New Soda invents, designs and manufactures highly innovative and original kitchen gadgets. These are unique eye catching items bought on impulse from point of sale displays. We have developed a new brand identity for 2015 that is inventive, inclusive, independent and gently humorous. New Soda is all about the entrepreneurial story behind the products. Critically we already have in place an international distributor network - we are already in over 1,000 stores internationally.
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investment:
£88,330
Deciwatt develops renewable energy solutions and its new product (nowlight), creates instant power and light from the pull of a cord. This company created 'nowlight' leveraging on the success of its first product ‘GravityLight’, which had secured media coverage from around the world, won many awards and was sold by major retailers like Best Buy and Walmart. Additionally, it has been awarded a new £173,788 grant from Innovate UK to integrate Pay-As-You-Go technology into nowlight. Further, this company has a pending registered trademark on the nowlight name and a patent pending on the manual power generation mechanism. It will invest the fund raised in implementing its marketing plans, further product development, and scale up its marketing activity and develop its business.
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investment:
£519,607
Poppy and Zach are a lifestyle store for babies and children. They currently have a destination store as well as a e-commerce store. The idea for the company was formed when the co-founder Bob Brinklow was searching for cool, fashionable clothing for his kids and noticed there was a gap in the market.
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£440
Floom is an online marketplace where florists upload their own products and sell to customers their own beautiful and unique flowers. All florists are independent and hand picked to ensure quality bouquets.
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£519,550
Lovestruck is an online dating service traditionally pitched at a London-only audience and targeting urban professionals primarily in the age bracket 24-55. It is regarded as a premium and more aspirational site. As a result, Lovestruck commands a higher entry-level subscription price (£39) than most other sites. Lovestruck has also developed an English language site in both Hong Kong and Singapore and is now focusing on national and international growth via its award-winning website, mobile web, iOS and Android apps (a native iPad app is also due for release in 2014). Powered by its original £285,000 investment in 2010, Lovestruck have achieved 23.5 million visits, 344 million page impressions and 155,000 subscriptions totalling £6.3m in revenue.
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investment:
£564,500
Ding have created a beautiful and simple doorbell which compliments rather than distracts from your home. The smart doorbell has a chime just as an ordinary bell does but also calls you on your phone so you are able to carry your doorbell wherever you go.
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£97,200
CrowdProperty is a specialist property project lending platform that matches quality property professionals undertaking quality property projects with institutional/private investors of capital for value-creating property projects. It seeks to ensure profits for borrowers, lenders, the under-supplied UK housing environment, and the UK economy through its business model. The company claims to have recently closed a £300 million funding line from a global asset manager. It has lent upwards of £140 million with £180 million+ originated facilities, gained recognition by Deloitte Fast50 and FT1000 as a 'High Growth Business', and built a proprietary and scalable technology platform. CrowdProperty has also launched CrowdProperty Australia, leveraging its asset-class expertise, scalable proprietary technology and IP from the UK business in the Australian market. The company states it will use the investment to grow its property team, evolve its technology platform further, acquire more customers, and grow its business.
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investment:
£1,815,319
British Boxers are undies and nightwear for men and women. All of their products are made from some of the finest woven cottons. The use of the funds raised will go towards introducing new product lines, increasing mail list to reach a wider audience and to expand their stockist space in UK.
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£179,920
Percuro is a low carbon, next-generation pet food that is ethically farmed and formulated using insect proteins. The company argues that its pet food has a low carbon pawprint whilst being hypoallergenic and nutritious with low inflammation properties. Percuro has launched its Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) site in the UK and Germany with a roll-out plan that includes covering additional EU markets later in 2021, raised a £340,000 seed investment in the previous 10 months, and signed product listing agreements with key retailers in the UK and Singapore. The company will use 40% of the investment for brand building through digital marketing, 30% for retailer brand-building investments, 20% towards launching treats and its plant dog range, and 10% towards new market expansion into Asia.
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£618,596
Fancy Dress Worldwide is a fancy dress online retailer founded in March 2016 and has already achieved more than 380,000 orders in 80 countries, with revenues over £1.6m in Year 2 and growing rapidly. The company carries out software processes in-house and has grown from 1 staff member to 25. They have also increased their product range from 1 item to 20,000 products, which has resulted in moving to larger premises twice in two years.
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investment:
£313,557
