Top 50 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in United Kingdom in October 2023

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• Integral — Compliantly connecting health data as securely and as quickly as possible.
• HUG — Discover new artists, and access innovative creator-friendly education. Earn rewards for celebrating and curating your favorite artists!
• KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.

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• Previsico — Previsico is a spinOut company from Loughborough University specialising in modelling flooding in real-time, using weather predictions to make street-level flood nowcasts and forecasts. The company's mission is to be the leading global provider of cutting-edge flood prediction that saves lives and livelihoods.Its FloodMap Live producesround the clock street-level flood risk predictions and analytics. Uniquely, these are continuously modelled and updated using a combination of different weather forecasts. This allows the company to map the likelihood of short and long-term surface water events in real-time to the street level.
• Looper Insights — Looper Insights - Optimizing Content and App Placement Across Connected TV Devices. The market leader in analytics on Connected TV devices.
• We Are Fulfilment — We Are Fulfillment is an e-commerce company that provides warehousing and management services.

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• Odore — Our platform enables the world's leading brands to sample their products more effectively.
• Supportwave — NerdApp offers online or on-site tech support for your home or small business. Just sign up and book a Nerd instantly or schedule at your convenience!
• Fantastic Days — Fantastic Days is a beauty social intelligence platform provider.

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• Intralink — Your international expansion made fast, easy and cost effective
• MyTutor — MyTutor provides secondary school learners with online access to over 7,000 Russell Group university students, reducing the time, hassle and cost of finding a subject expert locally.Lessons take place in their innovative online lesson space, which allows parents to substitute expensive tutors coming to their house, for live, one-to-one sessionswith young, bright and successful undergraduates. If the pupil forgets something, every session is recorded, so they can play it back after.They also partner with schools and universities to provide larger contracts for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. School teachers stay up-to-date with the programme through a personalised online dashboard.The company has grown at 3x YoY for the last three years, with 200,000+ bookings and applications from 50,000 tutors. At the same time quality has been maintained, with 70,000+ 5* reviews and every tutor personally interviewed.MyTutor was founded by Robert Grabiner, Bertie Hubbard and James Grant.
• Lace Partners — LACE Partners are a leading HR and Payroll transformation consultancy. We're able to support organisations with strategy through to execution.

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• Seriously Low Carb — Award Winning. Consumer brand of choice. Real food that's Keto and Low Carb friendly. The home of the Seriously Low Carb Loaf, the Seriously Low Carb Pizza and now lots of other products too.
• Laserthrust — Laserthrust is developing and producing a 3D-printed, super-cavitating electric craft capable of traveling from Norwich, UK, to Amsterdam. The company's marine goods are made completely of recycled and recyclable FDM 3D-printed materials, with a particular emphasis on TPU-based materials.
• Luxury Cottages — Find a luxury holiday cottage to rent in the UK. Our handpicked holiday homes at Luxury Cottages are carefully selected by our luxury travel experts.

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• Covatic — We help media companies deliver private-by-design, addressable advertising and marketing without exposing personal data.
• Decently — Decently provides the world a better place by developing advanced digital products. Decently mission is to improve lives through innovative digital product.
• Percayso Inform — Percayso provides insurers with access to a wide range of data sources, allowing them to form a more comprehensive view of their customers.

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• AAZZUR — One-stop-shop for APIs and embeddable Front-end-modules connected to a smart marketplace for BaaS- and Fintech-Services
• OnCare — Home care software | care management system
• SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.

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• Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
• Awell Health — Ollie is a vast library of over 100 interface blocks with complete Webflow CMS integration. Build beautiful websites in less time than ever.
• Pencil Biosciences — Next Generation Genome Editing Tool

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• JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
• Writer — Accelerate growth across every team with the most secure AI platform. We customize generative AI to your workflows, not the other way around.
• Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.

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• Avoca Clinic — The Avoca Clinic is Ireland's only plastic surgery clinic. Our World Class Consultants are all Irish Medical Council Registered. Book a free consultation today
• Stellar Omada — Stellar Omada delivers leading business & digital transformation that exceeds expectations in a constantly changing world. Contact us.
• Machine Discovery — Machine Discovery is a University of Oxford spin-out commercializing new machine learning technology. We leverage proprietary neural network technology to accelerate expensive calculations — and we do it with minimal data and 99.9% fidelity.

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• PocDoc — Smart health in your hands
• APEXX — The APEXX payment gateway consolidates global payment providers into a single integration point, optimising the cost of complex payment ecosystems.
• Makers — Start your tech journey in 16 weeks. Become a software developer, data engineer, cloud or quality engineer. Remote or hybrid options!

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• Shoorah — Shoorah is a fresh and comprehensive wellbeing app that helps you support your mental health and nourish your wellbeing.
• Taylor & Hart — Taylor & Hart's mission is to create and deliver engagement rings that allow people to truly express themselves in a way that captures the emotions they feel for each other.- Offering over 100,000 ethically sourced GIA graded diamonds to choose from.- Winner of "Best New Jeweler 2014" and nominated for numerous otherawards.- Crowd-fundeded through Seedrs twice raising over $500,000- Notable mentions in the Telegraph, Guardian, Elle, Glamour, Forbes, FT- Customer rating of over 9.6/10 from over 120 reviews.- Team members based in London, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria- Transacted over $2m over the last 12 months.- Set a pink diamond on the inside of every ring as a trademark
• Splint Invest — Splint Invest is a B2B2C platform, where customers can buy tokens of alternative investments. Combining smart contracts, DLT and AI, we tokenize real-world assets effortless and fully automated.

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• Fable — Fable Home dinnerware brings people together for love, laughter, and storytelling by delivering gorgeous cutlery, tableware, and glassware at affordable prices.
• Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
• Awe Inspired — We believe in fine jewelry as a vehicle for empowerment. Shop our collection of goddess necklaces, coin necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and more.

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• AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
• Colossyan — We make video creation simply and stressless. AI video technology allow us to crate video in just a few minutes. Ty out here.
• Kubeark — Kubeark powers scalable, rapid, and compliant SaaSification and software lifecycle management.

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• MEplace — MEplace creates a new approach to children’s wellbeing and preschool education. MEplace was founded in 2019 and was headquartered in England, UK.
• Taylor & Hart — Taylor & Hart's mission is to create and deliver engagement rings that allow people to truly express themselves in a way that captures the emotions they feel for each other.- Offering over 100,000 ethically sourced GIA graded diamonds to choose from.- Winner of "Best New Jeweler 2014" and nominated for numerous otherawards.- Crowd-fundeded through Seedrs twice raising over $500,000- Notable mentions in the Telegraph, Guardian, Elle, Glamour, Forbes, FT- Customer rating of over 9.6/10 from over 120 reviews.- Team members based in London, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria- Transacted over $2m over the last 12 months.- Set a pink diamond on the inside of every ring as a trademark
• Glowb — Looking for trusted solar panel installers and solar battery installers in Central England? We can help homeowners transition to solar energy.

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• PocDoc — Smart health in your hands
• APEXX — The APEXX payment gateway consolidates global payment providers into a single integration point, optimising the cost of complex payment ecosystems.
• measurable.energy — Machine Learning and hardware platform to eliminate wasted energy and GHG emissions in buildings

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• Cognassist — Cognassist is the UK's #1 edtech SaaS platform, focused on helping every learner reach their full potential.
• Branchspace — Branchspace empowers airlines and travel retail brands of any size reinvent digital retail with next-generation solutions.
• Mable Therapy — Speech Therapy and Counselling for children, teens and schools. Find out more about the services we provide here at Mable Therapy.

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• Noetik — Noetik is an AI-native biotechnology company. Our mission is to leverage advanced machine learning methods to discover and develop cancer immunotherapies.
• Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
• Bright Money — A new system for financial planning to delete debt and build wealth. Pay Down Debt Faster, Build Savings and Boost your Credit Score.

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• T-Pro — T-Pro is a world leading document and patient workflow manahement platform for heathcare. Powered by state of the art AI speech technology, T-Pro reduces the burden of documentation for clinicians and automates patient noting and correspondence workflows.
• CitNOW Group — Created to leverage innovation and help retailers and manufacturers deliver an outstanding customer experience, CitNOW Group is driven by the vision to transform the way the automotive world communicates.
• Direct Ferries — Direct Ferries is an online platform that provides a selection of ferry routing information to its users.The platform allows its users to compare ferry crossings in its search and find fairs associated with them at the time of travel. Its network covers ports in Europe, with crossings available throughout Africa, Asia, Australia, North America,and South America. Furthermore, it allows its users to choose routes, as well as ferry deals information on their selected routes.

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• Medwing — MEDWING serves as the most trusted and convenient platform for finding opportunities and working in healthcare. From temporary to permanent staffing, we simplify hiring, allowing healthcare professionals to do what they do best -- care. MEDWING Berlin-based company wants to empower healthcare candidates to work in a way that suits their individuallifestyles and to support hospitals and care facilities in recruiting and human resource management.
• Paytrix — Access the best payments infrastructure around the world, all through a single platform.
• Vedanta Biosciences — Vedanta Biosciences is a developer of immunotherapies designed to treat immune-mediated and infectious diseases. The company's immunotherapies include a suite of proprietary assays to select pharmacologically potent strains, vast proprietary datasets from human interventional studies, and facilities for cGMP-compliant manufacturing ofrationally-defined bacterial consortia in powder form, enabling physicians to access live bacteria drug to treat autoimmune and inflammatory diseases easily.It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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• HomeOptions — Home ownership redefined - We pay homeowners to be their future real estate broker.
• Auriga Space — Next-generation space launch company providing frequent, sustainable and affordable transport to low Earth orbit
• Immersive Fox — Immersive Fox develops a text-to-video B2B service to generate video content for companies remotely. It also creates AI-generated microlearning videos from any text for learning management systems and corporate communication.

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• SKNUPS — Digital Fashion Collectibles Platform
• Luna Daily — Microbiome balancing body care for all skin, even your most intimate. Head, vulva, knees and toes. On a mission to connect women of all ages and stages to each other and their entire bodies.
• By Rotation — Rent over 25000+ designer fashion items online from our free app. Discover luxury designer dresses, clothing, bags and accessories from your trending favorite brands.

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• Cuure — We are building a great and honest company that delivers personalized vitamins and food supplements to everyone so they improve their daily wellness and consciousness
• Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.
• Lucky Saint — Lucky Saint specializes in the manufacture and supply of non-alcoholic beer.

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• Cubyn — Cubyn picks your stuff up at your place, packages it and ships it for you to any destination worldwide. Cubyn allows any e-retailer to benefit from the power supply of an Amazon from her living room, without obligation.
• Aibidia — Discover the Aibidia TXM Platform and our digital transfer pricing applications, eliminating billions of euros in tax inefficiencies and risks.
• GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.

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• MarraBio — MarraBio Ltd. is a spin out company from Newcastle University using engineered bacterial protein polymers to provide bioactivity to cells at the industrial scale in the cultivated meat sector and beyond.
• Power Roll — Power Roll has reinvented solar to generate energy anywhere and everywhere, using any surface.
• Laverock Therapeutics — Laverock Therapeutics is developing a gene silencing platform for the creation of programmable, allogeneic cell therapies.

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• Sorted Group — Leading delivery management platform for carrier management and post-purchase CX. Range of eCommerce delivery solutions for retailers. Book your demo.
• CurrentBody.com — CurrentBody is the first company to recognise one of the fastest growing trends in the world of beauty. With modern innovation allowing manufacturers to create devices that mimic the on-site devices used by professionals in salons, spas, and clinics, CurrentBody has brought together a complete selection available for home use technology.
• YorkTest — YorkTest is an award-winning food intolerance & allergy testing company, optimising health and wellbeing with our range of health tests. Order online...

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• Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
• Strise — Strise is signaling a new era of enterprise software and organizational change, transforming how companies work and empowering individual growth through knowledge. We believe in the AI-enabled financial institution without data silos where users and data are working together to solve even the most complex business problems.
• Opna — Opna is a financing platform for climate projects that remove carbon and protect natural ecosystems. Opna offers data, proprietary risk assessments, and efficient capital structures, helping companies to translate net-zero committed capital from financial institutions, and corporates into direct financing across a project's lifecycle.

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• TidalSense — CRiL was formed in April 2013 specifically to develop innovative medical devices to diagnose and manage respiratory conditions. They have been building a platform technology, N-Tidal, based on the measurement and analysis of tidal breathing CO2 throughout the entire breath.
• Qkine — Growth Factors made for stem cells Animal-free We control every step of protein manufacture ensuring all our products are completely animal-free Total transparency Stringent purity and bioactivity testing data for all proteins - know what you are giving your cells Protein innovation Our R&D team
• FundamentalVR — Implement a customized, flexible, and cost-effective training solution to accelerate the rollout of your medical device, surgical robotic system, or product.

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• Commonplace — Commonplace is an online citizen engagement platform. We help you to engage with more community members, collect their ideas and make better places.
• Flywheel.io — Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow. They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration. With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from topuniversities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT.Flywheel accelerates new scientific discoveries in life-science, biotech, and academic imaging research through cloud-scale collaboration. As a result, imaging researchers are able to avoid innovation bottlenecks, and accelerate discovery by doing more science, and less IT.
• Social Value Portal — Backed the National TOMs Framework, Social Value Portal helps organisations measure, report and enhance their social value.

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• PVcase — We are on a mission to fight climate change through software. We are fulfilling this aim by creating seamlessly integrated solar technology solutions for companies of all sizes to help them design, estimate and optimize commercial and utility scale solar assets, wherever they may be.
• Oritain — Oritain has harnessed the power of science to provide businesses with a traceability system unlike anything else.
• Nothing — Nothing is a London-based company removing the barriers between people and technology to create a seamless digital future.

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• AdScanner — AdScanner made its mission to empower data-driven TV advertising to increase effectiveness, transparency, speed, reduce manual, complicated, delayed reports and also to make TV more interconnected and comparable with digital channels. Our approach is to combine proprietary technologies and data.
• Pixyle.ai — Pixyle.ai’s image recognition software detects fashion items in images. It's accurate and integrates seamlessly with any tech stack.The company help fashion retailers deliver visual AI solutions that allow shoppers to visually search for products and get relevant similar product recommendations on their e-commerce platforms, improving bothcustomer engagement and conversion rates. Their automatic tagging and business intelligence solutions enable retailers to save time, reduce costs, and make smarter decisions.
• Mily Technologies — Mily Tech is a delivery analytics platform tailored for last-mile deliveries. It collects your data and gives it spatial context to help you quickly understand when, where and what happens on the field.

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• Tesel — Tesel has a big ambition to get all ESG services and companies hanging out in the same place. We connect businesses who understand that ESG is essential to commercial success, not just a box to be ticked, and we bring them together in our marketplace.
• RezKit — RezKit is a travel booking systems helps shopkeepers and online retailers can operate efficiently and profitably thanks to a wide variety of instruments at their disposal.
• Swoperz — Swoperz is a shopping outlet where kids between the ages of 6 and 16 can exchange garments at any time.

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• Sedex — At Sedex, it is our goal to help businesses consistently improve their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) results by providing data-driven insight, tools, and services.
• UniHomes — UniHomes showcase the best all-inclusive student homes across the UK. View & compare student accommodation with bills included.
• Star Live — From world tours, brand activations and record-breaking feats of engineering to complex turnkey solutions for major sporting, entertainment and cultural events, Star Live makes it happen.

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• Smartr365 — A complete end-to-end mortgage and protection platform to connect advisors, introducers and home buyers.
• When You Move — When You Move founders, Peter and Simon experienced first hand the frustrations with the conveyancing process. For all parties: the estate agent, the mortgage broker, the conveyancer and the end-customer, obstacles stood in the way of a smooth, successful journey. Current panels aren’t the answer. Estate agents and brokers still spend valuable timechasing for updates, conveyancers are overwhelmed by another system that sits outside their daily workflow, and often referral fees don’t even materialise.Peter and Simon believed that with the right technology, everyone can profit from working better, together. When You Move has been developed in consultation with the industry and with leading SaaS engineers, to create a connected client journey. It improves communication, facilitates introductions and increases profits.
• Live Better With — Get products, support, and practical information to help you navigate everyday life with your health condition.

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• xigxag — At xigxag, we're leading the biggest-ever innovation in digital reading and shaping the future of books.
• TruePlayers — Trueplayers is a computer game development company that specializes in mobile games. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Falmouth, Cornwall.
• Intelligent AI — Global location intelligence that helps you measure, predict and mitigate property risks in real-time.

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• Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
• Browse AI — Monitor any webpage for changes. Download any data on the web as a spreadsheet. Turn any website into an API.
• ElevenLabs — Research Lab. Exploring new frontiers of voice generation. We are researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language & voice.

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• Captura — Captura mission is globally scalable carbon capture to support a sustainable future for the climate.
• Queen of Raw — Queen of Raw is a global marketplace with AI-powered supply chain software to eliminate and monetize textile waste, tracking and analyzing data to keep unused raw materials out of landfills and turn pollution into profit. An integrated dashboard allows its customers to visualize savings to their bottom- and top-lines as well as to the environmentby the actions they take across the Queen of Raw platform. Queen of Raw has helped 400,000+ users save millions of dollars—and more than a billion gallons of water.Queen of Raw is powered by mmx (http://www.materiamx.com/).
• Roslin Technologies — Roslin Tech is on a mission to improve protein production through disruptive technologies. Our core capability is in animal stem cells; we have developed the world’s perpetually self-renewing, pluripotent stem cells for animals (iPS cells) which will accelerate the development of cultivated meat for the consumer market.

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• WAU BIKE — Introducing the WAU X, the long range eBike with indicators and brake lights. Featuring a 100 mile range, smart APP and remote locking system. Finance available.
• BASANIZOMAI — We are a new social network, based on humor
• Here We Flo — Shamelessly natural and sustainable period care, sensitive bladder and sexual wellness care - so you can feel crazy confident and empowered in life's messiest moments. Only natural, never harmful, always adorable. B Corp Certified.

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• Kick Game — London-based luxury footwear and apparel retailer, founded in 2013, Kick Game ships worldwide, and operates two retail stores in London. Kick Game is a destination retailer for exclusive, collectable and rare sneakers and streetwear, stocking products from Nike, Off-White, Air Jordan, Supreme and Yeezy.
• RETìníZE — RETìníZE is an AR, VR, multi-screen installations, and software development.
• Pixion Games — Pixion Games is a studio focused on building competitive esports games for mobile device.

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• Masabi — Leading fare payments platform for public transport. Mobile Ticketing, Mobility as a Service, Account-Based Ticketing, Contactless Ticketing (cEMV).
• Lunio — Drive performance marketing efficiency by cutting out invalid traffic across all paid marketing channels. Reach more users with the same ad spend.
• Semble — The integrated clinical system for managing your patients' medical data and admin tasks.

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• Umedeor — uMed is a technology platform embedded across a global network of healthcare providers that automates the process of building prospective, protocolized patient registries. This enables sites to participate in dozens of programmes simultaneously without increasing overhead or burden on staff. For life science companies, uMed provides access toregulator quality data, where patients within those datasets can be compliantly re-engaged to support the aims of R&D and post-market teams
• Ascento — Secure, maintain, and inspect outdoor assets by reducing the intervention times and augmenting data capturing capability.
• Continuum Industries — Continuum Industries is a developer of Optioneer, the leading software for linear infrastructure optioneering.

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• Zopa — Zopa is a P2P money lending service that allows lenders and borrowers to deal directly with one another, cutting out the banks who act as middlemen. It works in the following way: the company first categorizes borrower credit grades with an A*, A, B, C, or Y rating; then lenders make offers that vary by money amount and time period for persons witha certain credit grade, and borrowers can then agree the aggregate offered rate.Zopa takes on such responsibilities as distributing money between parties, completing the legal paperwork, performing borrower identity/credit checks, and employing a collections agency that chases missed payments for the lender.Zopa also mitigates risk for lenders by enforcing monthly direct debit repayment, making borrowers sign a legal contract, and allowing lenders to lend small chunks of money to individual borrowers (i.e. someone lending £1000 would have their money spread across say, 100 borrowers).The company itself makes money by charging a fixed fee for borrowers and a 1% annual fee for lenders.Zopa has received public acclaim as well, having been awarded CNET Technology Awards' 2006 Internet Innovation of the Year, the 2007 Webby Award for Best Banking/Bill-Paying Website, the 2008 Webby Award for Financial Services, the Banker 2007 Award for Best Internet Project, and Moneywise 2009 Awards for Best Customer Service and Best Personal Loan.One of the three initial members of the UK's Peer-to-Peer Finance Association, together with FundingCircle and RateSetter. Other P2P lending services include
• DeadHappy — Life's too short to shop around for life insurance. Say hello to DeadHappy, a brand new type of life insurance that's quick, easy and flexible.
• Lightpoint Medical — Lightpoint is developing miniaturized imaging and sensing tools for advanced robot-assisted cancer surgery.

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• WINT — WINT - Water Intelligence developing advanced solutions for smart water management and control. The company detects and stops leaks at the source using Artificial Intelligence. It is used in commercial and industrial facilities, offices, homes, and apartments. It also prevents water damage caused by leaks, broken pipes or malfunctioning watersystems.WINT customers gain deep insights about their water use to identify water waste and reduce consumption by 25%. They manage water and detect leaks using artificial intelligence and pattern matching technologies, combining high accuracy metering with advanced data analytics. WINT solutions protect global real estate portfolios and homes by revealing leaks and identifying water savings opportunities.WINT was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, USA.
• Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.
• Enteligent — Enteligent is a solar product company focused on higher efficiency and harnessing more solar electricity. Enteligent's products reduce conversion losses and other inefficiencies that result in up to a 25% loss of solar rooftop electrical generation. Enteligent is on a mission to increase the effectiveness of solar electricity and providehomeowners with energy independence.

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• Placemakr — WhyHotel is an alternative lodging service company that operates pop-up hotels in newly built, luxury apartment buildings. The hotels offer fully furnished apartments that combine the comforts of home, the services of a hotel and the amenities of newly built, luxury apartment buildings. WhyHotel allows multifamily developers to de-risk the lease-upphase of new assets and creates a new revenue stream while serving as an added amenity for residents.
• Verifiable — A modern data engine to power healthcare credentialing, licensing, enrollment and provider network management. Built for the new demands of today's healthcare.
• Unchained — Unchained is a bitcoin native financial services company offering collaborative custody multisignature vaults and loans for bitcoin holders.

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• Pachama — Harnessing AI to drive carbon capture and protect global forests
• The Expert — Book consultations with the world's top design experts
• Masters — Train mind and body on the Masters app with full workout programs designed and run by the world's best athletes. Join today and start training like a pro.

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• Fabacus — We are a leading data and technology business with a unique data service designed to digitally-transform the licensing industry. Contact us today.
• SolasCure — Our proprietary technology leverages biomimicry and evidence-based medicine to treat patients with chronic wounds.
• Filament AI — Filament Syfter is the data core for Private Markets - PE firms can integrate, interrogate and enrich their proprietary market intelligence.

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• Treekly — Join the Treekly Community and make a difference! Challenge yourself, your friends, family and employees to walk and fund tree planting at the same time
• Easology — New easy to use tablets - Samsung Galaxy easology. Easology makes your tablet easy with large text, big buttons, clear menus + more.
• Homemove — Homemove helps you move home with ease. Find top-rated estate agents, compare prices, and get expert advice. We're here to make your move as stress-free as possible.

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• Mayku — We help people make incredible things with beautiful tabletop machines.
• Coconut — Coconut is the current account that takes care of your accounting and tax. It’s designed specifically for freelancers, self-employed people and small business owners.Working for yourself presents a number of unique challenges. It’s all too easy to waste your valuable time on things like tracking your expenses, getting paid on time by clients, orworrying about your dreaded tax return. Traditional products like cloud accounting packages and business bank accounts haven’t kept up with the fast-paced way they work today.Self-employment and entrepreneurship is the biggest shift in the way they work for a generation, and they are building Coconut to be the platform to enable this economy to boom.Their mission is to free millions of people from business admin worldwide, by combining banking and accounting into one simple product.
• DynamX Medical — DynamX Medical has developed a reliable and inexpensive precancer screening system for rapid tissue biopsy analysis that can be operated point-of-care by nurses.

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• Preply — Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.
• Graphext — Graphext is a no-code platform for business intelligence helping you to build powerful data science projects.
• DRUID — DRUID is an AI platform that allows companies to automate processes by designing and deploying UiPath RPA integrated chatbot virtual assistants.

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• Fabacus — We are a leading data and technology business with a unique data service designed to digitally-transform the licensing industry. Contact us today.
• SolasCure — Our proprietary technology leverages biomimicry and evidence-based medicine to treat patients with chronic wounds.
• Alderley Lighthouse Labs — Alderley Lighthouse Labs is a laboratory-based testing facility, specializing in human diagnostics.