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Tag: Future 50 2016

Now small businesses can offer staff perks and compete with big corporates

August 9, 2016

By Staff writer

The Everline Future 50 has showcased some fantastically-disruptive new business concepts, and very few are as exciting as Perkbox – an employee engagement platform that is looking to help company owners retain their most prized assets, staff.

Feel-good Friday: Supplying clean drinking water to a billion people with solar power

May 27, 2016

By Zen Terrelonge

Over the past three years, social enterprise Desolenator has been on a quest to produce a solution to the world’s drinking water crisis, which has resulted in the development of a solar-powered device that has the ability to purify water of contamination.

The payments industry is about to turn on its head following a “Revolut-ion”

April 19, 2016

By Shane Schutte

After travelling the world, Nikolay Storonsky found that bank charges had inflicted heavy damage to his wallet – leading to the creation of Revolut. And after securing the Disruptor of the Year Award at the Everline Future 50 Awards, we caught up with him to see how he grew the firm using innovation.

LendInvest: Future Unicorn reveals the plan to become a $1bn company with P2P

March 21, 2016

By Zen Terrelonge

Winner of the Future Unicorn Award at our Everline Future 50 2016, peer-to-peer lending platform LendInvest has been given a mammoth challenge, but CEO Christian Faes has told Real Business he’s confident the firm can become a $1bn company – by trotting, not galloping.

Zipcube.com: Growing company emerges as better way to book meeting spaces

March 3, 2016

By Fred Heritage

If you’ve ever had to deal with sorting out a venue for that all-important meeting then you’re going to love what Zipcube.com is up to. The 2016 Everline Future 50 member has an offering that puts incumbents like Regus in the shade.

Zapgocharger: A business with the potential to solve a massive headache battery charging

March 3, 2016

By Fred Heritage

Big technological developments often provide a platform for others to innovate off of. Everline Future 50 2016 member Zapgocharger is just such an example and is a development certain to send shockwaves throughout the consumer and business markets.

what3words: The tech solving the world’s navigation problems, three little words at a time

March 3, 2016

By Fred Heritage

Aiming to solve the world’s GPS and navigation problems, giving an address to the four billion people without one, what3words is one of the most innovative and far-reaching companies to feature in our Everline Future 50 2016 cohort.

We Are Colony: The on-demand video platform shaking up film and TV

March 3, 2016

By Fred Heritage

We Are Colony is a film streaming platform the likes of which has never been seen before by the video industry. Unlike other platforms, it connects owners of exclusive content with fans that are passionate about film and TV and is part of our Everline Future 50 2016.

Unilink Software: The transformational platform making prisons more rehabilitative

March 3, 2016

By Fred Heritage

Despite being one of the older, more established companies amongst this year’s Everline Future 50, Unlink Software’s unique technology is transforming every aspect of prison life more than ever.

TrustedHousesitters: The house and pet-sitting platform transforming the way people travel

March 3, 2016

By Fred Heritage

As the world’s largest house and pet-sitting network, the TrustedHousesitters website connects pet owners with appropriate and trustworthy sitters to take care of their home and pets whilst they’re away, in exchange for a free retreat. It’s well at home in 2016’s Everline Future 50 ranking.

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