Distil.ai selected as ALPHA Startup at WebSummit, Lisbon 2019

23/01/2020 by Gerry McNicol

Exeter startup, distil.ai/, a provider of marketing data technology, today announced they have been selected as ALPHA Startup at the Web Summit in Lisbon 2019.

Dubbed by Forbes Magazine as the “best technology conference on the planet”, Web Summit brings together 70,000 attendees – along with groundbreaking startups and companies looking to redefine the global tech industry.

Described as the location where ‘the future goes to be born’, annually Web Summit reviews applications from tech startups and invites a select few to the ALPHA Startup Programme. It’s a huge recognition for our work to be selected as ALPHA startup at this year’s Web Summit in Lisbon. We’re super honoured to be showcasing Distil alongside most innovative tech-startups as well as established world leaders in Data Science and Engineering.” said Gerry McNicol, founder of distil.ai/.

“Distil’s vision – giving businesses of any size the intelligence and know-how to speak to their customers in a uniquely personal way – is an answer to the outcry coming from every marketing team we met. They have data but they are far from being able to utilise it in a simple self-serve,
self provision way. Distil is unlocking this ability for every modern marketeer, for every business who values their customers’ attention and time,” added Elina Scorey CBDO, at distil.ai/

Distil is offering a set of unique benefits to all new subscribers. To get Distil’s please email getstarted@distil.ai or visit distil.ai/.

Elina adds “To all our new subscribers we offer a great value fast track data consultancy session as part of Distil on-boarding. We want to see all our users eliciting value from Distil – so all the customer love and support needed is continually provided to make sure their goals are fully understood and data is there to deliver, bearing in mind that piping data around is quite complex.”

To learn more about distil.ai/, please visit Distil’s website at distil.ai/ or follow the company on LinkedInFacebook or Twitter.

About Distil

Distil is a groundbreaking marketing data tool enabling digitally native businesses to trust their customer data and use it to speak to their audience in a uniquely personal way through the multiple touch-points needed in today’s connected world.

Gerry McNicol
By Gerry McNicol
Gerry McNicol, CEO and expert Data Scientist founded Distil with a simple conviction: that powerful data intelligence shouldn't require a team of engineers to unlock it. What began as a platform to help businesses harness their data has evolved into the Revenue Management Engine for restaurant groups worldwide — connecting reservations, POS, marketing, and operations into a single source of truth that every team can act on. Gerry and the Distil team remain driven by that original question: making data feel easier, clearer, and more useful for the people who rely on it every day.

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