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Stephen Whyte

Founder, Irish Wine Estates | Building a New Irish Wine Tradition in South Offaly | Entrepreneur, Investor & Business Builder

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated November 2026💼 6 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2024
Angel investor🌍 United Kingdom
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May 2024
Embargo is UKs & Polands no1 plug&play digital loyalty wallet & CRM platform helping coffee shops, restaurants, bakeries, dessert parlours & delis boost repeat revenues and customer loyalty across walk-ins, delivery i pickup ordering. We empower any size businesses with a powerful data-engine in a form of the Embargo Portal CRM that is directly connected to the merchants digital loyalty card and ordering system on the Embargo Wallet - an easy to use consumer app that can be used in-store as well as for delivery, pickup or catering ordering. Hospitality businesses use Embargo to: - Capture key customer data - Visualise data to make strategic decisions - Make that data actionable through our 6 marketing & communication channels - Multiply the frequency of customer visits - Increase customer spend and overall revenue - Retain more guests and build stronger relationships with regulars - Increase profit margins across every sales channel including delivery and pickup Our market leading platform with a 4.8 AppStore rating allows venues to go live within 2-3 days and build unprecedented adoption from customers! Completely hassle free. To book a demo or find out more head to our website today!
late stageHospitality
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Aug 2022
Piota Apps develop customised communication apps designed to enhance communications and engagement between organisations and their people. Cut through the noise of social media and jumble of emails with authoritative information on your own focused app. Send push notification messages, news, key information, contacts, forms, surveys, PDFs pictures, video and more in real time, alerting users to information that is relevant to them.
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Sep 2019
Led by technology consultants with over 19 yrs experience in SMS We are backed up by a professional team who help keep client accounts and the platform running smoothly SMS Expert manages its own high powered & secure servers, located in the UK The platform has been built in-house, ensuring it is secure and fast, with speeds of upto 5,000 SMS/sec
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2024
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May 2024
Embargo is UKs & Polands no1 plug&play digital loyalty wallet & CRM platform helping coffee shops, restaurants, bakeries, dessert parlours & delis boost repeat revenues and customer loyalty across walk-ins, delivery i pickup ordering. We empower any size businesses with a powerful data-engine in a form of the Embargo Portal CRM that is directly connected to the merchants digital loyalty card and ordering system on the Embargo Wallet - an easy to use consumer app that can be used in-store as well as for delivery, pickup or catering ordering. Hospitality businesses use Embargo to: - Capture key customer data - Visualise data to make strategic decisions - Make that data actionable through our 6 marketing & communication channels - Multiply the frequency of customer visits - Increase customer spend and overall revenue - Retain more guests and build stronger relationships with regulars - Increase profit margins across every sales channel including delivery and pickup Our market leading platform with a 4.8 AppStore rating allows venues to go live within 2-3 days and build unprecedented adoption from customers! Completely hassle free. To book a demo or find out more head to our website today!
late stageHospitality
2023
Investor
Feb 2023
Silicon Practice was set up in 2005 by co-founders Steve Treadwell and Jane Oddy to offer solutions that excite their clients and produce outstanding results. This is always delivered with enviable levels of customer service. Throughout this growth the companys fundamental principles remain the same: Being passionate about continuing to push the creative, technical and customer care boundaries to remain leaders in their field. Silicon Practice believes that outstanding results can only be achieved by understanding their customers​ vision and being able to translate this into easily deployed solutions. Silicon Practice focus all their attention on the health sector. They get close to their customers’ needs by talking their language and delivering bespoke solutions that address specific requirements. Youll find every project is director-led to provide a unique blend of technical and visual passion and attention to detail that they instil throughout their organisation. So you can expect nothing but the very best.
2022
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Aug 2022
Piota Apps develop customised communication apps designed to enhance communications and engagement between organisations and their people. Cut through the noise of social media and jumble of emails with authoritative information on your own focused app. Send push notification messages, news, key information, contacts, forms, surveys, PDFs pictures, video and more in real time, alerting users to information that is relevant to them.
2021
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Feb 2021
Oxford Analytical Services are committed to providing high quality GLP compliant analytical services in both an efficient and cost-effective manner. We pride ourselves on a flexible and adaptive approach, tailoring our services to meet each of our clients specific needs. Our experienced and well qualified team have a successful record in providing analytical data in support of registrations across the world for a multitude of compounds and products. Our considerable expertise, combined with the latest instrumental and laboratory techniques enable Oxford Analytical Services to be extremely flexible and competitive across the wide range of services that we provide. You can view the range of services we offer by visiting our website. We are a well-established provider of specialist GLP compliant analytical services in agrochemicals, biocidal and natural products technical and formulated product testing, 5 batch analysis and storage stability testing. We also offer analysis for veterinary medicines and pharmaceutical. Our team are highly skilled and dedicated to what we do. Our values drive our employee engagement and supports the development of our people at all levels. We have subject matter experts in areas such as ICP-OES/MS and LC-MS/MS, as well as HPLC, IC and GC techniques. We specialise in Agrochemicals, Biocides, Pesticides, Metals and Impurities, 5 Batch Analysis and Screening, Physical and Chemical Testing, Method Development and Validation, Residual Solvents, Storage Stability Testing and Quality Control Testing. We strive to work flexibly with our customers to meet their needs in an ever-changing environment. Product regulation is constantly changing and we understand this poses challenges to our customers. Our quality standards give our customers reassurance that we will provide a flexible, highly skilled technical service at an incredibly high standard.
2019
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Dec 2019
Founded in 1969, Storacall Voice Systems specialise in the development, supply and installation of call recording solutions. We have a proven track record in this field and truly feel we are the right choice for the voice your business. Our powerful solution has the unique ability to record any type of communication audio and combine it all in one place. Whatever your platform may be, our recording solution is designed to work with the systems of today and the technology of tomorrow.
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