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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Extended
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£10,000
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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Gively is an online marketplace where users can give and get secondhand items for free. The secondhand clothing market will double in value to £50 billion annually by 2023, and the company finds itself as a suitable contender in this domain. They aim to lower greenhouse gas emissions and minimise landfill sites through its portal. The company has reached over 5,000 users, 70% of which came from unpaid channels. Gively won an SME (Small and medium enterprises) grant worth £10,000 of television advertising and has received rave reviews from its users through the App Store, social media, and in person. They will use 50% of the investment for marketing purposes, 25% for technology up-gradation, and 25% for hiring human resources.
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Expired
investment:
£105,207
ClearWaste is a price comparison website for waste removal and a provider of enforcement services to councils across the UK. The company argues that the cost to local authorities and taxpayers for cleaning up fly-tipping in England in 2016/17 was £57.7 million and is now thought to exceed £100 million. ClearWaste is on a mission to combat it through its app and web platform utilising reporting and prevention methodologies. The company links consumers with govt-registered waste removers backed by a £1k no-fly-tipping guarantee. ClearWaste argues that the UK waste industry is worth over £6.8 billion and supports more than 103,000 jobs. It aims to be a contender in this segment. ClearWaste has featured in press entities such as BBC, ITV, Channel 5, Sky, Times, and The Guardian. It was also a finalist at the National Recycling Awards 2020. ClearWaste will use the investment to develop its sales and marketing functions and further raise brand awareness.
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Expired
investment:
£199,599
Achieving over £7m GMV within 12 months, Carcela aims to bring car buying and selling into the 21st century through their peer to peer marketplace and get rid of the dealership model. Cars are picked up, inspected, then dropped off at the customer's door. 8m used cars were sold in the UK in 2016.
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Expired
investment:
£117,690
Thingz is a storage company that operate 'by-the-box' storage. A set amount is charged per box and a time and location can be arranged for the company to come and drop off the boxes for you to pack and then also pick them back up.
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Expired
investment:
£34,740
Customers can receive free parking at an airport by simply allowing others to rent out their vehicles, instead of leaving their cars idle in the airport cark park. ForestCar aim to help reduce harmful vehicle emission and are a part of a reforestation programme whereby a share of their revenue is invested in restoring global rainforests.
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Expired
investment:
£210,000
HireGo is the world's first P2P car sharing application built on blockchain technology. It provides a decentralised car hiring platform for individual car owners and businesses. HireGo makes use of existing blockchain-based identity management tools to ensure that any user you interact with has been thoroughly assessed and vetted. User-review system is the key feature of HireGo. HireGo aims to reinvent and upgrade the multi-billion dollar vehicle sharing industry. So far, it has attracted a large social media following of 10K Telegram members and 11K Twitter followers. It has also been featured in media websites including TechBullion and CryptoNews.
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Expired
investment:
£59,150
Vieni Global aim to make bus travel smart and efficient by using smart data to meet demand in real time. Vieni uses an economy sharing model to help users collectivise their demands. When they do this, they reduce costs, reduce carbon emissions and increase comfort and convenience.
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Expired
investment:
£18,943
Klymat's SaaS business model transforms vehicle fleet management for organizations and fulfills employees' transportation requirements. Through a centralized online platform offered via monthly subscriptions, Klymat empowers businesses to monitor their entire vehicle fleet and employee journeys, regardless of transportation mode. The software computes total business mobility costs and carbon emissions, providing a simpler, more visible, flexible, cost-effective, sustainable, and eco-friendly approach to corporate travel.
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Expired
investment:
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