Farillio

As a lawyer, serial entrepreneur and customer of legal services for many years, Merlie Calvert experienced the struggle of finding key-information and materials needed to thrive as a business and became obsessed with fixing it. In 2018 she launched Farillio. Farillio has raised more than £1.5 million ($1.8 million) from Lord Stanley Fink and other angel investors.. Farillio’s solution for democratizing legal and business services for SMEs, empowering them to solve everyday business problems, Shortlisted in the U.K. Startups 100 list in 2019. “We’re a springboard to business success and a safety net if problems arise,” says Calvert. Users can access 'how-to’ video tutorials, checklists, infographics, and curated templates, plus experts on a pay-as-you-go basis is extra help is needed via the platform’s user-friendly technology. Merlie Calvert says: “We built an online 'cookbook', stuffed with comprehensive recipes that meet the everyday objectives that small businesses experience, from help with HR and handling complaints, to harnessing IP and much more. We dropped those into a Google Docs-style, collaborative environment that’s pre-populated with the ingredients to deliver on those objectives.”