DFW#6: Social, Wellness, Sustainable Packaging, Sports Hardware, Music Ticketing, Marketplaces, CBD/Cannabis Testing
This week features social, wellness, safety & sports tech, hardware, music ticketing tech, circular economy, marketplace, biotech, sustainable packaging, and cannabis/CBD testing opportunities coming from companies based in 3 countries ranging from pre-seed to seed stage. Enjoy.
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030 FlexSea 🇬🇧🏢🌿
Climate, sustainability, bioplastics, hardware, packaging, biotech, food, fmcg, cpg, manufacturing, seaweed, algae ✓SEIS/EIS
FlexSea develops a patented formulation to create seaweed-based films for packaging dry items and fmcg in the food and non-food sector, the material is heat sealable, has outstanding optical and gas barrier properties while retaining its fully home and ocean compostable aspect.
Market: Plastic making firms for dry items, fmcg food and non food
Problem: Plastic pollution, fake promise 'bioplastics', greenwashing
Solution: Seaweed based home compostable edible film
Traction: 8 LOIs, 2 letters of supply, interest from large fmcg
Team: 3 (🇬🇧) Carlo Fedeli - CEO & Founder (BSc Management - MSc Innovation & Entrepreneurship), Thibaut Monfort-Micheo (CTO & Founder - MEng Materials Science)
Based in: London, UK 🇬🇧
Raising: £2m (GBP)
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031 LoveBomb 🇺🇸🌍🌱
Social, Wellness, Gifting, Consumer, CRM, Social Impact
LoveBomb makes keeping in touch effortless, enjoyable, and enriching.
Market: Families, support groups, and communities
Problem: Unmet social needs & the struggle to sustain important bonds
Solution: An interactive social rolodex + messaging & gifting system
Traction: Functional MVP (iOS app); 1st 2,000 users
Team: 3 (🇺🇸🇦🇺) Mark Shapiro
Based in: Los Angeles, CA 🇺🇸
Raising: $1m (USD)
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032 FC Labratories 🇬🇧🌍🌿
B2B SaaS, SafetyTech, Wearable Tech, AI, Health & Wellbeing, Industry 4.0, Social Impact, ✓SEIS/EIS
FCLabs are developing innovatively small, simple and low cost wearable brain imaging technology. Our first product, CoreTech, is a wearable wellbeing solution for workers in high risk sectors which predicts and prevents the mistakes and accidents caused by human error.
Market: 'Hard hat' - construction, engineering, energy, utilities
Problem: Human error causes over 90% of all workplace accidents
Solution: Our proprietary tech tracks & predicts risk of human error
Traction: We have field trials commencing Oct 22 with BP
Team: 6 (🇬🇧) Mathew Norbury, CEO; Dave Moore, CTO; Kevin Boyd, Business Development
Backed by: Worth Capital, Gabriel IS (and Scottish Enterprise)
Based in: Dunfermline, UK 🏴
Raising: £1.2m (GBP)
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033 Searchparties 🇬🇧🌍🌱
SaaS, Music event tech, Aggregator, Affiliate, Primary Ticketing Solution, ✓SEIS/EIS
Searchparties is a music event aggregator, industry agitator, friend of the fan, ally of the promoter. We address the high CAC for promoters and venues, high ticket costs for fans and the lack of unbiased, transparent information and marketing due to primary ticketing silo's.
Market: Gen Z, Millenials
Problem: Rising ticket costs & High industry CAC and low LTV
Solution: Web app aggregator and primary ticket booking solution
Traction: 12x affiliate deals for sought after UK ticketer's
Team: 2 (🇬🇧🇸🇪) Ryan Bromley, David Pears
Based in: London, UK 🇬🇧
Raising: £140k (GBP)
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034 Profesiolan 🇪🇸🌍🌿
SaaS, B2B, CircularEconomy
Profesiolan is the B2B SaaS of used assets, for any purchase and acquisition department. Profesiolan offers the most sustainable marketplace of fixed assets for verified companies.
Market: Companies in Europe working with physical assets
Problem: 2nd hand is getting bigger. We are making it a B2B thing
Solution: Frictionless way to rotate assets between verified companies
Traction: 7k used assets (5B€); 200k m/visits; 2k companies
Team: 2 (🇪🇸) Ander Hospital
Backed by: Basque government
Based in: Bilbao, Spain 🇪🇸
Raising: €150k (Euro) (35% committed)
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035 Certified Testing and Data 🇺🇸🏢🌿
Testing Service, Data, CBD, Cannabis
3rd party testing provider for CBD and Cannabis Brands.
Market: CBD (National) and Cannabis (Regional) Producers
Problem: Testing and certification of cannabis and cbd products
Solution: Scalable platform to gain national market share
Traction: $7.5M in funding, interest from large customers
Team: 8 (🇺🇸) Aaron Riley, Larry Clement, Keith Wheatstone
Backed by: Grace Lovret, Franger Family Office
Based in: Orlando, FL 🇺🇸
Raising: $8.5m (USD) (88% committed, lead secured)
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Interested in previous issues? Find the previous 4 below:
Issue # 5: Circular economy, climate tech, fintech, enterprise saas, 3D modeling, holographic visualisation, mobile fitness tech, ecommerce, sustainable shopping, and charity payments SaaS coming from companies based in 3 countries ranging from pre-seed to seed stage.
Issue # 4: Marketplaces, agtech, consumer social, web3, influencer marketing, enterprise dev tools, foodtech, SaaS, and fintech coming from companies based in 3 countries ranging from pre-seed to seed stage.
Issue # 3: Mobility, climate tech, advertising, marketplaces, gig economy, HR tech, dev tools, circular economy and blockchain coming from companies based in 3 countries at seed stage.
Issue # 2: Construction recruitment tech, AI, HR tech, e-learning, ecommerce, creator economy, travel, and sports tech opportunities coming from companies based in 3 countries ranging from pre-seed to seed stage.
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