Borrow A Boat (BaB) is a boat charter company that allows customers to book boats of all types online for charter - whether a short-notice request for day hire, a long weekend on board, or a 7-14 day boating trip for an upcoming summer holiday. The company asserts that it is the UK's leading boat charter marketplace with access to over 35,000 boats listed in 65+ countries. BaB was the headline sponsor of the UK's biggest boat show in 2019 - the Southampton International Boat Show. It claims that the global yacht charter market is projected to reach $25 billion by 2027. BaB aims to make boating easier than ever for people and become the segment leader. The company intends to launch into eight new countries in 2021. It will use 60% of the investment for paying its in-house tech team who are developing the user experience and automation of the BAB portal and app, 35% for digital marketing including content, and 5% towards covering company overheads such as accounting and legal.
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£501,710
Clima Investments is a green technology company. It wants to shift the narrative in green investing towards the companies that can enable CO2 avoidance. The company's platform allows it to share its methodology and vision with all individuals that care about climate change. It endeavours to create an equity benchmark comprised of 152 listed companies that have taken significant steps to reduce Global carbon emissions. The company also aspires to be a contender in the $250 billion green investments market. It has signed a partnership with independent ETF specialist, HANetf, for the launch of its first Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF). It will use the investment received to pay for operating expenses of creating, marketing and managing its climate-based ETF, supervise operating expenses of the company and handle the cost to run the platform.
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£342,207
Orto is a co-leasing service for sports and luxury cars. Starting with this innovative new service model, our long term vision is to build a premium automotive lifestyle business that will deliver all of our customers' driving needs - performance cars, day-to-day transport, and related lifestyle planning - through a single, brilliant service.
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£101,857
Borrow A Boat is a mobile and web-based marketplace that allows users to book all types of boats online for charter, be it on a short-notice request for the day, a long weekend on board, or a 7-14 day boating trip for your summer holiday. The company is providing a 21st-century solution to the people of Britain and changing how people go boating. Till date they have been backed by VC Edition Capital, following on with £1m lead investment with over 22,000 boats listed in over 65 countries. They have been headlined as the sponsor of the UK's biggest boat show in Southampton in 2019.
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£1,325,390
Go Modular design and build off-site modules for the construction industry. Using their innovative modular construction technology they aim to revolutionise the construction process making it more time efficient and less expensive to produce buildings. In 2018, Go Modular are looking to open their first factory in the UK which will enable them to offer the construction industry factory-produced building units that form the finished structure at the construction site.
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£412,420
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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£40,680
pluumo makes sustainable thermal packaging material from waste feathers. The company asserts that fresh food deliveries need thermal packaging to keep ingredients frozen and prevent spoilage. pluumo claims that plastics such as Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) are used in this process, leading to 141,000 tons of plastic waste generated in the EU in 2019. pluumo asserts that its patent-pending material matches the performance of EPS, keeping items chilled for up to 40 hours. The company has secured £450,000 in grants/awards, including £140,000 via InnovateUK. It aims to be a contender in the $137 billion online food delivery industry. pluumo argues that 74% of consumers would pay more for green packaging, with e-commerce sustainable packaging predicted to be worth $65 billion by 2023. The company will use the investment to scale production and expand into the wider UK market.
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£511,325
Morpher have created a new concept in helmet convenience, the helmet folds flat so that it can easily be transported. The helmet is just as safe as regular rigid helmets and has passed all the relevant safety criteria for most of the world. Morpher not only want a safer world but want a greener world and have ensured most of the helmets components are recyclable.
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£1,061,666
Launched in 2015, Gone West plans to disrupt the commercial forestry sector by adopting regenrative forestry systems in place of traditional ones, thereby creating environmental and social benefits. The company has planted millions of trees and has become pretty good at it. The company's product development team is engineering solutions for environmental problems, such as its Green Light app. The company's business model is structured to provide diverse yet interconnected revenue streams. Gone West has been self-funded to this date with increasing year-on-year revenue growth since launch. With the proceeds, the company will invest 30% for operations, 20% for Marketing, 5% for Business Innovation, 20% for Forestry Services, 15% for Product development, 10% for Plant and Protect.
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£159,300
PyroCore is a waste-to-energy technology company. Its technology, Pyrolisis, burns waste and sludge for 30 minutes at 700-900 degree celsius in the absence of oxygen, which leads to reduction of waste volume by 90%, and the energy output can be used for heat, steam or power generation. It also eliminates the need for landfill sites, reduces carbon emissions, and helps businesses cut down on landfill taxes. The company has partnered with institutions such as Brunel University London and The Association for Renewable Energy and Technology. It has also contributed to charities such as Fresh Water Habitats, ALK Positive UK, and others. It is seeking support for deployment of its technology on sites where safe and easy disposal of hazardous or infectious waste can be undertaken, especially in the wake of Covid-19.
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