£1,250,000
£20,000
Investment to date:
£215k Pre-Seed – 2m
£125k Bridging – 1m
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Groubook empowers you to simplify group bookings by providing personalised packages, unique deals and split payments to make getting together effortless.
Groubook is a pre-booking tool which makes group bookings simpler, less risky and cheaper for the organiser. The Groubook platform has become the place which makes group bookings and individual bookable, saving awkward conversations about money and making it much easier to find and secure spaces and things to do with exclusive discounts offered to users.
For venues, we have entirely eradicated no-shows, which happen to 1in7 bookings, which occur directly to 1in4 in our core target market. Groubook also vastly increases venues’ pre-booking revenue as everything on our platform has a charge that occurred with it. Alongside this, Groubook allows venues to take pre-orders on large group bookings and is now a staple part of many operators’ sales strategy.
Groubook partners with students and businesses to simplify social gatherings, increase revenue, and eliminate venues’ no-shows.
Groubook is a pre-booking tool which makes group bookings simpler, less risky and cheaper for the organiser. The Groubook platform has become the place which makes group bookings and individual bookable, saving awkward conversations about money and making it much easier to find and secure spaces and things to do with exclusive discounts offered to users.
For venues, we have entirely eradicated no-shows, which happen to 1in7 bookings, which occur directly to 1in4 in our core target market. Groubook also vastly increases venues’ pre-booking revenue as everything on our platform has a charge that occurred with it. Alongside this, Groubook allows venues to take pre-orders on large group bookings and is now a staple part of many operators’ sales strategy.
Groubook partners with students and businesses to simplify social gatherings, increase revenue, and eliminate venues’ no-shows.
11,544 Transactions
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Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) £607,824 with a Monthly GMV Average of £75,978
£52.65 Average Order Value (AOV)
27.2% MAU with 98% being Organic Users
100% Attendance
£0.32 CPA
Started in recruitment as an apprentice administrator at aged 16, worked his way up to becoming a Recruitment Consultant in the temporary construction division before starting his first business at age 19 which was a recruitment agency specialising in construction, this is where Bradley won his first large annual contract with a landscaping provider working on MoD basis. The venture ultimately failed due to bad-debt which was run up by a client and ultimately the business couldn’t recover.
After his first venture failed, he stayed in recruitment working for a local specialist as a BDM, landing annual contracts up to 6 million and winning 52 new clients in 6 months before moving on to becoming a Sales Director at a local agency. During this time, Brad found it hard to adjust to become an employee and set up his second business in October 2017 which was initially focussed as a recruitment business but split into a multifaceted service company with a FM arm and others, once again, Brad’s second business failed due to non-paying clients.
Brad had one more stint in recruitment with a national agency as a BDM before losing his job due to in his words, “falling out of love with the industry” Brad then went on to do some small business consulting, supporting clients with everything from sales to ops to marketing, he had 3 clients at the time he decided to focus his attention on Groubook.
Ollie or “Pod” as we know him forged a career at a national retail chain, first starting as a part time sales assistant, Pod worked his way up to becoming a manager who specialised in turning loss making outlets to profitable retail stores, during his tenure, Pod turned dozens of shops into profitable outlets, trained over 100 members of staff in best practice, health and safety and the upselling of products whilst collecting three national awards for doing so.
Sam joined Groubook in August 2020. At the time, she was completing her master’s degree in Management and International Business, coming to the UK on a basketball scholarship to play for Nottingham Trent.
Sam originally joined Groubook as an intern to gain industry experience while finishing her degree. Her work ethic and vision for launching Groubook’s student market led her to join the founding team and become a shareholder.
Before coming to the UK Sam earned her bachelor’s degree in Marketing from The College of New Jersey. She also held a number of marketing positions, one as a PR assistant at a Brooklyn PR firm (BTPR) and another as a social media executive for her city’s recreation department.
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