Vendoir aims to become the go-to app for instantly sourcing and booking event vendors on-demand with ease. It intends to operate as a marketplace model and earn revenue through commission on each transaction and via premium accounts. It asserts that it is part of the London & Partners Business Growth Programme Spring Cohort 2021. The company endeavours to disrupt the £43 billion UK events market post-Covid-19 with an on-demand app. It has a waitlist of more than 1300 interested clients and has featured in Forbes. The company will use the investment to accelerate its product launch.
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£172,457
Zapaygo allows consumers to order ahead at coffee shops, food outlets, restaurants, bars, events spaces, stadiums, and many other venues, improving customer experience while increasing venue revenues. The app also has a loyalty program for its users, RewardZ. This blockchain, digital rewards token is a key offering by Zapaygo to chain and individual merchants who can redeem RewardZ Tokens. Using Zaypaygo allows venues to reduce time taking orders by 40% and increase their sales by 30%. The company has developed an innovative technology platform that has identified core venues & corporate partners in the UK as initial target markets and is ready to scale. With the funds received, the company is focused on covering customer/corporate convenience in collecting F&B (Food & Beverage) and experience growth similar to the success experienced by apps like UberEats and Deliveroo. It also aims to offer 'order to delivery' end to end services.
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investment:
£596,030
Publisher Discovery, using AI & Machine Learning technologies, provides recommendations to Advertisers of highly relevant Publishers in the affiliate marketing sector. The company has built a uniquely curated database of over 2 million publishers and 330,000 advertisers, which are then analysed, compared, and matched to make recommendations in ranked lists, matching the best publishers with each advertiser. The affiliate publishing market is worth 16 billion dollars per year but is still largely dominated by human-based agencies and is uniquely suited for automation. Publisher Discovery aims to capitalise on this aspect and establish itself as the market leader. The company has signed up over 50 publishers and is negotiating contracts with two large distribution partners. It is currently raising £1 million investment with £675,000 committed so far, to grow sales and operations and reach over £2m Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in the following 12 months.
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investment:
£800,000
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
SleepCogni combines a handheld device and a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform to help users wind down by collecting physiological, behavioural and environmental data. The company points out that 1 million people in the UK take sleeping pills for insomnia. SleepCogni intends to change this with its product. It claims that its device receives data from fifteen different sensors, providing detailed insights into a user’s sleep struggle to further assist in clinical intervention, including procedures such as CBT-I (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia). The company's initial target sleep clinics are the UK and the US, with the US sleep clinic market estimated to be worth $9 billion in 2020. SleepCogni has eleven granted and four pending patents in various territories, a trademark on the logo and protection of specific handheld trigger hardware. They state they will use the investment received to commercialise their product.
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investment:
£577,270
Good Club is an online grocer that aims to sell sustainable household food and products across the UK. The company's sales have grown from £18,000 to £234,000 in May 2020. The potential demand for sustainable food and products is £61 billion in the UK, and the company finds itself as a strong contender in this domain. COVID-19 has led to an increased interest in home-delivered grocery products amongst consumers. Good Club responded to this by opening its first distribution hub in North London. It has also carried out a 'Life Cycle Analysis' of its proposed process and prototype packaging to ensure that its sustainable and eco-friendly. The investment raised will help the company grow its revenues, establish scalable marketing foundations for future growth, and roll out 'Closed Loop' service to strengthen customer loyalty.
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investment:
£1,001,337
NEXU is a web-based platform that connects people to various businesses via word-to-mouth recommendations to create a dynamic user-driven marketplace for organic advertising and to drive sales. The platform manages and tracks people's shares on social media and referrals on chat platforms. With the aim to disrupt the e-commerce market in sales, NEXU is starting a soft-launch in Bristol and intends to turn everyone into an influencer who can earn commissions. The company's vision is to become the world-leading user-driven e-commerce platform. With the proceeds, the company will expand functionality and improve the user experience.
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investment:
£199,900
CatchApp is a scheduling software that aims to fulfil the scheduling needs of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), professionals, and enterprise users. CatchApp has 15,000 users using its application. It has featured in the US 'Appstore's' home screen and selected by Apple as 'App of the Day'. CatchApp is used by organisations like Microsoft, CERN, PwC, Harvard, and NHS. Calendars from Google, Apple, and Microsoft Outlook are compatible with the software. The business productivity software market will grow from $98 billion in 2018 to $106 billion in 2021, and CatchApp aims to be a major contender in this segment. The company will use the investment to build up marketing, business development and technical teams, accelerate revenue from SMEs via the company’s newly-launched Software as a Service (SaaS) product, launch CatchApp Enterprise solutions, and global partnerships.
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investment:
£832,102
AirSensa is a proprietary globally-scalable cloud platform developed with the aim to avert air pollution globally. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 7 million die prematurely every year because of air pollution. Lack of poor data coupled with unreliable systems makes tracking air pollution a major task. Better data can help city authorities to make effective interventions, help businesses to improve operations, and help citizens avoid the worst of pollution. The company's unique big data platform (STORRM) can scale to run hundreds of thousands of sensors and serve any number of users simultaneously while providing reliable air pollution data. AirSensa's technology can also be used to understand the impact of Covid-19, to tackle the post-Covid complications due to air pollution by providing hyperlocal, real-time information to those people as well as the existing vulnerable groups like asthmatics and heart disease patients. The company will utilise the investment to drive business development, build a post-COVID product that will lead to potentially lesser fatalities due to risk from polluted air, and ensure more people join its ecosystem.
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investment:
£763,890
Glug provides a platform for businesses to let customers order from a digital menu and have them served to the table or pick up from the bar. It points out that its system is designed to be user friendly and easy to set up wherein restaurants or bars can upload and digitalise their menu and can be discoverable within 24 hours. Consumers can discover the restaurant, book a table, place an order, and browse for offers and discounts, amongst other features using the company's community app. Glug asserts that more than 16,000 users have ordered food and drinks through its app in less than four months since the company's launch. It intends to become a contender in the UK dining and pub market that is a £40 billion+ industry. Glug argues that more than 20,000 users have downloaded its app from the App Store and Google Playstore. It will use the investment for marketing, hiring, technology development, attract 1.5 million users and onboard 1,000+ venues over the next 12 months.
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Expired
investment:
£73,114
