In a sweaty palmed meeting, Jackpocket CEO Peter Sullivan broke the news to his staff that a major investor had backed out and funds had dried up. Their response, he says, startled him. “So what?” his staff replied. “We’re gonna stick this out.” This was two years ago, when the WeWork Soho member learned of […]

What To Know About Archibald Optics Your “Made in Italy” designer glasses may not actually be from Italy. That’s what Rohan Dhir, founder of London-based Archibald Optics, discovered while he was traveling the world to research how to launch his line of high-end eyewear. “In Italy I saw boxes of brand-name eyewear shipped in from […]

Imagine feeling the tension in a World Cup stadium as the ball ricochets off a goalie’s fingers, or hearing the deep breath of an Olympic skier about to leap onto the slopes. Stefan Birrer wants to deliver these thrills to everyone. “If you have the technology that solves the issue of real time, you can […]

Growing up in the Argentinian city of Rosario, Leticia Bordoni always dreamed of living abroad. But she never imagined moving to Amsterdam to set up her business. “When you do something you really like and it comes from the heart, people sense that,” says Bordoni, founder of the online shop Pura Patria. The WeWork Weteringschans […]

Binit Tejani wants you to know that he makes a “mean veggie biryani.” That comes as a bit of a surprise from the senior data strategist at Quantmetry, a company where you expect the staff to be crunching numbers day and night. A “simple but powerful ethos” drives Quantmetry. It takes the mountains of information that […]

Yoga instructor Rachel Brathen says she receives hundreds of emails every day asking her advice. So it was a no brainer for her and business partner Michael Baiocchi to launch a Kickstarter campaign for oneOeight, their upcoming website that will be packed with hundreds of videos about living a healthy lifestyle. The campaign kicked off […]