SpaceX is an aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company founded in 2002 by Elon Musk that aims to reduce space transportation costs and eventually enable the colonisation of Mars. The company has developed several launch vehicles, rocket engines and Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) landing platforms. Its project, Falcon 9, became the first rocket to accomplish a propulsive vertical landing in December 2015. As of March 2018, SpaceX had over 100 launches on its manifest representing about $12 billion (£9.24 billion) in contract revenue. The company has also ventured into providing satellite internet access by launching its Starlink project. As of 13th June 2020, it has launched 540 Starlink satellites. It will soon launch its Interplanetary Transport System (ITS), Starship, to further inter-planetary travel and colonisation. They will use the investment to grow its projects across various verticals.
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GymBuddy is an online platform that enables consumers to find, book, and attend a gym location, services, or products offered and operated by fitness studios, gyms, trainers, venues, or other third parties. Users can easily, through filtered searches on the app, view descriptions, and contact information of specialists within the fitness industry such as personal trainers, nutritionists, and physiotherapists. The UK fitness industry alone is currently worth over £5 billion. Based on recent statistics, the average gym membership in the UK costs members £40 a month, which often ties them into lengthy contracts. The GymBuddy app will enter the Health & Fitness club sector as a multi-gym membership feature that gives users access to gyms and various fitness plans, without the need for bricks-and-mortar locations under its brand. The company is seeking an investment of £400,000 to expand its brand identity and bring more users to its ecosystem to generate profits.
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epaysecure is a secure payment system, which offers comprehensive payment and benefit options, and allows all the services the consumer demands to be offered in one card and e-account. The prepaid business purchasing in European markets is estimated to be $700 million. The company operates in an e-banking and financial services marketing sector that helps clients by identifying new markets and bringing in new ideas to develop them through reloadable products and e-Wallet platform. The funds will be used for staffing, set up costs, other overheads including property marketing and general office costs.
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£168,340
A cyber-defence system preventing criminals accessing secure information from internet-enabled businesses. vzInternet Limited have developed Assayer, a cloaking tool that works differently to traditional cybersecurity systems. Assayer aims to tackle criminal behaviour by removing the time they have to exploit an organisation, rather than current methods that only add more layers for criminals to break through.
vzInternet Limited is in the process of creating three version of their Assayer range, targeted for specific needs. Assayer Freedom is the initial offering that will prevent criminals from using stolen information and biometric data to access private material. Assayer Trust aims to tackle malware designed to convince customers to provide personal information and Assayer Veto is being created to protect businesses from internal attacks by employees and third-party contractors.
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£60,000
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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Brompton's bicycle hire allows people to hire folding bicycles from hiring stations. The hiring stations (docks) are sold to partners. The company have already sold 44 docks to partners. They are looking for investment to prepare the business for international expansion. The funding will used to increase the size of their network by placing more docks in strategic locations. Their service will also be developed with the funds, working on their customer service and developing their skills.
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£380,000
Vmoto’s primary business is B2B leasing of electric delivery scooters for local delivery of food and goods. Its mission is to displace the use of petrol scooters in the fast-growing local delivery industry, deploying electric scooters which are cheaper to run than the incumbent petrol scooters owing to the use of electricity, which is 1/10th the cost per mile of petrol.
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£100,000
Itasca Wines is a Hampshire-based vineyard and winery that produces fine English wines. The company is raising funds for its contract winemaking facility, to fulfil the growing demand from vineyards. There are over 760 vineyards in the UK currently, 111 have their own winery and only a handful of these provide contract winemaking services to other vineyards. Itasca Wines aims to become a major winemaker and create award-winning wines at Penn Croft. The company planted its first vineyard of 16,000 vines in May 2019 and has featured in Vineyard Magazine in February and May 2019.
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£1,147,003
An IT recruitment and training site launched to meet the demands of enterprises that require highly skilled tech professionals. 365 Talent Portal offers companies to hire IT consultants at a lower price compared to traditional recruitment hubs. The company also allows IT professionals registered on the site to access training and certification programmes that will expand their current skillset and become more marketable to potential employers.
365 Talent Portal is raising funds to produce more prominent marketing campaigns and establish their brand in major markets such as the USA. In addition to this, the company will be using AI more heavily and develop a more automated approach on their platform for their customers.
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£156,000
SkiBro is a leading business-to-customer (B2B) Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that aspires to become a contender in the €2 billion ski lessons market. The platform has onboarded 8,000 ski schools and 150,000 ski instructors to date. SkiBro's marketplace encompasses 350 resorts in 7 countries across Europe and North America, with over 6,000 ski instruction products. SkiBro intends to expand into ski hire. The platform has 350 independent ski instructors (250 last year) and 400+ ski schools, with notable ones including ESF La Plagne, ESF Courchevel, Evolution2 (France), Skischule Alberg (Austria), and Ski and Snowboard School Courmayeur (Italy). The company claims that despite COVID-19 hampering business in March 2020, the platform hosted 8.467 lesson bookings worth €1.35 million, recording a 500% YoY growth with an average booking value of €453. SkiBro is seeking £1.5 million of equity funding to accelerate company growth and deliver profitability in 2023-2024.
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£749,825
