Best Startup
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 CEO operating in the Agriculture space. If you think a CEO 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.
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.
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
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.
James Kent
CEO of Xihelm
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About Xihelm: Xihelm is automating robotic, laborious handwork.
Jamie McInnes
Chief Executive Officer of Hectare Agritech
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About Hectare Agritech: Hectare is an agritech company focused on exploiting current inefficiencies and deficiencies in the farming industry supply chains.
Xiong Chang
CEO of Tensorfield Agriculture
Xiong is passionate about leading teams with a laser-focus on delivering customer value. He studied Manufacturing Engineering at Cambridge University and worked as a design engineer at GE Energy before moving to investment banking where he led global projects as Agile Product Owner among other roles. His mechanical design for one Beetl robot was included in the Top 10 Robotics Start-Ups at CES 2017 by Robotics Business Review.
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About Beetl Robotics, Tensorfield Agriculture: Tensorfield Agriculture is building the next generation of agricultural machines with a focus on applications for specialty row crops.
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.
Leo de Montaignac
CEO of Weedingtech
Leo de Montaignac joined Weeding Technologies as CEO in 2014.
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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.
Maryna Kuzmenko
CEO of Petiole
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About Petiole: Petiole is global platform for plant phenotyping with smartphone
