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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Extended
investment:
£10,000
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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Extended
investment:
Withheld
Morgan Goodwin is a UK-based company that pioneers the Combined Trading Platform (CTP) category, offering a comprehensive online platform for small businesses engaged in physical goods trading, along with specialized software development services, and a broad-spectrum business consultancy approach aimed at enhancing growth, efficiency, and technological advancement.
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Stretch
investment:
£788,519
Doqit offers a solution for managing life admin tasks, helping you organize important information, set action dates, and receive timely reminders, ultimately streamlining tasks like insurance renewals and warranties to reduce unnecessary expenses and simplify your life. It provides secure storage and easy access for vital information, transitioning from chaos to simplicity.
Security is also a priority for Doqit. The platform ensures that your sensitive information is stored securely, giving you peace of mind knowing that you can access your important documents and data whenever you need them, all within a few clicks.
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Extended
investment:
£87,500
UTU is a company dedicated to building the trust infrastructure for the evolving web 3.0. They aim to facilitate safer and more reliable interactions between users and platforms by utilizing a decentralized reputation and reviews protocol. This protocol involves a non-tradable reputation token (UTT) that users can stake to endorse others, leading to positive outcomes. UTU's focus initially lies in Web3 and DeFi apps, where they provide AI-powered tools to curate trust signals and help users engage confidently in various online activities. They offer a range of products, including the UTU Trust Token, Browser Extension, and Trust API/SDK, all aimed at enhancing trust and security in digital interactions.
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Extended
investment:
£150,000
Vid is a technology entity that aims to pay social media users with cryptocurrency. It argues that crypto is only available to the tech-savvy and the financial-minded. Vid wants to change this and provide access to the latest Decentralised Finance (DeFi) innovations to everyone. Vid's app is available on both iOS and Android and allows users to create and share unique content. Vid's native cryptocurrency, VI, listed on UniSwap and Liquid, permits users to increase their earnings by creating, sharing, and watching videos. Vid's upcoming product, One Wallet, gives users the option to store and spend all of their digital and fiat currencies, such as USD, Euros, GBP, Bitcoin, ETH and VI, using one debit card. Vid has onboarded 65,000 users to date and featured in publications such as Bloomberg, Coin Telegraph, The Daily Chain, and Coin Desk. It will use 60% of the investment for hiring personnel across various portfolios, 30% on marketing and brand awareness, and 10% on technology up-gradation.
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Expired
investment:
£373,281
Billmonitor is a specialist mobile tariff price comparison tool that uses proprietary software to provide money-saving deals to its clients. It is accredited by the UK Office of Communications. The company asserts in its research that while consumers are overpaying mobile bills by 66%, Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) businesses are overpaying by nearly 96%. Billmonitor claims that its tool can identify savings on average of 40% or £148 annually for consumers and 49% or £195 annually per connection for SMEs. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the company managed to deliver revenue growth of over 30% in 2020/21. Its recurring monthly revenues increased by over 50% as compared to the average of 2019/20. It will use 50% of the investment for working capital needs, 20% to expand its sales team, and 20% as buffer funds.
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Expired
investment:
£260,000
Smart Trade App is a software-based payment app that accepts card payments directly from the phone. It helps small business owners all over the UK. The app further includes features in it such as invoicing, light CRM, team management, reporting as well as the ability to delegate jobs. Smart Trade App has got the most Disruptive Payments Tech award 2019 and has processed transaction volumes worth £1.5 million. Large high street banks in the UK have approached the company for their business accounts. They have also signed an agreement with CardOne banking and has formed a strategic partnership with MasterCard.
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Expired
investment:
£268,152
Snoop is an application that aims to save a user's money by using data analytics. Snoop falls under the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) regulated Open Banking technology. The company asserts that Snoop can help every household in the UK save at least £1,500 each year. The app lets a user connect his/her bank accounts and credit cards to Snoop to observe all the balances and transactions together from a single portal. Snoop also watches a user's bills and lets the user know if he/she is paying too much or if there’s a price hike. The app also creates a 100% personalised feed of money-saving ideas based on the user's spending patterns. Snoop has grown to over 100,000 downloads and 75,000 customers since early 2020, delivered over 1 million money management tips to customers, and featured in publications like The Guardian, Financial Times, and The Telegraph. It will use 57% of the investment to grow its business, 21% to develop app functionality, and 22% for business operations.
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Expired
investment:
£8,445,740
Baanx is a Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C) banking platform that is Application Programming Interface (API) driven and digitaly-friendly. It aims to become a contender in the digital asset financial services market that is estimated to rise to $40 trillion by 2030. 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. The company has witnessed £1.4 million in revenue in 2020. It will start shipping its cards to 30+ EU countries in 2021 and roll-out its ‘plug-and-play’ wallet/card/exchange/mobile app on leading open-source blockchain network, Tezos, targeting the latter's 3 million+ global user base. Baanx will use the investment to increase its staff to 40-50 personnel by the end of 2021, expand into Asian, Middle Eastern, and North American markets with regulatory approvals, and invest in digital asset-backed lending and investing.
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Expired
investment:
£9,990,280
