Hagley West is an online watch company co-owned by cricketing legend, Chris Gayle. The brand has more than 50,000 followers on Social Media and has already sold its products in 39 different countries. To eliminate high barriers constructed by big brand markups and sales agents, Hagley West has developed a strategy to deliver direct to the consumer. Hagley West aims at increasing its presence to billions of global cricket fans with growth plans focused in the Asian market. With the proceeds, the company will accelerate its core business, develop new ranges, and expand into new markets.
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£353,540
The Wild Curl (TWC) makes custom-formulated and plant-based curly hair products. The company chooses its ingredients based on research that centers around the composition of curly hair across different demographics. TWC argues that it supports and fights for inclusive beauty standards by empowering women to adopt their naturally curly hair since 65% of women in the world have textured hair. The company claims to have changed the hair journey of 5000 customers globally. TWC has 5,000 customers, 5,600 email contacts and 6,000 followers on social media. The company has earned £100,000 in revenue since its launch and shipped over 5,000 orders to customer’s doorsteps worldwide. TWC will use the investment to expand its product range focused on conditioners.
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£95,689
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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£416,030
ClearWaste is a price comparison website for waste removal and a provider of enforcement services to councils across the UK. The company argues that the cost to local authorities and taxpayers for cleaning up fly-tipping in England in 2016/17 was £57.7 million and is now thought to exceed £100 million. ClearWaste is on a mission to combat it through its app and web platform utilising reporting and prevention methodologies. The company links consumers with govt-registered waste removers backed by a £1k no-fly-tipping guarantee. ClearWaste argues that the UK waste industry is worth over £6.8 billion and supports more than 103,000 jobs. It aims to be a contender in this segment. ClearWaste has featured in press entities such as BBC, ITV, Channel 5, Sky, Times, and The Guardian. It was also a finalist at the National Recycling Awards 2020. ClearWaste will use the investment to develop its sales and marketing functions and further raise brand awareness.
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£199,599
A crisps company with the mission of making tasty and healthy snacks. Emily Crisps are vegan, gluten-free, halal and kosher certified, as well as being 1 of a 5 per day. Their products are sold in major grocery stores such as Sainsbury's and Tesco, which are responsible for 50% of the company's revenue. Emily Crisps are well-established in the UK and are now seeking funds to expand to the US, with a dedicated marketing campaign and sales team.
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£1,048,030
We Are Beer have opened innovative breweries by collaborating with chefs and musicians to provide incredible food and enchanting music along with brewing beers. We Are Beers has grown more than 50% YOY since 2016 and has witnessed a 4.9X growth in brand partnership revenue from 2016 to 2018. We Are Beers have been featured in The Guardian, The FT Weekend, The Telegraph, BBC News, and countless local titles. It has four festivals, 100s of breweries, and in 2018 had 16,000 visitors, over 20 sponsors and a gross turnover of £781k (EBITDA £102k). We Are Beer is now looking to accelerate the growth of the audience and the brand. It is raising funds to get the festival, Bigfoot – a national festival off the ground, book the starting music acts and secure the beautiful, escapist location for 2020.
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£163,000
Craved is an online marketplace for food and drink. To date, they have had most success in the corporate sales and gifting market.
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£127,540
Central Plains Group (CPG) is a farming company with a vision to build an integrated zero-waste farming and processing operation to supply the rapidly expanding starch, bioplastics and plant protein markets globally. It aims to be a contender in the aforementioned markets that are expected to be worth more than $30 billion by 2026. CPG previously built and ran a large-scale farming operation in Eastern Europe for over 25 years, over 200,000 hectares of land and earning more than $250 million in profits. It aspires to take things further by promoting sustainable farming and contributing to the zero-waste bio-economy. CPG established its core feedstock farming platform in Ukraine achieving over £3 million worth of revenue with a net profit of £300,000 having supplied 11,000 tonnes of crisping potatoes to Pepsico and Ukraine Supermarkets. CPG will use the investment to actualise the construction of a 15 tonne/hour starch production facility powered by a green energy source.
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£3,031,685
Hoptroff offers a global Traceable Time as a Service (TTaaS). It verifies and corrects incorrect server clocks to microsecond accuracy thus making timestamp records of computer transactions trustworthy. This technology's precise time feed is set by Hoptroff's atomic clocks in its time hubs which are situated in London, Tokyo, and New York. Furthermore, with its partners BSO and BT networks, it delivers the feed anywhere in the world over low latency fibre connections. It already has 9 financial services customers and is also working with its partners to pursue a pipeline of potential new customers. It is raising funds to increase sales and marketing efforts, particularly, in Africa and the Asia-Pacific regions. It will further move on quickly to exploit the global Financial Services market which is worth £0.7bn and enter new markets such as TV broadcasting.
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£983,610
West Berkshire Brewery is a beer manufacturer on a mission to deliver best-in-class beers, from heritage styles to modern craft beers, to its customers. Its products are on the shelves of UK supermarkets including Waitrose, Tesco and the Co-Op. The company can scale up to 26 million pints per annum thanks to its modern brewery units that are equipped with bottling and canning lines technologies along with the option of cold storage. Its brewery consists of a 200-capacity 'Taproom & Kitchen', a destination venue that generates a revenue of £1.4 million per annum. It will utilise the investment to support the installation and commissioning of its 'Fridge Pack Machine', support marketing initiatives with its pub partners across the South of England, and provide capital to enable any pub acquisition opportunities as they arise over the coming year.
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£1,390,948
