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91探花 is where decision makers, investors, startups and the companies and businesses powering the UK economy come to find out the latest developments and trends within the industry. As the UK鈥檚 voice of startups, 91探花 is read by industry insiders and experts. We want to celebrate innovation and hard work across all industries, but now is the time for the online marketplaces to shine!

“The Festive period is a great stage for some fabulous companies in the UK to showcase all they are doing as marketplaces. With online retail, e-commerce and online sales spiking around this time of year, there is no better time for 91探花 to shine a light on the companies powering the internet economy. Online marketplaces do so much for so many, offering all nature of products and services – they provide the convenience to those who are short on time and the flexibility to those that may not be able to get out to the shops. 91探花 is always proud to support these companies and startups.”

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Founder: Thibaud Hug de Larauze, Quentin Le Brouster, and Vianney Vaute

Website: https://www.backmarket.co.uk/en-gb

Business: Back Market is the world鈥檚 leading online re-commerce platform, with a mission to rid the world of over-priced and outdated technology.

About Back Market and Thibaud Hug de Larauze, Quentin Le Brouster, and Vianney Vaute

Launched in November 2014 by Thibaud Hug de Larauze, Quentin Le Brouster, and Vianney Vaute, Back Market is the world鈥檚 leading dedicated renewed tech marketplace. The company brings high-quality professionally refurbished electronic devices and appliances to customers in 16 countries.

With 884M鈧� raised already, they connect highly selected professionals to consumers who are looking for a more affordable, reliable and ecological alternative to purchasing brand new products.

The company have been leading the way in a shift towards a circular economy, freeing the planet from electronic waste, and building a leading global tech company.

Back Market’s transparent grading system considers the cosmetic appearance and technical condition of every device on their site. Each device is guaranteed to be 100% functional. Their transparent process that allows customers to choose from three well-defined conditions based on their needs.

All of their refurbishers go through a screening process before being allowed to sell on Back Market. If they pass the screening process, they obtain a ‘Back Label’, allowing them to sell on Back Market’s platform. Back Market also check in on their refurbishers periodically to maintain consistency of quality.

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Founder: Louise Doyle and Steph Scholes

Website: https://needi.co.uk/

Business: Needi is an end to end intelligent gift matching technology that aims to revolutionise your gifting experience.

About Needi and Louise Doyle and Steph Scholes

Needi was born n August 2020. The business started with the team manually gift matching on a Square Space website. Now, Needi uses a psychology-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) to aid with finding the perfect gift every time.

1 in 5 gifts go to landfill, and Needi’s aim is to significantly reduce that number. Their business model is simple: they charge merchants a percentage, and the customer receives the same price as any other website. Needi takes a small commission from its merchants, which is dependent on the amount of money that the merchants make. They also offer their merchants a yearly subscription to Needi.

Needi also makes an effort to select only the best products, and they try to avoid duplicates – for example, if there is already one scarf merchant, they will not add another 50 selling the same thing. This aims to prevent their marketplace from getting cluttered and oversaturated. It works to benefit both customers and merchants.

They also offer business development support, offering 360 degree support to their merchants.

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Founder: Cas Paton

Website: https://www.onbuy.com/gb/

Business: OnBuy is a UK online marketplace that platforms thousands of online retailers.

About OnBuy and Cas Paton

OnBuy is the fourth largest online marketplace in the UK. From small specialist outlets to major household names, an ever-increasing number of retailers are moving to sell their products on OnBuy.

OnBuy launched in November 2016 and are now the fastest-growing marketplace in the world. They saw what other major marketplaces offered and sought to create a fairer, more transparent marketplace. Their goal is to offer all the same advantages as the leading marketplaces but in a way that is fairer to buyers and sellers.

The business does not compete with its sellers by selling anything theirselves. They connect buyers like with thousands of professional business sellers (and vice versa) and allow their customers to make secure purchases, having recently partnered with PayPal.

Since their launch, OnBuy have welcomed sellers of all sizes on board, from huge brands to smaller independent retailers. By making a fairer platform for sellers, merchants are able to offer offer customers a wider product range than other marketplaces. Due to OnBuy’s competitive fees, merchants can price better too.

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Founder: Noam Yaffe

Website: https://www.renewafi.com/

Business: RenewaFi is a marketplace for Wholesale Renewable Energy

About RenewaFi and Noam Yaffe

RenewaFi is a New York-based climate tech startup that allows companies buy and sell renewable energy. Their business is a two-sided digital marketplace for renewable energy that enables buyers to evaluate deals in minutes. RenewaFi鈥檚 scalable technology mitigates risk and increases transparency by replacing the old-fashioned contracting process.

Founder Noam Yaffe worked on the sell-side for a power plant developer in Austin. Power Purchasing Agreements (PPAs) would take months to close, he found. This lengthy process would lead the construction of new plants, and the fees involved would run upwards of $2 million on top of the contract costs.

Noam’s goal was to move the market for renewable online. RenewaFi allows buyers to submit their projects. Sellers then bid, and the buyers are able to choose which proposal best suits them.

This is an exciting alternative to the current system. Buyers no longer need to pay fees and work with expensive outside firms to secure a PPA. Noam says that the fee from each PPA that RenewaFi takes is minimal compared to those of other firms.

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Founder: Mursal Hedayat and Guillemette Dejean

Website: https://www.chatterbox.io/

Business: Chatterbox is a corporate language training powered by marginalised talent

About Chatterbox and Mursal Hedayat and Guillemette Dejean

Chatterbox builds technology that brings innovative companies closer to diverse pools of talent. Chatterbox is on a mission to shake things up in the labour market.

They’re helping the growing numbers of marginalised professionals find opportunities in the online economy, whilst at the same time helping global brands build the diverse globally distributed teams that will lead to post-pandemic success.

Their first product is an AI-powered, multi-award winning online language learning platform that employs marginalised people in need of work to teach their native languages.

Businesses use their proprietary technology, enhanced by live inspiring human coaching, to drive faster success in their learning programmes. This startup has sparked interest from the likes of the Guardian and the BBC as a social innovation capable of radically and permanently tipping the scales towards a more just global economy.

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Founder: Warren Barthes

Website: https://thecobblers.com/

Business: The Cobblers is a pioneering fashion-tech startup at the crossroads of Luxury, Streetwear, Technology, and e-Commerce.

About The Cobblers and Warren Barthes

The Cobblers is a pioneering fashion-tech startup at the crossroads of Luxury, Streetwear, Technology, and e-Commerce. Founded in Miami, the 鈥淪ilicon Valley鈥� of the east coast, they set out to revolutionise the luxury items Resale and Restoration industry by onboarding highly skilled Artisans onto a one-of-a-kind online marketplace and data analytics platform.

The business itself is a 鈥榮hoe rescue鈥�, fostering a symbiotic marketplace where select sneakers may be authenticated, restored, and given new life, either with their original owner, a resale buyer, or through a secondary vendor-dealer.

The Cobblers aims to give rise to a new cultural movement, pioneering the upcycling approach. Their innovative restoration and fast approaching trade-in offerings enables customers to keep shoes and handbags in use for as long as possible.

The business aims to extract the maximum value from leather goods while they are fit to be used, as well as to recover and regenerate their value at the end of their lifecycle.

Today, their Artisans restore thousands of luxury items every month. They offer expert cleaning, repair, restoration, and customisation services for premium sneakers and high-quality leather goods. Customers can send in women’s and men’s shoes, handbags, and leather garments.

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Founder: Aayush Phumbhra, Josh Carlson, Osman Rashid

Website: https://www.chegg.com/

Business: As the leading student-first connected learning platform, Chegg’s Student Hub makes higher education more affordable and more accessible, all while improving student outcomes.

About Chegg and Aayush Phumbhra, Josh Carlson, Osman Rashid

Chegg is an American education technology marketplace based in Santa Clara, California. It provides homework help, digital and physical textbook rentals, textbooks, tutoring, and other student services.

Since its launch in 2005, Chegg have reached 2.9 million subscribers to Chegg Services. Chegg was founded in 2000 by students Josh Carlson, Mike Seager, and Mark Fiddleke as a, a Craigslist-style message board for Iowa State students.

The name comes from the term “chicken and egg” from the phrase “what came first, the chicken or the egg?” This referred to the founders’ experience not being able to get a job without experience but also not being able to get experience without a job.

In June 2021, Chegg unveiled Uversity, a new educational platform for professors and other educators to share content. In the same year, they launched Global Student Prize in partnership with Varkey Foundation. This prize aims to recognise outstanding students that make an impact to local or international communities.

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Founder: Lana Elie

Website: https://www.floom.com/

Business: Floom is an online marketplace connecting florists with customers.

About Floom and Lana Elie

The UK is home to a huge number of independent florists whose businesses were being overshadowed by subpar, mass-produced offerings that saturated the market.聽Floom founder Lana aimed to change that using her online floristry marketplace, Floom, which gives independent florists a platform and a fair cut of their earnings.

When Lana was an executive PA, she became frustrated by how hard it was to find flowers online that were both convenient and beautifully arranged. This is how the idea for Floom first came to her.

She and her team launched Floom in February 2016, and the to bring bouquets to people using their online marketplace.

The site has partnered with florists across London, Liverpool, Brighton and Kent. These independent florists get to keep 80 per cent of the headline price on the website. The core team at Floom are based in central London.

The company operates in the UK and the US, and it allows customers to connect with independent florists online. They handpick every florist they work with, and the platform hosts around 250,000 customers. These customers range from people wanting flowers for personal gifting to events companies looking for high-quality floral arrangements.

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Founders: Eren Ozagir

Website: https://www.pushdoctor.co.uk/

Business: Push Doctor provide tools to help clinicians, patients & healthcare leaders achieve their goals.

About Push Doctor and Eren Ozagir

Push Doctor opens a doorway to a different NHS. They work in partnership with the NHS to serve more than 5.8 million patients across the UK, helping them access healthcare quickly and easily via video appointments using smartphones and computers. They do this with a relentless focus on safety and high-quality clinical outcomes for patients.

Their technology helps surgeries manage demand, matching patients with the right clinician at the right time. This takes the burden off GPs and frees up their time to see patients who really need face-to-face care. They also offer a private service for those patients who want it.

Push Doctor are the longest standing digital partner to the NHS and the only platform that can fully integrate across all NHS platforms and services. They are trusted as the leading expert in enabling remote consultations and are rated 鈥榞ood鈥� by the Care Quality Commission.

In 2018, founder Eren Ozagir stepped down from his role as chief operating officer (COO). Wais Shaifta assumed the role of acting CEO that July.

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