TrustPortal is a digital AI platform helping global clients such as Telefonica and EDF to deliver advanced customer service by augmenting existing Information Technology (IT) systems. The company argues that poor customer service costs UK companies an estimated £37 billion per year. TrustPortal aims to address this situation. It points out that companies with great Customer eXperiences (CX) have witnessed 30% more revenue growth than others with a further 69% of companies agreeing that improving CX is critical/very important. TrustPortal combines leading Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI technology to help companies boost their CX scores. It aims to become a contender in the RPA software market that is predicted to be worth $19 billion by 2027. The company will use the investment to grow its business across different verticals.
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£1,249,997
Oatsu specializes in providing a convenient and healthy breakfast option with their freshly-prepared overnight oats. Recognizing the increasing demand for overnight oats due to their popularity (ranking as the 4th most Googled recipe globally with a 4600% increase in searches since 2014), Oatsu offers a solution to the time-consuming preparation process. They've served over 20,000 breakfasts to 2,744 customers and businesses throughout the UK. Oatsu's approach involves soaking oats in oat milk and incorporating fruit and seeds to create four delicious flavors, including a collaboration with ManiLife, all of which are plant-based and packaged in recyclable materials.
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£249,443
Tutora allows one to one tutoring sessions to be booked and paid for on an easy system. Parents are able to choose from thousands of tutors, and tutors can easily find students whilst managing an online diary.
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£704,690
Aceify is a booking, scheduling, and performance tracking app currently used by the world’s leading tennis coaches. Aceify will help sports and fitness lovers to be able to find and book high quality training sessions in a location that is convenient for them at the right price. So far, the application has received positive feedback from both coaches and athletes. The application is endorsed by some of the top names in tennis coaching, including Leon Smith, who has coached Andy Murray. Aceify is planning to make their service available to coaches and trainers in all different sports. Its strategy is to concentrate on expanding its network in London and the whole of the UK.
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£153,998
Biscuiteers sell collections of hand iced biscuits for every occasion. Their aim is to offer a more unique, stylish and personalised gifting solution. Biscuiteers currently have two retail stores, one is located in Notting Hill and the other in Northcote Road.
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£1,245,660
A rapidly growing printing, merchandising and clothing brand with customers including Google, Amazon and Nike. Awesome Merchandise produce all their products in-house and ship internationally. The company has created over 65 million items for more than 70,000 customers and have been in profit every year. Investment will help to build a new factory based in Austin, TX, USA and to create US and European websites.
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£654,870
Landbay is a Buy-to Mortgage (BTM) lending platform that provides investors access to a flow of whole-loan high-quality BTL mortgages that can be securitised or held on a balance sheet. Landbay asserts that it does not deploy any of its own balance sheet nor take any credit risk. The company has completed over £600 million of mortgages to date. It argues that it has the mortgage funding, technology and capacity to grow significantly in the £250 billion mortgage market. The company was rated 'Excellent' on consumer review website Trustpilot. It will use 50% of the investment towards technology upgrade, 25% towards marketing and brand development, and 25% towards general marketing expenses.
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£5,129,548
Selling over 800 beers across two award-winning brands: We Brought Beer and The Beer Boutique, as well as being one of the UK's largest independent craft beer retailers, Two Heads Beer Co. is seeking investment to further expand the business with 4 new stores already planned in addition to the existing 6 stores with almost £1 million in revenue.
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£375,040
An award-winning independent brewery that has been profitable every year since 2014 with worldwide distribution. Siren Craft Brew creates beers to ease those new to drinking, whilst producing adventurous flavours to continuously recapture and entice customers to return to their products.
The business has won numerous awards for their beers. In their first year of launching, Ratebeer.com rated Siren Craft Brew as the 2nd Best New Brewery in the World and is repeatedly listed in their Top 100 Brewers every year. They have also been awarded the World Beer Cup medal and CAMRA’s Supreme Champion Beer of Britain for their flagship stout.
Siren Craft Brew consists of a team of 28 people, whilst achieving £2.82m in annual turnover. In 2018 so far, their revenue has grown by 28% and their brewery has produced more than 2m pints this year.
The company is now raising funds to package their products into cans, as they have already identified a canning manufacturer that will meet the business's needs to also create high-quality bottles for their beer. Any overfunding will result in the company being able to take their taproom experience to other areas, as well as increase beer production and produce drinks in a more efficient manner.
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£1,215,170
Comesto is a peer to peer web and app based service that enables professional food buyers to purchase directly from suppliers. They are a membership funded trading platform. The platform gives their members access to the whole market eliminating single brochures. Comesto offers industry buyers a complete purchasing, invoicing and scheduling management service and for suppliers their aim is to provide a simple cost effective way to increase sales.
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£34,970
