At Collectiv Food we're leading the transition to a sustainable, fair and transparent food supply chain, to build a whole better food ecosystem. We've built the first digitised, automated and data-driven food supply chain solution, bringing sustainability, transparency, better unit economics and greener logistics solutions to food businesses around the globe.
Good Club is a sustainable grocery brand and retailer, revolutionising grocery shopping by wiping out waste and eliminating the environmental impact of everyday groceries. The company has recently launched reusable product packaging and delivery boxes that are collected from customers and cleaned for reuse. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.
Ohne is a women's healthcare brand that sells eco-friendly tampons and other feminine hygiene products. The company was founded in 2017 by Nikki Michelsen and Leah Remry-Peploe and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Skin Analytics build a digital history of your skin so that you and your doctor can measure, track and ultimately understand your skin. Meaning you have the tools to take control and ultimately improve your skin health. Their patent-pending algorithms measure how the skin is changing from smartphone images to identify, inform and evaluate treatment options across a range of consumer health and clinical skin conditions. Which means they build digital platforms that personalise skin health so people can control their skin health rather than be controlled by it. They’re focused on delivering a series of skin health products over the next 3 years ranging from consumer to clinical.
Edukasyon is an Edtech platform that democratizes access to online tutoring, skills training, and college guidance for 8M learners in the Philippines and beyond. Edukasyon.ph is an education technology platform based in the Philippines that aims to reimagine learning through three highly accessible EdTech products : Edge Tutor, Empower, and Explore. It empowers students throughout different stages of their educational journey so that it leads them to a fulfilling career and life. Edge Tutor is a fully online high dosage tutoring service that provides K-12 students with high quality academic support from certified tutors. With courses ranging from Math, English to Filipino, sessions are designed to give each student a personalized and engaging learning experience -- all at very affordable price. With Empower, Edukasyon partners with hundreds of educational institutions, corporations and foundations, to equip the youth with information and life skills to help them create and shape their own paths, as they discover more about themselves and the opportunities available to them. Finally, with Explore, Edukasyon provides a free online platform that enables students to access senior high schools, colleges and universities, scholarships, online courses, internships, and other learning resources. Edukasyon.ph, which also operates the website FindUniversity (www.finduniversity.ph) engages more than 8 million learners each year. Edukasyon.ph is supported in part by impact investors, family offices and angel investors across Asia, Europe and North America, including Mustard Seed, Villgro Philippines, French Partners, KSR Ventures, Gobi-Core Philippine Fund, EduLab Capital Partners, Obunsha Ventures, Alternate Ventures, Foxmont Capital Partners, Lorinet Foundation, Bisk Ventures and First Asia Venture Capital. Edukasyon.ph has received several recognitions for its work, including the 2017 Financial Times / IFC Transformational Business Award for Achievement in Sustainable Development, with a focus on Education, Knowledge and Skills, as well as the 2017 ASEAN Youth Social Entrepreneurship Awards. Edukasyon.ph was also included in the 2016 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Accelerator Program. Launched in 2015, Edukasyon.ph now has a team of more than 50 and is headquartered in Manila. For more information, visit www.edukasyon.ph.
Good Club is a sustainable grocery brand and retailer, revolutionising grocery shopping by wiping out waste and eliminating the environmental impact of everyday groceries. The company has recently launched reusable product packaging and delivery boxes that are collected from customers and cleaned for reuse. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.
SafetyNet designs, builds, and tests light emitting devices to increase the selectivity of commercial fishing practices, which helps making the industry more sustainable. It is building LED systems to enable experimentation into how light can segregate between ages and species of fish, and intends to apply that knowledge to create a simple set of lights to help fishermen catch the right fish.
HypeLabs is the company that created the Hype SDK, an interoperable mesh networking software that improves connectivity on all kinds of devices, from mobile to desktop to IoT, allowing them to connect even when there is no internet. The software works by intelligently connecting devices in local mesh networks using existing connectivity technologies, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa and others. This network enables content to securely hop between devices, until it reaches a destination or an Internet exit point, improving range and deliverability. Founded in 2016, the company is located in San Francisco (USA), Porto (Portugal), London (UK) and Krakow (Poland). AngelPad #10 (Spring '16) alumni & Deutsche Telekom WARP alumni.
Winnow builds artificial intelligence tools to help chefs run more profitable and sustainable kitchens by cutting food waste in half. They develop technology to cut food waste in their operations. Their digital tools provide data to drive improvements in kitchen production processes and reduce environmental footprint. Winnow's mission is to connect commercial kitchen, create a movement of chefs, and inspire others. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.
Stuffstr is a public benefit corporation (B Corp) dedicated to reducing waste by dramatically increasing the reuse of unused stuff. Stuffstr aims to fundamentally change the way we purchase and even think about the things we buy, resulting in a dramatically more sustainable world.
Fenton makes fine jewelry out of glistening gemstones like emeralds, sapphires, rubies, and more. It is committed to assisting customers in discovering their dream jewelry, whether for an engagement, birthday, or as a self-gift. The Fenton website allows them to completely customize their jewelry to create something truly one-of-a-kind. Every piece of Fenton jewelry is made with gemstones from the top 5% of the world's supply. They are then set in recycled 18k gold or platinum of their choice.
Mush is an online social platform that enables mothers to meet other mothers with kids the same age. It is a social network for mums, helping parents to interact and avoid loneliness. Based in London, it was founded by Sarah Hesz and Katie Massie-Taylor in 2016.
Rapido is a platform where people can book a bike ride through a mobile app while traveling solo. The company's mission is to bring people traveling in a similar direction together, thereby reducing the number of vehicles on the road. This not only helps reduce traffic but also carbon footprints and air pollution. It further augments the concept of not owning everything by creating viable and accessible options to share. Rapido was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, India.
Winnow builds artificial intelligence tools to help chefs run more profitable and sustainable kitchens by cutting food waste in half. They develop technology to cut food waste in their operations. Their digital tools provide data to drive improvements in kitchen production processes and reduce environmental footprint. Winnow's mission is to connect commercial kitchen, create a movement of chefs, and inspire others. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.
HireHand is an intelligent and fuss-free staffing platform for food businesses. HireHand's algorithm learns from each shift to consistently deliver great matches for clients, ensuring continuity and reliability for businesses, and flexibility and variety for hospitality professionals. Working with established London Food businesses such as Patty&Bun, Bleecker Burger, London Cocktail Club and Breddos Tacos, HireHand's talented pool of experienced individuals offer a full range of front and back of house skills. The London-based company also has a social mission, with some of its talent pool coming from disadvantaged backgrounds, and counting as its referral partners organisations such as Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen, The Prince’s Trust, Fight for Peace and Thames Reach. HireHand was founded on 2015.
Good Club is a sustainable grocery brand and retailer, revolutionising grocery shopping by wiping out waste and eliminating the environmental impact of everyday groceries. The company has recently launched reusable product packaging and delivery boxes that are collected from customers and cleaned for reuse. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.
Rubies in the Rubble is a sustainable food brand, making high quality relishes and jams out of surplus produce that would otherwise go to waste, often for simply being the wrong shape, size or color.
TAB interprets billions of financial data points from thousands of crowdfunding and P2P platforms globally allowing you to identify fresh opportunities and make better decisions. Our aim All data tells a story. We want to make it easier to read. That’s why we’ve built the world’s best data dashboard for marketplace finance – to encourage engagement with the market, reduce the data burden of those inside the industry, and fuel a new ecosystem of service builders. It’s a tool for understanding, promoting, progressing, and contributing to a phenomenal movement in a more open financial world. What we do We’re using "big data” engineering to turn disparate data points from thousands of crowdfunding and p2p lending marketplaces into an easy to read, high-quality insight. We capture and aggregate billions of data points on individual fundraises and add our machine intelligence magic to bring the world's best insight in the new financial economy to you. Why now? Crowd finance is already having a huge impact on the financial market. In just a few years we have seen thousands of newly created online money marketplaces moving many billions of dollars around the world for individuals, charities, business, and more besides. By making data easier to access and understand, we are helping to fuel the education of a market and its observers, creating opportunities for both internal and external innovation and accelerating an industry into the mainstream.
OLIO is a free app connecting neighbors so surplus food and other items can be shared, not binned. Its location-based app and website allows people to list and post a photo of unwanted food items to be shared with other people in the same neighborhood, reducing food waste. OLIO was founded in 2015 and is based in London.
Equity Crowdfunding in 2016
Mush is an online social platform that enables mothers to meet other mothers with kids the same age. It is a social network for mums, helping parents to interact and avoid loneliness. Based in London, it was founded by Sarah Hesz and Katie Massie-Taylor in 2016.
HypeLabs is the company that created the Hype SDK, an interoperable mesh networking software that improves connectivity on all kinds of devices, from mobile to desktop to IoT, allowing them to connect even when there is no internet. The software works by intelligently connecting devices in local mesh networks using existing connectivity technologies, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa and others. This network enables content to securely hop between devices, until it reaches a destination or an Internet exit point, improving range and deliverability. Founded in 2016, the company is located in San Francisco (USA), Porto (Portugal), London (UK) and Krakow (Poland). AngelPad #10 (Spring '16) alumni & Deutsche Telekom WARP alumni.
Knokcare is an app-based healthcare platform offering patients a holistic solution for their health through a combination of AI chatbots, video calls, face to face appointments at home, and integration with hospitals in one single application. This solution is convenient for the patient and efficient for the health system: the AI chatbot helps patients self-assess their condition and directs the patient within the app to a video appointment or a face to face appointment. If the issue is serious enough, knock will direct the patient to the hospital.
Switchee was founded out of INSEAD business school in 2015 and is headquartered in London. It is now the market leader in social housing IoT, servicing many of the largest housing associations in the UK. The company helps large residential landlords to better manage their property portfolio, using technology to identify maintenance issues, reduce fuel bills and improve communication with residents. For every £1 invested in Switchee services, the landlord saves £2 and puts £2 back into the pocket of their resident. Switchee has reimagined the way landlords interact with residents and manage their homes. Their services ensure that landlords have the information they need to eliminate fuel poverty, damp and mould as well as heating & ventilation failures. Switchee is primarily a software and insights business, but to access this real-time data, they reinvented a ubiquitous household object – the thermostat. They have created an internet connected product that reduces energy bills, acts as a two-way communication platform with the resident and collects environmental data that drives an insights engine, landlord dashboard and API.
What3words is a mapping technology startup that creates a proprietary geocode system for logistics firms. It has divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares, each with a unique address made from 3 words. Now people can refer to any precise location – a delivery entrance, a picnic spot, or a drone landing point – using three simple words. What3words is helping improve businesses around the world and paving the way for social and economic progress in developing nations. It can be used via the free mobile app or online map. What3words can also be built into any other app, platform, or website, with just a few lines of code.
Edukasyon is an Edtech platform that democratizes access to online tutoring, skills training, and college guidance for 8M learners in the Philippines and beyond. Edukasyon.ph is an education technology platform based in the Philippines that aims to reimagine learning through three highly accessible EdTech products : Edge Tutor, Empower, and Explore. It empowers students throughout different stages of their educational journey so that it leads them to a fulfilling career and life. Edge Tutor is a fully online high dosage tutoring service that provides K-12 students with high quality academic support from certified tutors. With courses ranging from Math, English to Filipino, sessions are designed to give each student a personalized and engaging learning experience -- all at very affordable price. With Empower, Edukasyon partners with hundreds of educational institutions, corporations and foundations, to equip the youth with information and life skills to help them create and shape their own paths, as they discover more about themselves and the opportunities available to them. Finally, with Explore, Edukasyon provides a free online platform that enables students to access senior high schools, colleges and universities, scholarships, online courses, internships, and other learning resources. Edukasyon.ph, which also operates the website FindUniversity (www.finduniversity.ph) engages more than 8 million learners each year. Edukasyon.ph is supported in part by impact investors, family offices and angel investors across Asia, Europe and North America, including Mustard Seed, Villgro Philippines, French Partners, KSR Ventures, Gobi-Core Philippine Fund, EduLab Capital Partners, Obunsha Ventures, Alternate Ventures, Foxmont Capital Partners, Lorinet Foundation, Bisk Ventures and First Asia Venture Capital. Edukasyon.ph has received several recognitions for its work, including the 2017 Financial Times / IFC Transformational Business Award for Achievement in Sustainable Development, with a focus on Education, Knowledge and Skills, as well as the 2017 ASEAN Youth Social Entrepreneurship Awards. Edukasyon.ph was also included in the 2016 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Accelerator Program. Launched in 2015, Edukasyon.ph now has a team of more than 50 and is headquartered in Manila. For more information, visit www.edukasyon.ph.
Beulah London is a luxury fashion brand based on British design, heritage and the empowerment of women. Over the last five years Beulah has gained international acclaim as a luxury fashion brand with a social conscience, which has inspired some of the world’s most influential women to wear the label. As a quintessentially British brand, Beulah London primarily designs effortlessly elegant occasion and day to evening wear for chic, cosmopolitan and spirited women. Founded in 2010 by Natasha Rufus Isaacs and Lavinia Brennan, Beulah London was born out of a desire to design and produce beautiful clothes that empower and inspire the women who wear them, whilst being committed to raising awareness of the plight of women trapped by human slavery. By supporting us on their journey you are impacting a beautiful change somewhere else in the world– they like to think of it as their ‘butterfly effect’. The Beulah effect comes alive through every purchase you make. Their mission is not only for women to enjoy Beulah as a British fashion brand, but they also feel passionately about helping to provide employment for trafficked or vulnerable women. One project they have partnered with is the fairtrade business, Freeset which offers employment to women trapped in Kolkata’s sex trade.
Winnow builds artificial intelligence tools to help chefs run more profitable and sustainable kitchens by cutting food waste in half. They develop technology to cut food waste in their operations. Their digital tools provide data to drive improvements in kitchen production processes and reduce environmental footprint. Winnow's mission is to connect commercial kitchen, create a movement of chefs, and inspire others. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.
HireHand is an intelligent and fuss-free staffing platform for food businesses. HireHand's algorithm learns from each shift to consistently deliver great matches for clients, ensuring continuity and reliability for businesses, and flexibility and variety for hospitality professionals. Working with established London Food businesses such as Patty&Bun, Bleecker Burger, London Cocktail Club and Breddos Tacos, HireHand's talented pool of experienced individuals offer a full range of front and back of house skills. The London-based company also has a social mission, with some of its talent pool coming from disadvantaged backgrounds, and counting as its referral partners organisations such as Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen, The Prince’s Trust, Fight for Peace and Thames Reach. HireHand was founded on 2015.
Equity Crowdfunding in 2015
Skin Analytics build a digital history of your skin so that you and your doctor can measure, track and ultimately understand your skin. Meaning you have the tools to take control and ultimately improve your skin health. Their patent-pending algorithms measure how the skin is changing from smartphone images to identify, inform and evaluate treatment options across a range of consumer health and clinical skin conditions. Which means they build digital platforms that personalise skin health so people can control their skin health rather than be controlled by it. They’re focused on delivering a series of skin health products over the next 3 years ranging from consumer to clinical.
AtoCap’s team combines world-class academic, clinical and commercialisation expertise and has a strong track of record of successfully translating highly innovative technologies into commercial opportunities that generate substantive income and impact endpoints for stakeholders and investors. The team initially developed from within University College London’s Encapsulation Research Group and is based on a novel implementation of electro-hydrodynamic processing for the preparation of a wide range of encapsulated structures via a clean, efficient, one step route.
TAB interprets billions of financial data points from thousands of crowdfunding and P2P platforms globally allowing you to identify fresh opportunities and make better decisions. Our aim All data tells a story. We want to make it easier to read. That’s why we’ve built the world’s best data dashboard for marketplace finance – to encourage engagement with the market, reduce the data burden of those inside the industry, and fuel a new ecosystem of service builders. It’s a tool for understanding, promoting, progressing, and contributing to a phenomenal movement in a more open financial world. What we do We’re using "big data” engineering to turn disparate data points from thousands of crowdfunding and p2p lending marketplaces into an easy to read, high-quality insight. We capture and aggregate billions of data points on individual fundraises and add our machine intelligence magic to bring the world's best insight in the new financial economy to you. Why now? Crowd finance is already having a huge impact on the financial market. In just a few years we have seen thousands of newly created online money marketplaces moving many billions of dollars around the world for individuals, charities, business, and more besides. By making data easier to access and understand, we are helping to fuel the education of a market and its observers, creating opportunities for both internal and external innovation and accelerating an industry into the mainstream.
Lifecake enables parents to organise and back up digital memories and share them privately on phones, tablets, computers, and books. The company is based in London, United Kingdom.
What3words is a mapping technology startup that creates a proprietary geocode system for logistics firms. It has divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares, each with a unique address made from 3 words. Now people can refer to any precise location – a delivery entrance, a picnic spot, or a drone landing point – using three simple words. What3words is helping improve businesses around the world and paving the way for social and economic progress in developing nations. It can be used via the free mobile app or online map. What3words can also be built into any other app, platform, or website, with just a few lines of code.