Brightpearl is designed to help small to mid-sized retailers accelerate their growth and profits. Its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform allows retailers to manage core aspects of their business by combining orders, inventory, customer data, accounting, sales channels and reporting into a single, reliable retail management system.
days to go:
Expired
investment:
£3,345,427
Baanx is a Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C) banking platform that is Application Programming Interface (API) driven and digital-friendly. It aims to become a contender in the digital asset financial services market that is expected to rise and expand to over 580 million people or 7+% of the world population by 2022. Baanx argues that it is disrupting the slow and expensive banking sector by leveraging blockchain to launch secure and low-cost banking products and services, with a few lines of code. Baanx offers its users 'Digital wallets' (via API or a custom mobile app), crypto-friendly debit cards in physical and virtual formats, and allows users to send fiat or cryptocurrencies to anyone in their contact list with 'zero' Foreign Exchange (FX) fees, through its proprietary software, TextBit.
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Expired
investment:
£9,500,000
Cornerford aim to bring quality watches and accessories to the modern day gentleman, Cornerford was founded by engineer Dovy Cornerford. All Cornerford products are designed, manufactured or hand finished in the UK.
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Expired
investment:
£5,450
Ignite 100 is a 13 week accelerator program for early stage technology companies. Ignite look for unique, interesting people and help them to look at what they are trying to do with their company, who their target audience is and then introduce them to entrepreneurs that have previously been in the same situation.
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Expired
investment:
£351,310
Truckk simplifies the LID market with an online price comparison and booking platform. It matches the delivery needs of customers with hundreds of transport providers and allows them to compare and book careful, friendly, trustworthy and professional transport providers. Within two months of trading, the company has facilitated 200+ jobs, 270+ providers, and 600+ registered customers. Truckk is focusing on signing up the first 10,000 drivers, and advertising online with the latest digital marketing techniques. With the proceeds, the company will grow its online price comparison and the booking platform for the LID market, which is worth nearly £1billion a year.
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Expired
investment:
£23,460
Balkerne is designing a commercial insurance product based on Risk Management technology and Property & Casualty Insurance. Through this way, the company helps enterprises defend their property and people. The company will make sure that no property owner suffers from theft, fire or flood. It has generated net revenue of £21K in January 2019. The revenue model of Balkerne is to charge a percentage of the premium to distribute insurance and support customers with risk management by managing claims. The company has come up with an exit strategy that is to improve the performance of the acquiring company and to quickly acquire the skills and technologies at a lower cost.
days to go:
Expired
investment:
£150,000
OnCare app (iOS and Android) for care workers: enables care workers to report on their client visits through their smartphone, instead of having to deal with large amounts of paperwork.
days to go:
Expired
investment:
£149,470
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.
days to go:
Expired
investment:
£25,300
Finmo is re-imagining financial services by building tailored services and products to help the independents, self-starters and challengers of the world in attaining financial success. The Finmo solution helps users understand how much tax they owe to the government. It is the simplest way to track taxes for contractors, freelancers, and self-employed people. Finmo has made a user-friendly mobile application that has many advanced features for the self-employed who finance their business with their personal bank account. It monetises by cross-selling products and services and licensing its product out to accountants. The company has monetised the maximum investment amount of £100,000. The Goal of Finmo is to build, a sustainably profitable company.
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Expired
investment:
£150,000
BuffaloGrid aims to join connect people deprived of the benefits of the internet to the world wide web via its 'Hub'. The company asserts that the Hub is a solar-powered device that can charge 10 portable electronic devices simultaneously and provide access to digital services via the BuffaloGrid Cloud. Users can access entertainment, sports, educational and health content via the company-provided Wi-Fi and stream content for free. The company levies a fee for premium users who can download the content, for less than £1 per month, and consume it on the move. BuffaloGrid has received grants from InnovateUk and the European Commission. It will use the investment to deploy Hubs in Bangladesh, start operating in the peri-urban regions of Lagos, Nigeria, and deploy its services across refugee camps in Kenya and Uganda with the help of Techfugees and UN agencies.
days to go:
Expired
investment:
£813,090
