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 iOS 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.
Michael Skelly
CEO of Stacker
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About Stacker: Stacker is a no-code software creation platform that develops an application to help developers build software.
Kirill Chliaifchtein
Founder & CEO of SwiftGift
Founder & CEO at SwiftGift
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About SwiftGift: SwiftGift is the world’s first Instant Gift Messenger App which allows you to send real gifts to anyone in your phone’s contact book.
Baris Ozaydinli
Founder & CEO of Scooch
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About Fitwell, Founders Factory, Founders Factory, Scooch: Scooch is a mobile application that encourages individuals to reach a medically recommended level of movement.
Ian Hooper
CEO & Founder of Scooch
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About Scooch: Scooch is a mobile application that encourages individuals to reach a medically recommended level of movement.
Maria Raga
Chief Executive Officer of Depop
Maria Raga is the CEO of Depop. Since being promoted to the position in 2016 from VP of Operations, she has presided over every element of the business from finance and engineering to marketing and product. An open and collaborative CEO, Maria is dedicated to her team, which has grown to 150+ employees in 5 offices worldwide in the last three years alone. Perhaps most importantly, since she took over as CEO, she has raised close to $100M in funding, which has helped to grow and nurture the community on Depop – now 13 million users. Prior to Depop, Maria held successively roles at Groupon and Privalia. Having graduated from Insead MBA, Maria joined Bain & Company as a consultant. Born in Valencia, Spain, Maria now resides in London with her husband and 2 children. In her spare time, Maria enjoys connecting with Depop’s entrepreneurial Gen-Z constituency and promoting women in the workplace
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About Depop: Depop provides a mobile application that allows users to buy, sell, discover, and explore various things.
Nate Macleitch
CEO of QuickBlox
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About QuickBlox, Techstars: QuickBlox is a cloud communication backend that allows to add Chat, Video calling, Push Notifications, Cloud Sync into mobile and web apps.
Dan Ziv
Chief Executive Officer of TouchNote
Dan Ziv has been Managing Director of TouchNote since May 2017. He joined TouchNote as Chief Product Officer in 2016. Prior to this, Dan co-founded Uncover, the award-winning premium restaurant reservation app, which was acquired in 2015. He was previously an M&A lawyer in the technology sector, in addition to roles at PayPal Europe in Paris and VC fund Index Ventures in London. Dan is an advisor and board member in several early and late stage startups, mentors at Techstars London and is a founding member of Founders of the Future. Dan completed his MBA at London Business School.
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About TouchNote: TouchNote helps you send thoughtful cards and prints to loved ones, right from your mobile, tablet or desktop.
Daneh Westropp
Founder & CEO of Pickle
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About Pickle: Find different friends for different things!
Adam Korbl
Founder & CEO of Crowded Road
Adam is a seasoned entrepreneur and mobile app guru. He co-founded Glide, the world’s first instant video messaging platform and serves as the Chief Product & Marketing Office. Founded Crowded Road (http://crowdedroad.com), a mobile app consulting outfit that has consulted for a range of global brands such as Billabong, Inc. and has produced 30+ profitable apps, including the popular iFax suite (http://ifaxapp.com) that is currently the highest grossing fax app on both the iOS and Android app markets. Adam has been featured by the NY Times, WSJ, USA Today, Mashable and TechCrunch for his previous initiatives and holds an MBA, from the Fordham Graduate School of Business.
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About Crowded Road: Crowded Road is a mobile app consulting outfit that has produced over 40 mobile apps, including the popular iOS/Android business app iFax.
James Griffith
CEO & Co-founder of Mous
James Griffith is the CEO and co-founder at Mous.
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About Mous: Mous is a fashion tech brand that designs and manufactures protective accessories.
Mac Dziedziela
CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Screenable
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About Delta Heed, Screenable: Screenable is a smart video interview platform designed for recruiters to streamline applicant screenings.
Robert Tezescu
CEO & Founder of Antares Code Studio
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About Antares Code Studio, Xtraordinary Ltd: Custom software services, including web and mobile application development.
Karl Gilbert
CEO of Raylo
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About Raylo, Raylo: Raylo is on a mission to shake up the UK mobile sector.
Branko Milutinovic
Co-Founder & CEO of Nordeus
Branko Milutinovic is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of one of the fastest growing European gaming company Nordeus. Over the previous 4 years bootstrapped Nordeus have grown from 3 to 150 people, pioneering the cross-platform game development & publishing and becoming one of the most successful social and mobile gaming companies world wide. Engineer by education, gamer in heart, Branko grew up playing sports, enjoying video games and coding. Not much has changed since. Nordeus is best known for Top Eleven, one of the most popular sports video games in the world with more than 5 million players on a daily basis and legendary Jose Mourinho as the official face of the game. Branko earned his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Belgrade (2002-2008).
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About Nordeus: Nordeus develops mobile and browser-based social network games for web, Android and iOS devices.
Alex Siljanovski
Founder & CEO of BaseStone
Alex is a Chartered engineer with extensive civil industry experience. Specialising in rail, transportation, water, ports, mechanical & electrical systems, energy and building services sectors – all enhanced by multidisciplinary project management experience.
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About BaseStone: BaseStone is a mobile and web application built for construction teams to access, capture and communicate information.
Yohann Merran
Founder, CEO, Lead Dev of Meet My Friends
Founder, CEO, Lead Dev at Meet My Friends
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About Meet My Friends: MMF is a hybrid app between a social network and a city guide, to spontaneously discover events you’ll love exploring with your friends.
Vinita Rathi
CEO & Co-Founder of Systango
Vinita, Ex Vice President Goldman Sachs, London and now founder of IT agency Systango.com which helps and hand holds founders, especially, with no technology background to build their product and get it out of the door just like an in-house team would do. She has successfully put together a team, handpicked her members that work in sprints, agile and work shoulder to shoulder. When the time is right Systango then helps start up build local team and transition seamlessly. Vinita recently helped a founder who was struggling in building his product despite of having a fantastic idea. The company now has a working product, team of two in-house developers and Vinita jumps in as and when deadlines are more aggressive than what their in-house team can handle. In her community time, Vinita is Director of WomenWhoCode.com London Chapter. She is also founder of WomenHackForNonProfits.com – an initiative to increase women developer’s footprint in open source & non profit projects. It has more than 200 women developer volunteers and about 5 non profits registered to work with. In her spare time she also runs CodePunt.Today – a daily challenge website in alpha to keep developer’s developer by heart. When she is not doing one of the projects above, she is probably playing with her 4 year old son!
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About Systango: Systango is a software company provides custom web, mobile application, game, ecommerce development services.
Indy Sangha
Founder & CEO of Tailster
Indy Sangha is a Founder & CEO at Tailster.
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About Tailster: Tailster is an application that matches pet owners with people who are willing to care for your pet.
Mo Firouzabadian
co CEO of Lumata
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About Lumata: Lumata is the leading global provider of real-time customer lifecycle management, advertising, and data monetisation software and services.
Gabriel DOMBRI
CEO of Tapptitude | a product building studio
Gabriel is the CEO in Tapptitude and growth advisor in Spherik Accelerator. With over 10 years of digital experience, Gabriel has been at the intersection between marketing and product, for the last 5 years with a steady focus to help founders build better products and build sustainable businesses around them. Frequent mentor and adviser for startups worldwide and present constantly as speaker on product and tech events in Europe. Currently, Gabriel is the CEO of Tapptitude, a product agency focused on building mobile products.
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About Tapptitude | a product building studio: Tapptitude focuses on helping startup founders conceptualise, build, and grow digital products that have an impact at scale.
Callum Brighting
CEO of Netspeak Games
Running Netspeak Games. Diversity, Inclusion and Creativity are our pillars. Always looking to talk about games, technology and people. Previous: Improbable, Bloomberg, Kuju, Traveller’s Tales
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About Netspeak Games: Netspeak Games operates as a zero-crunch studio that develops online multiplayer games.
Asaf Rozin
Co-founder & CEO of Stampfeet
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About Stampfeet: Mobile loyalty solutions for retailers and brands
Jenna Brown
CEO & Co-Founder of Shipamax
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About Shipamax: Shipamax provides seamless fleet and deals management for operators and brokers.
Adam Wilson
CEO of Splash Technologies
After 8 years in the industry at the likes of 888 & Initial Rewards, in 2015 Adam co-founded Bookee, the award winning sports betting app. Adam has a passion for product and spends most of his life with his eyes glued to his phone.
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About Bookee, Splash Technologies: Splash brings cryptocurrency into everyday life, for everyday transactions, for everyone.
Jo Eckersley
CEO & Founder of Bubbl Ltd
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About Bubbl Ltd: Cutting-edge mobile app plug-in that allows companies to hyper-focus their marketing efforts with geo-triggered customer engagement tools.
Luca Manara
Co-Founder & CEO of AppQuality
Luca Manara is a co-founder and CEO at App Quality.
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About AppQuality: UNGUESS is the tech platform to bring collective wisdom in your decision making processes, fast and at any time needed
Gintare Zitkeviciute
Founder and CEO of Hype App
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About Hype App, Hype Experiences: Hype App is a smartphone application that enables users to find out what events and places are placed in and around their locality.
Nina Tumanishvili
Founder & CEO of HelloHub
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About HelloHub, Odin, TubeChat: Enhancing human connection through technology.
Richard Stobart
CEO & Founder of Unboxed
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About Unboxed: The largest Ruby on Rails development agency in London and Cape Town
Alan Goode
CEO & Chief Analyst of Goode Intelligence
Founder of Goode Intelligence. London-based research and analysis firm that specialises in Information Security and Mobile Commerce. Publisher of the mSecurity 2010 series of reports investigating the market for mobile phone security products and services.
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About Goode Intelligence: Goode Intelligence provide Mobile Security, Identity & Biometrics Research & Consultancy.
Andreas Tsindos
CEO of MWAN Mobile Ltd
Blockchain Practice Head Andreas is a Fintech, telecommunication, and Blockchain professional with over 20 years of experience. Andreas has worked for large multinational companies such as Vodafone, News Corporation International, and Siemens Communications. In the last 3 years, he has been involved in and developed solutions on top of the Decentralised Blockchain protocols. He has also spoke at several industry events to date.
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About Arkratos Blockchain Solutions Pte. Ltd., MWAN Mobile Ltd: A Digital and Mobile Technology provider of Blockchain, Mobile Payments, Fintech and Enterprise services delivering solutions to your needs
Liane Katz
Co-Founder & CEO of Mama.codes
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About Mama.codes: Mama.codes fun, creative creative coding projects for kids age 3+ in school, at code clubs and at home.
Emmanuel Duran Campana
Co-Founder & CEO of Tunsy
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About Tunsy: The ultimate shopping app
Jon Hare
CEO of Tower Studios
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About Tower Studios: Tower Studios develops games for android and iOS platforms.
Tiernan Kenny
CEO of Wayfindr
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About Wayfindr: Wayfindr aims to empower vision impaired people to overcome isolation, through open standards for accessible audio based navigation.
