The Acceleration Group

Wise provides a core money transfer product, along with a borderless account for its audience of ex-pats, freelancers, and travelers, which holds over £2 billion in current deposits. The company features like automated identification verification, online and in-app technical assistance, and estimations of when money transfers will arrive, products and services that meet the needs of clients. Wise was established in 2011 by Kristo Kaarmann and Taavet Hinrikus in London, England.

Riskified empowers businesses to realize the full potential of eCommerce by making it safe, accessible, and frictionless. We have built a next-generation platform that allows online merchants to create trusted relationships with their consumers. Leveraging machine learning that benefits from a global merchant network, our platform identifies the individual behind each online interaction, helping merchants—our customers—eliminate risk and uncertainty from their business. We drive higher sales and reduce fraud and other operating costs for our merchants and provide superior consumer experiences, as compared to our merchants’ performance prior to onboarding us.

Adzuna is a search engine for jobs ads used by over 10 million visitors per month that aims to list every job, everywhere. It searches thousands of websites so users don’t have to, bringing together millions of ads in one place. By providing smarter search options and powerful data about the job market, as well as unique tools like ValueMyCV, Adzuna gives jobseekers the information they need to take control of their careers. Adzuna’s data also powers the Number 10 Dashboard, used by the Prime Minister and senior officials to keep track of economic growth on a daily basis. Adzuna launched in the UK in July 2011 and now operates in 11 countries. It has a great team, top class investors, recently won an award for best crowdfunding round of the year, and have been recognized as one of the government’s Future Fifty and Sunday Times Tech Track 100 fastest-growing tech companies in Britain. Adzuna’s mission is to be the best place to start looking for a job. It loves using the awesome power of technology to help match people to better, more fulfilling jobs and keep Britain working.

By making customer feedback more meaningful, UserVoice provides Product Feedback Management software that enables businesses to make data-driven product decisions and prioritize feature requests. Feedback collection, product roadmap prioritization, feedback management and moderation, communication tools, net promoter score, support ticketing, knowledge base, and advanced reporting are among its product management software capabilities. UserVoice, founded in 2008, is a bicoastal company with headquarters in San Francisco and an office in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Skimlinks is the leading commerce content monetization platform, supporting publishers’ creation of a new revenue stream that allows them to be less dependent on advertising. Commerce can contribute as much as a quarter of publishers’ overall revenue. Skimlinks technology automatically earns publishers a share of sales they drive through monetized product links in commerce-related content. These links generate revenue when clicked on by readers who go on to make a purchase as a result. In its platform, Skimlinks offers a growing suite of innovative solutions designed to increase the number of clicks and earnings per click of commerce-related content. It also aggregates access for publishers to over 60 affiliate networks, enabling them to earn commission from 27,000 merchants around the world instantly. Annual ecommerce transactions in Skimlinks’ network totalled $1 billion in 2017. Clients include over half of the top 100 US & UK publishers by revenue including Conde Nast, Hearst, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, Trinity Mirror, MailOnline, and more.

Bitly is a link management platform that helps brands deliver and measure their marketing efforts across all channels. Through branded bitlinks, mobile deep linking, and omnichannel campaign tracking, the platform offers a complete marketing solution to drive customer experiences. Using HTTP 301 redirects for its links, companies can use their own custom domains to generate shortened links. This allows the company to push brand awareness on services such as Twitter but use the Bitly engine to generate the shortened URLs and track marketing metrics. Bitly was launched in July 2008 and is based in New York, United States with additional offices in San Francisco and Denver.

TweetDeck is a Twitter client for desktop, web, and mobile devices. TweetDeck was originally an Adobe Air desktop application, designed with a unique columned user interface. Its goal was to be a realtime application that allowed users to monitor that information in a single concise view. TweetDeck integrated services from Twitter, Twitscoop, 12seconds, Stocktwits, and Facebook. In 2011, [Twitter acquired TweetDeck](http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/02/twitter-to-buy-tweetdeck-for-40-million-50-million/) and rebuilt the application in HTML5.

Mashery is the world's leading provider of API technology and services. We have helped over 175 top brands—including USA TODAY, Comcast, Hoover's, Klout, Associated Press, Rdio, and Travelocity—take advantage of APIs to build new revenue channels, speed time-to-market, and spur innovation. Mashery's unique, holistic approach to API management encompasses working with clients to craft profitable platform strategies, ensuring fast, reliable API access, and facilitating relationships with our network of developers. Since Mashery was founded in 2006, we have built a global API delivery network that supports 60,000 active apps built by over 200,000 developers. In May 2013, we officially became a part of Intel Corporation.

Dopplr is an online service that lets frequent travelers share future travel plans with friends and colleagues. It also reminds you of friends and colleagues who live in the cities you're planning to visit. The name "Dopplr" comes from Christian Doppler, a 19th Century scientist who came up with what's now known as the Doppler effect. The company claims that Dopplr's users have already shared 110 million kilometers (70 million miles) of trips to over 2000 cities around the world.

Songkick is a ticketing vendor and online database of concerts for music enthusiasts. It offers concert discovery services for its users. Songkick provides services partnered with more than 500 artists, used by over 10 million monthly fans, and ticketing over 10,000 events worldwide each year. It was launched in 2007 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Founded in 2007, London-based Kindo is an internationally-focused web-based family networking platform that spans generations. On Kindo users can build their free next generation family tree and stay in touch with their loved ones. Kindo is available in 14 different languages with Arabic, Chinese, Turkish and Russian being exotic examples. The company is funded by high-profile business angels and venture capitalists, including Saul and Robin Klein from The Accelerator Group (TAG), Stefan Glaenzer (last.fm, myblog.de, ricardo.de) and Ambient Sound Investments (ASI), the investment company of Skype's founding engineers.

MyBuilder is an online marketplace that brings together consumers, builders and tradesmen, offering an open and transparent platform that promotes and supports high-quality work. Posting a job on the site is free, and there is no cost for builders and tradesmen to join - it operates by charging a small fee to a builder or tradesman only once a quote has been accepted by the homeowner. Working on a principle of accountability through feedback, tradesmen are rated on their workmanship by those who hire them, making it easier to find high quality builders and for builders to find good quality jobs. MyBuilder participated in [Seedcamp](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/seedcamp) 2007.

Amee’s mission is to provide credible environmental data on every organisation in the world, starting with 2.7 million in the UK. They believe that providing free access to this information will enable businesses, governments and consumers to make better decisions about the use of our planet’s resources. Open access to information has long been a key driver of innovation and prosperity. The Internet has accelerated this trend by improving the flow of information and catalysing networks for collaboration. amee leverages these forces to improve sustainability by creating a unique and open network where every organisation can update, compare and share environmental data for free. They are confident that organisations which use this information will become more efficient, responsible, and resilient.

Dopplr is an online service that lets frequent travelers share future travel plans with friends and colleagues. It also reminds you of friends and colleagues who live in the cities you're planning to visit. The name "Dopplr" comes from Christian Doppler, a 19th Century scientist who came up with what's now known as the Doppler effect. The company claims that Dopplr's users have already shared 110 million kilometers (70 million miles) of trips to over 2000 cities around the world.