Mrs Wordsmith is one of the UK's promising educational publishing & gaming startup. Their bestselling products popular among parents, educators, and kids. Mrs Wordsmith is a VC backed company whose new learning game Epic Word Adventure launches in December 2019. Amazon has given “Best Seller” ratings to the company due to its roots in the Hollywood illustrated books created to strengthen literacy and learning. The company's unit growth has been strong and has received 38% aggregate MoM growth this year. The proceeds will be used to expedite the Epic Word Adventure into new areas and develop new content for children.
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£1,145,020
Mappix is a platform that has been designed by a teacher to help tackle teachers workload. The system has been created to help teachers assess how well their pupils are doing. The funding will be used for development, infrastructure and marketing.
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£94,260
Aiming to prevent further deterioration and leakage of water and sewerage pipes, Aqualiner has developed their Melt in Place Pipe (MIPP). This patented technology consists of a sock insertion, which when heated, expands and melts onto the inner pipe and forms a solid glass-reinforced thermoplastic layer. This process can increase the longevity of existing pipes and is the only product of this type to be approved to be safe-for-use in drinking water pipes. The UK has more than 251,000 miles of water pipes, where almost 75,000 miles of pipes are classed as damaged.
Aqualiner firstly plans to sell the initial equipment in return for a small profit margin, but the materials and consumables used in the process will be sold to the licensed contractor directly as a second income stream. The third source of revenue is derived from fees charged to International territorial licensors for any Aqualiner sales.
The product has been developed with support from Anglian Water, Severn Trent Water and Yorkshire Water and is approved to be installed in US drinking water pipes.
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£642,471
Cypher is an education technology company that aims to offer coding education online to children aged 6-12. It asserts that teaching children the tools to think computationally allows them to break down a real-world problem and work out how to fix it. The company teaches its students a variety of coding languages such as Scratch, Python, and JavaScript. Cypher has witnessed a total turnover of £990,000 to date, taught 2000+ online students in less than a year completing over 15,000 hours of teaching, and has created over 100 courses as part of its curriculum. The company has featured in press entities like Forbes, Wired, Harper's Bazaar, BBC News, and New York Times, to name a few. Cypher will use 43% of the investment for hiring key personnel, 42% for platform development, and 15% for customer acquisition costs.
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£290,619
Gooseberry Planet is designed to gamify the way children learn about online safety. Internet safety is currently being taught as part of the PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic) curriculum in schools. However there are concerns as to the effectiveness of the way it is taught. Gooseberry Planet allows children to play a game with a character that goes through real life scenarios. The user then has to respond correctly to gain stars. These stars can be used to compete against their friends or classmates.
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£1,660
Idler Academy is a publishing company that over the past 20 years has published books on a number of topics such as; grammar, philosophy, history, playing the ukulele and many more. The use of the proceeds will go towards launching a new series of online courses.
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£149,340
Curiosity Club is a unique curriculum enrichment programme for both primary and secondary schools. Traditionally in schools, all pupils learn the same thing at the same time. Curiosity offers a unique way to engage children by allowing them to choose their own individual journey through the history of time and through that they are developing their skills of literacy, numeracy, research, memory, presentation and communication.
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£42,350
Carnot is an engineering company that is developing biofuel and hydrogen-powered Carnot engines with the aim of reducing global CO2 levels by 13%. The company asserts that metal engines, unable to withstand fuel combustion temperatures, waste one-third of fuel energy to cooling & have operating efficiencies of only 30%. Carnot argues that its engines can bring operating efficiencies up to 70%, halving fuel costs. It also intends to develop clean, secure, and affordable global off-grid energy solutions and provide disruptive technologies that are both commercially viable and environmentally friendly. Carnot was awarded a £157,000 Innovate UK Grant to develop an energy access solution in Sub-Saharan Africa. It was also awarded a place on OGTC Tech X accelerator, in partnership with organisations like British Petrol (BP), Equinor, and KPMG with a £100,000 funding. The company will use the investment to bump up the maximum theoretical engine efficiency to ~85%.
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£307,911
Kinderly have created an award-winning development app to support childcare professionals record and share a child's progress, helping parents be more engaged in their development. The software links to the Government's Early Years Foundations Stage framework enabling childcarers to digitally capture a child's learning journey.
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£431,229
Get My Grades is an e-learning platform for Maths, English, and Science, providing students with effective practice and revision tools and teachers with meaningful data. Get My Grades reduces teacher's workload, helps students to learn more, allows schools and education systems to access up-to-date data on student attainment, and provides bespoke educational solution to national curriculum anywhere in the world. Get My Grades has evoked interest in major distributors in both the UK and around the world. Within 6 months of launching, the platform signed two international contracts with a minimum revenue of £5.2m pa. With the proceeds, the e-learning platform is planning to expand its core team to address growing global demand for a consistently high-quality education, content and technical development.
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£501,770
