{"id":43401,"date":"2014-09-11T09:39:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T08:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/?p=43401"},"modified":"2021-05-24T11:21:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T10:21:06","slug":"graham-cooke-daniel-shellard-ian-mccaig-qubit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/graham-cooke-daniel-shellard-ian-mccaig-qubit\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Cooke, Daniel Shellard, Ian McCaig: Qubit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Graham Cooke, 32, Daniel Shellard, 31, Ian McCaig, 33<br> Company: <\/b>Qubit<br> <b>Web: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qubitproducts.com\">www.qubitproducts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Describing itself as a platform that delivers website personalisations that will &ldquo;actually impact the bottom line&rdquo;, Qubit is an all-encompassing analytics business that can build high-quality, unique website elements for its clients, then use its powerful analytics and intelligence tools to help them see exactly what works and what doesn&rsquo;t.<\/p>\n<p>Formed by Graham Cooke and others in a tech-savvy founding team comprised of former UK and US Google employees, the business has achieved extremely impressive 250% year-on-year revenue growth on its way to &pound;4.8m turnover in 2013, with a growing list of UK clients including TalkTalk, Monsoon Accessorize, Arcadia Group and Superdry and a European office. Following expansion across the pond last year, the young company has also secured deals with a number of major US retailers including bebe, Benetton, Dr Jays and b-glowing to name a few. Listed as one of Informilo&rsquo;s 25 hottest start-ups in London, and with $7.5m backing from Balderton Capital and Westminster Enterprises, Qubit is perfectly placed to exploit the continuing boom in analytics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Cooke, 32, Daniel Shellard, 31, Ian McCaig, 33 Company: Qubit Web: www.qubitproducts.com Describing itself as a platform that delivers website personalisations that will &ldquo;actually impact the bottom line&rdquo;, Qubit is an all-encompassing analytics business that can build high-quality, unique website elements for its clients, then use its powerful analytics and intelligence tools to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91469,"featured_media":43530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class-of-2014"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Graham Cooke, Daniel Shellard, Ian McCaig: Qubit - 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