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.
There are companies in the UK which already provide vehicle short-term leasing, but the most successful of the bunch only have 4,000 cars – acquired over some 15 years. So the pay-as-you-go model used by Everline Future 50 company PAYG Cars makes the business truly unique.
Kuato Studios, included in the 2015 Everline Future 50, is on a quest to spread its “learnification” ideals to change the way society views learning, which has been helped with changes to the UK curriculum to include coding – skills widely considered an importance as children grow up in today’s digital age. The mission is being driven forward by directors with extensive experience in both gaming and educational sectors.
There are over 2.5m people in the UK who want to work in temporary jobs because it suits their lifestyle. This includes students, returning mums, the recently retired, people on benefits and many other groups. Red WigWam declares that “the current recruitment model of search, post a CV and wait to be selected doesn’t work for them. In fact it can often put them off”. That’s why the Everline Future 50 listed company has made such an impact.
Everline Future 50 entrant Shopwave provides the UK’s only retail management system that allows an iPad to become the core of automated retail business. With the mobile trend in full gear, it’s easy to see why enabling a seamless consumer experience from all devices set the company on a disruptive path.
Businesses that sell on a payment terms basis share a struggle involving the requirement to have invoices settled on time, causing cash flow issues to the operation. Chaser is designed to do exactly what it’s name suggests – make collecting outstanding debts more efficient.
Everline Future 50 entrant truRating began as a dream when founder Georgina Nelson was working for the Consumer’s Association’s Which Seeing the many issues facing businesses trying to gather reliable customer feedback, she realised that by shifting the emphasis to collection at point of payment that there might be a solution.
