Named as one of the 2016 Everline Future 50, game-changing payment platform and linked card Revolut has attracted 100,000 active users in less than a year by offering users a way to spend or transfer money into 23 currencies without having to pay commission charges.
Launched in 2013, Rare Pink is a seller of diamonds, engagement and wedding rings, which has been listed in the Everline Future 50 2016 thanks to a creative combination of “clicks and bricks” that’s being used to challenge high-end jewellery retailers.
Engineer Paddy Coleman’s disruptive operations company QStory is shaking up how UK call centres manage some 1.5m staff members. The firm, predominantly based in Guildford, Surrey, with a satellite operational site in South Africa, has recently been named as one of the Everline Future 50.
Discount deal sites such as Groupon have proved a big hit with shoppers. However, Perkbox, set up by three founders from Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo!, has ensured group buying is also being offered to small companies, and is part of our Everline Future 50 2016.
With the average UK SME owner waiting 72 days before the invoices they send out are settled, innovative fintech player Ormsby Street, one of the Everline Future 50 2016, provides a unique service for small firm bosses seeking to limit their exposure to the cash flow issues caused by late payment.
Trained as an architect, Anthony Impey originally founded his company Optimity in 2003 as a telecoms and IT reseller. But since moving into supplying telecoms in 2013, this pioneering tech player has shaken up the broadband market and made it onto the list of the Everline Future 50 2016.
Openr is a digital marketing tool which allows users to add personalised messages to content they’ve shared on their own website or through social media. It was founded in 2014 by Christina Richardson and Vitaly Yakovlev to allow businesses to get more engagement out of sharing content.
Open Utility, co-founded by James Johnston, Alice Tyler and Andy Kilner, is marrying big data technology with Britain’s growing community renewables movement to change the way we buy and sell energy. It’s a worthy part of our 2016 Everline Future 50 class.
With the global crowdfunding market predicted to reach $96bn by 2025, the rise of alternative finance has undoubtedly contributed to OFF3R’s meteoric success – set up by a serial entrepreneur and investor, and worthy of Everline Future 50 2016 status.
Alternative lenders in the UK mortgage market have now risen up in many guises, from challenger banks such as OneSavings Bank, through to peer-to-peer lenders like LendInvest – the latter of which has seen some impressive growth and is part of our Everline Future 50 2016.
