Simba Sleep
Series C in 2022
Simba Sleep Limited is a London-based company specializing in the design and manufacture of innovative mattresses and sleep-related products. Founded in 2015, it offers a diverse range of foam mattresses that incorporate a unique combination of conical pocket springs and precision-engineered foam, ensuring optimal comfort and support. In addition to mattresses, Simba Sleep provides a variety of sleep accessories, including pillows, duvets, and bed bases, all crafted with advanced materials to enhance sleep quality. The company emphasizes the importance of sleep and aims to help customers achieve restorative rest. Simba Sleep sells its products through select retail partners, notably John Lewis, and also operates a robust online platform for direct consumer sales.
Ziglu
Venture Round in 2022
Ziglu is a digital investment platform focused on promoting fairness and financial inclusion in the cryptocurrency space. It aims to empower users by providing quick, safe, and affordable access to a variety of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ether, and Litecoin. The platform offers a user-friendly mobile experience, allowing retail customers to manage their accounts with features like real-time payments, foreign currency accounts, and a real-time cryptocurrency exchange. Additionally, Ziglu provides a Mastercard debit card for convenient transactions and instant access yield accounts that offer competitive returns, enabling customers to engage with a diverse range of modern assets and investment opportunities.
What3words
Venture Round in 2021
What3Words Limited, established in 2013 and headquartered in Baldock, UK, specializes in a unique global addressing system. It has divided the world into a 3m x 3m grid, assigning each square a unique address consisting of three words. This innovative solution enables precise location finding and sharing, benefiting various industries such as delivery, emergency response, navigation, and property search. The company offers its service through an API, allowing businesses and individuals to integrate it into their products and services. Additionally, What3Words provides a free mobile app and online map for general use.
Eat Just
Venture Round in 2021
Eat Just, Inc., founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, California, focuses on creating plant-based food products aimed at improving the food system. The company offers a variety of items, including plant-based scrambled eggs, flavored mayonnaise, dressings, cookie doughs, and meat alternatives. Their flagship product, JUST Egg, has garnered significant recognition, being featured in lists such as Popular Science's "100 Greatest Innovations." Eat Just emphasizes innovation through a unique discovery platform for food ingredients, combining scientific research with culinary expertise from Michelin-starred chefs. The company has been acknowledged in various prestigious lists, including Fast Company’s "Most Innovative Companies" and Entrepreneur’s "100 Brilliant Companies."
Coconut
Private Equity Round in 2021
Coconut is an innovative tax and accounting software designed for sole traders, landlords, and their accountants. As the UK prepares for "Making Tax Digital for Income Tax," which will require over four million taxpayers to submit five tax returns annually starting in 2024, Coconut aims to simplify financial management. The platform automatically categorizes tax-deductible business transactions, provides guidance on tax regulations, tracks income, and facilitates invoice generation. It also enables users to split expenses and calculates real-time tax liabilities, allowing self-employed individuals and clients to efficiently manage their financial affairs and improve liquidity.
Swytch
Private Equity Round in 2021
Swytch is a developer of a cloud-based application that enables businesses to provide virtual work mobile numbers on their employees' personal phones. By converting a mobile handset into a switchboard, Swytch allows users to access multiple phone numbers from a single device, eliminating the need for multiple SIM cards. This innovative solution facilitates seamless communication by enabling teams to circulate their work mobile numbers on one platform, thus enhancing efficiency and flexibility in managing communication for businesses.
SeeQuestor
Private Equity Round in 2021
SeeQuestor Ltd. is a company based in Ledbury, United Kingdom, specializing in video analysis solutions designed for law enforcement and security agencies. Founded in 2014, SeeQuestor develops an integrated software and hardware toolset that significantly accelerates the analysis of video data, particularly CCTV footage. Its offerings include a range of video processing devices, servers, and workstations that utilize artificial intelligence and advanced forensic tools. These solutions convert various video formats into a standard format, enabling analysts to efficiently detect movements, faces, and individuals within substantial volumes of footage. By indexing videos for rapid reviews and searches, SeeQuestor enhances the ability of security teams to identify persons of interest and uncover critical evidence, thereby improving the overall effectiveness of investigations.