Miso Tasty make Japanese inspired snacks and meals and currently have a range of Miso soups, Miso pastes, meal kits and even a cookbook. Their products are stocked in over 1,000 stores nationwide such as Waitrose, Sainsburys, Ocado, Wholefoods and Selfridges.
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£421,400
HUN Wines sources premium quality wine from Stellenbosch, South Africa, to create the UK's first Fairtrade, wine in a can. It aims to become the largest canned wine brand in the world. The company asserts that its products are fully recyclable and vegan friendly. HUN Wines claims that it is backed by industry titans including James Bailey, current Waitrose CEO, Andy Shaw, previously Brewdog Beer CEO and RedBull MD, Formula racing legend David Coulthard and RedBull executives. The company has successfully canned 300,000 units of its products consisting of flavours like Rosé, Sauvignon Blanc, and Rosé Bubbles (one of the lowest-calorie wines in the UK). It accepted its first order via a Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) site in May 2020, launched nationwide in Tesco Supermarkets in June and expanded onto the e-commerce platform, Amazon, in July. HUN Wines will use 15% of the investment towards staff expenses, 40% towards marketing, 25% towards festival activations and listings, and 20% towards New Product Development (NPD).
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investment:
£600,761
Coconuts Organic make non-dairy, rich, creamy, tasty vegan ice cream with coconut cream and unrefined coconut sugar. The company only uses natural ingredients to make their seven flavours of ice cream. It has won seven Great Taste Awards and received widespread praise from all five Dragons. Coconuts Organic is available in Tesco and is planning to launch in China and Saudi Arabia. The company has been featured in some famous press including Daily Mail, HuffPost etc. The company will use the raised funds for marketing, stock and for expanding the team.
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investment:
£188,895
Value Chain Lab streamlines supply chains by removing logistics waste.
http://www.valuechainlab.com/
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investment:
£330,874
Propio offers The Property ISA, a tax-efficient, simple and affordable way to invest in properties. The company aims to become the UK’s largest property-based ISA by making the experience of investing as straightforward as online shopping. Propio is powered by a team of property and finance heavyweights who hand-select all the investments, helping the customers reduce risks and earn stable, tax-free returns, irrespective of market fluctuation. The company’s client base comprises 1000+ customers who have invested over £7.5m in it. According to TrustPilot, Propio is among the top 10 investment companies in the UK, delivering average returns of 6.5% to investors, despite Brexit and stock market turmoil. Moreover, the company has partnered with two UK finance and property firms and expects an investment deal flow of up to £100m by 2021-22.
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investment:
£357,660
The first regulated crowdfunding business in the UK offering investment opportunities in environmental, ethical and social companies. Since 2011, Abundance has funded 34 investments totalling more than £75m, whilst delivering gross returns of 4-15% per year across renewable energy, social housing and sustainability projects. This equates to total interest returns of £12.1m. More than 5,250 investors on the platform have contributed funds almost 5 times on average over various campaigns.
Abundance also offers an IFISA product and as at April 2018, they have 8% of the IFISA market, which equates to over 2,900 ISA customers. The business’s investor's numbers have grown 52% since January 2017 and in the past year their customer portfolio has seen a 30% increase. In the last 3 years, marketing expenditure efficiency has also improved by 76%.
Abundance's services are free-to-use for investors. This means there are no fees for investing or withdrawing funds in opportunities or ISA products. Revenue is generated from borrowers who are seeking to raise finance for their projects. This is in the form of a set-up fee and a regular admin fee per year.
The business is crowdfunding to expand on the types of projects they currently offer, as a means to attract a wider range of investors. In addition, Abundance aims to market the campaigns on the platform through numerous channels and upgrade the technology they currently use to enhance the user experience.
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investment:
£1,621,138
Multi-award winning La Favorita Delivered is Scotland’s largest and fastest growing independent Italian pizza delivery company. It was born out of a long established Edinburgh Italian restaurant group in 2011 and has grown exponentially since then. Having firmly cemented ourselves within the Edinburgh food scene with 4 busy stores and a loyal customer base, we’re now extending our reach westward where we were recently awarded Best Pizza at the Scottish Italian Awards. We are currently focused on opening 2 stores in Glasgow in early 2015, with plans to eventually open 50 stores throughout the UK. Our pizzas use only the finest ingredients available, such as Scottish corn-fed free range chicken, high grade Italian salami and San Marzano DOP tomatoes. At La Favorita Delivered, we’re very proud to offer our customers a premium product and exceptional service. We’ve taken great care to put our customer experience at the forefront of all we do and deliver only the very best product. That’s why we’ve gone to the trouble of commissioning bespoke pizza ovens, sourcing flour that is now milled exclusively to our specification, developing a special (secret) dough recipe and branding a large fleet of Fiat 500 delivery vehicles. As part of our expansion strategy, the company is seeking to raise between £200k (for 5% of the business) and £400k (for 10% of the business). The price per share will be fixed whatever the final total reached. In addition to receiving shares in the company, investors in La Favorita Delivered will receive vouchers to the value of 10% of their investment which can be used when ordering from any of the company's pizzerias.
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£281,270
Green Wallet (GW) aims to promote conscious spending by allowing users to buy sustainable products and earn rewards in the process from its app-based marketplace. GW gives users £5 free in green coins upon registering on the portal. Users also earn 1 green coin for every £1 they spend and 2 green coins for advocating for their favourite shops and sharing products on Instagram based on the number of likes or comments their posts receive. GW has also launched a bio-degradable debit card. The company has onboarded 4000+ social media followers, hosted 100 merchants with 1500+ products on its platform, and hit the target of 1,000 early user signups in its closed beta round. They intend to onboard up to 25,000 users and plant up to 250,000 trees in 2021. GW will use the investment to boost merchant outreach, promote marketing initiatives, acquire key personnel across departments, and optimise infrastructure and compliance regularities.
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investment:
£261,770
The Cookaway is a Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) company that makes and sells recipe boxes to users to enable them to make delicious food from the comfort of their homes. Users receive all the ingredients, including premium oils, along with complete recipe cards made by the company's expert chefs. The Cookaway has garnered over 500 verified reviews on TrustPilot with an 'Excellent' rating and onboarded 10 chefs including 5 MasterChefs and a 2-Michelin starred chef. It has featured in publications such as The Independent, Forbes, The Week, and The Daily Mail. The company was the 'Chosen Food Partner' for The Lord Mayor's Big Curry Lunch 2021. The Cookaway will use 25% of the investment to hire talent, 20% to boost brand visibility via content generation, 15% to make its technology platform more intuitive, 15% to launch new chefs and cuisines, 5% to improve its sustainability credentials, 5% to develop its app with more features, 10% towards automation, and 5% to launch a membership program.
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investment:
£792,187
Mr Lee’s Pure Foods is an innovative food/tech company creating award-winning premium healthy noodles-in-a-cup and will be launching its new instant Congee Asian rice porridge. All products are certified low sugar, gluten-free, low on calories, Vegan options and 100% recyclable and compostable packaging. The global instant noodle market is expected to reach $57.5 billion by 2024 which the brand aims to capitalise on and establish itself in as the market leader. Mr Lee's has won 50+ global awards and nominations including Grocer Gold Exporter of the Year, Great British Entrepreneur winner, and The Sunday Times Maserati 100 winner. Noted publisher Penguin Random House has published Mr Lee’s 100 Noodle Recipe cookbook which has been met with critical acclaim worldwide. With the investment, the company will invest 25% of it in marketing initiatives and entering into the US market, 10% in product development, 20% in working capital for food production during scale-up, 5% in upgrading its Hot Noodle Kiosk and vending machine facilities, and 40% in global group operating and personnel costs runway for commercial functions and scale-up activities within Australia, the UK, and the USA.
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investment:
£1,835,892
