MAYOR OF LONDON: SMART LONDON INVESTOR SHOWCASE A showcase of smart solutions to the Capital’s future challenges Two years ago, the Mayor of London published his Smart London Plan. This outlined how London would harness the creative power of new technologies to serve London and improve Londoners’ lives. Since then, we have made much progress. Today, as we plan for 11.3 million citizens by 2050, London is showing how the power of data and technology can help support growth. However, there is still- and always will be- much more to do.
No other city in the world can match our cluster technologists and financiers innovating together, David Gann of ideas, talent and capital. The potential is we will unlock capital, sustain talent pipelines Chair dizzying. If we can bring together London’s and help pioneering start-ups to scale up. Smart London Board inventors, entrepreneurs, investors, academics and creatives on a grander scale, our enterprise Tech innovation is changing London itself. This and technology capabilities are unparalleled. evening’s pitches by pioneering entrepreneurs are examples of how tech innovation is changing Our tech industry is renowned for its innovation London. Technology is, and will continue to, and entrepreneurial energy. We have the transform Londoners’ experience with transport, opportunity to tap into talent across all scales and types of technology businesses. That is healthcare, the environment, the infrastructure why investment in the sector is so high – ten and the homes we live in. times more than just five years ago. However, more collaboration is needed between the Thank you for supporting the Smart London City and tech entrepreneurs to help London to Investor Showcase and I hope that you enjoy remain at the forefront of new technology. By your evening.
On behalf of UK Business Angels Association, we are delighted to be partnering with the Mayor of London to present the Smart London Investor Showcase.
As the trade body for angel and early stage The businesses we will meet this evening investment, UKBAA seeks to ensure a represent some of London’s key growth connected and effective finance ecosystem for challenges across the themes of the entrepreneurial growth in the UK. The Smart environment; buildings and homes; healthcare; Jenny Tooth London Investor Showcase has enabled us transport; and resilience and infrastructure. CEO to create the connections between London’s We hope that the innovations presented this UK Business innovating tech businesses and key sources evening will attract the investment they need to Angels Association of investment. We are pleased to bring successfully scale and achieve their commercial together many key leaders from the investment potential. community including angels, VCs and equity crowdfunding platforms to meet these exciting We should like to thank the Mayor of London innovators. for inviting us to collaborate on this venture, the technical experts who have given up their time Over the past few weeks, in partnership with the to judge the very strong applications submitted, Mayor of London, we have identified over 100 and our industry and media partners. Last but entrepreneurs from across London’s technology not least, I should like to thank and congratulate and digital community offering solutions to the entrepreneurs for their fantastic efforts in address London’s challenges as it continues to presenting their projects this evening. grow. Fifteen of these have now been selected by our panel of expert judges from industry and We hope that you enjoy the event and will find investment to present their smart innovations at some interesting opportunities here. Finally, if this Showcase event. you are not yet part of the UKBAA community, we warmly welcome you to join us. The UK Business Angels The Voice of the Angel Investment Community Association (UKBAA) is the UKBAA represents the views and interests of the angel investment community to national trade association government, opinion formers and business leaders at national, European and international level. We work with of the key government departments and organisations with a view to representing angel and early ensuring a favourable climate for the continuing support and growth of the angel market stage investment. Angel across the UK. investing is part of a £1.5 billion EIS investment market in the Building and Connecting the Angel Ecosystem UK – the single largest source UKBAA enables opportunities for all members of the angel and early stage community of early stage capital in this to meet and connect and share experience. This includes a special emphasis on building country. The Angel community and connecting the ecosystem across the UK regions. UKBAA also organizes a regular in the UK is fast- growing and programme of flagship events, including; major thought leadership Conferences, as well as also very diverse, reflecting a sector and regional events together with the Annual Angel investment Awards, offering an range of different investment opportunity for direct interaction between all players in the community. models and approaches. A Marketplace for Access to Quality Deal flow and Deal Sharing UKBAA facilitates an environment to support access for investors to opportunities for UKBAA’s members include angel networks, investment. This includes support for the connection of entrepreneurs to investors; syndicates, individual investors, early organization of investment events and company presentations. UKBAA has established stage VCs, equity crowdfunding platforms, the UKBAA DealShare Platform offering a unique and exclusive investor members only accelerators as well as professional advisers marketplace for UKBAA members to share and refer deals. and intermediaries.
The UK Business Angels Association connects Promoting Good Practice and Establishing Standards UKBAA promotes good practice and establishes industry standards for increased all those involved in the angel investment professionalism of the angel investment community. UKBAA offers access to skills and market with a view to ensuring a coherent training to new angels to enable them to become competent and effective investors including ecosystem for financing the growth of startup a new programme of e-learning. We also specifically encourage angel syndication and and early stage businesses. The UKBAA’s Core encourage those with capacity to become Lead Angels. Focus and Service Offering covers the following key areas: A Resource of Market Intelligence and Information UKBAA provides market intelligence on key trends and new developments to improve knowledge and data about the angel market. This also includes commissioning dedicated research studies on the market. UKBAA offers access to an active website providing access @UKBAngels to information and advice for investors and entrepreneurs, as well as an online Directory of follow the conversation at investors and regular market updates though the two-weekly e-newsletter. #smartlondonshowcase
Agenda
17.30 Networking Drinks, Canapés & Company Showcase
18:20 Guests Seated in the London Living Room
18.30 Welcome to City Hall and Smart London from Matthew Pencharz, Deputy Mayor of London
18.35 Introduction to London’s Smart Challenges: Professor David Gann, Chair, Smart London Board
18.40 Welcome from Jenny Tooth OBE, Chief Executive, UKBAA
18.45 Company Pitch Presentations
19:55 Networking Drinks, Canapé Reception & Meet the Companies
This information contained within this document is not intended to constitute a financial promotion for the purposes of Section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and the Financial Promotion Order 2005 and does not amount to a personal recommendation or advice on the merits of the deal. All investment decisions are made at the risk of the individual investor. 3D Repo is a multi-award Academy of Engineering Entrepreneurs winning open source SaaS Award and EPSRC UK ICT Research for collaborative Building Pioneers Award. In 2015, we won two Contact Card Information Modelling in the European Institute of Innovation grants (€ cloud. Instead of exchanging 110k) and Cognicity Challenge (£50k) by massive files, all stakeholders Canary Wharf. This year, we won Horizon can now examine various project 2020 grant (€200k) with BT, HP and SAP Find us stages virtually in 3D directly in (total value of €5m). 3D Repo is a member 3drepo.org their web browser. of the Open Data Institute and British Computer Society, the Chartered Institute Contact Dr Jozef Dobos, CEO The Problem for IT. Even though buildings these days start life Twitter as complex 3D models, they are still being Competition @3DRepo delivered as 2D engineering drawings and Autodesk BIM Glue 360 provides a written design descriptions. Clients have no proprietary cloud data management system way of verifying what was designed and paid designed for Autodesk Revit. This does not for is indeed what was delivered. Buildings support branching nor merging and costs come with energy efficiency certificates but $99/y for 100GB of data. not much else. What is missing is a future- Similar file-based (understand Dropbox- proof solution that validates and manages like) solutions are offered by Business buildings effectively across 2D and 3D Collaborator, 4Projects and Asite in the UK. information throughout their entire life-cycle. BIMServer is the only open source solution on the market developed by University The Solution of Eindhoven and TNO. This solution 3D Repo is a spin-out from doctoral concentrates on a single file format only and Rail, lifelong entrepreneur, technologist and research in Virtual Environments, Imaging does not scale. OnShape is a recent startup mentor. and Visualisation (Computer Science) by the former Solidworks team providing - Ivan Shyr, Investor Director Sussex Place at University College London that was direct 3D CAD editing in the web browser. Ventures. Non-Exec board member of sponsored by Arup. Our cloud-based Sine Wave, Infinitesima. MBA from London version control system manages massive The Team Business School and Columbia Business 3D models in the cloud from design, - Dr Jozef Dobos, Founder & CEO. MEng School. through construction to handover and in AI from Imperial College London, MRes facilities management for years to come. in Virtual Environments Imaging and This is applicable to master planning, public Visualisation (VEIV) in Computer Science consultation, design coordination as well as from University College London (UCL), on-site snagging and commissioning and Engineering Doctorate (EngD) in VEIV from long-term facilities management. Since 3D UCL. Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Repo is open source, we provide public Business School, New Venture Development and private hosting, enterprise support and at London Business School. maintenance, training, commercial licensing - (Dr) Tim Scully, CTO. BSc in CS at and custom development. University of Kent, MRes + EngD in VEIV at UCL. Awarded Fellowship of the Royal Traction & Achievements Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. Prior Our most notable projects include London work experience from in ABN AMBRO Bank King’s Cross Redevelopment, London in London, NY and HK. Olympic Stadium Transformation, Crossrail - John Davis, Non-Exec Chairman. Angel Woolwich Box Fitout and Canary Wharf investor and Non-Exec Director in Informa New Phase Development. With 3D Repo Group, aLL Design, Design My Night, we have won numerous awards including Made TV. Formerly CFO of 10 years at Yell two Innovate UK grants (£500k), Amazon Group, CFO of Pearson Inc, Group Finance Web Services Research grant ($7.5k), UCL Director at Financial Times Group. Chartered Enterprise Bright Ideas Award (£10k) and accountant at Price Waterhouse. MongoDB World Innovation Award ($2.5k). - Dr Paul Zanelli, NED. CTO at Transport In 2014, we were shortlisted for the Royal Catapult, former Head of R&D at Network Advanced Materials holds 2 PCT (International Patents); 1 UK manufactures a special paint like and 1 US. Relevant projects/ trials: Retail product formulated as a powder Store Big C in Thailand, Umberto Primo Contact Card called Airlite™ which cleans the Tunnel in Rome and a Hospital in Mexico air. It imparts ‘Active Properties’ to both exterior and interior Competition Find us building surfaces harnessing There are a number of functional paints www.en.airlite.eu the energy of light creating an with an anti-pollution functionality available inert reaction with TiO2 particles. in the Global market: Boysen, Colorificio Contact It reduces air pollutants, MP, Steikos, STO and Caparol. However, eliminates odours, prevents these companies and their technology have Arun Jayadev mould, destroys harmful bacteria significant limitations which include: (a) LinkedIn and prevents dirt. chalking, which is the process of the binder breaking down resulting in a powder or dust www.linkedin.com/ The Problem on the surface (b) containing VOCs (Volatile company/airlite Poor air quality is a major issue for UK public Organic Compounds) (c) High prices. Non of health, the economy and the environment. which are experienced by Airlite. Air pollution is a major health issue causing 7M premature deaths a year globally. The Team Airlite was co-founded by Mr Cianci, Mr The Solution Bernardoni and Mr Jayadev. Mr. Cianci (CEO) Airlite is a special powder paint with a unique He previously was the Managing Director in formulation imparting ‘Active Properties’ two technology companies where he grew to both interior and exterior surfaces. 1. sales from €5M to €125M within a period of 3 Anti-Pollution: reduces airborne pollutants by years.He is a former adviser for innovation at 80% including NOx, SOx and fine particles the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. 2. Facades and walls become self-cleaning Mr. Jayadev (COO) Arun has more than and smells are eliminated due to an invisible 10 years industry experience in resource aqueous film on the surface not allowing dirt efficiency sector. He was previously a Venture to adhere so reducing maintenance. Partner at Wellington Partners. He helped 3. Airlite destroys 99.99% of bacteria and the portfolio raise €200M+ and was actively mould spores while producing positive ions involved in supporting the management to enhance quality of life. teams along with board representation. He 4. Energy Savings: Heat is reflected away has served as an advisor to the Department from roofs and external surfaces saving 15 - of Energy and is a Kauffman Fellow. Mr. 50% of air conditioning costs thus reducing Bernardoni (CTO) has more than 30 years CO2 and greenhouse gasses industry experience in building materials and product development. He began to Traction & Achievements develop products based on the properties of In 2015, the company raised £1.5M of capital TiO2 in the early 2000s, and together with from UK based investors, which brought Italcementi in 2003 he developed a paint both financial resources and significant based on the photo-catalytic active TX, advisory expertise to the company. Prizes which was listed by Time among the 50 most won by the Company include: 1st prize relevant innovations of the year. Clean Tech 2015 UniCredit; Start Lab; Vivaio Awards 2015; Green City Investment Forum 2014; Best Presentation Award EVC 2014; Clean Equity Monaco 2014; Shark Tank Italy a T.V. show based on Dragons’ Den. Product Certifications: Eurofins, Airlite can assist with LEEDS points, contains zero VOC, Antibacterial Activity, decomposes nitrogen oxides, reflects solar rays reducing internal heat. Intellectual Property: the company BeeLine exists to learn what Traction & Achievements makes a great journey, and to April 2015 - BeeLine founded by Mark and help people have more of them. Tom. Prototyping began Contact Card We’re starting with urban cycling, August 2015 - went into partnership with with a connected hardware and Map Project Office, leading London industrial software product. design agency October 2015 - Ran a Kickstarter campaign The Problem for first product, making 3,500 preorders in Find us In a rapidly urbanising world, cities of the 30 days, and receiving global press acclaim. beeline.co future will need much smarter ways of helping Took orders worth £150k on a target of £60k, millions of residents get around. This requires putting us in the top 0.2% of Kickstarter Contact more than just calculating the shortest campaigns route on a map. It requires an appreciation November 2015 - approached by a number Mark Jenner of the different factors that contribute to a of large cycling brands to discuss potential successful journey. The customer for our first partnerships. Discussions are ongoing Email: product is the urban cyclist. They use the December 2015 - accepted into Seedcamp, [email protected] bicycle not just as a leisure activity, but as a top european programme for early stage their main transport mode around the city. startups They regularly check their mapping app to January 2016 - featured in Wired’s “most find the places they’re going to, but this is cleverly designed objects of 2015” not possible in a safe way whilst riding a bike. February 2016 - began investment Cyclists do not currently have a ‘connection’ discussions to raise growth capital prior to like pedestrians do. August launch
The Solution Competition BeeLine takes the connected capabilities Smart phones - too expensive and fragile of the phone and displays that information to be mounted on a bike for most cyclists. where you need it, on a device that attaches Without mounting, it is either awkward or to the handlebars. At the beginning of the dangerous to use your phone whilst cycling. journey, you select the destination on the Through lack of affordable options, this is BeeLine app and put your phone away. The currently the most common way for urban BeeLine device then displays a big arrow cyclists to navigate. Garmin GPS devices - pointing straight at your destination - it’s established brand for elite cycling navigation, like a smart compass locked onto your priced at around £300. User interface is less destination (we call this ‘fuzzy’ navigation). friendly than smartphone, and product is It’s very clear and visible, allowing the not actually ‘connected’ for realtime/remote rider to concentrate on the road with an updates. Hammerhead - only bluetooth occasional glance at the device. Ongoing cycling navigation device actually on the development is planned to remotely market. Device is restricted due to display enhance the system. We will be learning method (lines of led lights), designed for from the BeeLine user community to build simple grid systems in the US. Hasn’t yet got an increasingly intelligent dataset to better traction in Europe. guide our future users. This will allow tailored journeys for factors other than speed, such The Team as safety, quietness, beauty - whatever is Co-founder - Mark Jenner. Spent five years deemed important. Integrations with other at McKinsey. Chemistry graduate (Bath ‘07), apps will bring together all the information fanatical cyclist and serial tinkerer. Co-founder needed, but always delivered with a ruthless - Tom Putnam. Spent two years at McKinsey focus on design simplicity. and two years at Rocket Internet. Aeronautical Engineering graduate (Bristol ‘09), adventurer and Land Rover enthusiast. Equity partners - Map Project Office. Top London Industrial Design firm. Creators of Kano and Hackaball, and winners of numerous design awards Carbon Analytics is a data as The nature of our database is ever-improving a service company, providing and will become critical data infrastructure environmental impact data for impact information. Contact Card to businesses through its integrations with Quickbooks and Traction & Achievements Xero. The company has pioneered Launched proof of concept, achieved first Find us the use of financial transaction revenues: - ~300 web application company co2analytics.com data for environmental and social sign ups - ~50 uploaded financial data Contact impact reporting and compliance. (important commitment kpi) - £18k pilot with British Gas. Demonstrated software Michael Thornton The Problem ability to assess supply chain - 7000 co’s. Twitter A sustainable and prosperous London Resulted in (ongoing) contract negotiations @co2analytics requires sustainable businesses that with key supplier - £5k paid engagement understand their impacts on the planet, with Firefly Renewable Energy Upstream manage associated risks, win over partners critical for scaling. Progress: - increasingly conscious customers and Partnership with ClimateCare, a top carbon build strong local and global suppliers. To offsetter, monetizing offsets from our do this, businesses need information about platform - Partnerships with green energy their impacts, good and bad, and how they providers (Almach Energy, Bid Energy) - Pilot can improve and leverage them to thrive. discussion with a Big 4 accountancy Won This isn’t just a nice to have: regulation, ~£200k in awards and grants including: - consumer demand, investor pressure and 2014 Hello Tomorrow Big Data Top Prize, procurement requirements are moving non- 2015 EIT ICT Digital Future Cloud Top Prize financial business metrics to a must have. Certified Founding UK B-Corp . However, existing approach to accounting Policy - Senior Advisor, Financial Stability for environmental impacts is manual, costly Competition Board, Bank of England and inefficient. Companies typically must Carbon accountancies and consultancies hire consultants or internal professionals providing conventional audit-based to conduct complex often excel-based environmental impact assessment. Most analyses. To be truly transformational, create bespoke spreadsheet models, or have sustainability information must be far basic software tools without automating the more integrated with existing systems and collection of inputs. Examples: Value Chain affordably available. Manager by Carbon Trust and Trucost’s Natural Capital Analyzer. Most focus on The Solution consulting for profits. We address the wider Big data and software-as-a-service now market, emphasize ease-of-use, low cost, make it possible to access and augment monetizing value-adds. We partner heavily, accounting data in ways never considered including developing an API so partners before. Carbon Analytics’ produces needed can be “powered by” Carbon Analytics. impact data automatically from accounting Our strategy is to be a provider of data records and provides it to SME’s free of infrastructure. charge in an easily understood web platform. Proof of Concept Our current implementation The Team of this technology is a web application, Founders: Michael Thornton - Entrepreneur, operating on a freemium model for SME’s, Oxford MBA, 7 years Environmental that allows organizations to generate a Engineering Greg FitzGerald - Technologist, carbon footprint analysis by integrating with Oxford MBA, 5 years leading tech teams w their cloud accounting system. It guides the Deloitte Key Staff: Ritu Kumar – Business user through understanding their impacts Development – 15 yrs carbon space Zahraa via measurement and visualization and Almasslawi – PhP Developer w Environment remediating them with recommendations and Experience Advisors: Paul Miller, Strategy connecting to green providers. Evolution We - Silicon Valley business leader with over are adding additional non-financial metrics. $100 million raised Garry Feldgate, Domain - Former Carbon Trust Director Michael Sheran, ChargeSync and our StorQube Traction & Achievements provide an innovative solution Market research shows 40% of UK sample to manage domestic electricity would be interested at our price target. Contact Card consumption, reduce the cost to Patent filed and survived examination in UK provide power to consumers, and and Munich, pending.Smart grant won from reduce household bills Innovate UK in competition (only around 1 in Find us 10 applicants receive awards). Seed EIS raise chargesync.com The Problem initiated. Prototype built and operational. More and more energy is generated from Optimisation platform built and operational. Contact Matthew Hunt renewable sources which have a sporadic and Outline of cooperation agreement with unpredictable nature supplier established. Balancing the system in the face of unpredictable power generation is currently Competition performed using dirty fossil fuel generation, Most of our competitors are currently using operating in inefficient plant modes (turning battery storage together with solar power up or down large, and small power plants) (Tesla, Powervault etc). Moixa provide Flowing current through the wires during optimised storage service, but use their peak times creates a current which heats the battery for DC lighting which requires your wires. Too much current means the wires melt house to be partly rewired. (P=I^2R). This means wires need to be built A company called Orison are producing to manage the peak flows at the peak instant. a similar product which was recently The rest of the time the wires are too big…. crowdfunded in the US. Building big wires is expensive. Management Team The Solution Matthew Hunt - Co-Founder and CEO By charging our batteries at moments An Oxford Physics graduate who has spent where the market is very cheap (eg. Its night more than 17 years in the Energy sector and very windy) and discharging when its working on behalf of firms such as British expensive (eg. Tea time) we can capture value Energy, RWE and Gazprom. Passionate which can be passed on to the customer as a about moving the world to sustainable energy reduction in the electricity bill usage, Matt is the driving force behind By reducing peak flows we can also save the ChargeSync. energy supplier significant costs which are levied by the network operators at peak times. Harry Breach - Co-Founder and CFO These savings can also be used to reduce the An Oxford Law graduate who has spent his customer bill. Reducing peak currents means career in the financial sector for 15 years on that potentially less wires may be required on behalf of BarCap, JPMorgan and Bank of the grid. America. Batteries on the low voltage grid can capture green energy generated at unpredictable Graham Schorfield - COO. Graham has spent moments. This green energy can be used his career in the energy industry starting at the most useful moment, and save on with British Coal in 1988. He has experience the production of peak energy from fossil of both the supply and generation side of sources. the market working on behalf of Midlands ChargeSync filed for patent protection for the Electricity, British Energy and Eclipse Energy. process of coordination and optimisation of His years of experience creating forecasting embedded batteries in 2013. Our patent has and optimising models for grid supply, survived examination in the UK and Munich, distribution and transmission, indicate smart but hasn’t yet been granted. embedded devices are the future. Hoxy Tronic Fuel saving & into the business. Engineering Innovation Emissions reduction technology Network-SW – awarded us a grant of £4K is a (patent filed) solution for for prototype build. iNETS Microelectronics Contact Card existing Trucks, Buses, Cars awarded us a grant of £2k for Intellectual and Ships to reduce CO2, NOx Property development. Innovation 4 Growth and Particulate matter (PM) Fund has awarded us a grant of £149k for Find us emissions, and to pay for this our project. hoxytronic.co.uk through savings on fuel costs. Competition Contact The Problem The DfT Heavy Goods Vehicle Low carbon Dave Thomas 60,000 premature deaths in the UK each project publishes a list of fuel saving year from harmful emissions. The 15 largest technologies with Capex cost and % fuel ships pollute more than all 760 million cars savings. When compared with this list, Hoxy in the World. Volkswagen cheating on NOx Tronic technology is one of the cheapest emissions tests. and has the shortest ROI of all listed. NOx and PM emissions. None of the other Low The Solution Carbon HGV project technologies reduce Hoxy technology is a small device, retro NOx or PM emissions. Competition-Shipping fitted to petrol or diesel vehicles, without There are competitive fuel saving need to re-programme the ECU making it technologies, however, Hoxy Marine will fail safe. This produces Hoxy gas (ortho- have the shortest ROI for the shipping Hydrogen & Oxygen) which is fed into company. NO other marine fuel saving the engine air inlet system, changing the technology also reduces NOx and PM combustion dynamics, saving fuel ( 7-10%) emissions. and reducing NOx and PM emissions by 50- 80%. Shipping design; We have conceptual The Team design for a modular and scalable system for Mike Blenkinsop: Chairman, DipNED, MBA large ship engines, with novel inventive steps (INSEAD), BSc Chem Eng (Hons), FEANI: 21 awaiting patent filing. Projected Hoxy Tronic yrs at board level, at Olaer; CSA; Schaeffler/ technology for Truck pricing is £ 1K. The INA; Rockwell. 35 years in international average UK HGV travels 3286 miles/month. industrial businesses of which 15 yrs in At today’s fuel prices and achieving a fuel automotive businesses.Dave Thomas: save of 7%, the Truck owner will get a ROI in Founder & Technical Director: Tuned, fixed less than 1 year. cars+motorbikes that his Dad raced. 13 years IBM Hardware Engineering. Facilitated Traction & Achievements the South African Taxi Co-Op Fuel Project, Our test Freelander TD4 modified with Marine Fuel Industry Consultant, Cape alternate fuel measure system accurate to Town.Steve Carter: M Dir, B.Eng. (Hons). 1 gram and the HOXYtronic system, has Previously MD of Bergstrom Inc. which completed over 100 dynamometer tests over formed strategic alliance in Turkey and won 8 days of testing at an independent third truck + mini bus climate control systems party. A 7 – 10 % mpg fuel saving ‘Proof with Ford. Also established joint venture in of Concept’ has been achieved. Research India and won business with major Russian by Univ’s of Cukurova, Hertfordshire and Agricultural OEM’s. Steve personally knows Washing State show significant NOx and the head of Ford Truck division, USA.Dr PM emissions reduction. Univ Hertfordshire: Rodger Sykes: Non Exec Dir and mentor. Reduced by: NOx = 82.2%, PM = 83.3% Previously; CEO PicoChip, CEO SiConnect, Washington State: Reduction; NOx = 78%, CEO MMIC Solutions. VP @ Logicvision, PM = 54.4%. Patents GB 1312092.8 filed Business Management at Texas Instruments 5/7/2013 and GB 1500181.1 filed 7/1/2015. and Philips Semi in USA. Management has invested over £60k Infinity Health create Healthcare. Additionally, Infinity Health is revolutionary digital health receiving support and investment from Alex products, addressing London’s Chesterman (Founder & CEO of Zoopla) Contact Card most significant healthcare challenges. Competition Leading electronic health record solutions are Find us The Problem hugely expensive systems from Intersystems, infinity-health.co.uk Current models of healthcare are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and CSC. Developed unsustainable. We are living longer lives to deliver administrative benefits, they are Contact and the health services are struggling under inflexible and difficult to implement. Patient Elliott Engers the weight of demand. Technology must Track and Vital PAC have solutions for vital be utilised to create a sustainable health signs monitoring, with a limited scope that system that can cope with the challenges of prevents them from addressing the breadth the 21st century. Outdated communication of challenge in healthcare. HARK, developed technology has been identified as a root- at Imperial College, was recently acquired cause of failure. Medical professionals lack by Google DeepMind as a data acquisition digital tools, often resorting to printed or platform to validate their generalised artificial handwritten notes and legacy technology, intelligence. Listrunner is a mobile app such as pagers and fax machines. The digital designed to replace clinical lists, however solutions that do exist are costly, monolithic they seem to be entirely focused on the US systems that often remain under utilised market. and lack any genuine consideration for user experience. Management team: Elliott Engers – Co-founder & CEO Mr. Manoj Ramachandran - Advisor The Solution Elliott has 15 years’ experience designing Infinity Hospital is a paperless technical products, with a focus on user- Manoj is CIO and a Consultant Orthopaedic communication and collaboration solution centred design to improve patient outcomes and Trauma Surgeon, as well as Director of for medical professionals. Available as a and healthcare efficiency. Informatics for Surgery and Cancer, at Bart free application for individuals, or as an Dr. Adam Benton – Co-founder & Medical NHS Foundation Trust. enterprise solution that seamlessly integrates Director Dr. Benton has a degree in Artificial with existing systems, Infinity Hospital Intelligence and is a fully registered Medical allows users to: easily manage patients, add Doctor. He has a specialist interest in clinical notes, share tasks, manage teams, intelligent systems and medical data. set reminders and send notifications. Infinity Laurie Wiseman – Chairman. Laurie is a Hospital dramatically improves the ability proven and award-winning innovator. He of medical professionals to collaborate in founded Primal Pictures, a 3D medical a safe and efficient way. The data captured anatomy software company, which he exited by Infinity Hospital enables healthcare 2013. Michael Benton – Director. Michael organisations to maintain comprehensive is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years’ audit trails and transform decision making experience and a number of commercial and real-time reporting. exits, specialising in the healthcare sector. Martin Taylor – Finance Director. Martin Traction & Achievements has an MA in economics from Cambridge Infinity Health were awarded an Innovate UK University and is a Fellow of the Institute of SMART grant of £100k, to develop a proof Chartered Accountants. Advisory board: of concept application for Infinity Hospital. Karen Clarke - Advisor. Karen is a Vice Infinity Health has a signed Research and President at Oracle and has 25 years’ Collaboration agreement with The Royal experience in the Public and Private Sector. National Orthopaedic Hospital and is Dr. Steve Hajioff - Advisor developing strong relationships with leading Steve has worked with governments and clinical organisations such as The Royal corporate clients including N.I.C.E., W.H.O., London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, Reuters, Health Dialog and is a former Chief The Royal Free NHS Trust, Mersey Care NHS Officer of the B.M.A. Trust, Marie Curie, BMI Healthcare and Spire OpenCapacity: the industry’s – Included in bid for franchise submission leading real-time forecasting 2016 – Shortlisted for InnovateUK Enhancing service of available space on End-to-End journey in collaboration with Contact Card public transport – utilising London Underground and Centro – Working sensors already fitted to vehicles. with four different train operating companies We enable operators to optimise – Live trials with two TOCs – Ongoing Find us capacity and allow passengers to dialogue with two Passenger Transport opencapacity.co make informed decisions on how Executives (PTE), London Underground, UKTram, Bombardier, TransportSystem to reduce congestion on their Contact journey. Catapult, FutureCity Catapult and others – Ongoing support from Ordnance Survey Gerrit Boehm The Problem Passengers are not given information to Competition understand which vehicles are less crowded. Basic passenger counting technologies are Operators do not have complete data on emerging, as can be seen with ORINOCO what journeys and vehicles people actually on RfL, data displays on new Thameslink use. This means that available spare capacity trains and the upcoming East Coast Mainline is often overlooked, such as a particular train. Our system can carry out this simple carriage on a train being emptier than the functionality, or take the data provided by rest. Operators do not have the information these systems and turn it into useful forecast to closer match services with demand or and management information. Likewise, “nudge” passengers to use less crowded some basic real-time data has been made services. available on the London bus network. Our key differentiator is that none of these end development and computer-vision. The Solution products have forecasting capabilities. OpenCapacity is a modular software Should any product move into this area they Marcus Mayers (Railway Specialist) 15+ platform, using existing data sources already would need to find a way of doing so without years experience in the rail sector with core available (e.g. weight, etc) and advanced infringing on our patent (patent pending expertise in railway innovation, regulation & machine-learning algorithm to analyse, - EPA/PCT filled in 2014). The transport approvals and route to market. predict and communicate occupancy on industry is heavily regulated and dominated public transport in real-time (via API) to: by a few large companies, making this a 1. Platform displays/apps to allow challenging environment for a SME. However, passengers to see how crowded buses/ we have the support of a number of railway trains (carriage-by-carriage) are; operators, Bombardier and RSSB, which 2. Management dashboards to enable offers a degree of protection in this area. operators to better understand actual and forecasted capacity use to enable better The Team operational planning in the short/medium Dr. Gerrit Boehm (Founder & CEO) PhD and long term. in Persuasive Technologies. 10+ years experience in human-computer interaction, Traction & Achievements design engineering, ubiquitous computing, 2013 – Winner of Enhancing Customer IoT technologies & Smart Public Transport. Experience completion (£20,000). Funded by Dr. Sven Schmidt (Co-Founder & CTO) PhD EIT/FutureRailway in Physics. 20+ years experience in software 2014 – £250,000 funding for product engineering, databases, mobile & back-end development and demonstrator. Funded by development as well as reporting and data RSSB – EPA/PCT patent filed science. Dr. Laurent Hoffmann (Co-Founder 2015 – In-Kind contribution from c2c & CSO) PhD in Mathematical Physics. (NationalExpress) & Bombardier providing 20+ years experience in computational access to their live train data statistical modelling, data science and – SNCF Tourist Experience Challenge machine-learning. Taher Shihadeh (Co- finalist – Articles in TheTimes, Mirror, Founder & IoT Computer Engineer) 20+ Railway Strategies and CHIT Transportation years experience in open source software Professional magazine & hardware engineering, database & back- Powervault is an award winning, Already today, our customers can benefit patent-pending, home energy from Tempus Energy’s ‘revolution’ electricity storage system. Powervault tariff. This offers customers a 20% discount Contact Card has developed the UK’s most on their price of electricity in return for affordable and easiest to offering this grid flexibility service. install home energy storage Find us device, which lowers consumer Traction & Achievements powervault.co.uk electricity bills and provides - Raised £750k A round financing via Crowd Cube Contact a source of emergency power Joe Warren during black outs. - Outsourced manufacture - Trading for 18 months, generating income Twitter The Problem with over 80 devices sold @Power_vault The urgent need to halt climate change - Partnerships with two major national requires a rapid increase in the use of distributors intermittent sources of renewable energy, - New device launching next month with solar and wind, as well as the electrification Li-ion technology, emergency socket feature of transport and heating. This will put a and new ‘economy 7’ software huge strain on our energy infrastructure, Business Green ‘Innovator of the Year’ and adding cost and reducing energy security. ‘Solar Innovation of the Year’ 2015 Customers face rapidly rising electricity bills Partnership with utility company due to and possible black outs as a result. launch April trialling a new scalable sales channel The Solution - Cheapest, greenest product globally to be The National Infrastructure Committee launched in 2016 using second life batteries recently released a report estimating that in partnership with Nissan energy storage could save up to £8bn a year by 2030 by balancing supply and Competition demand of renewable energy throughout We are one of two UK based companies the day. Powervault’s device brings the competing in the home energy storage energy storage revolution into the home, market. Our major competition comes from allowing consumers to directly benefit overseas e.g. Sonnenbatterie from Germany, from the savings and revenue streams that Tesla Powerwall from USA and Growatt energy storage provides: Savings: In its from China. Our development in the UK in a initial application the product stores ‘free’ subsidy free environment has made us the electricity generated by solar panels during most competitive product available, being the day, to use in the evening, delivering a the most affordable and easiest to install 20% saving on electricity bills. The initial product in the UK market and universally addressable UK market of 1m solar PV compatible with all solar PV systems. owners is about to expand exponentially as regulation drives the roll out of smart meters. The Team This will allow any of the 26m UK homes Our chairman, Simon Acland, spent 30 years to benefit from storing electricity from the investing in young technology businesses. grid when it is cheap to use at expensive Seven of the companies he backed achieved times. Revenue streams: In the near future, public listings including two companies that our customers will get paid for the ‘grid reached the FTSE 250. Joe Warren, our MD, balancing’ services that their energy storage has spent 10 years working in the smart grid provides. National Grid was estimated to sector. He helped Open Energi take their have spent £850m on these services in smart grid dynamic demand product from 2014. For example, wind farms are currently concept to commercial reality. Our team of 9 paid not to produce power at times of low employees also includes a Technical Director demand. We are negotiating a deal to pay who spent 10 years working on high- our customers to store this excess power in performance, hybrid and electric vehicles, return for a revenue stream – a triple-win for including at Mercedes and our commercial our customers, the environment and the grid. director spent seven years at M&S. Px HealthCare (Px) was established Traction & Achievements by medical scientists who previously 2013: OWise was launched in the founded and successfully exited a Netherlands, was Awarded Dutch Health App Contact Card data-mining biotechnology company. Award and Winner of European J&J Digital Px has developed the world’s only Health Masterclass; 2014: Publication highly validated, cancer patient-experience positive results of pilot study (90% patients Find us platform, demonstrated to improve & 90% clinicians recommend OWise); 2014: pxhealthcare.com the patient-physician relationship. CE-marking of OWise breast cancer; 2015: As a data-analytics venture, Px FICHe EU eHealth accelerator finalist (ended Contact investigates the anonymised Patient in 1st position); 2015: Founder Px (Anne Dr Anne Bruinvels Reported Outcome (PRO) data Bruinvels) and OWise breast cancer selected and commercialises its insights to for UK’s NHS Innovation Accelerator; 2015: Twitter @pxhealthcare improve oncology outcomes. Development UK version OWise breast cancer The Problem 2016: February - Launch OWise breast Cancer is a big issue worldwide. Affecting cancer (UK); 2016: Development of OWise2.0 1 in 3 of us in our lifetime, 14 million people (for all cancer patients) expected. To date are diagnosed with cancer each year and OWise breast cancer has > 3000 users, the disease costs more than $895 billion which Px expects to double this year annually. To improve the clinical outcome of (following UK roll out). The product is planned treatments, to reduce the development of to launch in the US early 2017 whereas side-effects and to increase patients’ quality OWise2.0 is expected to go live in the UK late of life we need to accurately understand how 2016. patients experience cancer treatments. Competition The Team The Solution There are several companies that operate Px is led by a highly experienced team of Px HealthCare (also called Px, which stands in the oncology field but that are focussed professionals combining medical, data- for Patient Experience) has developed OWise, on creating value from Electronic Medical analytics, software development, patient- an independently validated, mobile medical Record data or use a search-based approach experience and entrepreneurial expertise. platform supporting cancer patients during to analyse patient reported drug effects. The The leadership team of Dr .Anne Bruinvels treatment. OWise is a real game-changer as: organisations listed below are more thought (CEO), who previously founded and exited Its award-winning app was shown to improve of as collaborators than competitors: Flatiron the London biotech Curidium, and Dr. both patient experience and the patient- Health (US): EMR focus in oncology - no David Bruinvels (Medical & IT Director and doctor interaction; While the fully anonymised PRO - a likely collaborator; Practice Fusion Anne’s brother), is complemented with PRO data are collected and investigated (US): EMR focus - general -no specific the company’s strong advisory board. Px’ using advanced data-analytics to improve oncology focus and no PRO; 23andMe (US): technical team consists of Rutger Haagsma, oncology outcomes. As OWise is prescribed Focus on genetic data rather than PRO the longstanding IT-advisor and IT-Architect by physicians, it is the first oncology platform data; Treato (ISR): Search-based focussed and Gerben Kapteijn, a highly experienced connecting patients, physicians and payers on effects reported on websites - no PRO; UX/UID & product designer who also with the clear potential to benefit all 3 groups. PatientsLikeMe (US): PRO, but only on web developed OWise breast cancer. With OWise patients have access to a range and not a great emphasis on cancer; Patient of personalised medical tools to support Reported Outcomes or Personal Health Data them during treatment and to regularly track Electronic Medical Data. & trace their wellbeing and side-effects to treatments. The ability to immediately share their treatment response and side- effects (such as pain and nausea) with their clinicians means that their treatment can be adjusted even in between hospital visits. Px’ main revenues are generated by licensing insights from PRO data regarding treatment effectiveness & outcomes to pharma and insurance companies. SeeQuestor (founded summer 2014) The Solution develops systems to tilt the playing field RPS has developed and patented the only in favour of police and security teams device globally that can accurately and cost Contact Card looking to uncover terrorist networks, effectively screen for concealed threats (e.g. prevent incidents ahead of time, find under a person’s clothes) at large distances (up to 40 metres). SeeQuestor is the world missing persons, track criminals and leader in software solutions for finding and Find us much more by developing and integrating tracking people in video. RPS + SeeQuestor seequestor.com products for vastly improved security means that rather than having a person infrastructure. For a truly smart city. manually ‘point’ the RPS device, you can have Contact multiple (e.g. tens or even hundreds) of RPS SeeQuestor has developed its v 1.0 product, sensors on an automated network. Operating William Addison a post event video analysis and management 24/7. SeeQuestor automatically tells the RPS tool to help police and security professionals devices where to point. Once a person is such as counter terrorism solve crimes and identified as a threat, SeeQuestor can let the save lives by finding people in video data. relevant security Team know and also track And is now raising money to develop a real that person through any CCTV camera, so time product, integrating smart sensors the security services can pinpoint that person from its partner company – Radio physics and deal with the threat before any intended Solutions - (the only solution worldwide) that damage is caused. This can be done cost can detect threats such as suicide vests and effectively. For mass deployment. With no guns, hidden beneath clothing from a distance harm to civilians (the RPS sensor is harmless of 30-40 metres. For a smart, automated to humans). network capable of identifying threats and the persons carrying those threats, so they can be tracked and dealt with ahead of time. Traction & Achievements Delivering the ability to cost effectively and Although nascent companies, SeeQuestor Executive Chairman, CEO, CTO of multiple covertly search for weapons under clothing & RPS are working with major UK police at large distances on e.g. the London forces (including London’s Metropolitan successful high technology companies. One Underground, Heathrow Airport, the High Police), Counter Terrorism Command & the of the pioneers and original patent holders Street or for critical infrastructure. So police Home Office (CAST), the FBI, major US police of speech recognition software. Founder & and security teams are promptly alerted to any forces, the armed forces as well international entrepreneur behind “Speech Machines”, a threat, to act quickly to deter the threat and governments. software company successfully sold to Philips casualties can be avoided. – now doing billions of medical transcriptions Competition a year. Prof Sean Gong. Professor of Visual The Problem None are known. Computation at Queen Mary University (QMU), SeeQuestor is looking to address a number Digital Barriers do stand off threat detection. London. World leader in the visual recognition of major challenges: 1.There are over 1 million But the device is far too large, heavy, of behaviour from video data. Founder QMU’s cctv cameras in London alone. Recording expensive and short range to be networked. Department of Computer Vision in 1993. 24/7. Police body borne cameras are coming To automate sensors you need people Queen’s Research Scientist award & Royal in as standard. Millions of hours of video identification and tracking - very smart video Society Research Fellow (1987/1988). Member analytics. Here SeeQuestor are world leaders. data is available every day. But there is no of the UK Computing Research Committee You also want the ability to find the person solution for fast and effective analysis of this Fariba Hozhabrafkhan. Ex Head of Europe, carrying the threat as they move across data. Security teams are over stretched and Middle East, Russia for Cisco Public Sector. town. SeeQuestor are world leaders in re- only view CCTV in 16% of cases where it is Senior engineer & executive at Thalys, IBM & identification as well across multi cameras in available and potentially useful. SeeQuestor’s Serco. products aim to deliver an order of magnitude vastly different locations. improvement in the productivity of viewers of CCTV. To solve more crimes and save more The Team lives. 2. Unfortunately the threat of a serious Tristram Riley-Smith. Director of Anglo terrorist incident in London is seen as a matter Scientific’s Security & Resilience division. of when not if. And the threat is long term. It (Decades of experience in HMG in senior may – like Paris – come in the form of suicide positions in Security and Counter Terrorism). vests & guns (including easy access, highly Was the UK’s special envoy to Washington affordable 3D printed guns). We have very after 9/11; Champion to RCUK’s Partnership limited capabilities to screen for these threats for Conflict, Crime & Security Research; in everyday soft targets such as crowded Director of Research at Cambridge high streets, train stations, stadiums, airport University’s Department of Politics and terminals, conferences, schools and places International Studies. Henry Hyde-Thomson. of work Chairman of Anglo Scientific. Founder, Sentimoto is a technology- 4 months (Nominet Trust funding) - Started enabled care service provider. social-withdrawal project and trial with Bupa We support older people in and InnovateUK - Expressions of interest Contact Card remaining healthy, independent, from care service providers, insurance and connected to their families companies, and sheltered accommodation and friends, providing a providers. - Closed beta at the end of Find us smartphone-based analysis March - Seeking contracts with care service sentimoto.com providers (channels) platform for data from wearables Contact to address health and lifestyle Alessandro Guazzi risks early. Competition The competitive landscape is dominated by Twitter The Problem the personal emergency response (PERS) @sentimoto Despite a rapidly ageing society, strained market on one end, and quantified-self healthcare and social care budgets, and fitness trackers on the other. The former decreasing healthy life years, current group of competitors is dominated by tech-enabled care services only provide Chubb, Tunstall and Tynetec, who target an responsive systems that appeal to the 80+ older old demographic and could act as market, perpetuating this cycle. Similarly, sales channels for the technology developed. in the public sector concerns have been Of the self-monitoring trackers, FitBit and raised about lack of capacity for increasing Garmin are the main competitors with demand, increasing waiting times, and poor established relationships with insurance patient involvement. Physical inactivity, social companies, but are predominantly interested withdrawal, and disease-mismanagement in the younger adult market. Younger older all contribute to the financial burden of the adults (70-80) may benefit from both these care systems and privates, yet a preventative offerings, and competition in this space has approach could reduce this significantly. only appeared in the last year, with CareMind and GreatCall providing products which are The Solution still closer to either end of the scale. Our Sentimoto is developing a smartphone- USPs are the combination of commercial enabled platform that focuses on prevention wearable technology with traditional as much as emergency response, and that emergency response capabilities and the appeals to a broader demographic. Using development of behavioural analytics. smartphones, off-the-shelf wearables, and proprietary behaviour modelling algorithms, The Team we are creating a solution that is cheaper In addition to the management team, who than current offerings and that can help met while pursuing PhDs in Biomedical users effect their well-being and share key Engineering at Oxford University, Sentimoto information with their circle of care. Uniquely, has also benefited from the company’s the solution incorporates both the physical advisors: Professor Lionel Tarassenko, CBE and social aspects of the user’s behaviour to FREng FMedSci, and Professor Gordon create a complete picture of their health and Wilcock, DM, FRCP, experts in mHealth provide targeted insights. We are partnering engineering and gerontology respectively. with existing care service channels to offer a Alessandro Guazzi (CEO) Background in discreet emergency response system, while machine learning and web design. Holds building the evidence for the adoption of a Masters degree in Physics from Imperial the technology within the intermediate care College London. Maxim Osipov (CTO) market and outcome assessment. Computer Science degree and EMBA in Strategic Marketing. Led development Traction & Achievements teams at Motorola, Siemens and GE. PhD Prizes: - London Wearable Tech Show Best focused on identification of mental disorders Startup - Wolfson Innovate from behavioural information. Lisa Stroux Money Raised: - £84k (grants, prizes, and (UX) Medical design engineer. Worked at accelerators) Milestones - Co-developed and the Helen Hamlyn Centre and World Health tested first application with alpha users over Organization. Simudyne offers a predictive - Enables systems and data to connect performance platform that across departments and infrastructure giving combines human and artificial citywide insight - Allows teams to ‘fail safely’ Contact Card intelligence with big data, - Offers excellent economy of scale empowering leaders to make radically better decisions. Traction & Achievements Find us We have licensed customers; and we’ve simudyne.com The Problem already raised 50% of the latest seed round. It’s tougher than ever to make good We’re building an impressive pipeline of Contact decisions. Leaders have access to prospects. Our recent successes have Mike Morgan unprecedented quantities of information. been built upon a solid foundation of They need to act fast on their feet; break market research and R&D. Our platform Twitter down silos, solve big problems and make was developed out of necessity through @simudyne big decisions. Effective crisis management contracting engagements with tier 1 clients requires the neutralisation of a sudden threat across multiple industries. During that period and the resolution of the consequences. we worked with the European Commission, a Decisions must be made quickly and central bank, and Microsoft on disaster pressure can be intense. Table top and preparedness projects, and achieved $850k live exercises offer a powerful one-time revenue in 2015. After investing £3.5M in the experience, however, it is questionable as to development and testing of the platform, we whether they adequately stress emergency have acquired three customers – Global Oil response systems. In addition, emergency & Gas supermajor; Nobile Agri and Missouri services are unable to optimise evacuation Hospital Association (the latter having routes and patterns given massive quantities deployed a disaster preparedness solution on our platform) which collectively represent of variables and agents. And due to the vast Management Team ~ 30k in platform subscription Monthly number of ‘at risk’ locations it is impossible £ Founder - Justin Lyon Justin is one of the recurring revenue. for officers to train onsite and familiarise world’s foremost experts in computer-based themselves with all sites. simulation and a regular speaker on the Competition application of AI, advanced analytics and We have several competitors, however, The Solution simulation in solving complex problems. Simudyne offers the only solution on the Simudyne can help governments and Justin studied at MIT and has worked in market that can be immediately implemented emergency services minimise suffering software development, strategic consultancy, into a customer’s existing analytics stack to and save lives by taking decisive steps to sales and marketing for 20 years. CEO – Mike produce actionable outcomes. Unlike our be prepared. Our predictive performance Morgan With a firm foundation of sales, competitors, Simudyne offer comprehensive platform, PROVIDENCE, powers the marketing and management experience modelling capabilities incorporating Agent- development of realistic virtual worlds gained over 20 years in some of the Based Modelling; System Dynamics; Discrete and facilitates predictive and prescriptive world’s largest and most successful hi-tech Event; and Statistical modelling. Our ability to analytics by combining human and artificial companies, Mike has spent his last 10 years link multiple modelling paradigms means we intelligence with big data. PROVIDENCE as an award-winning cloud entrepreneur and can create the most realistic environment, takes information from existing data systems. software company CEO and investor. It maps this insight to advanced algorithms providing more detailed, accurate results and and models to create foresight. Findings are predictions. then presented using customisable 2D or 3D visualisation technology. As a situation/ system evolves, simulations can be adapted and enhanced to give more accurate predictions. It aids planning, preparation, collaboration and action. Because these realistic environments are cloud-based, they can be accessed by anyone with an internet connection. Our technology: - Incorporates an intelligent sensor-based system for detecting emergencies and providing targeted information to aid mass evacuation The currency based on Traction & Achievements physical movement. To On track to hit industry’s highest recorded make movement more KPI’s of engagement & retention with beta Contact Card rewarding, the SweatCoin app. Raised over £500k in funding. app immediately converts FitTech Innovation award winner from movement into a currency and LondonSport & MayorOfLondon, with £10k Find us allows it to be spent on goods of funding. sweatco.in & services; simply getting Finalist of InnovateUK Quantified Self Contact people to enjoy and feel contest. Oleg Fomenko motivated moving again. Competition Twitter The Problem SweatCoin is unique in actively targeting @SweatCoin People are moving less and less due to ‘present bias’ as the cause for lack of ‘present bias’ - the human tendency to focus exercise. Bounts, EarthMiles, Fitplx - all on activities that have an immediate effect attempts at incentivising exercise have thus on us and avoiding activities with impact far been ineffective as their offered rewards in the distant future. This is resulting in are useless- a 15% Boots voucher will not walking being perceived as an unnecessary motivate anyone. SweatCoin is the first real exertion of energy, and people being less currency earned from movement, and is and less bothered to walk anywhere - with a proving to actually motivate people to move. corresponding strain on the london transport In terms of wearables, the largest problem network. An illustration of this problem is a wearables like Fitbits have is retention rates- huge number of people queueing to get on a most Fitbits are abandoned within 3 months bus outside of Waterloo station. Considering of purchase. SweatCoin solves this problem the best ebook reader in-cloud service time in that queue and time spent on a bus it by giving users ongoing gratification from for Russia (securing a top 10 place in the is most likely that the total travel time would paying attention to their health. Russian Appstore for a full week) and co- be lower if they walked. founded Boldkit, Mnemonic & The Team NewFork.com. The Solution The SweatCoin team of 7 consists of SweatCoin tackles present bias by experienced entrepreneurs, angel investors converting movement into a currency units, and serial CTOs: OLEG FOMENKO, CEO- and immediately making movement more over 20 years of cumulative managerial psychologically rewarding. You walk to experience top-level executive. Before your next meeting and instantly you can SweatCo, Oleg was founder of bloom. reward yourself with a discount on your fm - which in only 6 years attracted 1.2 next off-peak public transport journey, local million registered users & a £16M valuation. healthy food, the latest tech goods and your ANTON DERLYATKA, COO- over 20 years favourite services all paid with the movement of business experience as an entrepreneur, you just created. On a technical level, our investor and manager. In 2011 founded proprietary movement verification algorithms the first seed fund focusing on Talent/HR & gps signalling allow us to ensure that technology; later he co-founded a NYC only actual steps taken are recognised and early-stage incubator focusing on Talent/ converted into our currency (shaking the HR Tech space. Danil Perushev- CPO has phone will not work). And modern blockchain held CEO/COO positions at 6 companies technology allows us to turn these steps into over 14 years and focusses his creations on a currency that is secure and impossible to technology that can improve people’s lives. fool. Users can then spend this currency in Egor Khmelev- CTO is a veteran front-end our ‘shop’ section on the app on products developer, having held technical director from our partners who value movement roles for the past 6 years and being highly and want to access customers who are skilled in Javascript, HTML, Objective-C & interested in their health. Ruby-on-Rails. 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