Actve is on a mission to change the way people connect with their favourite fitness creators. The company aspires to help creators earn an income and build a subscription business. Actve asserts that it caters to a variety of creator needs allowing them to live-stream their workouts, offer guided programs to customers, or use Actve's software to manage their clients. The company aims to become a contender in the digital fitness market that is projected to be worth £21 billion by 2022. It aims to launch its platform in September 2021. Actve will use the investment to develop its platform, hire key staff, build its user base, and work towards becoming an industry champion for fitness creators.
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£165,627
Hitmarker is a proprietary job platform that covers the entire video game sector. It aims to be the leading job provider in the $159 billion video game industry. It has a database of 67,000 candidates and has posted 46,000 jobs from 4,500 companies in 77 countries. The company asserts that one million people have used Hitmarker 2.5 million times to post or look for jobs. Hitmarker has been covered by publications like Forbes, CNBC, and The FT. It has also onboarded 20 partners, including The University of California, RGF Executive Search, and the British Esports Association. The company will use the investment to build a global network of localised platforms in crucial territories and expand its addressable market.
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£521,283
OvuSense is a women's health monitoring platform offering continuous insights into the reproductive cycle. With over 45,000 users and 10 patents, they aim to expand through partnerships, starting with a large IVF clinic chain. Addressing underdiagnosed health issues, their platform provides accurate cycle monitoring, health screening, and treatment tracking. Backed by institutional investors, OvuSense stands out for its predictive capabilities and accuracy in ovulation tracking, empowering women's fertility control.
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£169,920
Q Doctor aims at changing the NHS care delivery with the help of video consulting to benefit patients and clinicians. The company is focusing on delivering a model that keeps modernised NHS care free of charge for the patients. The video solution plugs NHS clinicians to the existing NHS infrastructure and allows them to connect to the NHS patients digitally. With the proceeds, Q Doctor will fulfil its strategy for 2020. It will deploy the funds into labour, development, operations, marketing, and contingency funds.
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£1,386,200
GymBuddy is an online platform that enables consumers to find, book, and attend a gym location, services, or products offered and operated by fitness studios, gyms, trainers, venues, or other third parties. Users can easily, through filtered searches on the app, view descriptions, and contact information of specialists within the fitness industry such as personal trainers, nutritionists, and physiotherapists. The UK fitness industry alone is currently worth over £5 billion. Based on recent statistics, the average gym membership in the UK costs members £40 a month, which often ties them into lengthy contracts. The GymBuddy app will enter the Health & Fitness club sector as a multi-gym membership feature that gives users access to gyms and various fitness plans, without the need for bricks-and-mortar locations under its brand. The company is seeking an investment of £400,000 to expand its brand identity and bring more users to its ecosystem to generate profits.
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Equipsme is a company that aims to democratise health insurance by making it affordable for businesses. The company offers flexible fixed-price packages to employees while giving them the option to upgrade their package to avail more features upon payment. Members can speak to a general physician round the clock, have physiotherapy sessions, avail regular health checks and, if necessary, be quickly referred to a consultant for diagnosis and treatment. Members can access these features through a simple-to-use application. Since February 2018, the company has secured an exclusive 5-year insurance capacity deal with AXA PPP Healthcare and grown its members by 130.5% Year-on-Year (YoY) (to May 2020) with a 95% broker renewal retention rate. The company will use the investment to enhance its user experience and scale its marketing as it announces its partnerships with organisations such as Starling Bank and Simply Business.
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£879,204
Expend is an app and a payment card that will tightly integrate with a number of accounting platforms. Once you have paid using the card, the expense will immediately appear on the app and all the details will be captured already.
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£368,370
Landbay is a marketplace lender that's main focus is on prime residential mortgages. They match investors' funds directly to loans. Landbay plan to use the proceeds for general working purposes.
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£1,601,371
B-North is a UK-based business lending company. It has combined cloud-native technology with face-to-face relationship banking. The company asserts that SMEs account for over 60% of private-sector employment in the UK, have driven job growth over the past ten years, and are central to driving economic recovery. It intends to disrupt the £150 billion UK Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) lending market. B-North has raised a seed capital of over £6.8 million including a six-figure investment from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority to establish its core team, as well as, build lending and deposit-taking platforms. The company is now seeking further investment through a bridge round to extend the cash runway from the end of Q4 2020 into Q1-Q2 2021 to achieve the necessary regulatory capital to become a bank and commence lending.
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£2,149,256
Clim8 is a sustainable investment company which allows people to invest into clean energy and green companies According to the United Nations, the world needs to invest $2.4 trillion dollars, every year, into clean energy, from now until 2035, to meet the climate change targets. Clim8 aims to capitalise on this objective by building a simple way to invest in a targeted portfolio of publicly listed companies that are making an impact in sectors such as clean energy, clean technology, sustainable food, smart mobility, and recycling. The company has successfully raised a seed round of £650,000 in 2019 from investors with backgrounds in finance, including ex Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank executives. With the investment, the company plans to launch its proprietary app, invest in recruiting human resources and promote marketing activities to broaden the brand identity.
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£1,523,120
