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Cushon (formerly Smarterly)

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Helping people save and invest direct from payroll, promoted by many of the UK's leading employers

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Funded 11 May 2020
£2,079,266 target
£2,170,091 from 278 investors
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Business overview

Location London, United Kingdom
Social media
Website www.smarterly.co.uk
Sectors Finance & Payments Digital Mixed B2B/B2C
Company number 10967805
Incorporation date 14 Dec 2017
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Investment summary

Type Equity
Valuation (pre-money) £21.3M
Equity offered 9.25%
UK tax relief

EIS

  • Idea
  • Team
  • Updates
  • Investors 278
  • Discussion
  • Documents

Campaign funding history

  • Pitch closing date
    Funding round
    Raised
    Pre-money valuation
    Equity offered
    Equity
    Investors
  • 31 Jan 2022
    £3,894,895
    £80,003,780
    4.64%
    346
    View pitch
  • 1 Jun 2021
    £5,999,993
    £40,001,171
    13.04%
    326
    View pitch
  • 11 May 2020
    £2,169,702
    £21,286,311
    9.25%
    278
    View pitch
  • 10 Sep 2019
    £2,572,422
    £16,723,855
    13.33%
    762
    View pitch
  • 11 Oct 2018
    £1,625,570
    £10,735,000
    13.15%
    538
    View pitch
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Idea

Introduction

Smarterly aims to turn the UK into a nation of savers and investors, by promoting the benefits of healthy savings habits via people's employers. Employers promote Smarterly as an employee benefit, to help their staff build healthy saving habits with the convenience of saving directly from their pay, often with a contribution boost from the employer as a more accessible complement to pensions.

Our service is automated and therefore very scalable. We use sophisticated algorithms to analyse over 1,000 funds, build ready-made portfolios and comparison tables and then monitor each customer’s individual portfolio on a daily basis. We own all the tech and have full regulatory permission to handle client money.

We aim to be the market leader in workplace savings, a market opportunity of £90bn pa in private and public sector pensions. We have already secured over 100 corporate clients with our ISA lead proposition. To extend our workplace savings offering we have acquired a pension master trust and now have a combined customer base of c80,000 members and c£220m assets under management.

Preemption details

As announced on the company's post investment page, Smarterly raised £5m by
way of a convertible loan for the acquisition of the Salvus pension master trust and
has now raised a further £2m in growth financing by way of equity.

The loan is convertible into shares at a subscription price of £13.39 per share (equal
to a £21m pre-money valuation), which is the same as the equity growth funding
round.

This campaign allows existing shareholders to participate in the round on the same
terms, i.e. £13.39 per share. Pre-emption amounts have been calculated based on
the total potential dilution taking into account future conversion of the loan, i.e. £7m
in total. However, you are able to invest more than your allocation if you'd like.

As this is a pre-emption campaign limited information is being provided. You can find
out more by downloading the investor update under the documents tab and the
updates posted on the company's post investment page.

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This campaign for Cushon (formerly Smarterly) has been approved by Seedrs Limited (trading as Republic Europe) ("Republic Europe", "us" or "we"), as of 22 April 2020 as a financial promotion. Republic Europe is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority with firm reference number 550317. In approving this campaign, Republic Europe has concluded that the information, taken as a whole, is "fair, clear and not misleading." This means that for factual statements we have reviewed evidence of their accuracy, and that for aspirational statements we believe they are phrased appropriately in light of their speculative nature. You should note that in the case of factual statements, the evidence we review is provided by the business, and we do not audit it, which means that we may not be able to identify forged or altered evidence. You should further note that in the case of aspirational statements, the nature of the type of businesses presented on the Republic Europe platform is such that they are likely to have high ambitions, and we may approve statements that convey those ambitions even where we do not believe, or we do not have a view on whether it is likely, that they will be fully realised. The pre-money valuation and investment sought in the campaign are those set by the business: they are not reviewed or established by us, and the valuation is not an independent view of what the business is worth. Given the nature and type of businesses presented on the Republic Europe platform, it is possible that the business has very little cash remaining prior to receiving this investment, and the investment sought may be necessary for the business's on-going existence.

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Tax Relief (SEIS)

This business is eligible for SEIS relief - providing qualifying investors with income tax relief of 50% of their investment and certain other tax reliefs. Tax treatment depends on individual circumstances and is subject to change in future. Click to learn more.

Tax Relief (EIS)

This business is eligible for EIS relief - providing qualifying investors with income tax relief of 30% of their investment and certain other tax reliefs. Tax treatment depends on individual circumstances and is subject to change in future. Click to learn more.

Valuation (pre-money)

Valuation rounded from £21,286,311

This is the fully-diluted pre-money valuation of the business (i.e. before the new investment comes in and including issued options and other equity interests). In contrast, the post-money valuation is based on inclusion of the new investment in the value.

It is calculated as the pre-money valuation plus the amount of new investment. e.g. If Company A is ascribed a pre-money valuation of £1,200,000 by prospective investors investing £300,000, its post-money valuation is £1,500,000.

The investee business is responsible for setting its own valuation, it has not been prescribed by Republic Europe.

Pitch type

Investing in a regular equity campaign is the simplest and most common way to invest in a startup. You decide which business you want to invest in, and if the campaign hits its funding target then you will become one of their shareholders. As the company becomes more valuable, so do your shares; allowing you the opportunity to share in the future success of the business.

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Equity Offered

The equity offered is the percentage of the company’s shares being issued in return for the amount of investment raised.

When the amount raised is less than 100%, the equity offered is based on the target raise. Once the company has raised over 100% it is based on the total raised.

In some scenarios, entrepreneurs may accept additional direct investment after closing their Republic Europe campaign. Provided this is within 6 months of the closing and on the same terms, we do not typically offer pre-emption rights on that extra investment (where you have the opportunity to invest again to maintain your percentage shareholding).

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