Smoke & Salt is an award-winning, critically acclaimed restaurant that combines the idea for contemporary dining with ancient food storage methods. It is the first restaurant from Smoke & Salt Hospitality Group Ltd and has won many awards including The Cateys ‘Best Newcomer’ restaurant, a 5-star review from Time Out, and it was put 6th on the ‘Top 100 restaurants in London that you have to try’ list. The funds will be used to secure the restaurant site, buy the equipment, fund the fit-out and working capital for the company.
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£154,225
Harvey’s British Eatery is a 35 to 40 cover eatery focused on re-establishing the heritage of British cooking. Harvey’s recipes draw on the best in the British Isles, using seasonal ingredients. The investment will be used to take their eatery to a permanent site in London.
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£193,550
10Cast forensic forecasting is a cloud and mobile AI application that integrates with legacy CRM systems to improve B2B forecasting.
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£90,056
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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£617,566
East London Liquor Company export from east London to 20 countries worldwide. They have plans to launch in Ibiza, Toronto, Los angles, New York and Shanghai. They also own their own restaurant. Since 2014 they have grown there team from 4 to 30 people. London dry gin has won many award and the East London Liquor Company produces over 12,000 bottles of gin a month.
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£1,326,450
Aspira is dedicated to leveraging drones and sustainable coatings for environmental improvement. Their technology directly addresses issues like air pollution, carbon reduction, wind turbine cleaning, and extends material lifespan. Aspira develops drone technology to efficiently apply eco-friendly coatings for a better environment.
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£341,564
Software as a Service (SaaS) business for Recruitment generating recurring revenues on a scalable cloud platform. Used by HR, Recruiting Teams and HR Managers. Proven that we can sell to our target market we seek growth capital to build out our chosen go to market strategy.
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£280,000
B-North is a UK-based business lending company. It has combined cloud-native technology with face-to-face relationship banking. The company asserts that SMEs account for over 60% of private-sector employment in the UK, have driven job growth over the past ten years, and are central to driving economic recovery. It intends to disrupt the £150 billion UK Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) lending market. B-North has raised a seed capital of over £6.8 million including a six-figure investment from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority to establish its core team, as well as, build lending and deposit-taking platforms. The company is now seeking further investment through a bridge round to extend the cash runway from the end of Q4 2020 into Q1-Q2 2021 to achieve the necessary regulatory capital to become a bank and commence lending.
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£2,149,256
Byrd is a coaching platform that works around everyday life to keep people running. It asserts that its unique EQAI-coach uses 1 billion variables to coach people to their goal, whether that’s simply to remain healthy or to hit a specific event. The company estimates that 200 million people were running globally in 2018. It seeks to target this group and become a contender in a fitness market that is estimated to be worth $2.4 billion. The company has created and tested two beta versions of its Android and iOS apps. It points out that it has conducted surveys involving hundreds of runners clocking in 20,000 km of running and incorporated that data into its portal. Byrd argues that its app has been built on Google Cloud infrastructure and is ready to horizontally scale. It will use 40% of the investment in product evolution, 20% in acquisition, 23% towards marketing, and 17% towards enriching customer experience.
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£266,836
Appital is an emerging financial market platform that will use digital profiling, unique algorithms and notifications to connect institutional demand and supply. With Appital, corporate and institutional companies within the equity capital markets space will have the opportunity to exchange illiquid equity without an investment bank or broker. Appital will also remove the dependence on email and phone, thereby ensuring efficiency and accessibility. The company is raising fund to built the Appital software, achieve FCA regulation, generate marketing material and gain contracts with partner settlement and KYC providers. Furthermore, the company will enhance the functionality of the software by leveraging its network to other products such as primary debt and primary equity deal flow.
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£349,060
