Britain’s disruptors come in all shapes and forms
The annual Real Business Future 50 has once again showcased a wide variety of inspiring startup stories, with its disruptors set to shape tomorrow’s world.
Now small businesses can offer staff perks and compete with big corporates
The Everline Future 50 has showcased some fantastically-disruptive new business concepts, and very few are as exciting as Perkbox – an employee engagement platform that is looking to help company owners retain their most prized assets, staff.
Taking on the might of PayPal: Riding the waves with Revolut
Having become an Everline Future 50 company in February 2016, and being named one of Britain’s most disruptive new businesses, Revolut’s founder and CEO, Nikolay Storonsky, explains his business and its success so far.
Feel-good Friday: Supplying clean drinking water to a billion people with solar power
Over the past three years, social enterprise Desolenator has been on a quest to produce a solution to the world’s drinking water crisis, which has resulted in the development of a solar-powered device that has the ability to purify water of contamination.
The payments industry is about to turn on its head following a “Revolut-ion”
After travelling the world, Nikolay Storonsky found that bank charges had inflicted heavy damage to his wallet – leading to the creation of Revolut. And after securing the Disruptor of the Year Award at the Everline Future 50 Awards, we caught up with him to see how he grew the firm using innovation.
Absolute Barrister: Is it time to make “lawtech” a thing? This legal service thinks so
Having been named the Friend to Business at the Everline Future 50 2016, Real Business spoke with Absolute Barrister’s co-founder Simon Gittins, who discussed the digital legal service’s growth, future, and working alongside his partner and wife Katy.
LendInvest: Future Unicorn reveals the plan to become a $1bn company with P2P
Winner of the Future Unicorn Award at our Everline Future 50 2016, peer-to-peer lending platform LendInvest has been given a mammoth challenge, but CEO Christian Faes has told Real Business he’s confident the firm can become a $1bn company – by trotting, not galloping.
Zipcube.com: Growing company emerges as better way to book meeting spaces
If you've ever had to deal with sorting out a venue for that all-important meeting then you're going to love what Zipcube.com is up to. The 2016 Everline Future 50 member has an offering that puts incumbents like Regus in the shade.
Zapgocharger: A business with the potential to solve a massive headache – battery charging
Big technological developments often provide a platform for others to innovate off of. Everline Future 50 2016 member Zapgocharger is just such an example and is a development certain to send shockwaves throughout the consumer and business markets.