WokenUp is a revolutionary global social network focused on empowering users to work together to meet the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. It aims to transform humanity for good by bringing together the individuals, companies, and charities that are doing good in the world and who are willing to make a difference in social and environmental causes. WokenUp has a unique feature called Snippets with which users can demonstrate how a company or charity is making a positive impact. The company is targeting revenues from job spec fees, advertising, & premium subscriptions. With the proceeds, WokenUp seeks to allow its users to increase the impact that they are making.
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ShareOptic automatically assesses each share regardless of the device or cloud service being used in near real-time. Data shares are checked against dynamic blacklist and sanction lists and immediately and automatically blocked. ShareOptic wraps all cloud technology that enables data sharing, placing controls around the data so the user can be safe in the knowledge that ShareOptic is tracking who the data is shared with.
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£5,909
With new MiFID II regulations introduced in January, Hiddensee provides independent investment research mainly on forensic accounting and corporate governance. Analysts will search for inconsistencies and anomalies in the valuation of UK listed mid-cap and smaller companies and publish their reports to assist investors in deciding whether to buy or sell shares.
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£143,097
MyAllergy have created a mobile app to help those with allergies and dietary restrictions send information about their dietary restrictions to others. Customers are able to create a personalised profile online so they can receive personalised information and connect with others.
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£23,174
Ocular Intelligence aim to be at the forefront of exciting markets such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine vision. They aim to expand the technology to more than facial recognition such as recognising clothing, cars and buildings among many other object types.
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£210,150
Cuckoo is an internet broadband provider. The company claims that incumbent internet providers treat customers with poor customer service, high prices, and complicated contracts. Cuckoo aims to change this by providing users with fair and transparent prices, simple contracts, high-quality routers, and responsive customer service. The company is currently developing its website and billing engine ahead of launching with its first customers in the second quarter of 2020. Cuckoo's business is in the pre-revenue stage. It expects to start generating revenue in May/June 2020 when they launch their broadband service. Cuckoo will use 50% of the investment towards paying salaries to staff, 25% as technology development fees, 10% as professional fees, 5% as rent, and 10% as AOB. Cuckoo's exit strategy is via a trade sale or listing in the United Kingdom.
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Blind Cupid (BC) is a disruptive personal matchmaker that uses systematic philosophy and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help users find their long-term partners with the very first match. It does this by asking its users high-quality, short, and introspective questions that reveal what the company calls a user's ‘Sense of life’. The AI system then comes up with potential matches by analysing the above data along with the user's communication style. BC asserts that the global matchmaking market has 91 million users and is currently worth £4.65 billion (2020) with a projected value of £7.68 billion by 2026. It argues that 4 out of 5 beta users met their potential partner on its portal. The company aims to patent its AI and licence it out to eager organisations. It will use the investment to offer investors the opportunity to be a part of the next generation of matchmaking and artificial intelligence.
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£354,989
Zapaygo is a lifestyle application that simply makes life easy when ordering and paying for any type of product or service. Users can order/pay for anything to be collected or delivered and also make instant payments. The team have secured contracts to increase the potential reach into the millions.
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£450,000
Car Quids gives the opportunity for anyone with a car to make money by advertising on their car. Car Quids also gives advertisers measurable results. They currently have over 8,000 car owners signed up and currently there has been over £75,000 in advertising booked. Car Quids aim to expand to further parts of the UK and even into Europe.
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£154,500
Vizopay aims to combine financial technology and environmental sustainability in the payments space. Its mission is to become the world's leading carbon offsetting payment platform to help reverse the effects of climate change before it’s too late. The company claims that the total online retail sector is worth $4.1 trillion in sales today. Vizopay argues that if its services were to be used for just 0.1% of these purchases, the company can plant 500 million trees, capturing up to 6 million tonnes of CO2 every year. Vizopay, once fully launched, will allow consumers a checkout option to plant trees at no extra cost and track their impact in real-time and help businesses to increase sales, improve brand loyalty and showcase their ESG efforts through accredited carbon offset programmes. The company is targeting a potential UK market size of 20 million consumers. It will use the investment to launch its Beta product in Q3 of 2021 and grow its business.
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£148,120
