Darren Thompson

23.5 Degrees is Starbucks first UK franchised business partner. We opened our first store in February 2013. We now have 85 stores across the UK with another 53 in the pipeline and a target of 300 stores over the next couple of years We currently have the rights to develop in the following counties: Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Hertfordshire, Essex, and Dorset in the South, East Anglia as well as Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumbria and Northumberland in the North of England

NewsWhip is the only real-time media monitoring platform that can predict which issues or topics important to your brand will resonate with the public today. We know that communications professionals have to understand situations in real time, whether that’s spotting opportunities or managing a crisis. We provide the world’s fastest measurement of real, tangible engagement on every news story — showing where it is and where it’s going. This allows our users to identify problems, shape narratives, and act on opportunities with confidence and conviction.

Blis is the audience-first platform that doesnt rely on personal data. We’re an integrated planning and buying platform that delivers scaled, relevant and high-performing audiences, helping the world’s largest brands and media agencies achieve their goals. Over the past 18 years, Blis has built its reputation on delivering award-winning location-powered advertising solutions. In today’s consumer-centric landscape, Blis is transforming the role of location data by combining it with a broad range of rich and powerful datasets to give our clients the deepest audience understanding available. Our unique approach to integrated planning and buying provides personalised targeting and performance without reliance on personal data. We serve relevant ads to the highest-value addressable audiences across any channel and deliver our clients’ campaign outcomes every time, from brand awareness and engagement through to store/site visits and sales. Established in the UK in 2004, Blis now operates in more than 40 offices across five continents. Working with the world’s largest and most customer-driven companies across all verticals including Unilever, Samsung, McDonalds, HSBC, Mercedes Benz and Peugeot, as well as every major media agency. To learn more, visit blis.com.

At StorMagic, it’s our mission to solve the world's edge data problems. Today’s organizations need new & innovative ways to store, protect, & use their data at and from the edge. Our Forever Data solutions allow them to do just that by protecting data & ensuring it’s always available, no matter the type or location, to provide value anytime, anywhere… even forever. Our storage & security products are flexible, robust, easy to use, operate from the harshest edge environments to pristine datacenters, & cost-effective, without sacrificing enterprise-class features, for organizations with 1 to 1000’s of sites. Here’s how we help: 🗄️SvSAN: A highly available two-node virtual SAN for hyperconverged edge sites. 🔑SvKMS: An encryption key manager for edge, datacenter, & cloud. 📹ARQvault VMS: The most cost-effective way to capture, use & retain surveillance video. StorMagic customers world-wide have deployed our solutions in 1000’s of sites to store, protect, & use their edge data at significantly lower costs. Across many of industries, including retail stores, factories, hospitals, universities, wind farms & oil rigs, we help today’s organizations tackle the modernization & optimization of their IT infrastructure. Founded in 2006, StorMagic envision a simplified storage & security landscape, with solutions that minimize hardware & don’t require specialist skills to deploy and manage. We help liberate organizations from cost & complexities of physical SANs, Hardware Security Modules, or other legacy hardware. Unlike our competitors, who force customers to adopt over-provisioned, datacenter-class solutions to overcome edge environment limitations, we have specifically designed our software for demanding environments where resources, space, & budgets are limited. Our product strategy? Deliver the most advanced edge data software platform so you can forever store, protect, & use your data at & from the edge. Keep your edge with StorMagic – the Forever Data company

23.5 Degrees is Starbucks first UK franchised business partner. We opened our first store in February 2013. We now have 85 stores across the UK with another 53 in the pipeline and a target of 300 stores over the next couple of years We currently have the rights to develop in the following counties: Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Hertfordshire, Essex, and Dorset in the South, East Anglia as well as Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumbria and Northumberland in the North of England

NewsWhip is the only real-time media monitoring platform that can predict which issues or topics important to your brand will resonate with the public today. We know that communications professionals have to understand situations in real time, whether that’s spotting opportunities or managing a crisis. We provide the world’s fastest measurement of real, tangible engagement on every news story — showing where it is and where it’s going. This allows our users to identify problems, shape narratives, and act on opportunities with confidence and conviction.

Blis is the audience-first platform that doesnt rely on personal data. We’re an integrated planning and buying platform that delivers scaled, relevant and high-performing audiences, helping the world’s largest brands and media agencies achieve their goals. Over the past 18 years, Blis has built its reputation on delivering award-winning location-powered advertising solutions. In today’s consumer-centric landscape, Blis is transforming the role of location data by combining it with a broad range of rich and powerful datasets to give our clients the deepest audience understanding available. Our unique approach to integrated planning and buying provides personalised targeting and performance without reliance on personal data. We serve relevant ads to the highest-value addressable audiences across any channel and deliver our clients’ campaign outcomes every time, from brand awareness and engagement through to store/site visits and sales. Established in the UK in 2004, Blis now operates in more than 40 offices across five continents. Working with the world’s largest and most customer-driven companies across all verticals including Unilever, Samsung, McDonalds, HSBC, Mercedes Benz and Peugeot, as well as every major media agency. To learn more, visit blis.com.

At StorMagic, it’s our mission to solve the world's edge data problems. Today’s organizations need new & innovative ways to store, protect, & use their data at and from the edge. Our Forever Data solutions allow them to do just that by protecting data & ensuring it’s always available, no matter the type or location, to provide value anytime, anywhere… even forever. Our storage & security products are flexible, robust, easy to use, operate from the harshest edge environments to pristine datacenters, & cost-effective, without sacrificing enterprise-class features, for organizations with 1 to 1000’s of sites. Here’s how we help: 🗄️SvSAN: A highly available two-node virtual SAN for hyperconverged edge sites. 🔑SvKMS: An encryption key manager for edge, datacenter, & cloud. 📹ARQvault VMS: The most cost-effective way to capture, use & retain surveillance video. StorMagic customers world-wide have deployed our solutions in 1000’s of sites to store, protect, & use their edge data at significantly lower costs. Across many of industries, including retail stores, factories, hospitals, universities, wind farms & oil rigs, we help today’s organizations tackle the modernization & optimization of their IT infrastructure. Founded in 2006, StorMagic envision a simplified storage & security landscape, with solutions that minimize hardware & don’t require specialist skills to deploy and manage. We help liberate organizations from cost & complexities of physical SANs, Hardware Security Modules, or other legacy hardware. Unlike our competitors, who force customers to adopt over-provisioned, datacenter-class solutions to overcome edge environment limitations, we have specifically designed our software for demanding environments where resources, space, & budgets are limited. Our product strategy? Deliver the most advanced edge data software platform so you can forever store, protect, & use your data at & from the edge. Keep your edge with StorMagic – the Forever Data company

Meridian often invest in engaged client businesses across a wide range of sectors that fit our criteria. Established in 2009, our focus covers very early stage to late stage, as well as exceptional start up opportunities. Our aim is to add value and expertise to companies and assist them through applying our “next step thinking” in achieving their growth objectives, with the ultimate goal of assisting with a profitable exit at the right time. We typically invest between £50,000 and £500,000 and focus on backing dynamic and proven management teams. We do not ask for any control in the business and usually take a minority stake. If appropriate, we will take a Board position and have an enviable track record assisting in the delivery of significant shareholder value by becoming more involved and gaining a more in depth understanding of your business. Don’t take our word for it, we have several early and late stage companies, as well as investments that we have exited that demonstrate that working with Meridian has been game changing. For more information on our investment strategy and backgrounds please visit our website or to discuss an opportunity please call us on 0044 (0)23 8026 8793.