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Growing the world’s economy, one startup at a time
At TrendScout, we believe founders and entrepreneurs are important to drive a strong global economy and a better world. From cutting edge technical advances to sustainable solutions that fight climate change, we work with high-potential startups that are advancing the way we see business.
With over 30 years of collective experience in investment, market research and risk strategy, we specialise in identifying high-potential opportunities, and connecting the right founder with the right angel investor.
Our Mission
Great Ideas
We promote innovative, groundbreaking ideas.
Growth
We help startups cultivate their business/revenue.
Invest
We inform investors about the latest opportunities.
Scale Up
We help ventures scale up steadily and consistently.
In Proud Partnership
Our team of experts research hundreds of startups each year, analysing the growth potential, mission and projection of every business we consider working with. TrendScout’s set criteria and due diligence practice means the startups and investors we work with are carefully and thoughtfully selected.
Our services cover a range of business areas and industries, from premium, off-market opportunities to ethical investment schemes; bioplastics to tech innovations. So if you’re an angel investor looking to diversify your portfolio or limit your tax liabilities, or a startup founder in search of an open-minded and business savvy partner, our consultants will have the right option for you.
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Shake
To date, 100% buy in from companies we’ve presented to.
£1,000,000
£200,000
£25,000
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Porter
Identified an opportunity to build a personalized companion product with users throughout their travel experience, not just at the point of booking.
£250,000
£145,000
£20,000
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Elementaryb
Eb is a plug & play solution that connects all data required to manage financial forecasting, planning and analysis activity, even for organizations with multiple legal entities.
£1,000,000
£190,000
£10,000
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Longlive
Longlive will potentially disrupt the Health care delivery, model.
Great Social cause securing the future of Health Care is also a considerable investment opportunity.
£100,000
£1,000
£10,000
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Meeow Ltd
Meeow is the first ever AI powered, 24 hour video networking service in the world. It is already changing the way small businesses make new connections across the world.
£250,000
£150,000
£25,000
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Clone Futura Global Virtual School
Our Clone Futura Global Virtual school shall bridge the Global Inequality in education by providing access to quality education and expand learning opportunities for the students.
$1,000,000
$10,000
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Koolstories
-First social platform of its kind.
-10k early-stage users.
-IOS app and website ready, working on Android and web platform.
-Infrastructure and team structure ready to scale up.
£960,000
£185,000
£25,000
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Unify
Homelessness continues to grow despite all the endeavours of the charities that work to end it and in an ever increasing cashless society, people no longer have cash to give to a person they may encounter on the
£414,000
£214,000
£10,000
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Fluttr
Fluttr the Game-Changing Dating App.
In an increasingly crowded market, Fluttr stands out as the only dating app with no fake profiles and where you can play, have fun and enjoy finding real authentic connections and allow
£1,780,000
£1,000,000
£25,000
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Save
We will teach mankind to use the knowledge proven by science and show that plant-based food is a huge power!
SÁVE is the future and another step towards sustainable living.
£396,000
£20,000
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GreenBay
GreenBay makes it easy, fun and convenient for people to try a plant-based lifestyle by connecting them to new and emerging brands that are positively impacting the planet
£200,000
£60,000
£10,000
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SpaceBands LTD
– £450k Revenue in Y1 (217K EBITDA)
– Featured on: BBC News, Sky News, ITV, The Independent, The i, Apple News, MoneySavingExpert, Hello! Mag
– Accepted onto the World’s #1 Business Incubator
£600,000
£100,000
£100
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Fanera
Founded in 2018, Fanera is the first crowdsourced, intuitive, scalable and multi-lingual 360 degree social platform designed for and by football fans to share their favorite moments and enjoy football content created
$600,000
$200,000
$25,000
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LC Pizza Co Ltd
We are taking the great American grab and go Little Caesars concept to the East of England. This amazing value brand, from the third largest pizza company globally, is expanding into the UK and we have the opportunity,
£300,000
£125,000
£25,000
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Kites and Bites
Building an e-commerce store with multiple unique features.
Leveraging an unfulfilled market level.
Establishing a new design concept
£400,000
£35,000
£50,000
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Forager Herbs
We came together at the start of the first UK lockdown with a shared vision of creating a unique and sustainable tea brand.
£50,000
£11,000
£10,000
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OnBord
The product is built with paying customers and incredible feedback.
£2,000,000
£750,000
£50,000
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AutomaticPROTECT
Protecting employees and organisations from sexual harassment, discrimination, abuse or aggression in real time and anonymously.
$1,000,000
$50,000
OVER FUNDING
Lessgo
Lessgo is the real-life group social network for finding things to do, meeting people, and sharing memories. From a pub quiz team to your yoga buddy, Lessgo is where you
will find both your people and your favourite activities.
£200,000
£200,000
£20,000
FULLY FUNDED
Skyfarer LTD
Skyfarer is an exciting start-up at the forefront of making drone delivery possible. We sell a proprietary software system, and processes, that enable drones to easily and routinely
be used for commercial logistics operations.
£380,000
£380,000
£5,000
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Bullet & Bone Limited
A confirmed listing with Pro Direct Sports – the world’s largest online sports retail and agreement to support the launch to their 10 million plus community with a full communication
and advertising campaign. Great feedback about the products and their efficacy from consumers, elites athletes and sports scientists. An established team and partner network of experts across operations, marketing, sales, logistics, manufacturing and product development.
£300,000
£150,000
£5,000
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reKnowledge
reKnowledge analytics platform is designed to streamline complex investigations such as intelligence, cyber and fraud investigations. It empowers domain experts to gather
evidence seamlessly and explore and query their body of evidence through an interactive analytical workbench.
£1,500,000
£100,000
£50,000
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AMB Beauty
AMB is the UK’s leading on-demand beauty marketplace to browse and book local professionals. Their mission is to provide first-class services to beauty lovers through a quick online
booking system that efficiently secures and sends beauty experts to their desired locations. AMB connects beauty professionals to customers.
£150,000
£10,000
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Sellers With A Story
Sellers With A Story is the one location to find a thoughtful story behind every item. Our platform saves you the hassle of searching for authentic and hard-to-find independent brands.
We are huge believers in the “buy less, buy better” movement, and it is our job to showcase their beautiful stories on one platform.
£200,000
£10,000
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Arrivu Technologies Inc
Arrivu creates solutions for digital marketers that leverages our proprietary Voice/AI technology and the Arrivu Platform. Our first product, iStory, integrates Voice/AI, rich
media (video, music), and analytics, enabling marketers to create engaging interactive voice activated content, cost-effectively. an easy-to-understand system with innovation to provide a new and interesting way for companies to thrive and develop customer loyalty.
£5,000,000
£18,000
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HelloHub
Here at HelloHub, we want to provide venues opportunities to boost engagement with customers. With our in-venue social engagement SaaS platform, venues have access to a tool
that merges the physical and digital world to seamlessly bring people together.
£1,500,000
£10,000
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Looped
Looped is a circular platform promoting emerging and established upcycled designers, connecting them with brands, materials and collaborators as they bring a new
vision to the industry. By upcycling or making use of already existing materials and garments to reduce textile waste, Looped aims to revolutionise the way that the fashion industry views and consumes waste.
£200,000
£10,000
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Exoditi
Exoditi aims to become a well established and trusted brand, best known for differentiated products, exceptional and irresistible gifting and a unique fragrance portfolio with the
use of innovative technology. Inspired by Greek Mythology, Exoditi uses technology and innovative techniques to transform consumers’ moods, elevate feelings, and instil key memorable moments in their life. Exoditi’s purpose is to improve customers’ well-being through the power of scent.
£300,000
£10,000
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H20
H20 is a new generation neo-bank that uses cashback as a competitive advantage. It also has a multitude of features giving both customers and traders options. Functioning as a bank,
community, and marketplace, H20 gives opportunities to its clients on earning cashbacks where they are free to use it however they want.
£3,000,000
£10,000
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Studeo Limited
Studeo’s mission is to democratise elite learning by providing a range of tools and methods that will help students develop the key skills needed to open doors to top universities.
£750,000
£10,000
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Beresford Lounge
Beresford Lounge aims to become an anchor point for the art and business community in Glasgow. By offering all day meals, providing tasty and healthy dishes, and providing space
for people to enjoy live music and nightlife entertainment, Beresford Lounge looks to become the number one place to go for a great time!
£1,050,000
£10,000
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TopCar
TopCar’s Mission is to innovate the consumer’s journey and set the trend for a genuine, all digital marketplace in the automotive industry. In this day and age, data has shown that most people
are comfortable ordering and obtaining products online. Therefore, we aim to provide the same convenience towards purchasing cars through the same means. We want to revolutionize the way automobile purchases are done today by allowing a seamless journey from vehicle browsing to at-home delivery.
£300,000
£10,000
Einee (EdTech app - kids)
Einee (SEIS) teaches and inspires children 6-14 by letting them chat with famous real-life characters like Einstein and Cleopatra. Kids can focus on more serious questions about history,
science, politics, and more, or they can approach the chat with sarcasm and take a different route. Revenue grew 27% MoM & organic installs grew 20% MoM (past 18 months).
£75,000
£40,000
£15,000
Alternative Derivatives Exchange
Founded by Capital Market professionals with a history of near ten years of working together, ADE aims to become the premier institutional venue for hedging risk on alternative products including Weather, Freight, Hashing
and Digital Assets. Backed by its proprietary technology stack including a range of dynamic client facing User Interfaces, server based high throughput matching technology and blockchain based (deployed on Ethereum) financial Clearing Mechanism, Clear Chain.
£250,000
£50,000
£25,000
Smoothbalance
Smoothbalance is an accounting software application for iOS, Android and Web. It is an all-in-one cloud-based accounting app for sole traders, freelancers and SMEs. Our app can send quotations, invoices and record
expenses. The app user can also authorized an accountant to access those data facilitating frictionless bookkeeping and simplifying tax return.
£250,000
N/A
£10,000
Drexler Music
Drexler has now developed its long awaited MVP which has been getting a lot of public traction for the last few months. The advisory board of the company includes names such as Sinitta Malone and Scott Page (from Pink Floyd) as they are believed to
be leading the future of media, technology is allowing more people to play with the musical process.
£250,000
£50,000
£10,000
StorkCard
StorkCard created to do the financial thinking for busy mums and dads so that they can focus on the joys of having kids, not the costs. It was chosen to be part of the Finance Innovation Lab’s Financial Health
Fellowship, which helps social enterprises working in the area of financial health and well-being. They were also featured in the London Assembly’s report to the Mayor on how to improve the financial health of Londoners.
£500,000
£100,000
£20,000
Buy Modern and Contemporary Art with Widewalls
Widewalls is an online marketplace and magazine dedicated to modern and contemporary art. We connect art lovers and art dealers. Over half a million art lovers visit Widewalls every
month to browse through a database of 35.000 artworks, 21.000 articles, auction results covering 80% of the market over the past 5 years, and more! We provide art dealers access to this qualified audience, for a fee. With an excellent team, and a brand new platform scalable horizontally and vertically, this round will be entirely used to fuel a number of growth initiatives.
£400,000
£200,000
£20,000
The Dealer App
The Dealer App is a revenue generating SaaS business that gives restaurant groups the opportunity to raise revenue by launching their own branded white-labelled applications. It
has successfully built and launched the platform which is live in 120 restaurants in 4 cities across the UK. Registered customers include Byron, Pizza Pilgrims, Patty & Bun and Shoryu Ramen.
£250,000
£100,000
£10,000
SearchSmartly
Property search is broken. In the future, tenants will instantly be matched to the homes and neighbourhoods that best meet their needs. SearchSmartly is building that future today.
Our unique technology reimagines and simplifies the property matchmaking experience by doing the heavy lifting to uncover the properties that are best suited to each tenant’s complete, hyper-personal needs, be it a short commute, good local education, living near green space, and so on.
£750,000
£320,000
£10,000
Flexa Careers
We are the only platform that focuses on flexible working – the most in demand employee benefit. With over 90% of people looking for more flexibility in their next role, we were amazed that there is nowhere to go to
find out where to find flexibility! We only work with forward-thinking companies that offer flexible working environments and we verify every company that we partner with, something that the traditional job boards just cannot do.
£100,000
N/A
£10,000
Flair Football
Flair Football is a mobile app for kids who play football that allows them to track their performances and prepare for upcoming matches. Flair’s mission is to make every young football player feel like a pro. Our ultimate aim is to
become the global, digital platform for the next generation of sportsperson. The app is currently available in the UK and Ireland.
£1,000,000
£190,000
£10,000
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Helpful Resources
Why Startups Fail
Every second three new startups are launched worldwide. This means every hour 11,000 and daily 259,200 startups come into existence.
Spot the right
investors
Ilayda Taze is the CEO of London-based TrendScout. A young entrepreneur with a financial background, Ilayda has a keen interest in rapidly changing
Unicorn Startup
The UK has recently overtaken San Francisco in terms of tech start-ups. According to a new study conducted by GP Bullhound, London
3 Qualities of Proactive Investors
Being proactive is one the recipes for success in any facet of life. So, how does one become a proactive investor? What steps will you have to take to ensure
Why Startups Fail
Every second three new startups are launched worldwide. This means every hour 11,000 and daily 259,200 startups come into existence.
Spot the right
investors
Ilayda Taze is the CEO of London-based TrendScout. A young entrepreneur with a financial background, Ilayda has a keen interest in rapidly changing
Unicorn Startup
The UK has recently overtaken San Francisco in terms of tech start-ups. According to a new study conducted by GP Bullhound, London
3 Qualities of Proactive Investors
Being proactive is one the recipes for success in any facet of life. So, how does one become a proactive investor? What steps will you have to take to ensure
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