recapa

I spent years in the studio polishing tracks until every nuance shone - then went to gigs and watched people capture those same songs on shaky phones they’d never re-watch. The crowd wasn’t bored; the reliving experience was just awful. After one night in March 2025, staring over a forest of screens, I quit a year-long software-engineering placement at HPE to build a fix that respects both the live moment and the memory. 

That fix is recapa. It borrows a studio mindset - tight audio, multi-angle coverage, careful post-production - and wraps it in an app that choreographs filming rather than bans it. A small volunteer crew records; we sync their clips to the desk audio overnight and deliver an HD edit to every ticket-holder by breakfast. Same energy as being there, but finally watchable. 
 
Since March, I’ve recruited two part-time teammates, built a React-Native prototype, stood up a Go/Supabase/Bunny backend, run a 50-person survey (74 % would skip filming if footage arrived later), and we are well on our way to a Q4 2025 launch. 

We have two clear goals to achieve by December 2025: 

1. Ship the MVP and run pilot shows - finish the app, test it live, and gather the data we need for case-study traction. 
2. Lock in our first label- and artist-side agreements for official “recapa events,” proving there’s commercial demand beyond the pilot venues. 

With those wins banked, 2026 is about scaling: hire an account-exec, widen the artist roster and turn pilots into repeatable revenue. 

Elevate gives us three things we can’t bootstrap alone: 

1. Workspace & peer community at The Exchange, minutes from key West Midlands venues. 
2. Expert mentors in enterprise sales and investor readiness. 
3. Credibility + micro-grants that strengthen an Innovate UK bid and an EIS-eligible seed round. 

Elevate is the launchpad to turn promising pilots into a revenue-generating, investor-ready business within 12 months. 

We currently have a staged, evidence-driven plan for investors: 

• Mid- to upper-five-figure non-dilutive grant (Q2 2026) to harden the platform post-pilots and subsidise additional venue trials. 
• Mid-six-figure EIS seed round (Q4 2026 / Q1 2027) to hire two engineers and a business-development lead and cover 18 months of cloud, logistics and tour audio capture - taking us to breakeven on license revenue 

This capital is a force multiplier, not an unblocker; we’ll raise only after pilots have de-risked the model with hard data.

Email us: hello@recapa.app

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