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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Mous, an award-winning brand, has sold over 4 million accessories to 1.8 million customers, generating £24 million in annual sales as of March 2023. They aspire to become a household name in the £180 billion ($228 billion) global tech accessory market. With an in-house team of product experts, they create high-performance tech accessories and use impactful content, including extreme product demos, to promote their brand and products, resulting in millions of online views and followers. This fundraising round will help expand their product lines, particularly in backpacks and phone cases, including super-thin, recycled, and artist collaboration designs. They've also secured investment from BrewDog's founder and CEO through Crowdcube's 'The Next Unicorn' initiative.
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£1,614,153
Livia's is a brand that makes 100% plant-based, natural and indulgent treats. The company develops the recipes in-house and sells through retailers such as Tesco, Sainsbury’s & Boots, as well as, through online channels like Amazon and its website. The company has sold almost 7 million treats and has 200,000+ online followers. Their products cater to those with allergies and intolerances. They have seen sales increase by over 1,000%+ during the lockdown. Livia's will use the investment for new product development, grow its e-commerce platform, enhance its marketing and sales team, and scale its operations.
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Expired
investment:
£1,935,322
Grubby is a purpose-led recipe kit brand on a mission to make plant-based cooking more accessible without damaging the earth. It argues that there has been a 400% increase in people moving to a plant-based diet from 2014 to 2019. It intends to cater to this demand. The company asserts that it is a 100% plant-based business and intends to combine three rapidly growing areas namely, food delivery, meal kits, and plant-based diets. It also wants to become a contender in the recipe kits market that has experienced a £385 million growth since 2015. Grubby has served over 50,000 meals since its launch, received 100+ 5-star reviews, and grown sales 130% in the last quarter to £135,000. It has received investment from angel investors including founders of Skyscanner and World First. Grubby will use the investment to continue its growth through product innovation, speciality add-ons, and an enhanced digital experience to boost customer acquisition.
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Expired
investment:
£1,049,472
Feastr is a UK-based multi-brand cloud kitchen business that delivers restaurant-quality food to a customer's doorstep in 30 minutes or less. The company asserts that operating from cloud kitchens within densely populated areas allows it to exploit the booming food delivery market without the huge overheads associated with bricks and mortar restaurants. Feastr operates its restaurants on aggregators such as Deliveroo, Uber Eats, and Just Eat, capitalising on their huge ready customer base. The company has had sales of over £550,000 since its launch in November 2019. It will use the investment to open three new locations, push its digital marketing campaign with new ideas in 2021, and prepare for its next round of fundraising.
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Expired
investment:
£346,487
Comino is an international start-up specialising in the design and production of liquid-cooled PCs and servers. It claims that its products consume up to 40% less electricity than equivalent air-cooling computers. The company currently operates in AI, Forensic, Gaming, and Video Rendering, with aspirations to enter other domains in the coming years. Comino has sold 2,000 work stations to professional businesses, accruing sales north of 9 million EUR since its launch in 2017. Its products have been accredited by global hardware giants like AMD and ASUS. The company will use 70% of proceeds for manufacturing its devices, 10% towards marketing and promotional materials, and 20% to compensate its teams.
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Expired
investment:
£949,608
Mami Wata (MW) is a purpose-led, premium African surf lifestyle brand on a mission to redefine the global surf market. MW asserts that it has collaborated with luxury brand 'Moncler' and partnered with renowned stockists including Mr Porter and Huckberry. It aims to be a contender in the $9 billion global surfing market. The company argues that it manufactures all of its products in Africa, having launched in Cape Town, South Africa in 2017. It has also shipped 1200+ copies of its AFROSURF art book to 39 countries along with funding a surf therapy clubhouse in Harper, Liberia. MW has sold products to 7,500+ customers generating more than £400,000 in revenue to date. The company has featured in global media entities such as CNN, GQ, Wallpaper, Monocle, and HypeBeast. MW will use the investment for its international launch in the USA.
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Expired
investment:
£1,168,393
Thefullworks are an end to end E-commerce service, providing webshops, storage, and distribution. They aim to make online stores available for all size businesses by using a single, hassle-free platform which handles all online retail sales, from the sale to delivery. The system can work with countless integrations and easily syncs to many other systems.
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Expired
investment:
£138,710
Oxford Nanoimaging (ONI) is an offshoot company, born from the biological physics lab at Oxford University, that specialises in super-resolution microscopy. Its innovation, Nanoimager, is a super-resolution fluorescence and portable microscope that is capable of real-time 3D localization analysis and rendering. It has multiple applications in a variety of fields such as viral particle imaging, quantitative cellular imaging, epigenetic mapping, and many more. ONI states that the Nanoimager can align and analyse samples, and then upload the results onto a computer for deeper graphical and data examination. ONI is also supporting the global effort into research and diagnostics to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and finds the Nanoimager uniquely suited to this task. The company plans to use the investment to grow its business and ensure more institutions and researchers adopt its technology.
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Alphagreen is Europe's largest online marketplace for Cannabidiol (CBD) healthcare products listing over 150 brands and more than 2,500 products on its portal. It claims that it is backed by high-profile cannabis investors like Enexis, West Creek Investments, and others. It aspires to become the leader in the CBD market that is expected to be worth over £900 million in 2025 in the UK alone. Alphagreen aspires to build a trusted ecosystem for customers with Sleep, Pain and Anxiety problems, enable them to access alternative healthcare, and distribute medical cannabis from Q3 of 2021. The company has featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Prohibition Partners, The Financial Times, and The Grocer. It will use 31% of the investment for sales and marketing, 25% for team expansion, 16% for general corporate affairs, 15% for international expansion, and 13% for technology up-gradation.
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Expired
investment:
£2,039,375
