GoPower offers comprehensive portable solar energy solutions, designed to save you money and reduce your environmental impact. Their user-friendly solar panels eliminate the need for complex installations, allowing easy setup anywhere. Their portable solar power stations, providing up to 1000w/1280WH at 240v, are perfect for various applications such as home offices, garden rooms, boats, events, and more. With multiple output sockets and versatile charging options including solar panels and mains electricity, GoPower provides a greener and cost-effective energy alternative.
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£10,000
Stroli – the shopping trolley reimagined for modern needs. The shopping trolley, often associated with a particular image, is an untapped category ready for innovation. The market is flooded with generic, budget-friendly options that lack charm, with the exception of Rolser, which is pricier and claims the green niche. Stroli steps in as the go-to brand, offering a unique approach, positioning, voice, and eco-friendly credentials. Say goodbye to sore hands and plastic bags – Stroli makes shopping a pleasure with its high-quality, stylish trolley bags designed to enhance your convenience and style
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Rype addresses the dilemma of choosing between expensive or low-quality office furniture that contributes to carbon emissions and waste. By remanufacturing high-quality used office furniture, Rype offers cost-effective solutions with 80% lower carbon emissions and waste, while creating local jobs. Their mission is to significantly reduce office carbon emissions and costs through sustainable, circular economy practices, including exclusive furniture ranges made from waste materials. Rype's comprehensive services encompass furniture sourcing, remanufacturing, and employing marginalized individuals, contributing to a more environmentally friendly and socially responsible approach to office furnishings.
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Whey Forward Health is a leading UK based, health and wellness company. It has generated a turnover of over £7.5 million and has around 500,000 customers/users across 50 countries. Created using finest quality raw ingredients, Whey’s multi-brand product range of most purified bioavailable nutriceuticals has been featured in Forbes, Health and Wellbeing and many other acclaimed magazines. Further, to remain at the forefront of medical research and scientific innovation, Whey is also planning to launch a patented health supplement within a $133 billion market.
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Expired
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£827,738
In business since 1955, a sustainable leather goods retailer that specialises in natural finish, soft touch and fashionable products. Lakeland Leather runs 15 retail stores, that are all profitable, an e-commerce website and have recently created their wholesale division.
In the 2017/18 financial year, revenue was £9.6m, of which 7% of the group's sales were from goods sold online and this figure is increasing rapidly. Funds will be used to further develop Lakeland Leather's e-commerce facilities to meet growing customer demand for high-quality leather products and become a market leader in the industry.
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Expired
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£112,000
Vercida aims to be Europe's largest diversity and inclusion-focused careers website. Vercida's AI integrated system offers candidates with more reliable search results and job matches based on what they truly want from a workplace. The company has drawn 2 million+ visits from 136 countries, has strong comeback rates from high profile clients like Virgin and Home Office, and has won multiple awards. Vercida is driving innovation backed by technology to set new standards to attract, progress, and retain the best candidates for the job.
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Expired
investment:
£315,220
Laundryheap is a fast-growing laundry and dry-cleaning service with delivery. Laundry Heap believe that they are unique, as they are the only major on-demand laundry company to our knowledge that offers same-day collection and delivery within 24 hours as a standard service.
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£1,819,175
RheEnergise is an energy company that plans to transform pumped hydro technology and boost its capacity with its patented High-Density Hydro (HDH) technology. The company asserts that, by installing HDH on smaller hills and combining it with its HD Fluid R-19, businesses could produce 2.5 times the energy compared to low-density pumped-hydro. RheEnergise aims to install multiple HDH projects to meet the UK's growing energy needs. The company has agreements with entities like SSE, WelshPower, GreenCat Renewables and REG-Power. It is currently using its funding grants of ~£270,000 over the next nine months to build a defendable "Moat" of IP (Patents, Design and copyrights, know-how, and trade secrets) across six critical integrated sub-systems. The company will use the investment received to hire key personnel, progress patents, and accelerate its activities.
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Expired
investment:
£850,000
First Natural Brands is the owner of Tisserand Aromatherapy, one of the leading self-governing players in UK’s essential oil industry. It offers a variety of affordable organic and quality accredited products which consumers can relish as part of their daily lifestyle. Tisserand Aromatherapy is experiencing a growing interest among media, retail and consumers. Since 2007, the company’s sales have increased from £1.7mn to £6mn, owing to Robin Russell (CEO & Chairman) for bringing Tisserand into the mainstream market with a value for money proposition. Further investment will allow the company to expand its production capacity.
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Expired
investment:
£325,660
Resolve Divorce are an online platform, founded by an experienced legal team and aiming to automate the divorce process without solicitors, at a fixed fee. In the UK there are over 100,000 divorces a year and the market is estimated to be worth over £3bn a year.
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Expired
investment:
£9,540
