ASOS is the UK’s largest independent online and fashion beauty retailer. ASOS was established in 2000 and now has over 4,000 employees and over 21 million unique visitors a month and 7.1 million active customers across websites targeting the UK, USA, France, Germany, Spain, Russia, Italy, and Australia.
ASOS sells over 850 brands as well as its own range of clothing and accessories. Sales for the financial year ending 31 August 2013 were £753.8 million.
The new, smarter way to lower household bills, starting with your mobile phone contract. When you use CTRLio, you’re telling brands what you want and when. This is good for you as it avoids the hassle of looking around and haggling – and gives you a guard against spam. It’s also good for brands as they don’t have to guess what you want. This means they can spend less on marketing and pass the savings on to you. This is known as the ‘intention economy’ and it’s changing the way brands bring you deals, for good.
Building on years of experience as both users and designers of enterprise information management systems, Cloudfind set out to solve the problems that characterize the modern enterprise: too much information, fragmented silos, and high cost of IT ownership. Cloudfind works seamlessly with your existing cloud storage, to help you find, share and organize your files in the most intuitive way imaginable. Cloudfind learns from pre-existing content and structures to discover topics of relevance, then groups related files together into virtual collections: projects, customers, initiatives, document types, statuses, product lines, and more. The result is a unique, powerful approach to enabling greater efficiency.
Threads Styling was established in 2009 by ex-fashion buyer and stylist Sophie Hill. Thread Styling assist men & women to achieve the look they require. With their wardrobe refresh, personal shopping & international concierge they adapt their services to source them the fashion piece their heart desires. Whether it is a Hermes Birkin, Chanel jacket or a pair of Christian Louboutin shoes Threads Styling will track them down and send it out personally to reach its new home.
Chirp is a magical way to share your stuff – using sound. Chirp sings information from one iPhone to another! Make & share videos, photos, links, MP3s, PDFs, GIFs & more: all from your built-in iPhone speaker. Chirp lets you send information over the air to anyone running the app near you. Use Chirp to send or receive pictures or video clips from your phone. Chirp is the super-simple, totally free way to share that everyone’s talking about.
Rinicare Ltd is a Lancaster based (UK) SME that brings state-of-the-art technological solutions for healthcare applications. Research solutions provided by Rinicare utilise the latest information and communications technologies and provide a solid foundation for enhancing its users’ quality of life. Ultimately, Rinicare’s goal is to design innovative, hospital grade medically certified technologies aimed at both improving patient outcomes and alleviating pressure on healthcare budgets.
Founded in April 2013 by Ben Alun-Jones, Kirsty Emery and Hal Watts, who met at London’s Royal College of Art, Knyttan aims to disrupt the $200 billion knitwear market with technology that turns the industrial knitting machines, which make 20 percent of the world’s garments, into the equivalent of 3D printers for clothes, enabling users to design and ‘print’ their own customised sweaters, scarves and other knitted items, made of Merino wool, for 200 pounds (about $315) for sweaters and 80 pounds (about $125 ) for scarves.
knowledgemotion, led by senior UK & US digital media executives, provides educational publishers and infrastructure providers (whiteboard suppliers & handheld device manufacturers) a single marketplace to buy fully rights cleared and digitised video clips from the world’s leading TV & film producers.
Ambie takes care of the music so that you don’t have to. They provide expertly curated soundtracks for different brands and spaces, delivered and controlled instantly from any computer or tablet. No hardware, discs or installation needed. And it’s all legal! Ambie’s clients include Nobu, Searcy at the Gherkin, Montcalm Hotels, Gro, Sumosan, Meridien Moderna and Electric Hair Salons to name a few.
db-csp is the first product of My Planet Life Limited, social platform developers based in the North West of England. The company’s HQ is located in Lancashire and has additional offices in London and New Delhi. A db-csp platform will stop time-wasting emails and the use of disparate messaging and chat tools used by staff. Using db-csp’s neat departmental categorisation and project-oriented group functionality, your colleagues are kept focused on individual through to enterprise-wide, cross-departmental projects and tasks. Bring all communication together on one customisable, cloud-based platform, branded to your organisation’s ‘look and feel’ and where you own and control all of the content, relationships and data.
easyfundraising.org.uk is the UK’s leading feel good shopping site – offering charities and other good causes the chance to raise free donations every time their supporters shop online. With nearly 3,000 retailers on board, including Amazon, John Lewis, Argos, M&S, Tesco, Asda, Next, Expedia, ebay, Sky and many more, donations can be raise on everything from hats to holidays. Since launching in 2007, there are now over 65,000 active good causes registered with easyfundraising, from schools and local community groups, to national charities and 800,000 registered supporters!
Founded in 1985 with a £1500 bank loan, Chain Reaction Cycles is now the world’s largest online bike store with the capability of dispatching up to 12 orders per minute. We ship to over 115 different countries around the world, we have on average 2.9m unique visitors per month, 60m page views. With a retail store on the Boucher Road, Belfast, and a rapidly expanding team of e-commerce professionals, there’s never been a better time to be part of a world-class team.
the-saleroom.com is Europe’s leading portal for fine art and antiques auctions. Visitors to the site can search and browse catalogues and place bids over the internet in real time, with live audio and video feeds communicating the auction room atmosphere. In 2014 the-saleroom.com hosted 6,018 auction catalogues and 3,860 live auctions and sold over £90m online. the-saleroom.com continues to expand the features it offers having recently introduced a new delivery service, timed auctions and multi-lingual versions of the site.
MassChallenge is the largest accelerator and competition in the world and the first to support entrepreneurs with no strings attached. MassChallenge UK has 90 startups in London for its 2015 programme, along with many mentors, experts, and partners who support them. This group is meant to bring them all together to share support and network in a new way. Don’t forget to use your masschallenge.org dashboard if you are a mentor or finalist.
A global specialist HIV company, 100% focused on researching and delivering new medicines and improving access to care for people living with HIV. ViiV Healthcare worldwide headquarters are in Brentford, London UK. Our US headquarters are in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.