meet the real me (MTRM) has closed the £200,000 required totake it to the next stage of development. The funding all came from oneEnvestors Member. MTRM brings employers and graduates face-to-face witha unique structured video interview that drives personality and communicationskills to the front of the application process. For employers, video CVsenable them to get closer to the right candidate much earlier in therecruitment process. For job seekers, video CVs helps them standout from the crowd and demonstrate their communication skills,confidence and personality. www.meettherealme.com

We are thrilled to have Tony on board as an investor. We are now full steam ahead on delivering the business plan.

The vision is to become the leading online advertising network for participation sports in Europe. Sports advertisers find it increasingly difficult to reach their target audiences through advertising, as they are behind in shifting their print advertising to online. Sportsyndicator has a one-stop-shop for sports online advertising. The company provides a platform to connect sports enthusiasts around the world by aggregating and categorising sports sites with advertisers and online merchants who want to reach them.

"We are delighted to close this funding" says Ransu Salovaara."Envestors introduced us to an excellent investor who can bring significantly more than just finance".

Hunter Off-site Ltd, the ‘house manufacturer’ closed £250,000 in April 09 from two investors both of whom have a successful track record in the housing industry. Hunters believe that, just as you wouldn’t assemble your car in a field, open to the elements, neither should you a house. The most efficient method of house building is to manufacture on a production line in a factory. As well as assembling the house shell, the Hunter production line enables the assembly team to install windows and doors, fit kitchens and bathrooms, tile and even decorate. The Hunter system offers a reduced cost (under £50,000 for a standard three-bedroom house), reduced construction time (it takes 20 days to build and 4 hours to install on-site), this enables a semi-skilled labour force to build most of the house to a high standard which exceeds industry requirements, in an environment unaffected by the weather. To date, Hunter have completed seven houses totalling 25 modules and have a further 24 houses in the pipeline. The Company is targeting the government-funded new build market which is managed by Registered Social Landlords (RSLs). The affordable market accounts for about 70,000 new builds a year, of which Hunter is aiming to build 300 per year by 2012. www.hunter.co.uk.

Russell Edmondson, Managing Director of Hunter Off-site Ltd. is delighted to close this funding round. “We are excited to have the support, both financial and strategic, from two highly experienced investors, both of whom have been successful in their own right”.

Envestors closed £300,000 from its members, which will be used to increase marketing and sales in the UK and to establish a US operation – which is the largest market for its products. Reflective was formed in 1998 to provide services to organisations that needed to performance test newly developed web sites and monitor their sites performance on an ongoing basis. During 2006 these services were ‘productised’ and StressTester™ was launched. Sixteen customers have already been acquired including BMI, Harrods, HMV, Legal and General, JP Morgan, Nissan and Vodafone. There is an established and growing $1 billion market for products in this sector. However these products are expensive, difficult to use and require expensive specialists to operate them. StressTester™’s ease-of-use, price positioning and sales model places it in a position to take a significant share of the market.www.stresstester.netFor further information, please contact Peter Hopkinson at Envestors.

Verteka attended one of our investment clinics in April 2008. The company has developed a technique for pre-fabricating key concrete structural elements in new buildings. Typically these include the lift cores, stair cores, shear walls and columns. Fabrication is undertaken off-site in a workshop controlled environment. Compared to traditional on-site shuttering and steel fixing, Verteka's technique enables site construction rates up to 5x faster, providing significant cost benefits, as well as de-risking deadline commitments (e.g. Olympics, education facilities etc.) It also addresses the growing issue of increasing cost and decreasing supply of appropriately skilled site labour. The product, called Permanent Structural Formwork (PSF), has been successfully developed and taken to market during 2007 and 2008. The company has a growing sales pipeline, with a number of sites in and around London currently taking their products. The founders developed a similar product for Corus (Bi-Steel) subsequently setting up Verteka to focus on the relatively untapped market of medium-rise (5 to 15 storey) residential buildings. An enhanced product has been designed and will soon be available to service larger building projects as well as commercial structures.

"Envestors delivered beyond expectations, particularly given our tight timescales and the current challenging market conditions.  We immediately gained a sense of confidence with Envestors and the benefit of their drive and commitment in helping us raise our funds."

With the objective of becoming the UK's leading Fairtrade brand, The Ubuntu Trading Company has successfully launched the first cola that applies 70% p.a. Fairtrade growth to a £1.9 bn UK market. With a great tasting product, the brand is additionally underpinned by a robust Fairtrade proposition, distinctive design and an impressive strategic management team. Envestors successfully assisted the company to raise £500,000 of expansion funding, with part of this finance coming from the Envestors Private Investor Network.

One private individual from the Envestors Private Investor Club has committed £200,000 to Quadriga, the supercar club with an eco flavour, based in Knightsbridge. For an annual membership fee, the club offers to its members access to a select group of supercars e.g. Aston Martin DB9. The supercar club idea is based on three underlying realities (a) In London and other large cities, many people need a car occasionally, not for everyday use, (b) Many high-earners would like to own a supercar and can afford it, but cannot rationalize spending so much money on something that would sit unused most of the time, (c) A car club bridges the gap between owning and renting, by offering on- demand access to multiple supercars, for 20-40% of what it would cost to own one.

Mobile Diagnostics Ltd has developed a mobile scanning solution to provide affordable high quality MRI scans to the general public. The scanner, which is mounted on a 15 ton truck, is low powered but equipped with superior coils and software, providing accurate and high quality images. The scanner is particularly suited for soft tissue muscular and joint scans, but this represents 40% of the total MRI scanning market. Later in the year, the scanner will be upgraded to handle lumbar (back) scans.Apart from the considerable price advantage (half the price of competitors) the operation stands out in terms of mobility owing to the small footprint of the scanning truck. Low power requirements also means electricity can also be supplied from a standard 13 Amp socket providing a high degree of flexibility in terms of where the truck can operate from. Hospital car parks, gymnasiums, local medical surgeries and supermarket carparks are all places that the scanner can be set up providing quick and easy access for patients requiring a speedy diagnosis.The scanner is also open in design (patients are not required to slide down a narrow cylinder), so making the experience less traumatic especially for those prone to claustrophobia.

For more than two hundred years, the name of Reeds Nautical has been an integral part of the UK\'s nautical heritage, having been published since 1932. Reeds Online Almanac puts the almanac online, to provide a definitive marine information service on a port by port basis throughout the UK and European ports. The Reeds Nautical Online Almanac provides the same level of data currently produced in the hardback version, but has the principal advantage of being continually updatable. The business is a syndicate between A&C Black (part of Bloomsbury) publishers of the hard copy of Reeds Almanac and Square Mile International, who are the leading supplier of WI-FI internet access to 50+ marinas.The company presented at our event on 14th November 2007 and closed funding of £400,000, including investment from seven of our members.

VoxIQ is an enabling technology that combines speech technology with databases, which may be static (updated on a periodic basis), or dynamic (updated on an ongoing real-time basis), using Knowledge Based System (KBS) techniques. At the present time, no other product exists that merges these two tried and tested technologies. The VoxIQ invention uses the KBS techniques to decide the limited set of keywords that the speech recognition (SR) engine must recognise at any one time.