Rebel Energy (RE) is an energy supplier on a mission to address inequality and provide everyone with easy access to clean and affordable energy, to eventually eliminate fuel poverty. RE claims that fuel poverty led to 16,500+ cold-related deaths in the UK in 2018. RE argues that as the UK home electricity market enters a phase of growth in a post-COVID world, it will be focused on offering reliable customer service and develop strategies that help people who are struggling with their electricity bills. The company has applied for a B Corporation accreditation. RE asserts that its customer support systems are automated and can handle multiple queries simultaneously. It plans to offer a weekly direct debit payment option. RE will use the investment to grow its business across different verticals.
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Expired
investment:
£503,810
Musations is a mobile application that allows you to describe your feelings through music. You can share, discover, create and discuss music with friends. Using Musations, you're able to create lip-syncs, free format music videos and voice recordings.
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Expired
investment:
£63
Findr aims to automate the creation of business partnerships by providing easy access to hyper-targeted opportunities in minutes. The company asserts that its platform allows any business, regardless of its size, to sign up, post its partnership requirements, and explore opportunities for free. The company's portal allows users to request a 1-hour 'Discovery' call with a potential partner when the said user spots a relevant opportunity. Findr argues that it has made 'Discovery' for free for the first few months to build its user base. The company has onboarded 140 business users ranging from early-stage to global brands such as Mastercard, Uber and Visa since November 2020. Findr has featured in Forbes for helping businesses navigate COVID-19. The company will use the investment to develop two new price plans – Unlimited and Enterprise, introduce new platform features, hire a machine learning expert, and undertake digital activity to grow its user base.
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Expired
investment:
£396,288
Rabble is a gamified and licensed fitness program that transforms exercise into fun, team-based games. It was first formed by a former international athlete and then financed by investors from the LA Fitness & Liverpool football club. Rabble has quickly risen to 100 authorized sites strengthening many healthy communities over the UK. It is a differentiated concept which is named as Global Fitness Trend (WGSN). It has a proven and scalable model where the market leaders earn revenue of more than $100m. Further, it has developed 100+ instructors across the UK in less than one year. Rabble aims at helping and changing more lives with the finance that it raises. It is planning to grow to more than 300 Rabble sites in the coming year.
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Expired
investment:
£274,530
Peliwica Insurance is set up to disrupt the current rural, equine, and agriculture insurance broker markets. It is a new Insuretech business that was launched in 2018. In the same year, the company gained its first FCA Approval and the Lloyds CoverHolder status that held the key enablers to launch this business. Peliwica Insurance is trading with 10 Brokers with a £100m premium opportunity. With its upcoming mobile application and devised white-labelled D2C platforms, the company will be able to allow brokers to access new product markets and customers more effectively.
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Expired
investment:
£75,980
Juggle helps companies hire, manage and retain experienced professionals on flexible contracts. The company has onboarded more than 9000 professionals and over 700 businesses on its platform. Juggle asserts that its portal is completely free for companies to post jobs wherein professionals will receive a recommendation to the right opportunities based on their profiles. Juggle allows both companies and candidates to manage the timesheet and payment formalities through its platform once a contract is agreed upon. The company claims that 85% of professionals recommended by its platform are interviewed. Juggle aims to become a contender in the online recruitment industry that is projected to reach $36.2 billion by 2027. It will use the investment to make additional hires in certain key positions, expand product features, and apply to the FCA for a license to handle payments at a larger scale.
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Expired
investment:
£467,537
Value Chain Lab streamlines supply chains by removing logistics waste.
http://www.valuechainlab.com/
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Expired
investment:
£330,874
Kroo Bank Ltd, a fully licensed UK bank, began with a bold vision to be the first bank that people trust and genuinely enjoy. Offering current accounts and personal loans, the company has successfully opened 145,000 current accounts and accumulated £765 million in deposits, achieving this with an average customer acquisition cost of £38. Kroo's revenue model hinges on transaction fees and net interest margins from both deposits and loans, ensuring efficient and cost-effective customer acquisition. Looking ahead, the company has exciting plans to expand its product range, introduce new features, and expand its personal loan services.
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Expired
investment:
£2,010,954
Feed is a platform that automates digital advertising for musicians and creators by enabling them to grow an audience and build their businesses. The creator needs to connect their social media accounts to the Feed portal and set a budget. The portal will then create ads that reach new people and convert engaged audiences into loyal fans over time. The company asserts that existing ad generation platforms are too complex, time-consuming and expensive for creators. Feed argues that its portal caters to a variety of budgets, requires no marketing knowledge and takes minutes to get started. The beta platform is integrated with Facebook's & Instagram's ad network and has 500 creators on board. The company will use the investment to launch the paid version of Feed in Q4 2020.
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Expired
investment:
£146,117
Nova launches growth focus, tech-enabled startups, putting passionate founders at the heart of everything they do. It creates a more rewarding experience for startups with its co-founding model. The company conceives and scales digital businesses thereby solving the real-world problems, open new markets and disrupt existing ones. 46% of Nova co-founded businesses are still trading. There are 140+ staff over Manchester, Liverpool, London, and Islamabad. There is a 3% portfolio valuation growth YOY, thereby creating more than £72m valuation of the portfolio. The company made a turnover of £7.2m in 2018/19. Nova is raising funds to leverage the company's growing network of Founders, Funds, and Talent in the UK.
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Expired
investment:
£744,880
