We recently started working with Cognisess, a local startup specialising in recruitment and staff performance. They're reinventing the way businesses make choices about their most valuable asset - people - by using Artificial Intelligence to help companies make informed decisions to screen, select, deploy and develop employees. Their timing is perfect as the UK’s inflexible … [Read more...]
Wall to wall coverage for global entrepreneur survey
Experience counts - that's why 99designs came to us last month with the results of a global survey of entrepreneurs. While the findings of the survey were interesting, we knew the way to generate maximum publicity was to peg the findings to a genuine news event - that way journalists would be looking for relevant stories to run linked to the occasion. We decided that … [Read more...]
Social investor comes on-board to raise profile
More exciting news - we've begun working with Martin Leuw, one of the country's most successful serial tech entrepreneurs and investors. During his 10 years as CEO of IRIS Software, Martin helped grow the company until it became the UK’s largest private software house and eventually exited the business via a $1bn management buy out. With a focus on investing in sustainable … [Read more...]
Success – how Flic ‘Clicked’ with the BBC
We first began working with the Swedish start-up Flic nearly two years ago when they launched the world's first portable smart button, technology that allows users to program three functions (from a choice of 60) into each button. By simply clicking, double clicking or holding the Flic button a chosen function on your smart-phone is activated - for example calling a cab, … [Read more...]
Proptech startup in the headlines
We're gaining a reputation in the property technology sector, as witnessed by start-up No Agent approaching us to help generate media coverage for their launch. As the UK's first fully digital letting agency, No Agent's technology allows landlords to manage all aspects of managing and marketing their property - and passes the resulting savings onto both owners and … [Read more...]
Stitched up – ‘sat nav for surgeons’ lands Forbes coverage
Over the last six years we've been lucky enough to work with a range of innovative and exciting entrepreneurs - but none have had a product comparable to the biotech start-up Cydar. Spun out of Kings College, its technology is already helping surgeons by radically improving the quality of images they use while performing delicate keyhole surgery. The easiest way to think of … [Read more...]
