On its website, The Happiness Index, featured in the Everline Future 50 this year, explains disruptive technology as that which “shakes up its market or a ground-breaking product that creates a completely new industry”. This is what the company is setting out to do in its field.
For years, the internet has offered instant access to information, products and the ability to buy and purchase in an instant – unless you were interested in playing a game of golf, however. As such, Golfscape was created to change the process for golfers around the globe, allowing them to book experiences on the green in seconds.
Ve was founded in November 2009 and is spearheaded by the multi award-winning serial entrepreneur David Brown. Everline Future 50 member Ve has been a disruptive pioneer in the digital industry by being the first and only company so far to combine the disciplines of digital advertising, on-site behavioural messaging and email into a single solution.
Less than one per cent of unique visitors to TripAdvisor or Yelp leave a review. Instead, there are seven more customer tweets about a restaurant for the two websites receive. That’s what makes Everline Future 50’s Twizoo so unique. It is an app that finds the best places to eat or drink across London based on what people are saying on Twitter.
Leaving a banking career of ten years behind, Soraya Bahrami set out to create Everline Future 50 company Toucan Fruit – using her knowledge of trade finance and Mauritian heritage to help with importing delicious exotics from her homeland.
The cloud is commonly discussed today, but Adam Chetnik launched Everline Future 50 entrant Hosted Desktop into the market back in 2010 after researching it for two years.
Mobile tech analysis company Juniper Research predicts that the worldwide number of augmented reality (AR) users, taking in smartphones, tablets and smart glasses, will rise from 60m in 2013 to nearly 200m in 2018. With this in mind, Everline Future 50 member Zappar’s mission is to deliver the best tools to create the most immersive experiences for the new digital canvas about to emerge.
Most companies will choose to avoid a market that’s usually facing disaster. However, Cause4 launched following the UK’s financial collapse in 2008 to support the charity sector, which was set to experience government cuts and a lack of funding.
Public transport can be a distressing place at the best of times, but even more so as a commuter who has to pay upwards of £1,500 a year to get to work – and that’s where CommuterClub, in this year’s Everline Future 50, comes in. Through a combination of crowdfunding and P2P lending, the service lets commuters across the country buy annual season tickets to save an average of £200 each annually.
A trio of professionals with combined experience in recruitment, technology and investment generated Everline Future 50’s JobsTheWord with a grand plan of using big data to shake up the jobs market and provide a better way to generate results for both employers and candidates looking for a job match.
