Verado is a data-driven and scalable proprietary platform that aims to eradicate counterfeits within the watch & jewelry industry. It enables private sellers to sell their luxury watches autonomously online. Verado analyzes thousands of similar items across the internet and gives the fairest price for both buyers and sellers. By adding verification, authentication and financial escrow, Verado is solving a basic problem associated with buying and selling fine jewelry. In a market with zero transparency, Verado is able to provide a community for collectors, sellers, and buyers. The platform has the security and personality of old school selling with the reach and speed of an online platform. The company has achieved €400,000+ sales and 10,000 cellular listings onto the platform. Verado has been featured in many publications like watchuseek, Forbes, and Buzzfeed. With the proceeds, the company is planning to build awareness and build upon its growing community.
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£37,270
Appital is an emerging financial market platform that will use digital profiling, unique algorithms and notifications to connect institutional demand and supply. With Appital, corporate and institutional companies within the equity capital markets space will have the opportunity to exchange illiquid equity without an investment bank or broker. Appital will also remove the dependence on email and phone, thereby ensuring efficiency and accessibility. The company is raising fund to built the Appital software, achieve FCA regulation, generate marketing material and gain contracts with partner settlement and KYC providers. Furthermore, the company will enhance the functionality of the software by leveraging its network to other products such as primary debt and primary equity deal flow.
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£349,060
Peliwica Insurance is set up to disrupt the current rural, equine, and agriculture insurance broker markets. It is a new Insuretech business that was launched in 2018. In the same year, the company gained its first FCA Approval and the Lloyds CoverHolder status that held the key enablers to launch this business. Peliwica Insurance is trading with 10 Brokers with a £100m premium opportunity. With its upcoming mobile application and devised white-labelled D2C platforms, the company will be able to allow brokers to access new product markets and customers more effectively.
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investment:
£75,980
Landbay is a marketplace lender that's main focus is on prime residential mortgages. They match investors' funds directly to loans. Landbay plan to use the proceeds for general working purposes.
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£1,601,371
Laundryheap is a fast-growing laundry and dry-cleaning service with delivery. Laundry Heap believe that they are unique, as they are the only major on-demand laundry company to our knowledge that offers same-day collection and delivery within 24 hours as a standard service.
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£1,819,175
Currently, the self-employed have fewer admissions to financial services than their employed counterparts do. Hatch aims to give sole traders free-to-use access to real-time credit scores that will allow lenders to make more informed decisions when invoice funding. The company also offers digitising of tax files, one of the most time-consuming admin burdens. Revenue is generated via affiliate fees to those who wish to introduce and facilitate Hatch on their platforms. A beta for 5k users will be launching soon, with half the slots already filled.
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£115,000
VINEX is a digital Business-To-business (B2B) trading platform that connects buyers and sellers to source, sample, negotiate and execute contracts related to wine. The company has traded more than 115 million bottles of wine across 26 countries since 2016. It has also witnessed 3,200 monthly visitors on its platform with an average of 80 million litres of wine traded each month, from 16 countries. The company recently launched VINPay, an industry-first financial technology service customised for the wine industry, providing wineries with guaranteed payment and increased access to capital liquidity. VINEX argues that VINPay attracts wineries with earlier access to cash and empowers buyers to buy better, with up to 150 days to pay. The company aims to become a contender in the wholesale wine market that is set to exceed US$381 billion in 2021. VINEX will use the investment to help wineries invest and flourish.
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£114,218
Kestrl is a mobile app based on the principles of Islamic banking. It aims to cater to the over 1.9 million British Muslim community to invest in the UK in line with their religious beliefs. Consumers can avail a host of financial services from finding interest-free savings accounts to taking out a mortgage. The company raised a £135,000 pre-seed round from C-level Islamic banking professionals in January 2020. It also launched its application on Google Playstore and App store in September 2020. Kestrl is working on launching an equity-based home purchase product soon. It also aspires to expand to Malaysia/Indonesia by white labelling with established retail banks and utilising its 'inside knowledge' of the region. It will use 39% of the investment towards platform up-gradation and tech team expansion, 20% towards hiring personnel across various departments, 19% for maintaining agency license fees and acquiring its own regulatory permissions, 8% in marketing, and 14% towards ancillary costs.
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£194,502
Hitmarker is a proprietary job platform that covers the entire video game sector. It aims to be the leading job provider in the $159 billion video game industry. It has a database of 67,000 candidates and has posted 46,000 jobs from 4,500 companies in 77 countries. The company asserts that one million people have used Hitmarker 2.5 million times to post or look for jobs. Hitmarker has been covered by publications like Forbes, CNBC, and The FT. It has also onboarded 20 partners, including The University of California, RGF Executive Search, and the British Esports Association. The company will use the investment to build a global network of localised platforms in crucial territories and expand its addressable market.
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£521,283
FairMoney is a Price Comparison Website (PCW) specialising in comparing loans for consumers using machine intelligence. They ensure consumers receive the most appropriate loan by taking into account the lender's underwriting criteria, as well as the borrower's credit situation by using their proprietary algorithms.
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investment:
£200,000
