Daisie intends to build a digital art school where everyone has access to an arts education regardless of location, background, or life stage. It aims to become a contender in the $7 trillion e-learning market and establish a new medium of learning. Daisie provides creators with the opportunity to explore their interests, further their craft, and launch their careers via its digital workshops and rooms. The company has onboarded 170,000+ creators globally, conducted over 22,000 hours of live sessions, made 600,000 connections, and raised over $5 million in funding from Founders Fund, 8VC, Kleiner Perkins, and Gaingels. Daisie asserts that its team and board are from institutions such as MasterClass, Google, Tesla, and Depop. It will use the investment to ensure that its creators grow in confidence, take up space in their chosen fields, and build lasting careers.
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£471,170
Capture Education is an education portal that aims to help educators and parents connect, foster engagement, improve understanding and increase satisfaction with respect to their children. The company asserts that its software can help reduce workload and costs for educators. It also claims that an average nursery will save over 6.5 hours per week on paperwork when switching from paper to the company's digital solution. Parents can see shared images instantly, watch videos of their children's achievements on the portal at any time. The portal allows educators to capture plans to allow and track activities of children's clubs and extracurricular lessons. The company has witnessed over 1 million observations created and shared on its portal. Over 19,000 parents access the company's system every month. Capture will use 40% of the investment in Research & Development (R&D), 30% in marketing, 10% in sales, and 20% as contingency funds in the wake of COVID-19.
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£257,040
Fame Media Tech (FMN) is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology start-up that aims to transform the visitor, fan, and customer experience through technology-driven data perspectives. FMN asserts that sport and hospitality sectors have suffered from customer and fan isolation during COVID-19. FMN application, n-gage.io, addresses this situation. The company argues that its portal, combined with storytelling and innovation in digital media, can help companies to positively influence user behaviour, enhance engagement, and improve loyalty. FMN claims that companies can judge the above metrics through data diagrams on its portal as well. The company's early-stage proof of concept discussions extend across sport, hospitality, and visitor attractions such as Wembley Park and Bohemians FC. FMN's exit strategy would be via a trade sale to a media or technology business.
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£45,700
Expert Apps is an all-in-one solution to license a fully functional social networking app to businesses, coaches, brands, and industry experts. With its use independent, trusted and valuable communities can be built having their own brand identity. Expert Apps has acquired more than 40 clients such as BBC, Khadija Kalifa, and Apprentice finalist who are using this technology. In its first year of trading, the company received more than ¼ million in sales revenue. It also has a healthy profit, a strong client reputation, and many social followers. In 2019, Expert Apps has 41 app licence holders, a GP of £256,012, and sales of £281,096.
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£375,028
Ernest is a personal banker powered by Artificial Intelligence. The chatbot connects to bank accounts and then answers questions and gives insights on personal finances. After their first funding round they raised £165,000 in an angel round with a raw prototype and now, less than 12 months later they have a live product in private beta with 2000+ users in the waiting list.
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£131,360
Rezonence is a member of BBC Worldwide Labs (BBCW) Accelerator Programme offering an innovative advertising technology with momentum and market interest. The company created FreeWall® with a mission to help publishers increase revenues, engage advertisers with audiences, and monetise digital content. The company has executed six campaigns with clients such as Vodafone, BBC, Unilever, and Tear Fund. So far, Rezonence's FreeWall® is deployed on 10 publishers. The fund raised will be used for business development, product, marketing, and overheads.
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£503,000
Snoozle is an alarm clock app, changing the way the world wakes up. There are few things everyone on the planet does everyday, and waking up is one of them, so Snoozle wish to change the dreaded pre-set alarm sound for tailored audio content.
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£134,952
Orbitil have created a fun and easy project management program for comparing analytics and business intelligence. They provide a large variety of tools to help business leaders make better tactical decisions based on confirmed data.
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£133,414
Untied is a groundbreaking app that gathers information, claims costs and allowances, and prepares tax filings on the go. All of these can be sent to the tax authority from the application. The app connects across existing accounts, making tax sense of transactions and gives the assurance someone needs. Backed by Accenture's Fintech Innovation Lab and Barclays Techstars, the company became the first overseas winner of Israel's biggest fintech prize at Fintech Junction. The business will earn a turn over of £100m in ten years making it ready for an IPO. With the proceeds, it will create new software platforms, publishers, banks, and accounting firms.
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£350,000
Note Taking Express by NX3 Technologies gives innovative note taking solutions. It provides SaaS and helps the students with learning difficulties in the American and UK education markets, with an aim to make learning easy for everyone. The company has over 200 clients in the US and Canada including big names, such as Ivy League HEIs. Its aim is to combine AI and human skills to help users and produce a comprehensive solution for all. In 2018, the company had a turnover of over 400,000 pounds. It is aiming to include the provision of notes for every student in George Brown Community College using its proprietary and bought technology. Note Taking Express will use the funds for its expansion plan into school, colleges, and corporates in the UK and US.
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investment:
£468,390
