The first wholesaler to offer insurance products for B2B and B2C firms in the Sharing Economy. Inlet aims provide insurance for assets that have been peer-to-peer rented for the short term, or for the provision of services such as letting properties online, as these markets are not currently covered by traditional insurances.
Inlet generates revenue from commissions via insurance products at the point of sale and at policy renewal. Income in the form of interest payments is also earned from customers that choose to pay via direct debit on a monthly basis, as well as from fees applied to customers who wish to amend their policies.
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investment:
£256,514
Apps4Arts turns the once paper driven medium of festival programming into an elegently designed app. Organisers can now publish interactive guides from their desktops. No coding or design experienced is required.
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£27,980
Empowering landlords with the tools they need to efficiently manage the letting process of their properties. Honest Homes aims to cut out intermediaries and instead offers transparent systematic guides via their online platform to save UK landlords and tenants time and money. Their service provides users with abilities to create contracts, ensure compliance and perform monetary transactions for the collection and payment of deposits and rent.
Honest Homes' all-in-one solution aims to reduce average landlord admin costs from 12%, to 3%. Their service is designed to be fully automated and includes features such as reviews and ratings for both landlords and tenants. The company is aiming to host 1.8% of UK addresses by their fifth year, which represents around 60k listings and they are also planning to expand their services into Europe.
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investment:
£166,670
Gridizen desires to change the way agencies and landlords manage their properties whilst enhancing the tenant experience. It eliminates manual methods and gives landlords and tenants a way to manage and communicate their rental property. Further, its central management team has a number of relationships within the market to build up the customer base and create a buzz about the product which other companies lack. Gridizen aspires to be the property management solution of choice for tenants and landlords. With the proceeds, it will fully develop the Property Management module, recruit an in-house technical team to oversee the development and recruit sales and marketing support.
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investment:
£150,004
Ofixu is an online platform that aim to help you with your office requirements. If you have underutilised space then Ofixu will help you earn extra cash by listing it at no extra cost. On the other hand, if you're an entrepreneur looking to rent an office, you can find one local to you by using Ofixu's worldwide search function.
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investment:
£151,762
Big Couch is the 'crewfunding' platform that empowers filmmakers to connect with crews that invest in projects they believe in. Crews accept lower upfront fees in return for profit shares and deferred payment. Film producers optimise their budgets up to 20%.
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£403
Pynk is a fintech that is doing things differently—it relies on Artificial Intelligence, crowd wisdom and expert analysis to boost social investing, allowing its users commission-free investing. Users on the Pynk platform make short term price predictions and long term forecasts on financial assets. Pynk then aggregates the data and runs it through its 'Rose' AI and experts team to give accurate trading and investment analyses. The platform has more than 27,000 users from over 180 countries. Pynk also won the 'Best AI' startups award at the AIBC Blockchain Summit in Malta. It is also a part of the London fintech accelerator programmes with National Westminster and Royal Bank of Scotland. The company will use the investment to launch a retail investor wallet in the 4th quarter of 2020, recruit £10 million Assets Under Management (AUM) by end of 2020, and build out its team across different verticals.
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investment:
£574,550
Leaseum is a Business to Business (B2B) Software as a Service (SaaS) provider based in London that offers white label capital raising portals to its clients and targets alternative investment managers who deal with private equity, venture capital, real estate, hedge funds and private credit. The company claims that fundraising for alternative investments is time consuming, expensive and involves many compliance and regulatory aspects. It aims to change this by bringing together all the tools needed to raise capital such as an investor portal, a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, an email marketing module, e-signature facility, and investor onboarding compliances. Leaseum claims that it allows its clients to streamline their fundraising processes and convert more leads into investors via its portal. It will use 40% of the investment to strengthen its sales team, 40% to strengthen its IT team, and 20% for marketing.
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investment:
£76,440
Ensuring an organisation's activities are compliant with key regulations. Evidology is a software program that can be easily integrated into a business's existing infrastructure. The software will check the business's data against more than 40 local and international legislation's and provide a real-time report to management that will highlight whether the business is following compliance, or not.
Evidology's revenue model consists of a 3-year subscription package, in the form of a standard, or enterprise-level product. The company has tested their software within nine businesses, including HSBC. Evidology has predicted to break even as soon as 15 months, based on selling their product at a modest rate of 3 clients per month.
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£50,003
Like a lot of young independent British film companies, 721 Productions had only a modest budget with which to enter the $36 billion global film industry in 2014 (an industry that seems recession proof given that global box office revenues have seen a 22% increase since 2009).
Despite the low budget, director Paul Emmanuel still produced a piece of brilliance with ‘The Maid’ - a romantic drama that hit the silver screen in early 2014 and subsequently went on to pick up various film accolades, including multiple awards, a nomination for Best UK Feature Film and screenings at the prestigious London and New York film festivals.
Since the overwhelming response to what was 721 Productions' very first film, the team has been hard at work on its latest film ‘Secrets of the Lost Souls’.
Paul Emmanuel is once again steering the ship second time around – albeit with a greater depth of industry connections and knowhow compared to the first. He is working alongside other talented and versatile filmmakers David C. G. Hare – who himself has built an impressive career over the past 15 years – and the award-winning cinematographer Steven Marshall who has over 9 years experience in his field and has worked on movies screened at film festivals in Cannes, Venice and Berlin.
The latest film production will cost £80,000 – you'd be forgiven for thinking that that's a small amount for the production of a movie. But with advanced digital cinema technology available to modern-day filmmakers at reasonable prices, costs can be contained. The film ‘Paranormal Activity’ for example, cost $15,000 to make and grossed over $107,000,000 at the box office – testament not only to the relatively small investment these types of productions need, but also to why Horror/Action genres are widely recognised as offering the highest rates of return on investment in the movie industry.
Like Paranormal Activity ‘Secrets of the Lost Souls’ is a supernatural horror thriller aimed at the more lucrative US market.
Production is scheduled to begin early next year and 721 Productions wants to make investors become part of the journey – one featuring ongoing film updates, special mentions, exclusive screenings, site visits, film previews and a wrap party. How far you travel on that journey with the production team depends on how much you invest.
Investors pledging money to this pitch will receive exciting investor rewards and shares in a movie from what is an emerging British film production company. Check out the 'rewards' section for more details.
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£24,700
