Ed Smith

Giving new life to abandoned materials, creating a waste free world. #RadicalReincarnation

Were FLOX, The Healthy Chicken Company – using advanced Artificial Intelligence to bring better welfare, productivity and sustainability to the broiler supply chain. Broilers are chickens raised for meat; and well rear up to 1.8 trillion in the next few decades. While bird welfare is at the heart of what we do, our tech also enables increased productivity and profitability for farmers (know in the industry as performance), more transparency and accountability across the full supply chain (including for you – the consumer), and reduced environmental impact. A classic win-win-win-win, as they say. Heres how the FLOX Fix works: Off-the-shelf hardware (cameras & sensors) + advanced AI (machine vision and learning) + 24/7 alerts and analytics = better welfare and performance. Since founding in 2018, weve grown to a team of 14 across offices in London, the SW of England, and Poland. Our core product is operational in 10 commercial sheds, and we count the UKs largest poultry producer as a client. FLOX is backed by some of the best in the business – funded by SpeedInvest (EU), Acequia Capital (US), & AI Seed Fund (UK) & the European Space Agency. Our founding team has built, scaled and sold 8 poultry and AI companies between them. In short, were ready to take our tech to sheds everywhere and get on with doing the important work of improving the lives of the chickens we eat. Demand for poultry isnt going anywhere – and neither are we! Were also recruiting fresh farmers for our EarlyBird programme – so get in touch if youd like to be an early adopter of FLOX!

Based in Glasgow city centre, Swipii is bringing shoppers the simplest way to save money when they shop locally while providing retailers with a simple and automated marketing tool. As a team, our mission is to better connect consumers and local businesses. We want our cashback app to be 10x easier to use, and 10x the value of our competitors. Swipii was founded in 2014 by Forbes 30 under 30 winners. Since then we have been awarded the Best 'Customer Loyalty, Personalisation and CRM' award at the UK Digital Experience Awards and also named among Europe’s top 100 disruptive startups in the retail industry. In 2019, we were finalists in the Scottish Tech Startup Awards for Mobile Startup of the Year. Swipii is now focused on growth. The team is aiming for expansion this year, with product development, new features and new locations all in the pipeline. To join us on our mission and to see how Swipii can help your business grow please get in touch at hello@swipiicard.com.

Amiqus is a tech for good company easing access to professional services. Whether you are a lawyer or an accountant, a recruiter or a letting agent, regulated professionals need to know their clients are not engaging in any illegal activity before providing advice or services. Ensuring regulatory compliance; protecting client data and reducing risk are all essential to running a modern business, but they can also be a real drain on staff and client time and resources. Our Amiqus ID software helps makes it easy to meet the latest regulatory requirements by bringing your client checks into one secure online account, turning hours of paper based admin into minutes of online activity. Know your client and protect your business with Amiqus ID.

We are an agri-tech start-up pioneer in the use of concentrated light for weed control. On a mission to transform and future-proof farming, we have created CLAWS, our AI and robotics-based solution to help farmers sell more and waste less of what they grow; making fresh, chemical-free produce available to, and affordable for, all.

Ultrasound. Integrated. Everywhere. Headquartered in Glasgow, Novosound specialise in the design and manufacture of innovative ultrasound sensors using a groundbreaking thin-film technique to address the limitations of traditional ultrasound. This includes products and customisable solutions for emerging applications in industrial, medical and wearable markets. Novosound’s NDT products - the Kelpie, Ceilidh, Belenus and Nebula- simplify complex inspections and increase the efficiency of condition monitoring. Our technology allows users to reduce operational downtime caused by corrosion/erosion of pipework and other metal structures and create a more efficient and cost-effective work environment. Novosound works across a range of industries including Power Generation, Oil & Gas, Aerospace, Renewables, Nuclear, Civil Engineering and Healthcare. Our in-house design and end-to-end manufacturing capabilities alongside our highly skilled team enables the development of customisable and scalable ultrasound solutions which a variety of modern-day applications. Get in touch today to find out how we can help you.

Authored by Product Managers at Google, Microsoft, and Facebook, Swipe to Unlock is a guide which enables anyone to understand the core concepts of tech and the business strategy behind it in order to succeed in the tech industry or even just be an informed digital citizen and consumer. This #1 Amazon Business Bestseller has been featured in Business Insider and was touted as “our generation’s Rosetta Stone for enabling non-engineers to peer into the technology changing everyday life” by Jeremy Schifeling. Learn more at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0756MTX6K/

Giving new life to abandoned materials, creating a waste free world. #RadicalReincarnation

Gabriel Investments is an early-stage micro-VC that supports companies in the Philadelphia and surrounding areas by providing capital for high-potential business opportunities. Our mission is to go beyond the value of simply investing dollars by calling on the personal experiences, contacts and areas of expertise of its members to help cultivate your idea, refine your business plan, fill out your management team, develop go-to-market strategies, create strategic partnerships and more.

Were FLOX, The Healthy Chicken Company – using advanced Artificial Intelligence to bring better welfare, productivity and sustainability to the broiler supply chain. Broilers are chickens raised for meat; and well rear up to 1.8 trillion in the next few decades. While bird welfare is at the heart of what we do, our tech also enables increased productivity and profitability for farmers (know in the industry as performance), more transparency and accountability across the full supply chain (including for you – the consumer), and reduced environmental impact. A classic win-win-win-win, as they say. Heres how the FLOX Fix works: Off-the-shelf hardware (cameras & sensors) + advanced AI (machine vision and learning) + 24/7 alerts and analytics = better welfare and performance. Since founding in 2018, weve grown to a team of 14 across offices in London, the SW of England, and Poland. Our core product is operational in 10 commercial sheds, and we count the UKs largest poultry producer as a client. FLOX is backed by some of the best in the business – funded by SpeedInvest (EU), Acequia Capital (US), & AI Seed Fund (UK) & the European Space Agency. Our founding team has built, scaled and sold 8 poultry and AI companies between them. In short, were ready to take our tech to sheds everywhere and get on with doing the important work of improving the lives of the chickens we eat. Demand for poultry isnt going anywhere – and neither are we! Were also recruiting fresh farmers for our EarlyBird programme – so get in touch if youd like to be an early adopter of FLOX!

Established in 2010 to help match private investors with young entrepreneurial companies looking for early-stage business funding, Equity Gap is an Edinburgh-based business angel syndicate with 150 active members. Equity Gap's current membership includes many captains of industry, business leaders, academics and entrepreneurs from Scotland and beyond, a number of whom are ex-pats or former residents, all eager to support early stage companies in Scotland. Those young entrepreneurial businesses are often pre-revenue, but with a validated product or service that has undergone a pre-investment commercialisation process. Ideally the investment should be eligible for SEIS/EIS advance assurance and preferably the business should be based in Scotland or willing to relocate. Equity Gap typically invests a minimum of £100,000 and maximum of £500,000 at initial or seed investment stage, with additional match funding from Scottish Enterprise. However, it regularly coinvests alongside other business angel syndicates, SE, VCs and the Scottish National Investment Bank to make more sizeable investments into scale-up opportunities across a wide range of sectors in Scotland. Winners of the UKBAA's 'Most Active Investor in the Regions' award in 2019, Equity Gap members have invested in over 40 companies, leveraging more than £125m in total investment into our growing portfolio.

Channel is your funding partner of choice, committed to the alternative finance sector. We actively enable alternative lenders, who operate in the SME space, to grow their portfolios of B2B lending products. We provide financing structures from $5m up to $150m in the US, Canada, EU and UK. If you want to know how Channel can assist you with your alternative lending needs, please reach out to one of our expert advisors today.