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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£763,890
HeadBox are trying to make the process of booking the perfect space for your client or work based event simpler. HeadBox are looking to do this by using their efficient platform to connect guests and hosts directly. Hosts are able to list their space on the platform and guests are able to browse the site to find their ideal space.
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£762,000
Enabling mobile network operators to improve their energy efficiencies whilst reducing their costs and environmental pollution. PowerX has created an AI platform with the aim of helping mobile networks reduce the level of emissions produced from their operations. The platform, dubbed Thalesto™, has been developed on IBM Cloud™ and utilises their IBM Watson™ technology. As a result, IBM® is now the sales channel for the platform and PowerX is currently in discussion with Ericsson as a potential future partner. The company has predicted their solution will cost operators £23 per mobile tower, but will result in £115 saved per tower.
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£755,001
SkiBro is a leading business-to-customer (B2B) Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that aspires to become a contender in the €2 billion ski lessons market. The platform has onboarded 8,000 ski schools and 150,000 ski instructors to date. SkiBro's marketplace encompasses 350 resorts in 7 countries across Europe and North America, with over 6,000 ski instruction products. SkiBro intends to expand into ski hire. The platform has 350 independent ski instructors (250 last year) and 400+ ski schools, with notable ones including ESF La Plagne, ESF Courchevel, Evolution2 (France), Skischule Alberg (Austria), and Ski and Snowboard School Courmayeur (Italy). The company claims that despite COVID-19 hampering business in March 2020, the platform hosted 8.467 lesson bookings worth €1.35 million, recording a 500% YoY growth with an average booking value of €453. SkiBro is seeking £1.5 million of equity funding to accelerate company growth and deliver profitability in 2023-2024.
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£749,825
Datam is a new Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that enables businesses to start taking card payments in just 5 minutes. The company claims that in 2020, more than 50% of all payments in the UK were made using cards. Datam asserts that banks have to navigate between entities ranging from the initial salesperson (ISO), the bank (acquirer) and up to 4 other different stakeholders before they can start taking card payments. It intends to simplify this process. The company has raised £715,000 in Q1 of 2021 funding additional delivery, sales resource and repaying previous loans. Datam is working with VISA to demonstrate the value of its platform and seeks to make its services available to 450,000 UK Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that renew their card services each year. The company states it will use 30% of the investment for service deployment, 20% for sales and marketing, 20% towards new product modules, and 30% towards working capital.
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£727,322
YAYZY has created a platform that calculates the carbon footprint of a user using their spending data land helps the user make up for it using carbon offsets and guides the user towards more sustainable choices. The company believes that the shift in the use of money from high carbon to low carbon choices will accelerate the transition to a new era of sustainability and responsibility. YAYZY raised a £120,000 pre-seed amount, experienced a 26% organic week-on-week growth only driven by referrals and is in conversation with three major banks that are interested in using its technology. YAYZY will use the investment to launch its Android app, convert 25% of users to subscriptions, introduce impact investing, and onboard at least two B2B customers.
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£722,793
Bijou Commerce has transformed mobile commerce by creating a mobile app helping retailers to make the most of push notifications and customer algorithms. Bijou is cloud based so retailers can easily take advantage of their app without too much disturbance to their own systems.
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£718,255
Quotall is a specialist insurance technology software entity that helps large, high profile enterprises to enter the insurance market. The company claims that to date, brands have struggled to extend into insurance due to significant up-front costs, regulatory concerns, legacy technology in the insurance sector and a lack of in-house expertise. Quotall claims that its insurance ecosystem service aims to remove these barriers and enable rapid market entry. The company asserts that it can arrange regulatory approval for the client and link the latter's customers through to its fully client-branded, quote, buy and self-service insurance platform. Quotall's earned revenues in 2020 reached close to £500,000 and it has raised £4 million to date. It states it will use the investment to resource the implementation, development, and servicing of new client accounts as they are contracted.
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£708,805
HelloDone automates conversations across messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram for the transportation, home delivery and utility sectors. HelloDone stresses that its Software as a Service (SaaS) enables more than 80% of inbound queries to be resolved automatically between customers of retailers and global carriers. HelloDone states that its portal drastically reduces the customer service burden and creates new dialogues with the customer for enhanced revenues. The company claims that it launched its portal in October 2020 and onboarded its first client in four months, followed by signing large online retailers such as Charles Tyrwhitt and Footasylum. It has also signed contracts with leading UK fast fashion groups and major US retailers. HelloDone is tracking £330,000 worth of Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) for 2021 and forecasting revenues of £65 million by 2025. They state they will use the investment to arrange flagship brands signed, build on evidence/success metrics and build scale and pace ready for a planned Series-A in mid-2022.
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£700,003
Intoware provide wearable, mobile and desktop technology to SME's and SAS clients. Intoware digitise the deskless workspace and therefore remove the need for paper checklists. Once a checklist is complete, Intoware is able to share the completed list with anyone it may concern.
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£700,000
