Curl.app: against COVID-19 Company
Entity: Curl.app
Category: FinTech and Digital Economy
Description: Curl is a smarter way of taking payments — an alternative to cash and card designed to improve the experience for your staff and your regulars.
Project: Save My Local
Summary: Dubbed 'Save My Local', the free website aims to help local businesses generate much-needed cash flow by selling vouchers to loyal customers that can be used for future purchases. A tweet from entrepreneur Jason Bates (11:FS, Starling, Monzo) inspired Mike Kelly (CEO of Curl.app) to take action and make the idea a reality. Within a week, a team of 20+ volunteers had formed and a first version of the product was “designed, built, and shipped; with businesses signed up and processing orders,” say the group. The idea is that the vouchers will be redeemable when the coronavirus UK lockdown is over, and in the interim will enable small business owners to generate enough cash to stay afloat. Of course, for those purchasing vouchers, there is some risk that a business could still go bust, so it’s best to see this as a somewhat altruistic endeavour, even if in many instances it is a desperately needed one. The Save My Local group say they are currently recruiting small businesses to test the free voucher platform and if successful can scale to meet demand. They have already had requests for collaboration from groups in Australia, Israel and other countries to see if the solution can be shared more broadly. Curl.app's project has a giant group of fintech volunteers working to help save local businesses.
Category: FinTech and Digital Economy
Description: Curl is a smarter way of taking payments — an alternative to cash and card designed to improve the experience for your staff and your regulars.
Project: Save My Local
Summary: Dubbed 'Save My Local', the free website aims to help local businesses generate much-needed cash flow by selling vouchers to loyal customers that can be used for future purchases. A tweet from entrepreneur Jason Bates (11:FS, Starling, Monzo) inspired Mike Kelly (CEO of Curl.app) to take action and make the idea a reality. Within a week, a team of 20+ volunteers had formed and a first version of the product was “designed, built, and shipped; with businesses signed up and processing orders,” say the group. The idea is that the vouchers will be redeemable when the coronavirus UK lockdown is over, and in the interim will enable small business owners to generate enough cash to stay afloat. Of course, for those purchasing vouchers, there is some risk that a business could still go bust, so it’s best to see this as a somewhat altruistic endeavour, even if in many instances it is a desperately needed one. The Save My Local group say they are currently recruiting small businesses to test the free voucher platform and if successful can scale to meet demand. They have already had requests for collaboration from groups in Australia, Israel and other countries to see if the solution can be shared more broadly. Curl.app's project has a giant group of fintech volunteers working to help save local businesses.
Technology:
FinTech and Digital Economy
Headquarters:
United Kingdom
Founded Date:
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