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Hack Partners
Improving rail through grassroots innovation
- 1-20 employees
- B2B
- Transport
- Big data
- Analytics
- SaaS
- Old Street, London, UK
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Company mission
Their goal is to build a global technology and consultancy business that helps infrastructure and transport operators, train manufacturers, and asset owners utilise data more efficiently to improve operational performance that ultimately benefits passengers.
Our take
The rail industry in the UK facilitates nearly 2 billion journeys every year. This colossal size makes innovation difficult. Even the most basic questions around train delays and seat availability are difficult to answer because of the archaic systems used.
Hack Partners was started to bring change to the rail industry. Their first initiative HackTrain focused on driving forward innovation within the rail industry through collaboration. During a 48-hour Hackathon, tech innovators, startups, government, asset managers and train operators would come together and solve some of the industry’s biggest problems.
Through HackTrain, Hack Partners has collaborated with some of the largest companies within the rail industry including Trainline, Eurostar, BAE Systems and IBM. Their work has helped put innovation on the agenda of every board meeting, with governments and industry investing more than ever before on new trains, technology, and ways of working. Their work has even been endorsed by the UK Department for Transport.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- We’re a team that makes the impossible possible: When we first started the company, nobody thought we’d be able to take a monolithic entity like the rail industry and get it to finally start investing in digital technology. After all, we were just outsiders who knew nothing about the industry. And that’s why we did it. We don’t flee from a hard fight, we walk towards it
- We’re energetic, transparent, and adaptive: The work we do is very serious, but there’s no reason we can’t have any fun whilst doing it! Selfies, self-deprecating humour, and spicy food are the norm. We’re not precious about our own ideas and business models, we’ve evolved as an organisation several times over the last few years and are proud of it. This flexibility has kept us alive through pure revenue generation to date and moving forward, will help us grow the business
Leadership
Haydon Bartlett-Tasker
(Managing Director)Has extensive experience in Strategy Consulting at Atius, PA Consulting Ventures Innovation at and Inzenka
People progressing
Joined as an 'Innovation & Technology Consultant', promoted to 'Senior Innovation & Technology Consultant' after a year. Less than 2 years after she is now the Head of Product & Commercial Delivery.
Joined as a 'Contract Software Engineer' after 9 months was promoted to 'Technical Lead'