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
PixelPipe Signage have created the worlds first Raspberry Pi digital signage engine which is cheap to run but still has high performance. Normal digital signage is run by a PC behind every screen which is costly and not energy efficient. Aperture runs on mobile phone chips instead of PCs which uses less power than an electric toothbrush but still provides the same high quality visual.
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£136,530
Emphasising the importance of human collaboration within communities by asking the question "What can you do?". Canyudo takes its inspiration from the gaming world. Their app contains a list of tasks for users to complete within a predefined location and then displays a score based on their performance.
Canyudo will be a freemium service. The app is free for non-commercial consumers; however, members can opt to pay an annual fee. In return, they will receive commercial tasks and opportunities that will result in Canyudo charging a commission micropayment.
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£174,880
Koble claims that its data-driven Software as a Service (SaaS) tool helps accelerators and incubators streamline their selection process so they can focus on the most promising founders. The company's vision is to price early-stage startup risk and reward. It intends to move from a Software as a Service (SaaS) workflow tool to the startup-investor marketplace. Koble asserts that pre-seed and seed investors lack a quantitative approach in the early stage of recognising promising startups. Koble argues that its approach is different; it claims that its algorithms are built to mimic the decision processes (both analytical and intuitive) that humans go through when analysing a startup. The tool collects structured, well-tagged data that is not available in the public domain and power the first algorithms that can predict startup success. The company envisages three exit options, namely launching an IPO, avail buyout offers from big technology entities and avail buyout offers from financial buyers.
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£525,500
Mammalo is a marketplace meant for on-demand services delivered at home. Through a ‘peer-to-peer’ payment process, the company allows the local individual experts to showcase their prices, portfolio, and reviews for customers to contact, book, and pick them. The launch of the platform, Mammalo has gained over 2000 service providers in three months. The company has also been selected as the best startup by Techitalia: Lab, London. 100% bookings on Mammalo have received 5-star ratings and reviews. It has also won "Best Startup" Award of $50k in Web Services for Aruba Cloud Start-up. With the proceeds, the company will expand its growth to 3 major cities by 2023 and build its mobile Application.
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£222,070
Turning homes into renewable energy generators by offering homeowners the ability to create, accumulate and redistribute electricity via an app. Resilience is enabling customers to sell electricity generated from their homes to the National Grid and potentially reducing their energy consumption bills by up to 80%. The company will provide customers with the necessary software, hardware and means to produce electricity that can be stored and sold, as well as monitored through an app.
Resilience's technology is designed to be future-proof and integrate with upcoming and emerging tech. Their monitoring system can also detect any faults in advance to allow action to be taken before issues arise. The company is developing sales channels by working alongside housing developers and energy firms. The initial target market is the 23m homes that used traditional energy suppliers in 2017, as well as the 800k homes that are fitted with solar PV panels.
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£151,900
Sitedesk is designed to create an easy way to share and collect building information. Sitedesk have developed a 3D graphics engine that gives easy access to complicated 3D models.
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£355,185
Verv is an intelligent home energy assistant by Green Running Ltd, a London-based team of Machine Learning experts specialising in Artificial Intelligence and high-frequency disaggregation for the energy sector. Verv has 6 patents filed and has sold units to British Gas, EDF and Allianz.
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£1,165,910
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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£63
The Jackal is an exclusive and upmarket lifestyle media brand targeted towards the affluent, urban male audience. The media brand’s the Jackal Magazine does away with traditional newsstand magazines and their circulation model and adopts a free distribution model, making the Jackal the UK’s second biggest upmarket men’s magazine. The media brand also runs a creative studio and has worked on projects covering brand direction, content strategy, print, film and digital. The Jackal's combined digital audience is about 45,000, and it has worked with over 40 luxury advertisers already.
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£182,842
