Launch22 CEO, Eddie Holmes will be chatting with Russell Quirk, Founder & CEO of eMoov, the UK’s leading online estate agent.

As a third generation estate agent, Russell ran five successful independent high street agency branches, before starting eMoov from his own home in 2010. By 2011 he had employed his first member of staff and since 2012 has expanded the business considerably, employing 64 staff across two offices.

Russell realised that the traditional model of estate agency was broken. He knew there was another way, putting the customer first and treating them fairly, which lead to the inception of eMoov and the dawn of digital disruption within the estate agency sector

Russell gained initial seed funding through Spire Ventures and James Caan in 2013, securing further funding through VC firm Episode One and Simon Murdoch. Russell has just closed a crowdfunding campaign through Crowdcube that saw eMoov smash through its target of £1m, to secure £2.6m making it the largest prop-tech raise in history. 

To date eMoov has achieved £1 billion in property sales, serving 10,000 customers and saving UK home sellers on average, £4,500 in high street estate agency fees.

Russell’s digital disruptions of the high street was highlighted by the Financial Times in 2014, naming eMoov.co.uk as the biggest disruptor in the property sector, along with names such as Lidl, Ford and Three

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