{"id":49259,"date":"2016-11-17T22:45:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T22:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/?p=49259"},"modified":"2021-05-18T15:56:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:56:24","slug":"innovative-business-of-the-year-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/innovative-business-of-the-year-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovative Business of the Year 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Start-up name:<\/strong>&nbsp;PensionBee<br>\n<strong>Founder:&nbsp;<\/strong>Romi Savova<br>\n<strong>Started in:<\/strong>&nbsp;2015<br>\n<strong>Based in:<\/strong>&nbsp;London<br>\n<strong>Business description:<\/strong>&nbsp;Online platform which combines all of your&nbsp;pensions&nbsp;in one place<\/p>\n<p>Just over a year-old, and already attracting over 100 customers a week, PensionBee has created such a buzz within its industry that the Startups Awards judges deemed it to be a deserving recipient of the Innovative Business of the Year award 2016.<\/p>\n<p>An online pension manager, PensionBee helps users combine and manage all their pensions online into one plan which can be organised much like a bank account.<\/p>\n<p>After submitting details on its website, PensionBee will automatically track down users&rsquo; old pensions and then put them into one of three plans managed by BlackRock or State Street.<\/p>\n<p>Via its 24\/7 online dashboard &lsquo;The BeeHive&rsquo;, customers can access a live pension balance, make online contributions, and use a smart calculator to help prepare for retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Founded by fintech entrepreneur Romi Savova, who previously worked at Credit Benchmark, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the fintech start-up has its sights set on helping some 300,000 Brits control their retirement savings &ndash; a sign of the start-up&rsquo;s ambition.<\/p>\n<p>With new auto-enrolment rules, an ageing population and the UK pension market expected to reach &pound;1 trillion by 2020, PensionBee is certainly in a great place to capitalise.<\/p>\n<p>While the judges were won over by PensionBee, they were also taken by Playbrush &ndash; which turns children&rsquo;s toothbrushes into game controllers &ndash; &nbsp;and Oppo &ndash; the healthy ice cream brand &ndash; named highly-commended and commended respectively.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start-up name:&nbsp;PensionBee Founder:&nbsp;Romi Savova Started in:&nbsp;2015 Based in:&nbsp;London Business description:&nbsp;Online platform which combines all of your&nbsp;pensions&nbsp;in one place Just over a year-old, and already attracting over 100 customers a week, PensionBee has created such a buzz within its industry that the Startups Awards judges deemed it to be a deserving recipient of the Innovative Business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91469,"featured_media":49410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winners","category-winners-2016"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Innovative Business of the Year 2016 - 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