Introducing Ignite #10

Today we begin the 10th Ignite Accelerator in our new London HQ. Over the next 12 weeks we’ll be working with the teams below to build out their proposition, grow their user base, grow their revenue and increase their skills as founders both in business and technology.

Over the 12 week period we’ll be publishing chats with the teams to give you more of an insight into who they are and what they’re doing, but for now, please meet the teams of Ignite #10!

Greenseed

Greenseed is a social app to connect people to others around them who are interested in growing food and plants, and sharing with each other. With the platform you can see who and what is growing around you, ask questions and get direct feedback from your community, swap and trade produce/seeds/tools, and more.

Web: http://greenseedapp.com
Twitter: @GreenseedHQ

Messly

Messly is a service for doctors, empowering them to make better choices about their careers. They have taken the best bits of the traditional ‘doctors mess’ online to provide the best training and recruitment services to doctors.

Web: http://www.messly.co.uk
Twitter: @Messly_UK

GoWaft

Moving? Need to deliver heavy items? Need on-demand delivery solutions for large items? GoWaft is a revolutionary way to move heavy items around the city, connecting drivers with apps to consumers and businesses. They offer tailor made logistic services for individuals and businesses through their on demand tech platform.

Web: https://gowaft.co.uk
Twitter: @GoWaftUK

Caper

Caper delivers top quality groceries from some of London’s best loved retailers, in under 60 minutes. Their partners to date include some of the city’s most reputable delis, grocers and artisans, including Partridges, Sourced Market, Jeroboams and Rippon Cheese. Caper encompasses both a consumer and retailer app, as well as a back-end database and admin system.

Web: http://www.getcaper.com
Twitter: @ShopWithCaper

Shindo

They empower marketplace investors by providing a single place for marketplace lending and portfolio management, including automated investing and robo advisement. This highly technical and domain experienced team aggregate many services through to one complete platform for P2P investment management.

Web: https://shindo.io
Twitter: @ShindoPlatform

AskTina

A new personal, virtual assistant that helps entrepreneurs to grow their business, whilst saving time for what matters. Plugging into a multitude of communication apps such as Slack, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and even SMS, tasks are initially handled by a pre-existing team of outsourced assistants but all requests and responses are monitored and processed by machine learning algorithms that over time will reduce the dependency on ‘people’ and return results to individuals by teaching itself about the correct answers to common and repetitive tasks.

Web: https://asktina.io
Twitter: @asktinaio

Yonder

Yonder is a travel search engine which prioritises price, not destination. Their platform shows the cheapest destinations, on the day you want to get away, from the place you want to get away from. This allows users to travel more often, more cheaply and to more interesting destinations.

Web: https://yonder.cm
Twitter: @TheYonderApp

Deemtree

Deemtree is voucher software which connects consumers with awesome local businesses. With an Eventbrite-style approach to vouchers, Deemtree provides software for businesses to generate, manage and distribute their own digital/physical vouchers and coupons.

Web: http://www.deemtree.com
Twitter: @Deemtree

The Booking Factory

The hotel management and marketing automation platform for independent hotels. Founded by two incredibly experienced hospitality professionals to meet the needs of independent hotels moving to a completely digital management solution. Already in use by 30+ hotels with a pipeline of many more this team were recently selected by Google Campus for a week of intensive mentoring and support.

Web: http://thebookingfactory.com
Twitter: @Booking_Factory

Stashbee

Stashbee is a community marketplace where people can book secure storage space in the homes, lofts and garages of trusted Storage Hosts nearby. Their hosts are background checked, they inspect the storage locations, and also provide damage cover for your items. Starting at £1.49 per box per week they match you with hosts local to you so you don’t even have to carry/drive/scoot it very far.

Web: http://www.stashbee.com
Twitter: @stashbee

This is a really exciting cohort, many of whom are up and running so you can use their services now — I’m sure they would appreciate your feedback.

If you’re interested in joining us for the showcase at the end of this programme, it will be held on the morning of December 14th in London. Sign up to our mailing list to get more information.

Right. Let’s do this.