Soho Street Cocktails (SSC) uses the finest quality ingredients, including real fruits with no artificial flavours or colours to produce high-quality pre-mixed cocktails. SSC argues that bars and restaurants make high margins from the sale of cocktails but the serving time of several minutes per cocktail causes either a backlog of bar orders or requires additional staff. The company asserts that its drinks, in contrast, are poured directly into a cocktail shaker with ice, shaken for 8-10 seconds, then served to the customer. SSC stresses that it has found success in bars and restaurants. SSC's current range consists of three ready-mixed cocktails, namely Espresso martini, Pornstar martini, and Raspberry Daiquiri, with more flavours in the pipeline. It has submitted its product for sampling and testing with major retailers, including Waitrose, Sainsbury, Tesco and Costco. SSC states it will use the investment for additional production runs to ensure sufficient stock to cater to larger orders from distributors and festivals.
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Oxford Nanoimaging (ONI) is an offshoot company, born from the biological physics lab at Oxford University, that specialises in super-resolution microscopy. Its innovation, Nanoimager, is a super-resolution fluorescence and portable microscope that is capable of real-time 3D localization analysis and rendering. It has multiple applications in a variety of fields such as viral particle imaging, quantitative cellular imaging, epigenetic mapping, and many more. ONI states that the Nanoimager can align and analyse samples, and then upload the results onto a computer for deeper graphical and data examination. ONI is also supporting the global effort into research and diagnostics to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and finds the Nanoimager uniquely suited to this task. The company plans to use the investment to grow its business and ensure more institutions and researchers adopt its technology.
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PyroCore is a waste-to-energy technology company. Its technology, Pyrolisis, burns waste and sludge for 30 minutes at 700-900 degree celsius in the absence of oxygen, which leads to reduction of waste volume by 90%, and the energy output can be used for heat, steam or power generation. It also eliminates the need for landfill sites, reduces carbon emissions, and helps businesses cut down on landfill taxes. The company has partnered with institutions such as Brunel University London and The Association for Renewable Energy and Technology. It has also contributed to charities such as Fresh Water Habitats, ALK Positive UK, and others. It is seeking support for deployment of its technology on sites where safe and easy disposal of hazardous or infectious waste can be undertaken, especially in the wake of Covid-19.
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ITIG have developed software to aid in understanding the investment process, as well as reducing the associated costs of investing. Using their licensed methodologies, retail and institutional investors will see return funds which are more predictable when investing in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), resulting in highly diverse and low-cost investment portfolio.
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£67,000
Founded in 2017, Urban Electric aimed to create the world's largest urban electric vehicle charging networks. The company has now introduced the UEone 'pop-up' charge point. The company is working with Oxford, Plymouth City councils, & MoUs with Dundee. Since summer 2018, Urban Electric secured 'Innovate UK' project that backed £600K to install the world's initial 'pop-up' charging hub in partnership with Oxford City. With the proceeds, the company will be able to deliver a great customer experience, manage the grid, and allow drivers to make money from the excess energy stored in the car battery. In 2020, the company is aiming to install 18 additional charging hubs in Plymouth and Dundee.
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Go Zero is an electric taxi service. Since its inception in 2017, the company has completed over 10,000 journeys, saved an estimated 174 tonnes of CO2, and witnessed £530,000 worth of sales. The UK taxi industry is a £9 billion-pound industry and Go Zero, with its fleet of electric taxis powered by 100% renewable energy sources, aims to be a major disruptor. The company has received 100+ 5-star customer reviews and in 2019, it added 1600 new customers to its network. In February 2020, it launched the Go Zero Network, a network of 1,000 electric taxi franchises across the UK to expand electric travel for all. Being a part of the Go Zero Network offers a franchisee the opportunity to purchase a 5-year licence enabling them to operate their own business under the Go Zero brand. It also gives them the potential to earn between £30,000 and £50,000 after costs, based on performance metrics. With the investment, the company aims to recruit a high performing team to deliver market share, focused on sales, digital marketing, social media, franchise recruitment and management.
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£124,530
Kulea.ma are an affordable and easy to use Marketing Automation, readily available for SME's. They have already seen impressive results with 80% of users seeing their number or leads increase and 77% seeing customer conversions rise.
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£67,616
Zvilo aims to become a major challenger bank in the Balkans for Balkan people living in the European Economic Area (EEA). It plans to disrupt the outdated Balkan banking sector and become a contender in an estimated remittances per annum market worth €14 billion. The company asserts that it has procured a letter of intent for a pilot program that would allow it to offer business lending to 800+ Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and financial services to 45,000+ potential personal banking customers. It has also initiated a licensing application with the Central Bank of Kosovo and partnered with Mastercard as its card partner. Zvilo will use the investment to formalise its application for Supply Chain Finance (SCF) licensing in Kosovo, execute its strategic partnership agreement with its Kosovar partner retailer, prepare for a second fundraising round, and expand its services.
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£666,085
Loopster is a D2C platform that aspires to make selling and shopping for secondhand clothes an easy and sustainable lifestyle process. It argues that fashion is one of the most polluting industries on the planet projected to use one-fourth of the world's carbon budget by 2050. It argues that secondhand shopping offers a way out of this crisis. The company aspires to dominate the secondhand fashion industry projected to be worth $64 billion by 2024. Loopster has processed over 4000 garments and sold over 1900 in June 2021 earning revenue worth £122,000 as of May 2021. It allows sellers to order a Loopster Clear-Out Bag, send in discarded clothes, and the company does the rest, paying them for everything it accepts. For shoppers, Loopster offers hand-checked quality clothes at a quarter or less of high street prices. Loopster has featured in press entities such as The Sun, The Guardian, The Telegraph and Drapers Magazine. It has over 23,000 social media followers and 15,000 newsletter subscribers. Loopster states it will use the investment to continue scaling and building out a service for brands, hire a marketing manager and further optimise its processing technology to scale rapidly.
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£393,149
A car-sharing platform for drivers to receive an extra income by allowing the local community to drive their cars instead of leaving it idle and unused. Hiyacar has a acquired an exclusive insurance product with AXA and already has more than 2,000 cars enrolled, with the majority located in London and surrounding urban areas with the intention of expanding further in the future.
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£1,431,885
