Luxury is no longer about the monetary value of goods or services. Luxury is being redefined as quality products or services that generate the most benefit to all involved in its production and trade. Positive Luxury is a startup that awards the Blue Butterfly Mark of Positive Living to brands that are making considerable efforts…

STELLAService is dedicated to customer service – helping consumers find it and helping businesses achieve it. They are the first and only independent provider of customer service ratings for online retailers. How does STELLAService collect this data? They go shopping every day. Through a process audited by global accounting and auditing firm KPMG, STELLAService analysts…

Need a cab on a rainy night and don’t want to wander out into the street? Just pull up Hailo and in two taps, you’ll have a driver on the way. Hailo is “the evolution of the hail” – a free smartphone app that connects passengers with licensed taxis. With over 30,000 global drivers, 5…

Based on a simple premise, Just Opened London features the best of London’s newest offerings across the lifestyle spectrum. Ranging from bars, restaurants and hotels to fashion launches and cultural events, Just Opened London provides the social currency of ‘what’s new’ that so many people crave. The site offers listings and detailed information of the…

It’s still chilly as ever in London, so I’ve been warming myself up with stories of banana pancakes in Bali and poolside parties in Miami on the cleverly named website Triptease, which offers a new take on travel reviews that are beautiful, image-led and designed for sharing. Triptease founder and Chief Tease, Charlie Osmond said, ‘We believe in…

Based in Shoreditch, Makeshift is a new kind of company that sits somewhere between a startup accelerator and a product design studio that invents, incubates, invests in and launches digital products that ‘give a leg up to the little guy’. Structured in a triangle of business, technology and design, the founders Paul Birch, Stef Lewandowski and Nick Marsh have collectively helped to…

If you make money in euros and spend it in pounds (or the other way around) you’ll know banks can charge an arm and a leg for foreign money transfers – even when they claim there are ‘no fees’. Enter: TransferWise, a peer-to-peer international money transfer business that has transfered over £50m since it started…

YPlan is serendipity at its finest: Londoners can finally book and go to the night’s best events in two taps. Brought to you by a dedicated team of experts with unrivalled experience at Time Out, toptable, GetTaxi, Songkick and Airbnb, YPlan is a new app that puts London in the palm of your hand. With…