Boil your proposition down
Q: What have been your key milestones since winning DSU in 2015?
- Won a place at the Wayra accelerator and spent a year there
- Renamed the company to DevicePilot
- Raised £1.2m in Angel funding
- Won “Best Software Innovation” at ARM TechCon
- Built and launched DevicePilot as a commercial product
- First paying customers!
Q: If you could offer one tip for startups pitching at this years competition, what would it be?
A: Boil your proposition down to a single memorable sentence
Q: Casting your minds back to the competition, would you say the competition provided you with new, valuable contacts? If so, can you tell us who & why?
A: Yes: At the competition we met Gary Stewart the Director of Wayra UK, which led to us being accepted into that accelerator programme
Q: Are you working on any new project launches that you can tell us about?
A: We are about to launch DevicePilot as a fully Marketplace partner of Amazon AWS-IoT
Q: How many staff did you have working for you in 2014 and how many do you have now?
A: 5 then, 7 now
Q: Sum up working in a startup in one word
A: Fun!
The 8th Discovering Startups Competition is taking place on Monday 23rd October at Deloitte in London. If you’re a start-up, early stage company or entrepreneur working in the field of technology, make you apply by 22nd September 2017! Submit your application via the CW website, here.
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