Where Are They Now: CivTech success stories
It’s hard to believe that we have already launched CivTech Round 9 - have we really only been going since 2016?
We thought now would be a good time to update you on the impact some of the companies who’ve engaged with the Accelerator have made over the past 12 months.
CivTech 3’s Voxsio, which has developed an AI drive app called Allichat to engage young people in conversations about their Mental Health, is taking the learnings, evidence, and experience of the past few years and is working towards becoming an officially recognised medical device.
CEO and founder of another CivTech 3 company The Future Fox, Annette Jezierska, picked up the award for Futurist Trailblazer of the Year at the UKREiiF awards 2023!
Next, there’s Homelink.
Their CivTech 3 Challenge, set by Stirling Council, was, ‘How can technology help us improve services by better understanding investment requirements for our public buildings?’ Their solution was to develop a system that brought together information from all the existing smart connectivity technologies into one device and backed all that information up on a cloud.
Since then Homelink has been bought by life safety company, Aico, and continues to develop its tech. They now work with around 600 landlords which is representative of 25% of all UK social housing landlords and expect to have installed around 1 million of their devices by 2024. You can read more about them here.
Novoville, a CivTech 4 & 7 company, created an app to help owners of shared properties stay on track with building repairs. The app was successfully rolled out in Edinburgh, helping more than 500 tenements with nearly 5,000 properties across Edinburgh in carrying out £700,000 worth of much needed repairs to improve their buildings. The app has been so popular that Perth & Kinross and East Ayrshire Councils have announced they are launching it as well.
Novoville present on stage at CivTech 7 Demo Day
Another CivTech 4 business, Trickle, announced a new partnership with CGI to help Health and Care organisations improve employee experience through their engagement and wellbeing tool. The deal will give these organisations richer insight into what matters most to their teams, helping them to retain and attract talent.
Amiqus, also part of the CivTech 4 cohort, was recognised as the fastest growing tech business in Scotland in the 2022 Deloitte UK Technology #Fast50 rankings. The company is developing software solutions for anti-money laundering, identity, and compliance checks.
The Routing Company, a CivTech 5 company, was accepted as an official supplier on G-Cloud 13, the United Kingdom’s Crown Commercial Service platform that oversees £3 billion in annual purchases.
EOLAS made a splash in the news with their work on elephant conservation in Southern Mozambique. With funding from the European Space Agency, EOLAS, who were part of CivTech 5, is using artificial intelligence and high-resolution satellite imagery to detect elephants roaming across vast areas of a national park in Southern Mozambique. This innovative approach could vastly
improve the monitoring of threatened elephant populations across a wide range of habitats.
Finally CivTech 6 company, Care Reality, has embarked on a ground-breaking partnership with HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) to explore how they can support prisoners' by improving their confidence and job interview skills, helping them to secure employment upon release.
So, as you can see, getting involved with the CivTech Accelerator really can be transformative for your business. All you need to do is keep an eye out for our next set of Challenges (launching Spring 2024) to get involved.