Balkerne is a tech start-up providing software as a service to the property and insurance sector. They have developed SmartResilience, a real-time loss prevention software platform, which helps insurers and the insured understand the value at risk. Insurers spend £1.3bn a year on commercial property claims and £2.3 on domestic property claims, work on squeezed margins and struggle to differentiate with the competition. Balkerne provides customers with pre-emptive, bespoke information and actionable advice, allowing insurers to minimise claims, uninsured losses and improve the customer experience. Moreover, they helped businesses reduce their long term property risk through proactive mitigation and make insurance affordable. Their SmartResilience platform has been developed with the technical ability to integrate with both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure Cloud. The company is registered on the AWS Partner Network and with Microsoft for Startups. Modular functionality is core to the platform, with the ability to seamlessly scale to meet customer requirements.
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£150,000
The Aspire Account has been created to address a major problem encountered by International Students coming to the UK to study at Universities. A UCAS study showed that 62.5% of international students ranked opening a UK Bank Account as one of their top 3 issues.
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£140,174
WiForia is a SaaS business which formed in July 2014. Their platform is an automated location marketing cloud turning a retailer’s public Wi-Fi into a communications channel, enhancing a customer’s in-store experience, delivering more sales and enhanced loyalty. By identifying registered users every time they enter or leave a store, it can push offers, promote content and drive social sharing in personalised and contextually relevant ways whilst delivering valuable insights back to the retailer. The company is already revenue generating (£600k in year 1) and the platform has been used at scale with McDonalds (over 20m engagements).
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Avoiding unnecessary product packaging by offering zero-waste and technological alternative. CupClub uses RFID to keep track of how packaging is being handle in the supply chain and then developing an optimised method to reduce wastage whilst increasing efficiency. Their technology can also provide consumer behaviour data by tracking retail sales and location information. These statistics can offer businesses greater insights into customer trading patterns.
Two versions of CupClub will exist; one designed for food service restaurants and cafés and another designed for retail and office environments. Their revenue model consists of a small standard rate that is charged per drink, which is then multiplied by the average number of sales per day. A tiered level of contracts ranging from £50 to over £1m are offered. Integrating the CupClub technology also carries its own set-up costs and a further fee applies to third-parties that wish to gain access to analytics collected by CupClub.
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£156,000
Lenderwize is the first lending platform for Telecom Operators, offering investment opportunities in a new Asset Class. Its typical clients are mid-sized operators with an annual revenue of 50-300 million USD. Lenderwize sells to large Tier1 Operators (Originators) and buys from smaller (Terminating) Operators. Thanks to Lenderwize's in-depth industry knowledge, they have identified 1350 wholesalers in need of $96 million, making the Cost of Acquisition of clients very low. Additionally, its lean Back Office, Credit Vetting and Loan Management gives Lenderwize a competitive edge over Market Invoice or Funding Circle. With the funds, the company will invest in technology development and integration, increasing sales, marketing activities, and recruitment to enhance its reach globally.
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£100,045
Providing survey researchers profiled access to every mobile smart phone and tablet user. Meaning researchers are no longer limited to accessing recruited panelists on the phone or via the web, and can finally interact with 18-35 yr olds.
A location based user that is acquired at a cost of £0.50, is profiled and then sold on for an estimated lifetime value in excess of £10.
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£30,000
Channels such as eBay and Amazon present a tremendous opportunity for SME’s to sell their products benefiting their businesses. This, however, also introduces a range of new challenges e.g. how to keep stock up to date on all channels. Developing proprietary systems to manage these is complex and expensive. ESeller Express offers a cost effective, instantly available, cloud based system which arms SME’s with just the tools they need to manage their businesses efficiently.
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£23,000
BrightMove Media (BMM) has positioned itself at the forefront of the Digital Out of Home media supply-side revolution by designing, manufacturing and licensing a technology platform which facilitates vehicular digital advertising. BrightMove's core business is in proprietary SaaS (Software as a Service) technology that runs the hardware on transport vehicles - this is a 90%+ gross margin business - it is highly scalable across different countries and different industry verticals. The three key growth sectors for our business are taxi-top advertising both within the UK and overseas, corporate advertising via domestic commercial van fleets and third party digital screen networks.
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£260,004
Lux Rewards is an application software that provides corporate diners an opportunity to earn rewards over 200 high-quality restaurants and bars in Bath, Bristol and London. The diners can collect up to 7.5% of their bills in points and earn luxury rewards (that can be redeemed on over 100 restaurants, free cocktails, hotel gateways, and charity/donations). Lux Rewards has collaborated with corporates, mainly in the professional services sector and offers free employee benefits. At no cost to the company or their employees, Lux Rewards provides unique referral codes as well through which the company’s staff receives a gift of £5.
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£81,023
CrowdMyGift.com is a group funding platform for gifts. Users can log into our platform and register a gift for their birthdays, weddings or any other event from one of our online retail partners and create a profile page. Once they have completed the registration and filled in their details they simply activate the profile and share it on their social networks. Their friends can now start contributing small amounts towards the gift, for example one friend might contribute £10 and another £20.
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investment:
£7,035
