7 startups to watch from Seedcamp London’s first Investor Day of 2014

Concept Inbox

Concept Inbox is not, as its name might suggest, another email tool. Instead, it’s an all-in-one tool for designers and other creatives that’s aiming to take the pain out of the design process for clients and designers. Or as Oscar del Rio, CEO of Concept Inbox and 10-year veteran of the design industry put it, “dealing with clients is a pain in the ass”.

“It’s hard to get customers and collaborators to give productive feedback.  You can have meetings all the time, emails, Dropbox and phone calls for tracking progress – and many are using Basecamp because it sucks less than the other ones, but it’s not a real solution for this particular problem because design projects are highly visual. The feedback should be visual, and not just text.”

As such, Concept Inbox provides the ability for designers to create interactive prototypes and get that feedback in real-time in a visual way – which should make it easier on clients too.

There are already more than 10,000 users on the platform and this number is growing 40 percent each month. Creating the first project is free, but after that there are plans ranging from between $14 – $100 per month.

➤ Concept Inbox

Notable mentions

It’s hard to pick favorites, the teams on stage had sound ideas and could mostly demonstrate some sort of early signs of interest or traction with either customers, users or investors. Below are a few notable mentions that didn’t quite make it into the list above.

• Cryptopay – A London-based startup that acts as a payment gateway for Bitcoin transactions. Headed by enthusiasts for the digital currency, the system allows merchants to accept Bitcoins via their websites or in-store. For its role in the transaction, Cryptopay gets one percent of each transaction and has already signed up seven partners in three countries. It’s a crowded space though, with rivals like Coinbase, Bitpay, Coinjar and others, but Cryptopay says it’s the only Bitcoin processing company that’s fully compliant within Europe.
• GoWorkABit – This Estonian startup specializes in providing a way for employers to find short-term at employees at very short notice. Conversely, job hunters can find temporary work with ease. Kei Karlson, founder of GoWorkABit, said that the quickest success to date was filling a vacancy for six people required the following day. It took just three minutes. Again though, recruitment is a crowded and incredibly competitive market, so GWAB will need to scale quickly in order to claim a slice.
• Interact.io – This German startup sits directly at the intersection of enterprise telephony and CRM systems. Essentially, it wants to turn any phone into a sales tool by linking it to its cloud-based real-time analytics platform that provides contextual data around the call by linking to existing CRM systems. Interact.io says it can connect smartphones and office phones alike, and earns revenue by charging subscription fees for different service tiers.

We’ll find out next week exactly how many and which of the 20 teams made it in to Seedcamp London this time around.

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