Lavelle Bikes design and manufacture e-bikes that are packed with useful technology. All of Lavelle's bikes are designed so that the user is in an ergonomic upright position. The gears change automatically so that all you have to do is pedal. There is also a hidden tracker if the bike is stolen so that you can pinpoint the location. You can also receive mobile phone notifications when your bike is moved.
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£205,434
AP Brands is a holding company for four incredible brands: Awfully Posh, Create A Crisp, British Crisp Co., and British Popcorn Co. and has served more than 5 million bags of snacks. The sales of these brands occur through major stockists including ASDA, Fuller's, Waitrose and Amazon. It has received the Great Taste Award. AP Brands is also featured in Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph and BBC News. The company will use 50% of the investment funds to make key hires, and the other 50% to grow its product range and expand its marketing activity.
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£324,710
A microbrewery in London selling around 600 litres of bottles and kegs of beer and IPA's to over 100 outlets is seeking investment to expand their production fivefold as their current brewery is at full capacity. In order to keep up with high demand, The Park Brewery need to move to a new premises and build their own tap room to allow them to develop their range of beers and move further into national and international markets.
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£309,980
Curious Brew is a well established brewing company that for the past 4 years have been creating beers and ciders. They are looking to expand by building another brewery location in the Kent area.
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£1,749,100
A street food company, specialising in cheese-based products, is now ready to open their second site after success of a 2016 Crowdcube campaign. The Cheese Truck Ltd are raising funds to open "The Cheese Bar" in Covent Garden by the end of 2018. Four more sites are planned before 2021. The original site in Camden has served more than 90,000 customers within a 50-seat area, with sales of £996k in Year 1 and a YOY increase of 20% in Year 2.
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£197,690
A protein energy brand that offers its products in round balls as an easy-to-eat pre and post workout snack. Boostball's multi-award winning products are made from raw ingredients that have been cold-pressed and only contain natural sugars from fruits and plants.
Boostball sells almost 50,000 units per month across 13 countries and have their own production facility, which creates products for other companies too. Boostball has partnered with Virgin Atlantic and Wimbledon to market their range and their customers also include Google, WHSmith and Graze.
Funds are being raised to launch their next product range, Boostbutter, which is nut butter in squeezable pouches of various sizes. The business is also seeking to grow their market share by entering other territories such as the USA.
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£251,300
Carverter is a technology platform that enables customers to find and lease a hybrid or Electric Vehicle (EV). The company cites data pointing out the UK government's ban on the sale of petrol and diesel only cars after 2030. It also argues about changing car preferences, with 78% of consumers considering leasing to access an EV. Carverter aims to capture this audience and grow its business. The company uses its algorithm to bring together over 32 million data points across its three tools, namely Carvert, Carwizard, and Browse, to help users find their choice of hybrid/EV. Carverter has partnered with renowned entities like WPP, Arval, Microsoft & ITV to boost its business. It will use 10% of the investment on hiring staff, 20% towards rolling out its services across 22 European countries via Arval, and 70% on an advertising multiplier deal with the UK's largest commercial broadcaster, ITV, and WPP.
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£2,324,693
Itasca Wines is a Hampshire-based vineyard and winery that produces fine English wines. The company is raising funds for its contract winemaking facility, to fulfil the growing demand from vineyards. There are over 760 vineyards in the UK currently, 111 have their own winery and only a handful of these provide contract winemaking services to other vineyards. Itasca Wines aims to become a major winemaker and create award-winning wines at Penn Croft. The company planted its first vineyard of 16,000 vines in May 2019 and has featured in Vineyard Magazine in February and May 2019.
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£1,147,003
Silo offers a unique dining experience by promoting a pre-industrial food system that generates zero material waste and celebrating whole pure foods born from clean farming. Aspiring to revolutionise the food industry by being ethical and productive, Silo is evolving as one of the world's first zero-waste and environment-friendly restaurants. Silo is confident that it has a profitable untapped market that can be exploited with its unique concept. The funds raised will be used to make a zero-carbon delivery system, using non-native goods such as green coffee beans, red wine and cacao.
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£48,000
Yumbles is a leading UK online marketplace for artisan food. It currently connects over 600 independent food makers directly with consumers. The company is targeting the UK’s estimated £10bn+ UK Speciality Food & Drink market, having seen £1m+ sales in the last 12 months resulting in £400k+ revenue.
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£262,080
