For the fourth year, Real Business has scoured the UK business landscape and can now bring you 50 companies that are breaking down barriers, creating innovative products and – most importantly – disrupting previously stagnant industries. May we unveil the Everline Future 50 2015.
The Everline Future 50 2015 took place on 4 March, crowning the 50 of the UK’s best and brightest businesses that have disrupted various sectors from augmented reality to cycling to finance to food. With so much innovation in one room, Real Business has combed through social media to recap the online chatter that resulted in #everlinefuture50 trending on Twitter.
Despite the rise of ecommerce, and perceived decline of the high street, a staggering 89 per cent of UK retail still occurs offline. Of this, 50 per cent of home and fashion items are researched online, and then purchased locally, in bricks and mortar shops. This has uniquely positioned Everline Future 50 mobile app StreetHub to help shoppers find products in independent home and fashion boutiques.
Trillion Fund, featured in this year’s Everline Future 50 list, was founded in 2011 by Michael Stein and Phillip Riches to open up opportunities to profit from clean energy to everyone, through crowdfunding.
Sphere Fluidics is an Everline Future 50 company pioneering the development of new technology for single cell analysis. Cyto-Mine is the first machine of its kind and enables analysis of millions of single cells in novel biochips and isolation of rare variants which cause disease. This will also allow them to produce new medicines.
Whether it’s a busy bar/pub on a Friday night, a coffee shop on the way to the office, half time at a football match, interval at the theatre or a concert, we have all experienced the fight to get served – often several times a night. And Q App, featured in the Everline Future 50 this year, has set out to become our queuing nightmare solution.
The founders of Everline Future 50’s The Telecoms Team have spent the last 15 years helping organisations to audit and manage their telecoms services and usage. Over this time the technology’s changed a lot, but according to them “the way telecoms providers treat their customers hasn’t change a bit”.
A previous 30 to watch in mobile star, Mubaloo isn’t new to the world of innovation or the Everline Future 50 list. But with its latest foray into MiBeacons, the company is taking the sector by storm.
Five years ago, Everline Future 50’s Big Sofa’s founders looked into the future and predicted that video would become the next big communication platform within five to ten years. Five years later, Big Sofa is supporting the visual developments and services of household organisations including the UK government and British Airways, securing its place as one of the Everline Future 50.
Back in 2010 inspiration struck David Grimes as he stood in a post office queue impatiently waiting to send some parcels. Unfortunately the only alternative was to use expensive couriers which would erode profitability. The solution was Everline Future 50-listed My Parcel Delivery – a site designed to make normally inaccessible services available to all.
