MyShowcase is a multi-brand, multi-channel personal beauty advisory service. Their aim is to help customers discover, engage with and purchase high quality, independent beauty brands that are hard to find on the high street.
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investment:
£1,000,490
A vape marketplace created for users to market, sell and deliver their vaping products. Clouder functions similarly to Amazon Marketplace and Airbnb, whereby they own no products, but allow third party sellers to distribute their goods to customers via the Clouder platform. Clouder hosts services for B2C, B2B and C2C channels.
Clouder generates revenue through a monthly subscription and via their delivery service. The company is intending to offer goods from over 60 retailers to sell their products globally. Since launching in 2017, Clouder has processed £36k of transactions, with more than 32,000 unique users visiting their website. As of September 2018, over 1,550 orders have been placed with average basket values reaching almost £24.
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investment:
£163,402
Ripple is a clean energy ownership platform and renewable energy expert which aims at providing people the opportunity to own their own source of low-cost clean power. More than 460 people have pre-registered for Ripple's first wind farms. It has achieved a pre-registration conversion rate of 27% from click-throughs amongst Tesla owners. With the proceeds, Ripple will focus on launching the pilot wind farm project and recruiting a new Tech Team of a Finance Director, and a Business Development Manager. It is also preparing its business costs for the launch of the full-scale project in early 2020.
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investment:
£859,787
Northern Monk is a brewery. They started from their family home using other peoples breweries across Yorkshire and selling at farmers markets. In 2014 they found and restored a grade 2 listed building and turned it into a brewery, tap room and arts/events space and have added a second brewery close by. The investment will help them triple their capacity with 8 new 10,000 litre fermentation vessels and make production quicker, more efficient and reduce down time and waste with a new packaging line.
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£1,482,740
Kaelo is a design company whose patented, 'Dry-cold chamber', is an open bottle host that can be integrated into premium interiors to serve drinks at the ideal temperature. The company states that its product requires no ice, water or maintenance, and uses as little power as a lightbulb. Kaelo points out that it has achieved rapid market acceptance with over 2300 unit sales to date, with almost no marketing spend. The company is now focused on high-end kitchens in the +£30,000 category. It estimates that out of the 4.5 million of these bought every year, 70% of customers would upgrade their kitchens with Kaelo's products. Kaelo currently has 125 kitchen showrooms that are selling its products in the UK with more distributors selling across Europe and the US. It will use the investment to launch the Kaelo brand for the first time, establish Kaelo in the kitchen market, and achieve the brand's goal of reaching 37,000 units by 2025.
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investment:
£845,260
York Cocoa House are a fine chocolate manufacturer in York which is a city once famous for its chocolate industry. They have already designed the plan, the premises, the equipment and the cocoa supply chain to create innovative, fine and fairer chocolate.
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investment:
£311,480
Yumbles is a leading UK online marketplace for artisan food. It currently connects over 600 independent food makers directly with consumers. The company is targeting the UK’s estimated £10bn+ UK Speciality Food & Drink market, having seen £1m+ sales in the last 12 months resulting in £400k+ revenue.
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investment:
£262,080
Synergy Grill have designed a grill targetted at restaurants, hotels, clubs and the commercial market that cuts the users gas bill by 50%. It does this by injecting air into the combustion. It also has no fat tray to clean out as all of the fat is vapourised and goes into the food and therefore futher enhancing the taste.
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Expired
investment:
£125,000
A performance running wear clothing brand that uses high-quality fabrics coupled with innovative and stylish designs. SOAR sells its products both direct-to-consumer and through major fashion retailers including Wiggle, MatchesFashion and Mr. Porter. The company is has grown 94% YoY and is now raising funds to increase its production scale and push for wide-reach marketing campaigns, as well as invest further in R&D and business operations.
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Expired
investment:
£123,160
Offering hosting services for both chefs and guests to cook food for paying guests. WeFiFo generates revenue through ticket sales charged at a variable commission rate and in return provide a multitude of support for those who love to cook and wish to earn a flexible income. This includes Food & Hygiene training, marketing, administration and insurance for the host, guest and equipment.
WeFiFo has offered their service in a variety of locations such as homes, supermarkets, boats, parks, cafés, venues, and high streets worldwide. The company receives regular press nationally and internationally through publications and television. Funds raised will allow WeFiFo to recruit a further 33,000 hosts in the UK, as well as offer their services in 3 more countries and aim to be within a 10-mile radius for consumers interested in attending a WeFiFo event.
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Expired
investment:
£416,030
