Mous is a fashion/tech brand that’s disrupting the $37billion phone accessories category. Mous has had huge exposure already for their latest ergonomic and slim iPhone 6 case that holds and retracts headphones, solving very real shopper problems. The trends of wireless earphones present a real opportunity for Mous in the future.
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investment:
£41,580
Freetrade is a UK-based freemium investment mobile app available on iOS and Android platforms in the UK with plans to launch in Europe. Freetrade's simple, beautiful and intuitive investment app opens up stock market investing to everyone. Since April 2019, it has grown its customer base by 100%, that is over 30,000. The company is also the winner of British Banking Awards and Consumer Investment Awards, 2019. Freetrade is now raising funds to ramp up its engineering and customer acquisition. Ultimately, 30% of its waitlist signed up is from outside of the UK. The raise will support its expansion into the EU.
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investment:
£3,793,410
Lifetise generates proprietary consumer data via its portal to boost the Artificial Intelligence (AI) based decision-making process within banks and insurers and increase their product sales. Lifetise asserts that its portal helps financial institutions acquire and fulfil the needs of high-value customers at a lower cost to the organisation. It is in negotiations with three retail banks and is an Accenture Fintech Lab alumni. The company was named as one of the most influential financial technology entities of 2020 by The Financial Technologist magazine and selected for the Mayor of London's 'Business Growth Programme' under the 'Most high potential startups' category in 2021. Lifetise will use 58% of the investment in product development and engineering to scale its technology platform, 31% on sales and marketing, and 11% on operations.
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investment:
£369,407
Freetrade is an award-winning, commission-free investing application. In the investment industry, high commissions and clunky products can make it complicated for people to start their investment journeys. This is where Freetrade comes in by offering a simple, transparent freemium pricing model where the user can pay for the premium features they want. The company is an FCA-regulated stockbroker and a member of the London Stock Exchange. Its new proprietary brokerage platform, Invest by Freetrade, has scaled smoothly while keeping costs low. It also consists of new features such as free Instant Orders & real-time deposits compatible with Apple Pay/Google Pay. The company has also shipped fractional shares, breaking down another barrier to investing. 150,000+ customers are enrolled in the ecosystem with a 500% growth Year-on-Year (YoY). The company's app won the Best Online Trading Platform at the British Bank Awards 2019 and 2020. With the investment, the company aims to grow engineering & marketing and continue expansion into Europe.
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investment:
£7,015,011
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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investment:
£254,240
Snapp CV is a mobile app which allows users to search for jobs and opportunities. They create their own profile simply by answering a few questions and attaching a c.v and video. This allows users to engage with organisations personally and when on the move.
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£205,807
GoCustomate has an aim to get rid of the pain points for the SME's when buying and selling by completely changing the way transactions occur. Till date, they have secured the licence to utilize third-party eMoney authorization from the Central Bank of Ireland, GoCustomate verifies its users, provides automated payment schedules and flexible escrow wallets. It also protects customers with their unique digital wallets. The company is fundraising to grow sales by focusing on SME customers with relevant pain points. With the proceeds, the company will expand across the EU and Australia.
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investment:
£156,300
Subscribbe is a B2B e-commerce marketplace platform for Convenience and Independent (CI) stores. It argues that about 46,000 of these stores have traditionally had no bargaining power compared to supermarkets and wholesalers. Subscribbe wants to change this and connect CI stores, manufacturers, and fulfilment centres via its platform. The company aspires to level the playing field for smaller players and enable them to become wholesale e-commerce businesses. It has been developing its platform to enable CI stores to use proprietary fulfilment and logistics technology to connect to independent warehouse and logistics operators across the UK since its launch in 2020. Subscribbe wants to become a contender in the £40 billion convenience market. It has raised £400,000 to date to hire a core team, focusing on product engineering. The company will use the investment to continue product development and testing, continue onboarding executive and operations teams, continuing from successful hires in 2020, including Subscribbe engineers and the UX/Design team, and ready to launch V1.0 of its platform in 2021.
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investment:
£140,794
A money transfer service allowing customers to send money worldwide at a lower cost compared to traditional methods. TransferGo has been gaining 1,000 customers a day since May 2018 and currently has over 700,000 users. They have processed almost £781m on their platform through 1.3m transactions and operate on a gross profit margin of 6.7%.
TransferGo has 5 offices located in London, Berlin, Istanbul, Warsaw and Vilnius, with more than 100 employees globally. The company recently launched their new product, dubbed 'NOW', that enables users to send and receive monies in less than 30 minutes across borders.
Revenue is generated via fixed transfer fees and currency conversion fees ranging from 0.0% to 2.2% per transaction. These fees are dependent on the currency's origin and the amount being transferred. A free option is available to customers whose transaction may take a couple of days to transfer.
Funds are being raised to expand the business into emerging markets and introduce new products and services. This also means that TransferGo is aiming to provide local-language support and build new partnerships to attract more customers to their platform.
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investment:
£11,297,362
Those who work in services, such as the Armed Forces, can find it difficult to access financial products due to their anomalous credit histories compared to non-services personnel. TSFL aims to address this with their advanced risk-modelling platform for underwriters. This will allow tailored insurance, consumer credit and eventually home lending to be sold through TSFL.
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investment:
£1,431,885
