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 Product operating in the Artificial Intelligence space. If you think a Product 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.
Cinz Ricciardone
VP of Product of Cognism
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About Cognism: Cognism is a B2B sales acceleration software company that provides a marketing and sales acceleration solution.
Harry Edmonds
Product development of Satalia
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About Satalia: Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Chris Stutz
Product development of Satalia
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About Satalia: Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Hugo Grimmett
Staff Product Manager, Level 5, Autonomous Vehicles division of Woven Planet Holdings
Hugo has a Ph.D. in robotics from the Oxford Robotics Institute where he worked on self-driving cars and computer vision.He built maps for self-driving cars and devised machine learning methods for how they should behave in uncertain environments.
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About Woven Planet Holdings: Woven Planet Holdings develops technologies designed to achieve zero casualties and provide mobility for all.
Ben Chisell
Director of Product of OakNorth
Ben Chisell is Product Director at Starling Bank, a modern mobile-only bank built to help customers gain better insight into their financial lives, and give them access to all of their financial products in one place through the Starling Marketplace. Ben wants to build a bank that truly puts the customer first, and solves meaningful problems that can have a positive impact on their lives.
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About OakNorth: OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
Laura Hutton
Fraud and Financial Markets Products of Quantexa
For over a decade Laura has helped the world’s largest retail and investment banks fight fraud through data analytics. Starting by analysing customer and transaction data within retail banks to tackle an array of fraud typologies, Laura pioneered the early unauthorised trading detection solutions and has since participated in multiple holistic surveillance global initiatives and markets AML programs. Prior to Quantexa, she was one of the founding experts within the Detica NetReveal team and then went on to lead banking fraud for SAS across EMEA/AP.
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About Quantexa, Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Alexon Bell
Compliance Products of Quantexa
Alexon is a hands-on AML practitioner with over 16 years experience helping financial institutions with AML strategies, architectures and implementations. He has a wealth of experience in helping customers deploy and crucially optimise AML, KYC and sanctions screening solutions, having held leadership roles at Actimize (Fortent), SAS as EMEA/AP head of compliance solutions and Oracle. As a thought leader, he works with banks to help them tackle the latest emerging threats, ensure coverage and prepare for new regulation in the fight against organised crime and terrorism.
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About Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Nicole Pretorius
Senior Product Manager of Emitwise
Nicole was born and raised in South Africa, educated at St. Andrews University in Scotland, and is currently immersed in the tech industry having cofounded SheCanCode – a career consulting and coaching platform that aspires to bridge the digital skills gap by empowering diverse technologists to enter and remain in the tech industry.
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About Emitwise: Emitwise empowers businesses to automatically measure, report, and reduce their carbon footprint in real-time.
Simon Jaffery-Reed
Vice-President of Product of Qubit
Simon joined Qubit as its first external hire during the company’s research and development phase. He was initially responsible for product innovation and developing analysis techniques that lead the way in conversion optimisation. After working on each of its core products across the platform, he is now responsible for leading product strategy across its entire product suite as Group Product Manager.
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
Robyn McGirl
Product of Signal AI
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Andy Black
Senior Product Manager of Signal AI
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Chloe Nicholls
Product Marketing Manager of SimilarWeb
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About SimilarWeb: SimilarWeb offers an AI-based market intelligence platform that helps monitor web and mobile app traffic.
Nicholas Timon
Head of Product – Decipher IDP of Blue Prism
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Jose Gomes
Head of Digital Product of Proportunity
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About Proportunity: Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
Anthony Siggers
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Archipelago
Anthony Siggers is the Co-Founder and CPO at Archipelago.
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About Archipelago: Archipelago uses AI to digitize risk for large owners of commercial property to increase their resiliency and lower their cost of risk..
Kristian Carter
Product Marketing Specialist of Featurespace
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Tanu Chellam
VP Product of Seldon
Social-impact oriented tech entrepreneur who has won awards for managing both people and products, across corporate and startup environments.
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About Seldon: Machine Learning Deployment Platform
David Trevelyan
Senior Software Engineer, Music Production R&D of Jukedeck
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About Jukedeck: Jukedeck is developing an artificially intelligent music composer.
Pierre Chanquion
Senior Software Engineer, Music Production R&D of Jukedeck
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About Jukedeck: Jukedeck is developing an artificially intelligent music composer.
Milly Trotter
Product Manager of Resolver
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About Resolver: Resolver provides an end-to-end complaint-resolution service.
Tom Smith
Head of Product of Resolver
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About Resolver: Resolver provides an end-to-end complaint-resolution service.
Tom Smith
Head of Product of Resolver
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About Resolver: Resolver provides an end-to-end complaint-resolution service.
Jack Pursey
Co Founder & Product Manager of SafeToNet
Jack is a recent Marketing, Advertising and Communications graduate from the University of Gloucestershire. Already an entrepreneur, Jack founded the award winning business Seen Clothing in 2012. Jack is our product manager and works closely with the design and development teams. He also likes Nando’s and long walks on the beach.
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About SafeToNet: SafeToNet makes the digital world safer for children to explore and enjoy.
Leslie Nooteboom
Chief Product Officer, Co-Founder of Humanising Autonomy
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About Humanising Autonomy: Humanising Autonomy is building the global standard for human machine interactions.
Anthony Buckley-Thorp
Chief Product Officer of Building Radar
Anthony Buckley-Thorp is the Chief Product Officer at Building Radar.
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About Building Radar: Building Radar provides detailed information on construction projects and the companies involved.
Emily Savage
Commercial Product Lead – Immersive (XR) of Digital Catapult
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About Digital Catapult: Digital Catapult drives early adoption of advanced digital technologies to grow the country’s economy.
Lauren Oldham
VP, Product of ThoughtRiver
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About ThoughtRiver: ThoughtRiver reviews and rates contracts via a contract Intelligence engine.
Alex Burns
Founder and Head of Product of LuckyTrip
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About LuckyTrip: LuckyTrip is a travel inspiration app that lets you find a trip in one tap.
Thibault Marion de Procé
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Vyking
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About Vyking: Making Digital Fashion Wearable
Drew Smith
VP Product Strategy of Volo
Drew joined Volo in June 2015 and leads product vision and direction at Volo. Drew started his time at Volo as part of the sales team, originally working as a Sales Consultant and then a Senior Consultant. He is passionate about the retail industry and the ever-evolving consumer world. Drew’s main driver at Volo is to ensure that we build value-first technology which enables our customers to be successful.
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About Volo: Volo is an ecommerce business.
Mark Williams
Head of Product Delivery of Nodal
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About Nodal: Nodal is revolutionising recruitment using blockchain technology
Zakhar Davydov
Product designer of why
qoo.fit co-founder, AI/ML engineer, product designer
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About why: Revolutionary media delivery platform empowered by an AI journalist
