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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based Founder operating in the Agriculture space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Benjamin Belldegrun
Founder & Managing Partner of Pontifax AgTech
Benjamin Belldegrun is co-founder and managing partner at Pontifax AgTech.
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About Pontifax AgTech: Pontifax AgTech is a pioneering growth capital investor in food and agriculture technology.
Keiran Olivares Whitaker
Founder & CEO of Entocycle
Environmental engineer, YC alumni, five years expertise in rearing insects, passionate environmentalist, deep sea diver.
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About Entocycle: Entocycle’s automated insect farm produces environmentally friendly insect protein to feed farmed animals.
Kizito Okelue
CEO & Founder of KODGAV
Kizito is the Founder of KODGAV. Before structuring KODGAV as limited liability company in October 2019, he worked as a sole proprietor developing business strategies. Beyond being an Entrepreneur he’s a fitness avid and creative.
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About KODGAV, KODGAV UK: Agtech platform creating new data driven food systems by integrating African smallholder farmers into a global supply chain.
Sam Watson Jones
Co-Founder and President of The Small Robot Company
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About The Small Robot Company: The Small Robot Company is delivering per plant farming for the world’s largest crops.
Matija Zulj
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AGRIVI
Matija is the founder and CEO of Agrivi. Matija believes that if we provide knowledge and technology to all food producers, we can provide enough food for everyone and keep agriculture sustainable. He holds an MSc in computer science and an MBA. Agrivi is an agri-tech startup that is creating the global agricultural eco-system with vision to change the way food is produced. With an intelligent cloud farm management solution, we help farmers to increase their productivity and find buyers for produced food. Agrivi is the winner of World Startup Competition 2014
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About AGRIVI: AGRIVI is a global agritech company with the market leading farm management software
Richard Ballard
Co-Founder & COO of Zero Carbon Farms
Richard Ballard is the Co-Founder and COO at Zero Carbon Farms.
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About Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Growing Underground, University College London (UCL), Zero Carbon Farms: Shaping the future of the growing industry to accelerate the world’s transition to carbon negative farming.
Tim Chambers
Co-Founder & Director of InspiraFarms
Tim Chambers is the Co-Founder and Director at InspiraFarms.
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About Carbon13, InspiraFarms, Offgrid Finance, Value for Women: InspiraFarms™ supplies modular, FOOD-SAFE certification ready modular processing and cold storage technology.
Ian Wheal
Founder and CEO of Breedr
Ian Wheal is the Founder and CEO of Breedr.
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About Breedr: Breedr is a productivity and marketing platform that’s transforming the livestock supply-chain.
Anders Gundersen
CEO & Founder of Sensonomic
Anders has experience from C-level strategy consulting, academia and the finance industry. He has been project lead on multiple projects in Scandinavia, UK and East Africa. Realising that land management issues are inherently complex, and that decisions affecting people, nature and businesses are often made with too little information, he founded Sensonomic to provide better data for decision making and risk management. Anders holds an MBA from the University of Oxford and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Bergen.
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About Sensonomic: Sensonomic creates computer simulations of agricultural systems to optimise yield, improve operations and increase resilience.
Tashia Tucker
Co-Founder & CEO of Olombria
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About Olombria: Olombria is an agricultural technology that curates fly behaviour, to increase pollination and ensure greater crop yields.
Ella Mills
Founder and Brand Director of Deliciously Ella
Ella Mills is the Founder and Brand Director of Deliciously Ella.
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About Deliciously Ella: Deliciously Ella is a food company based in London.
Ben Goldsmith
Founder of Weedingtech
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About Weedingtech: Weedingtech is a British company that designs and manufactures innovative weed control technologies for the amenity and utility markets.
Ben Goldsmith
Founder of Weedingtech
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About Weedingtech: Weedingtech is a British company that designs and manufactures innovative weed control technologies for the amenity and utility markets.
Louise Campbell
Founder of Foodnation
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About Craft Nation, Foodnation: Discover your food community
Sam Friskey
Co-Founder of Fit Delis
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About Fit Delis: Plant-Powered Nutrition
Thomas Forster
Co-Founder of Fit Delis
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About Fit Delis: Plant-Powered Nutrition
Andy Gardiner
Co-Founder of Sundew
Andy Gardiner currently works as the Co-Founder for Sundew ApS.
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About Sundew: Sundew is a biotechnology company that provides biological services for the treatment of aquatic pests and diseases.
Olly Hiscocks
Director & Founder of Olly’s Olives
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About Olly’s Olives: Olly’s Olives is the world’s first 100% natural, unpasteurised snack pouch of olives with no artificial additives.
Glynis Murray
Co-Founder of Good Hemp Food
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About Good Hemp Food: Good Hemp Food Provide Natural hemp seed,milk,oil.
James Mansfield
Founder of field&flower
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About field&flower: A UK-based company that delivers grass fed, free range meat boxes.
William Joyce
Co-Founder of BioNet Agriculture
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About BioNet Agriculture: BioNet Agriculture developes an edible biopolymer to wrap hay, straw and silage bales.
Paul Lederer
Founder of TAPPED Birch Water
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About TAPPED Birch Water: healthy drinks from birch water, the rejuvenating liquid which flows inside birch trees.
Ferhan Cook
Co-Founder of m-Spark
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About m-Spark: m-Spark designs and develops mobile projects that makes social impact in education, health, agriculture, and disability.
