From financial technology heavyweights such as Funding Circle and TransferWise to online travel big-hitters Secret Escapes and HouseTrip, the Everline Future 50 has a proven track record of being ahead of the curve and identifying the promising businesses that may one day go on to become household names.
The submissions we had for our 2015 outing were no less amazing than in previous years. Beginning our call for submissions at the start of October, we then gathered the best on offer and asked winners from last year to pick this years cohort. Who better to identify disruptive businesses than disrupters themselves
Unveiled in the technology startup hub of Old Street at LSO St Lukes church, the Everline Future 50 was brought together by comedian and rapper Chris Turner through an equally progressive and innovative approach.
This years Everline Future 50 also marked the first time we created special awards to recognise six particularly strong business in the list. The companies then joined us on stage for a panel discussion, examining how each created a disruptive concept and went about building it out.
Russell Gould, COO at Orange Money (trading as Everline and Ezbob), said: The quality of entries to this year’s Future 50 has once again been outstanding. The innovation, growth, ideas and opportunities these businesses represent is truly inspirational. As a judge it was extremely difficult to decide on the winners.
“As well as celebrating the success of the 50 winners, this year we were delighted to introduce special awards for those businesses who have really stood out among our disruptors.
Disruptor of the Year Award: CommuterClub
Friend to Business Award: Chaser
Environment and Sustainability Award: Flow Energy
Household Name of the Future Award: Payasugym
Profit Potential Award: Ve Interactive
Social Impact Award: Cause4
Below weve provided a snapshot of the 50, but full profiles of each are available by clicking through on the link at the end of each.
Name: 50cycles
Industry/sector: Retail
Date founded: 2003
Founder: Scott and Tim Snaith
Location: Loughborough
Disruptive idea
Originating when two brothers began importing electric bikes from Japan to sell in the UK, 50cycles has gone on to carve out a dominant position in the market. Not content with selling other makers’ products, 50cycles is now developing its own range of electric bikes which will be marketed and sold using a combination of retail destinations, ecommerce and franchises. If all goes to plan, it will produce the worlds first UK-manufactured electronic bike.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 50cycles profile.
Name: Big Sofa
Industry/sector: Technology
Date founded: 2009
Founder: Simon Lidington and Matt Lynch
Location: London
Disruptive idea
After two years of rapid growth, the Big Sofa business has become a global leader in video management/analytics by partnering with big brands such as Unilever, Barclays and the UK government. Helping others overcome the pre-conception that video is cumbersome, Big Sofas offering has already been taken to the notoriously difficult US market and the team has set an ambitious target of being a 100m business.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Big Sofa profile.
Name: Brand Gathering
Industry/sector: Services
Date founded: 2013
Founder: Christina Richardson and Vitaly Yakovlev
Location: London
Disruptive idea
Gaining access to new customers quickly at the start of a small companys life can be hard work. Enter Brand Gathering. As the brainchild of Christina Richardson and Vitaly Yakovlev, it has already clocked up thousands of active members since launching in 2013 all using its intuitive online tools and by partnering with others to boost sales. Morphsuits, Micro Scooters and A Suit that Fits are all members.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Brand Gathering profile.
Name: Cahootsy
Industry/sector: Retail
Date founded: 2014
Founder: Tarika and Paul Marshall
Location: London
Disruptive idea
Empowering consumers is the aim of the game for Cahootsy. Its platform provides a way for them to request the deals they want, after which retailers crowdsource marketing and provide those offers in return for word of mouth promotion. Describing itself as a reverse Groupon concept, Cahootsy is re-inventing retail marketing by allowing retailers and shoppers to collaborate directly and has 30 partners including M&S and The Body Shop.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Cahootsy profile.
Name: Captify
Industry/sector: Technology
Date founded: 2011
Founder: Dominic Joseph and Adam Ludwin
Location: London
Disruptive idea
London-based Captify was set up in the summer of July 2011 by entrepreneurial duo Dominic Joseph and Adam Ludwin to provide vital services to the search targeting ad tech industry. Backed by a heavyweight advisory board, Captify is disrupting by cutting out all wastage, poor targeting and inefficient media buying that was dogging the industry. With global display advertising worth $40bn, the two have a big market to tackle.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Captify profile.
Name: Cause4
Industry/sector: Charity
Date founded: 2009
Founder: Michelle Wright
Location: London
Disruptive idea
Michelle Wright established Cause4 because she knew, in the wake of the 2008 financial crash, that the charity sector would have to innovate because of government cuts and reductions in funding. Her disruptive approach was to set up a social business working with charities, philanthropists and social enterprises to develop strategies and new programmes scaling fundraising. Some 38m has been raised through the platform so far.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Cause4 profile.
Name: Chaser
Industry/sector: Finance
Date founded: 2013
Founder: David Tuck and Mark Woodbridge
Location: London
Disruptive idea
Late payments are the scourge of small and medium-sized businesses across the UK, but not for much longer. Chaser is helping solve cash flow problems by providing a new software platform for chasing unpaid invoices. All chasers sent against the relevant invoice are logged, as are the replies that come in. Chaser says it reduces debtor days by an average of 26 days, which for a 1m turnover business means a cash flow boost of 71,000.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Chaser profile.
Name: Clifton Asset Management
Industry/sector: Finance
Date founded: 2011
Founder: Adam Tavener and Neil Greenway
Location: Bristol
Disruptive idea
The rise in alternative finance has been impossible to ignore, but Clifton Asset Management is using a well-established pool of capital to create an innovative new route. Its Pension Led Funding service provides a way for business owners to grow by utilising their pension pot. Pension funds are transferred to a new self-invested pension vehicle for the director, allowing for the pension to complete a loan to the company.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Clifton Asset Management profile.
Name: CommuterClub
Industry/sector: Services
Date founded: 2014
Founder: Petko Plachkov and Imran Gulamhuiseinwala
Location: London
Disruptive idea
This years biggest disruptor, CommuterClub, is reinventing the way UK commuters buy public transport tickets by making them more affordable and convenient. By paying in monthly instalments, users are able to achieve annual savings of around 200. Since launching in the summer of 2014, CommuterClub has lent in excess of 1.5m to London travellers using financial support from peer-to-peer finance platform RateSetter.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 CommuterClub profile.
Name: Crowdcube
Industry/sector: Finance
Date founded: 2011
Founder: Darren Westlake and Luke Lang
Location: Exeter
Disruptive idea
As one of the early movers in the crowdfunding space, equity platform Crowdcube has helped former Future 50 companies such as JustPark raise valuable growth funds. Supported itself by the crowd and VC firm Balderton Capital, Crowdcube has now helped finance 200 businesses with over 60m. In February of 2014 it launched its own venture fund, after which it also lifted the lid on a mini-bond product meaning an offering in the world of debt.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Crowdcube profile.
Name: Flow Energy
Industry/sector: Technology
Date founded: 2013
Founder: Tony Stiff
Location: Ipswich
Disruptive idea
Another of our special award winners, Flow Energy is an energy business with a big difference it combines normal home energy supply with microgeneration technology. Its Flow boiler uses gas to heat a home and also generate low cost, low carbon electricity simultaneously. The boiler produces savings of 500 a year through the electricity generated and a dedicated Feed in Tariff. For every 500,000 Flow boilers installed, an entire power station can be turned off now thats a disruptive presence.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Flow Energy profile.
Name: Genius PPT
Industry/sector: Technology
Date founded: 2009
Founder: John Thomson
Location: Glasgow
Disruptive idea
Revolutionising the call centre side of business process outsourcing, Genius works on the premise that you only pay for what you use. Its pay-as-you-go technology has no contract, no installation costs, no training costs and zero capex. Whereas previously businesses were stuck with the licence each had signed up to, with no ability to scale down, Genius is competing against the major vendors and contributing to a massive shift in approach.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Genius PPT profile.
Name: Geonomics
Industry/sector: Technology
Date founded: 2011
Founder: James and Henry Oakes
Location: London
Disruptive idea
Disrupting another archaic industry that has long been averse to change, Geonomics is shaking up the lottery space. Worth more than the gaming, music and film industries combined, less than five per cent is transacted online. Geonomics works on the premise of winning big on a geographic location. Charged with investment, and aided by the former CTO of Betfair, the brothers behind the company have their targets set on a $1bn business.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Geonomics profile.
Name: Golfscape
Industry/sector: Technology
Date founded: 2013
Founder: Raghad Mukhaimer and Michael Galasso
Location: London
Disruptive idea
Taking advantage of the huge popularity of golf, golfscape is changing the approach to sorting out a tee time by taking the process online. Set up as a marketplace to connect the inventory of golf courses around the world in real-time, each golf course has a profile page. The booking engine is now available in 47 countries and is cutting out the legacy travel agents and tour operators which had been responsible for most or all bookings at some courses.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Golfscape profile.
Name: Gooey
Industry/sector: Technology
Date founded: 2014
Founder: Rachel Verghis
Location: London
Disruptive idea
The smartphone accessories market is big business. The Gooey cover has the added benefit of allowing people to stick their phone to a smooth or glossy surface. Founder Rachel Verghis wanted to find a way to hold a phone or tablet whilst doing other things, and now sells her products in 23 countries. Brand collaboration with Lancme and Calvin Klein has followed suit, meaning Gooeys disruptive approach is being taken seriously.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Gooey profile.
Name: Hosted Desktop UK
Industry/sector: Technology
Date founded: 2010
Founder: Adam Chetnik
Location: Exeter
Disruptive idea
While remote working is nothing new, Hosted Desktop UKs offering combines the cost efficiency of a multi-tenanted system with a dedicated system to make sure clients have bespoke configurations to meet needs and requirements. Recent growth of its services has been clocked at 65 per cent, with global expansion earmarked as a way for this figure to be improved upon.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Hosted Desktop UK profile.
Name: Innoverne
Industry/sector: Technology
Date founded: 2011
Founder: Julian Thomas
Location: Reading
Disruptive idea
With 100 per cent of automotive dealers and independent garages using special tools in any one week, and less than 0.1 per cent able to afford such tools, Innovernes product-as-a-service platform meets demand with access. The business sees future growth being achieved by tackling the retail, manufacturing, hire, health & telecare and electrical sectors.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Innoverne profile.
Name: JobsTheWord
Industry/sector: Recruitment
Date founded: 2011
Founder: Lee Harding, Will Crandle and Keith Jones
Location: London
Disruptive idea
Adopting a big data-first approach to the task of matching the right candidates with good businesses, JobsTheWord has utilised its founders extensive knowledge of the recruitment sector. Partnering with startups and big brands such as American Express and Samsung, the business has access to over 10 million rich profiles. Its use of big data and analytics differentiates it from other offerings and provides a disruptive edge.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 JobsTheWord profile.
Name: Kuato Studios
Industry/sector: Technology
Date founded: 2011
Founder: Mark Horneff and David Miller
Location: London
Disruptive idea
Operating under the philosophy of learnification , Kuato Studios is a business centred on the application of powerful game mechanics to specific learning skills. Through a mix of teachers, developers and visionaries, Kuato Studios is getting involved in the UK education space and its game has been used in over one million coding sessions by school children across the world to date.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Kuato Studios profile.
Name: Landbay
Industry/sector: Finance
Date founded: 2014
Founder: John Goodall and Gray Stern
Location: London
Disruptive idea
Another of our peer-to-peer Future 50 members, Landbay opens users up to the residential buy-to-let market by providing borrowers with a fast and rational approach to mortgage applications. Its system then selects the most reliable borrowers possible. Truly at the bleeding edge of property innovation, the business hopes to take advantage of the planned move to include peer-to-peer funding in ISAs and SIPPs as well as changes to annuities.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Landbay profile.
Name: Latimer Group
Industry/sector: Advertising
Date founded: 2010
Founders: Matthew Hay and Jack Woodcraft
Location: London
Disruptive idea
In a new approach to advertising and the ongoing digital battle, Latimer Group aligns with young people to produce cutting edge media content and campaigns. Powered by its network of over 30,000 young creatives, Latimer Group has produced campaigns for Nike and Unicef. Co-creation is proving a lucrative space for the business. A clear example of a company disrupting the world of advertising, Latimer Group has got the attention of some big brands.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Latimer Group profile.
Name: MendIT
Industry/sector: IT repairs
Date founded: 2011
Founder: Steve Ackers
Location: Lancashire
Disruptive idea
Tablets, smartphones and laptops have all become a major part of our lifestyle much to the advantage of MendIT. Shaking up a well-established industry, MendIT turns a messy and time-consuming repair process on its head by providing a pain-free operation for IT resellers and end users. The concept involves providing a range of warranty and repair products, offered at point of sale, powered by specialist in-house repair engineers.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 MendIT profile.
Name: miDrive
Industry/sector: Driving lessons
Date founded: 2013
Founder: Scott Taylor
Location: Kent
Disruptive idea
Anyone who has been through the process of trying to pass their driving test will appreciate what miDrive is currently doing. Its mission is to reduce the stress of the 750,000 people who learn to drive in the UK each year by helping them find qualified driving instructors, as well as providing cost savings. Its system opens users up to a library of useful articles and videos and includes a way of tracking the learning-to-drive experience.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 miDrive profile.
Name: Mubaloo
Industry/sector: Mobile app consultancy
Date founded: 2009
Founder: Mark Mason
Location: London
Disruptive idea
Apps are a great tool for businesses to grow, but useless if you dont know the right way to go about creating them. Mubaloo is a mobile consultant making this process a little easier and has now created over 200 apps for brands such as BP, DHL and William Hill. Its 2014 launch of MiBeacons means it can now help businesses deliver contextually relevant information to the right place at the right time though the use of bluetooth low energy beacon technology.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Mubaloo profile.
Name: My Parcel Delivery
Industry/sector: Delivery
Date founded: 2010
Founder: David Grimes
Location: Manchester
Disruptive idea
This disruptive idea traces its roots to when founder David Grimes became frustrated with the two unattractive options of sending parcels: sit in a line and wait at the post office or pay through the nose of expensive couriers. His My Parcel Delivery business now makes sending parcels simple and sends 500,000 parcels a year on behalf of 100,000 customers via 14 different couriers to over 200 countries.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 My Parcel Delivery profile.
Read on to discover the next 25
Name: PayasUgym
Industry/sector: Fitness
Date founded: 2011
Founders: Jamie Ward and Neil Harmsworth
Location: London
Disruptive idea
As the winner of our inaugural Household Name of the Future Award, PayasUgym really does have the potential to change the way in which we engage with gym memberships and exercise. With thousands of gyms available in the UK, and only a few hundred that were looking to tie people down to lengthy contracts, the business provides short-term pre-paid access to gyms. Through its app and online presence, it is part of the marketplace phenomenon currently dominating many global sectors.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 PayasUgym profile.
Name: PAYG Cars
Industry/sector: Car hire
Date founded: 2009
Founder: Clive Bridgeman
Location: London
Disruptive idea
Simply put, PAYG Cars is like pay-as-you-go mobile phones. By providing new cars with no lease, loans, credit check, debt or financial risk, customers can access 28-day revolving contracts. The business arranges fleet ownership spread over multiple dealers, meaning the capital cost is shared. Looking forward to the end of 2018, PAYG Cars expects to be running a fleet of 23,000 cars in the UK and more than 100,000 globally.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 PAYG Cars profile.
Name: Q App
Industry/sector: Entertainment
Date founded: 2013
Founders: Serge Taborin and Tim Bichara
Location: London
Disruptive idea
Helping you get a bottle of champagne at the opera or pie and pint at the football, Q App is completely revolutionising the way in which we go about buying food or drink at an entertainment venue. Based on the fact that poor service or long wait times drive customers away, the business enables customers to browse a full menu, place their order and then pay though a smartphone and is being used by the Royal Albert Hall and Queens tennis tournament.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Q App profile.
Name: Radiant Law
Industry/sector: Law
Date founded: 2011
Founders: Alex Hamilton, Andrew Giverin and Jason McQuillen
Location: London
Disruptive idea
Unsurprisingly, Radiant Law founder Alex Hamilton was frustrated by the lack of innovation he was seeing at his old law firm and decided to do something about it. His company concept centres on providing a toolbox of skills, technology and processes to provide deep legal expertise. Recently opening a Cape Town office, Radiant Law is causing shockwaves in the legal world.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Radiant Law profile.
Name: RealityMine
Industry/sector: Mobile behaviour analytics
Date founded: 2012
Founder: Garry Partington
Location: Manchester
Disruptive idea
If anyone knows about creating a disruptive presence it’s RealityMine founder Garry Partington. Having been part of the team who developed the first smartphone, his business is now helping companies better understand consumer behaviour. Gaining insights on an ocean of some nine billion connected devices, it will be gathering data as well as protecting consumers privacy.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 RealityMine profile.
Name: Red WigWam
Industry/sector: Recruitment
Date founded: 2014
Managing Director: Scott Logie
Location: Liverpool
Disruptive idea
The growing number of short-term workers in the UK is providing Red WigWam with a clever way of disrupting. Using algorithms to connect these kind of workers with the right business, the initial inspiration dates back to struggling to find short-term workers during the London Olympic Games of 2012. Seeing itself more in line with online dating thanrecruitment sites, it has had 6,000 registrations.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Red WigWam profile.
Name: Shopwave
Industry/sector: Omni-channel retail
Date founded: 2013
Founders: Ben Brown and Julian Polzella
Location: London
Disruptive idea
Created out of the shadow of MarkcoMedia, Shopwave is Britains only retail management system providing a way for an iPad to form the core of an automated retail business. Shopwave is taking advantage of a trend in omni-channel retail, where brands or retailers give customers a seamless experience across all channels whether they are online or offline.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Shopwave profile.
Name: Sonovate
Industry/sector: Recruitment
Date founded: 2012
Founders: Richard Prime and Damon Chapple
Location: London
Disruptive idea
The cash flow problem originating from agencies having to pay contract workers before they themselves are paid is driving the innovation going on at Sonovate. It is the first company to take on the banks by providing recruitment agencies with an alternative one that is specifically suited to their needs. With 4m from an angel investor and a 10m debt facility, it’s charged for growth.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Sonovate profile.
Name: Sphere Fluidics
Industry/sector: Bio-engineering
Date founded: 2010
Founders: Chris Abell and Wilhelm Huck
Location: Cambridge
Disruptive idea
The company, commercialising lab-on-a-chip and picodroplet technology developed at Cambridge University, has created unique products for use in single cell analysis and characterisation and also provides collaborative R&D services in this area.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Sphere Fluidics profile.
Name: StreetHub
Industry/sector: Retail
Date founded: 2013
Founders: Mandeep Singh, Maxim Berglund and Alex Loizou
Location: Shoreditch
Disruptive idea
We all like independent retailers, now StreetHub has developed a way for us to find them more easily. Lacking the scale and resources that large retailers have, independents are now using StreetHub to provide customers with information such as live stock status, click-and-collect and delivery. It works with 350 shops and 12,000 products and is supported by venture capital firms Octopus Investments and Index Ventures.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 StreetHub profile.
Name: The Curve Group
Industry/sector: Outsourcing
Date founded: 2004
Founders: Della Wolfe and Jeanette Ramsden
Location: Northamptonshire
Disruptive idea
Described as the most disruptive company seen in the recruitment outsourcing industry in the last 20 years, The Curve Group is split into five divisions. Growing quickly from 15 staff in 2010 to 70 at the end of 2014, the business says it is taking a stand on ethics, quality and innovation.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 The Curve Group profile.
Name: The Happiness Index
Industry/sector: Data analysis
Date founded: 2014
Founders: Tony Latter, Chris Hyland and Matt Phelan
Location: London
Disruptive idea
It was the success of a project run while operating previous business 4Ps Marketing that led to the foundation of a standalone The Happiness Index. The index benchmarks client and staff sentiment, allowing for monitoring and action. Proving that this kind of analysis, using analytics, can affect the bottom line of a business, its team would like to build a company with a 20m valuation in five years.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 The Happiness Index profile.
Name: The Little Smoked Food Company
Industry/sector: Food
Date founded: 2012
Founder: Julie Waddell
Location: Devon
Disruptive idea
Already armed with a passion for food, Julie Waddell found her products stocked on the shelves of Waitrose before she knew it. Knocking own-label and bland supermarket products away with a new approach involving smoking. Now flying as high as British Airways flights, The Little Smoked Company is making waves in an established category and is growing at over 200 per cent a year.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 The Little Smoked Food Company profile.
Name: The Telecoms Team
Industry/sector: Telecoms
Date founded: 2010
Founder: Matt Atkinson
Location: Hertfordshire
Disruptive idea
With the telecoms industry thriving off of complex contracts, tariffs and billing, Utilize Communications is turning this on its head by providing customers with an objective and different way to buy services. It purchases a wholesale tariff and then charges a monthly management fee based on the size of the telecoms estate.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 The Telecoms Team profile.
Name: Toucan Fruit
Industry/sector: Exporting
Date founded: 2012
Founder: Soraya Bahrami
Location: London
Disruptive idea
Toucan is successfully introducing fruit to the British market previously never before seen. Like the first time the humble banana arrived in the UK in the late 1880s, retailers such as Harrods and Harvey Nichols are taking note of what Toucan Fruits are able to bring to these shores. The business has essentially created a market for some rare fruits that faced extinction.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Toucan Fruit profile.
Name: Trillion Fund
Industry/sector: Energy and finance
Date founded: 2012
Founder: Michael Stein and Philip Riches
Location: London
Disruptive idea
Operating in the congested peer-to-peer finance market, Trillion is differentiating itself by taking on the energy big hitters. It exists to decentralise energy and democratise finance by engaging with the crowd and now has a community of 14,000 lenders and investors. Headed up by Britishairways.com founder Julia Groves, the disruption has only started.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Trillion Fund profile.
Name: truRating
Industry/sector: Reviews
Date founded: 2013
Founder: Georgina Nelson
Location: London
Disruptive idea
By removing out the need to hand over details and fill out complicated forms to get customer feedback, truRating has come up with a way to get buyers more engaged with the process. Stats show that 97 per cent of consumers will rate now, after which its truAnalytics service uses big data to provide further insight. All ratings are then aggregated to fuel a consumer recommendations website.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 truRating profile.
Name: Twizoo
Industry/sector: Food
Date founded: 2014
Founder: Madeline Parra and John Talbott
Location: London
Disruptive idea
With less than one per cent of unique visitors to TripAdvisor or Yelp actually posting a review, Twizoos founders realised that many more people were tweeting about their experiences. Its users, operating the service through a smartphone app, can use the crowd to discover great restaurants, bars and other experiences nearby in London.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Twizoo profile.
Name: UK Energy Partners
Industry/sector: Construction
Date founded: 2011
Founder: Neil Gething and Neil Smith
Location: London
Disruptive idea
There was no company providing turnkey solutions to enable private and public sector organisations to painlessly invest in energy efficiency measures. This fact, alongside the general trend of increasing energy prices, was motivation for UK Energy Partners.
UK Energy Partners have quickly become the go-to energy efficiency provider within the education sector, having completed over 200 upgrade schemes within over 130 schools and colleges over the last three years. UK Energy Partners have also developed a multi-award-winning building design for schools Schoolhaus.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 UK Energy Partners profile.
Name: Uniplaces
Industry/sector: House rental
Date founded: 2013
Founder: Marino Kostelec, Miguel Santo Amaro and Ben Grech
Location: London
Disruptive idea
A whole raft of services have been created to make both domestic and international students life a little bit easier ahead of starting a term and Uniplaces has found its own niche. Having helped book 350,000 nights of student accommodation, the business is aiding a poorly-served market segment and has raised 2.2m of external investment to help do so.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Uniplaces profile.
Name: Urban Massage
Industry/sector: Beauty
Date founded: 2014
Founder: Jack Tang and Giles Williams
Location: London
Disruptive idea
Ever wanted to have the quality of a spa treatment in your home Urban Massage providing just that through its app and website presence, finding therapists with the shortest travel routes to a potential customer. Bookings recently grew by 83 per cent and the business now has a dedicated social media following. Its disruptive idea will now be taken further by rolling out into new cities.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Urban Massage profile.
Name: Ve Interactive
Industry/sector: Analytics
Date founded: 2009
Founder: David Brown
Location: London
Disruptive idea
Headed up by serial entrepreneur David Brown, Ve Interactive is fast becoming one of the poster children for the UK digital space. Another of our Future 50 class which has created its own market, the business educates the digital marketplace on where the key areas of online attrition are. It is disrupting the traditional online performance metrics status quo.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Ve Interactive profile.
Name: WhoCanFixMyCar.com
Industry/sector: Car repair
Date founded: 2012
Founder: Ian Griffiths and Alistair Preston
Location:?Tyne and Wear
Disruptive idea
Weve all had a seemingly dodgy quote from a garage, but WhoCanFixMyCar.com provides a way for these companies to compete for business. Previous users review garages, giving consumers more insight, and over 50,000 drivers have used the service so far. Recently launched were whocanfixmyvan.com and whocanfixmyfleet.com, and thats just the start of the whocan branding.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 WhoCanFixMyCar profile.
Name: Zappar
Industry/sector: Augmented reality
Date founded: 2011
Founder: Simon Taylor, Caspar Thykier and and Connell Gauld
Location: London
Disruptive idea
Zappars mission is to provide the most immersive experiences for the new digital playing field emerging across handheld devices and wearables. With augmented reality previously only the play thing of big brands, the business is helping bring the technology to smaller companies. Content rich experiences can now be created, fusing location, video and phones.
Read the full 2015 Everline Future 50 Zappar profile.
Name: ZeroLight
Industry/sector: Virtual reality
Date founded: 2014
Founder: Darren Jobling
Location: Tyne and Wear
Disruptive idea
ZeroLights technology powers 3D visualisation solutions that allow the worlds largest brands to showcase products in more innovative ways. By creating the worlds first viable real-time 3D virtual showroom service, ZeroLight has created a new vertical in which it is the world leader commercial real-time 3D applications.
