Mayor’s Resilience Fund – Finalists

Sqwyre.com is a commercial location database supporting research into business properties in England and Wales.

It aggregates open data on rental valuations, rates paid and vacancies, and employment into an integrated time-series database of individual industrial, office and retail business premises.

They will be working with local government and high-street stakeholders to develop their data service to contribute to reducing vacancy rates and increasing opportunities for our entrepreneurs and communities.

“There are few with our experience and skills with working with local authority vacancy data. We believe the Activating High Streets Challenge is an opportunity to prove the value of location data research, collaborate with local government and high-street stakeholders, and produce accessible, engaging research which increases opportunities for entrepreneurs and communities.”

Find out more about Sqwyre

The Vacancy Visualiser will help councils, businesses and the wider community to find vacant commercial properties that meet their needs.

“We are very excited to be working with the forward-thinking team at the London Borough of Ealing who have identified the issue of vacant properties as one that is of the highest importance and worthy of this level of focus.”

Find out more about the Vacancy Visualiser

Nquiringminds’ Economic Analyser applies advanced analytics, statistical techniques and visualisations to the problem of local economic planning of high streets.

Economic Analyser securely combines data from a range of sources: historic and current local authority business rates data, including relief and vacancy data, Companies house open data, open online listings and mapping information.

It uses a range of analytical and visualisation techniques to create a suite of tools to help understand, manage, and plan the local economy.

“We believe that our high streets are of critical importance to the fabric of British society. Our high streets have social as well as economic worth and opportunity for our communities. High streets have suffered particularly during the COVID pandemic.

How we shop has changed beyond recognition with the accelerated growth of online retailing and the need to avoid social interaction due to the disease.

Nquiringminds data visualisation tools will explore and expose the fundamental issues that our high streets are facing, and we are proud to be part of this movement for change and improvement initiative in Ealing.” Anita Allott, Director, Nquiringminds

Find out more about the Economic Analyser

Noggin Property offers a new way to collect and share commercial property data; to give an up-to-date understanding and complete overview of high street properties. It will help councils and business owners drive the regeneration of town centres and create opportunities for new ideas to repurpose empty properties.

It allows users to take photos and add property data, notes and tags at their convenience to give an up to date record of local properties.

By connecting up-to-date information sourced in the field, with existing databases of land ownership, council assets and current vacant properties, we can slow the growth of empty properties.

Find out more about Noggin Property

LYN Atelier’s solution is to create a semi-automated office fit-out process, simplifying choices and using second hand furniture to keep the costs down, giving access to great workspaces to a new section of the economy.

The solution works because it builds on already developed construction products ensuring speed of deployment and the reliability of trusted systems and will empower the user to implement the fit out themselves providing a cost effective end to end solution in one package.

“We are delighted to be one of the finalists for the Mayor’s Resilience Fund for the Affordable Workplace Challenge.

The fund allows us to bring together our experience in innovative design, technology and recycling to make a part of the property market available to a new community of users. We are so excited that we can be part of creating a stronger social and economic recovery for London.”

Find out more about LYN Atelier

Many developers have to deliver commercial spaces as part of a mixed use scheme/planning obligation but their lack of knowledge of end user requirements often leads to expensive fit out costs and higher rents.

These costs are often problematic for smaller occupiers particularly due to the flexible and short-term nature of their term commitments.

This proposal is to provide an easily adaptable fit out model that offers a cost-effective solution for newly built/shell & core spaces or empty premises, aiming to reduce property costs for the end user.

It builds on the team’s existing fit out model, promoting reusable structures and environmentally friendly materials, simplified design and easy installation process.

“We are excited by the opportunity that this fund provides to showcase our experience in developing genuinely affordable workspaces in creative communities such as Hackney Wick.

We look forward to demonstrating how our model can both create and optimise unused spaces transforming them into exciting hubs.”

Find out more about the Open Source Platform

Inspired by temporary pavilions, Pavilion aims to create a rentable library of re-useable materials, able to be booked through an online platform and supported by installation, storage and maintenance.

The kit of parts would be used to define, service and customise spaces depending on the use and length of time needed.

“As a local small business, we know first-hand how difficult it can be to find, fit out and equip a workspace when cashflow is so critical.

We are really excited about developing our ideas on how this element of the affordable workspace challenge can be resolved, and by partnering with our friends at Octink, we hope to combine their knowledge and experience in temporary events and structures with our own local knowledge and previous work on activating vacant spaces through the GLA Good Growth Fund.” Paul Reynolds, Tapestry

Find out more about Pavilion

Finding space to work in the city is hard. The Sustainable Designer wants to offer affordable, dependable, adaptable and individual workspace for people trying to change something.

Their solution is a self-contained modular portable studio, intended to be integrated temporarily within the existing bare fabric of a leased space. Modules are insulated, contain essential services (water, electricity and heat where required) and can operate either independently or as a cluster.

“When I first started as a freelancer, I shared a space with three other people and we all took turns in using the ‘good’ table. London definitely has a space problem.

But now, amazingly, we have the opportunity to change this through the Mayor’s Resilience Fund. The chance to provide affordable workspace for people trying to create something new in our community and that is exciting!” Nadine, Creative Director

Find out more about Instant Studio

Emu Analytics is taking on the challenge of bringing together and visualising data on air quality, public health, transport data, and the impact of air pollution control measures in Lambeth Council – providing an innovative mapping software solution to underpin strategic intervention by the council to improve air quality and the health outcomes for their residents.

Emu’s software is designed to be accessible and easy-to-use for all users, requiring no technical experience to explore the data – allowing several teams to come together to investigate the data insights and collaborate on the next steps.

Additionally, because of the solution’s easy sharing functions and privacy settings, Lambeth Council can choose to share insights with the wider public; bringing awareness to the danger of PM2.5 and empowering Lambeth residents with information on air quality levels in their area and the impacts brought by council interventions.

“We are thrilled to have been selected for the Mayor’s Resilience Fund and to be focusing on the Air Quality Challenge.

As a small, London-based team who live, work and travel within London, we are very aware of the risks and impacts of poor air quality, and are keen to showcase how our technology might help residents and council officials to better inform and protect vulnerable citizens through the use of more accessible and visual data insights.” Richard Vilton, CEO and Co-Founder of Emu Analytics

Find out more about the Lambeth Air Quality Explorer

Air pollution outdoors is a major risk to public health, with PM2.5 being one of the most dangerous pollutants. Research shows a correlation between the morbidity of COVID-19 & air pollution exposure which damages the heart & lungs. Just 1 microgram increase in PM2.5 is linked with a 15% increase in death rate.

BlockDox’s solution is HEAL – a disruptive and innovative gamechanger providing an intelligent solution for Lambeth and other London Boroughs to model and assess health impacts from air quality interventions. HEAL provides modelling capability by ingesting outdoor air quality data, geopositioning data of vulnerable groups within Lambeth, and will visualise that data in a dashboard interface.

Through HEAL, BlockDox aims to create a digital tool built on an existing indoor air quality, occupancy and energy analytics solution currently being used inside buildings in the UK and internationally.

BlockDox is an award winning data science focused proptech SME whose patented technology uses the very latest innovations in the Internet of Things, as well as artificial intelligence to help make spaces smarter.

“BlockDox is thrilled to have been selected as a Finalist in the Mayor of London’s Resilience Fund Air Quality Challenge.

Air pollution is a major risk to public health, with PM2.5 being one of the most dangerous pollutants. Indeed, recent research suggests just 1 microgram increase in PM2.5 is linked with a 15% increase in death rate from COVID-19.”

Most people understand that there is a link between air quality and public health, but very few can tell qualitatively or quantitatively how air pollution impacts on the health of the local residents as well as people in vulnerable groups.

Environmental officers in local councils working on pollution mitigation interventions are finding it very difficult to establish a robust air quality assessment methodology because the current tools available are not able to quantify potential impacts and cannot bring the efficiency needed within the short time frames for delivery.

This software combines Artificial Intelligence, GIS, and dispersion model computing to come up with our solution. Let’s have WISDOM – Web Immersive Smart Data Organizer and Modeller:

Web – Online application multiple users can use with web browsers and mobile phones
Immersive – 3D Virtual Reality, data visualization, graphics animation and GIS
Smart – Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Decision Making and Collaboration
Data – Database for 0D/1D/2D geo-spatial data, grid XYZ data and unstructured data
Organizer – Multi-pass data layer generation, manipulation, importing and exporting
Modeller – Machine Learning model training/prediction, dispersion model computing

Find out more about Oakhouse Software

COVID19 has left a profound mark on London. Many of us have experienced loss, and it’s vital we’re given the time, space, and services we need to heal. But the pandemic’s effects are not equal.

Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) communities have borne the brunt of COVID19 fatalities. These deaths have left a staggering number of BAME families behind, many with inadequate access to bereavement support.

The Meahė Design team wants this to change. Meahė Design is developing BAME Connect, a digital platform with three goals: to connect people, collect stories, and create culturally informed support networks.

BAME Connect will link users to the bereavement services that suit them best. It will also link them to each other. It’s social media feature will offer a safe space for sharing stories of COVID19 loss, with privacy as a first priority.

The voices of BAME Londoners are crucial to the platform’s design. Meahė Design will work closely with BAME families, mental health specialists, and social researchers to maximise the impact of BAME Connect. Together in loss, we can heal after COVID19.

“I can’t wait to bring people together on our platform. With BAME Connect, we can show the power of design in doing good.” Chung-Yu Perng

Find out more about BAME Connect

Currently, bereavement support services are hard to access for non-digital, non-English speakers, and word of mouth.

The Voxta Voce solution for the Mayors Resilience funds Bereavement Challenge is a 24/7 multilingual bereavement phone assistant helpline.

People can call the virtual assistant for bereavement support and callers can choose to be connected to culturally appropriate bereavement counselling, local community groups, or for practical help. The helpline will be offered in English and an Asian language.

“Through our multi-lingual voice platform, we hope to reach many more users than is possible through human agents or digital apps, at much lower cost.

The platform will give users access to many community counselling support services in a safe and managed manner, through a phone call.” Kavita Reddi, Voxta

Find out more about the Virtual Assistant Helpline

MatchingMind provides Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven matching with mental health and bereavement specialists, suited to minority communities.

We match people with mental health specialists based on each person’s unique mix of health needs as well as age, culture, religion, sexual orientation, disabilities, and language requirements.

Through our intelligent matching we reduce trial and error and failures that come from having the wrong fit. This is especially true for support that is culturally sensitive and MatchingMind addresses the problem that 90% of minorities feel that mental healthcare does not adequately take into account their cultural background (research from MIND, 2019).

We are delighted at this opportunity to work with new partners and engage with diverse communities. 

This is a chance to learn and grow and contribute to increased wellbeing of our fellow Londoners. MatchingMind’s vision is to democratise care and dissolve boundaries and we build technologies and services to realise that. Dr. Bela Prasad

Find out more about Intelligent Matching

Loss in translation is a peer led grief activism project that aims to empower young people to transform their grief into compassion.

Building on our award winning digital health service, Apart of Me, the team will work together with young people from minority ethnic backgrounds, to reduce the risk of complicated grief.

They will give them the tools they need to become grief activists, and support others within their community to break through barriers that currently prevent them getting the right help.

“I’m really excited about this challenge because we know that certain marginalised groups tend to suffer worst outcomes in terms of mental health, and this challenge will allow us to really understand how our service can even better support marginalised young people transform their grief into compassion.”

Find out more about Loss in Translation

Zipabout will provide a simple, free to use, information system to help people safely navigate around crowding, transport and health-led disruption when moving around London.

Available to every business and venue in London, this will allow them to welcome their visitors, employees and customers back with confidence – scanning a QR code, following a link or pressing a button on the venue website is all the customer will need to do to receive personalised directions and realtime information on their channel of choice.

“This an exciting opportunity for us to partner with City Hall to make a real leap forward in the economic recovery of London as we emerge from Covid19. 

We are working hard to ensure that the Resilience Fund investment creates future benefits as well. By working with the transport operators, venues and businesses we can create a free, easy to use service for visitors and residents that will continue to deliver results long after the current pandemic has subsided.”

Find out more about Zipabout

TravelSpace is a platform created in response to Covid-19 to restore user confidence in the railway system and help operators manage demand.

It is an overlay booking system that gives passengers virus safety support by providing the information needed to make safe decisions around public transport and to reduce crowding at stations and onboard services.

TravelSpace addresses travel anxiety as we recover from Covid-19 by using real time demand data to inform passengers how busy services are and to help make the right travel choices for them, and for operators TravelSpace has the inbuilt functionality to set quota controls and limit capacity in response to changes in social distancing guidelines.

“We are excited about the opportunity to further develop TravelSpace with the support of the Mayor’s Resilience Fund.

We have spent a lot of time developing the TravelSpace product, and the access to expertise and data will not only improve our product, but improve our skills and capabilities to deliver more innovative systems and products to improve the passenger transport market” Richard Fisher, Managing Director, Ten Transport Consultancy

Aubin is a new door-to-door journey planner and companion app which empowers people to travel confidently when using public transport during Covid.

Unlike other journey planner apps, Aubin includes specially designed features for passengers to plan journeys to minimise potential exposure to infection by choosing quieter routes and via lower infection areas.

Aubin will suggest the best times of day to travel and routes which will allow the passenger to maintain social distancing.

It also includes live information such as faulty lifts, toilets, step-free access and more.  When there is a disruption, Aubin will notify and assist passengers on ways to avoid the disruption or using a ‘get me home’ function, it will take you home using the same settings as before.

Aubin will provide passengers with confidence, reassurance and will reduce anxiety when using public transport. Passengers can make informed decisions easily about their travel plans, all in one app.

“The MoL Covid-Safe Travel Challenge is a great initiative which will bring some real benefit to London and its commuters.

Using JNCTION’s tech, we’re empowering passengers to make informed decisions, travel with ease and find low risk journeys for a safe re-opening of London.” Emlyn James 

Find out more about the Aubin Journey Planner

The Workerbird solution helps gig economy workers understand their true hourly rate and whether this meets the London Living Wage.

The simple app shows their data in a clear and impactful way helping them plan their finances. Gig economy workers are given valuable insights into their working patterns and can also come together as a group to get a complete picture of conditions across the sector.

Our aim is to empower gig economy workers with their own data so they have all the information they need to make the best decisions around their work.

“We are thrilled to be part of the Mayor’s Resilience Fund. The Workerbird app currently helps workers track and reflect on their working day to understand their working patterns, pay and feelings about work.

We are really looking forward to designing and developing it specifically for gig economy workers – so they can understand their take-home pay and ultimately help them achieve a real living wage.”  

Find out more about Workerbird

Financial Freedom wants to create a platform that provides freelance workers with a one-stop shop to manage their finances, ensuring they have enough cash flow day-to-day and ‘runway’ between jobs.

The core value proposition is to bring this information and insight together to reduce stress and improving the mental health of the user.

“As a relatively young company, with many of our staff working freelance at some point in their career, we are passionate about providing practical solutions to the complex challenge of not only managing day-to-day finances, but also the knock-on-effect on improving mental health and wellbeing.

For many years now we have worked on some great fintech and consumer apps across the world and are excited to bring some of our experience on ‘what works’ to this challenge.” Alex Holdsworth, Director, Monstarlab

Find out more about <Monstarlab

Designed in partnership with gig workers, Shiffle is pioneering a new way to ensure that gig work is fit and fair for all by helping people build whole incomes from fractions of work and enabling work providing platforms to demonstrate their contributions, in real time.

Shiffle aggregates primary data, enabling gig workers to see their whole income (earned and expected) as well as how much each source is contributing.

This puts their earnings in their control while maintaining flexibility for all. Shiffle empowers both gig workers and platforms by enabling a range of new services that fundamentally enhance financial inclusion, security and transparency while helping to evolve the future of work.

“As a team, Shiffle has a passion to help to make the gig economy work better for both people and platforms.

Being able to partner with the Resilience Fund and the Living Wage Foundation to help realise that vision is amazing and we’re really excited to begin that work together.”

Find out more about Shiffle

Finmo’s solution builds on their existing platform, where they provide software for sole traders and multi-job workers to track their income and expenses and a platform to connect with an accountant to affordably file a tax return.

They will then develop this further to allow gig economy workers to understand their take-home pay and how their net hourly wage compares to the Living Wage.

The solution will see individuals importing their banking transactions via Open Banking, then answering a series of questions to help Finmo identify which of their income and expenses are for business purposes. Within a few minutes, Finmo will calculate an accurate net hourly wage and provide a comparison to the London Living Wage. We will use the information gathered to prepare a report for the individual.

“The modern-day worker is faced with a host of challenges, from sourcing work to filing their tax return. These challenges along with many others can cause financial strain.

Finmo is excited to bring years’ of work and expertise in this area and combine it with teams at the Living Wage Foundation and the Mayor of London to make the lives of today’s modern day workers just a little better.” J.D. Rainey, Finmo Founder & CEO

Find out more about Finmo

Time to Spare is a software platform that allows local food providers to work together as a network to share information on the needs of their users, their stock levels and what services they are running. This helps each member to understand their own impact better and that of the network as a whole.

All this can be shared on a public page, that allows those outside of the network to see how they can help and if they need support themselves, where that is available.

“We are very excited about working with Groundwork and the amazing food providers in Barnet to further develop our tools, so that they can support even more of those most in need.

We are also excited about amazing opportunities and networks that the Mayor’s Resilience Fund provides.”

Find out more about Time to Spare

Local Food Network is a system of applications that open up a living, breathing picture of a local community’s food projects to each of its actors, and empowers them with the tools to fulfil their roles more impactfully.

The app will be underpinned by an adaptive, constantly learning demand monitoring and prediction model, powered by our open-sourced time series data, pushing alerts to volunteers so as to prevent food crises before they develop.

“As a group of tech and design nerds with experience of volunteering in local food banks, we’re super excited to have been given the opportunity with the MRF to craft an innovative solution that makes a tangible difference for the most vital of community institutions.”

Find out more about the Local Food Network

The Spaze Food Management Platform (SFMP) is a cloud-based resource management platform that enables a systemic coordination of all local food stakeholders to effectively manage the supply and demand of food to tackle food insecurity.

“We are grateful and excited to be a part of the Mayors Resilience Fund as it gives us the opportunity to work along remarkable organisations and fully focus our efforts in developing what can become a scalable solution for one of our city’s biggest challenges.

Being the SFMP an easy-to-use digital platform, the scaling-up and scaling-out potential of our solution is endless, not only for Barnet and other boroughs in London, but for the rest of the UK.” Ciro Reynoso, CEO of Spaze ltd.

Find out more about Spaze

Public Markets Portal is a digital platform that enables market traders to view active trading opportunities, apply for and renew licenses across all London boroughs, and manage various aspects of their license, such as the pitch number, manager and assistants.

The trader registration and approval process will be unified across the participating boroughs, with any borough-specific additional documents being requested during the individual market trading applications. This will enable the market traders to save time when applying for licenses in multiple boroughs.

In the long-term, we envision the Public Markets Portal becoming a one-stop-shop solution for the market traders to manage various aspects of their business, such as equipment hire, joint marketing campaigns, etc.

“We are excited to take part in the fund, as this gives us an opportunity to create a solution to the real problem in public market licensing and immediately pilot it with real users across the four boroughs.”

Find out more about the Public Markets Portal

OpenMarkets.London will open up London’s local authority markets to more traders. As London reopens from lockdown, the vision of Openmarkets.London is to maximise the vibrancy of London’s markets, as diverse communities of trade and shopping.

The project will make it easier to apply for a trading license across London’s local authority markets.  It is currently a difficult manual process to apply to trade in local authority markets and individual applications are often needed for each market, making life difficult for both traders and local authority licensing teams.

OpenMarkets.London will fix this problem with a single, easy to understand application portal providing access to the licensing team’s of each of the project’s local authority partners.

“We are beyond excited to be creating OpenMarkets.London with the Lord Mayor’s Resilience Fund!  The vibrancy and diversity of London’s heritage markets and the unique communities of traders give London it’s personality.

OpenMarkets.London is designed to help the markets and their communities thrive as we come out of lockdown.  We see a great opportunity to partner with local authority market licensing teams to create a single portal to make it easier for traders to apply to trade in markets across London.” Paul Massey, Founder of OpenMarkets.London and Tabled.io

Find out more about OpenMarkets.London

Indi’s solution is a phased approach towards the automation of street trading for market operators, historically a time consuming and archaic process.

The solution begins with solving the application process for London local authorities by consolidating and standardising the varying processes into a single format. This will be a secure digital platform covering the current legislation and legalities of the street licensing process across London.

“This is a great opportunity to finally unite London boroughs in one common goal: to make the street trading process quicker and easier so small businesses get more opportunities to sell their products and grow their business.

This is merely the beginning of a journey we hope brings street trading into the 21st century and on a level playing field in all retail sectors.

We bring a wealth of knowledge, experience and understanding of this sector along with the vision of where it needs to be in 5-10 years time. Exciting times ahead and we trust all London boroughs and beyond adopt and embrace this project”

ZEV London provides an alternative type of renewable energy production – converting EV-taxi platform into a citizen renewable energy (RE) farm on blockchain.

The new RE capacity is then tokenised on blockchain and given back to passengers as RE tokens to create incentive to use again.

As the number of passengers grows, the RE farm becomes decentralised and citizen-owned, further encouraging crowd participation in transport and energy decarbonisation.

“Our plan is to build a floating solar farm to utilise the Royal Docks water area to generate renewable energy and form an initial blockchain token pool.”

Find out more about ZEV London

The Royal Docks Floating Solar Project is being developed by Renewable Connections and its European partners, European Energy A/S.

The project will make a significant contribution London’s low carbon strategy and if implemented, could provide clean, green, renewable electricity for over 40 years, displacing electricity produced from traditional fossil fuels.

The Project proposes to install a floating solar array in London’s Royal Docks to provide clean renewable energy directly to London’s City Airport, as well as other local customers. Currently in the early test phase, Renewable Connections is working closely with the Royal Docks Management Authority and City Airport’s safeguarding team to make sure the project is technically suitable.

“Renewable Connections is hugely excited to be leading this project in collaboration with so many progressive stakeholders.

Projects like this can make a real contribution to tackling the climate emergency and will highlight London as a global leader in sustainable economic development.”

Find out more about Renewable Connections

Babylon-Blue’s floating communities consist of vessels which can utilise the Dock water and other natural sources such as solar, wind and water source heating and cooling systems to produce renewable, optimised through energy storage and distribution.

Their Aquantum active-hull system combines this renewable heat and electrical energy production, storage, sustainable design and materials, resource efficiency and other innovative approaches.

“The Renewable Energy Challenge presents an exciting opportunity for our Babylon-Blue floating vessels to come closer to realising our vision of being self-sufficient and ‘off-grid’, creating a beacon of resilience for the Royal Docks and the wider London and re-defining the future of sustainable and affordable water living.”

DynamicLink is a one-stop platform for the on-demand optimisation of freight journeys for operators. Based on the operator’s decisions, the platform learns to anticipate and helps with the proactive management of your fleet, supporting your long-term logistics strategy to help you reach your optimisation goals, while encouraging low carbon solutions (e.g. cargo bike logistics).

In the long term, Kale Collective’s vision is to create an urban logistics marketplace where organisations can share and jointly consolidate freight deliveries to minimise both costs and emissions across partners. They aim to approach this in a hyperlocal way, where nearby businesses can connect to one another.

“We’re very excited to be one of the finalists for the Mayor’s Resilience Fund. Combining our expertise in Machine Learning, product design, and cargo-bike logistics, we look forward to our collaboration with the challenge partners to be part of this movement.”

Find out more about DynamicLink

FlowOS is Waze for commercial fleets. It’s a dynamic fleet network that monitors the real time status of multiple vehicle fleets and identifies opportunities for those businesses to:

• Adjust ETAs and itineraries based on collectively sensed information about road network conditions and resulting arrival and departure time estimates.
• Coordinate pickup and drop off times to make it easier to transfer goods between vehicles and use depot space more efficiently.
• Trade spare capacity and delivery obligations across the network to increase vehicle utilisation.

“We’re really excited to be part of the Smart Mobility Cohort of the Mayors Resilience Fund. It provides a great opportunity to engage with King’s College London and the local Southbank business community to get concrete feedback for our fleet networking technology.

We believe we can really help the local business community to cut delivery costs and play their part in reducing emissions from logistics. MRF provides a great platform to test that proposition with the backing of the GLA and Nesta to drive the innovation forward.”

Find out more about FlowOS

EMSOL empowers organisations to take steps every day to make a lasting difference in reducing pollution and meeting clean air targets. EMSOL goes beyond passive pollution monitoring, bringing together pollution data and fusing it with vehicle or asset location data to quickly and accurately identify real time sources of pollution.

If a pollution breach occurs on site or from a vehicle in the supply chain those who need to take action are instantly notified. The EMSOL platform shares pollution insights in secure, easy-to-understand cloud-based dashboards, with configurable views so everyone only sees what they should.

“We are delighted to have been selected for the Mayors Resilience Fund. As innovators looking to quickly learn and develop our approach to making freight journeys smarter and greener.

The Fund provides a way for EMSOL to address socially impactful issues facing London and help us emerge stronger from COVID-19 while working with other committed and innovative partners such as Better Bankside and Kings College London.”

Find out more about Air Quality Action

Zedify’s mission is to transform urban logistics to create the healthier, more liveable cities of the future. Their unique sustainable logistics model is centred around hyperlocal microhubs which deploy fleets of electric cargo bikes across the city.

At the very heart of their operations is ZAPP, a purpose-built mobility management tool which optimises delivery routes by reducing the number and length of journeys

“We are thrilled to be taking part in the Mayor’s Resilience Fund. Zedify was set up to transform urban logistics to create the healthier, more liveable cities of the future. The pandemic has accelerated the shift to ecommerce and a recent report by the World Economic Forum predicts that the resulting demand for urban last mile delivery will grow 78% by 2030, leading to a 36% rise in delivery vehicles in inner cities.

London, like many other cities across the world is quite literally suffocating from congestion and pollution caused, in the main, by deliveries. With support from the Mayor’s Resilience Fund we can accelerate the development of ZAPP, our sustainable delivery management tool, and make it available to a much wider range of organisations enabling them to limit their environmental impact, future-proof their fleets and, together, we can disrupt the traditional delivery model across London making it cleaner and fit for the 21st century.” Sam Keam, Co-Founder and Chief Sustainability Officer, Zedify

Find out more about ZAPP