Young Scottish Entrepeneur Makes One to Watch List
Scottish entrepeneur Cally Russell's been named as one of Forbes '30 Under 30 Europe'.
Scottish entrepreneur Cally Russell has been named as
one of Forbes ’30 under 30 Europe’.
Cally (27) founded the personalised shopping app –
Mallzee – in late 2012 bringing together hundreds of
high street retailers in one handy location.
As an M-Commerce pioneer, Mallzee is currently
ranked as the number one multi-retailer shopping app in
the UK and was named by Yahoo as “one of the six
apps that will change the way we shop forever”.
The app has a six figure user base, thousands of users
daily in over 125 countries with millions of product
interactions each week.
Forbes first ever “30 Under 30 Europe” list,
announced in London this morning, features 300 young
innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders across Europe
who are under 30 years of age and who are
transforming business, technology, finance, media,
culture and more, as judged by some of the most
accomplished and acclaimed individuals in each
category. The list covers 10 categories – Media,
Industry, Policy, Retail and E-Commerce, The Arts,
Entertainment, Social Entrepreneurs, Science and
Health Care, Technology, and Finance – with each of
the honorees vetted by a panel of expert judges in their
respective fields. Visit Forbes 30 Under 30.
With the list covering the whole of Europe, Cally was
the only Scottish entrepreneur featured in the Retail and
E-Commerce category. Other noteable Scottish
honoree is tennis star, Andy Murray (Entertainment
category).
Cally grew up in the Scottish highlands and studied at
Dundee University he now lives and works in Edinburgh
having established the Mallzee headquarters in the
Scottish capital. Cally readily admits one of the
toughest decisions he has made as CEO of Mallzee
happened last year, when he appeared on Dragons Den
and turned down Peter Jones offer of £75K investment.
Fortunately only a few months later his decision was
vindicated when Mallzee closed a significant £2.5
million funding round led by the Royal Mail Group,
taking total funding raised to date, to £3.1 million.