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A new month brings a new round of startups crowdfunding – and this week is all about giving people better tools to do their work. One is an AI-powered platform with B2B agents selling card payments and telecoms in person. Another is an app helping people to host and promote their own events, while another platform is making AI visibility in chat-based apps accessible to all businesses.
These are three very different audiences, but each of these startups have set out to give these audiences a proper leg up to make life easier.
So, who are the startups crowdfunding this week? Here they are.
1. AKT London
How much are they raising: £2,100,000
Website: www.aktlondon.com
SEIS/EIS? Yes, EIS
About: AKT is a global, multi award-winning natural deodorant and body care brand built for people who are born to perform.
Natural deodorant has come a long way from its slightly worthy early days, and AKT is at the front of that shift, proving that clean formulations can more than hold their own when it comes to performance. The company was founded by two former West End performers which makes the brand’s positioning unusually credible – high-pressure stages and long, physical days required a natural product that worked. AKT was built from that direct need.
Where to invest: Europe Republic
2. The Football Factory
How much are they raising: £100,000
Website: www.thefootballfactory.ai
SEIS/EIS? Yes, SEIS
About: The Football Factory is building full economic ecosystems around clubs, treating them as asset-backed ventures – something that does not yet exist in the football world.
Football is one of the most emotionally invested industries but clubs at every level struggle financially or over-rely on owner wealth. TFF is rethinking that from the ground up, designing club-centred ventures with real assets and sustainable revenue models.
Where to invest: Europe Republic
3. FieldSpot.ai
How much are they raising: £20,000
Website: www.fieldspot.ai/
SEIS/EIS? N/A
About: FieldSpot.ai is an AI-powered platform built specifically for field sales, the door-to-door B2B agents selling card payments, telecoms and energy in person.
Traditional CRMs are designed for office-based sales teams and for someone walking a territory with a phone in hand, most of the software is slow and full of irrelevant features. FieldSpot.ai believes that field sales is its own discipline, with its own rhythm and deserves tools built around how the job actually gets done.
Where to invest: Crowdfunder
4. Futura
How much are they raising: £50,000
Website: N/A
SEIS/EIS? N/A
About: Futura is building an app that gives people a proper platform to host and promote their own events, with the opportunity to chat and make friends along the way.
Event hosting always sits awkwardly across a bunch of tools. There’s a platform for tickets, one for promotion and nothing that ties it all together. Futura is bringing those pieces into one app so that hosts can promote what they’re putting on while attendees can connect with each other around it.
Where to invest: Crowdfunder
5. DaitaFix
How much are they raising: £60,000
Website: www.daitafix.com/
SEIS/EIS? N/A
About: DaitaFix is on a mission to make AI visibility in chat-based applications accessible to businesses of every size, not just the ones with large budgets to hire specialist agencies.
More consumers are turning to ChatGPT, Claude and other chat-based tools to research, compare and decide what to buy. Being visible inside those conversations is becoming as important as ranking on Google once was. The catch is that optimising for it has largely been reserved for businesses who can afford serious expertise. DaitaFix is giving smaller businesses the tools to understand how they’re showing up in AI-driven answers.
Where to invest: Crowdfunder
