myscran.
Proper food. Proper prices.
A food delivery marketplace built around independent restaurants. Kitchens run their own delivery and keep more of every order.
We build our own products and run them ourselves.
Ascension Labs is a technology company. We build software, take it to market, and stay to run it — the product, the payments, the support. We’re not an incubator, an agency or an investor.
Founded
2026
Registered
England & Wales
Headquarters
London
Sector
Technology
What we’re building
Products we own, operate and support.
More to follow.
myscran was built by someone who worked in one.
Years in a family-run takeaway came before any of the software. That is why the commission starts at 12%, and why the kitchen keeps its own delivery.
Leadership
The people behind the company.
John Lam
Founder
John has been a software engineer since 2014 — twelve years across law firms, IT infrastructure, semiconductor, finance and print. Different industries with one thing in common: systems people depend on, where getting it wrong is expensive.
The takeaway trade came first. Before the software career there were years working in a family-run takeaway, and that is where myscran comes from — knowing what a Friday night actually looks like behind the counter, and what the commission really costs a kitchen that size.
Ascension Labs was formed to build and hold that product, and the ones that follow — and John builds them.
Makbul Ali
Co-founder
Makbul has spent a career in financial planning and management — telecommunications, hospitality software, private equity, mutual fund management and payments technology. Different sectors, the same question in each: what does this actually cost to run, and do the numbers hold up?
A fully qualified CIMA accountant (ACMA, CGMA), with a First Class BSc (Hons) in Finance and Accounting from the University of Salford — and later back at Salford as a mentor, helping undergraduates into the profession.
Ascension Labs was formed to build products and hold them for the long term. That only works if the numbers do.
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