Studio Pictures Ltd is a UK-based film and TV production company founded by producers Adam Rolston and David Braithwaite in 2019. Specializing in creating high-quality British entertainment content, the company focuses on adapting books to screen and telling unique true-life stories that entertain and inspire both domestic and international audiences. With successful productions like "A Street Cat Named Bob," the company is building a strong brand and reputation in the industry. Studio Pictures has access to top creative talent and collaborates with major studios like Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, and Studio Canal. The company is located at Twickenham Studios in Richmond, UK.
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27
investment:
Withheld
Endurance Sports TV (ESTV) is a portal that focuses on events like live racing, race reports, athlete biographies and documentaries. It aims to deliver engaging high-quality content via a Subscription-Video-On-Demand (SVOD) service available via web, mobile and TV mediums (Apple, Android, Firestick, Roku and Chromecast). ESTV has 81 million endurance sports fans and participants globally. The company’s app has seen more than 5000 downloads in over 100 countries. The platform also offers advertisement-free curated viewing to its viewers. ESTV has curated over 600 sports videos since 2019. The company will use the investment to focus on making video content broadcasting special features with global sports talent and covering top events. It will also use its PR & marketing teams to reach out to sports journalists and utilise social media channels to connect with fans and participants everywhere.
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Expired
investment:
£82,220
Licklist is a social marketplace for nightlife. It is the only website that allows users to keep up to date with the latest news, reviews and events across the UK. For nightclubs and bars, they provide innovative tools for the users to fill a venue both cost-effectively and efficiently. They have a directory of over 6,000 venues to the community on their platform and operate the UK's largest photography agency with over 1,200 photographers, covering over 2,000 events per month and uploading over 50,000 photos per week. Till now, they have more than 600,000 registered users and they are growing by 10k-15k new users per month with positive cash-flow. With the proceeds, they will build a sales team, spend more on marketing and technology.
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Expired
investment:
£140,727
True Royalty Television is the first and only established TV channel serving the global millions of Royal super-fans, with 20,000 paying subscribers already on its platform. The British Royal Family is the 4th biggest brand in the world. With 350+ hours of top quality Royal content, refreshed monthly and with exclusive commissions, True Royalty curates relevant titles according to Royal news and the viewer's interest areas—British Royals, World Royals, and Royalty through history. There are 25 million people in the US alone who identify as both active Royal fans and who stream on-demand TV, up almost 300% from 8.6 million in 2018. The founders of the channel have assembled a diverse team of proven experts in TV production and distribution, digital marketing, PR, and brand partnerships from around the world. With the investment, the channel has identified partners for further growth opportunities including launching beyond the current US, Canada, Australia, NZ, UK & Ireland into India, Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East demographics.
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Expired
investment:
£2,148,699
paus is an on-demand streaming service. It offers specialist, hand-picked independent films to today's streamers who wish to avail a niche streaming service in 2020. The company aims to propel curated independent cinema into the $161 billion global streaming market by replacing conventional subscription and ad-based models with a peer-to-peer digital tipping model. paus is working with globally recognised film institutions to procure curated content. Over 1,900 people have signed up for early access to its iOS app. The company is currently rolling out a beta iOS version in the UK and US. It will use the investment to move into streaming theatre and web-series on its portal.
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Expired
investment:
£352,724
Trippki is a live and operational hotel booking platform with more than 1.6m hotels around the world. The platform accepts payment in cryptocurrency for a growing crypto community who want to grow the ecosystem. The company caters to both the new traveller and the experienced traveller for offering a user-friendly hotel booking portal where users have access to hotels globally at competitive prices through Trippki.com. The company's standard booking platform is 'The Trippki Travel Club' where users become exclusive members to get access to discounts up to 60% off the public price. 45% of the proceeds will be used on towards the company's marketing and sales campaign to drive users to the hotel booking platform, 35% for team building and the rest of the 20% for the development of the platform.
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Expired
investment:
£40,220
Ortharize is a business travel platform that enables companies to cut their travel bills by rewarding their employees for spending less on flights, hotels and trains. With a proven business model, the company is confident that their innovative incentives platform coupled with competitive customer pricing will lead to rapid growth. They are in talks with Expenses Software Company to rollout to 1000+ customers. Moreover, through its partnership with Travel & Transport, Ortharize also has access to global airline and hotel inventory with pre-negotiated discounts and commission from launch. The company is planning to exit within 5 years and expect this to be through a trade sale.
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Expired
investment:
£435,360
Jeeni is an online entertainment service that aims to harness the growing reach of streamed music. It has close to 350 million subscribers and a growth rate of 39% Year-on-Year (YoY) providing billion-dollar revenues for digital disruptors. The Jeeni prototype was launched in April 2019. The company asserts that it offers artists an ethical revenue share. Five revenue streams are operating in parallel on the Jeeeni platform, namely, subscription-based memberships, online masterclasses, bespoke hardware sales, pay-to-view streamed events, and branded merchandise sales. The company's long term goal is to surpass its target paid subscriber numbers, achieve high subscriber growth and exit by acquisition. The investment raised will be used to further scale the company's capacity globally and build its mass artist showcases.
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Expired
investment:
£118,854
YellowWood Adventures Limited is an adventure travel company that pioneers in small group adventures in destinations like Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Lebanon, Ladakh, and soon, Oman. The company believes in supporting local economies, discouraging littering and adopting sustainable tourism, and supporting charities while taking its clients on tours. The global adventure tourism industry is projected to reach $1,626.7 billion by 2026, and the company finds itself as a suitable contender in this category. YellowWood has been featured in publications such as The Telegraph, Times, CNN & NatGeo. The company will use the investment to expand its team and marketing budget, enhance its products catalogue, and structure its website to further communication with its clients to boost its business.
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Expired
investment:
£61,810
SkiYodl is a technology-led business that intends to transform the knowledge of people who live in the mountains into an online marketplace of handpicked accommodation and experiences. The company's growing network of in-resort fixers aims to bring customers the best resort discovery and handpicked accommodation, so they can book the exact trip they are looking for. SkiYodl asserts that it has generated £350,000 in booking revenue since its inception, built a community of 30,000 followers, and has a registry of 2000+ handpicked properties in the Alps. It will use the investment to expand into more locations, increase its property portfolio across the Alps and into North America and Japan, build the SkiYodl App and pocket concierge, and expand Yodl Group beyond SkiYodl and HUSH to include SunYodl and CityYodl.
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Expired
investment:
£778,159
