Found is an order-ahead-and-pay solution for the pickup-and-go/dine-in market. The company aims to address the pain points of quick-service restaurants and their customers through its app. The app allows contactless ordering and payment at multiple venues via a single sign-in. Found asserts that its app enables restaurants and venues to benefit through enhanced data insights into their operations/customers and experience an increase in their profits. The company claims that the COVID -19 situation further necessitates the need for its app. Found is positioned to enter the £88 billion UK Food & Beverage (F&B) industry in August 2020. It will use the investment for marketing, venue onboarding, user acquisition and operational setup in London.
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£157,055
Particity is a platform that allows researchers to hire participants for a research project, collaborate with them, and approve participant incentives all on a single portal. The company argues that its portal automates what is currently a tedious and manual process and brings operational costs of a project down to a viable level. Particity claims that its model allows entities from Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) to marketing and research agencies, witness business growth. It has received enquiries from enterprises such as Oxford University, Discovery INC and PPD. Particity endeavours to become a contender in the $345 billion logistics and efficiency market and deliver an end-to-end solution to its clients. The potential exit opportunities for Particity would be to a player in the research industry, consultancy, software and digital or private equity.
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Numerous is a company that aims to establish a new data-sharing economy by ensuring profits to brands and consumers. On the Numerous app, consumers create a data profile filling in the appropriate information. The Numerous AI technology leverages this consensually-shared personal data to connect the right users to the right brands. It also incentivises its members to share their data by sharing some of the revenue with them that Numerous, in turn, generates from brands. Personal data is worth £30 billion in the UK, and $200 billion in the US. Numerous aims to be a strong contender in this segment. It currently has 1,300 users sharing over 130,000 pieces of data. The company's app is live for iOS and Android. It aims to grow to 50,000 users, 7.5 million pieces of data and 60 brand partners in the next 12 months. It will use the investment to pioneer a new model for the data economy and grow its business.
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£352,502
Medic Bleep is a secure and real-time communication solution that aims to help medical teams communicate and collaborate effectively, reduce costs, and improve patient outcomes. It argues that poor inter-team communication has led to an estimated 400,000 episodes of potential harm a year, in the National Health Service (NHS) alone. Medic Bleep aspires to change this. It points out that its services have saved an average of £2.5 million worth of potential harm expenses per NHS Trust. The company asserts that its services are now being used by 5,600+ staff across hospitals every month. Medic Bleep has partnered with the BT Group targeting 20% of NHS trusts by 2025. It has 5,600 monthly active users and has witnessed 18,000 app downloads on multiple platforms. The company will use the investment to develop Version 2 of its product, deliver on its BT contract and NHS X framework to increase sales, and explore other geographies.
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£455,375
Coinrule is a smart assistant designed for millennials looking to automate their investments in cryptocurrencies, financial assets and build trading strategies without having to program a single line of code. The platform empowers regular traders and investors to compete with professional algorithmic traders and hedge funds. Users can pick 'building blocks' via a simple interface to create trading strategies which also get backtested on historical data. The company aims to make trading an accessible option for all. They have received awards such as MKB Fintech Lab - Cohort 2018, Pioneer 500, and Alpha Startup at Web Summit 2018. Their exit strategy would be a sale to a larger player either in the crypto space (i.e. Binance/Coinbase) or in the traditional brokerage space (i.e. IG Index, Fidelity).
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£160,000
HairFare is an end-to-end hair and beauty chair rental platform that connects beauty professionals to salons, studios and barbershops across the UK. It asserts that the hair and beauty industry was worth £10 billion in 2018 and is set to increase. HairFare aims to be a contender in this segment. HairFare asserts that it has expanded to five cities within the UK with no marketing budget. The platform has featured in media platforms including The Barber Magazine, Islington Gazette, Startups of London, Business Daily, ITProPortal, ExBulletin, Compsmag, and LinkedIn News, to name a few. It will use 40% of the investment for creating its proprietary app, 40% towards marketing to increase the number of business owners and beauty professionals on the platform, 10% towards setting up its merchandise line, and 10% towards establishing the HairFare Academy.
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investment:
£57,736
RentiD is an end-to-end solution for landlords to manage their residential rental properties via its 'Digital Assistant' web app. It aims to become a contender in the UK market that consisted of an estimated 4.5 million rented homes in 2017 with almost 1 in 4 UK households set to be privately renting by 2021. The platform allows users to market their residential property onto property portals like Rightmove, Zoopla and PrimeLocation, streamline day-to-day property management with 'Rent Tracking' and 'Maintenance' options, understand and comply with evolving legislation and best practices and communicate with their tenant to help foster better relationships. RentID asserts that it acquired £200,000 of private angel investment, onboarded 350+ individual users on its platform, and launched Version 2 of its post-beta product. RentiD will use the investment to focus on its growth marketing strategy and hire resources to handle increased scale.
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£249,611
Balkerne is a tech start-up providing software as a service to the property and insurance sector. They have developed SmartResilience, a real-time loss prevention software platform, which helps insurers and the insured understand the value at risk. Insurers spend £1.3bn a year on commercial property claims and £2.3 on domestic property claims, work on squeezed margins and struggle to differentiate with the competition. Balkerne provides customers with pre-emptive, bespoke information and actionable advice, allowing insurers to minimise claims, uninsured losses and improve the customer experience. Moreover, they helped businesses reduce their long term property risk through proactive mitigation and make insurance affordable. Their SmartResilience platform has been developed with the technical ability to integrate with both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure Cloud. The company is registered on the AWS Partner Network and with Microsoft for Startups. Modular functionality is core to the platform, with the ability to seamlessly scale to meet customer requirements.
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£150,000
Gameroo is a mobile application that offers an alternative for game buyers and sellers, allowing them to trade directly with each other, offering market-beating prices and passive earning potential. The app allows customers to buy or earn credits in the process. The company's app has witnessed more than 3,500 active downloads since its launch in August 2020. It has 600 registered customers with hundreds of items already listed. The company aims to become a leading contender in the video games and consoles market valued at $1.8 billion in 2020. Gameroo will use the investment to build its app and product line based on the feedback of its community of early adopters and drive customer acquisition.
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investment:
£117,755
Beacon is a company that offers software and supporting services to help a client optimise their digital marketing efforts and improve their marketing Return-on-Investment (ROI). The company offers clients services like campaign management, PPC (Pay Per Click) campaign analytics, social media analytics, and anti-fraudulent click system etc. Using the company's portal, marketers can compare costs and revenue across all digital channels, channel by channel, and with their off-line marketing efforts. Beacon aims at removing ‘non-human clicks’ and giving direct independent attribution of emails, posts, ad’s, etc. to specific website actions and business goals thereby improving engagement and reducing costs. According to Stratistics Market Research Consulting, the web analytics tools market is expected to reach $4.9 billion by 2022, growing at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 20.8%, in which, Beacon aims to be a leading contender. The company will use the investment to grow its business across different verticals.
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investment:
£240,000
