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PonchoPay is on a mission to revolutionise payments in the childcare ecosystem.

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£400,012 target
£394,316 from 91 investors
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Business overview

Location London, United Kingdom
Social media
Website www.ponchopay.com
Sectors Finance & Payments Digital Mixed B2B/B2C
Company number 12875128
Incorporation date 13 Sep 2020
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Investment summary

Type Equity
Valuation (pre-money) £4.5M
Equity offered 8.16%
Tax relief

EIS

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Business highlights

  • Thousands of childcare payments already handled
  • Immediate pipeline & LOIs worth tens of millions
  • Nearing a partnership with major global payment processor
  • Accenture's Fintech Innovation Lab 2023 Cohort
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Key features

  • Secondary Market
  • Seedrs nominee min. £19.05 +
  • Direct investment min. £20,000.00 +

Idea

Introduction

PonchoPay aims to change the way parents pay for childcare and access the government funding they're entitled to.

Hundreds of millions of pounds of government support available to parents is going unspent each year due to poor awareness, clunky processes and a low adoption of technology. PonchoPay is making it easy for any source of funding to be aggregated at point of checkout, saving parents money and saving childcare providers a significant amount of time in the process.

Using Poncho Pay's intelligent automation engine, our vision is for parents to be able to quickly access and use this funding across all childcare providers that are registered to receive them nationwide.

As we build our prominent role in the payment journey, PonchoPay will be well positioned to offer additional services in future to parents and childcare providers alike. Growth capital and insurance solutions for childcare providers, Buy Now Pay Later for parents and AI-powered booking curation tools are a handful of additional revenue sources that we plan to explore in the future.

Monetisation strategy

Our revenue source is generated through a per-transaction percentage fee, which is billed to the childcare provider at the end of each month.

Although we do not process any payments ourselves, the PonchoPay software assists parents and childcare providers alike through the process of accepting, managing and reconciling all payments including government subsidised ones. Our monthly charge is thus a reflection of the total value of transactions we've managed for the childcare provider in the preceding month.

Our future monetisation plans could potentially include adding embedded finance options via bank accounts, enabling payouts from government schemes directly to a PonchoPay-powered bank account.

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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.

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Valuation rounded from £4,500,563

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