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With the mission to upgrade every hospitality experience, Hugo Tilmouth and Charlie Baron, founders of theUp.co, were awarded as Gold winners of the global award Young Founder of the Year
Hugo Tilmouth and Charlie Baron received the Growth Rings in Gold for the global award Young Founder of the Year at the Founders´ Awards Gala held at Stockholm City Hall on September 22.
"We are thrilled to have won the Young Founder of the Year 2022 award. It was great to accept the award in Stockholm amongst so many great Founders", says Charlie Baron and Hugo Tilmouth.
The jury's motivation for Hugo Tilmouth and Charlie Baron:
“Having fought through the pandemic, and landed on their feet stronger than before, the winners team is packed with an extreme amount of resilience and have proven they succeed in whatever they do. The company has also been able to build great partnerships and leverage their customer base repeatedly.”
Hugo Tilmouth and Charlie Baron founded theUp.co 2017. The company is headquartered in London, UK and is internationally established in Germany, France and the Netherlands working with over 35,000+ venues across Europe.
theUp.co’s mission is to ‘upgrade every hospitality experience’ through ServedUp - a platform which provides point of sale services for pubs, bars and restaurants - and ChargedUp, Europe's largest mobile phone charging network for venues. theUp.co helps scale hospitality venues by speeding up service, reducing staff costs and driving additional revenue, whilst providing venues with a unique service offering that drives footfall and increases dwell time.
Hugos and Charlie's driving force is to build the digital future for the hospitality industry.
The finalists have earlier introduced themselves and their companies to a jury of large scale founders consisting of: Chairman of the jury Lari Tuominen - Qvik, Patricia Olby Kimondo - People Productions, Pamoja, Emma Rozada - The Techno Creatives, Aticka Chona - GreenKarmas and Andrius Francas - Alliance for Recruitment.
Young Founder of the Year
Young Founder of the Year is awarded to young founders who have the potential to build a successful company, be a good leader and develop into a role model for other young founders. The purpose of the award is to encourage further success, acting as a catalyst to growth for the young founders.
Photo: Jean Lapin, www.jeanlapin.com
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