{"id":44150,"date":"2015-09-17T00:33:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T23:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/?p=44150"},"modified":"2021-05-18T17:05:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:05:56","slug":"angus-elphinstone-anyvan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/angus-elphinstone-anyvan-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Angus Elphinstone: AnyVan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Angus Elphinstone, 32<br> Company:<\/b> AnyVan.com<br> <b>Web:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anyvan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.anyvan.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every so often a business crosses your path that&rsquo;s so ingeniously simple you can&rsquo;t quite believe you didn&rsquo;t think of it first &ndash; enter AnyVan. The online transport marketplace for courier and delivery services enables users to connect with certified businesses\/individuals who can complete (and have to compete) for their delivery job &ndash; be that just one package or the inside of your entire home.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2009, when founder Angus Elphinstone was just 27 years-old, the platform has since attracted over 1.8 million users in the UK and Europe that range from students, eBay businesses and home movers; and has been covered by multiple national media outlets including the BBC, the <i>Guardian<\/i>, the <i>Daily Express<\/i>, <i>The Daily Telegraph<\/i> and Channel 4.<\/p>\n<p>The delivery platform has also acquired &pound;1.8m in funding, launched the popular AnyVan app and secured partnerships with the biggest names in the UK&rsquo;s sharing economy and online marketplaces including Zoopla, Gumtree, My Parcel Delivery and eBay. The founder&rsquo;s original ambition for the business remains, &ldquo;to have a product which is synonymous with the action of moving something&rdquo; &ndash; an aim he looks on a direct route to achieving.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angus Elphinstone, 32 Company: AnyVan.com Web: www.anyvan.com Every so often a business crosses your path that&rsquo;s so ingeniously simple you can&rsquo;t quite believe you didn&rsquo;t think of it first &ndash; enter AnyVan. The online transport marketplace for courier and delivery services enables users to connect with certified businesses\/individuals who can complete (and have to compete) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91469,"featured_media":44197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class-of-2015"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Angus Elphinstone: AnyVan.com - Young Guns by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/angus-elphinstone-anyvan-com\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Angus Elphinstone: AnyVan.com - Young Guns by Startups.co.uk: Start up a successful business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Angus Elphinstone, 32 Company: AnyVan.com Web: www.anyvan.com Every so often a business crosses your path that&rsquo;s so ingeniously simple you can&rsquo;t quite believe you didn&rsquo;t think of it first &ndash; enter AnyVan. 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