Guest Wishes creates video guest books for weddings and other special occasions direct from participants' smartphones and tablets
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£17,710
Arkivum Limited is a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) that provides specialist digital archiving and preservation services to customers in highly regulated industries, such as pharmaceuticals. Arkivum asserts that its software ensures that the digital content of its customers is safeguarded, usable, and auditable for decades into the future. Arkivum argues that its focus area is archiving clinical trial data for pharmaceutical companies, centring around Electronic Trial Master File (eTMF) that contain tens of thousands of different types of documents and overseen closely by drug sponsors. The company further claims that its services triumph over those offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure. Arkivum points out that its services have led to the company earning £1.4 million as Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) as of March 2021. Arkivum is seeking to raise up to £1.075 million of equity to grow its business across different verticals.
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JiveBird allows users to create and send a greetings package that consists of a personal voice message, music, eCard, a photo or selfie, and a gift to their loved ones or acquaintances. The company asserts that its package can be sent at the last minute or in advance. Jivebird claims that for the millions of people who send greetings and gifts every year, its portal provides a personal, cheaper, and convenient way to send greetings. Jivebird argues that it has no direct competitors. Its exit strategy is to sell the company when it achieves the growth metrics in the business plan, projected to be within five years of consumer launch.
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Dojo is a tech platform that connects BAME (Black, Asian and Minority, Ethnic) students and professionals with like-minded peers and mentors. Backed by a group of distinguished advisors, including Sceenic, LinkedIn, and Mckinsey, Dojo is reimagining career development and is on a mission to deal with diversity and inclusion by democratising access to mentorship across the globe. Dojo has also been a participant in the ZINC VC tech-for-good incubator. With the proceeds, the company will tackle key hires and execute on strategic partnerships.
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£24,700
Themis is a regulatory technology company that helps organisations mitigate the risk and impact of all forms of financial crime such as money laundering, bribery, corruption, cybercrime, theft, slavery/human trafficking, and fraud. The platform is designed to provide insights and intelligence on the latest threats, trends, and criminal techniques whilst helping clients complete due diligence on their clients, staff, and supply chains. Themis works alongside the Themis Charitable Trust to ensure the reduction of financial crime. The company also supports the UN Global Compact taking into account the fundamental responsibilities of business in the areas of human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption. Themis will use the investment to grow its business across different verticals.
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£1,300,000
RightIndem is a white-label insurance software platform designed to deliver fast claims to claimants on its portal. The company develops and sells its own proprietary cloud-based digital claim process management software ‘as a service’ to the global insurance market. Insurtech is a vast market and attracts large amounts of investment, with $4.36 billion invested in the first three quarters of 2019. Till date, it has contracted clients such as Axa XL, Archipelago, NN Belgium, NN Netherlands, and Mapfre, with engagements at various levels of implementation and progress in the UK, Italy, Peru, US, and South Africa. They have also earned regard for automating claims processes form some of the world’s largest insurance organizations allowing for the settlement of low to mid-value claims within hours instead of days or months. With the proceeds, the company will connect operating expenses to the point where client revenues from claim volumes match operating costs.
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£200,001
Themis is a Regulatory Technology (RegTech) company that helps organisations mitigate the risk and impact of all forms of financial crime such as money laundering, bribery, corruption, cybercrime, theft, slavery/human trafficking, and fraud. The RegTech sector is expected to become a GBP 10 billion industry at the end of 2020. Themis aims to be a major contender in this segment and also plans to stop financial frauds that it asserts costs companies globally GBP 3.2 trillion every year. The platform is designed to provide insights on the latest threats, trends, and criminal techniques whilst helping clients complete due diligence on their clients, staff, and supply chains. Themis's key clients include Dow Jones, TSB, Fiserv, Mitmark, Ebury, Natwest Group, Acuris, Glasswall, Evolution AI, and Kingley Napley amongst others. The company envisages exiting via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) or selling to a technology company or to a big consultancy wanting to have a specialized Financial Crime (FC) arm to their business, including a RegTech solution
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£567,027
Mammalo is a marketplace meant for on-demand services delivered at home. Through a ‘peer-to-peer’ payment process, the company allows the local individual experts to showcase their prices, portfolio, and reviews for customers to contact, book, and pick them. The launch of the platform, Mammalo has gained over 2000 service providers in three months. The company has also been selected as the best startup by Techitalia: Lab, London. 100% bookings on Mammalo have received 5-star ratings and reviews. It has also won "Best Startup" Award of $50k in Web Services for Aruba Cloud Start-up. With the proceeds, the company will expand its growth to 3 major cities by 2023 and build its mobile Application.
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£222,070
Thyngs is a revolutionary, self-service platform that enables marketers to transform any of their physical marketing assets into an instant point-of-sale, giving retailers, re-seller partners, publishers, and charities the ability to create new services in a matter of minutes. Its simple, secure, and unique 3-tap payment process is similar to Apple Pay. Many reputed companies like Wasabi, Warner Bros, National Geographic, and Monster Energy have already worked with Thyngs. Moreover, the company aggregates various partners such as Apple Pay, PayPal, and Google Pay. The company's typical ROI is more than 500%. With the proceeds, Thyngs will work with PWC as part of its Raise programme and engage with several Series A VC funds to raise £3-4m in early 2020.
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£361,162
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
