Glug provides a platform for businesses to let customers order from a digital menu and have them served to the table or pick up from the bar. It points out that its system is designed to be user friendly and easy to set up wherein restaurants or bars can upload and digitalise their menu and can be discoverable within 24 hours. Consumers can discover the restaurant, book a table, place an order, and browse for offers and discounts, amongst other features using the company's community app. Glug asserts that more than 16,000 users have ordered food and drinks through its app in less than four months since the company's launch. It intends to become a contender in the UK dining and pub market that is a £40 billion+ industry. Glug argues that more than 20,000 users have downloaded its app from the App Store and Google Playstore. It will use the investment for marketing, hiring, technology development, attract 1.5 million users and onboard 1,000+ venues over the next 12 months.
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£73,114
Currently for ~259 million cell-phone users getting their phone charged is a daily challenge. BuffaloGrid provide mobile power and internet service for the off-grid parts of the world. BuffaloGrid use solar energy and a cashless payment system.
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£496,000
Subscribbe is a B2B e-commerce marketplace platform for Convenience and Independent (CI) stores. It argues that about 46,000 of these stores have traditionally had no bargaining power compared to supermarkets and wholesalers. Subscribbe wants to change this and connect CI stores, manufacturers, and fulfilment centres via its platform. The company aspires to level the playing field for smaller players and enable them to become wholesale e-commerce businesses. It has been developing its platform to enable CI stores to use proprietary fulfilment and logistics technology to connect to independent warehouse and logistics operators across the UK since its launch in 2020. Subscribbe wants to become a contender in the £40 billion convenience market. It has raised £400,000 to date to hire a core team, focusing on product engineering. The company will use the investment to continue product development and testing, continue onboarding executive and operations teams, continuing from successful hires in 2020, including Subscribbe engineers and the UX/Design team, and ready to launch V1.0 of its platform in 2021.
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£140,794
The KNOMI app was launched a year ago and with over 70 luxury brands on board so far they have had over 2000 store visits from users. They help high spending tourists and discerning locals find London's best luxury designer and independent boutiques.
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Hybrid Air Vehicles have created aircraft technology that is more efficient that any existing technology. They produce less noise, less pollution and have a larger cargo-carrying capacity than almost any other flying vehicle.
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£1,223,370
SplitBill allows free instantaneous money transfer between friends and family and enables merchants to save in processing fees versus credit cards transactions. The company is built around 'Open Banking' and claims to reduce card payments for its users. It aspires to become a contender in the 'Open Banking' sector that is estimated to grow to £7.2 billion by 2022. SplitBill asserts that its app has been downloaded 3000 times. The company's portal has processed more than £90,000 in Consumer To Consumer (C2C) transactions to date. They state they will use the investment to simplify e-commerce enabling transactions without inserting card details by linking through API to the merchants' stores, allowing users to settle restaurants bills at the table by just scanning a QR code, acquiring clients and boosting business development.
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£113,540
eDrinks is on a mission to help the hospitality industry harness the power of technology and social media. It has come out with digital drink tokens redeemable in partner pubs and bars. Users can gift and receive the tokens from friends, family or even a stranger and redeem them in pubs and bars using the 'MyRound' app. eDrinks has acquired over 2000 users over 1.5 months through organic social marketing, of which, 1011 are active ones. It has also availed the Commercial Partner Membership (CPM) of the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA). The company is also developing its proprietary 'Bar Tab' redemption app to make it easy for independent venues to scan and redeem eDrinks contactless. eDrinks will use the investment to create marketing campaigns, app development, and hiring personnel.
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£116,195
The Academy of Robotics have developed Kar-Go, an AI controlled pod-shaped driverless vehicle which autonomously delivers packages to residential areas. By removing the need for humans in the last mile delivery this allows customers to receive deliveries at almost any time, and at a fraction of the traditional cost.
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£291,980
Silverfriend is a start-up offering older people protection from scams and fraud. 53% of over 65’s have been victims of a scam and it’s getting worse every year, with fraudsters preying on the lonely and isolated. The team aim to take away that isolation and vulnerability.
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£177,320
Blind Cupid (BC) is a disruptive personal matchmaker that uses systematic philosophy and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help users find their long-term partners with the very first match. It does this by asking its users high-quality, short, and introspective questions that reveal what the company calls a user's ‘Sense of life’. The AI system then comes up with potential matches by analysing the above data along with the user's communication style. BC asserts that the global matchmaking market has 91 million users and is currently worth £4.65 billion (2020) with a projected value of £7.68 billion by 2026. It argues that 4 out of 5 beta users met their potential partner on its portal. The company aims to patent its AI and licence it out to eager organisations. It will use the investment to offer investors the opportunity to be a part of the next generation of matchmaking and artificial intelligence.
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£354,989
