Uhive is a cryptocurrency-powered social network that aims to foster peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions, interest-based advertising, and the sale of in-app digital assets to maintain user privacy on its portal. The company argues that current social networks flood users' feeds with hidden agendas auctioning off their data to the highest bidder. Uhive intends to change this. It asserts that its content-discovery model allows users to choose and fine-tune the content they see by selecting 26 different interests. Content creators can use Uhive's paywall feature to earn, rewarding quality posts with cryptocurrency payments. The company's app consists of an advanced AI and recommendation engine, crypto wallet, and media streaming, to name a few. Uhive has onboarded 182,000 users and witnessed 5 million posts created by users on its platform. It will use 23% of the investment for operations, 55% for product development, 21% for marketing, and 1% for legal costs.
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£815,530
Auddy is on a mission to build a data-driven podcast publisher for mainstream audio podcasts from top producers. The company points out that 1 in 5 people listen to podcasts in the UK, with over 50 million episodes published each day. Auddy stresses that this creates significant competition and confusion for the podcast producers, with many great podcasts going unnoticed due to a lack of editorial, promotional, and commercial support. Auddy intends to change this. The company guides a creator’s show from birth to distribution and advertising sales, helping creators make money via royalty shares. Auddy claims to use data to research shows that need to be broadcast. It fine-tunes the show for editorial and commercial advantage. Auddy points out that its podcast catalogue witnessed 5.5 million UK downloads. It wants to become a contender in the £7 billion podcast industry and has featured in press such as the Telegraph, Financial Times and The Guardian. The company states it will use the investment to become a data-centric publisher for its producers and customers alike globally.
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£681,371
Fortu Wealth is a Business-to-Business (B2B) Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for private banks, wealth managers, external asset managers & multi-family offices. The company aims to be a segment leader in the $158.3 trillion personal wealth market. It has developed and launched the beta version of its Fortu Wealth mobile app and a desktop version of the application with essential features during the first three quarters of 2020. It has also signed partnership agreements with top service providers to provide facilities like Foreign Exchange, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and Know Your Client (KYC). Fortu Wealth will use the investment to enable further product development, manage operating expenses, and invest in customer acquisition.
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£500,045
Themis is a regulatory technology company that helps organisations mitigate the risk and impact of all forms of financial crime such as money laundering, bribery, corruption, cybercrime, theft, slavery/human trafficking, and fraud. The platform is designed to provide insights and intelligence on the latest threats, trends, and criminal techniques whilst helping clients complete due diligence on their clients, staff, and supply chains. Themis works alongside the Themis Charitable Trust to ensure the reduction of financial crime. The company also supports the UN Global Compact taking into account the fundamental responsibilities of business in the areas of human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption. Themis will use the investment to grow its business across different verticals.
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£1,300,000
Senta assists accountants in managing and running their practices by using a cloud-based service. The software aids the accountant with marketing and CRM, scheduling tasks and deadlines, as well as providing excellent customer service and improving security. This solution eases their admin burden, which allows more time to be spent finding new businesses and increasing productivity and efficiency in their daily workflow.
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£540,251
Expert Apps is an all-in-one solution to license a fully functional social networking app to businesses, coaches, brands, and industry experts. With its use independent, trusted and valuable communities can be built having their own brand identity. Expert Apps has acquired more than 40 clients such as BBC, Khadija Kalifa, and Apprentice finalist who are using this technology. In its first year of trading, the company received more than ¼ million in sales revenue. It also has a healthy profit, a strong client reputation, and many social followers. In 2019, Expert Apps has 41 app licence holders, a GP of £256,012, and sales of £281,096.
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investment:
£375,028
Oval is a smart tool created to help its customers spend smart, invest consciously, save easy, and pave the way to a better financial future. Oval has helped save its users £110 per month on an average. Moreover, the company has categorised £3.1 billion worth of transactions. Oval has onboarded 350,000+ users in 2.5 years into a new financial journey. Oval users also enjoy many other services such as Oval Coach, Oval Activities, Oval Pay, and Oval Future. It has also been awarded Best Mobile App at the Robo Investing Awards 2019. With the proceeds, the company will enhance its product offering in the Oval Future section and expand the Oval platform from the UK and Italy.
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£1,318,338
Publisher Discovery, using AI & Machine Learning technologies, provides recommendations to Advertisers of highly relevant Publishers in the affiliate marketing sector. The company has built a uniquely curated database of over 2 million publishers and 330,000 advertisers, which are then analysed, compared, and matched to make recommendations in ranked lists, matching the best publishers with each advertiser. The affiliate publishing market is worth 16 billion dollars per year but is still largely dominated by human-based agencies and is uniquely suited for automation. Publisher Discovery aims to capitalise on this aspect and establish itself as the market leader. The company has signed up over 50 publishers and is negotiating contracts with two large distribution partners. It is currently raising £1 million investment with £675,000 committed so far, to grow sales and operations and reach over £2m Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in the following 12 months.
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investment:
£800,000
Wizme is a single-integrated Software as a Service (SaaS) platform for global meetings, events and group booking management that consolidates organisation, venue, and intermediary activities. It claims that handling meetings and booking events is still phone and email-based, with highly manual, slow and costly processes. Wizme intends to change this through its services and become a contender in the $1 trillion events market. The company states it has signed Blue Cube Travel, a top 32 UK Travel Management Company (TMC), and partnered with Global Secure Accreditation (GSA) to tackle managing hygiene security in a post-Covid-world. Wizme was awarded the 'Most Innovative Meetings & Events Management Software 2021' by Lux Life Magazine and onboarded a major hotel representation company that gives them access to 1,000 hotel members globally. Wizme intends to use the investment to bolster big clients/partnerships on a global level and launch its upgraded portal by July 2021, to deliver scalability.
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investment:
£193,482
SafeToNet is a cyber-safety company that safeguards children around the world from online threats such as bullying, grooming, abuse and aggression. The company's Artificial Intelligence (AI) system is trained to look for patterns of behaviour that can suggest a child may be at risk. Its smart keyboard detects risks in real-time and steers children away from trouble by filtering harmful outgoing messages before they can be sent and any damage can be done. SafeToNet has sold more than 550,000 licences of its AI-based safeguarding solution in 2020 and is operational in 109 countries. It has featured in The Daily Mail, The Independent, and The Times, to name a few. It has raised £2.52 million to invest in its growth and is offering secondary shares to investors.
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investment:
£183,606
