Lime Global is a UK-based company dedicated to becoming the most customer-focused provider of health cover. Lime argues that conventional health insurance is too expensive and overly complicated. It intends to make health insurance affordable allowing customers to buy the top-ups they want without consulting advisers or filling long questionnaires. Lime Global claims to provide customers with a cancer cover providing a lump sum and support following diagnosis, access to 'Rapid Diagnostics' to avail private diagnostic tests, and an online platform where customers and employers can book and pay for clinical services. Lime Global aspires to become a contender in the UK private healthcare market set to grow more than £8 billion. The company points out that it has secured 5 star Trustpilot reviews over the last year with zero complaints to date. They intend to use the investment to support their expansion into Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), mental health modules and e-pharmacies, scale customer acquisition, and support the next stage of its growth in late 2021 and early 2022.
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£474,838
WildHitz.co.uk is a 24 hour online music TV station, showcasing videos from top current artists. Within 18 months of launch, WildHitz already has a community of around 200,000 daily users[1], with ad revenues of over €340,000 [2] in 2014, their first year of operation.
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£2,390
The Studio enable members to achieve results through sustainable, structured training. The Studio offer a whole range of sessions such as group classes, one-to-one personal training, spinning and yoga.
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£30,564
Marine Power Systems (MPS) is a company that has developed a technology that can harness wind power, wave power or combined wind and wave energy at grid scale. MPS estimates global electricity consumption as a £2 trillion annual market that is growing with a need for harnessing renewable energy sources. The company's mission is to be a world leader in the manufacturing and supply of marine energy extraction hardware. MPS completed a multi-million-pound project to design, manufacture and sea test a 1:4 scale prototype at Falmouth, UK. The company will use the investment to match-fund £17 million of non-dilutive government grant funding that is already secured for a project to design, manufacture and test a full-scale device demonstrator that will prove the technology is ready for commercial scaling.
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£2,151,815
The Idle Man is a fast growing internet retailer with experienced founders. Within the third month of trading The Idle Man was already seeing £100,000 in monthly revenue. This funding round they are aiming to use the money gained from investments to continue their aggressive expansion.
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£1,283,974
Marine Power Systems (MPS) states that it has developed a technology that can harness wind power, wave power or combined wind and wave energy at grid scale. It argues that governments worldwide are looking for alternative sources to meet global energy consumption needs. MPS endeavours to usher in an energy revolution and become a contender in the floating offshore energy market that is set to be worth over $100 billion by 2035. MPS claims to have successfully tested its medium-scaled prototype in the ocean, demonstrating the ease of transportation, deployment, and showcasing the devices ability to generate grid compliant electricity. The company has been awarded a £12.8 million grant by the European Union (EU) to deliver a full scale, grid-connected commercial demonstrator in 2022. It says it will use the investment to conduct its final phase of development and testing before taking its devices to market in Q1 of 2024.
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£4,151,001
Loopster is a D2C platform that aspires to make selling and shopping for secondhand clothes an easy and sustainable lifestyle process. It argues that fashion is one of the most polluting industries on the planet projected to use one-fourth of the world's carbon budget by 2050. It argues that secondhand shopping offers a way out of this crisis. The company aspires to dominate the secondhand fashion industry projected to be worth $64 billion by 2024. Loopster has processed over 4000 garments and sold over 1900 in June 2021 earning revenue worth £122,000 as of May 2021. It allows sellers to order a Loopster Clear-Out Bag, send in discarded clothes, and the company does the rest, paying them for everything it accepts. For shoppers, Loopster offers hand-checked quality clothes at a quarter or less of high street prices. Loopster has featured in press entities such as The Sun, The Guardian, The Telegraph and Drapers Magazine. It has over 23,000 social media followers and 15,000 newsletter subscribers. Loopster states it will use the investment to continue scaling and building out a service for brands, hire a marketing manager and further optimise its processing technology to scale rapidly.
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£393,149
LuxDeco aims to connect luxury shoppers around the globe to the world's finest interior brands through personal shopping technology, white-label e-commerce service and a curated online marketplace. It believes that its proprietary algorithms, data science, and expert curators who aggregate and standardise product data from hundreds of partners, set it apart from traditional e-commerce and present the most relevant selection to the users. LuxDeco offers a curated selection of products from 350+ premium brands with minimum inventory risk while providing a personalised shopping experience. Moreover, leading interior brands like Ralph Lauren and Aerin have also joined the platform. Till date, with £920 average order, it has seen £13m+ gross sales. In Y/E March 2019, it achieved £546k gross profit after fulfilment (-£1.59m P+L).
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£1,518,730
Secret Cinema (SC) is an entertainment company that creates immersive shows at venues across London, including interactive performances in purpose-built sets. The company has produced 50+ titles and sold one million tickets to date, with its biggest shows selling over 100,000 tickets each. SC was the brainchild of noted creative director Fabien Riggall who envisioned taking cinematic experiences to the next level. The company asserts that it has a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 78. It held a screening of James Bond's 'Casino Royale' in Shanghai and has worked with Netflix to adapt its 'Stranger Things' show for a Los Angeles screening in 2020, reaching a US audience of over 300,000. The company will use the investment to support its growth, host its most popular slate of shows, collaborate on its first gaming title with a renowned gaming publisher, and sign a digital production with a major studio, based on a popular film franchise.
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£4,849,449
A fashion brand in the contemporary luxury accessories market ethically producing handbags to be sold directly to the consumer through e-commerce. Hill & Friends's handbags are manufactured from high quality materials in Western Europe. All leather used is ethically sourced and is a by-product of the food industry. The company sells its products via their own website, through wholesalers and at retailers such as Selfridges, Barneys, Harvey Nichols and Fenwick.
Hill & Friends are raising funds to invest in three initiatives. Firstly, they are seeking change in their manufacturing process to utilise more scalable and agile methods that will reduce total expenditure and shorten lead times when reordering high-selling products.
Secondly, the company intends to re-platform from Magento to Shopify due to the latter's greater impact on the market. This will result in an improved customer experience and better integrations with affiliate sites.
Finally, with the rapid increase of online shopping, Hill & Friends will use the funds raised to invest further in digital marketing by increasing the number of social ads and working alongside a diverse range of online influencers.
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£773,059
