Growthdeck is seeking up to £1 million in funding to capitalize on a positive economic environment and a promising pipeline of opportunities. Despite challenging economic conditions in recent years, the company has outperformed the industry by achieving year-on-year growth in equity fundraising and improving deal flow and quality. With enhanced efficiency and reduced costs, Growthdeck is well-positioned to resume its rapid growth trajectory. Investor interest has rebounded, and the company's increased understanding of investor preferences allows them to identify more suitable deals. Having obtained FCA authorization as a Fund Manager, Growthdeck plans to launch Funds in 2023. The company's objective is to build a business worth over £50 million by 2027, catering to high and ultra-high net worth investors by arranging investments in private companies, backed by a loyal member base.
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Celo is an app-based insurance provider designed to provide cheaper quotes, faster claims, and a pleasant user experience. We plan to offer insurance cover for motor vehicles, travel, health, and more. Like Monzo and Starling who are disrupting banking, Celo plans to disrupt the insurance industry.
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£142,840
A current account for small business owners and the self-employed that automates their accounting and taxes. Coconut informs customers about transactions on their account that that are eligible for a tax deduction and automatically completes a tax return. It also provides a tax bill forecast and shows guidance on tax rules and regulations. Coconut currently looks after 3,000 accounts and has pre-registered 5,000 limited companies with total transactions processed exceeding £12m.
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£1,857,450
Flender is a social lending platform that will transform the way people use peer-2-peer finance. From funding friends to backing businesses across multiple countries Flender has taken a mobile first approach. Flender allows the borrower and the lender to set their own interest rates, as well as allowing users to lend to people they know.
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£501,700
Monva is a financial technology platform that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to revolutionise the price comparison experience and personalise customer offers. It argues that only 38% of people in the UK trust Price Comparison Websites (PCWs) with the majority being wary of such entities. Monva aims to change that. Its AI Chatbot ‘Mo’ helps customers save time by suggesting search queries, highlighting key information to assist in making switching decisions, and providing alerts to new automated offers. The company has raised £625,000 in 2020 from DBW, Angels and crowdfunding sites. It was also overfunded by >200%. It aims to become a contender in the price comparison market valued at £2.8 billion. It will use the investment to continue building its smart comparison technology, secure commercial partnerships, and grow its marketing activity.
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£451,905
Kulea.ma are an affordable and easy to use Marketing Automation, readily available for SME's. They have already seen impressive results with 80% of users seeing their number or leads increase and 77% seeing customer conversions rise.
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£67,616
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
Nextfin is an FCA approved aggregation and rating portal for equity and debt crowdfunding investments.
AIM is shrinking, legacy stock markets are too expensive to maintain and do not serve the requirements of SMEs, banks are closing branches, lending less and are paying little or no interest to investors. As a result of this, there is a huge growth in equity crowdfunding and P2P lending which has seen the launch of hundreds of alternative lenders & platforms that has created a new c.£3bn marketplace, expanding at 66% p.a. There is no single portal or trusted ratings index for investors to compare on a like for like basis and no secondary market to facilitate exits.
* NextFin is the new trading name of Business Agent Ltd
The solution
NextFin aggregates equity and debt crowdfunding investments to create the alternative finance marketplace. This makes it easy for investors and lenders to find and compare opportunities by presenting all investment offerings in one place. With the addition of a free of charge ratings service investors will be able to view ratings of every equity crowdfunding pitch, every P2P site, and every equity crowdfunding site. NextFin’s technology will constantly track these companies and investments providing the investor real-time intelligence on which to base investment decisions. The platforms and entrepreneurs will be self-promoting and marketing their ratings driving thousands of visitors a month to the NextFin site, in the same way, businesses refer their potential clients to Trip Advisor and Trustpilot. There is an estimated 10 million website/platform visitors per month across the whole of the alternative finance market. NextFin is targeting to direct 5% of this highly profiled traffic to its platform from which it will earn between £5-£8 per click from advertisers and partners. In addition, an in-house brokerage service also earns between 1%-6% commissions on loan placements. A future revenue stream (not featured in the financials) will be developed once visitor traffic reaches critical mass. This will see Nextfin being able to realise the full value of its captured ratings data and visitor traffic by launching a secondary market, which is estimated to be a £5bn marketplace.
NextFin is raising £500k at a pre-money valuation of £2M to: • Develop P2P and Equity site ratings• Expand the management, infrastructure and marketing resource• Increase visitor traffic to 6m a year via rating referrals
Owing to the size of the market and rapid growth of the industry, enterprise valuations in alternative finance are based on visitor traffic, market share and registered users. Recently published valuations of companies with visitor traffic of over 6m per year are in excess of £70m. NextFin is the market-leading aggregator and has first-mover advantage. It has the potential to exceed these valuations because it is the whole of the market aggregator and is currently the only ratings service provider as it grows to achieve 500,000 visitors p.m.
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£274,057
DMALINK aims to create a transparent and accessible currency market for banks, funds, and corporations. The company asserts that the Foreign Exchange (FX) market is the world's largest and most liquid financial market, recording an average daily trading volume of $6.6 Trillion but is fraught with imperfect price movements. DMALINK aims to address this situation. Its portal utilises big data and analytics solutions to enable users to make better trading decisions. It also offers users access to 63 currency pair combinations. DMALINK also points out that its clients have chosen its services over 316,000 times with the company witnessing an average deal size of $585,000 and earning revenue worth $3,140,000. The company has featured in Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, and FX Markets to name a few. DMALINK will use 60% of the investment on salaries for existing and new team members allowing global growth, 20% towards marketing and sales efforts, and 20% towards technology expansion.
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£425,903
The first wholesaler to offer insurance products for B2B and B2C firms in the Sharing Economy. Inlet aims provide insurance for assets that have been peer-to-peer rented for the short term, or for the provision of services such as letting properties online, as these markets are not currently covered by traditional insurances.
Inlet generates revenue from commissions via insurance products at the point of sale and at policy renewal. Income in the form of interest payments is also earned from customers that choose to pay via direct debit on a monthly basis, as well as from fees applied to customers who wish to amend their policies.
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£256,514
