Celestial Labs is a drone display company that combines advanced technology with organic performance. The company's proprietary 'Skytheatre' display is a dynamic, safe and green alternative to carbon-intensive fireworks and represents a new frontier for the live event industry. Composed of a creative collective of award-winning filmmakers, musicians, developers, entrepreneurs, and storytellers, the company is constantly pushing the boundaries of drone display innovation, where technology meets imagination. The Human Support division of Celestial is a not-for-profit initiative that aims to lift the spirits of those who witness Celestial's displays whilst imparting crucial information. The company aims to enlist the support and guidance of city leadership partners, industrial conglomerates, and seek grant funding.
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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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Quin is a mobile medical app that combines daily life experience with data from diabetes devices and phones and helps people decide how much insulin to take and when. They are on a mission to help people with insulin-treated diabetes make the best possible decisions through their app. The company have received a UK research and innovation grant. Apple has granted them insider access to their engineers and executives who are helping to get Quin to market, their app has a class I CE Mark, with two patents pending. With the investment, they will hire a product designer to enhance the user experience, achieve certification and compliance with new European Medical Device Regulations, develope B2B2C distribution partnerships and launch the Quin app in the UK and Europe in late 2020.
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Expired
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£691,497
Ag Photographic+Photolab is a leading provider of photographic products and services in the UK. Since 2015, it has printed over 180,000 films and more than 2,000,000 prints. The company is averaging £10,400 EBITDA per month, and it has a growing customer base of the enthusiast, professional, and fine-art photographers. Ag has high levels of customer loyalty with more than 3,200 customers providing repeat orders. It has a custom production facility and specialist expertise. Ag seeks to grow further in the market with both international and domestic sales.
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Expired
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£129,490
EMSOL is a collaborated, passionate, expert, professional business and local authority. It intelligently focuses on air pollution that needs to be urgently reduced. The company provides an IoT platform and sensor-based service to unlock environmental insights that enable permanent, feasible, and rapid change. EMSOL measures air and noise pollution by using the latest calibrated sensors with its clever mathematics it targets interventions to reduce pollution. The company's team is a range of committed, top-quality domain experts. The company is already working with fleet operators, local councils, and developers by generating data-led insights to act on the causes of transport pollution.
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The Landsite is the UK's first online property portal that connects various entities within the property industry such as developers, legal services, insurance advisors and architects, to one another, simplifying the process of finding and buying a property. By registering with The Landsite, a business/professional can list their business as operating in a specific region of the country and appear against all property searches that take place in that same region. The user then needs to put in their postcode or address and can then access properties within that region, as well as, seek available professional guidance to zero in upon a potential purchase. The platform also has an insights page that aims to become a recruitment, training and educational hub for the property industry. The company will use the investment to grow its business across different verticals.
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Rockit design innovative sleep products that centre on child sleep issues. The company has launched an award winning portable baby rocker and since the launch in October 2017 over 14,000 Rockits have been sold. The product will be in John Lewis stores in spring and also in JoJo Maman Bebe in the summer. The funding will allow them to increase their marketing in the UK and overseas. It will also to produce the tooling for the first follow up product.
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Expired
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£253,120
Viritech is a clean technology engineering company that is using F1-derived engineering to develop hydrogen powertrain solutions and related technologies for the automotive, aerospace, marine and distributed power industries. Viritech asserts that the Hydrogen Council forecasts that hydrogen will meet 18% of global energy demand by 2050. It aims to capture this demand through its technologies. Viritech argues that its location in MIRA Technology Park allows it access to R&D facilities used by many of the world's major automotive manufacturers, allowing it to scale its resources to meet the demands of every type of project. Viritech will use the investment to produce test hydrogen tanks, build the Apricale hypercar, complete designs for a Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV), Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) and a power generator, plan a larger raise and listing on AQuis Stock Exchange (AQSE) in 2022, and eventually commercialise its technology with its partner.
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Expired
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£726,807
