnon Central Hub Hosting Phishing Scams to name a few. It has featured in press entities like Forbes, Bloomberg, The Economic Times, and BBC amongst others. The company will use 28% of the investment towards sales and business/partner development, 25% towards technology and data science, 20% towards platform investments and additional data sources, 20% towards marketing and sales enablement, and 7% towards administrative expenses.
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investment:
£2,110,694
