Baanx is a Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C) banking platform that is Application Programming Interface (API) driven and digitaly-friendly. It aims to become a contender in the digital asset financial services market that is estimated to rise to $40 trillion by 2030. Baanx argues that it is disrupting the slow and expensive banking sector by leveraging blockchain to launch secure and low-cost banking products and services, with a few lines of code. The company has witnessed £1.4 million in revenue in 2020. It will start shipping its cards to 30+ EU countries in 2021 and roll-out its ‘plug-and-play’ wallet/card/exchange/mobile app on leading open-source blockchain network, Tezos, targeting the latter's 3 million+ global user base. Baanx will use the investment to increase its staff to 40-50 personnel by the end of 2021, expand into Asian, Middle Eastern, and North American markets with regulatory approvals, and invest in digital asset-backed lending and investing.
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investment:
£9,990,280
Snoop is an application that aims to save a user's money by using data analytics. Snoop falls under the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) regulated Open Banking technology. The company asserts that Snoop can help every household in the UK save at least £1,500 each year. The app lets a user connect his/her bank accounts and credit cards to Snoop to observe all the balances and transactions together from a single portal. Snoop also watches a user's bills and lets the user know if he/she is paying too much or if there’s a price hike. The app also creates a 100% personalised feed of money-saving ideas based on the user's spending patterns. Snoop has grown to over 100,000 downloads and 75,000 customers since early 2020, delivered over 1 million money management tips to customers, and featured in publications like The Guardian, Financial Times, and The Telegraph. It will use 57% of the investment to grow its business, 21% to develop app functionality, and 22% for business operations.
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£8,445,740
Chapel Down (CD) is one of the UK's leading wine industry leaders that seeks to challenge the hegemony of champagne. It argues that with the sales of English sparkling wine forecast to grow by 134% by 2026, the demand for its products is growing fast. CD's 'Sparkling Wine' sales increased by 52.8% in 2020 whilst champagne sales in the UK dropped by 21.7% over the same period. The company argues that 2020 was a record year for its business, despite COVID-19, with its revenue growing by 32% year on year and e-commerce sales growing by 467% year on year. CD has partnered with notable hospitality entities like Harrods, Royal Opera House and Sheraton Grand. It will use the investment to scale up and improve its winemaking capabilities, complete the planting process of its biggest vineyard on the finest terroir in England, scale up its e-commerce channels, invest in selected export markets worldwide, and give people a memorable experience at its winery.
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investment:
£6,953,241
VoxSmart is a global mobile technology company focused on achieving compliance in a very heavy regulated industries such as finance and banking. VoxSmart software is embedded on the mobile device and allows the capturing and recording of all communications on that device
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investment:
£3,857,500
dozens is a unique banking app that constantly helps you save and earn higher interest. Authorised by the FCA as an e-money institution, dozens offers a wide range of investment products with different levels of protection. Offering a smart budgeting tool, a current account, and a savings and investment manager--all in one app, dozens aims to revolutionise the challenger banks and enable P2P lending platforms to break into the FinTech market. Within 2 months of the app launch, dozens has already been downloaded 5000+ times and has 3500+ verified account holders. With this round of investment, dozens is planning to start with the first phase of the banking license application and the development of new financial as well as digital products.
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investment:
£3,814,840
Grow is a British biopharmaceutical company on a mission to unlock the potential of cannabis medicines for patients globally. It claims that it is one of the largest importers of cannabis medicines in the UK and Ireland since its founding in 2017. The company has raised over £9.5 million through several fundraising rounds to allow expansion of operations, supplied medicines to more than 1,200 patients a month as of June 2021, and earned £2.35 million in revenue as of July 20, 2021. The company has also launched its patient app, Calyx, to help patients track their medications and health indicators and signed long term partnerships with some of the world’s leading cannabis companies, including Aurora, Tilray and Columbia Care. The company argues that it has also pioneered the ‘Open Cannabis’ campaign to improve education on cannabis medicines and the means to access them in the UK. It states it will use 40% of the investment on capital expenditure, 30% on hiring new personnel, and 30% as working capital.
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£3,566,133
Occuity seeks to develop revolutionary non-invasive screening and monitoring devices for chronic diseases like diabetes and Alzheimer's. It argues that its device safely shines a low power beam of light into the eye and then collects and analyses the return signal to accurately measure structures within the eye and detect changes associated with the onset of the aforementioned diseases. Occuity is targeting three distinct markets, namely Ophthalmology, Disease Screening and Disease Monitoring, which is worth an estimated $35 billion per year. It claims that its 'Occuity Indigo' product enables earlier detection of diabetes and provides a non-contacting, pain-free glucose monitor. Occuity was awarded over £1.5 million as part of the Innovate UK grant for the development of technology within Occuity Indigo. It has also signed a partnership with one of the UK's leading ophthalmic distributors, Birmingham Optical, to distribute its PM1 pachymeter device. It states it will use 42% of the investment towards Research and Development (R&D), 23% towards sales and marketing, 20% towards management and finance, 9% towards managing CAPEX and NRE, and 6% towards paying fees.
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investment:
£2,854,857
Bidvine is an online service marketplace offering 300+ services across the UK. The platform helps customers find and hire professionals or services relating to home improvement, events & photography, health & wellness, and many more. The company's biggest accomplishment to date has been the introduction of BidMatch which allows professionals to bid automatically on requests that match their preferences, availability, and budget. Bidvine has 100,000 registered professionals. Its mission is to help 250,000 local businesses to grow by £1 billion in 2025. The company will use 47% of investments on market development, 33% in the introduction of additional tools for service professionals, 12% in other operational expenses (OPEX), and 8% for international expansion.
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investment:
£2,764,793
Stashbee is an easy-to-use world-class platform that allows people and businesses to find and book space. The company is aiming to create a way in finding and booking storage space easy, affordable, convenient for everyone. It has now boarded a leasable space of over 820,000+ square feet. It is the 8th biggest storage provider in the UK. Twelve months before March'19, Stashbee's Host Network had grown by more than 1130%. It has hosted 130,000+ storage days till date and has more than 10,000 registered users. Stashbee's reputed guests and hosts have rated it 5 stars on Trustpilot. With the proceeds, the company will fuel further growth, expand its team, and go for product development.
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investment:
£2,515,208
GeoDB is a peer-to-peer big data sharing ecosystem powered by blockchain technologies. It gives users GEO tokens in exchange for their anonymous data, which, they can exchange for FIAT money or other crypto-currencies. The company aims to become a segment leader in the projected $260 billion 'Big Data' market. GeoDB asserts that it has 200,000 users. It has established partnerships with big data companies like AboutGoods, Datalytics, Flame Analytics, amongst others. GeoDB has captured more than 1,000,000,000 data points from its users to date. It has 115,000+ people following its activities on different social media channels like Telegram, Wechat, Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, and Medium. The company has raised more than £3 million since August 2018. The company will use the investment to build its team, boost marketing initiatives, invest in business development, and push 'Token Economy'.
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investment:
£2,467,860
