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Investor
Nov 2022
The dara5 group invests across the US and Europe in:
👉 Pre-Seed to Series A funds as an LP
👉 Series A+ companies
We are a global investment network for next generation family members, young investors & youthful entrepreneurs.
Please send all investment opportunities to investments@dara5.com
Investor
Mar 2022
Our mission is to enhance peoples buying experience with an ability to feel, touch and use products before they decide to buy them. If you spot a beautiful lamp in your hotel room, enjoy the bed that you slept in, find the candle holders on the breakfast restaurant tables too cute, then reach for Reevela to start scanning and find out more.
Our revolutionary omni-channel concept will turn hospitality venues, such as hotels, restaurants and common workspaces into design showrooms and retail storefronts.
With Reevela guests use their mobile device to scan the objects that arouse their curiosity, hereafter our innovative visual lookup technology and machine learning algorithms ensure instant and accurate results. With the identity of an object uncovered a guest can either click to buy, browse to learn more, or dive deeper into the culture of the local area, thus supporting the craftspeople, designers and artists related to the venue.
We empower guests to reconnect with the importance of discovery by touch, feel and use before the need to buy. With our solution your guests can unveil, learn about and buy everything they love about your hotel, from the furniture, decorations, textiles, accessories, art, fashion, to the lighting and more.
We are free to use for guests and there is no sign up fee or subscription charges for venues, our platform is 100% free. We do all the lead on setting up and maintenance after is minimal. In return we deliver a split revenue model allowing you to earn money per sale of any item that has occurred due to a scan at your property. How often do your fixed assets and design inventory appreciate in value & deliver you ancillary revenue?
Investor
Feb 2022
Learning with Experts is an online learning experience with a difference. We believe the best learning comes from learning together and learning by doing. That’s why weve put community at the heart of our classrooms and design lessons around practical tasks and tutor feedback.
Learning with Experts provides everything you need for your learning solution from curriculum and content creation, to branded classrooms and support for all learners.
Investor
Jun 2018
It’s California cool, with an East London edge + New York City flair. We bring the luxury + creativity of the big cities to the south east of the UK, with multiple fitness studios, therapy rooms, premium brand boutiques and natural food kitchens in each of our two studios.
Our Classes
With two studios and a spin room our weekly schedule of 50+ multi-level classes will include Indoor cycling , cardio boxing, yoga, pilates, Strength training, mixed cardio, TRX and Barre.
Retreats
We support the in-studio experience with global travel through experiential retreats in destinations such as Spain, Italy, Middle East and Costa Rica. We have partnered with SLH (Small Luxury Hotels of the World) to ensure a premium offering featuring curated bucket list itinerary's run by SPN's selected hosts. We also offer Bespoke, Corporate and Personal Development Retreats.
Therapies
Our treatment room is a beautifully zen space offering an incredibly diverse range of treatments with our unique 360 approach to overall wellbeing. Soothe the body with a range of deep work massage and vegan facials, and tackle your nutrition with Biohacking programs.
Natural Kitchen
Our health food kitchen serves a selection of drinks including nutritionally designed smoothies + Monmouth coffee favourites.
Shop
Our in-studio boutique features some of our favourite British + International brands in fitness apparel, wellness + beauty products and fitness equipment.
The brainchild of entrepreneur Jaime Cooke, SPN believes that wellness environments should be non-intimidating and accessible and we have invested a lot of time to get this right at SPN.
Our mission is to become a leading global destination for total mind body wellbeing.
Investor
Jul 2016
We are on a mission to make dumb screens smart, and to take digital signage away from the IT department, handing it over to marketing, where it belongs.
The incumbent businesses in the digital signage industry primarily make money from selling proprietary hardware. We no longer think that this is the most important factor. We believe that as consumer hardware is now of commercial grade it is more important that customers get to use fantastic software at affordable prices and that our attention shifts towards compelling content and away from the big black boxes showing it. This is what ScreenCloud is all about.
Investor & Advisor
Nov 2015
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Attest is the consumer research platform that puts trustworthy insights in more peoples hands. By combining the best bits of research technology and human expertise, we make it simple and fast for anyone to uncover opportunity with consumer data. Brands like Unilever, Santander, Walgreens/Boots, Sainsburys, Trustpilot, JCDecaux and more rely on us to cut through the noise and deliver facts.
On our self-serve platform, you can survey 125 million consumers in 58 countries in minutes; they answer your burning questions in 48 hours on average. So you can back every decision, from big picture to every day, with real-world evidence.
Because when you know how your target consumers are changing, acting, feeling and buying, you always know your next move is the right one.
Investor & Board Advisor
Sep 2015
Established in 2009, Digital Theatre is the online home of over 200 (and growing) performances of world-class theatre. In 2011, Digital Theatre's flagship educational platform Digital Theatre+ was launched, providing institutions around the world with access to productions and educational resources to support the study of performing arts and dramatic texts.
Today, Digital Theatre+ provides over 3,000 institutions around the world with unlimited access to thousands of full-length productions and educational resources. Harnessing the power of technology and the passion of like-minded people, we want to put live performance into the hands of every student, and into every classroom and library, accompanied by a range of invaluable educational resources for illustration, explanation, and critical reflection.
Investor
Sep 2015
Were passionate about growing and engaging the wider sporting community and building participation by delivering a platform with tailored services that encourage people to play the sport they love.
ClubSpark is a global leader in sports technology, with offices in London, Bath, Melbourne, Australia and Orlando, USA and strategic engagements with some of the most famous sports brands. We are growing rapidly and have the opportunity to drive the adoption of standards related to global sports data and the creation of a new ecosystem of services to enhance participation.
The ClubSpark platform supports organizations, venues and coaches across several sports, including tennis, squash, table tennis, cricket, and athletics.
Investor
Jul 2013
Swapforex is your very own foreign exchange desk.
Swapforex allows customers to bypass the Banks and exchange currencies between themselves online at real interbank exchange rates - significantly reducing the cost of your FX and International transfers. Our service is completely transparent and empowers businesses and individuals by giving them more control, along with being 100% transparent regarding rates and fees.
Swapforex Limited is a UK company regulated by the Financial Services Authority
If you are and existing customer and have a query regarding a transaction, how to use the service or anything else please contact us on: customerservice@swapforex.com
If you are and individual or business and have a question about becoming a customer, please email us at: sales@swapforex.com
Follow us on: twitter @swapforex and on facebook
Member of the Board
Dec 2008
This page is now inactive, to stay up-to-date on company happenings, please follow Optimizely - linkedin.com/company/optimizely
Investor
Apr 1997
Founded in 1995, Virtual World is a virtual imaging service provider that delivers interactive solutions for a wide variety of applications in the travel and tourism sector. Our company specialises on delivering the highest quality visual experience for the following sectors Travel & Tourism / Hospitality / Hotels & Resorts / Casinos / Airline / Cruise / Rail / Car Rental / Spas.
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2025
Co-Founder
Oct 2025
The world’s first global agency dedicated exclusively to off-plan branded residences. Born in Abu Dhabi, we connect discerning investors with extraordinary developments worldwide, with clarity, access, and discretion.
2023
Co-Founder
Nov 2023
The Business of Marketing is an intelligence platform for senior marketing and commercial leaders.
Most marketing content is built for everyone, which makes it useful to nobody at the top of the function. We publish for the practitioners: people twenty years into the work, running the decisions that shape brand, media, data, and AI inside the companies shaping the industry.
Briefings, original analysis, and long-form interviews with CMOs, commercial chiefs, agency leaders, and the people running marketing at the companies shaping the industry.
Founded by John Horsley and Justin Cooke, for the people running marketing today.
2022
Investor
Nov 2022
The dara5 group invests across the US and Europe in:
👉 Pre-Seed to Series A funds as an LP
👉 Series A+ companies
We are a global investment network for next generation family members, young investors & youthful entrepreneurs.
Please send all investment opportunities to investments@dara5.com
Investor
Mar 2022
Our mission is to enhance peoples buying experience with an ability to feel, touch and use products before they decide to buy them. If you spot a beautiful lamp in your hotel room, enjoy the bed that you slept in, find the candle holders on the breakfast restaurant tables too cute, then reach for Reevela to start scanning and find out more.
Our revolutionary omni-channel concept will turn hospitality venues, such as hotels, restaurants and common workspaces into design showrooms and retail storefronts.
With Reevela guests use their mobile device to scan the objects that arouse their curiosity, hereafter our innovative visual lookup technology and machine learning algorithms ensure instant and accurate results. With the identity of an object uncovered a guest can either click to buy, browse to learn more, or dive deeper into the culture of the local area, thus supporting the craftspeople, designers and artists related to the venue.
We empower guests to reconnect with the importance of discovery by touch, feel and use before the need to buy. With our solution your guests can unveil, learn about and buy everything they love about your hotel, from the furniture, decorations, textiles, accessories, art, fashion, to the lighting and more.
We are free to use for guests and there is no sign up fee or subscription charges for venues, our platform is 100% free. We do all the lead on setting up and maintenance after is minimal. In return we deliver a split revenue model allowing you to earn money per sale of any item that has occurred due to a scan at your property. How often do your fixed assets and design inventory appreciate in value & deliver you ancillary revenue?
Investor
Feb 2022
Learning with Experts is an online learning experience with a difference. We believe the best learning comes from learning together and learning by doing. That’s why weve put community at the heart of our classrooms and design lessons around practical tasks and tutor feedback.
Learning with Experts provides everything you need for your learning solution from curriculum and content creation, to branded classrooms and support for all learners.
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