Snoop is an application that aims to save a user's money by using data analytics. Snoop falls under the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) regulated Open Banking technology. The company asserts that Snoop can help every household in the UK save at least £1,500 each year. The app lets a user connect his/her bank accounts and credit cards to Snoop to observe all the balances and transactions together from a single portal. Snoop also watches a user's bills and lets the user know if he/she is paying too much or if there’s a price hike. The app also creates a 100% personalised feed of money-saving ideas based on the user's spending patterns. Snoop has grown to over 100,000 downloads and 75,000 customers since early 2020, delivered over 1 million money management tips to customers, and featured in publications like The Guardian, Financial Times, and The Telegraph. It will use 57% of the investment to grow its business, 21% to develop app functionality, and 22% for business operations.
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£8,445,740
Workhorse allows the company to deliver individual applications that are customized to specific company requirements. Workhorse's modular approach integrates all the functions one needs into a single easy-to-use bespoke application, tracking tasks, invoicing CRM, scheduling inventory timesheets and more. Workhorse applications are reviewed as a long-term solution as they quickly become integral to the operations of the company's clients. Workhorse has 50 customers, and it is delivering applications in four different countries, two different languages and across industry sectors as diverse as legal, financial, marketing events, manufacturing, retail, and e-commerce. The company's plan for growth into the future is to become a platform for other companies to deliver applications and deliver a customized bespoke solution on the Workhorse platform.
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£391,466
WTL is an early leader in “intelligent” clothing, selling consumer and industrial garments with embedded washable electronics through retailers globally, including Halfords. We focus on safety. At the intersection of garments, electronics and data, building an IoT connected platform. An IP100 Award 2015 winner, with over 40 granted patents in fabric sensing in which Apple and Google have shown interest. The company was Innovation Award honoree at CES 2015 and has gained media/TV exposure in 30 countries. Massive future opportunities to enhance worker safety and productivity through embedding cameras, sensors, comms into garments. WTL is currently working with Intel, BP, and Accenture.
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£532,588
Meeow is a company that seeks to offer unlimited, on-demand business networking. It argues that Covid-19 has changed the idea of networking with an increasing demand for in-person online networking solutions. Meeow aims to capture this sentient through its app. The company's AI-driven proprietary platform brings four people together for 1 hour in an interactive video session through a combination of random selection and machine learning. Meeow's ongoing BETA saw more than 420 Meeowists using its service. The company will use the investment for marketing its service network, further develop its platform, and expand its early adopter community to a minimum of 10,000 users by the end of 2021.
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£125,235
Stashbee is an easy-to-use world-class platform that allows people and businesses to find and book space. The company is aiming to create a way in finding and booking storage space easy, affordable, convenient for everyone. It has now boarded a leasable space of over 820,000+ square feet. It is the 8th biggest storage provider in the UK. Twelve months before March'19, Stashbee's Host Network had grown by more than 1130%. It has hosted 130,000+ storage days till date and has more than 10,000 registered users. Stashbee's reputed guests and hosts have rated it 5 stars on Trustpilot. With the proceeds, the company will fuel further growth, expand its team, and go for product development.
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£2,515,208
Percayso is a Business-to-Business (B2B) insurance technology entity that aims to become a contender in the £220 billion per year UK insurance industry. The company claims that conventional methods of finding the best insurance premiums has its share of hurdles. Percayso intends to change this. It points out that its portal allows users to find relevant premiums, reduce chances of fraud and increase profit, all in a transparent layout. The company has already signed four clients. It argues that it has a strong pipeline of 25+ opportunities and aims to convert at least 50% of these. It will use 45% of the investment for platform development, 20% for third party integrations, 20% as working capital, 10% for product and international development, and 5% for marketing and networking.
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£437,134
Baanx is a Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C) banking platform that is Application Programming Interface (API) driven and digitaly-friendly. It aims to become a contender in the digital asset financial services market that is estimated to rise to $40 trillion by 2030. Baanx argues that it is disrupting the slow and expensive banking sector by leveraging blockchain to launch secure and low-cost banking products and services, with a few lines of code. The company has witnessed £1.4 million in revenue in 2020. It will start shipping its cards to 30+ EU countries in 2021 and roll-out its ‘plug-and-play’ wallet/card/exchange/mobile app on leading open-source blockchain network, Tezos, targeting the latter's 3 million+ global user base. Baanx will use the investment to increase its staff to 40-50 personnel by the end of 2021, expand into Asian, Middle Eastern, and North American markets with regulatory approvals, and invest in digital asset-backed lending and investing.
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£9,990,280
SKOOT is a platform that connects friends who need lifts or errands, with friends who can help. The app auto-calculates fares for lifts taken and splits the costs. It also permits users to organise, request and arrange errands or simple favours from friends for free or a £5 tip. SKOOT claims to be the only carbon negative green navigation app for drivers. The company argues that it has also taken up the '1 Million Tree Challenge' and plants a tree for every journey on the platform. SKOOT is live on the Apple App Store and Google Playstore, with more than 18,000 users. It aims to become a contender in the ride-hailing industry that is worth $85.8 billion. SKOOT states it has raised £3.1 million from investors, won £75,000 from Innovate UK, and completed over 1,200 tasks to date using its 'Errands' feature launched during the COVID-19 pandemic. SKOOT states they will use the investment to extend its product, create more revenue streams and increase user activation across the EU, USA, Australia and Canada by early 2022.
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£409,913
AVATR is an AI mobile application designed to deliver social, economic and health benefits. It enables patients to create a digital profile for themselves and share it with their doctor to avail convenient medical care outside of the hospitals. AVATR is negotiating a collaboration agreement in Brazil with Incor Heart Institute and Albert Einstein Institute at the Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade de São Paulo. Moreover, it has been featured in Forbes and has earned recognition in Europe, South America and Asia. With the funds raised, AVATR is planning to be introduced to a number of paying patients in Singapore within the first quarters of 2019.
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£279,821
The KNOMI app was launched a year ago and with over 70 luxury brands on board so far they have had over 2000 store visits from users. They help high spending tourists and discerning locals find London's best luxury designer and independent boutiques.
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