UnderPinned gives freelancers a single, dedicated platform to learn how to build a successful business, find clients, manage their work, and help them get paid on time. The company aspires to build a connection with users that ensures everyone thrives through its accelerator programme, community, and content. UnderPinned asserts that its accelerator programme allows it to achieve day one unit profitability before converting users to subscribers. It claims to have made £12,772 in revenue with £8,000 spent on marketing in its first month of programme sales in January 2021. The company argues that COVID-19 has accelerated freelancing, moving away from traditional employment. UnderPinned has a community of over 20,000 subscribers and growing. It says itvwill use the investment to scale its team, marketing and product development as it focuses on expanding in the US and EU markets.
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£629,086
Jeeni is an online entertainment service that aims to harness the growing reach of streamed music. It has close to 350 million subscribers and a growth rate of 39% Year-on-Year (YoY) providing billion-dollar revenues for digital disruptors. The Jeeni prototype was launched in April 2019. The company asserts that it offers artists an ethical revenue share. Five revenue streams are operating in parallel on the Jeeeni platform, namely, subscription-based memberships, online masterclasses, bespoke hardware sales, pay-to-view streamed events, and branded merchandise sales. The company's long term goal is to surpass its target paid subscriber numbers, achieve high subscriber growth and exit by acquisition. The investment raised will be used to further scale the company's capacity globally and build its mass artist showcases.
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£118,854
Torsion Information Security is an artificial intelligence cyber security solution. It protects company data against theft and misuse by internal staff. Once connected with systems Torsion automatically and precisely controls access to information in order to control security risk.
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£260,970
The Market Mogul are a Millennial media company, publishing unique perspective of the main global events in our time. They are already backed by a VC fund and have built an engaged readership and over 3000 authors. They will be using this round of funding to expand the editorial and sales teams and launch new verticals.
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£729,950
vFloorplan creates innovative, interactive Meeting and 3D event floorplans making it easy for potential customers and booking agents to explore venue layouts. The Kia Oval, QEII Centre and National Conference Centre (National Motorcycle Museum) are a few customers already using vFloorplan 3D, with recurring revenue and great feedback. Till now, the company has achieved a waiting list of 100+ venues, contractual relationships with 3 major partners and they are also the finalists in the National Entrepreneur Awards. They are seeking funding for a rollout to almost 200 UK venues including key Premiership Football Clubs, major UK tourist attractions and notable hotel brands.
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£54,700
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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investment:
£88,110
Arca is helping to build the market for property market risk transfer by dealing in derivatives for domestic and commercial properties. Nick Ruddell has held senior roles for the last 30 years with banks and big interdealer brokers.
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£676,500
EMERGEiQ is a cloud-based platform targeted towards Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and large corporate organisations. The company plans on having an extensive suite of algorithms that simplifies Data Science (DS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at low cost, across all sectors. EMERGEiQ asserts that its analytics can help businesses improve operational productivity, cut costs, and eventually generate more revenue. It has worked with companies across a variety of sectors such as finance, medicine, stock market, and insurance. The company will use will 30% of the investment for R&D, 25% to purchase software and hardware to improve platform capabilities, 25% to market its new product line, 10% as working capital, and 10% as miscellaneous expenses.
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£150,000
True Royalty Television is the first and only established TV channel serving the global millions of Royal super-fans, with 20,000 paying subscribers already on its platform. The British Royal Family is the 4th biggest brand in the world. With 350+ hours of top quality Royal content, refreshed monthly and with exclusive commissions, True Royalty curates relevant titles according to Royal news and the viewer's interest areas—British Royals, World Royals, and Royalty through history. There are 25 million people in the US alone who identify as both active Royal fans and who stream on-demand TV, up almost 300% from 8.6 million in 2018. The founders of the channel have assembled a diverse team of proven experts in TV production and distribution, digital marketing, PR, and brand partnerships from around the world. With the investment, the channel has identified partners for further growth opportunities including launching beyond the current US, Canada, Australia, NZ, UK & Ireland into India, Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East demographics.
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investment:
£2,148,699
TellJO is a company that comes with a mission to help 25M people of the UK who are susceptible to vulnerability. The company's TrustTech platform 'TellJO digital' is an intermediary between businesses and their vulnerable customers. TellJO has been utilised by 3 companies, and it is supported by Bethnal Green Ventures. The company is looking forward to developing "Team TellJO" that will help it achieve sustainable but rapid growth. With the proceeds, the company is looking forward to scaling its 1st to the market solution and develop the TellJO team.
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investment:
£82,290
