Sweep is an expense management tool that relies on Open Banking and helps Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) automate highly manual and time-intensive processes to cut costs and increase productivity. The company argues that Covid-19 has necessitated the use of automation and remote work. Sweep asserts that its technology can automate expense management flow from capture to expense report while detecting fraud in real-time. The company has raised more than £400,000 to date. It recently won a £456,000 grant from Innovate UK in August 2020. Sweep will use the investment to improve its current tools while developing new features, launch in other European markets like France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, and grow its business across different verticals.
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investment:
£129,350
Manigo will provide an easy, secure and cost-effective way to manage everything around your money. We want to be the go-to place for everything around banking and payments - think of it as the Amazon for your money and related services. To do this, we’re building an open architecture, designed for other companies to integrate and operate within our ecosystem- we see Blockchain technology as a natural fit.
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investment:
£510,630
RightIndem is a white-label insurance software platform designed to deliver fast claims to claimants on its portal. The company develops and sells its own proprietary cloud-based digital claim process management software ‘as a service’ to the global insurance market. Insurtech is a vast market and attracts large amounts of investment, with $4.36 billion invested in the first three quarters of 2019. Till date, it has contracted clients such as Axa XL, Archipelago, NN Belgium, NN Netherlands, and Mapfre, with engagements at various levels of implementation and progress in the UK, Italy, Peru, US, and South Africa. They have also earned regard for automating claims processes form some of the world’s largest insurance organizations allowing for the settlement of low to mid-value claims within hours instead of days or months. With the proceeds, the company will connect operating expenses to the point where client revenues from claim volumes match operating costs.
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investment:
£200,001
SupportRoom is an online mental health and well-being platform connecting individuals and businesses with therapists. The company's core proposition is its Employee Support Platform (ESP) that focuses on improving employee well-being and engagement. It asserts that its portal generates employee anonymised data accessible to present organisations that can then use this to identify real problems and implement change without making assumptions. SupportRoom argues that clients can communicate with therapists via in-app messaging, videos and voice messages on its portal. SupportRoom has secured six partnerships to drive B2C and B2B growth. The company has over 600 verified external therapists on its roll call. It was chosen as a 'Top 50 Most Exciting Mhealth platforms for 2021' by Welp magazine. SupportRoom states it will use the investment to build the best-in-class virtual mental health clinic with therapists and hire a team of solution sellers and marketers to grow its business.
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investment:
£317,310
GoodBox is a tech-for-good company transforming the charity sector with established fundraising technologies which effortlessly combine donors and causes. It has worked with more than 600 charities and dealt with over £2,000,000 in donations. GoodBox has a team of 25, received an array of awards, and been part of reputable accelerator programmes. The company gives its 700+ clients access to a real-time analytics portal which monitors the efficiency of their fundraising. The proceeds will service four main areas: Hardware/stock, Research and Development, Team expansion, and Marketing & PR.
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investment:
£1,445,758
We Share Apps is a new web based app store that works on all devices. They use the cloud to store the apps and made the platform free to use. Since the released version in 2017 they have 10,000 apps and have experienced 98% of their traffic from emerging markets.
EIS Pending SEIS Pending
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investment:
£108,270
The Academy of Robotics have developed Kar-Go, an AI controlled pod-shaped driverless vehicle which autonomously delivers packages to residential areas. By removing the need for humans in the last mile delivery this allows customers to receive deliveries at almost any time, and at a fraction of the traditional cost.
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£291,980
ImpactRI Limited has designed a decision-making software system called QIARK that collects, analyses and evaluates all languages without setup. This crowdsourcing platform creates new business opportunities, designed to answer questions to encourage commercial and social innovations, and generate problem-solving ideas. The system is designed to be simple to use and it produces inclusive and biased results for its users in minutes. The software QIARK is also selected for Denmark's Participatory Democracy Project. It is addressing the needs and wants of Citizen data scientists and experts. With QIARK, the company is hoping to change the way decisions are made to create new opportunities for commercial growth.
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investment:
£223,060
Beatstream allows users to listen live to bars, clubs and music venues all around the UK using it's music streaming app that's entirely venue centric. Beatstream also gives artists the opportunity to showcase their music and creativity without having to get people to invest by buying a ticket.
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investment:
£32,240
Black Young Professionals (BYP) Network is a company that empowers black professionals around the world to solve the problems they face through economic empowerment and connectivity. The company has grown from side hustle to a 6-figure revenue-generating company with over 40,000 members. BYP allows both members and corporate partners to avail a variety of offerings including webinars/events, blogs, newsletters, podcasts, a social networking app, and job board alerts. The company has about 60 corporate partners including Accenture, Facebook and Soho House. It has featured in publications including BBC, Roc Nation, and Forbes. BYP Network has won the Maserati Top 100 Most Innovative Companies and a place on The Mayor of London’s International Business Programme and London Stock Exchange Elite Program. The company will use the investment to have a user base of over 500,000 black professionals with 2% on its premium model in the next 18 months through marketing, scale its leadership, sales, and content teams, and improve its current technology platform to make it more intuitive.
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Expired
investment:
£853,982
