Comesto is a peer to peer web and app based service that enables professional food buyers to purchase directly from suppliers. They are a membership funded trading platform. The platform gives their members access to the whole market eliminating single brochures. Comesto offers industry buyers a complete purchasing, invoicing and scheduling management service and for suppliers their aim is to provide a simple cost effective way to increase sales.
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investment:
£34,970
Magway is a sustainable and reliable transport solution that aims to improve air quality and congestion. It is the winner of Innovate UK grant and has been recognised as a top 100 Global Startup. Magway is planning initial revenue opportunity from short routes around airports. Moreover, the company has an agreement in place with a leading engineering firm to plan implementation. It is a high-impact investment opportunity that plans to generate revenues by expanding internationally, transforming delivery around urban centres in the UK, and providing secure goods handling solutions for airports. With the proceeds, Magway aims to accelerate development, register further patents, and build the team.
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investment:
£1,344,460
Postio is a secure, dynamic, community driven delivery system. Postio offer the option of same-day and within-the-hour delivery to all. Sending and receiving parties are able to track their driver and therefore their package in realtime.
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investment:
£35,220
Kolanot flex shipping portal is an AI-enabled platform for container shipment price comparison, booking and tracking. The company aims to provide the holy grail of door-to-door container shipping experience to customers without any intermediary.
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investment:
£40,680
Swifty is an award-winning scooter brand that aims to encourage more people to use light electric and active transportation. The company has successfully exported its scooters to 46 countries, have celebrity customers and global collaborations, and received 5-star ratings on Trustpilot and Google. With the aim to offer the complete Swifty experience, the company is planning to launch the SwiftyAPP in future. The funds will be used for finalising the application, production of new scooters and for team expansion in sales, marketing, and technology.
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investment:
£202,390
Peckwater Brands (PB) is a company engaged in the growing cloud kitchen/delivery business that runs virtual restaurant brands from the kitchens of existing restaurants. It argues that restaurants need to pay high street rents and staff wages no matter how many diners visit. Nearly 5,000 restaurants have closed in the UK since 2015 due to not being able to fulfil these tasks. PB aims to change this scenario. It helps restaurant partners use their existing staff and kitchen capacity better, and help keep struggling businesses running. The company received more than 10,000 customer orders through Deliveroo and Uber Eats. It witnessed more than £250,000 in customer sales since June 2020 and is spread across London, Manchester, Leeds, and Coventry. PB has launched four brands with four more in the pipeline. It will use the investment to get more partners, launch more brands, and acquire more customers.
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investment:
£232,208
Gustare Honey are aiming to change the way honey tastes by introducing their range of single sourse monofloral premium raw honey, each of which tastes different. Gustare Honey currently come in 4 different varieties; Delicate, Mild, Rich and Strong.
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investment:
£9,330
Rogue produces indulgent preserves by using traditional cooking methods to make luxury preserves with a provocative twist. Their aim is to be the UK's best-selling and most popular preserve brand. Rogue started working with a SALSA accredited manufacturer, that can produce the products at scale and delivers stock to their first major UK distributor. They have featured on BBC Radio Wales following a successful Royal Welsh Agricultural Show. With the proceeds, they are going to spend on marketing, scaling up their business, and planning to build a strong management team.
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investment:
£29,224
Notes is a well-established coffee shop and wine bar concept with nine locations in central London. They pride themselves in being able to source and roast at their own roastery in Canning Town which provides over 1.4m cups of coffee a year. By serving high volumes of their single-origin speciality coffee, Notes have doubled their revenue to almost £5m by just opening shops in four locations since 2015.
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investment:
£1,194,330
Launched in October 2016, Big Drop Brewing is a world-leading alcohol-free craft brewer. The company brews beer naturally by using specialist brewing methods to ensure the alcohol never exceeds 0.5%. The beer is not only Alcohol-Free, but is also gluten-free and many are low in sugar. Their award-winning lager is vegan-friendly. The company does not have a brewery of its own but partners with reputable breweries around the world, who share their brewing values to produce the beer. Big Drop Brewing has secured private funding already and meaningful distribution in the UK and 12 overseas markets. They have also secured off-trade listings in Tesco, Morrisons and Ocado. Half of the investment will be used for Sales & Marketing, 30% for new branding launch and related marketing, 10% for production costs and the remaining 10% for product development.
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Expired
investment:
£617,566
