Rype Office provides sustainable and affordable office furniture by remanufacturing used furniture. They offer free office design services and fully refurbished furniture at under half the price of new items. Their circular business model involves collecting used furniture, refurbishing it to like-new quality, and offering buyback options or leasing to customers. This vertical integration allows them to substantially reduce manufacturing costs compared to competitors. They are seeking a £400k investment to accelerate growth through increased marketing, securing furniture supply, and working capital. The founders have successful startup experience and they have over 50 happy customers with environmental awards.
Gloob (www.gloobdecor.com & www.facebook.com/iamgloob) is arguably India's fastest growing Home and Office Decor brand. Based out of Mumbai currently has 300+ dealers and distributors pan-India (90+ cities) and in UK (www.spicydecor.co.uk), Bahrain and Nepal. A brainchild of entrepreneurs from IIT Mumbai and première design institutions. Gloob envisions to redefine the concept of décor in India and subsequently the world.
We are currently the largest manufacturers of Wall graphics(adhesive vinyl based) & Wall Papers in India, which are also our flagship products and are also are into manufacturing of a designer range of clocks, canvas paintings, sculptures essentially all items related to wall decoration. It gives me immense pleasure to launch our own brand of Wallpapers under the name of KEEMAAYA. Our wallpapers can also be customized to space and design and we are proudly the first movers in the manufacturing of it.
Gloob has also forayed into concept furniture accessories launching the range CYSUR which targets manufacturing and distribution of Italian and European style furniture at Indian rates and matching Indian cultural ethnicity.
We have a design portfolio of 5000+ designs and keep on adding 300+ designs every month (all additions are supplied to the channel partner in the form of an album). In addition by virtue of having an in-house design team we can even do custom designs keeping regional and cultural sensibilities in mind
Gloob (www.gloobdecor.com & www.facebook.com/iamgloob) is arguably India's fastest growing Home and Office Decor brand. Based out of Mumbai currently has 300+ dealers and distributors pan-India (90+ cities) and in UK (www.spicydecor.co.uk) and Bahrain(www.gloobbahrain.com) and Nepal. A brainchild of entrepreneurs from IIT Mumbai and première design institutions. Gloob envisions to redefine the concept of décor in India and subsequently the world.
We are currently the largest manufacturers of Wall graphics(adhesive vinyl based) & Wall Papers in India, which are also our flagship products and are also are into manufacturing of a designer range of clocks, canvas paintings, sculptures essentially all items related to wall decoration. It gives me immense pleasure to launch our own brand of Wallpapers under the name of KEEMAAYA. Our wallpapers can also be customized to space and design and we are proudly the first movers in the manufacturing of it.
Gloob has also forayed into concept furniture accessories launching the range CYSUR which targets manufacturing and distribution of Italian and European style furniture at Indian rates and matching Indian cultural ethnicity.
We have a design portfolio of 5000+ designs and keep on adding 300+ designs every month (all additions are supplied to the channel partner in the form of an album). In addition by virtue of having an in-house design team we can even do custom designs keeping regional and cultural sensibilities in mind
Gloob (www.gloobdecor.com & www.facebook.com/iamgloob) is arguably India's fastest growing Home and Office Decor brand. Based out of Mumbai currently has 300+ dealers and distributors pan-India (90+ cities) and in UK (www.spicydecor.co.uk) and Bahrain(www.gloobbahrain.com) and Nepal. A brainchild of entrepreneurs from IIT Mumbai and première design institutions. Gloob envisions to redefine the concept of décor in India and subsequently the world.
We are currently the largest manufacturers of Wall graphics(adhesive vinyl based) & Wall Papers in India, which are also our flagship products and are also are into manufacturing of a designer range of clocks, canvas paintings, sculptures essentially all items related to wall decoration. It gives me immense pleasure to launch our own brand of Wallpapers under the name of KEEMAAYA. Our wallpapers can also be customized to space and design and we are proudly the first movers in the manufacturing of it.
Gloob has also forayed into concept furniture accessories launching the range CYSUR which targets manufacturing and distribution of Italian and European style furniture at Indian rates and matching Indian cultural ethnicity.
We have a design portfolio of 5000+ designs and keep on adding 300+ designs every month (all additions are supplied to the channel partner in the form of an album). In addition by virtue of having an in-house design team we can even do custom designs keeping regional and cultural sensibilities in mind
Gloob (www.gloobdecor.com & www.facebook.com/iamgloob) is arguably India's fastest growing Home and Office Decor brand. Based out of Mumbai currently has 300+ dealers and distributors pan-India (90+ cities) and in UK (www.spicydecor.co.uk), Bahrain and Nepal. A brainchild of entrepreneurs from IIT Mumbai and première design institutions. Gloob envisions to redefine the concept of décor in India and subsequently the world.
We are currently the largest manufacturers of Wall graphics(adhesive vinyl based) & Wall Papers in India, which are also our flagship products and are also are into manufacturing of a designer range of clocks, canvas paintings, sculptures essentially all items related to wall decoration. It gives me immense pleasure to launch our own brand of Wallpapers under the name of KEEMAAYA. Our wallpapers can also be customized to space and design and we are proudly the first movers in the manufacturing of it.
Gloob has also forayed into concept furniture accessories launching the range CYSUR which targets manufacturing and distribution of Italian and European style furniture at Indian rates and matching Indian cultural ethnicity.
We have a design portfolio of 5000+ designs and keep on adding 300+ designs every month (all additions are supplied to the channel partner in the form of an album). In addition by virtue of having an in-house design team we can even do custom designs keeping regional and cultural sensibilities in mind
Gloob (www.gloobdecor.com & www.facebook.com/iamgloob) is arguably India's fastest growing Home and Office Decor brand. Based out of Mumbai currently has 300+ dealers and distributors pan-India (90+ cities) and in UK (www.spicydecor.co.uk) and Bahrain(www.gloobbahrain.com) and Nepal. A brainchild of entrepreneurs from IIT Mumbai and première design institutions. Gloob envisions to redefine the concept of décor in India and subsequently the world.
We are currently the largest manufacturers of Wall graphics(adhesive vinyl based) & Wall Papers in India, which are also our flagship products and are also are into manufacturing of a designer range of clocks, canvas paintings, sculptures essentially all items related to wall decoration. It gives me immense pleasure to launch our own brand of Wallpapers under the name of KEEMAAYA. Our wallpapers can also be customized to space and design and we are proudly the first movers in the manufacturing of it.
Gloob has also forayed into concept furniture accessories launching the range CYSUR which targets manufacturing and distribution of Italian and European style furniture at Indian rates and matching Indian cultural ethnicity.
We have a design portfolio of 5000+ designs and keep on adding 300+ designs every month (all additions are supplied to the channel partner in the form of an album). In addition by virtue of having an in-house design team we can even do custom designs keeping regional and cultural sensibilities in mind
Gloob (www.gloobdecor.com & www.facebook.com/iamgloob) is arguably India's fastest growing Home and Office Decor brand. Based out of Mumbai currently has 300+ dealers and distributors pan-India (90+ cities) and in UK (www.spicydecor.co.uk) and Bahrain(www.gloobbahrain.com) and Nepal. A brainchild of entrepreneurs from IIT Mumbai and première design institutions. Gloob envisions to redefine the concept of décor in India and subsequently the world.
We are currently the largest manufacturers of Wall graphics(adhesive vinyl based) & Wall Papers in India, which are also our flagship products and are also are into manufacturing of a designer range of clocks, canvas paintings, sculptures essentially all items related to wall decoration. It gives me immense pleasure to launch our own brand of Wallpapers under the name of KEEMAAYA. Our wallpapers can also be customized to space and design and we are proudly the first movers in the manufacturing of it.
Gloob has also forayed into concept furniture accessories launching the range CYSUR which targets manufacturing and distribution of Italian and European style furniture at Indian rates and matching Indian cultural ethnicity.
We have a design portfolio of 5000+ designs and keep on adding 300+ designs every month (all additions are supplied to the channel partner in the form of an album). In addition by virtue of having an in-house design team we can even do custom designs keeping regional and cultural sensibilities in mind
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
2. 1
We believe that all workspaces can and should be
attractive, sustainable and lower cost.
We make this easy for
customers with:
–Free office design
–High quality remanufactured
furniture
–Full office refit
3. 2
We offer quality + value in the £665M p.a. UK office furniture market
Price
Quality & Longevity
Low High
Brand-name new (£250-1,000/chair)
£100
£200
£300
£400
£500
£600+
Reupholstered (£100-150/chair)
Second hand (£50-150/chair)
Made in China
(£100-250/chair)
Adjustable Desk Chairs
Cannot compete
with us because
independent
distributors will
not distribute
remanufactured
furniture
Cannot compete
with us because
they buy poor
quality items
from China or are
poor at marketing
4. 3
Our circular business model owns the customer relationship and
sources furniture differently
Manufacture Distribution
Interior
Design
Office
Clearance
Waste
Management
Current
providers:
• Manufacturer • Dealers (mostly
independent from
manufacturer)
• Interior designers • Office clearance
companies
• Waste companies
• 2nd hand dealers
Rype
Office:
Office Furniture Value Chain
We start here –
designing an
attractive,
productive
office to suit the
customer’s
needs
We source from
the customer’s
existing furniture
And from the
2nd hand trade
market
We source difficult-
to-find items new
(distributor for 6
OEMS)
Remanufacture to
customer’s desired
standard
Guaranteed buyback offer OR Lease
Circular
Economy
5. 4
This provides us with 3 structural cost advantages
1. Substantially lower (re)manufacturing cost
2. Vertical integration in a non-integrated industry
3. The sustainability of remanufactured furniture differentiates us, reducing
marketing costs
Structural Cost Advantages
Sources: Rype Office costs; The Next Manufacturing Revolution: Non-Labour Resource Productivity and its Potential for UK Manufacturing, 2013, pp. 83-89. available at www.nextmanufacturingrevolution.org
80% smaller
environment
footprint
than new
<1/2 list
price of
new
6. 5
Remanufactured = same as new in appearance & performance
• £748 new list price
• Top of Orangebox’s range
New Orangebox G64
(OEM promotional photo)
Remanufactured G64
(Rype Office photos)
• <£280 from Rype Office (37% of new list price)
• 5 year warranty (same as new)
• New recycled fabric & gas lift with other surfaces recoated
8. 7
Investment Plan
71% IRR for this round
With 30% EIS tax rebate = 93% IRR
and 7X return on investment
Investment Round
• £400K
• EIS pre-approved
• Class A shares for £20K
or more investment
Liquidity event
• 2021/22
• Trade sale or
recapitalisation
• Target valuation £20M
(2X revenue, 19X EBIT,
23X PAT)
Now 3-4 years
To accelerate growth:
– Ramp up marketing
– Invest to secure supply
– Cover working capital needs
9. 8
Team
Dr Greg Lavery
Founder & MD
Previous startups:
– Origin Solar, now a
$1B solar retailing
business
– Lavery/Pennell
Engineer with PhD in
green building design
Ex Bain and Booz
12 other staff, employed on an
as-needed basis
6 furniture manufacturer
partners (with whom we have
distribution agreements):
Trade partners:
– Upholsterers
– Desk/table top makers
– Polishers
– Powder coaters
Ioannis Spyridakis
Head of Operations
Previous startups:
– Drinks distribution
business
– Charter hire
business
– Solar farms
Supply chain expert
Ex shipping industry
Duane Walker
Project Manager
Mechanical Engineer
Ex Rolls Royce
Aerospace
Ex Prakti
Now recruiting
Bus. Dev. Manager
