Wi-Fi Securities Limited is a cyber security company that aims to revolutionise the security of public access Wi-Fi. To realise this vision, the company is developing a unique patent-protected system called SpriteGuard™ which will protect you and your data from hackers by stopping you connecting to fake hotspots. The system is targeted towards the $550 bn worldwide hospitality industry and has the ability to expand to other large global markets like city-wide free Wi-Fi, airports and coffee shops. Moreover, Wi-Fi Securities Limited has a highly experienced Wi-Fi Securities management board that has a track record of delivering multi-million-pound projects from concept to successful commercial deployment.
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Extended
investment:
£1,014,708
Medic Bleep is a simple, secure and innovative patient-focused solution to communication challenges that healthcare professionals and the wider team in the UK National Health Service (NHS) face while going about their everyday work. It is saving each nurse & each junior doctor an estimated 48 minutes per shift. This coincides with the UK's Department of Health calling for a ban on pagers. If implemented across the NHS, it could free up the time to care for an estimated 11,000 nurses. To ensure data privacy and safety, the company allows communication to occur via the app. As a result of these safeguards and its user-friendly portal, the company's app has been downloaded 16,000 times by UK doctors and nurses. With the funds raised, the company will aim to solve looming technology gaps for over 30% of the NHS in the next 3 years and expand globally.
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Expired
investment:
£814,600
what3words is a company whose mission is to make finding and sharing exact locations a simplified task. It has divided the world into 3m squares and given each square a unique combination of three words. what3words is backed by organisations such as Mercedes-Benz, Intel Capital and Sony Innovation Fund. The company's app provides a precise location to drones, driverless cars and voice-controlled devices, in turn, boosting businesses. Emergency services and NGOs are also using what3words for critical services and saving lives. Till date, the company has received over £50 million of funding and was the 'App of the Day' in 143 countries. The company will use the investment to become a global standard for communicating location.
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Expired
investment:
£7,155,716
Doodle Drinks (DD) aims to make all-natural soft drinks that kids can enjoy. The company cites research data arguing that children aged 18 months to 18 years are drinking 26% fewer sugary drinks and consumption for 10-year olds has fallen 35%. It wants to capture this sentiment and deliver a soft drink that's a healthy choice for both parents and their kids. DD has secured distribution with the noted distributor, Bravura Foods. It has also signed a partnership with the largest independent bottler of beverages in Europe and North America, Refresco, who have over 60 manufacturing sites globally to fulfil its objective. DD will use the investment to grow its business, execute its marketing strategy and increase its product range.
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Expired
investment:
£877,830
NoshyCircle intends to disrupt the £8.5 billion UK takeaway market by offering healthy home-cooked meals with ingredients and their nutritional value clearly displayed on deliveries. Consumers can use the app to order their meals prepared by cooks in their neighbourhood. NoshyCircle ensures that the cooks are registered with their local council having a food hygiene rating of three or above. The company also strives to make sure that all its deliveries arrive in an eco-friendly packaging and delivery solution. NoshyCircle enables anyone passionate about cooking to register themselves as cooks and start their virtual kitchen. It currently has 20 such people on its platform. NoshyCircle will use the funds to scale its presence to the rest of London by the end of 2021 and expand its social media presence to attract more consumers to grow its business.
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Expired
investment:
£91,424
KegTracker is a company that has launched an innovative Internet of Things (IoT) enabled device that turns kegs into smart containers. The device tracks real-time location, volume, temperature and motion for each keg in order to create reports & insights that enable a sustainable supply chain. The company asserts that a lack of transparency in managing kegs has led to annual industry losses of £1.4 billion+ in theft and spoilage, £1 billion+ in poor distribution, and £500 million+ in suboptimal production and lost containers. KegTracker argues that its device can reduce these losses significantly. The company has developed a working prototype, filed a patent and received letters of interest from leading UK breweries, coffee roasters and Wales National Health Service (NHS). In 2019, the company featured in Startups Magazine and were finalists at FutureFood Awards, London & Partners BGP, and Pitch@Palace. It will use the investment to bring its product to more markets.
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Expired
investment:
£511,428
RentiD is an end-to-end solution for landlords to manage their residential rental properties via its 'Digital Assistant' web app. It aims to become a contender in the UK market that consisted of an estimated 4.5 million rented homes in 2017 with almost 1 in 4 UK households set to be privately renting by 2021. The platform allows users to market their residential property onto property portals like Rightmove, Zoopla and PrimeLocation, streamline day-to-day property management with 'Rent Tracking' and 'Maintenance' options, understand and comply with evolving legislation and best practices and communicate with their tenant to help foster better relationships. RentID asserts that it acquired £200,000 of private angel investment, onboarded 350+ individual users on its platform, and launched Version 2 of its post-beta product. RentiD will use the investment to focus on its growth marketing strategy and hire resources to handle increased scale.
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Expired
investment:
£249,611
Uhive is a cryptocurrency-powered social network that aims to foster peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions, interest-based advertising, and the sale of in-app digital assets to maintain user privacy on its portal. The company argues that current social networks flood users' feeds with hidden agendas auctioning off their data to the highest bidder. Uhive intends to change this. It asserts that its content-discovery model allows users to choose and fine-tune the content they see by selecting 26 different interests. Content creators can use Uhive's paywall feature to earn, rewarding quality posts with cryptocurrency payments. The company's app consists of an advanced AI and recommendation engine, crypto wallet, and media streaming, to name a few. Uhive has onboarded 182,000 users and witnessed 5 million posts created by users on its platform. It will use 23% of the investment for operations, 55% for product development, 21% for marketing, and 1% for legal costs.
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Expired
investment:
£815,530
Notes is a well-established coffee shop and wine bar concept with nine locations in central London. They pride themselves in being able to source and roast at their own roastery in Canning Town which provides over 1.4m cups of coffee a year. By serving high volumes of their single-origin speciality coffee, Notes have doubled their revenue to almost £5m by just opening shops in four locations since 2015.
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Expired
investment:
£1,194,330
The Best dot dot is a positive review website that lets individuals celebrate the good things in life and in turn, enables others to benefit from those experiences. The company aims to create a leading platform, with a large, engaged user base and ultimately to maximise shareholder value. The company has a full robust technology infrastructure and platform in place, consisting of a mix of unique in house technology and tried and tested industry-standard platforms. Significant work has already been done to create the IP that will be purchased by the company and the funds raised will be used to build on the work already done and to take the business to the next level. By increasing the user base, the revenue will rapidly increase as the company introduces additional revenue streams.
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Expired
investment:
£19,050
