PlusGuidance is an online counselling/therapy platform that gives people immediate access to counselling. It provides secure video, voice, IM and email sessions directly through the site, and booking in-person sessions too. Our Mission - Immediate access to counselling for everyone. Business Model - Software-as-a-Service for counsellors, who pay a monthly fee to use secure online sessions, practice management tools to manage their clients, and a public web profile in our directory.
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£64,987
Saving people time and making their lives easier by collecting, washing and delivering dry cleaning and laundry. ihateironing customers can utilise the company's services through their website or mobile app. Their clothes are then collected and sent to a local dry cleaners, rather than out-of-town to reduce logistic costs and increase turnaround time. The clean clothes can then be delivered to the customer's home or workplace.
The company has over 3000 customers and in July 2018 alone had completed more than 6000 orders. ihateironing has been featured in major media outlets such as GQ, Esquire and The Evening Standard. On Trustpilot, ihateironing is the top rated dry cleaner. Funds are now being raised to expand and grow the business further.
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£218,870
Flender is a social lending platform that will transform the way people use peer-2-peer finance. From funding friends to backing businesses across multiple countries Flender has taken a mobile first approach. Flender allows the borrower and the lender to set their own interest rates, as well as allowing users to lend to people they know.
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£501,700
The Fantasy Football Hub brings together some of the very best fantasy football players, bloggers, toll creators, podcasters, and content creators under roof. The company has a social media presence of more than 3,000 paying subscribers. It has more than 24,000 Twitter followers and 7,000 YouTube subscribers. FHH's monetisation strategy is based on three streams: Site memberships, Generic site advertising, and Affiliate partnerships. With the proceeds, the company will provide additional player and team analysis tools, improve its website user interface, and increasing developer man-hours.
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£109,056
Amino focuses on targeted nutrition using amino acids to improve human health, emphasizing the untapped potential beyond sports and bodybuilding. Currently offering pre- and intra-workout amino acid drinks, the company aims to expand its product line to cater to a broader consumer base, believing the market lacks variety in ready-to-mix powdered blends. Backed by scientific research and a commitment to taste and accessibility, Amino aspires to emerge as the leading global brand in amino acid products.
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£193,219
Future Planet is an investor-led, co-investment platform giving entrepreneurs a reliable and profitable platform to solve the world's greatest challenges like health, climate change, education, sustainable growth & security. Until now, venture capital has been accessible mostly to insiders, institutions and some high-net-worth individuals (HNWI's) but Future Planet is democratising this stage of investment. It allows world-renowned institutions such as Tel Aviv University, Stanford University and Cambridge University and more to have a stake in Future Planet and access the growth generated by its participating companies in Silicon Valley, the Eastern Seaboard, Europe, Israel and Asia. Since its founding, the company has brought $100 million from some of the world's largest investors, raised and invested its first fund and invested with important companies and renowned managers. The company plans to use the investment and momentum to launch the second Future Planet Fund in 2021 and continue its growth with a target of $500 million in Assets Under Management (AUM) by 2025.
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£1,553,118
A money transfer service allowing customers to send money worldwide at a lower cost compared to traditional methods. TransferGo has been gaining 1,000 customers a day since May 2018 and currently has over 700,000 users. They have processed almost £781m on their platform through 1.3m transactions and operate on a gross profit margin of 6.7%.
TransferGo has 5 offices located in London, Berlin, Istanbul, Warsaw and Vilnius, with more than 100 employees globally. The company recently launched their new product, dubbed 'NOW', that enables users to send and receive monies in less than 30 minutes across borders.
Revenue is generated via fixed transfer fees and currency conversion fees ranging from 0.0% to 2.2% per transaction. These fees are dependent on the currency's origin and the amount being transferred. A free option is available to customers whose transaction may take a couple of days to transfer.
Funds are being raised to expand the business into emerging markets and introduce new products and services. This also means that TransferGo is aiming to provide local-language support and build new partnerships to attract more customers to their platform.
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£11,297,362
Elemental is an agricultural food technology company that converts 78% of beef processing waste into sustainable fertiliser. The company claims that its technology can potentially reduce global beef CO2 emissions equivalent to 50 million cattle. Elemental asserts that its technology has been developed through extensive R&D and protected by patents in 60+ countries. The company raised £1.5 million on Crowdcube in late 2019, signed agreements for 14 projects in the UK and Europe using its technology, built a demonstrator plant and agreed to install its technology on commercial terms at 6 UK abattoirs. The company states they will use the investment to operationalise their first plant by December 2021 and grow their business across different verticals.
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£1,395,801
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
GP Nutrition is a nutrition company that creates products meant to deliver sustainable weight loss. This award-winning company was created by Gabriela Peacock, a celebrity nutritionist. It has 13,000 global customers who have bought more than 30,000 packs. In June'19, the company reached trading of £50k per month. It has produced 22 products that are now sold in 30 countries. GP Nutrition has delivered revenue of £377k and an EBITDA of £813,389. Nutrition's vision is to solve the 95% failure rate of diets in the USA and the UK.
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£309,890
