Zentraxa is focused on precision bioengineering to produce peptides with predictable properties tailored towards purpose. The company points out that peptides are amino acids that are the building blocks of certain proteins needed by the skin, like collagen and elastin. It has come out with a synthetic biology platform, Zentide, that designs, produces and tests novel peptides. Zentraxa argues that Zentide can circumvent previously existing bio-design limits imposed by conventional peptide synthesis and produce tailor-made biomaterials for healthcare, personal care and industrial uses. Zentraxa is initially targeting healthcare with its first biomaterial, a debondable adhesive, for use in wound care. The company asserts that the material has other uses such as cosmetics and industrial applications due to its ability to bond strongly while still being easily and painlessly removable. Zentraxa will use the investment to create a portfolio of other biomaterials for licensing to global businesses in the health and industrial sectors via its Zentide platform.
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£1,040,000
In My Kitchen is a platform that aims to bring together a network of professional and semi-professional chefs to sell their signature dishes and recipes online. The platform was founded in July 2020. In My Kitchen asserts that its business model holds precedence in a time where takeaways have grown in popularity in the UK because of COVID-19. It gives many chefs who have become unemployed or have fewer shifts for developing their creativity and skills whilst allowing them to earn through the gig-economy. The company has a network of more than 70 chefs across London, with backgrounds across a range of cuisines. With the investment received, the company will develop its team and company infrastructure.
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Oxford Nanoimaging (ONI) is an offshoot company, born from the biological physics lab at Oxford University, that specialises in super-resolution microscopy. Its innovation, Nanoimager, is a super-resolution fluorescence and portable microscope that is capable of real-time 3D localization analysis and rendering. It has multiple applications in a variety of fields such as viral particle imaging, quantitative cellular imaging, epigenetic mapping, and many more. ONI states that the Nanoimager can align and analyse samples, and then upload the results onto a computer for deeper graphical and data examination. ONI is also supporting the global effort into research and diagnostics to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and finds the Nanoimager uniquely suited to this task. The company plans to use the investment to grow its business and ensure more institutions and researchers adopt its technology.
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golfscape is a Software as a Service (SaaS) reservations platform and marketplace for golf courses with a vision to revolutionise the golf industry with technology for the modern golfer. The company has built a worldwide tee time booking service with golfscape.com servicing golfers from over 100 countries to play golf across five continents. It organises golfing activities in over 30 golf destinations across Europe, Africa, Near East, Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific. It earned $150,000 in annualised recurring SaaS revenue in 2019 with over 500,000 unique users visiting the company website the same year. The company will use the investment to expand its market share in the UK and Europe, launch 'golfscape+' its golfer subscription and develop the next phase of its technology.
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£149,110
Synergy Grill have developed a grill that cuts gas bills by 50% because air is injected into the combustion. There is also no fat tray with the Synergy Grill, the fat is entirely vapourised and goes back through the food to further enhance the taste.
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£765,000
A taxi and on-demand delivery service using electronically assisted, high-tech cargo bikes to offer a cleaner, faster and cheaper means of transportation. Pedal Me uses highly trained riders within London to carry almost any load, including two adults, which can all be booked through their app.
Between October 2017 and September 2018, Pedal Me generated revenues of more than £125k. They will be allocating investments towards increasing efficiency and improving pickup times.
Funds in this round will be used to add more bikes, riders and use smarter technology. Pedal Me aims to have more than 30 bikes within a 3-mile radius from the city centre. This will result in reducing pickup times to less than 8 minutes from a booking being placed. In addition, the company will 'stack' delivery jobs, which means one rider will be able to carry out multiple orders in a single journey and will therefore allow Pedal Me to keep prices down for customers. Future plans include expanding the service to the rest of the UK and overseas.
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£352,580
Avida Global (AG) is a Business-to-Business (B2B) producer of high-quality medicinal cannabis oils and derivatives for the global medical, well-being and cosmeceutical markets. The company has a cultivation and processing facility in North-East Colombia. It asserts that the therapeutic properties of the cannabis plant has driven 53 countries to legalise its use, with more to follow. AG seeks to capture this demand and become a contender in the medicinal cannabis market that is expected to soar from $33.1 billion to $84.0 billion by 2028. The company has received regulatory approvals for initial non-psychoactive cannabis cultivation, manufacturing, and export licences in 2019. It is working on a partnership with a medicinal cannabis prescriber through doctors and clinics for the supply of medicinal cannabis strains in the UK. The company will use 40% of the investment to drive revenue growth, 25% as capital expenses, and 35% as additional operating expenses.
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£1,646,249
The Studio enable members to achieve results through sustainable, structured training. The Studio offer a whole range of sessions such as group classes, one-to-one personal training, spinning and yoga.
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£30,564
Like To Be connects students and professionals for impartial, real world, online careers advice. Like To Be links the classroom with real people and real careers. Employers can create online mental profiles to give insight into what its like to work within their profession.
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investment:
£3,950
MarketOrders is an award-winning B2B place that allows retail jewellers to purchase diamond and gold jewellery easily and directly from foreign suppliers. The company gives assured product quality and access to global designs to retailers. MarketOrders with the help of a variety of designs available online, has developed a UK customer base and three international suppliers on board. The company has won 10 awards including Hounslow Business Awards for Best New Business 2018. Additionally, it has been featured in Financial Times, The Sunday Times & Telegraph and many more. The funds raised will be used to grow the team, develop the technology platform and scale across the UK.
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investment:
£448,420
