ANGEL INVESTMENTS
For several years, directors of Strategas Management Consultants have been active Angel Investors in over one hundred small businesses. A selection of these can be seen below. The company has also worked on various Private Equity deals and for many portfolio companies of Private Equity organisations. These include 3i, August Equity, Duke Street Capital, Exponent Private Equity, Perwyn, Lloyds Development Capital, Wyelands Capital, UKGI, Livingbridge Private Equity and Close Brothers Private Equity. In addition we have grown an enviable network of high net worth individuals both in the UK and overseas who are looking to provide funding via Angel investments or Seed capital.
If you have a business and are looking for investment, whether small or large, please do not hesitate to call or email us at strategas@thevcp.co.uk to submit a query and we will come back to you as soon as possible. If we cannot assist your business directly, our contacts within our network may be interested in speaking to you and this route can help you raise up to several hundred million pounds where necessary.
Current Director Angel Investments include:
arc-on is an established, award-winning, British motorcycle clothing company. Their range has won the RiDE magazine and Fast Bikes ‘Best Buy’ awards and has been worn by 21 British Superbike riders and journalists such as Al Fagan of Fast Bikes. arc-on is raising investment to bring to market an innovative new glove, designed to be the first in the world to be constructed with pieces of Forcefield body armour.
FieldCandy is an exciting design-led brand of outdoor lifestyle products. Currently stocked in the UK, USA and Asia in leading retailers such as Harrods, Heal’s, Liberty of London, Urban Outfitters and Saks Fifth Avenue, FieldCandy design and manufacture its products in the UK. With the founder of Links of London as an investor and chairman, FieldCandy has worked with Warner Brothers, Hello Kitty and Red Bull amongst others.
Backed by the ClearlySo Angel syndicate, Extremis designs and develops emergency shelters for the disaster relief market, which is estimated to be worth several billion dollars. Having already secured investment from the Low Carbon Innovation Fund, Extremis has developed a number of key partnerships including FMN international who specialise in distribution for commercial and humanitarian sectors and two charities, Shelterbox and Techo.
Keuken is a convenient way for busy Londoners to get healthy, nutritious take away meals and dinner kits via a wall of self-service machines installed directly in front of the kitchen, and contactless payment allow quick transactions without compromising on product quality. Keuken is now looking to setup a flagship store to bring this concept to the Shoreditch area and disrupt the growing ‘to-go’ food market.
The award-winning Great British Sauce Co. produce a range of quality sauces inspired by modern British flavours. Stocked in over 1,000 stores including Sainsbury’s and ASDA, the company has sold an average of over 500 bottles per day in the UK, SE Asia, Germany and Brazil since it launched in 2014. Great British Sauce Co. has been awarded CoolBrand status and were shortlisted in Richard Branson’s Pitch to Rich.
HAIRCVT offers a complete hair booking experience - from inspiration to location to booking the perfect hairdresser. With the backing of 6 international product companies and working with some of the most influential salons in London and Paris (including John Frieda and Toni and Guy), HAIRCVT aim to take a significant share of the £10bn hairdressing industry in the UK and France.
Workabode - the AirBnB & TripAdvisor of workplaces is looking to lead the disruption of the $11bn and rapidly growing “workplace as a service†market, capitalizing on the growth in mobile working. Backed by internet entrepreneur Richard Coundley, Workabode is an aggregator that allows you to work anytime, anyplace and anywhere, paying only for what you use, rating the places you work in, and connecting you with other like-minded workers.
Sugru is a mouldable glue designed to fix almost anything. Named by Time Magazine as one of the 50 best inventions in the world the year it launched and dubbed “21st Century Duct Tape†by Forbes, the patented product is now used by more than 1 million people in 160 countries and has just launched into the US with Lowe’s and Target. The Company behind Sugru is on a mission to make fixing easy and fun for everyone.
Pavegen's technology converts footsteps into electricity to power services in high-footfall locations and provide real-time data for analytics. Founded in 2009, the company has delivered over 100 projects, including Heathrow Airport and Harrods, across 30 countries generating a cumulative revenue of over £2.5 million. With a global distribution network in place and internationally granted patents, the next step is scale.
LUMO design jackets and bags for cyclists that subtly incorporate ultra-high brightness LEDs. The lights are waterproof, washable and powered by a detachable USB-rechargeable battery unit. Operating in a worldwide serviceable market of over £350m, LUMO is has an innovative range of products to help to protect cyclists without compromising on style.
Nom is an ethical foods business which launched in July 2013 with a range of organic, vegan, health bars. Nom bars are made with innovative superfood ingredients like coconut oil, coconut palm sugar, oat bran and cacao - they don't contain any refined sugars, are free-from dairy and are made only with low GI, natural, alternatives to sugar. Nom Foods has secured listings at; Ocado, Tesco, Whole Foods, Holland & Barrett and Planet Organic.
Staks have developed a new innovative way of managing your daily nutrition intake. Their nutritional experts have devised a series of supplement plans for a variety of lifestyle and performance goals that come in single portion sachets inside a convenient, resealable, easy to carry pouch. Launched in Harvey Nichols’ flagship store in Knightsbridge, the company is striving to revolutionise $32 billion supplement market.
Otti Prams produces designer travel systems with novel patterned fabrics, aiming to fuse the growing importance of fashion and design in the baby market with a wheeled goods market that grew 13% between 2008-10. Otti has signed an agreement with House of Fraser to sell their prams on-line in June 2015 and are in discussions with other major suppliers.
Innovation makers is striving to launch their innovative, lightweight, backpackable stroller, the OmniO Rider, to the international nursery market. Since raising funds in 2014, this patent-pending company has secured interest from over 20 territories & won 5 awards and is now primed to take the nursery market by storm with a launch planned for spring 2016.
Health-Tech Innovation LABS is a business-accelerator for the healthcare technology sector. The company successfully combines the services of an accelerator and events business, consultancy and recruitment. Within weeks of launching, the company had secured its first customer in contract and is generating revenue from clients, consultancy and events.
Earwig is a software business that brings school technology into the 21st century, enabling teachers to create vivid, image-based timelines showing the progress of each pupil and allowing parents to track the progress of their children. Earwig has a strong recurring revenue model with over 80 schools signed up so far with 10 new schools signing up every month.
Savvy is an innovative sweet spread and dip range created from tahini and carob syrup. Savvy is stocked in independent stores across the UK and abroad. The range has won a taste-award and has proven appeal to the specialist food sectors including diabetics, free-from and the aged population.
Cornerstone makes it simple for men to have a smooth, comfortable shave – delivering high quality razors & shaving supplies on a flexible, personalised schedule to their members. After a successful first year, where they beat the big shaving brands to win ‘Best Razor’ in the Shortlist Grooming Awards, secured coverage in Esquire & The Telegraph, and nearly reached 5000 members.
There has to be a better way to produce, one that allows us to wear with pride and sleep soundly. So Wool and the Gang was born — pioneering fashion production that's made in a sustainable way, bringing back knitting as a viable means of production for generations to come.
Using their local knowledge and experience, Cape Fisheries aim to establish a sustainable and profitable fishing community operation in the Western Cape region of South Africa. By uniting fully-stocked fishing vessels with experienced local fisherman, the vision is to create a scalable business which helps individuals become self-sufficient whilst also providing a healthy and scalable business model.
CoControl helps council housing tenants manage their heating budgets while staying sufficiently warm during winter. in tandem, CoControl provides duty of care software services ‘social landlords’, so that they can better target their resources. Our Chairman is Andrew Wordsworth, who recently achieved the first equity Crowdfunding exit with E-Car Club on Crowdcube
Ikee provides an all-in-one solution for phone and tablet accessories. It allows users to charge, transfer and stream from the Ikee device which can be attached to your keys. The company, which has two products, was seeking investment to take the device from prototype to production.
Named a ‘Disruptor of the Year’ by the Financial Times, eMoov is an online estate agent backed by James Caan, Maxfield Capital and Episode 1, the VC behind Zoopla and LOVEFiLM. Challenging the property sector, the company charge a fixed-rate, lower fee, which so far this year has saved its customers £6m. Led by a team hailing from the likes of Groupon and Rated People the company’s bespoke platform is built for scale.
ZigZag is a managed international returns service to help retailers re-sell stock instead of return stock. in our experience, retailers want sales and cash recovery, not returns! Offering local returns, global warehousing, and intelligent return routing. ZigZag aims to solve the problem for both retailers and consumers alike.
Big Sofa is a technology platform for managing visual content. Video and ~/Images are at the heart of modern life, and Big Sofa seeks to provide the tools to curate, manage and use visual content across any language, on any device, in any country. With clients such as British Airways, Volkswagen & Unilever, Big Sofa is led by veterans of the marketing industry from Avon Cosmetics, lastminute.com and the former CEO of Research International (TNS).
Cake is a mobile payment app for restaurants and bars in London. Making payment easier, quicker and more secure for users meaning they’ll never have to wait for the bill again. At the same time the app enables restaurants to improve their service and know more about their customers. And with Cake currently seeing more than 20% week-on-week growth, it's the perfect time to own a slice of the app that’s changing the way we pay.
Synap uses scientific insights into how the brain works to enhance the way students learn. Its award-winning mobile app and website have already attracted thousands of users from across the world who rely on Synap’s intelligent algorithms to learn more in less time. The team are now looking to scale Synap and establish it as a leading player in the exciting personalised learning market.
Thermo Tents are essentially begining a 'Tent Revolution' by designing and developing what they understand to be the world's very first thermally and acoustically insulated tent or tenting system. Their (patent-pending) multi-layer design and brand new insulation technology have applications in recreational tents, glamping, disaster relief and base tents. The advantages Thermo Tent has over every other tent in a massive market is the tent is designed specifically to keep you cooler when it is hot outside, warmer when it is cold outside and to muffle noise transfer in and out of the tent.
A property portal for buy-to-let landlords and their agents. Have you ever come across a tenant who is happy to be served notice because their landlord wanted to sell? What if they don't have to leave? Consider how much money buyers and sellers of tenanted property could save in terms of rental voids and agents fees as a result of buying and selling with reliable tenants in situ. Buyers search the property portal by postcode or town and simultaneously set up email alerts so they are notified when a property matching their purchasing criteria is listed. Basic advertisements are FREE for both landlords and agents to create. Premium listings feature at the top of search results. Sponsorship of a featured property Newsletter is available to agents and developers on an ex-gratia, meritocratic basis, i.e. sponsors who make the largest payment per enquiry receive preferential placement of advertisements.
MyMiniFactory is an independent curated social media platform for 3D printable objects. The MyMiniFactory.com platform connects users, 3D designers, advertisers, brands and makers of 3D printed objects. The platform was launched in June 2013. Its user base now exceeds 80,000 registered users. MyMiniFactory is the world's most popular independent, curated platform for 3D printable objects.
We restock our customers’ blades monthly, bi-monthly, every third month or whatever suits them. The first delivery includes a free handle too. Members can easily upgrade, change their delivery, pause, restart and manage their account online.
Your mobile phone is closer to you than any other device. You use it more and more for emails, social conversations, photo sharing, discovering music, buying tickets and ordering a taxi. Yet we find shopping on mobile is frustrating. We found that a standard web search leads to multiple retailer websites that, even when 'optimised' for mobile, are hampered by their e-commerce heritage. Comparison between retailers is difficult and there is no central place to store what you find. Checkout is laborious and cart abandonment rates are high. Octer has developed a platform to address these areas.
An astonishing 95% of all businesses in the UK have fewer than 10 employees. These 5 million freelancers and micro-businesses all have one thing in common: the need to stay on top of their business finances. But this isn’t as easy as it sounds; chasing down paperwork, wrestling with spreadsheets and grappling with tax returns is time-consuming and stressful. FreeAgent takes care of much of this.
Fuel Ventures EIS Fund 1 is a new EIS fund specialising in super-early seed, seed, and series A stage-investments in the European e-commerce sector. The Fund is seeking to raise a total of £30 million, with a portion of this being raised through Seedrs. With company research and mentoring services being provided by the award-winning entrepreneur Mark Pearson and his team, the Fund represents an exceptional opportunity to invest with one of the Europe’s leading internet entrepreneurs who has already proven his ability to deliver extraordinary returns on investments over the last decade.
Trigger Buzz is a new creative technology business designed and built to disrupt the way marketing content and advertising is created and produced. Founded on the principles of creativity, speed, agility and effectiveness. We’re passionate about making new content, to new rules, across all new channels of communication, including Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Instagram.
Viva la Vita is an iOS application that curates London’s most exciting alternative fitness classes and activities and lists them in a user-friendly app where you can pay in two taps, easily and quickly. VLV currently lists classes in a handpicked shortlist happening today, tomorrow and the rest of the week in London. Sessions range from Chessboxing and Ravercising to Aerial Yoga and Parkour. Sessions that we feel the end-user would love to try, if they knew they existed and could book them easily. Once booked, the ticket is stored within the application and used for reference and admittance into the session - no phone calls or printing needed!
Innovify is a venture partner working with start-ups and SMEs to develop innovative products. Start-ups and SMEs often have innovative ideas, but struggle to acquire the skills and talent needed to bring their ideas to market. Innovify offers strategy guidance, technology development and capital acceleration.
Venrex is a London-based, FCA regulated, venture capital firm, with a strong 12 year track record of early stage investments in fast-growing businesses including: Just-Eat, Notonthehighstreet.com, Orlebar Brown, Chilango, Charlotte Tilbury, Dressipi, Thread, Loveknitting, Opus Energy, Skimlinks and Lyst.
Films of London is a new style of film production and development company. Drawing on the success of its founders in the world of commercials, the company will focus on producing well-developed, dramatic stories with popular appeal for relatively low budgets (£500,000 to £2,000,000).
Trillenium intends to bring virtual reality, 3D, gaming and mobile technologies together with an interactive and social shopping adventure. The platform is designed to integrate with existing online retailers’ systems. Fashion sellers online could offer Trillenium on their own websites and under their own brand via Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard and the Sony Morpheus Project. Trillenium could support all devices and we build mobile first.
Simply put, Ascendia is the Airbnb for motor vehicles with all the insurance barriers overcome, matching car hirers with car owners and changing the way we use cars forever. Ascendia is a peer to peer car rental platform which will allow users to own their driving experience, without owning the car.
On one hand, parents have to manage an onslaught of routine information, documents, activities, etc; on the other, it is difficult for parents to follow, let alone implement, overwhelming amount of information/resources available today on parenting. Nurturey helps parents digitise and simplify their journey in an intuitive, appealing and frictionless manner.
Rare Pink is a fast-growing online retailer of bespoke engagement rings and fine diamond jewellery. In the aim of refining the customer experience, Rare Pink offers a bespoke design service and both an online and in-person route to market – a clicks and bricks business model.
Lingos helps language learners find teachers to purchase their digital & in-person courses. With over 2,400 teachers and 2,600 learners already registered, Lingos takes the marketplace model and applies it to the $56bn language learning industry. The platform is set to launch in China, targeting the rapidly growing English learning market. Lingos is planning to disrupt the language industry in a similar way to AirBnb with the hotel industry.
Award-winning lone worker safety solution StaySafe Business is an app and cloud-based monitoring service that turns your smartphone into a safety device. Launched in 2014, it now has over 80 business clients including Countrywide, Ericsson and Huawei (>1500 potential users per business). Backed by an experienced board and investors, StaySafe is looking to increase its market share in the £bn lone worker security industry.
Holly and Beau is a brand for colour changing children rainwear. Winner of several awards including Best innovation of the year 2014 and Bronze in Best Children Fashion Brand from Loved By Parents. The collection is stocked in over 21 counties and in retail stores such as Harvey Nichols (HK) and Bentalls. Holly & Beau aims to use the funds to scale up its marketing and production capacity in order to keep up with customer demand.
Bidstack is a live bidding platform for last-minute digital advertising signage, aiming to make digital out of home advertising truly accessible for anyone. Bidstack launched their video at the O2 arena, raising brand awareness as the first steps to disrupt a growing £multi-billion industry.
Backed by celebrity chef Michel Roux Jr, Neil Sanderson the MD of Florette (the UK's largest branded salad company) Glen Fernandes a Director of HSBC and Ed Gillespie the sustainability pioneer, the Growing Underground team have compiled a board capable of delivering expansion and growth. Their sustainable farm utilises redundant underground spaces to produce leafy greens, herbs and micro herbs using the latest LED and hydroponic technology.
Rise To is a learning and recruitment platform that matches young people to entrepreneurial businesses in a fast, smart and transparent way. Companies get an easy and low cost way to connect with potential recruits that fit their commercial and cultural needs. All they have to do is build a LinkedIn style brand profile and pre-vetted ‘matched’ talent is served to them automatically - in effect receiving a semi-managed ‘all you can eat’ recruitment service for little more than a standard jobs board ad. Young people (aged 16-24) sign up for free and are taken on a guided journey to build the ultimate digital CV. As they refine their profile our algorithm ‘best fit’ matches them with the companies and opportunities that best suit them.
Many people have an accountant - perhaps you do - but what you may not realise is just how incredibly busy accountants are, running and managing their own practice. So we started Senta with a really simple concept: to build a great cloud service to help accountants run their practice. Our platform looks after an accountant's clients throughout their life-cycle. Senta automatically initiates all the services and jobs for a client, prompting practice staff or clients to complete tasks and provide information as required. Senta seeks approvals and sends emails and notifications as required. It keeps track of client deadlines, and schedules work in advance so that nothing is missed.
Filmies is about helping users discover films that match their personality, mood and taste. The average film fan takes 22 minutes to decide what film to watch*. Filmies aims to reduce that to get film fans doing what they want to do; sit down and watch! Filmies gives users trusted film recommendations from people they know, who have opinions they value. This provides credibility; each recommendation comes from a real person with a face and name, rather than a complex algorithm. Users have the option to click to third party websites to purchase, stream or download the film.
East of Eden is a Walthamstow based yoga and Pilates studio, mixing a friendly, local feel with excellent teaching and in March 2015 launched a 25-mat space in a cobbled mews a few minutes walk from Walthamstow Central station and the new 9-screen Empire cinema.
Mara produces an award-winning range of shake-on seaweed seasonings – healthy salts – marketed as "Flavours of Scotland". Best Producer Finalist in 2015 BBC Food & Farming Awards, Mara® launched in Harrods in 2014 and is now on sale in M&S nationwide. Filling the Western demand for high flavour, healthy salt alternatives, Mara is now making inroads into the Asian market, where seaweed is part of the daily diet.
From Gold medal winning garden designer Dan Pearson to ground breaking new Ukrainian chef Olia Hercules, 451life.com is an online club that features the most credible lifestyle talent. For £10 per month members get exclusive access through our beautiful films, bespoke gifts and live events while our contributors get a dedicated audience that cares and shares. We aim to create a new global lifestyle brand founded on this powerful combination.
Kwiziq is an A.I. language coach that helps people learn a second language. It learns what students know, don't know and have mis-learned and gives them personalised lessons, recommendations and practice exercises perfectly suited to their needs, helping them to perfect their language skills faster than ever.
Losing your mobile phone can be a nightmare. Most of us don’t think about protecting our photos, videos and contacts…until it’s too late. With MEEM you never need the cloud, you don’t need a pc, and you never pay any fees.
HOCHANDA, the “Home Of Crafts Hobbies AND Artsâ€, has launched its new TV shopping channel on Sky, Freeview, Freesat and iPTV. Formed by a team who have successfully built and sold similar businesses to achieve a significant market share in the growing £3.4bn UK craft, hobby and art market, the offering provides enthusiasts and trade suppliers with an opportunity to invest and own shares in HOCHANDA.
University Compare offers an unbiased service to students while providing a digital platform for universities to advertise directly to their chosen demographic. It offers a subscription model for universities to connect with students that are looking study at higher education.
MonetaFlex is a crowdfunding platform where companies can raise finance by selling their unpaid invoices and boasts an online, collaborative early payment solution. We want to do for invoice finance what Crowdcube is doing for equity. The Founders have backgrounds in private equity and corporate lending and Chairman was an early investor in Last.fm ($280m exit) and a former global executive committee member at HSBC Alternative Investments.
Powered Now aims to revolutionise the field trade industry (plumbers, gas engineers, builders, electricians, roofers, joiners and many more), and is introducing mass computerisation of administration in this field. Powered Now is a software application, aimed at making the working lives of this industry easier, currently available for iPhone, iPad and Android. There are over 30k registered users (latest numbers).
Laboratory microscopes produce beautiful ~/Images, but often cost over £3,000 and can be difficult to use. Cheap microscopes do not have enough resolution for professional use or teaching. ioLight has invented a portable microscope, with a resolution of better than 1μm, which produces beautiful pictures of animal and plant cells and displays them directly onto your tablet or mobile phone.
Evogro make indoor plant growing systems for chefs – making it easy to grow perfect microgreens, salad leaves and herbs. Using hydroponics, horticultural LED lighting & video monitoring: Evogro cabinets are internet connected and are already used by Claridge’s and The Ritz amongst others. Evogro seek to conquer the professional catering market before expanding internationally and, in time, to consumers.
Nuklius has two environments; the open, entrepreneurial network where people use it find their collaborators to build their startup teams and Nuklius Platform; closed, private, walled-garden environments in which organisations can talent-map their own internal network.
PixelPin is designed for todays always-on, mobile-first and multi-device generation. It replaces passwords and PINs with a secure, user friendly and private method of logging into web sites. The cloud based solution allows mobile and web users to use a personal picture to login using 4 points providing a global solution that is language independent and perfect for mobile. All authentication data is fully encrypted using TLS for communications and AES256 in the cloud.
Find a Player is a smartphone app that makes it easier for people to find and play sports. Our app covers over 140 different sports and has 2 core functions, i.e. acts as a hub between players and games on a local basis and automates and simplifies game organisation process. We allow our users to set up activities using the app and invite their friends straight from their phone contacts. Thereafter, if they’re still short of numbers, we help them connect with local people on our system who are looking to do the same thing. Conversely, people who have just moved to a new area or simply want to get involved in more sport can search, find and join local activities that need more participants.
Almost one in eight parcel deliveries dispatched by UK carriers are missed every day. That’s over 100 million parcels a year. Click and Collect seems the ideal solution, where you get your parcels delivered to a local shop. But why can’t you get any parcel from any website delivered to a location of your choice? It could be your local corner shop, but why not a dry cleaners, your hairdresser, your gym, a school, a nursery or even a coffee shop? CornerDrop provides a click and collect service that could be used by all on-line retailers, enabling their customers to collect parcels from a local drop point early ‘til late, 7 days a week.
Launching in the UK in autumn 2015 and America in 2016, Ideas Britain helps the ideas of everyday entrepreneurs to come to life. The company has already attracted brand partners like Man City FC and coaches including Eurythmics and media entrepreneur Dave Stewart, ex-Dyson CEO Martin McCourt, and Virgin Media Business chief Jan Collins, just to name a few.
A Suit That Fits believes the bespoke experience should be available to many, offering quality tailored garments at high street prices, with studios all over the UK (and internationally). This vertically integrated operation, made a net profit of 185k in 2014 and has produced more suits than Savile Row annually. The team includes Simon Calver (CEO - Lovefilm, Mothercare) and Gi Fernando (Investor - City Mapper)
Clippings.com is a curated marketplace for beautiful furniture, lighting and homeware. We are on a mission to redesign the design industry, by empowering brands to connect with their customers directly. The team includes industry leaders such as Carson Roen (former marketing director, made.com) & David Begg (founder of Tom Dixon). We have over 300 brands and 8000 products on the platform, and have grown 21% month-on-month since our last round.
Fitmibody is driving an innovative fitness training movement which combines personal coaching and the benefits of a group fitness class environment to make affordable, tailored training available to everyone. Already attracting a user base of over 750, and operating 5 dedicated FitMiBody Trainers, this investment will allow the opening of a dedicated flagship East London Studio.
InYourStride is an ADAPTIVE Training Platform that focuses 100% on getting you to the start line - prepared, motivated and ready to have an amazing race day. It creates a custom training plan based on your fitness level, target time and your event. You can fit the plan around YOUR SCHEDULE, and then it uniquely ADAPTS as you progress through your own unique training plan.
Multi-award winning La Favorita Delivered is Scotland’s largest and fastest growing independent Italian pizza delivery company. It was born out of a long established Edinburgh Italian restaurant group in 2011 and has grown exponentially since then. Having firmly cemented ourselves within the Edinburgh food scene with 4 busy stores and a loyal customer base, we’re now focused on opening 2 stores in Glasgow in early 2015, with plans to eventually open 50 stores throughout the UK.
We are an online fancy dress company specialising in the student market. Our market differential is our 'Fancy Fresher Pack'- a customisable fancy dress pack for each uni's freshers week parties. We sell this pack to freshers before they move to university with a simple 'Choose Your Uni' slider on our homepage leading to their universities's bespoke pack which they can then further customise. We are also partners with 9 universities across the UK and we host a stall at these universities during freshers week.
A media company capturing the spirit of start-up that's sweeping the world, disrupting industries and redefining how people work and live. Their mission, to be the most authoritative and authentic brand for modern business and to do it with a fresh attitude.
Add to Event takes all of the hassle out of finding the best suppliers for your event. Our online marketplace solves the frustration of finding, calling and emailing dozens of event suppliers only to find that many aren’t available, out of your price range or can’t provide what you need. Simply tell us your requirements and we do all of the hard work. We reach out to the relevant suppliers in your area and provide you with personalised quotes from those that are available and well suited to your event.
Never thought it was possible to stay 3 nights in a 5-star hotel at the price of a cup of coffee? The solution is Bidtotrip, the online platform that auctions off overnights in the best luxury hotels in the world.
There are numerous challenges for anyone seeking to make sense of social data: to collect what is relevant; filter out the noise; conduct an analysis of the data; find out what influencers are saying or simply pick out the most re-tweeted picture of a celeb. Blurrt enables all this to happen - from the serious to the trivial.
Coinsilium Group is a blockchain focused investing company, supporting early-stage ventures through investment, acceleration, development and education.
Glued is an app for smartphones and tablets that monitors daily usage and helps families tackle the growing worldwide problem of device dependency. It does this through a unique method of rewarding points to parents and kids for positive device usage, device downtime and sticking to daily screen time limits.
Muzeums is an app and platform for museums that help museum visitors get a unique individual experience based on their personal interests and learning style. It does that by dynamically rearranging tagged, location based & experiential content. In other words, when you use Muzeums, the app will create, on the spot, an experience that is tailored specifically for you, with the content that you’re interested in, and even delivered in a way you'd prefer, be it a media tour guide or a real-Âtime interactive social game.
TanOrganic is a Eco-certified Organic Sunless Tanning Brand. We have a unique branding strategy that we feel sets us apart from all other tanning brands.Our packaging and brand stands apart, and simply say what the product is - “Organic Tanâ€. TanOrganic contains no synthetic ingredients such as perfumes or parabens and is 84% Aloe Vera based for a premium tan that hydrates the skin.
The Clubhouse is one of London’s leading business clubs, lounge and meeting spaces offering a new way of doing business, and the smarter alternative to a London office. Designed to meet the requirements of growing businesses of all shapes and sizes, we provide a luxurious, professional space with complimentary WiFi, refreshments, tea, Nespresso coffee, and a dedicated team on hand to attend to our members' every need.
6 Billion Emoji's are sent per day, we believe that through branded Emoji and Digital stickers, brands can create an emotional connection with potential consumers and be welcomed into a sacred place; their conversation.
Highflyers is a digital platform where top financial services companies can access a highly curated, bi-weekly refreshed, pool of professionals actively looking for a career move, significantly reducing time and cost of hiring. The first segment is chartered accountants. Instead of candidates applying for jobs, Highflyers candidates (only the top 10% that make it through our screening) are approached by employers. Managers in fact can potentially find their perfect candidates in seconds by using filters and keywords.
Cadence are a hub for cyclists, offering cycle sales, service, fitting, coaching, fitness training, yoga, pilates, a café, organised rides and social events from their first location in Crystal Palace. Strava recently rated them as the second most visited cycling café in London, and their corporate clients include UBS, Credit Suisse and Warner Brothers. Cadence’s team of cycling & business veterans now want to expand to new sites and services.
OpenPlay is a unique sports marketplace to connect sports facilities to individuals. You can easily find, book or list your sports facilities.
In 2013 £565m was spent by UK broadcasters on original drama. Chrysalis aims to be a specialised drama producer, with intention to develop, produce and distribute long-running multi-season drama series to address this market. The founding team previously built an independent TV production group with an annual turnover of £90m and are looking to repeat this success with a team including Luke Johnson of Pizza Express and Channel 4.
Alquity is a $100m high growth UK based Asset Management Company with a mission to deliver great returns through responsible, sustainable investment practice in emerging markets. Led by veteran fund managers, Alquity donate up to 25% of their fee revenue to support local entrepreneurs in their target markets, outperform their peers, are already listed on several platforms, and plans to be a $1 billion fund by 2019.
Cauli Rice is a low calorie and low GI Rice Replacement. It has 80% fewer calories but with the same taste and satisfaction as ordinary white rice and is already being supported by industry experts. It is protected by a trademark, has had a successful patent search completed and is believed to be the first product of its kind. A manufacturing patent is being filed.
Empiribox aims to provide Primary Schools with a means to teach science effectively by providing the tools, resources and training in one neat package at a price schools can afford. Since raising with Crowdcube in Q2 of 2014, Empiribox is now used by over 75 schools across the UK, has sold nearly £500,000 worth of subscriptions and is striving to take the education market by storm and solve the lack of scientists coming through education.
The 'Free From' market was valued at £365 million in the UK for 2014, and FEEL FREE has developed a range of gluten and wheat free foods that people miss from their diets, such as donuts. AIming to disrupt peoples' perceptions of gluten free food with better tasting alternatives, FEEL FREE is now looking to scale up production of their multi-award winning donuts with a dedicated production facility.
Coolcucumber TV is a regular food magazine programme for everyone who’s excited by good food – restaurant-goers and the trade – and brings to the viewer the same values as the respected Ackerman Guide of the 90’s but now on the screen. Restaurants are selected by the Ackerman Collection team and all are personally visited by Roy Ackerman. Restaurants only appear by invitation and do not pay to appear on the programme.
POD Point are one of the UK's fastest growing tech companies and supply electric vehicle charging solutions to drivers and businesses nationwide. They've shipped more than 20,000 charge points and provided over 10 million miles of electric motoring. This is your chance to get involved in a high growth sector and be part of the electric vehicle revolution.
Founded by Monty Halls, one of the UK’ best known adventure presenters, writers and broadcasters, Seadog Productions aims to produce world class television and video content targeting a national and international audience. Based in the South West, the plan is to create a regional centre of excellence, to ultimately create television programmes and films that will be in demand on a global scale.
The Village Haberdashery is a sewing, knitting and craft shop for the Modern Maker.
Fy is a shoppable Instagram: a daily feed of unique, affordable products from emerging brands around the world.
Ginx TV is an international, multi-language TV channel dedicated exclusively to video games. The channel produces a number of video gaming programmes each occupying a specific genre of the industry and reviews games from current and retro video game consoles, handhelds, PCs and smartphones.