Glug provides a platform for businesses to let customers order from a digital menu and have them served to the table or pick up from the bar. It points out that its system is designed to be user friendly and easy to set up wherein restaurants or bars can upload and digitalise their menu and can be discoverable within 24 hours. Consumers can discover the restaurant, book a table, place an order, and browse for offers and discounts, amongst other features using the company's community app. Glug asserts that more than 16,000 users have ordered food and drinks through its app in less than four months since the company's launch. It intends to become a contender in the UK dining and pub market that is a £40 billion+ industry. Glug argues that more than 20,000 users have downloaded its app from the App Store and Google Playstore. It will use the investment for marketing, hiring, technology development, attract 1.5 million users and onboard 1,000+ venues over the next 12 months.
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£73,114
MergerLinks is a platform where global dealmakers can connect and identify with transaction counterparts based on their relationships and credentials. The company collates proprietary and public transactions data and assembles it into an information tool. MergerLinks also forms an ecosystem where clients can easily access advisory services. This is done by contacting and identifying people with the right skill set and network. Most of the revenue generated by MergerLinks comes from the sale of B2B subscriptions to a range of connectivity and data tools. With the proceeds, the company will market its premium subscriptions, build the network of content distribution partners, and build Customer Success function.
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£239,270
Nutmeg is on a mission to equalize capital management, which can help people in conquering their life goals. The company is the largest digital wealth manager brand, and it manages over £1.7bn for over 70,000 customers in the UK. It offers three investment styles through a pension account, a general investment account, an ISA and a Lifetime ISA. Furthermore, the company has launched in Taiwan, with B2B and international plans. The company has ambitious growth plans and to emerge as the fastest and trusted growing digital wealth manager in the world.
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£3,783,549
Go Local UK provides a hyperlocal marketplace which is community-driven and it brings together the best local independent businesses and local producers. The Go Local application is a smart, geo-located directory and discovery platform showcasing the best independent business in your community. The application detects and finds the current location of a customer to determine the nearest registered product or service for that customer. The Go Local has on-boarded more than 4000 merchants/partners and has over 1200 subscribers. Go Local’s aim is to encourage and champion the “go; eat, shop and buy local” movement.
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A financial management software application for consumers to view everything from credit files and bank accounts, to vouchers and cashbacks. Score Genius aims to launch an Alpha version of their product at the end of 2018, with a public release planned for March 2019. The service will offer users the ability to monitor their credit files and perform transactions on their bank accounts and credits, as Open Banking will be integrated into the platform.
Score Genius is near completion of negotiations with large technological partners. Investments will used to market the platform and further develop features and functions, ready for the public release in 2019. Revenue streams will be comprised of advertisements, redeeming vouchers and users looking to switch their energy.
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£144,920
Uspaah offers wellness and beauty treatments to clients at their homes, offices and hotels in as little as an hour, all booked via a simple mobile application. This company has reached £264k gross sales y/e Mar 2018, resulting in 58k revenue (-£17k P+L). It utilised the previous Crowdcube investment and its own capital to generate the total accumulated revenue growth of 841% and completed jobs growth of 933%. Presently, it has over 15000 registered users in London and its team has grown from a mere 70 to almost 200 people. With the proceeds, it's planning to scale-up the previous model. Additionally, it aims to double or even triple its client base in the next 18 to 24 months.
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£175,460
PiP iT powers international cash transactions. The PiP iT solution is a B2B plaform, the first in the world that enables companies to accept cash payments across borders. The process works by the consumer selecting a bill they want to pay in their home country.
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£173,820
Service Robotics Ltd is a unique service designed to help older adults live independently in their own homes. This game-changing service offers voice-enabled face-to-face human support through an adorable intelligent Genie robot. The company's roadmap includes IT integration to turn the home into a cocoon of wellness, health, and companionship. The company has been actively piloting the GenieConnect® platform solution since 2018. Service Robotics Ltd won its first contract in November 2019 from the NHS/SBRI programme. GenieConnect® has agreed on pilot projects with 3 care and retirement organisations, applied for an Innovate UK grant in March.
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£569,430
Avida Global (AG) is a Business-to-Business (B2B) producer of high-quality medicinal cannabis oils and derivatives for the global medical, well-being and cosmeceutical markets. The company has a cultivation and processing facility in North-East Colombia. It asserts that the therapeutic properties of the cannabis plant has driven 53 countries to legalise its use, with more to follow. AG seeks to capture this demand and become a contender in the medicinal cannabis market that is expected to soar from $33.1 billion to $84.0 billion by 2028. The company has received regulatory approvals for initial non-psychoactive cannabis cultivation, manufacturing, and export licences in 2019. It is working on a partnership with a medicinal cannabis prescriber through doctors and clinics for the supply of medicinal cannabis strains in the UK. The company will use 40% of the investment to drive revenue growth, 25% as capital expenses, and 35% as additional operating expenses.
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£1,646,249
Power Transition (PT) is a specialist cloud-based software & hardware platform that enables every participant in the energy sector to dynamically track, optimise and balance their energy in real-time and at any scale, from micro-grids to national grids. It is currently focusing on the UK residential & commercial market that consists of 1.25 million meter readings daily, focussing on £1.5 billion of customers’ funds annually, and ensuring steady and reliable management of interconnections throughout the UK. In 2018, the company raised seed funding, matched by Innovate UK, which in turn is being used, to develop and deploy its technology in 47 homes in Corby. The company is implementing its PT integrated microgrid as a 'Service Platform' in houses in Corby using its Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Network. With the investment, the company plans to roll out its platform beyond the microgrid use case and is talking to commercial estates, local authorities, Distributed Network Operators (DNO), energy aggregators, and producers.
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investment:
£266,530
