TechStars London Demo Day 2014: Meet The 11 Startups (And Our Picks) –

▤ Summary

Shortcut is founded by Richard Howard and Buford Taylor, respectively Uber’s first-ever employee in London who helped build the company out here, and the third engineer of Eventbrite, a track record speaks to logistical and back-end events experience. There are a bunch of other startups coming at the problem of speeding up queues and automating pick up of products from different angels, e.g. Square Order for cafes and restaurants and Tapingo focusing specifically on students at college campuses. So far, there are some promising signs with places like London’s Everyman cinema chain, the Oval Cricket Ground and others all using the product, amounting to some 2 million attendees across 100,000 events in the next year. By tying you to people in your local vicinity, Smile Mom, available both on iOS and via Google Play, lets you build a community that you can carry out of the virtual world and into real life, from real-time advice (and sympathy!) In the UK, there are of course dozens of forums online like Netmums that offer help as well but having this based around your community, and the subsequent potential of taking those relationships offline, is a very appealing idea.

▦ Linked Companies

Lingvist Technologies OÜ

$1M to $5M