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We’re halfway through March and the crowdfunding startups are keeping pace. The range of ideas on show is a reminder of just how much entrepreneurial energy is out there. Even in an economic climate that doesn’t always make things easy.
From real estate investing and fintech to AI health companions and content creator platforms, this week’s lineup are opening up their stories and visions to the public.
So, who are the startups crowdfunding this week? Let’s take a look.
1. Albotherm
How much are they raising: £290,004
Website: www.albotherm.com
SEIS/EIS? Yes, EIS
About: Albotherm develops temperature-responsive additives which passively cool greenhouses and buildings by automatically blocking heat when temperatures rise.
Their material-level solution entirely removes the need for mechanical ventilation or active cooling systems, making it appealing for both commercial growers trying to protect crops and the built environment who are looking for low-effort ways to cut energy use.
Where to invest: Europe Republic
2. Epic Life
How much are they raising: £749,997
Website: www.epiclife.co
SEIS/EIS? Yes, EIS
About: Epic Life is an AI health companion that combines blood test results and wearable data to give people a clearer, more actionable picture of their own health.
Instead of leaving you to interpret a wall of numbers from your latest blood tests, the platform pulls everything together from lab results and activity to sleep and heart rate and gives you a personalised guide. The idea is to close the gap between data and understanding, allowing people to have insight into their health and actually do something about it.
Where to invest: Europe Republic
3. Equito App
How much are they raising: N/A
Website: www.equito.app
SEIS/EIS? N/A
About: Equito is a real estate investment app that allows anyone to buy fractional shares in properties, with monthly rental income paid directly to investors.
Property has always been one of the most reliable wealth-building tools, but rising prices and high barriers to entry have put traditional real estate investing out of reach for most people. Equito breaks ownership down into affordable fractions, meaning you don’t need a deposit or a mortgage to start building a property portfolio.
Where to invest: Crowdcube
4. Rand
How much are they raising: N/A
Website: www.rand.app
SEIS/EIS? N/A
About: Rand is a European fintech platform built around asset-backed financial products, offering both yield-generating investments and loans secured against real assets.
By anchoring everything to real underlying assets, the platform aims to give individuals access to the kind of steady, long-term capital growth that has traditionally been the preserve of institutional investors, without the opacity that has made so much of the financial world feel inaccessible.
Where to invest: Crowdcube
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5. Content Jungle
How much are they raising: N/A
Website: www.contentjungle.app
SEIS/EIS? Yes, EIS
About: Content Jungle is a marketplace that connects brands and creators with vetted videographers, editors and photographers.
While the creator economy has exploded, the infrastructure hasn’t always kept up. Content Jungle brings the whole workflow under one roof from job postings to payment, allowing brands and creators to focus on the work itself rather than the admin around it.
Where to invest: Crowdcube
6. Recyclus Group
How much are they raising: N/A
Website: www.recyclusgroup.com
SEIS/EIS? Yes, EIS
About: Recyclus Group operates LiBatt, one of the UK’s dedicated lithium-ion battery recycling plants, processing end-of-life batteries from electric vehicles and consumer electronics.
As EV adoption accelerates, the question of what happens to batteries at the end of their life is becoming harder to ignore. Recyclus recovers valuable materials like lithium, cobalt and nickel from spent cells and feeds them back into the supply chain.
Where to invest: Crowdcube
7. Prosper
How much are they raising: N/A
Website: www.prosper.co.uk
SEIS/EIS? Yes, EIS
About: Prosper is a UK platform giving high-net-worth individuals access to best-in-class savings rates and low-cost investment accounts all in one place.
Wealthy investors are often surprisingly poorly serves by traditional banks, earning mediocre interest on large cash holdings while paying over the odds in investment fees. Prosper ensures that these individuals are getting the returns and cost efficiency their capital deserves.
Where to invest: Crowdcube
8. Cognomie Mental Fitness Coaching
How much are they raising: N/A
Website: www.cognomie.com
SEIS/EIS? Yes, EIS
About: Cognomie is a mental fitness coaching platform that connects employees with personalised, one-on-one coaching delivered entirely online.
With over 100 coaches and clients including the NHS, Cognomie is already operating at a serious scale in a space where employers are increasingly paying attention to. Rather than waiting for problems to arise, the platform encourages building resilience, focus and wellbeing proactively.
Where to invest: Crowdcube
9. MPower Ventures
How much are they raising: N/A
Website: www.mpower.africa
SEIS/EIS? N/A
About: MPower Ventures is tackling energy poverty in Africa by making affordable solar power accessible to small commercial and industrial businesses as well as households.
MPower’s model brings solar solutions to the clients who stand to gain the most from clean, stable energy, while building the kind of distributed infrastructure that doesn’t depend on an overstretched national grid to function.
Where to invest: Crowdcube
10. adema AI
How much are they raising: N/A
Website: www.adema.ai
SEIS/EIS? EIS pending.
About: Adema AI is building software to bring AI-driven efficiency to the notoriously complex world of UK property development.
Property development involves a dense web of planning, compliance, contractor management and stakeholder management, much of which still runs on spreadsheets and email chains. However, adema AI gives developers a cleaner, faster way to take projects from planning to completion.
Where to invest: Crowdcube
