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Future 50 star: Navmii

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The company: Navmii

The boss: Peter Atalla

Navmii uses crowd-sourced map data from OpenStreetMap to create an app for smartphones that works like a TomTom. Cost: £4 and there’s a free version. In year one, Navmii has 2.6 million users, and has been the number-one app in 12 countries.

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