EMERGEiQ is a cloud-based platform targeted towards Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and large corporate organisations. The company plans on having an extensive suite of algorithms that simplifies Data Science (DS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at low cost, across all sectors. EMERGEiQ asserts that its analytics can help businesses improve operational productivity, cut costs, and eventually generate more revenue. It has worked with companies across a variety of sectors such as finance, medicine, stock market, and insurance. The company will use will 30% of the investment for R&D, 25% to purchase software and hardware to improve platform capabilities, 25% to market its new product line, 10% as working capital, and 10% as miscellaneous expenses.
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Expired
investment:
£150,000
POS8 is a company that has developed an app, Fetch, that allows customers to order and pay from their phone. The company feels that 'Fetch' holds prominence against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic. Using the app, customers can view a menu, order food & drink and pay securely, all in a matter of seconds with no need for contact, from the comfort of their smartphones. The app's 'Intelligent Ordering System' sends orders to a venue staff’s own devices according to who has the fewest orders waiting. The company believes that its pay-per-transaction model allows it to dominate the £98 billion restaurants industry. POS8 is also developing a LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) & beacon location technology to pin-point guests to an accuracy of 10 cm for faster serving times. The company will use 10% of the investment to complete its location technology, 20% in Point of Sale (POS) integrations, 20% in operations, and 50% in sales and marketing to build customer and user base.
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Expired
investment:
£438,660
Crugo is an easy to use, cloud-based B2B software as a service which focuses on internal business communication and organisation. Crugo services the SME market, providing real-time communication, file sharing, shared calendars, project management and cross-platform accessibility within a single, secure network.
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investment:
£174,300
FutureDJs is remixing music education in the UK by teaching 11-16-year-olds DJing and electronic music production at their schools, in line with the introduction of DJing into the national curriculum. With the electronic music market growing YoY, FutureDJs is a business with big social impact on young people.
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investment:
£327,130
Wurkr is a platform that enables seamless team collaboration, bridging gaps between workers anywhere in the world and embracing an always-on video technology standard. Wurkr asserts that working from home is growing by 400% in the last decade with up to 40% of companies planning to have employees working from home or elsewhere in the wake of COVID-19. It argues that its product holds relevance in such a scenario. 60,000 subscribers and 1,500 organisations have enlisted on Wurkr to date. The company has witnessed a +1,000% increase in subscribers since March 2020. It will use the investment to expand into the UK, India and USA in 2021. A global push in 2022, release 'Wurkr Pro', it's paid portal that provides for multiple browsers, mobile access, video conference rooms and integrates 'Wurkr Enterprise' with products such as Slack and G Suite.
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Expired
investment:
£187,928
Creating immersive 360-degree experiences that can be viewed on any smart device to engage and attract customers to platforms. Blend Media allows customers to build digital media solutions within minutes by using 'drag and drop' tools.
Blend Media has been trading for over 2.5 years and has already provided its technology to more than 30 businesses. The company's customers include NASA, Google, Facebook, Universal Music, Deloitte and L’Oréal amongst many others. Revenue is generated via licensing and subscription fees.
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Expired
investment:
£429,890
Radical new technology changing how global companies think and work.
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Expired
investment:
£387,247
NOQ aims to solve the issue of queuing at events by digitising the process and bringing increased sales and profit for event management companies, coupled with data-driven insights. It aspires to capture the UK market share through partnerships with event management companies, food concession groups, PoS (Point of Sale) systems, and WiFi providers. NOQ offers a three-step solution for event-goers namely, pre-order ahead of time, click and collect or deliver to a location within the event. The company also claims that it provides a bespoke solution specific to suit the needs of each event and ensure seamless execution of the same. NOQ has overseen transactions worth £275,000+ on its platform, onboarded 13,000+ active users across iOS and Android, and covered 190+ events in 2020. It will use the investment for hiring key personnel, marketing and operational expenditures.
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Expired
investment:
£214,393
The Market Mogul are a Millennial media company, publishing unique perspective of the main global events in our time. They are already backed by a VC fund and have built an engaged readership and over 3000 authors. They will be using this round of funding to expand the editorial and sales teams and launch new verticals.
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Expired
investment:
£729,950
Zapaygo is a lifestyle application that simply makes life easy when ordering and paying for any type of product or service. Users can order/pay for anything to be collected or delivered and also make instant payments. The team have secured contracts to increase the potential reach into the millions.
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Expired
investment:
£450,000
