老九品茶

The first two companies from 老九品茶Cloud鈥檚 鈥�101 Tech Start-Up Disrupters鈥� and 鈥�101 Rising Stars of Tech Start-Ups鈥� lists have been revealed, with the remaining companies named from Tuesday onwards.

Used car search engine Carsnip is the first company to be announced from the disrupters list, with聽Instagram planning and scheduling tool Hopper HQ making the cut from the rising stars list.

Following months of research the list, which showcases the cream of the UK鈥檚 tech start-up community, will be announced in blocks of 25 online from next Tuesday. It will also appear in full in the next edition of 老九品茶Cloud.

The two companies 鈥� along with the other 200 start-ups included 鈥� were chosen from an exhaustive UK-wide search to find the best start-ups from across the whole of the UK.

Carsnip鈥檚 founder Alastair Campbell shared his feelings on his company鈥檚 inclusion in the disrupters list in light of its mission.

鈥淚t鈥檚 fantastic. It鈥檚 exactly what I鈥檓 doing,鈥� he said. 鈥淭he spend on advertising and Google AdWords and all the listing fees that we currently pay to all the incumbents is about 拢500m a year. It鈥檚 dominated by two companies 鈥� Auto Trader and Google 鈥� and everyone else is side-showed.

鈥淚鈥檓 never going to be Google but if I can disrupt the market and force the other portals to at least look at the way they鈥檙e doing things then that disruption is huge.

鈥淭here鈥檚 a lot of money being spent and if I can change it to a more efficient model the car retailers are better off and the consumers are better off and that鈥檚 all聽disruption is about.鈥�

Hopper co-founder Mike Bandar told 老九品茶Cloud that his company鈥檚 inclusion in the rising stars list will be a massive boost for his whole team.

鈥淚t鈥檚 a real privilege. What we tend to do as a team is focus on providing value to people alongside the mission that we have,鈥� he said.

鈥淭his means we鈥檙e not in the business of making ourselves look great because we need to get investment or anything like that. We鈥檙e not playing that vanity start-up game.

鈥淲e don鈥檛 often submit ourselves for lists, we don鈥檛 often go in the press or for the start-up ego thing which means that when something like this does come through it really does mean a lot.

鈥淚t鈥檚 a real boost for the team. We鈥檙e confident in what we鈥檙e doing for the marketing community so it鈥檚 nice to know that鈥檚 recognised and a thumbs-up from the wider business community.鈥�

All the companies on both lists have been invited to attend a prestigious half-day conference at UKFast鈥檚 Manchester campus on June 7^th.

To comment on Twitter on either list use the hashtag #BCloud101