Role Models (RM) is a global education provider that seeks to complement traditional academic education with programmes that promote social and emotional wellbeing and dynamic thinking through a focus on leadership, resilience, creativity and collaboration. RM's online and offline courses focus on 3-15-year-olds. RM has scored average parent reviews of at least 4.8/5 on Outschool and aims to become a contender in the estimated £75 billion private tuition market that is forecast to grow to £139 billion by 2026. The company asserts that it is delivering courses in Saudi Arabia and China. RM has enrolled clients across 37 countries, developed a partner programme with JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Rothschild, Citibank and more to deliver courses to their employees, and generated revenue worth £2.4 million to date. The company will use the investment for marketing, technology and curriculum development.
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£711,728
SaigolEd is an Education Technology (EdTech) company that aims to make quality teaching available to millions of 7-18-year-olds across the UK at an affordable price. It is developing an app to combine immersive videos with charismatic teachers from leading schools, rich visual effects, leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) and tests to inspire learning. The company points out that its teaching courses will be available to students wherever/whenever they wish to access the relevant course. SaigolED also aims, once the company's app development is complete, to cover the full student curriculum so that its users have the tools to excel in their exams. The company argues that there is no dominant UK EdTech player in a multi-billion pound market. It aspires to fulfil that gap. SaigolEd will use the investment to build a prototype that would be overseen by its team including a star teacher from a top UK school, initiate rigorous user group testing, and target General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSEs) as its beachhead market.
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£230,724
Solar for Schools aims to reduce the amount of carbon emissions produced from schools by installing and maintaining solar panels. Currently schools produce 50 million tonnes of carbon emissions a year. Installing solar panels would drastically reduce this number and would also save schools money on their energy bills.
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£497,410
Spearhead provide over 250 high quality, practical, training courses via their network of experienced trainers and their new online training platform. Spearhead have secured large corporate clients nationally, from various sectors.
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£140,660
Spiral is a leading classroom learning platform which encourages active learning and collaborative atmosphere for school, teachers and students.
The Social Learning Network (TSLN) is building a world-class education technology company, providing innovative well-researched collaborative apps to help teachers make the most of mobile learning that is being rolled out to students in schools around the world. TSLN’s founders have spent two years in field research, identifying the key issues faced by teachers and students as they adopt technology into their day-to-day practice. The outcome is Spiral - a suite of individual apps that mirror common learning activities used in schools all over the world; empowering teachers and providing unique real-time data to support assessment and school-wide monitoring. Spiral’s first two apps – Quickfire and Discuss - were launched in July 2015 with over 2,800 schools and 18,000 users registering in the first 4 months. This November, an average of over 57 new schools have signed up every day and registration figures are growing exponentially month-on-month. Spiral is used by primary age to university students, in all subjects, from over 100 countries across the world.
TSLN is seeking to raise £400,000 of investment (£85,000 already raised) in exchange for 22.2% equity (17.5% available to CrowdBnk investors), to match-fund its remaining £130,000 SMART grant from Innovate UK and proposed Horizon 2020 grant-funding to continue growing Spiral as a global mobile learning brand, with the intention of acquisition from a global education service provider by 2019.
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£91,653
A certified educational service to help millions learn new skills to acquire the careers they desire. Stay Nimble delivers its service via a SaaS platform, which is comprised of various types of content to help job hunters gain access to different industries and fields of work. The information available has been developed by performance coaching experts that have worked with Olympians and Paralympians, to help those that need guidance on dealing with change.
In the last 4 months, Stay Nimble has over 1,000 visitors accessing the website every month with 150 members on the platform and more than 500 users have signed up to the company's regular newsletter. On average, a member registers to Stay Nimble every day. Revenue streams will consist of a paid tiered subscription service with premium features and a partner referral scheme.
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£174,636
Providing knowledge, skills and values for those interested in business. Toppa has created an app to educate ambitious employees and learners with expertise information provided by successful entrepreneurs worldwide. The app consists of videos and documents that are delivered in a bite-size, easy-to-understand and efficient manner.
Toppa will generate revenue via monthly subscriptions that offer learners unlimited access to their data. Moreover, users can also pay per course they choose to sign-up to. In addition, other revenue streams include minimal advertisements and targeted e-mails from GDPR compliant partners that wish to offer discounts on courses they offer.
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£240,689
TutorTap in an online platform that connects tutors with children who need help or even children who are overacheiving and want to learn beyond the classroom.
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£169,700
Twin Science is an educational platform that aims to upskill children with a hybrid solution of physical and digital products. Its digital offering, Twing, is a skill-based personal development and educational application for children currently targeting 7-11 years old. Twing delivers interdisciplinary learning concepts (adventures) for children with mini-games, developing nearly 300 skills. Its physical offering, Twin Kits, consists of electronic modules that can be attached with magnets. Using Twin kits, children can learn the basics of robotics, computer programming, and even artificial intelligence. The company has onboarded 35 sales channels, approached 1,800 schools, and impacted over 400,000 children. It also won the Bett Awards 2020 in the 'Special Educational Needs Solution' category and was selected by university College London (UCL) to develop an AI curriculum for children. Twin Science will use 66% of the investment in sales and marketing and 33% for team expansion.
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£1,300,670
