ARROE Limited is planning on creating an ecosystem of software and hardware products to eliminate the charging problem. The company has made the first universal laptop charging solution by joining software and hardware. Since 2016, the business and products of the company have evolved enormously, but the key focus of the company is to free people from the wall socket. It will sell their products through three channels: B2C (Website), B2B and B2C (Brand partners). The ARROE application will become the virtual assistant for power management.
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£360,000
Founded by Glen Elliot, 2005 in the early days of the professional video gaming industry, Esports Gaming League (EGL) has since helped shape esports into a fast-growing phenomenon. The brand aims to be at the forefront of esports starting in Europe before expanding globally into Asia, South America, and the Middle East. It has worked with clients such as KFC, Science Museum, Activision among other brands. The esports industry is valued at $1.1 billion globally for 2019, and EGL has positioned itself to be at the heart of it. The platform has 315,000 registered users engaging in regular tournaments online. With the funds raised, EGL aims to enhance its tournament platform and make the process of playing and competing easier. It will also work with major game developers across multiple platforms and make their titles esportable.
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£189,540
B-North is a UK-based business lending company. It has combined cloud-native technology with face-to-face relationship banking. The company asserts that SMEs account for over 60% of private-sector employment in the UK, have driven job growth over the past ten years, and are central to driving economic recovery. It intends to disrupt the £150 billion UK Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) lending market. B-North has raised a seed capital of over £6.8 million including a six-figure investment from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority to establish its core team, as well as, build lending and deposit-taking platforms. The company is now seeking further investment through a bridge round to extend the cash runway from the end of Q4 2020 into Q1-Q2 2021 to achieve the necessary regulatory capital to become a bank and commence lending.
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£2,149,256
Clim8 is a financial technology company that aims to move billions of pounds of investment into sectors such as clean energy, clean technology, sustainable food, smart mobility, and recycling. It is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The company quotes United Nations data arguing that the world needs to invest $2.4 trillion every year into clean energy, from now until 2035, to meet climate change targets. Clim8 aims to capitalise on this objective through its app. The company has raised £1.9 million in seed funding across two rounds, in December 2019 and April 2020, respectively. It also overachieved its first Crowdcube campaign by over 300%. The company will use the investment to continue onboarding its waiting list of over 10,000 and grow its business across different verticals.
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£2,348,974
Dashboard is an early stage tech company that provides automated remote monitoring solutions for collecting/consolidating near-real-time data from sensors in both remote/accessible locations and for transmitting the data, to a “private cloud” platform for analysis and retention. Analysed data is then presented via a "dashboard" interface, providing a view of the status of the given equipment, process or asset being monitored in real-time.
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£199,991
Go Local UK provides a hyperlocal marketplace which is community-driven and it brings together the best local independent businesses and local producers. The Go Local application is a smart, geo-located directory and discovery platform showcasing the best independent business in your community. The application detects and finds the current location of a customer to determine the nearest registered product or service for that customer. The Go Local has on-boarded more than 4000 merchants/partners and has over 1200 subscribers. Go Local’s aim is to encourage and champion the “go; eat, shop and buy local” movement.
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Projcon provides fully integrated training, consultancy and technology solutions. Its core offering is giving Project Controls advisory services auditing capability for the area for projects including the UK Ministry of Defence, KPMG, PWC and Mott MacDonald. Projcon has grown to seven mutually reinforcing brands along with four subsidiaries and, it also hosts the world’s largest project control events. The company will use the funds for the addition of new and advanced training courses, accelerating the marketing and BD activities, and enhancing the internal systems.
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£108,420
Ever Insight (EI) offers professional analytics services catered to a customer's needs. The company platform draws valuable insights from data ensuring that business managers can make efficient decisions. EI specialises in three main verticals namely, Predictive Learning Analytics (PLA), Financial Analytics (FA) and HR Analytics (HA). EI's current mission is to deliver an innovative and supportive analytics system to institutions that facilitate learning and eliminate roadblocks to student success. Its team has already developed the software and implemented it in India, but the company needs further refinement and adaptation to suit the UK educational market requirements. It will use the investment to get its Start-up visa approved and establish its business at different verticals.
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UnderPinned gives freelancers a single, dedicated platform to learn how to build a successful business, find clients, manage their work, and help them get paid on time. The company aspires to build a connection with users that ensures everyone thrives through its accelerator programme, community, and content. UnderPinned asserts that its accelerator programme allows it to achieve day one unit profitability before converting users to subscribers. It claims to have made £12,772 in revenue with £8,000 spent on marketing in its first month of programme sales in January 2021. The company argues that COVID-19 has accelerated freelancing, moving away from traditional employment. UnderPinned has a community of over 20,000 subscribers and growing. It says itvwill use the investment to scale its team, marketing and product development as it focuses on expanding in the US and EU markets.
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investment:
£629,086
Nurturey is a smart digital Redbook for parents that helps in managing children’s development from pregnancy to childhood. It has 160,000 FB fans and more than 60,000 application downloads, globally. Its blog page has 500,000 unique visitors and 4.5 million visits. Its aim and ambition are to become the default Redbook. With the proceeds, Nurturey will prepare itself to become the default Redbook in the UK to appropriate backing from NHS.
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£561,282
