An award-winning independent brewery that has been profitable every year since 2014 with worldwide distribution. Siren Craft Brew creates beers to ease those new to drinking, whilst producing adventurous flavours to continuously recapture and entice customers to return to their products.
The business has won numerous awards for their beers. In their first year of launching, Ratebeer.com rated Siren Craft Brew as the 2nd Best New Brewery in the World and is repeatedly listed in their Top 100 Brewers every year. They have also been awarded the World Beer Cup medal and CAMRA’s Supreme Champion Beer of Britain for their flagship stout.
Siren Craft Brew consists of a team of 28 people, whilst achieving £2.82m in annual turnover. In 2018 so far, their revenue has grown by 28% and their brewery has produced more than 2m pints this year.
The company is now raising funds to package their products into cans, as they have already identified a canning manufacturer that will meet the business's needs to also create high-quality bottles for their beer. Any overfunding will result in the company being able to take their taproom experience to other areas, as well as increase beer production and produce drinks in a more efficient manner.
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£1,215,170
Harry Brompton's Ice Tea produces the worlds first alcoholic ice tea. Since their launch in 2013 they have already sold nearly 1,000,000 bottles of their teas.
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£299,890
SafeToNet is a cyber-safety company that safeguards children around the world from online threats such as bullying, grooming, abuse and aggression. The company's Artificial Intelligence (AI) system is trained to look for patterns of behaviour that can suggest a child may be at risk. Its smart keyboard detects risks in real-time and steers children away from trouble by filtering harmful outgoing messages before they can be sent and any damage can be done. SafeToNet has sold more than 550,000 licences of its AI-based safeguarding solution in 2020 and is operational in 109 countries. It has featured in The Daily Mail, The Independent, and The Times, to name a few. It has raised £2.52 million to invest in its growth and is offering secondary shares to investors.
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£183,606
Online checkout and form abandonment is costing retailers $billions in lost sales [Source: BusinessInsider]. Formisimo is an analytics platform that measures user behaviour in online checkouts and forms, and shows companies what they need to change in order to increase sales. Trading began in 2014, and Formisimo is now used by companies like Experian, Shop Direct, Secret Escapes, Arsenal, and Starcom MediaVest. There have been 1,800 signups in over 100 countries with the company targeting the UK and Europe.
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£438,962
Creating Scottish cocktails that are high quality and ready-to-drink. The Venom Project's drinks consist of 5 flavours available in cans that contain 8% alcohol and are currently sold in off-licenses in Scotland, as well as over 300 retailers. In the first 7 months of trading, the company has been listed by over 250 stockists and sold more than 150k units. This has resulted in sales of £500k with the team growing from 3 to 10 members to handle demand.
More than 250 stores have requested re-orders on a monthly basis and The Venom Project has predicted that 250k units per month will be reached in the near future. Funds will allow the company to escalate their manufacturing process to meet consumer demand, as well as acquire more stockists to attract new customers to the brand. A new manufacturing process will also allow the business to print their cans, which will aid in reducing production costs.
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£62,170
HelloDone automates conversations across messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram for the transportation, home delivery and utility sectors. HelloDone stresses that its Software as a Service (SaaS) enables more than 80% of inbound queries to be resolved automatically between customers of retailers and global carriers. HelloDone states that its portal drastically reduces the customer service burden and creates new dialogues with the customer for enhanced revenues. The company claims that it launched its portal in October 2020 and onboarded its first client in four months, followed by signing large online retailers such as Charles Tyrwhitt and Footasylum. It has also signed contracts with leading UK fast fashion groups and major US retailers. HelloDone is tracking £330,000 worth of Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) for 2021 and forecasting revenues of £65 million by 2025. They state they will use the investment to arrange flagship brands signed, build on evidence/success metrics and build scale and pace ready for a planned Series-A in mid-2022.
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£700,003
Stashbee is an easy-to-use world-class platform that allows people and businesses to find and book space. The company is aiming to create a way in finding and booking storage space easy, affordable, convenient for everyone. It has now boarded a leasable space of over 820,000+ square feet. It is the 8th biggest storage provider in the UK. Twelve months before March'19, Stashbee's Host Network had grown by more than 1130%. It has hosted 130,000+ storage days till date and has more than 10,000 registered users. Stashbee's reputed guests and hosts have rated it 5 stars on Trustpilot. With the proceeds, the company will fuel further growth, expand its team, and go for product development.
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£2,515,208
Ergoe Energy are designing an app that will calculate your household energy consumption every day. It will then browse the whole energy market to ensure you are on the best purchase tariff. Eventually Ergoe Energy want the app to be able to manage your excess energy produced and sell it back to the grid automatically.
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£11,890
Honcho is the UK’s first reverse auction marketplace for financial services that is revolutionising the car insurance market. In a reverse auction, the company works by inviting insurance providers to bid against one another. For just £1 a bid, insurance providers can go head to head to give the customer their best price and helping the latter to avoid any hidden charges and commission. Honcho's first major £830,000 funding round closed in March 2018 with support from crowd investors plus Maven Capital Partners. The company has just launched its first partner integrations, bringing its services to consumers of two major employee benefits platforms plus a major affiliate network. Honcho was selected for the 'Tech Nation Fintech programme 2019.' Honcho will use the investment to diversify its investor base and bring itself to a platform with support for Insurtech businesses, launch offers in other sectors, evolve its role as Platform as a Service (PaaS), and enhance marketing initiatives.
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£1,433,325
Billmonitor is a specialist mobile tariff price comparison tool that uses proprietary software to provide money-saving deals to its clients. It is accredited by the UK Office of Communications. The company asserts in its research that while consumers are overpaying mobile bills by 66%, Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) businesses are overpaying by nearly 96%. Billmonitor claims that its tool can identify savings on average of 40% or £148 annually for consumers and 49% or £195 annually per connection for SMEs. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the company managed to deliver revenue growth of over 30% in 2020/21. Its recurring monthly revenues increased by over 50% as compared to the average of 2019/20. It will use 50% of the investment for working capital needs, 20% to expand its sales team, and 20% as buffer funds.
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£260,000
