The Vine Resources Podcast Show

Oval is a platform designed to tackle the global issue of financial literacy by empowering people to be wiser about their money. Oval helps users save quickly and effectively, by teaching them to monitor spending habits and by making savings automatic. The app also leverages a community experience to make saving more dynamic. They have consulted the brightest minds in personal finance and behavioural economics to develop the artificial intelligence that guides users to better spending and to making regular contributions to their secure digital savings account. With no hidden fees and robust privacy controls, Oval brings trust back into personal finance and opens it to everyone. Oval was launched in 2016, and is based in London, UK and Turin, Italy. The team is committed to driving education, fairness, and financial inclusion in the industry. Learn more at http://www.ovalmoney.com

We spoke with Benedetta Arese Lucini one of the co-Founders and CEO of this company. Enjoy!

Giacom is a long-established IT service provider working with top vendors across the globe to deliver the biggest and best cloud solutions. Their dedicated partner channel, the Giacom Cloud Market, is customer-driven to reflect their easy on, easy off approach to all cloud services.

Their most popular services include Signature Hosted Exchange, Office 365, Acronis Backup Cloud, Bitdefender and Hosted Voice. The Giacom team work tirelessly to ensure their partners'​ experience is an outstanding one. From the first sales enquiry and the on-boarding of clients to the on-going support received many years on, their goal is to consistently offer value-driven cloud services, and maintain strong and profitable relationships built on confidence and trust.

As a UK Cloud Services Distributor, they believe in keeping things clear and simple with less jargon and a greater understanding of products tailored to SMBs. They make things easy for their IT resellers, becoming the lifeline they need, the connecting bridge to industry-leading vendors and attractively priced licenses. When resellers partner with Giacom, they connect with the largest Microsoft CSP distributor in Europe with one of the UK’s best cloud marketplaces and a unique billing system.

We had the pleasure to have a chat with the CEO of Giacom Mike Wardell.

Quiqup is changing the way goods move around the city.

They’re creating the next generation of delivery solutions to suit shoppers’ ever-increasing demands.
 They offer on demand, same day and scheduled deliveries businesses can control, a fleet of couriers anyone can tap into and a platform to help manage and automate deliveries.

They also work with large businesses to design custom logistics solutions, using our modular tech and operations to create services built with business needs in mind. In short, they're reinventing the last-mile - for better business, better living and better cities.

We interviewed the Co-Founder and CEO of this company, Bassel El Koussa.

To grow the market and connect meaningfully with customers requires going beyond a simple, digital customer journey. Evolve the customer experience with a platform that educates, supports and rewards users at every stage of their life journey.

Whether you're at the beginning of your digital transformation or you already have a modern fully digital technology stack, Life.io is purpose-built to take your engagement to the next level. With a modular, platform-agnostic technical architecture, Life.io can overlay your existing technology or serve as your end-to-end digital front-office in a single, unified platform.

We spoke with the Co-Founder and CEO of Life.io Jon Cooper

It’s time for a new type of bank.

One that steps up, does the right thing by its customers and puts them first. At 86 400, they exist to serve their customers honestly. To give them a smarter, more personalised banking experience.

They’ll do things in real time, to bring real value to their lives. And they’ll do this every second, of every minute, of every day.

We spoke with their CEO, Robert Bell.

Their goal is to reduce the chance of collisions and to make the road safer for everyone.

Like a school of fish or a flock of birds, we want to get every car on the road moving safely and smoothly together. Using a Nexar-powered dash cam, AI and inter-vehicle networking, Nexar makes every car a smart car and is building the world’s first safe driving network.

We talked with Eran Shir, co-Founder and CEO of Nexar.

MediaCom.

They unlock growth through media with a team of 8,000 people in 125 offices in 100 markets.

Their success is underpinned by our belief “People First, Better Results” that if they invest in our people, they’ll deliver better results not only for their teams but for their clients.

Their global client roster includes adidas, Coca-Cola (TCCC), Dell, Mars, NBC Universal, P&G, PSA, Richemont, Shell and Sony.

In 2018, they became the first network to hold all six major Media Network of the Year titles concurrently: Adweek, Campaign, Cannes Lions, Festival of Media Global, M&M Global and WARC Media 100.

We had the pleasure to talk with their CTO, Sue Unerman.

To find out more about MediaCom visit: www.mediacom.com

Currencycloud is a global payments platform built on smart technology that takes the complexity out of moving money. Developers use their API building blocks to build customized payment solutions. Whether you want to embed their payments infrastructure into your products or services, or build on top of it, they’ll fit into your business in a way that works for you.

They take care of all the intricacies and regulatory hurdles involved with cross-border payments, giving you the tools to globalize your business.

Starting a small business is hard. Getting insurance for that small business makes it even harder: it takes forever, the process is antiquated, and the wrong decision can be disastrous. Attune is changing small business insurance in a big way. At the forefront of the insuretech industry, Attune is completely reinventing how small businesses access insurance. Their sophisticated platform aggregates the necessary data from different sources, and then uses incredibly advanced analytics to create tailored products that can be delivered in mere minutes, not days or weeks.

We spoke with their CEO James Hobson who shared lots of great and interesting insights. Enjoy!

Wrisk is on a mission to change the way people think about and buy insurance. They see the need for insurance to be connected to our lives, devices and to treat us as individuals. Their aim is to make getting insurance as easy as possible, for as many as possible. Which is why they’ve designed Wrisk from the ground up – to deliver cover that’s simple and personal to you. All in single app. Founded in 2016, during the first year has been anything short of busy: they secured super-seed funding, completed a successful crowdfunding round, gained their UK regulatory license from the FCA, have been underwritten by Munich Re and forged partnerships with the likes of BMW and Hiscox. They are now live in the app store with packed roadmap ahead of them. We spoke with the Execuitve Chairman Niall Barton. Hope you'll enjoy it!