Wi-Fi Securities Limited is a cyber security company that aims to revolutionise the security of public access Wi-Fi. To realise this vision, the company is developing a unique patent-protected system called SpriteGuard™ which will protect you and your data from hackers by stopping you connecting to fake hotspots. The system is targeted towards the $550 bn worldwide hospitality industry and has the ability to expand to other large global markets like city-wide free Wi-Fi, airports and coffee shops. Moreover, Wi-Fi Securities Limited has a highly experienced Wi-Fi Securities management board that has a track record of delivering multi-million-pound projects from concept to successful commercial deployment.
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Extended
investment:
£1,014,708
Avoiding unnecessary product packaging by offering zero-waste and technological alternative. CupClub uses RFID to keep track of how packaging is being handle in the supply chain and then developing an optimised method to reduce wastage whilst increasing efficiency. Their technology can also provide consumer behaviour data by tracking retail sales and location information. These statistics can offer businesses greater insights into customer trading patterns.
Two versions of CupClub will exist; one designed for food service restaurants and cafés and another designed for retail and office environments. Their revenue model consists of a small standard rate that is charged per drink, which is then multiplied by the average number of sales per day. A tiered level of contracts ranging from £50 to over £1m are offered. Integrating the CupClub technology also carries its own set-up costs and a further fee applies to third-parties that wish to gain access to analytics collected by CupClub.
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Expired
investment:
£156,000
Koble claims that its data-driven Software as a Service (SaaS) tool helps accelerators and incubators streamline their selection process so they can focus on the most promising founders. The company's vision is to price early-stage startup risk and reward. It intends to move from a Software as a Service (SaaS) workflow tool to the startup-investor marketplace. Koble asserts that pre-seed and seed investors lack a quantitative approach in the early stage of recognising promising startups. Koble argues that its approach is different; it claims that its algorithms are built to mimic the decision processes (both analytical and intuitive) that humans go through when analysing a startup. The tool collects structured, well-tagged data that is not available in the public domain and power the first algorithms that can predict startup success. The company envisages three exit options, namely launching an IPO, avail buyout offers from big technology entities and avail buyout offers from financial buyers.
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Expired
investment:
£525,500
Africa New Energies has a mission to improve the lives of millions of sub-Saharan Africans by delivering them electricity in an environmentally responsible way. The company is an innovative oil and gas exploration business. We start with a huge asset: a drilling concession in Namibia in territory the size of Wales which contains 32 potential natural gas and oil fields. A conservative estimate is that there are 1.6 billion barrels of oil in the rocks there. If we can prove that the energy is there and can be economically accessed we will have increased our value 600 fold and be sitting on blocks valued at $6.5bn/£4bn.
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Expired
investment:
£563,631
Novai is a UK biotechnology company, developing and commercialising transformational technology in ophthalmology. The company's initial focus is on ophthalmic disorders such as glaucoma and AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration). Novai argues that current clinical endpoints lack early disease biomarkers to objectively detect and measure cell health and response to treatment in the retina. Novai asserts that its proprietary biological marker, DARC (Detection of Apoptosis in Retinal Cells), combined with its bespoke and patented Artificial Intelligence (AI) aided algorithm, allows, for the first time in vivo, identification of cellular-level disease activity in the retina. Novai stresses that DARC can also predict disease progression, allowing for enrichment of clinical trial cohorts. The company anticipates an exit via licensing of its biomarker business to a Contract Research Organisation (CRO), an Initial Public Offering (IPO) following a successful phase 3 trial of the diagnostic platform, or trade sale to a strategic pharmaceutical company.
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Expired
investment:
£1,314,967
Ordoo believes that in 3 years everyone will order food and drink via digital channels. They’re determined to transform the way we order by creating exceptional mobile ordering experiences. As a result, Ordoo has built a mobile ordering app that saves busy people time ordering food and drink. Ordoo plans to lead the transformation to digital ordering and help our partner venues increase their profitable sales. Their mobile ordering platform has proven to increase customer frequency by 3x/month, average spend by 13% and encourage word of mouth referrals. Since launching in January 2016, they’ve processed 35k+ orders, signed up 19k+ users and partnered with 75+ venues in 3 cities.
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Expired
investment:
£50,000
ARROE Limited is planning on creating an ecosystem of software and hardware products to eliminate the charging problem. The company has made the first universal laptop charging solution by joining software and hardware. Since 2016, the business and products of the company have evolved enormously, but the key focus of the company is to free people from the wall socket. It will sell their products through three channels: B2C (Website), B2B and B2C (Brand partners). The ARROE application will become the virtual assistant for power management.
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Expired
investment:
£360,000
SilkFred is a curated online marketplace for over 200 independent fashion brands. It’s a destination for customers seeking to differentiate their wardrobes. SilkFred cuts through the noise of online shopping and provides a central destination for female shoppers to find affordable pieces that their friends won’t have (and will love!). Having cultivated a cult social media status and attracted a growing number of loyal shoppers and brands, SilkFred is now ready to scale its business model rapidly.
www.silkfred.com
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Expired
investment:
£906,630
BrightMove Media (BMM) has positioned itself at the forefront of the Digital Out of Home media supply-side revolution by designing, manufacturing and licensing a technology platform which facilitates vehicular digital advertising. BrightMove's core business is in proprietary SaaS (Software as a Service) technology that runs the hardware on transport vehicles - this is a 90%+ gross margin business - it is highly scalable across different countries and different industry verticals. The three key growth sectors for our business are taxi-top advertising both within the UK and overseas, corporate advertising via domestic commercial van fleets and third party digital screen networks.
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Expired
investment:
£260,004
Society states that it allows every student community in the world to create their app instantly for free within minutes. It argues that although 90% of Generation Z uses apps, developing a customised app is expensive, time-consuming, and requires an advanced skill set. Society app aims to address this situation with its platform. It has over 10,000 active members and over 700 clubs signed up on its portal. Society claims that it is the fastest growing app for student clubs in the UK and is growing exponentially. Society has raised £100,000 in its previous pre-seed round of investment. It has 100% of dental societies, 33% of African Caribbean societies and 90% of barts student union clubs signed up with an 80-90% student participation rate. Society asserts that its app is free for students with a University email address. By 2023, Society intends to receive Venture Capital and Series A funding and scale the brand to the US and global markets.
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Expired
investment:
£450,000
