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British startup, KOMPAS, is world finalist for the UNWTO's prestigious tourism competition
23rd January 2019: London-based travel AI startup KOMPAS, was one of the top 10 finalists from an initial 3,000 applicants from 132 countries in the first tourism startup competition to ever be hosted...
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Olivia Higgs, COO of KOMPAS, gives TEDx on Artificial Intelligence after being named as one of the UK’s most inspirational young individuals.
JCI UK recognised Olivia as one of the UK’s most inspirational young individuals for her accomplishments in business and economics at the end of 2017, and in Mach 2018, Olivia was invited to Virginia, the United States, to talk about the impact of artificial intelligence on the wider society. At just...
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City Exploration App Launches in Exeter to Combat Decline of Independent Businesses
KOMPAS, a London based city exploration startup, chooses Exeter as their 6th city worldwide to launch in. KOMPAS combines curated content with machine learning-powered personalisation to bring city exploration into the 21st century. The company was founded by 2 Exeter University alumni, Tom Charman and...
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Tom Charman, CEO of KOMPAS, selected as Greater Birmingham’s Future Face of Innovation and Technology
Tom has been named a double winner in the 2017 Future Faces Awards ceremony, after being nominated for the ‘Future Face of Innovation and Technology’. After a rigorous judging process, Tom not only won the award for Innovation but went on to win the organisation’s ‘Future Face of Greater Birmingham’. Tom...
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KOMPAS selected as one of the Top 500 Deep-Tech companies for this year’s Hello Tomorrow conference in Paris, France
KOMPAS has won the fight to be selected as one of the companies invited to the Hello Tomorrow conference in Paris, France, talking about the future of mobility within Artificial Intelligence. This comes, after recently securing a commercial partnership with Visa, and winning €50,000 in the annual Visa...
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KOMPAS secures €50,000 as the overall winner of Visa’s Everywhere Initiative at Money 20/20 in Copenhagen
Yesterday, Visa’s executive vice president, innovation and strategic partnerships, Jim McCarthy, awarded 3 companies €25,000 with one being awarded the overall winner and securing a further €25,000 at this year’s Money 20/20 conference in Copenhagen. London-based company KOMPAS, using Artificial...
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Travel-AI company KOMPAS, continues to strengthen its Advisory Board with the addition of former Gowling WLG partner and head of innovation
On May 1st, Derek Southall, a former partner and head of innovation for Gowling WLG joins the advisory board for KOMPAS, as the team continue to rapidly scale their hyper-personalised city exploration mobile application across the UK and Germany. This adds to the company’s current team of advisors,...