Lifetise is a financial planning platform that enables prospective clients to plan significant expenditures such as buying a home, marital expenses, child-rearing and retirement. Presently, they have come up with two major offerings: Homefinder and Childminder. The first one acts as a tool that shows money required to afford a home in the UK and the amount of time taken to save the money while the latter helps parents to calculate the costs of childcare along with their work. Lifetise is targeting the 25-40 age group in the UK whose population numbers are approximately 14 million. To date, they have been featured in prominent publications like Evening Standard and Stylist with an active following on Reddit. The company has secured 12,000 customers after their partnering with Accenture's Fintech Accelerator Programme. With the investment, Lifetise will spend more on developing its applications with a focus on all major life expenditures, marketing on social media channels, build partnerships and human resources.
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£254,240
Snapp CV is a mobile app which allows users to search for jobs and opportunities. They create their own profile simply by answering a few questions and attaching a c.v and video. This allows users to engage with organisations personally and when on the move.
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£205,807
GoCustomate has an aim to get rid of the pain points for the SME's when buying and selling by completely changing the way transactions occur. Till date, they have secured the licence to utilize third-party eMoney authorization from the Central Bank of Ireland, GoCustomate verifies its users, provides automated payment schedules and flexible escrow wallets. It also protects customers with their unique digital wallets. The company is fundraising to grow sales by focusing on SME customers with relevant pain points. With the proceeds, the company will expand across the EU and Australia.
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£156,300
Subscribbe is a B2B e-commerce marketplace platform for Convenience and Independent (CI) stores. It argues that about 46,000 of these stores have traditionally had no bargaining power compared to supermarkets and wholesalers. Subscribbe wants to change this and connect CI stores, manufacturers, and fulfilment centres via its platform. The company aspires to level the playing field for smaller players and enable them to become wholesale e-commerce businesses. It has been developing its platform to enable CI stores to use proprietary fulfilment and logistics technology to connect to independent warehouse and logistics operators across the UK since its launch in 2020. Subscribbe wants to become a contender in the £40 billion convenience market. It has raised £400,000 to date to hire a core team, focusing on product engineering. The company will use the investment to continue product development and testing, continue onboarding executive and operations teams, continuing from successful hires in 2020, including Subscribbe engineers and the UX/Design team, and ready to launch V1.0 of its platform in 2021.
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£140,794
A money transfer service allowing customers to send money worldwide at a lower cost compared to traditional methods. TransferGo has been gaining 1,000 customers a day since May 2018 and currently has over 700,000 users. They have processed almost £781m on their platform through 1.3m transactions and operate on a gross profit margin of 6.7%.
TransferGo has 5 offices located in London, Berlin, Istanbul, Warsaw and Vilnius, with more than 100 employees globally. The company recently launched their new product, dubbed 'NOW', that enables users to send and receive monies in less than 30 minutes across borders.
Revenue is generated via fixed transfer fees and currency conversion fees ranging from 0.0% to 2.2% per transaction. These fees are dependent on the currency's origin and the amount being transferred. A free option is available to customers whose transaction may take a couple of days to transfer.
Funds are being raised to expand the business into emerging markets and introduce new products and services. This also means that TransferGo is aiming to provide local-language support and build new partnerships to attract more customers to their platform.
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£11,297,362
Advanced Blast & Ballistic Systems Ltd (ABBS) is a pioneer in developing a patented platform technology that has military applications in mine-blast protection and for eVTOL aircraft. The combined value of these projects is estimated to be around $80 Billion by 2035. Roger Sloman (founder) has worked inexhaustibly for 10 years to make civilian and military vehicles safer. The company’s market applications consist of the military, aid agency, mine clearance, and VIP vehicles. ABBS is also working with regulatory authorities around the world such as CAA (UK), EASA (Europe), and FAA (US) to ensure the highest safety level for unmanned flight technology.
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£146,675
Flender is a social lending platform that will transform the way people use peer-2-peer finance. From funding friends to backing businesses across multiple countries Flender has taken a mobile first approach. Flender allows the borrower and the lender to set their own interest rates, as well as allowing users to lend to people they know.
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£501,700
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.
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£149,470
Giftgaming is a non-intrusive game advertising platform. The advertisments can be closed quickly and the player is rewarded with currency or power ups for their game after viewing the advert.
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£94,743
Crowdfunder has an online community of over 600,000 and has raised over £40 million for over 15,000 projects since 2012 making them the #1 rewards-based crowdfunding platform. They are now EBITDA positive and have plans to further automate their platform, as well as grow their partner network.
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£1,114,040
