My Tree has launched a Memorial Park in the UK that enables people to plant a tree with the ashes of their loved one. It is the sole exclusive UK memorial park which offers ashes burial with the planting of a tree. The company is in discussion with DoubleTree Hilton and First Funerals. My Tree has launched its first park five miles outside of Reading and 38 miles from London. The company will use the funds to promote the site, do pre-planting to maximize usage of space and support plans to open more sites by the end of 2020.
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investment:
£160,380
Website: www.riskrewardlimited.com
Risk Reward Ltd is a global banking and financial services training, consultancy and recruitment specialist that operates from its offices in London and recently opened a second office in Miami to service its business in the Americas. The company specialises in risk and compliance training and recruitment, the fastest growing part of the sector.
The business is raising equity investment for the first time in its 13-year history, giving investors the first opportunity to become part of this successful and fast growing business.
Established in 2002, Risk Reward’s client list has evolved to incorporate the names of national and international banks, leading financial services companies and insurance firms spanning five continents. Clients include international training firms and specific banks including the British Bankers Association, GPS, MIS, Al Rajhi Bank, FBN, First Gulf Bank, HSBC, Lloyds Bank, Wells Fargo and many more prominent names.
Several growth-spurring developments are happening simultaneously to lead the company to offer 5% in its market-leading business to new investors:
* Exceptional growth in its training business; the company has developed its retail training business in London and Dubai, and has also developed its multi-lingual global training services
* Investment has been made in development of a new recruitment businesses which is now approved by a number of companies and has been followed by taking over the business of Buckley Alan, a 12 year old recruitment firm
* Recently opened a US office in Miami
* Developed a learning management system which is successfully installed in a major bank and links skills to training delivery
* Published two best-selling money laundering deterrence works and a major text on business mathematics
* Approved by 5 major institutes to offer their training products including the CISI, ICAEW and ACAMS
Sales vary month on month between £150,000 and £200,000, and recent unsolicited valuations have put the company’s worth between £7-12 million.
These valuations also took into account the level of investment written off during the year developing the learning management system, recruitment business and US office. Business growth is around 25% per annum in this fast growing sector.
The fast-moving business requires equity investment to fuel its growth as the company strives to develop its already-strong position as a technical leader in its space.
This pitch represents an opportunity to invest in a respected training and recruitment business with a wealth of prominent clients.
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investment:
£25,300
The Nice One App is an on-demand mobile app for van and recovery drivers. A user simply goes on the app, chooses where they want to be picked up from, what size van/recovery truck they need and then their request is sent out to the nearest available driver.
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investment:
£65,090
TransferGuru is an online money transfer platform that allows users to send money to friends or family all across the world. TransferGuru offer an exchange rate comparison service that allows the user to see all of the providers in their chosen country.
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investment:
£46,746
Appital is an emerging financial market platform that will use digital profiling, unique algorithms and notifications to connect institutional demand and supply. With Appital, corporate and institutional companies within the equity capital markets space will have the opportunity to exchange illiquid equity without an investment bank or broker. Appital will also remove the dependence on email and phone, thereby ensuring efficiency and accessibility. The company is raising fund to built the Appital software, achieve FCA regulation, generate marketing material and gain contracts with partner settlement and KYC providers. Furthermore, the company will enhance the functionality of the software by leveraging its network to other products such as primary debt and primary equity deal flow.
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investment:
£349,060
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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investment:
£1,646,249
An app designed to help families manage their household bills in one place. Onedox have increased their user base over threefold to 16,000 users since June 2017 and manage more than £21m worth of customer expenditure with over 700m bills downloaded for their customers to view. The company has participated in the 'Accenture Fintech Innovation Lab' and 'NatWest Entrepreneur Fintech Accelerator' programmes, as well as being finalists in the 'British Banking Awards 2018'.
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investment:
£358,120
Smartlands is a blockchain-based digital finance and investment ecosystem. It allows asset owners to turn an ownership right to a share of any asset, into a tradable digital token attributing it almost unlimited liquidity. In the UK, Smartlands is the first platform for crowdfunding investments that allows investors to use digital currencies alongside fiat currencies to raise capital. The platform boasts of a 16,000 strong community following with over 11,000 wallets opened since its inception. It has a reputed list of partners including Colliers International, CMS, Archax, UK Sotheby’s, and many more. They have been awarded the 'Best Crowdfunding Platform' at the 2020 FinTech Breakthrough Awards and have been featured in Yahoo Finance, Forbes, Coindesk, Benzinga, and Investors Chronicle to name a few. With the investment, the company will grow its internal engineering team and obtain the necessary licenses to move its business forward across Europe.
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investment:
£379,183
Ignite 100 is a 13 week accelerator program for early stage technology companies. Ignite look for unique, interesting people and help them to look at what they are trying to do with their company, who their target audience is and then introduce them to entrepreneurs that have previously been in the same situation.
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investment:
£351,310
WhiskyInvestDirect leverages BullionVault’s proven model of crowdfunding wholesale bullion bars (25,000 UK clients) and applies it to maturing whisky. The model eliminates the key working capital constraint experienced by producers, whilst users can potentially profit as the whisky increases in value. The team includes the founder and CEO of BullionVault and an ex-Commercial Director at Diageo who has been building whisky brands for the last 24 years.
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investment:
£1,076,472
