Founded in 2013, Saberr is a software company that helps teams work well together. Its products have been used by more than 37,000 people. In 2017, it launched an award-winning software "CoachBot" designed for the development of teams and managers. Clients such as Natwest & Siemens reported a 22% performance improvement after 6 months with CoachBot. Saberr is also the winner of 2018 Silver Award for the most innovative new learning technologies product. With the proceeds, the company strives to integrate CoachBot software with Slack & Microsoft Teams and start a US sales office, the largest market for HR tech.
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£371,550
Numerous is a company that aims to establish a new data-sharing economy by ensuring profits to brands and consumers. On the Numerous app, consumers create a data profile filling in the appropriate information. The Numerous AI technology leverages this consensually-shared personal data to connect the right users to the right brands. It also incentivises its members to share their data by sharing some of the revenue with them that Numerous, in turn, generates from brands. Personal data is worth £30 billion in the UK, and $200 billion in the US. Numerous aims to be a strong contender in this segment. It currently has 1,300 users sharing over 130,000 pieces of data. The company's app is live for iOS and Android. It aims to grow to 50,000 users, 7.5 million pieces of data and 60 brand partners in the next 12 months. It will use the investment to pioneer a new model for the data economy and grow its business.
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£352,502
A grocery delivery service able to provide goods to your home almost 1 hour later from a selection of your favourite supermarkets. Home Run does not have any stock, stores or vans and instead uses personal shoppers to handpick a customer's supermarket run for them and deliver it via car or scooter.
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£558,307
Troubadour is a London-based menswear brand specialising in designing minimalist bags & accessories by combining performance design with a clean & modern aesthetic feel. The company has delivered its products to 60+ wholesalers. It is backed by Pembroke VCT, a luxury-focused venture capital firm based in London. Troubadour is planning to work with non-traditional retailers including Ritz Carlton, Four Seasons, and Equinox. It has also collaborated with many world-renowned brands such as British tailors 'Thom Sweeney' and British essentials brand 'Sunspel' that is famous for clothing James Bond. The company has also been a case study for classes at the Harvard Business School. With the investment, the company will support sales growth to its customers and retail partners and also fund working capital requirements from its forecast growth plan.
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£621,240
Sweep is an expense management tool that relies on Open Banking and helps Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) automate highly manual and time-intensive processes to cut costs and increase productivity. The company argues that Covid-19 has necessitated the use of automation and remote work. Sweep asserts that its technology can automate expense management flow from capture to expense report while detecting fraud in real-time. The company has raised more than £400,000 to date. It recently won a £456,000 grant from Innovate UK in August 2020. Sweep will use the investment to improve its current tools while developing new features, launch in other European markets like France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, and grow its business across different verticals.
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£129,350
Specilaing in making a wide variety of award-winning pies and pastry products for the public. Eat Square's 2017 funding round has resulted in their turnover more than doubling in 2018. This growth has led to Eat Square expanding their business and begin to sell franchises to market their goods. Production and capacity have also increased and products that are vegan and gluten-free are being produced. This funding round will see the business sell up to 14 franchises by the end of 2019 to buy their pies.
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£34,019
Manigo will provide an easy, secure and cost-effective way to manage everything around your money. We want to be the go-to place for everything around banking and payments - think of it as the Amazon for your money and related services. To do this, we’re building an open architecture, designed for other companies to integrate and operate within our ecosystem- we see Blockchain technology as a natural fit.
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£510,630
RightIndem is a white-label insurance software platform designed to deliver fast claims to claimants on its portal. The company develops and sells its own proprietary cloud-based digital claim process management software ‘as a service’ to the global insurance market. Insurtech is a vast market and attracts large amounts of investment, with $4.36 billion invested in the first three quarters of 2019. Till date, it has contracted clients such as Axa XL, Archipelago, NN Belgium, NN Netherlands, and Mapfre, with engagements at various levels of implementation and progress in the UK, Italy, Peru, US, and South Africa. They have also earned regard for automating claims processes form some of the world’s largest insurance organizations allowing for the settlement of low to mid-value claims within hours instead of days or months. With the proceeds, the company will connect operating expenses to the point where client revenues from claim volumes match operating costs.
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£200,001
Founded in 2012, Holly and Beau is an award-winning kids-wear brand which offers a unique collection of colour changing rainwear. The company sells its products directly through its website and via distributors in the UK, the US, Europe and South Korea. Holly and Beau is in the process of patenting its technology, which will enable it to develop a unique product range of rainwear and skiwear. Moreover, the company has successfully maintained an average revenue growth of 80%-100% YOY.
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£218,570
Garbanzo Snacks is a profitable businesses, currently selling their chickpeas with a sprinkling of flavour in 725 Holland and Barrett stores. They use 100% chickpeas with minimal processing, this keeps the products as pure and unadulterated as possible.
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