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Lex is an award winning entrepreneur with successful exits in technology and hospitality businesses. Prior to founding OFF3R he started QVentures, an investment club for sophisticated investors with offices in over 60 countries. He has been voted in the Top 100 Entrepreneurs in the UK and also in the Top 100 Alternative Finance Power List by CityAM.
Founders Names
Lex Deak
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Asking for gifts on your wedding day is awkward, Envelope make it beautiful simple.
What is your solution?
Envelope Registry helps couples request contributions toward their wedding registry. Couples create a wish list of items or experiences and share it with their guests. Their guests choose the items that they love and then make contributions that Envelope forwards the couples bank account on a weekly basis. Envelope also manages couples thank you cards, making it super easy to send hand written cards anywhere in the world.
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Simon has a keen interest in pursuing participatory methods to solve complex problems. He is a active member of the ‘service design’ community and regular participant among the growing online community focused on ‘crowd sourcing change’ . Tom Holt, a UI & UX Design consultant in Melbourne, Australia. He’d worked with a range of companies, not-for-profits and government departments to solve complex user experience challenges and apply design thinking methodology as an approach to innovation.
There are many reasons why cart abandonment happens: unexpected costs, better price found elsewhere and sometimes – the process takes too long that you lose interest. Others have concerns about payment security that has you wondering if your personal data is 100% safe in the hands of unknown retailers.
ShopCo was designed with the sole purpose in providing a simple, secure way to shop online without unnecessary hassles.
What is your solution?
Digital shopping, meets innovation. ShopCo’s One-Click buy button has finally made it possible to purchase anything online instantly without having to register or deal with a 10-15 step checkout process – ever again. Say goodbye to annoying registrations, multiple logins, endless spam emails, and pesky newsletters. Using advanced Artificial Intelligence, ShopCo makes it simple to go from “Want it” to “Have it” in just a single click.
Target Market
Consumers
How will you make money?
Free
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Although some companies have attempted to achieve a similar goal, this idea was originally the brainchild of founder and CEO, Jay Habib. Soon after, he received support from Manuel Schoebel in order to build a prototype and to raise the first tier of funding. Martin Kassing and Tim Yavuz soon joined after as entrepreneurial managers in business development and operations, respectively. Now with 30 employees and still growing, the team at ShopCo leads us ever-closer towards our goal to make online shopping a simpler and more pleasant experience.Jay Habib, Founder & CEO – Before ShopCo, Jay founded several startups and gained professional experience in business development, consulting and private equity. He loves disruptive business models and challenging the status quo.
Manuel Schoebel, Co-Founder & CTO – Manuel is the technical mastermind behind ShopCo, a passionate MeteorJS pioneer and well-known coder in the global tech community. He was the one to bring the initial idea of ShopCo to life. Manuel loves technical solutions that solve big problems and is an enthusiastic drummer.
Martin Kassing, Business development – Martin is responsible for user-growth and steers all strategic partnerships and fundraising efforts. As a previous founder of a tech start-up and a leading private equity fund in Europe, he understands growth and stakeholder management from the inside out.
Tim Yavuz, Operations & Product – Tim is responsible for the operations and product development. Prior to ShopCo, he was an entrepreneur at Rocket Internet and a founder of an edtech company. Due to his vast experience and mindset, he guarantees smooth operational and product processes.
Muzeums is the first real breakthrough in visitor experience in museums since the 20th century technology of handheld audio-guides. We make the museum relevant for the user, with minimal resources, allowing even small museums with low budget to create engaging and relevant experiences for their visitors on their own devices.
What is your solution?
Muzeums is a platform and mobile apps that help museum visitors get a unique individual experience based on their personal interests and learning styleMuzeums offers access to curated content, but also profiles visitors and picks content according to that profile. The content can then be rearranged in many different structures – from tour guides to realtime interactive social games. This means that each institution can create predefined experiences, and/or let the visitor get a personalized experience from Muzeums.
Target Market
Businesses
How will you make money?
Free for users, Freemium for museums
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David Pond – CEODavid was the cofounder and CTO of Wandering and ExperienCity, successful and profitable location based learning platforms that are active mainly in Israel.
Coworkers who are geographically separated, can’t easily connect and align, so they experience high levels of social distance and struggle to develop effective interactions. For companies, organizing team retreats and meet-ups can be time consuming and a hassle. Tortuga Retreats relieves these challenges quickly and efficiently by organizing all the logistics for you, so you don’t have to.
What is your solution?
Tortuga Retreats makes it easier than ever for you to bring your remote team together on a fun and immersive retreat. Get to truly know the people behind the jobs. Connect, create and share incredible experiences. We organize all the details just right, so that everything works as expected. You’ll find that gathering on a Tortuga Retreat will be some of your most productive weeks of the year that will have an amazing effect on how your team works together when they’re apart.
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Yvette Badack is a location-independent entrepreneur and serial traveler. She is also the founder of TourWellness and formally the COO of Kumbajya – both in powering the experiential travel space. Yvette is passionate about clean water initiatives and holistic well-being. Her purpose in life is to contribute in some way to making things better
Founders Names
Yvette Badack
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Everyone wants to see their friends more and with Sup you can. No more texting seeing if anyone is around you can look on Sup to see if anyone is in your area and then meet up for a drink. Or if you’re travelling or at an event you can get an alert when someone you know is there.
What is your solution?
Sup app is a free mobile app that makes chance encounters and moments with friends happen more often — without the creep factor, as we don’t use maps.Get notified when friends are around you. We’ve all been there when we check our social feeds and see that a friend we haven’t seen in ages was just round the corner; attending the same festival or event. Don’t kick yourself for missing out on the chance to see your friends — with Sup app, you can see your friends more.
Sup app lets you see your friends more by sending you notifications when friends are nearby. Interact and stay in touch with friends: Send a Sup to a friend to see if they’re free and want to meet up. It can turn a dull day into a good old catch up.
Currently on iPhone (supme.co) download the Sup app today and connect with your friends.
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Rich is the Co-Founder of hyperlocal app Sup, that helps make serendipitous moments between friends happen more. Rich has led Sup to successfully raised $1.1m from JamJar, Jim Mellon, The Founder of Wahanda, Force Over Mass Capital and others in September 2015.Prior to founding Sup, Rich was the Chief Marketing Officer at GetTaxi, leading their expansion and marketing around the world and raising their $150 Series D round in August 2014.
Rich also worked at Google as the lead on Chrome marketing, helping make Chrome the UK and worlds number 1 browser. He launched Chromebooks to market and was responsible for Google Doodles from 2012 – 2013.
Outside of work Rich is a keen Kite Surfer and adventurer having been to 59 countries including North Korea and in 2012 finished the Mongol Rally in a Nissan Micra.
Financial technologies and services need to be available to any individual around the word – people should be in control of their finances and investments without having to incur great costs through paying banks, brokers, and other middle-men just to be served.
What is your solution?
LoveStocks is a global application for stock brokerage which allows you to invest in stocks from your favorite brands, anywhere in the world. It is our mission to revolutionize the concept of brokerage by providing users with a simple and efficient method for investing and developing a portfolio, globally. All you need to use LoveStocks is a credit or debit card – user registration is done in three clicks and you can invest right away, with no minimum deposit. With LoveStocks, you can start investing from £1; another game-changing feature we offer is investing in fractional shares. No catch, no middleman, and no exorbitant commission fees. Just download the app and get started on tailoring your financial future.
Target Market
Consumers
How will you make money?
Free signup and no minimum account deposit;
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LoveStocks was founded in 2014 by Stefan Pajković, a renowned finance professional who brings expertise from Deutsche Bank. Stefan has spent nearly two decades working in London, where he co-founded and sold a brokerage called GlobalTrader. in the past decade, Stefan’s entrepreneurial ventures have traversed the world, from Canada and South Africa, to Israel and Serbia.Today Stefan, along with the LoveStocks production team, lives and works in Belgrade, where 14 young enthusiasts work day and night to revolutionize the financial industry by making advanced products and services available to anyone, anywhere.
Atbox is a fast resume builder, helps you to create your own online resume with multiple themes and provides PDF export.
Target Market
jobs, resume, business, SaaS
How will you make money?
promotions, freemium
Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity?
There are millions of people seeking for jobs every day. they need a proper resume and opportunities to find jobs. Atbox helps job seekers and employers to find the best fit.
Founders Names
Pouya Saadeghi, Sajjad Rad
What type of funding has the company received?
Self Funded
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