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As we near the end of July, this week’s crowdfunding roundup shows just how far founders will reach for a better solution. An app that lets you build your own AI investment strategy. A company augmenting human vision through biomimetic loupes. A fine wine marketplace connecting collectors and enthusiasts.
From finance to healthcare to something for the cellar, this cohort has little in common on the surface. But if you a dig a little, they’ve all taken something that’s traditionally been complex, exclusive or expert-only and opened it up.
So, who are the startups crowdfunding this week? Here they are.
1. Bryant Medical
How much are they raising: £500,226
Website: www.bryant.dental
SEIS/EIS? Yes, EIS
About: Bryant Medical augments human vision with radically clear, biomimetic loupes – optical tools designed to give surgeons and clinicians a sharper, more natural view of their work.
Loupes are essential across surgery and dentistry, but the conventional design comes with restricted fields of view, weight and eye strain over long procedures. Bryant Medical’s biomimetic approach takes its cues from how the eye itself works, aiming for clarity that feels natural rather than engineered.
Where to invest: Europe Republic
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2. Stratiphy
How much are they raising: £300,011
Website: www.stratiphy.io
SEIS/EIS? Yes, EIS
About: Stratiphy lets people build, test and invest in their own AI-powered investment strategy, available directly through its app and to businesses via API.
Investing has long forced a choice between handing your money to a fund manager and going it alone with little more than instinct and a trading account. With Stratiphy, you get the tools to design your own strategy, test it before committing real money and then put it to work with AI doing the heavy lifting in between.
Where to invest: Europe Republic
3. Cru World Wine
How much are they raising: N/A
Website: www.cruworldwine.com
SEIS/EIS? N/A
About: Cru World Wine operates a digital marketplace for fine wine, connecting private collectors, wholesalers and producers directly with buyers around the world.
The fine wine market has traditionally been an opaque one, run through auction houses, brokers and personal networks that can be difficult to access and even harder to navigate. Cru brings that market online, opening up a global pool of buyers and sellers, and bringing a degree of transparency to a category that has long relied on who you know.
Where to invest: Crowdcube
4. Nice
How much are they raising: N/A
Website: www.nice-drinks.co.uk
SEIS/EIS? Yes, EIS
About: Nice is a female-founded modern wine company on a mission to free drinkers from the headaches – literal and otherwise – that the industry has always taken for granted.
Wine can be an intimidating businesses with pretentious labels, rigid packaging and a culture that seems designed to make people feel like they’re getting it wrong. The proposition is wine made approachable and adaptable, delivered in formats that actually suit how people drink today.
Where to invest: Crowdcube
