Accelerating Location and Property Innovation at Geovation

在2015年夏天开设了首家前提后,Geovation has grown to support a community of more than 1,200 entrepreneurs, investors, developers, academics, students and corporate innovators. It is now based at Geovation’s Hub in Clerkenwell, London. Geovation is dedicated to supporting open innovation and collaboration using location and property data. The Land Registry is now also a partner. Location is at the heart of many of the most successful digital products and services. Land and property are the foundation of the national economy.

Community membership ofGeovation向使用位置或属性数据工作的个人开放，并且是免费的。启动会员资格也是免费的，并向新的和早期的企业开放，最多有两个团队成员。中小企业会员资格开放，最多三名团队成员的成立企业开放。由军械调查和HM土地注册表共同交付和资助的Geovation Accelerator计划为初创企业提供资金，数据和办公空间支持，自2015年推出以来，它已经取得了稳定的成功。84家初创公司已经消失了通过该计划，创造了200多个就业机会，并筹集了2330万英镑的投资资金。已经涵盖了十个市场领域。

Advantages for GeoTech and PropTech start-ups

Accelerator计划为Geotech和Proptech初创企业提供了许多优势。它使人们与建立企业家，行业领导者和顾问的导师网络保持联系。六个月的10,000英镑赠款，此后提供了10,000英镑的机会 - 以及在Hub的12个月免费办公桌空间。计划成员可以访问技术专长，军械调查和HM土地注册表数据以及开放数据源。他们还举办一对一的会议和讲习班，涵盖财务，筹款，业务计划，法律和知识产权，公司法以及在演讲和推销方面的指导。Geovation强烈强调培训初创企业取得成功，从面试开始，然后确保他们具有合适的技能来经营业务并有效地推销产品。

Alex Wrottesley, Head of Geovation, says: “We offer a founder-friendly environment, great mentors, high-quality workshop content and, almost uniquely, a dedicated software development team in house who work hand in hand with our companies to build and release their first products. This is something very few accelerators can offer, and it means the businesses joining us can move faster and further than they otherwise would have been able to.”

The seven companies making up the 2019 accelerator intake were selected from over 100 applicants who went through a rigorous interview programme over two days. Candidates were selected on the basis of clarity, credibility and coachability. The industry sectors addressed by the successful accelerator candidates are very wide and cover agriculture, planning, crisis management, drones, home security, construction and housing. The entrepreneurs starting these companies typically have experience in their sector, but not necessarily working with geospatial data nor with starting a successful company, and this is where Geovation is so valuable.

I visited the Geovation Hub and the energy was palpable with people at their workstations, groups in deep conversation and a general sense of purposeful activity. One of the keys to success is creating a community which enables start-ups to interact with each other, with the expertise available at OS and Land Registry, with potential users of their products and with the wider geospatial community. This sense of community is very evident amongst the people whom I spoke to.

加雷斯（Gareth）来自运输计划的背景，他的公司将为无人机运营商提供服务，这将使他们能够找出谁拥有希望飞过的土地以及是否有任何限制。他的平台Droneprep使用土地注册表和土地所有者提供的信息的属性数据。该公司已经提供了计划从南安普敦到怀特岛提供医疗用品的路线的重要钥匙。加雷斯（Gareth）说，他将永远无法开发平台，并在没有地理化的支持的情况下与潜在用户建立联系。

Hugh Farquhar was a crisis manager for a major international bank and has developed a platform to provide information within seconds of the start of a crisis. Watchkeeper International draws together data on the assets and personnel of a company and adds location and local information to draw a real time picture of the impact of a crisis or disaster on anybody involved. One of the main benefits of Geovation to Hugh is making him ask the difficult questions which entrepreneurs don't want to ask, and providing the support network to help answer them.

Droneprep和Watchkeeper International是加速器计划中最新一批公司的一部分。188asia备用网址以前的小组现在在Geovation的第二个六个月中，现在正忙于完善其产品并寻求投资。

The start-up companies working at Geovation are working on products which will address the issues and problems facing society. They demonstrate that geospatial data is key to solving many problems and helps companies and government understand the problems better through linking people and assets, particularly property, to location and by highlighting links and context through visualisation. The Geovation ecosystem is enabling people who see these connections to promote them to a wider audience.

Geovation Ready to Accept Applications to its Accelerator Programme

现在可以使用其产品和服务中的地理位置，土地和物业数据的初创企业来加入Geovation Accelerator。使用映射和相关技术生产的数据的刚起步的公司可能会获得专家业务支持和资金，以帮助他们在世界舞台上蓬勃发展。

Andrew Trigg, Chief Geospatial & Data officer, said: “Since our relationship with Geovation began in 2017, it’s been fantastic to see the ever-growing list of PropTech start-ups realise their potential with the help of the accelerator programme. To see, and support, the latest generation of innovators apply HMLR and OS data to real social and commercial challenges by such novel, and clever means is a real testament to the potential of our property data. We couldn’t be more excited to see the ideas and solutions presented in this next round of applications for the programme.”

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