Gomingo is an accommodation booking platform which provides a tidy and experienced user journey for travellers. The company attracted immediate booking interest in the first month of its launch. Since launch, 40,000 host rooms signed to date and, in August, the company received 18 bookings in 19 days. Additionally, it has been ranked over booking.com and many other competitors. Gomingo has been featured in travel press like PhocusWire, Travel Weekly and Travolution and it has signed a partnership contract with My Air buddy. The funds will be used to scale technology and connectivity to grow listed inventory.
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Holiday Online is a holiday listings business that aims to capture the holiday listing market in the coastal and rural regions around the UK. Partnered with Airbnb and Booking.com, the company aims at helping holiday home owners in these regions to generate online bookings without any hassles. NorfolkHoliday.com, the company's first brand, was launched as an owner acquisition site to appeal to holiday home owners in the Norfolk region. With its proceeds, Holiday Online is planning to build a new brand known as 'SuffolkHoliday.' The company plans to scale up the number of property listings that they have around the UK and to launch into multiple areas helping holiday home owners to benefit from the £200M market in the UK.
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Holidaymakers can reduce their travel costs by 21% via an app to book rooms from £1 per night. Holiday Swap is an online community of users that share travel tips and swap accommodations, with no sub-letting. This allows travellers to tour anywhere in the world for less. Their MyMap Feature hosts more than 10,000 travel tips on points of interest within locations, which have been submitted by users of the platform.
Holiday Swap is accessible via a fully developed mobile app and is available in 184 countries. There are 25,000 active users on the platform and the company is experiencing a user growth of 5,000% month-on-month. Holiday Swap has zero debt and revenue is generated via advertisements from tour boards and airlines on the app.
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Holiday Home Nation are committed to providing villa holidays to the general public and want you to get involved in their story.The OpportunityThe market size in Europe is €20 Billion and if you include the USA it ... Read more
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HotelSwaps is the world’s leading hotel room swap programme that enables owners of independent hotels to swap unused hotel rooms using HotelCoins®. It a technology platform with 420+ active users. It has established partnerships with hotels such as Relais & Chateaux, SiteMinder and Design Hotels. The company 465 hotels members in 64 countries.
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Houst is one of the biggest short-let management companies in the world. It partners with homeowners and advertises their properties on platforms like Airbnb, HomeAway Booking.com, and Expedia. It uses technology to help manage bookings, cleaning, guest communication, laundry, pricing, and a host of other services. Houst manages 6,000+ homes across 22 cities in the UK. In 2019, they raised £1.25 million on Seedrs. It has also acquired over 250 homes in Lisbon and Barcelona, and 200 homes in Madrid with the aim of increasing its presence across Europe. Since launching in 2015, Houst has managed over 250,000 guest bookings. The investment will help the company kickstart after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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£2,622,684
iHuman Fitness Ltd brings the gym into the 21st century. The company offers fitness classes that move away from conventional gyming methods – big room with lots of people and perspiration – instead downsizing it into compact, personal training sessions where people interact with instructors on a human level. Sessions are a maximum of five, meaning a low ratio of participants to instructors.
The company established its flagship gym in St. John’s Wood in May 2014. Since then it has grown to run 8 classes a day with 371 members. Along with its pop-up gym in Canary Wharf, which has attracted 100’s of people through its doors since opening in Summer 2015, the company is currently making sales of £7,560.
With £80,000 investment for 10% of the business, iHuman Fitness will open a second permanent location in Canary Wharf – to be called The Office – with its pop-up site proving that there is a market for its popular take on fitness in the area.
All going well, a third branch will open in Liverpool street by the end of 2016, and with all three sites bringing in business, by the end of 2018, the company expects to make total revenues of £1,876,700.
The idea for iHuman was born from a rather somber chain of events. Owner Mohamed El-Kadey was only young when he suffered the loss his father to a heart attack. At the age of 26 he realised his own health was taking a downward spiral and feared he might suffer the same health issues as his late dad. This prompted him to re-evaluate his health and fitness, taking on a variety of fitness challenges including the London 2010, Berlin 2011, and Paris 2013 marathons as well as taking a new approach to nutrition.
He decided he wanted to help people benefit from health and fitness – much in the same way he has in an attempt to prevent ill health for as many people as he could reach. This led to the opening of the first of his gym’s in 2014, offering small scale fitness classes that enable participants to actually learn about health and nutrition on a personal basis from instructors.
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£13,320
Kingdom is a natural space for families and friends to relax and unwind over a meal, a drink or a bike ride. The park is situated in Penshurst which is 35 miles from London, and includes 9500 square feet of event space and a 1.1 mile long road circuit coming soon. They aim to bring people together in nature, to help them revitalise, and reinvigorate in a beautiful 13 acre woodland setting.
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Kingwood-on-Thames Ltd is a company run by experienced businessman James Slater who is part of a truly enterprising family whose interests include amphibious tours in central London and the manufacture of amphibious machines. He’s spearheading the acquisition of River Thames Boat Hire Ltd – a riverboat charter company with an annual turnover of £100,000.
After extensive research, James has identified several areas of the Thames Boat Hire business which can be improved on. Having singled out each of the weaknesses, Kingwood-on-Thames will remodel the business to strengthen it from the bottom up, creating new partnerships, enhancing facilities and delivering additional marketing to initially increase the number of annual charters from 50 to 250 over four years. This represents a conservative 35% of the boats potential usage (the company has outlined 728 charters per annum as part of its forecasts).
It is expected this will take sales from £100,000 to £1.25m in 4 years.
A £300,000 equity deal for 25% of the company is available to investors. James himself will be investing £100,000 of the total amount alongside Funding Tree investors. You can join James as he endeavors to turn a steady, under-appreciated charter company into a more profitable, sought-after business.
Plans in brief:
- James will hire a dedicated, passionate manager to handle the business and take it from zero marketing to multiple marketing techniques and also drive the creation of new partnerships to increase brand awareness.
- A new website featuring efficient contact and booking systems is currently in development by Somerset Website Services. It will be launched in the next few weeks under the Kingwood-on-Thames Ltd (KTL) banner.
- New online advertising and increased social media activity and email marketing campaigns.
- The remodeling of the business to incorporate high value clients as well as standard clients.
This charter business has a unique selling point in its vessel’s historical significance. The Kingswood vessel was one of the 861 ‘little ships’ used for the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo between 27 May and 4 June 1940. (www.adls.org.uk). The boat is in excellent condition having completed a maintenance check and survey in spring 2014 by Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).
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Licklist is a nightlife search engine that allows you to plan every aspect of your night out. Using the advanced search, you're able to locate friends and find the perfect venue. You're also able to purchase tickets for your favourite events, DJ's and festivals.
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