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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An artificially intelligent web-based app for stock market investors to potentially increase their returns. Butterwire's platform aims to solve three common challenges more than 1 million UK investors face: finding high-return opportunities, minimising risk and being aware of sudden market fluctuations.
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A web-based location experience platform for businesses to market their content for their target audience by users visiting physical locations to view digital content. Landmrk's service is currently used by travel, entertainment and retail industries and allows businesses to provide 'rewards' when customers reach the location. Revenue is primarily generated from marketing agencies and businesses licensing the platform on a monthly, quartely or annual basis.
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investment:
£519,364
Oatsu specializes in providing a convenient and healthy breakfast option with their freshly-prepared overnight oats. Recognizing the increasing demand for overnight oats due to their popularity (ranking as the 4th most Googled recipe globally with a 4600% increase in searches since 2014), Oatsu offers a solution to the time-consuming preparation process. They've served over 20,000 breakfasts to 2,744 customers and businesses throughout the UK. Oatsu's approach involves soaking oats in oat milk and incorporating fruit and seeds to create four delicious flavors, including a collaboration with ManiLife, all of which are plant-based and packaged in recyclable materials.
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Expired
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£249,443
Arcis Biotechnology provide nucleic acid sample preparation solutions. They have made the process of obtaining genetic material from biological samples less time consuming so it can be done in less than 3 minutes.
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Expired
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£1,146,318
A compliance service allowing financial organisations to benchmark their businesses against legal regulations. Model Office integrates with existing infrastructures to identify issues in a firm's due diligence records. The service then offers guidance, strategies, solutions and resources to ensure the business is fully compliant with regulations. In addition, firms can also run the software on clients to confirm they also meet FCA and ICO rules as a safety and insurance measure.
Model Office offers multiple versions of their products for customers with particular needs for a recurring monthly subscription. A full version consists of the benchmarking and audit tools, whilst an Enterprise adds an AI chat bot for further assistance, amongst many other features.
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Expired
investment:
£150,000
Selling over 800 beers across two award-winning brands: We Brought Beer and The Beer Boutique, as well as being one of the UK's largest independent craft beer retailers, Two Heads Beer Co. is seeking investment to further expand the business with 4 new stores already planned in addition to the existing 6 stores with almost £1 million in revenue.
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Expired
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£375,040
An award-winning independent brewery that has been profitable every year since 2014 with worldwide distribution. Siren Craft Brew creates beers to ease those new to drinking, whilst producing adventurous flavours to continuously recapture and entice customers to return to their products.
The business has won numerous awards for their beers. In their first year of launching, Ratebeer.com rated Siren Craft Brew as the 2nd Best New Brewery in the World and is repeatedly listed in their Top 100 Brewers every year. They have also been awarded the World Beer Cup medal and CAMRA’s Supreme Champion Beer of Britain for their flagship stout.
Siren Craft Brew consists of a team of 28 people, whilst achieving £2.82m in annual turnover. In 2018 so far, their revenue has grown by 28% and their brewery has produced more than 2m pints this year.
The company is now raising funds to package their products into cans, as they have already identified a canning manufacturer that will meet the business's needs to also create high-quality bottles for their beer. Any overfunding will result in the company being able to take their taproom experience to other areas, as well as increase beer production and produce drinks in a more efficient manner.
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Expired
investment:
£1,215,170
Comesto is a peer to peer web and app based service that enables professional food buyers to purchase directly from suppliers. They are a membership funded trading platform. The platform gives their members access to the whole market eliminating single brochures. Comesto offers industry buyers a complete purchasing, invoicing and scheduling management service and for suppliers their aim is to provide a simple cost effective way to increase sales.
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Expired
investment:
£34,970
Opened in 2014, The Lakes Distillery has sold over 160,000 bottles of their premium gin, vodka, and blended whisky; voted one of the top 5 best new distilleries in the world.
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Expired
investment:
£1,620,110
