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.
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.
UK Energy Partners was founded by former Isis Telecommunications Management creators Gething and Smith, the latter company having been sold to Vodafone in 2007. It was the recent trend for growing energy prices and a latent market demand for energy conservation that inspired the new Everline Future 50 business.
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.
The driving lessons industry hasn’t really changed in the past few years, but Everline Future 50 participant miDrive is about to shake things up.
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.
You would be forgiven for thinking that Polar Bear Pitching – 20 startups and growing companies taking turns to present to investors while standing in a freezing water-filled ice hole – is yet another spin off Dragons’ Den-style event.
By Simon Brooke
Disruption is the business buzzword of the moment and a few companies are disrupting quite as effectively – and as controversially – as Uber, the service that allows you to book a taxi from your mobile.
The behaviour of UK salespeople has been analysed by Adobe to find technology is enabling more flexibility with sales deals, which has been demonstrated with a 30 per cent growth in the amount of business secured out of the office with staff becoming more mobile.
Lightpoint Medical, an innovative medical device company dedicated to improving the health outcome of cancer patients through image-guided surgery, is receiving a £1m government-funded grant and has also attracted further investment which could fast-track its move to market.
