Nova launches growth focus, tech-enabled startups, putting passionate founders at the heart of everything they do. It creates a more rewarding experience for startups with its co-founding model. The company conceives and scales digital businesses thereby solving the real-world problems, open new markets and disrupt existing ones. 46% of Nova co-founded businesses are still trading. There are 140+ staff over Manchester, Liverpool, London, and Islamabad. There is a 3% portfolio valuation growth YOY, thereby creating more than £72m valuation of the portfolio. The company made a turnover of £7.2m in 2018/19. Nova is raising funds to leverage the company's growing network of Founders, Funds, and Talent in the UK.
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£744,880
Launched in 2016, Scoop is a printed kids magazine which publishes original work from some of the world's best-amazing writers and illustrators including Malorie Blackman, Jacqueline Wilson and Neil Gaiman. Scoop's magazines are sold in 35 retailers globally and has a readership of 6,000. Moreover, the company has also partnered with UK literacy charities including the National Literacy Trust and Love Reading. The funds raised will be used to raise subscriptions, add new formats and generate new revenue streams.
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£161,840
KindLink are a social network for donors and charities so donors are able to make a donation to their favourite charity and help them help other people. Donors are able to see the impact of the donations they are making by following the progress of the charity and updates for the project donated to. KindLink establishes a direct connection between donor and beneficiary to create a close and community-like feel.
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£25,045
Emission Solutions (EMSOL) empowers organisations to take everyday steps to reduce emissions through their real-time emission monitoring and analytics system. EMSOL's open framework platform is built with networks of sensors like air and noise pollution, vehicle tracking, and working with any asset tags and emission sensors which enables EMSOL to perform real-time measurements with location tags and calibrated sensors. Data from these platforms are easily shared on dashboards, through notifications and gives detailed real-time data on urban noise, air quality, and vehicle pollution. To date, EMSOL won Rushlight Environmental Analysis Award, achieve yearly income targets, rated 5th place in the national PowerUp Index and 4th in the London and South East region. Moreover, EMSOL also won a fully funded project sponsored by DFT to deploy EMSOL technology into the rail sector. The company will use the funds to expand its customer base and increase the number of deployment sites.
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£316,884
GigList is a platform that gives music fans a single place to find out about gigs happening in cities throughout the UK. Using technology they source information from across the internet and bring it together in one place.
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£69,788
TheCarCrowd is a Passion Asset Investment (PAI) platform that intends to address the lack of investment options for the 8 million UK millennials by allowing them to take a real equity stake in a classic car and benefit from the potential appreciation. The company argues that classic cars appreciated 194% over 10 years up to Q4 2019 as per expert reports. TheCarCrowd points out that its portal allows interested investors to buy shares in cars from just £20 and unlock the benefits of potential appreciation. The company asserts that its business idea has found traction amidst users with over 620 investors registering on the portal since the company's launch in November 2020. TheCarCrowd will use 12% of the investment for Public Relations (PR), 48% for marketing, and 40% for working capital.
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£379,108
epaysecure is a secure payment system, which offers comprehensive payment and benefit options, and allows all the services the consumer demands to be offered in one card and e-account. The prepaid business purchasing in European markets is estimated to be $700 million. The company operates in an e-banking and financial services marketing sector that helps clients by identifying new markets and bringing in new ideas to develop them through reloadable products and e-Wallet platform. The funds will be used for staffing, set up costs, other overheads including property marketing and general office costs.
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£168,340
The Market Mogul are a Millennial media company, publishing unique perspective of the main global events in our time. They are already backed by a VC fund and have built an engaged readership and over 3000 authors. They will be using this round of funding to expand the editorial and sales teams and launch new verticals.
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£729,950
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£2,294,150
A P2P lender that offers investors with prospective returns of up to 5%+ annually and expect proft gains in the first year. Orca has attained more than 300 investor accounts across its P2P partners and integrates seamlessly with 5 UK-based P2P firms, in addition to discussions taking place with 11 more platforms. Funds will the company to expand into European markets to grow their customer base and potentially collaborate with more lenders.
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£575,110
