Offering people the opportunity to experience boating through a boat charter marketplace via a mobile app. Borrow A Boat allows customers to book a peer-to-peer or commercial boat near them from anywhere in the world. Boats and watercrafts listed on the platform range from stand-up paddleboards to superyachts.
Borrow A Boat lists over 16,000 boats on their marketplace, including boats from private owners. The service is available in 60 countries, with the option of renting the same day.
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£1,496,600
DeadHappy is a digital-first life insurance provider that aims to disrupt the £3.7 billion life insurance market. The company claims that traditional life insurance is complex, expensive, and inflexible. DeadHappy argues that it can offer customers a cheap, flexible and enjoyable alternative. It has developed a unique pay-as-you-go life insurance product with a rolling 10 year guarantee of cover. A simple sign-up process allows customers to answer only 4 medical questions & obtain cover in under 5 minutes, on-line, via their mobile phone. The company's proprietary Deathwish Platform enables customers to personalise their life insurance by creating ‘Deathwishes’. In 2020, DeadHappy reached 120,000+ total deathwishes and has sold 7,800+ total life insurance policies. The company will use 35% of the investment for company growth, 30% for technology development, 20% for product development, and 15% to build partnerships.
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investment:
£2,703,820
A new form of electric transport in the bike industry with the use of an affordable and simple conversion kit. Swytch have developed a kinetically rechargeable add-on for existing bikes to convert them into eBikes for a range of up to 50 miles. Funding will result in additional units being manufactured and sold at a 70% margin. The products are available online and currently via 20 independent bike dealers, with over 100 more waiting on stock.
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investment:
£349,356
Ecologi is dedicated to motivating and enabling businesses to expedite global climate action. Through Ecologi Zero, their carbon footprinting tool with Xero, customers can calculate emission and establish reduction objectives, while also funding tree planting and high quality carbon avoidance and removal projects.
They can share their impact dashboard encourage and inspiring others, and all of this is made possible through monthly Climate Action subscriptions, PAYG Impact shop, and Ecommerce API.
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investment:
£549,363
Earth Broadband stands out as one of the UK's pioneering green broadband providers, revolutionizing the way people use broadband services for environmental good. Founded by Luke Chapman in 2022 after witnessing climate change effects in Indonesia, the company aims to reshape broadband services, offering wildlife-themed packages and facilitating monthly contributions to planet-saving initiatives. Using innovative AI technology, Earth Broadband enhances customer service while empowering users to contribute to environmental causes by planting trees and removing ocean plastic through their app. The company's strategy focuses on achieving large-scale impact with a small, efficient team, aiming to revolutionize broadband provision.
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investment:
£308,580
Postio is a secure, dynamic, community driven delivery system. Postio offer the option of same-day and within-the-hour delivery to all. Sending and receiving parties are able to track their driver and therefore their package in realtime.
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investment:
£35,220
A foreign currency exchange company operating since 2005 with over 6500 customers. EuroXChanger are now seeking investment to expand the business from three locations to twelve, as well as fund development for a mobile app to allow customers to transfer monies more efficiently and conveniently.
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investment:
£51,680
Polydone is a project management platform to help tech companies plan and manage tasks, projects and people. The platform is easy to use and uses automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning to help businesses plan timelines and obtain accurate estimates - helping businesses to avoid human error by 90%. Polydone currently caters for tech companies of up to 50 people but will be expanding to other sectors and larger teams in the future.
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investment:
£128,106
Go Zero is an electric taxi service. Since its inception in 2017, the company has completed over 10,000 journeys, saved an estimated 174 tonnes of CO2, and witnessed £530,000 worth of sales. The UK taxi industry is a £9 billion-pound industry and Go Zero, with its fleet of electric taxis powered by 100% renewable energy sources, aims to be a major disruptor. The company has received 100+ 5-star customer reviews and in 2019, it added 1600 new customers to its network. In February 2020, it launched the Go Zero Network, a network of 1,000 electric taxi franchises across the UK to expand electric travel for all. Being a part of the Go Zero Network offers a franchisee the opportunity to purchase a 5-year licence enabling them to operate their own business under the Go Zero brand. It also gives them the potential to earn between £30,000 and £50,000 after costs, based on performance metrics. With the investment, the company aims to recruit a high performing team to deliver market share, focused on sales, digital marketing, social media, franchise recruitment and management.
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investment:
£124,530
InvestorConnected aim to help entrepreneurs, investors and lenders to make better business decisions. Users can create pitches, generate financials and value businesses all in one place.
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investment:
£36,170
