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 Founder operating in the Developer Tools 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.
Paul Thomas
Founder and Managing Director of Lead Forensics
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About Lead Forensics: Lead Forensics is the B2B software that identifies anonymous website visitors, providing full contact details and customer journey insight.
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Matthias Radestock
Co-Founder of Weaveworks
Matthias is the co-founder of Weaveworks. He previously co-founded RabbitMQ, and a number of other software technology start-ups. Matthias has a PhD in Computer Science from Imperial College, and has spent much of the past 20 years wrestling with distributed systems.
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About Weaveworks: Weaveworks simplifies operating Kubernetes workloads and provides a developer-centric operating model for cloud-native applications.
Alexis Richardson
CEO & Co-Founder of Weaveworks
Alexis is the co-founder and CEO of Weaveworks. He is also the chairman of the TOC for CNCF, and the co-founder of the Coed:Code meetups. Previously he was at Pivotal, as head of products for Spring, RabbitMQ, Redis, Apache Tomcat and vFabric. Alexis was responsible for resetting the product direction of Spring and transitioning the vFabric business from VMware. Alexis co-founded RabbitMQ, and was CEO of the Rabbit company acquired by VMware in 2010, where he worked on numerous cloud platforms. Rumours persist that he co-founded several other software companies including Cohesive Networks, after a career as a prop trader in fixed income derivatives, and a misspent youth studying and teaching mathematical logic.
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About Metalogic, Rabbit Technologies, Weaveworks: Weaveworks simplifies operating Kubernetes workloads and provides a developer-centric operating model for cloud-native applications.
Baran Korkmaz
Founder, CEO of ARWAY
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About ARWAY: ARWAY is a spatial mapping platform critical to building the Metaverse.
Craig Beddis
CEO of Hadean
An entrepreneurial senior executive with 25 successful years and experience grounded in building and transforming business and accelerating growth.
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About Hadean: Deploy Cloud Native Applications Simply and Securely
David Scott Turner
Co-Founder and CTO of Imburse
David’s long background in and strong passion for disruptive technology makes him the right person to lead our technical development and vision as CTO of IMburse. David deploys his extensive startup and advisory experience, coupled with his strong leadership, innovative thinking and strong technical background into the role; all essential to lead the technical development off IMburse. It is no surprise that with someone like David in your corner the product will be amazing.
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About Imburse: Imburse is a cloud-based payments integration platform.
Jaime Jorge
Co Founder & CEO of Codacy
Co Founder and CEO at Codacy.
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About Codacy: Codacy is an automated code review tool that helps developers save time in code reviews and manage technical debt.
Joao Caxaria
Co-Founder and CTO of Codacy
Over 15 years of experience in Software development. Specialities: Scala, Java, .NET, Objective-C
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About Codacy: Codacy is an automated code review tool that helps developers save time in code reviews and manage technical debt.
Sven Al Hamad
Co-Founder and CEO of Webiny
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About Webiny: Easiest way to adopt serverless.
Horace Ho
Founder of Nextlayer
Horace is well versed with the vigorous thinking of engineers and the more organic and creative process of designers, serving as a bridge across disciplines in team situations. Horace, a star-student at CSM, spent the year following his graduation in Shanghai developing a community-experience-based tenant recruiting strategy for a 100,000m² mixed-use building that was much better suited to the needs of residents living nearby than a more traditional retail lead strategy. A formative and formidable task to begin one’s approach to user-centred design! Since joining the tech-startup scene in London, he has helped various companies to i) find strategic points where they can significantly improve the experience of their clients; ii) efficiently occupy these strategic points by optimal use of existing resources and infrastructure. Horace founded Nextlayer to help users better organise, comprehend and utilise the content they consume from day to day. He passionately applies the same user centred approach to Nextlayer’s creative processes and hopes to build an experience that is enjoyable, intuitive and meaningful for our users.
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About Nextlayer: Mobile App
Mark Bracey
Co-Founder & shareholder of Doohclick AB
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About Doohclick AB: DoohClick AB is a Swedish based company which develops and provides out of home ad serving ecosystems
Daniel Nordh
Founder of Curator & Co
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About Curator & Co, Paymobil: A fast and visual tool for creative thinking.
Tiny van Niekerk
Founder of The Digital Bra
Founder at The Digital Bra.
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About The Digital Bra: The Digital Bra is a mobile applications that uses 3D scans to create a customized bra for each user.
Judy van Niekerk
Founder of The Digital Bra
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About The Digital Bra: The Digital Bra is a mobile applications that uses 3D scans to create a customized bra for each user.
Gaetano Checinski
Founder and CEO of LoopPerfect
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About LoopPerfect: LoopPerfect’s mission is to streamline the development of C++ code, by using a just-in-time compiler.
Nicholas Hopper
Founder & CEO of Crozdesk
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About Crozdesk: Crozdesk is a discovery platform which connects software buyers with B2B SaaS products
Paul Thomas
Co-Founder & Development Director of Cupris Health
Paul Thomas is the Co Founder & Development Director at Cupris Health.
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About Cupris Health, PD HIVE: Cupris Health develope communication software and smartphone-connected medical devices.
Tom Akehurst
Founder of MockLab
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About MockLab: Super-fast hosted API mocking (Service Virtualization), with a QA-friendly UI
Giles Thomas
Founder of PythonAnywhere
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About PythonAnywhere: PythonAnywhere is a popular and growing platform-as-a-service that makes it easy for programmers to create, store and run their software in
Angela Massey
Founder of Telligen
Founder at Telligen
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About Telligen: Telligen is a UK based company creating digital identities, web and mobile applications for the Arts and Culture sector
Samuel Ryzycki
Co Founder of MILLION12
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About MILLION12: MILLION12 Ltd develops projects based on Neos CMS publishing platform, including the Typostrap.io
