aylo's goal is to expedite the shift toward a circular economy. With £22 million in annual recurring revenue, backing from venture capital, and certification as a B Corp, their technology platform facilitates the leasing and reusing of consumer products, making sustainability more accessible and affordable. Raylo recognizes that consumers and retailers will embrace this transition if it's both cost-effective and straightforward.
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investment:
£1,282,150
RemitRadar is a platform for sending and receiving money transfers or remittances. The company has 350,000 monthly average users and 1.2 million remittance agencies on its portal. The remittance sector comprises more than 250 million migrant workers who send money home and more than 700 million recipients who receive the money with a total transaction value of over $2 trillion. The company aims to be a major contender in this segment. RemitRadar is also working with the United Nations (UN) agencies to ensure that migrant workers and their families face negligible hassles sending and receiving money. The company will use 35% of the investment for software development, 35% to increase market penetration, 10% to recruit retailers and financial institutions into its lending model, and 20% to manage overhead costs.
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investment:
£360,126
Oval Money is the leading European automated saving and crowd investing marketplace that brings simple access and diversification to investment solutions for people who don't have large sums of initial capital. The company is backed by major VC investors and supported by the largest banks in Europe.
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investment:
£626,310
Riversimple is a car manufacturer and service provider that is spearheading ‘next-generation’ Hydrogen electric vehicles. It sells mobility as a service and retains ownership of its cars. Their pricing structure allows customers to pay a single monthly fee that covers the vehicle, fuel, maintenance, and insurance costs. It's proprietary offering, Rasa, is a two-seat local commuter vehicle that can achieve a 250mpg equivalent fuel figure with a 300-mile range from a 3-minute fill. The company has recently been awarded two new grants from The Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) for £1.25 million to support the build of its first low volume production run, and another from InnovateUK worth £0.5 million to support the deployment of cars in the Milford Haven Energy Kingdom project. The company has also been featured in several prominent publications such as The Guardian, CNBC, BBC Wales, Reuters and CNN to name a few. The company will use the investment to expand its engineering team and start volume production to reach product commercialisation by the end of 2022.
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investment:
£504,000
Website: www.riskrewardlimited.com
Risk Reward Ltd is a global banking and financial services training, consultancy and recruitment specialist that operates from its offices in London and recently opened a second office in Miami to service its business in the Americas. The company specialises in risk and compliance training and recruitment, the fastest growing part of the sector.
The business is raising equity investment for the first time in its 13-year history, giving investors the first opportunity to become part of this successful and fast growing business.
Established in 2002, Risk Reward’s client list has evolved to incorporate the names of national and international banks, leading financial services companies and insurance firms spanning five continents. Clients include international training firms and specific banks including the British Bankers Association, GPS, MIS, Al Rajhi Bank, FBN, First Gulf Bank, HSBC, Lloyds Bank, Wells Fargo and many more prominent names.
Several growth-spurring developments are happening simultaneously to lead the company to offer 5% in its market-leading business to new investors:
* Exceptional growth in its training business; the company has developed its retail training business in London and Dubai, and has also developed its multi-lingual global training services
* Investment has been made in development of a new recruitment businesses which is now approved by a number of companies and has been followed by taking over the business of Buckley Alan, a 12 year old recruitment firm
* Recently opened a US office in Miami
* Developed a learning management system which is successfully installed in a major bank and links skills to training delivery
* Published two best-selling money laundering deterrence works and a major text on business mathematics
* Approved by 5 major institutes to offer their training products including the CISI, ICAEW and ACAMS
Sales vary month on month between £150,000 and £200,000, and recent unsolicited valuations have put the company’s worth between £7-12 million.
These valuations also took into account the level of investment written off during the year developing the learning management system, recruitment business and US office. Business growth is around 25% per annum in this fast growing sector.
The fast-moving business requires equity investment to fuel its growth as the company strives to develop its already-strong position as a technical leader in its space.
This pitch represents an opportunity to invest in a respected training and recruitment business with a wealth of prominent clients.
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investment:
£25,300
Photocrowd is a photograph community that connects photographers with one another. It also provides a platform for these photographers to earn money from their best photographs. Photocrowd currently have 31,000 members signed up in 166 different countries.
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investment:
£595,620
Salty Commune is a dedicated co working space for the creative community, inspired by rock and roll. They have secured an iconic building in Shoreditch which is due to launch in April and are now looking for investment to acquire more properties.
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investment:
£219,692
Avida Global (AG) is a Business-to-Business (B2B) producer of high-quality medicinal cannabis oils and derivatives for the global medical, well-being and cosmeceutical markets. The company has a cultivation and processing facility in North-East Colombia. It asserts that the therapeutic properties of the cannabis plant has driven 53 countries to legalise its use, with more to follow. AG seeks to capture this demand and become a contender in the medicinal cannabis market that is expected to soar from $33.1 billion to $84.0 billion by 2028. The company has received regulatory approvals for initial non-psychoactive cannabis cultivation, manufacturing, and export licences in 2019. It is working on a partnership with a medicinal cannabis prescriber through doctors and clinics for the supply of medicinal cannabis strains in the UK. The company will use 40% of the investment to drive revenue growth, 25% as capital expenses, and 35% as additional operating expenses.
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investment:
£1,646,249
A financial management software application for consumers to view everything from credit files and bank accounts, to vouchers and cashbacks. Score Genius aims to launch an Alpha version of their product at the end of 2018, with a public release planned for March 2019. The service will offer users the ability to monitor their credit files and perform transactions on their bank accounts and credits, as Open Banking will be integrated into the platform.
Score Genius is near completion of negotiations with large technological partners. Investments will used to market the platform and further develop features and functions, ready for the public release in 2019. Revenue streams will be comprised of advertisements, redeeming vouchers and users looking to switch their energy.
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investment:
£144,920
Thyngs is a touch-free instant payment platform for businesses and charities. It has around 20 active re-seller partners for new sectors and markets. The company is working with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as part of its raise programme and actively engaging with several Series A Venture Capitalist (VC) funds intending to raise £4-5 million in late 2021 to scale its business. Thyngs aggregates various payment partners including PayPal, Worldpay, Apple Pay and Google Pay. The company was the cashless donation platform for 210,000 fundraising events for Macmillan's 'World's Biggest Coffee Morning', which raised £27 million in 2019. Many reputed organisations such as Warner Bros, Royal British Legion, Wasabi, National Geographic, and ANZ Bank are working with Thyngs. The company will use the investment to enhance its marketing campaign, bolster its sales team, work on data security and integrations on its platform, and expand the account management team to boost its business.
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Expired
investment:
£329,591
