Balkerne is a tech start-up providing software as a service to the property and insurance sector. They have developed SmartResilience, a real-time loss prevention software platform, which helps insurers and the insured understand the value at risk. Insurers spend £1.3bn a year on commercial property claims and £2.3 on domestic property claims, work on squeezed margins and struggle to differentiate with the competition. Balkerne provides customers with pre-emptive, bespoke information and actionable advice, allowing insurers to minimise claims, uninsured losses and improve the customer experience. Moreover, they helped businesses reduce their long term property risk through proactive mitigation and make insurance affordable. Their SmartResilience platform has been developed with the technical ability to integrate with both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure Cloud. The company is registered on the AWS Partner Network and with Microsoft for Startups. Modular functionality is core to the platform, with the ability to seamlessly scale to meet customer requirements.
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£150,000
The estimated cost of global oil theft in 2015 will exceed $60bn. Dashboard solves this problem by delivering a remote monitoring system that collects and consolidates pipeline data in real-time.
Dashboard has created an industrial Internet of Things platform capable of delivering real-time/near-real-time remote monitoring of industrial processes irrespective of where they are in the world.
The business has assembled a formidable team of industry professionals and has attracted considerable interest from some of the largest operators in the market.
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£300,150
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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£41,580
The Aspire Account has been created to address a major problem encountered by International Students coming to the UK to study at Universities. A UCAS study showed that 62.5% of international students ranked opening a UK Bank Account as one of their top 3 issues.
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£140,174
10Cast forensic forecasting is a cloud and mobile AI application that integrates with legacy CRM systems to improve B2B forecasting.
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£90,056
A fully integrated, end to end platform that enables real time situation and work force management, for the private security industry. It ensures regulatory compliance and real time reporting for security operatives. FalconDHQ is addressing a gap in the market to modernise the current paper based process.
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£415,000
WiForia is a SaaS business which formed in July 2014. Their platform is an automated location marketing cloud turning a retailer’s public Wi-Fi into a communications channel, enhancing a customer’s in-store experience, delivering more sales and enhanced loyalty. By identifying registered users every time they enter or leave a store, it can push offers, promote content and drive social sharing in personalised and contextually relevant ways whilst delivering valuable insights back to the retailer. The company is already revenue generating (£600k in year 1) and the platform has been used at scale with McDonalds (over 20m engagements).
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Getting-in.com started with one simple goal: to give school leavers all the resources they need under one website. The website is designed to help individuals discover the ideal apprenticeship, university course, or more vocational opportunity for their particular needs. In order to do this, the website lists every undergraduate course currently offered, as well as 20,000 apprenticeship and traineeships. We need your support today as the site is ready to be marketed and monetised. We will do this with an expert sales and marketing team focusing on signing up organisations and schools across the UK, potentially giving us the traffic and the revenue we need to keep growing the business.
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£11,168
Avoiding unnecessary product packaging by offering zero-waste and technological alternative. CupClub uses RFID to keep track of how packaging is being handle in the supply chain and then developing an optimised method to reduce wastage whilst increasing efficiency. Their technology can also provide consumer behaviour data by tracking retail sales and location information. These statistics can offer businesses greater insights into customer trading patterns.
Two versions of CupClub will exist; one designed for food service restaurants and cafés and another designed for retail and office environments. Their revenue model consists of a small standard rate that is charged per drink, which is then multiplied by the average number of sales per day. A tiered level of contracts ranging from £50 to over £1m are offered. Integrating the CupClub technology also carries its own set-up costs and a further fee applies to third-parties that wish to gain access to analytics collected by CupClub.
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£156,000
Lenderwize is the first lending platform for Telecom Operators, offering investment opportunities in a new Asset Class. Its typical clients are mid-sized operators with an annual revenue of 50-300 million USD. Lenderwize sells to large Tier1 Operators (Originators) and buys from smaller (Terminating) Operators. Thanks to Lenderwize's in-depth industry knowledge, they have identified 1350 wholesalers in need of $96 million, making the Cost of Acquisition of clients very low. Additionally, its lean Back Office, Credit Vetting and Loan Management gives Lenderwize a competitive edge over Market Invoice or Funding Circle. With the funds, the company will invest in technology development and integration, increasing sales, marketing activities, and recruitment to enhance its reach globally.
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£100,045
