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01 Giugno 2024
We reviewed 90+ equity crowdfunding platforms and prepared a list of the hottest (in our opinion) startups you can invest starting from a few hundred euros!
Wingly is a platform connecting pilots with passengers to share flight costs. They are contributing to the acceleration of the digital & ecological transitions of private aviation, starting with leisure flights before aiming to help change the landscape of regional mobility. Their approach focuses on democratization, innovation & centralization to ensure that private aviation is more affordable, easily accessible & sustainable.
Industry - Transportation
Rasing - 1,750,000 GBP
Valuation (pre-money) - 16,001,580 GBP
Company and product stage - Launched in 5 countries with an average Trustpilot rating of 4.6/5 over more than 3.5k reviews
What problem company is solving?
Problem: There are millions of empty seats flying empty above our heads every year but the private aviation sector remains exclusive and relatively inaccessible to the broader public, with high costs and user experience needing to improve.
Solution: We connect private pilots with passengers to share the costs of a flight, making private flights more affordable and accessible while focusing on a sustainable approach to regional air mobility.
What is the market potential?
Aviation hasn't been affected by digital transformation yet. Welcoming sustainable powered planes, regional air mobility is a potential multi-billion euro market. We position ourself on the market as a digital middleman, providing a top-notch user experience to find and book a flight easily.
Upscore allows consumers to boost their credit score in order to access better deals. Backed by the former executive director of Equifax, they've raised over £350k to date, built a functioning FCA-regulated platform, and are now scaling their operations and expanding to Spain.
Industry - FinTech
Rasing - 300,000 GBP
Valuation (pre-money) - 3,164,952 GBP
Company and product stage - Built a mobile app & a web platform used by 3k+ users
What problem company is solving?
Problem: More than 35% UK adults can’t access credit from mainstream lenders and end up significantly overpaying. Particularly affected are the self-employed and skilled migrants.
Solution: Upscore lets consumers connect their bank accounts, designed to boost the accuracy of their financial profile and help to access better deals. In addition, the Finance Passport™ feature allows consumers to take their data abroad (currently Spain) and enjoy similar financial benefits.
What is the market potential?
TAM: Est $200bn credit bureaus revenues in 2027. SAM: $28.9bn non-payroll credit check revenue. SOM: $8.3bn remote workers credit check revenue.
Turning the Smartphone into the EarnPhone
Industry - Mobile
Rasing - 2,000,000 GBP
Valuation (pre-money) - 88,500,000.00 GBP
Company and product stage - 40M registered beta users across 170+ countries
What problem company is solving?
Problem: 6.2B people around the world make less than $12,000 per year. Smartphone users spend 1/4th of their waking hours on their devices – a potential untapped and under-utilized income-generating asset.
Solution: We're unlocking one of the most accessible income-generating assets, sitting untapped in the pockets of over 7B consumers– the smartphone. We make it easy to earn extra income by rewarding people for what they are already doing: using their smartphones.
What is the market potential?
Mode sits at the cornerstone of an estimated $1T market,
Multi award-winning Gen AI work suite used globally to automate business communications and processes.
Industry - AI
Rasing - 300,001 GBP
Valuation (pre-money) - 6,000,000.00 GBP
Company and product stage - £2.5m+ in contracted revenues
What problem company is solving?
Logicdialog aims to enhance productivity and boost profits through four straightforward steps, requiring no code whatsoever:
1. Clients upload their data (spreadsheets, PDFs etc) to Logicdialog.
2. Build workflow logic using Logicdialog's drag/drop interface.
3. Choose communication channels (email, phone, web, SMS, social).
4. Launch.
Businesses no longer need people to do repetitive, manual work, meaning they can focus on more fulfillig, value add work.
What is the market potential?
With a Total Addressable Market (TAM) valued at £6.9 billion, Logicdialog stands out in the swiftly evolving GenAI landscape, securing a robust position.
Our vision is to enable our planet's transition to sustainable energy.
Industry - Manufacturing /Recycling
Rasing - 1,400,000 GBP
Valuation (pre-money) - 63,900,000.00 GBP
Company and product stage - Intermediate-scale refinery build starting in 2024
What problem company is solving?
Currently the European EV and energy storage sectors are largely reliant on lithium produced by Chinese refineries. These existing producers are environmentally unfriendly, emitting large volumes of CO₂. This dependence will be further amplified by a continued increase in demand for battery chemicals.
We believe the solution is a UK lithium refinery that can serve the European market in an environmentally-friendly way whilst providing a stable and secure supply of lithium hydroxide to European cathode producers, battery manufacturers and OEMs.
Will the team be able to deliver?
We have a proven, delivery-focused team of employees and external partners with a track record of infrastructure delivery.
Following recruitment of a lead Engineering Manager during 2023’s Seedrs round, we further built out our technical capability, recruiting the roles of Head of Lithium Sales, Talent Acquisition & Development Manager, Compliance Engineer, and two Process Engineers – one represents a conversion from an internship role for one of our three 2023 Women In Mining interns.
NIMMSTA on course for strong growth: Companisto portfolio company revolutionises intralogistics with its cloud solution for customers such as Mercedes Benz, Würth, REWE and many more
Targeted total return - 905 % (Targeted time to exit 4 years)
Industry - Logistics/
Rasing - 1,950,000 EUR
Valuation (pre-money) - 13,600,000 EUR
Company and product stage - Unweighted pipeline for 2024 already stands at around EUR 6 million
What problem company is solving?
NIMMSTA has developed the world's first Industrial Smart Watch. This means we combine the smartness of a Smart Watch with the robustness and function of an industrial scanner and the low power consumption of an e-paper touch display.
For our customers, this means:
- 50% faster processes
- 0% error rate
- 100% employee satisfaction
What is the market potential?
+160 billion a year wasted in intralogistics worldwide due to high error rates and inefficient processes.
SIDUSTECH SRL on CrowdFundMe (language Italian)
The service which, with a hi-tech 3D printing system, allows spare parts for cars, motorbikes, planes, ships and industrial machines to be produced in workshops.
Industry - 3D printing
Rasing - 150,000 EUR
Project and business model description
SidusTech is the first innovative startup to have studied a model (recurring and scalable) which, thanks to 3D printing, solves the problems of the current aftermarket supply chain (i.e. the spare parts sector for cars, ships, airplanes, household appliances, industry etc. .).
In particular, the company rents and installs one or more 3D printers in each repair shop, which produce spare parts directly on site. The workshop can search for parts available for printing on a web portal (supported by Artificial Intelligence ), which contains the complete catalog of printable parts. Thus the workshop prints the spare parts directly, only when they are needed, reducing the spare parts supply chain to the direct relationship between the workshop and the final consumer.
Will the team be able to deliver?
William Cappabianca, CEO of SidusTech, has over 20 years of experience in the international aftermarket (e.g. 13 years at Tenneco).
What is the market potential?
Expanding market: the automotive aftermarket alone will grow between now and 2030, globally, with a CAGR of 5.8% reaching a value of $1002.5 billion. Sidus Tech offers itself to this market with a new solution: no one has ever identified a system like this to shorten the aftermarket supply chain.
Fleming is the provider of smart financial solutions and banking for healthcare
Industry - Fintech
Rasing - 700,000 EUR
Valuation (pre-money) - 10.000.000 EUR
Company and product stage - Fleming is the provider of smart financial solutions and banking for healthcare.
What problem company is solving?
Fleming is provider for smart financial & banking solutions for healthcare professionals in Europe.
The industry focus, combined with modern fintech, makes Fleming unique. Fleming offers a simple and secure way to access practice financing with favorable terms. The product range includes investment loans, working capital financing, and a smart bank account with a Mastercard.
What is the market potential?
The healthcare market is certainly one of the biggest fintech opportunities
There are more than 850K potential customers only in Germany waiting for a solution. In total, there are approximately 2.8M potential customers in the EU and more than 2M potential customers in the United States alone.
Fleming is targeting a market of € 30 bn in Germany and around € 200 bn in Europe alone. In the USA, Fleming is targeting more than € 600 bn annually.
The app that rewards sports practice and makes training fun and rewarding.
Targeted total return - x2.5 - x20.9
Industry - Sport
Rasing - 800,000 EUR
Company and product stage- +25,000 app users on all continents
What problem company is solving?
At a time when 81% of teenagers and 28% of adults are not physically active enough, DEFIT is tackling a public health problem that costs France 140 billion euros a year. Faced with this reality, DEFIT is positioning itself as an innovative initiative, seeking to revolutionise the practice of sport. Its aim is to make sport more attractive and motivating, by offering an experience that combines pleasure and rewards, thereby aiming to reverse the trend towards inactivity and encourage an active lifestyle among the populations affected.
What is the market potential?
Worldwide sports market : €486 billion in 2023. 33% of the world's population regularly practises a sporting activity.
Innovative startup that offers the ability for users to connect with personalities from the entertainment, music, sports and social worlds in a few simple steps.
Industry - Marketing
Rasing - 80,000 EUR
Valuation (pre-money) - 2,500,000 EUR
Company and product stage - 450+ celebrities enrolled in first two years / More than 3000 B2C customers with more than 3500 orders
What problem company is solving?
Vipresent is an innovative startup founded in 2020 by a team of four entrepreneurs that has revolutionized the way fans interact with celebrities in Italy: a platform that allows fans to purchase a personalized video message recorded by a celebrity and participate in a live video call with their idol.
The mission is to bring people closer to their idols, to innovate the relational experience between VIPs and fans, defining a new and more direct way in which people can interact with their favorites.
What is the market potential?
Vipresent's B2B channel is positioned in theinfluencer marketing sector, which is growing steadily: +15% 2021 vs 2020, +10% 2022 vs 2021, +13% 2023 vs 2022 (source: DeRev). Also in 2022, 81% of companies activated influencer marketing campaigns, and 56% of companies consistently invest in this type of advertising. Overall, the economic value invested by brands to publicize their products on social via an influencer reached a record 294mln€ (source: TrueNumbers).
Because all plastics are meant to be recycled
Industry - Waste management
Rasing - 1,500,017.46 EUR
Valuation (pre-money) - 15,799,835.10 EUR
Company and product stage- Wimao is currently in the scale-up phase of the recycling lines in Finland, with 1.48MEUR in revenue.
What problem company is solving?
Wimao’s unique patented recycling technology is used to turn mixed plastic waste and other hard-to-recycle waste streams into ecological plastic and composite products including pallets, flooring material, deck material, furniture and corner protections and end plugs for cardboard rolls in the paper industry among others. Wimao currently has recycling plants in Lappeenranta in Finland and in Motala and Ljungby in Sweden. Wimao is expanding globally through joint ventures which allows for growth with substantially lower investments.
Industrial connection technology of tomorrow – small structures solve big problems
Targeted total return - 4.33 - 6.20x
Industry - Manufacturing
Rasing - 1.000.000 EUR
Valuation (pre-money) - 2.500.000 EUR
What problem company is solving?
We solve the problems of the industry in connection technology. Metal-plastic connections in particular are increasingly needed to replace heavy metal with light plastic. Currently, such connections are made using rivets or screws. Our technology - nanoscale sculpting - optimizes these connections or makes them possible in the first place: we make products more durable, lighter and more cost-effective.
What is the market potential?
Scalable business model with attractive return potential in large sales markets: Very large market potential (89 million USD SOM / Serviceable Obtainable Market); Low material costs for processing the surfaces, easy processing of a wide variety of components without major adjustments; Application possibilities of the technology exceed current use cases (new applications, but also improvements to existing products possible)
Fully serviced and equipped flexible accommodation for business professionals and digital nomads.
Industry - Rental real estate
Rasing (min) - 150.000 EUR
Valuation (pre-money) - 15.000.000 EUR
Company and product stage: We completely redesign and furnish apartments to deliver a home-like experience to our tenants, with 229 operational apartments in our network as of April 2024
What problem company is solving?
Demand and Supply Mismatch
The current market for real estate rentals is fragmented and sluggish, with bureaucratic processes that have not changed over the past decades.
The Solution
Moving Doors harmonizes the rental market by bridging the gap between landlords and renters by offering flexible contracts, fully furnished and ready-to-move-in apartments, remote booking, continuous support, and a sense of community.
What is the market potential?
In 2022, the European market for mid-to-long-term tenancies was valued at $63 billion, projected to reach $97 billion by 2026, representing a compound annual growth rate of 11.4%!
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