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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Plerith works with high growth start-ups and scaling companies to plan for and deliver growth. The company asserts that it helps companies promote their business to potential funders, through its network of angel and venture capital investors depending on the stage and sector of the said business. Plerith is partnering with Newable and Bristol Private Equity Club to deliver the fund in the South West London (SWL) area and identify and invest in the most exciting high growth companies in the region. Plerith argues that its deep knowledge of fundraising, sales, strategy, finance and technology would help SWL businesses flourish. Plerith aims to provide investors access to the highest quality local companies in the SWL region.
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Try EV is a platform that allows customers to discover, analyze, customize and explore with EVs before making a final buying decision. It encourages “electrify to buy” and intends to change the car purchasing process. The company has also collaborated with big brands such as BMW, Tesla, etc. Try Ev was an Exhibitor at London Motor Show 2019, it was shortlisted for “Greener Greenwich” at Greenwich Business Awards and it was an Elevator Pitch Business Awards finalists at London Motor Show 2018. The funds will be used to balance the growth, to bring key talent, to promote partnerships with major leasing companies and charging networks and to improve marketing and promotion efforts.
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£88,430
ExpoCart is a marketplace that helps businesses in easily hiring and buying furniture, printed displays, floor coverings and more for exhibitions and events by a chain of suppliers. The company has built a customer base of 3500+ companies from 75+ countries. It has a strong supplier network and connections formed with a range of UK event and exhibition suppliers and, it has received a score of 8.5 on TrustPilot. The funds will be used to accelerate product range, strengthen the digital marketing channels and launch new technological platform features.
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£269,841
Creative Hub is a fast-growing cloud software platform for creative people to store, share files, and collaborate on projects. The collaboration tools also allow users to chat in real-time, and add comments on images, allowing creative teams to work faster and deliver better results. Creative Hub enables users to order professional art & photographic prints, or physical 3D prints, which are produced at its print production facilities in London(UK) and Dusseldorf (Germany). The platform currently has 40,000 active users which are growing day by day. With the investment, the company will drive growth through marketing and launch its New York production facility.
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£286,992
Riversimple is a vehicle manufacturer and assistance provider exploring ‘next-generation’ electric vehicles. It offers its customers the first inexpensive, fun-to-drive and easy eco-car, delivered with a complete and cost-transparent subscription service. Riversimple has gained an investor base of over 950 shareholders from 21 countries including NZ, Japan, India and many more. The company has already raised over £2M, and its next step is to grow the engineering team and boost the volume of production engineering to enable it to reach commercialisation by 2021.
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£839,958
Carbaya are an easy way to buy and sell a used car. They are an online peer to peer marketplace that puts convenience, value and trust back into the used car industry, offering buyers and sellers better value for their car and money. The marketplace will serve all used cars less than 6 year old and with less than 60,000 miles and once a sale is made they will drop the car off, washed and with a full tank of petrol to the buyer.
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£351,273
A current account for small business owners and the self-employed that automates their accounting and taxes. Coconut informs customers about transactions on their account that that are eligible for a tax deduction and automatically completes a tax return. It also provides a tax bill forecast and shows guidance on tax rules and regulations. Coconut currently looks after 3,000 accounts and has pre-registered 5,000 limited companies with total transactions processed exceeding £12m.
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£1,857,450
Hitmarker is a proprietary job platform that covers the entire video game sector. It aims to be the leading job provider in the $159 billion video game industry. It has a database of 67,000 candidates and has posted 46,000 jobs from 4,500 companies in 77 countries. The company asserts that one million people have used Hitmarker 2.5 million times to post or look for jobs. Hitmarker has been covered by publications like Forbes, CNBC, and The FT. It has also onboarded 20 partners, including The University of California, RGF Executive Search, and the British Esports Association. The company will use the investment to build a global network of localised platforms in crucial territories and expand its addressable market.
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£521,283
Equipsme is a company that aims to democratise health insurance by making it affordable for businesses. The company offers flexible fixed-price packages to employees while giving them the option to upgrade their package to avail more features upon payment. Members can speak to a general physician round the clock, have physiotherapy sessions, avail regular health checks and, if necessary, be quickly referred to a consultant for diagnosis and treatment. Members can access these features through a simple-to-use application. Since February 2018, the company has secured an exclusive 5-year insurance capacity deal with AXA PPP Healthcare and grown its members by 130.5% Year-on-Year (YoY) (to May 2020) with a 95% broker renewal retention rate. The company will use the investment to enhance its user experience and scale its marketing as it announces its partnerships with organisations such as Starling Bank and Simply Business.
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£879,204
