Sweat IT is a fitness studio in London, which provides supreme high-intensity training experience with the hardest workouts. The UK fitness industry continues to grow high at a value of over £5 billion because of increasing demand for a healthy lifestyle. Sweat IT redefines this with healthy eating and exercise. The company has the vision to take its business growth to the next level and become the leader of boutique fitness. They have partnered with Gympass, the world’s leading corporate fitness platform to deliver high-intensity fitness classes to London based corporate clients. Till date, they have had over 50,000 class bookings with more than 13,000 Instagram followers and a database of 10,000 customers. The company intends on using the investment for marketing and product branding and next-level growth. They are also looking to fund their second studio in London and have ear-marked a potential site in the City.
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investment:
£211,220
Hussle is one of the UK's top fitness marketplace, providing many flexible fitness opportunities according to your requirement. The company has provided c.2.5M gym visits, raised £12M+ to date, and serviced more than 500k customers. The platform has c.40% of UK gyms and c.3,000 fitness venues. Besides a huge customer base, 10,000 new members are added to the facility each month. It has received a rating of 4.7 stars out of 5 on TrustPilot across 1,500 reviews. So far, Hussle has raised £12M+ from Albion, MMC, Concentric, TechnoGym, and Channel 4. With the proceeds, the company aims at creating a globally trusted fitness brand by enhancing the brand's awareness and by broadening the range of physical activities available on the platform.
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£1,440,500
Ripple is a clean energy ownership platform that allows consumers to own a small part of a large scale wind farm and have the clean electricity it generates supplied to their home via the grid. The company makes clean energy ownership affordable for people who rent or live in flats or plan to move home in the future, as well as those that find the £4000-8,000 cost of installing solar panels beyond their budgets. Ripple has been selected to take part in Free Electrons 2020, the global utility start-up program which will enable it to pilot its ownership model outside the UK. The company was awarded the 2019 'Startup of the Year Award' by Seedrs and BusinessGreen technology awards. Ripple is also in talks with Centrica (owner of British Gas, UK's largest utility) about a supply partnership covering household and business customers. They are looking to use the investment on: 27% of it on legal and transaction costs for follow on projects, 25% to develop pilot projects outside the UK, 22% on business costs, 16% on building applications and website management, and 10% on marketing and new product offerings.
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investment:
£331,220
Aiming to improve the health and well-being of the UK by incorporating spa and beauty treatments into everyday life. PURE is a profitable business that currently runs 8 urban spas across Great Britain, as well as selling their own range of natural products and treatments for skincare to be used at home. Over 100k clients a year have used PURE's services, with 40% of appointments being booked via the company's website and mobile app. This has resulted in sales of £2.9m in 2017, with group revenue increasing by more than 21% in the year-to-date.
Investments will be used to open in more locations, develop more products and expand the PURE Beauty Zone marketplace for independent health and beauty businesses to sell their products in PURE's spas and on their website.
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investment:
£72,650
Gendius' has created intellin, an application through which people can track diabetes and make a good decision to reduce the risk of diabetes. It is on a mission to make sure that every person with diabetes knows their risk of complications and how to control them. The company has been launched across the EU with over 3,500 downloads in the EU and UK. In 2018, the company won £25K Momentum award to complete UX/UI research and, it has passed ISO27001. Recently, it has been invited to HIMSSHealth2.0 conference for the application's live demo.
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investment:
£518,630
Biohm is an eco-conscious bio-technology company that is revolutionising construction through nature-inspired innovation. The company has adopted methods such as circular construction system, biomimicry, and triagomy. Some of the company’s carbon-negative bio-based materials include building insulation made out of Mycelium (the root structure of mushrooms) and ORB (Organic Refuse Biocompound), a 100% natural sheet material made out of food and agricultural surplus. For its innovation, Biohm won the Waitrose and Partners Plan Plastic Prize: The Million Pound Challenge and a Power to Change grant worth £600,000 to build sustainable living premises. It has also been shortlisted as one of The United Nation’s ‘Young Champions of the Earth’. The company will use 38% of the investment to grow its team, 22% to scale Research and Development (R&D), 22% to protect its Intellectual Property (IP), and 18% for product accreditation.
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investment:
£790,700
miiCARE is a MedTech specialising in AI applied to geriatrics (elderly care). Its key product miiCUBE offers cutting-edge home-based and customised healthcare, helping the elderly enjoy their independence while being comprehensively connected to their families, friends, and neighbours. The company aims to provide these benefits to one billion people by 2028, comprising older people, family members and carers. Till date, miiCARE has secured partnerships with the UK’s largest NHS trust, Ebbsfleet Garden City, O2, Bristol Careline and Microsoft, and won multiple social impacts and digital health awards during the last 12 months. Funds raised will be used mainly for fulfilling pre-orders and close interests for large contracts with corporates, marketing and logistics, product development, sales and salaries.
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investment:
£103,672
Klymat's SaaS business model transforms vehicle fleet management for organizations and fulfills employees' transportation requirements. Through a centralized online platform offered via monthly subscriptions, Klymat empowers businesses to monitor their entire vehicle fleet and employee journeys, regardless of transportation mode. The software computes total business mobility costs and carbon emissions, providing a simpler, more visible, flexible, cost-effective, sustainable, and eco-friendly approach to corporate travel.
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Run An Empire is a mobile app that is encouraging people to get outside and start jogging/ running more often using gamification. The idea behind the app is that users run around a particular area and then that area is claimed as their 'territory' until another user jogs that area and then claims it.
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investment:
£60,370
Toraphene is an environmental technology company that aims to eliminate plastic waste. It has released with its product, Toraphene, to solve this crisis. It claims that Toraphene is a biodegradable, compostable and commercially-viable plastic packaging substitute for conventional plastic. The company asserts that its product is biodegradable even in the ocean, and has been developed using graphene technology. It is focussed on eliminating carrier bags and food containers in its first-round which account for 23% of marine waste. It aims to be a segment leader in the projected $25.4 billion biodegradable plastic industry by 2026. The company will use the investment to make Toraphene accessible to companies worldwide and make plastic packaging obsolete.
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investment:
£1,000,000
