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We founded Elixel in 2012 with a dream of bringing ideas to life. Over the years we have supported a range of inspiring clients; from a wedding stationary startup to multinational financial institutions. Working together we have helped them to truly understand their audience and create meaningful products and services.

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The Elixel mission

What really gets us going

Enterprise has always been high on the list of priorities for our founders since leaving University and setting up Elixel. That spirit has never left, and we love seeing adventurous businesses thrive.

In order to make this happen we are building a team of down to earth, curious, hungry and forward thinking creators. Enabling us to partner and support you to solve problems, launch products and reach the ambitious goals you set yourselves.

We are on a mission to make solving problems enjoyable, engaging and impactful. Focusing on making the lives of people easier, one product at a time. So if we can help you make life easier, safer, more informative or more fun, especially if there's some kind of digital product in mind, count us in!

How we got here

2023

"Outstanding use of Technology" Award

WPA take home Cover Magazines "Outstanding use of Technology" award for the mobile app we have designed in partnership with them

2022

White paper Launched

We launched our first whitepaper, helping organisation to understand the importance of Human Centred design in their transformation strategy

2021

All about delivery

We took our first foray into logistics. Creating a better delivery experience for two firms including the international firm Pallex.

2020

Techstars Weekender

Gavin (MD) is asked to judge at the Plymouth Techstars Startup Weekend, helping entrepreneurs to solve world problems.

2019

Change at the top

Ed May joins as Commercial Director, creating a new strategic partnership and development powerhouse with Microsec and Nexio.

2018

Supporting women in Technology

Took over running Plymouth Web and joined the Women in STEM Plymouth board launching #GirlCode in the process.

2017

Tea Minus 10-9-8…

We successfully launched our own product! Tea Minus. An app built to improve the in office tea and coffee drink round.

2016

New Diggs!

Moved into a larger city centre office, allowing our team closer access to the coffee shops and opening the doors to our Device Lab.

2015

Landing the big fish

Won our first multi-billion pound client - Arvato. Who we worked with to create material for a new concept they were pitching.

2014

Digital Plymouth launched

Co-launched Digital Plymouth meet-up to connect digital and creative businesses across the South West, putting Plymouth on the world stage.

2013

Start-up Success

Won the Creative England starter for 10 competition to scale a student union app we created for Plymouth University across the UK

2012

Where the magic begun!

Gavin, Paul, Christian and Becky took the jump and founded the company straight out of University, investing just £20 each.

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The glorious South West

From Devon, to the world

Our head office is in Plymouth (UK), located between the beautiful Dartmoor National Park and the sea.  Ideal for walking meetings or a lunchtime wild swim.

The team has a passion for supporting the local tech community, we launched Digital Plymouth in 2014 and become the leading hosts for the Plymouth Web meet-ups.

Although headquartered in the UK, our capacity stretches even further through our key strategic partners Microsec and Nexio. With a team of over 500 people across the organisations we are able to scale and adapt our services to suit the needs of our clients and their wide range of project scopes while also being really hands on.

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