Ronnie Somerville

simpleERB.com

📍 Greater Glasgow Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2013𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Investor in , Advisor to, Loyalty, Data & Marketing Company
Jan 2013
Based in Glasgow city centre, Swipii is bringing shoppers the simplest way to save money when they shop locally while providing retailers with a simple and automated marketing tool. As a team, our mission is to better connect consumers and local businesses. We want our cashback app to be 10x easier to use, and 10x the value of our competitors. Swipii was founded in 2014 by Forbes 30 under 30 winners. Since then we have been awarded the Best 'Customer Loyalty, Personalisation and CRM' award at the UK Digital Experience Awards and also named among Europe’s top 100 disruptive startups in the retail industry. In 2019, we were finalists in the Scottish Tech Startup Awards for Mobile Startup of the Year. Swipii is now focused on growth. The team is aiming for expansion this year, with product development, new features and new locations all in the pipeline. To join us on our mission and to see how Swipii can help your business grow please get in touch at hello@swipiicard.com.
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2013
Investor in , Advisor to, Loyalty, Data & Marketing Company
Jan 2013
Based in Glasgow city centre, Swipii is bringing shoppers the simplest way to save money when they shop locally while providing retailers with a simple and automated marketing tool. As a team, our mission is to better connect consumers and local businesses. We want our cashback app to be 10x easier to use, and 10x the value of our competitors. Swipii was founded in 2014 by Forbes 30 under 30 winners. Since then we have been awarded the Best 'Customer Loyalty, Personalisation and CRM' award at the UK Digital Experience Awards and also named among Europe’s top 100 disruptive startups in the retail industry. In 2019, we were finalists in the Scottish Tech Startup Awards for Mobile Startup of the Year. Swipii is now focused on growth. The team is aiming for expansion this year, with product development, new features and new locations all in the pipeline. To join us on our mission and to see how Swipii can help your business grow please get in touch at hello@swipiicard.com.
2012
simpleERB.com
Founder
Jan 2012
2009
Culture Sparks
Board Member
Aug 2009
2000
Founder, Restaurant Reservation Service 5pm
2000
5pm.co.uk provides fantastic online restaurant deals and reservation services - offering the consumer the best deals in town and the restaurateur the sharpest marketing tool for filling empty seats. 5pm also operates an online Spa & Beauty reservation service - offering great consumer deals in salons and spas, again at times when salon operators are looking to fill up excess capacity. 5pm's Big Deals, daily deals with at least a 50% saving, bringing customers amazing value, and offer partners a fantastic marketing tool. simpleERB is a simple yet powerful Electronic Reservation Book for restaurants. For more information on partnering or franchising the 5pm system internationally contact franchise@5pm.co.uk.
Founder
2000
simpleERB is a restaurant diary & booking management system created to assist in simplifying; table management and online booking, eliminating no-shows and improving cash flow. In 2022, we helped restaurants process over 1.7 million bookings. We offer a cloud-based system, which allows users to access their diary on any device with an internet browser. There are no added costs for hardware, installation or continuous updates. The system is self-managed to allow users to make changes immediately to the restaurant diary and offers access to comprehensive customer and booking data reports. simpleERB allows restaurants to efficiently manage and take bookings online via a widget or through social pages. We are a great first step for businesses looking to progress from phone bookings, online booking forms or a traditional paper diary to an electronic booking system. The system can help maximise booking capacity, avoid overbooking and build a GDPR-compliant CRM. Our monthly plan subscriptions are competitively priced with no lock-in. Change plans depending on cover usage needs and pause/restart anytime if you are a seasonal business. We can help to eliminate no-shows and last-minute cancellations with our reminder notifications and payment integration feature. The payment rule setup offers complex, yet flexible capability to suit a restaurants individual requirements. We also offer a feature to set up specialised booking options that can be used for ticketed events or fixed price menus with the facility to take payment or card for a specified booking option. We pride ourselves in providing a friendly UK-based support team available by phone, email or remote access to assist with any queries.