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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Stretch
investment:
Withheld
Having a successful track record of building a business in the travel sector, the founder of Private Traveller, Mr. Peter Williams is sure to grow his company in the global luxury travel market which is expected to generate $1,154 billion by 2022. Founded in 2016, Private Traveller is a luxury tour operator (ATOL bonded) that aims to provide high-end holiday packages to its discerning clientele. To achieve such high-level of service standards, Private Traveller has commercial contracts in place with 17 destination management companies, 275 hotels and agreements with two air carriers.
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Expired
investment:
£65,300
LuxOlympus Mayfair are a Travel Agency who specialise in luxurious and exclusive holidays across the globe and are regulated and authorised by the TTA (Travel Trust Association). They are currently in discussions to build a presents in the UK, Greece, Italy, The Philippines, Monaco and China. This year they aim to appoint representative in 3 main cities of India.
(EIS Pending)
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Expired
investment:
£121,910
Tiger and Butterfly is a high end children’s hair salon in central London aimed at children aged 2 - 14. They will offer services from the first cut to fantasy party hair and offer party packages. The investment will be used to secure a premises and building works, stock and salon expenses.
(EIS and SEIS Pending)
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Expired
investment:
£33,140
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
Movinorth are a property search website specialising in Yorkshire, offering an effective, comprehensive and cheap marketing platform for estate agents, whilst also providing users a unique search portal when looking for a new home. Users can see an overview by postcode to compare important factors such as the community, schools, shops, sports and recreational facilities among many other factors which may influence the decision of which area to move to.
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Expired
investment:
£1,744
Empowering landlords with the tools they need to efficiently manage the letting process of their properties. Honest Homes aims to cut out intermediaries and instead offers transparent systematic guides via their online platform to save UK landlords and tenants time and money. Their service provides users with abilities to create contracts, ensure compliance and perform monetary transactions for the collection and payment of deposits and rent.
Honest Homes' all-in-one solution aims to reduce average landlord admin costs from 12%, to 3%. Their service is designed to be fully automated and includes features such as reviews and ratings for both landlords and tenants. The company is aiming to host 1.8% of UK addresses by their fifth year, which represents around 60k listings and they are also planning to expand their services into Europe.
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Expired
investment:
£166,670
Beer fans can enjoy tours of top-tier breweries, bars and pubs around the world by simply booking through an app. Beer Adventures offers 112 tours across 85 cities globally since launching in 2017, which has already resulted in more than 10,000 customers signed-up to the platform and over 1,050 tours being fulfilled. They have partnered with well-established beer producers such as Mikkeller and BrewDog and have also been featured in publications such as the i newspaper, EasyJet Traveller magazine and others in the UK and USA.
The company began as a B2C firm and is now taking steps to incorporate B2B services into their business model. Beer Adventures intends to use its platform as a means of advertising, primarily for leisure and hospitality businesses. Revenue will be generated from businesses that attract customers to their services via advertisements on the Beer Adventures app.
This investment strategy will allow Beer Adventures to expand their sales and marketing teams, which in turn can increase the number of tours available, as well as raise brand exposure and the size of the community. Future plans include expanding the variety of tours from beers to food, wine and city trails.
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Expired
investment:
£60,550
Dynamo is an app that enables users to schedule and share luxury events with new and interesting people from the local community, making them available independently and on-demand. The company has developed the iOS application and launched a pilot in Mykonos, Greece. It has also received interest from providers in 20 cities globally. The Dynamo team consists of highly-experienced professionals from Hotels.com and best consulting firm. The company has re-branded as Dynamo and is ready to launch in London.
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Expired
investment:
£172,600
WorkClub converts under-used real estate into productive co-working areas and provides an affordable membership for remote workers across London. The company has 500+ members, 800+ guests and 25 WorkClub’s spaces in London. WorkClub has also secured many venues across the UK with Young's, Hippo Inns and more. Furthermore, it is listed as a ‘Top 10 startup to watch’ by TechRound, has 4.8* rating on TrustPilot and, acquired 30 businesses to offer discounted WorkClub memberships to members including ZipCar, PureGym. The company will use the funds to develop WorkClub’s technology and to expand its offering into other key UK cities.
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Expired
investment:
£342,820
