Incubator
50% of LATERAL’s Resources go into Incubator projects, either wholly-owned by Lateral or in joint-ventures with other businesses.
We are very passionate about entrepreneurship and creative projects. The incubator platform allows us to experiment in a commercial environment and spread our risk always looking for the next “interesting idea”.
Our incubator business has so far generated 3 successes, we’re proud of:
- Alliants’s Ruby-on-Rails technology team (created and sold to Alliants.co.uk)
- CeeVee.com – acquired from Lee Wilkins, developed and sold to Neogen SA
- TravelConnect, sold (non exclusive license) to Travelzoo (NASDAQ: TZOO)
Current projects:
Explorra.com
Explorra.com is a travel discovery tool.
- Projects developed: technology, identity, brand development, online marketing, SEO
- Technologies used: PHP, mySQL, memcached, jQuery / Ajax, Web Services, .NET (TravelConnect)
GuestHQ.com
Hotel Marketing made simple: Website builder. Mobile presence. Social media. Booking engine. CRM.
- Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, jQuery / Ajax
jobberBase.com
jobberBase is the most popular open-source job board software in the world, with over 64,000 downloads.
- Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, jQuery / Ajax
Extrafootie.co.uk
The so called “Facebook for football supporters”, Extrafootie.co.uk is a destination site for football supporters, with a local presence in UK and Belgium. Developed by Lateral from scratch, it features extensive performance techniques, a news engine, statistics, a football wikipedia, social networking
- Projects developed: technology (from A to Z), identity, brand development, online marketing, search engine optimisation, etc
- Technologies used: PHP, mySQL, memcached, Amazon EC2, jQuery / Ajax, Ext-js
www.job-job.co.uk
jobjob is a job search engine, aggregating jobs from the most important job sites in UK.
- Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, jQuery / Ajax, Memcached
captivatingromania.com
CaptivatingRomania.com is a showcase project about Romania’s beautiful places.
- Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, jQuery / Ajax, WordPress
