LoyalT is engaged in building a network of loyalty programs for consumers. Consumers can exchange points & consolidate to one brand, in real-time, for a high-value redemption, gifting or donation. The app tracks consumer activities & employs Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate actionable insights for the brands to improve engagement. The company aims to be the solution to the $360 billion worth of loyalty points that remain unused globally. They raised £280,000 during their first crowdfunding campaign in 2019 and has partnered with organisations like IBM and Wipro since 2018. The company has built the first version of its product and plans to start with the UK and onboard 400 businesses by February 2021. It aims to eventually take its product to 40,000 businesses globally by February 2025. It will use 41% of the investment as resource salary costs, 12% as infrastructure and overhead costs, 22% as marketing costs, and 25% as business development partner costs.
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£190,110
Big Day helps couples looking to get married find, compare and book the ideal wedding venue. Users are able to search wedding venues based on a number of parameters such as location, budget and venue capacity. You are able to choose from a number of different products and services. You can then see an online price estimate including the overall pric eand then the price per person.
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£696
Wurkr is a platform that enables seamless team collaboration, bridging gaps between workers anywhere in the world and embracing an always-on video technology standard. Wurkr asserts that working from home is growing by 400% in the last decade with up to 40% of companies planning to have employees working from home or elsewhere in the wake of COVID-19. It argues that its product holds relevance in such a scenario. 60,000 subscribers and 1,500 organisations have enlisted on Wurkr to date. The company has witnessed a +1,000% increase in subscribers since March 2020. It will use the investment to expand into the UK, India and USA in 2021. A global push in 2022, release 'Wurkr Pro', it's paid portal that provides for multiple browsers, mobile access, video conference rooms and integrates 'Wurkr Enterprise' with products such as Slack and G Suite.
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£187,928
Groubook is a social bookings platform that allows a group of users to pre-book nights out on its platform, letting themselves avail of discounts and earn rewards. The company claims that its focus groups are millennials who go out twice a week and spend £6589 a year, and students who avail of discounts, coupons and rewards on expenses. The company stresses that it offers its partners a non-contract service with no upfront fees. The company further points out that it sold 178 tickets for a local Nottingham bar event during the COVID pandemic, earning its partners £890 in pre-booking revenue. Groubook has featured in press entities such as Real Business, BBC, Venue Insight, and Sage amongst others. It has also partnered with 330+ venues nationally, including Olivias, Las Iguanas, Bella Italia, Revolution, and Bedlam paintball, to name a few. The company states it will use 65% of the investment towards hiring personnel, 22.9% towards promoting marketing campaigns, 7% towards overseeing location expenses, and 5.1% towards managing administrative expenses.
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£81,660
Capture Education is an education portal that aims to help educators and parents connect, foster engagement, improve understanding and increase satisfaction with respect to their children. The company asserts that its software can help reduce workload and costs for educators. It also claims that an average nursery will save over 6.5 hours per week on paperwork when switching from paper to the company's digital solution. Parents can see shared images instantly, watch videos of their children's achievements on the portal at any time. The portal allows educators to capture plans to allow and track activities of children's clubs and extracurricular lessons. The company has witnessed over 1 million observations created and shared on its portal. Over 19,000 parents access the company's system every month. Capture will use 40% of the investment in Research & Development (R&D), 30% in marketing, 10% in sales, and 20% as contingency funds in the wake of COVID-19.
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£257,040
Expert Apps is an all-in-one solution to license a fully functional social networking app to businesses, coaches, brands, and industry experts. With its use independent, trusted and valuable communities can be built having their own brand identity. Expert Apps has acquired more than 40 clients such as BBC, Khadija Kalifa, and Apprentice finalist who are using this technology. In its first year of trading, the company received more than ¼ million in sales revenue. It also has a healthy profit, a strong client reputation, and many social followers. In 2019, Expert Apps has 41 app licence holders, a GP of £256,012, and sales of £281,096.
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£375,028
Snoozle is an alarm clock app, changing the way the world wakes up. There are few things everyone on the planet does everyday, and waking up is one of them, so Snoozle wish to change the dreaded pre-set alarm sound for tailored audio content.
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£134,952
We Build Bots is an AI-powered automation software for the public sector. WBB is a GovTech company that creates multi-award-winning software for the public sector. Its core product is IntelAgent which is a cloud-based customer service platform that combines bots, AI, voice, and analytics. This product helps the public sector in delivering more efficient and faster customer care. We Build Bots has won 3 awards for innovation and developed 2 new products, Triage and Tickit. It has also launched a successful podcast that focusses on the innovation of the public sector. With the proceeds, the company will create additional recruitment salaries and fees for 2 new developers, 1 new sale, and 1 Business Analyst. It will increase its marketing, improve its live events and PR to complement digital activities.
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£313,020
GeoDB is a peer-to-peer big data sharing ecosystem powered by blockchain technologies. It gives users GEO tokens in exchange for their anonymous data, which, they can exchange for FIAT money or other crypto-currencies. The company aims to become a segment leader in the projected $260 billion 'Big Data' market. GeoDB asserts that it has 200,000 users. It has established partnerships with big data companies like AboutGoods, Datalytics, Flame Analytics, amongst others. GeoDB has captured more than 1,000,000,000 data points from its users to date. It has 115,000+ people following its activities on different social media channels like Telegram, Wechat, Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, and Medium. The company has raised more than £3 million since August 2018. The company will use the investment to build its team, boost marketing initiatives, invest in business development, and push 'Token Economy'.
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£2,467,860
Readbug has developed an online subscription service for unlimited access to a wide range of independant magazines on their IOS app or webpage. They will be completing the technical development of their B2B product suite and developing a second revenue stream for the business called 'Readbug Press'.
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£5,307
