The ODI has been at the forefront of the open data movement since its inception in 2012.
In parallel to helping organisations open data sets to the public, with the ODI Incubator, we identified the need to support entrepreneurs who were building innovative digital businesses using publicly available data.
We coached startups on business models that focussed on keeping access to data available to anyone and provided them with businesses and technical skills.
About the incubator
The ODI startup incubator ran from 2012 to 2017 as a 9-12 months programme supporting early stage startups that used open data as part of their business model.
During the incubation, the startups received coaching from the ODI team, mentorship and training from relevant experts, office space and access to the ODI network of industry partners and stakeholders from the data community.
Impact
With this programme, we’ve supported 33 startups in five cohorts. Collectively they’ve employed 130 people and raised over £16m in sales, investment and efficiencies (time and money saved to customers), whilst generating social, environmental and economic impact.
External partners
An essential part of the success of this programme was the connecting of startups with external corporates fostering the development of exploratory projects., This resulted in some successful collaborations like the one between
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Interested in ODINE, our open data incubator for Europe? Find out more here
ODI Startups from our incubator
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ODI Incubator, Startup
3D Repo
- Built environment and housing
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ODI Incubator, Startup
Acasa
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ODI Incubator, Startup
Amiqus Resolution
- Data ethics and privacy
- Public service design
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ADSA, ODI Incubator, Startup, Supported startup
Bildeco
- Built environment and housing
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ODI Incubator, ODINE, Startup, Supported startup
Brightbook
- Banking and finance
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ODI Incubator, ODI Member
Carbon Culture
- Health and physical activity
- Weather, energy and environment
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Former ODI startup, ODI Incubator, ODI Member, ODINE
DataPress
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ODI Incubator, Startup
Enian
- Emerging tech and AI
- Weather, energy and environment
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ODI Incubator
Foodtrade
- Agriculture and food
- Health and physical activity
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ODI Incubator, Startup
I Can Make
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ODI Incubator, ODINE, Startup, Supported startup
Imin
- Health and physical activity
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ODI Incubator, ODINE, Startup
LandInsight
- Transport
- < http://www.landinsight.io/
- [email protected]
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ODI Incubator, ODI Member, Startup
Leasehold Knowledge Partnership
- Built environment and housing
- [email protected]
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ODI Incubator, ODI Member, Startup
Mastodon C
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- [email protected]
- 07984 045845
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ODI Incubator, ODI Member, Startup
MyEd
- [email protected]
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ODI Incubator, Startup
New Citizenship Project (Rabble)
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ODI Incubator
Open Bank (Tesobe)
- Open standards and open APIs
- [email protected]
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ODI Incubator, ODINE, Startup, Supported startup
OpenCorporates
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ODI Incubator, ODINE, Startup, Supported startup
openlaws
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ODI Incubator, ODINE, Startup, Supported startup
OpenSensors
- Built environment and housing
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ODI Incubator, Startup
Pesky People
- [email protected]
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ODI Incubator, Startup
Piclo
- Weather, energy and environment
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ODI Incubator, ODINE, Startup, Supported startup
Provenance
- Agriculture and food
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ODI Incubator, ODINE, Startup
RentSquare
- Built environment and housing
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ODI Incubator, Startup
Resurgence
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ODI Incubator, Startup
RoryTech
- Health and physical activity
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ODI Incubator
Senseye
- < http://www.senseye.io
- [email protected]
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Data Pitch, ODI Incubator, Startup
Spend Network
- Public service design
- [email protected]
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ODI Incubator, ODINE, Startup
Thingful (Umbrellium)
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ODI Incubator, Startup
TransportAPI (Placr)
- Transport
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ODI Incubator
Vizicities
- Cities