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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 Logistics 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.
Sebastien Breteau
Founder & CEO of QIMA
Sebastien Breteau is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of QIMA, a global supply chain compliance solutions provider headquartered in Hong Kong. Founded in 2005, QIMA partners with brands, retailers and manufacturers in consumer goods and food to secure and improve the quality of their global supply network. QIMA combines on-the-ground experts in 85 countries for quality inspections, supplier audits, certification and lab testing, with a digital platform that brings accuracy, visibility and intelligence for quality and compliance data. In 2013, Sebastien created the Breteau Foundation, a non-profit organisation which aims to promote digital education for children in developing countries. 18,000 children are now enrolled in its program. Sebastien Breteau is also an active private investor in Europe, China & the US and has invested in over 30 start-ups globally.
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About Breteau Foundation, QIMA: QIMA is a provider of supply chain compliance solutions to secure, manage and optimize global supply networks.
Chris Sheldrick
Co-Founder & CEO of what3words
Chris worked in the music business for 10 years, booking bands and managing production for events around the globe. He was constantly frustrated with suppliers not finding site entrances, and bands not finding their way from the hotel to their gigs. Chris tried distributing addresses and GPS coordinates for years but both failed him on numerous occasions. He was certain there was a better way: what3words was born.
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About TED Conferences, The World Economic Forum, what3words: what3words is a mapping technology startup that creates a proprietary geocode system for logistics firms.
Jack Waley-Cohen
Co-Founder / COO of what3words
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About what3words: what3words is a mapping technology startup that creates a proprietary geocode system for logistics firms.
Alastair Moore
Co-Founder & Director of Satalia
Alastair Moore is a UCL PhD computer scientist with 10 years experience in AI/ML, UX design, marketplaces, mobile and early stage tech innovation. He was on the founding team of UCL spin-out Satalia.com and venture backed Wearepopup.com. Alastair Moore activities at UCL include helping create The Mobile Academy and the set up IDEALondon innovation centre at the heart of TechCity with Cisco and DC Thomson. He have been a member of the Special Group for Entrepreneurship for the British Computer Society and have mentored at the Wayra Academy, Springboard Mobile (now Techstars London) & Startupbootcamp IoT.
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About Mishcon de Reya, Royal Academy of Engineering, Satalia, UCL School of Management, We Are Pop Up: Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Daniel Hulme
Co-Founder & CEO of Satalia
Daniel is the CEO of Satalia (NPComplete Ltd) a UCL spin-out that provides AI inspired solutions to solve industries hardest problems. He’s the co-founder of the Advanced Skills Initiative that transitions scientists into industry as data scientists. Daniel has a Masters and Doctorate in AI from UCL, and is Director of UCL’s Business Analytics MSc; applying AI to solve business/social problems. He lectures in Computer Science and Management Science at UCL and PCL. Daniel has Advisory and Executive positions in many companies, he holds an international Kauffman Global Entrepreneur Scholarship and actively promotes entrepreneurship and technology innovation across the globe.
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About Satalia, University College London (UCL): Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
James Swanston
Founder & CEO of Voyage Control
James is the founder of Voyage Control, a technology business focused on making freight deliveries. James is an advisor to Lord Mawson OBE for the St Paul’s Way Transformation Project, one of the UK’s biggest regeneration projects based in East London, with a focus on encouraging students to look at science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and enterprise. James is the chair of the Transport Working Group of the Energy Managers Association, founded by Lord Redesdale to help major UK businesses to help address the challenges of energy scarcity and climate change. He was recently listed in the Tech City Almanac as one of the 100 key figures helping to redefine digital business in London. He is a director of Green and Tonic, a fast growing networking group for sustainability leaders in London and has previously assisted the Sustainable Development Commission on smart mobility and was awarded the Greenbang award for smart transport in 2011. James regularly speaks at events on sustainability and entrepreneurship topics. He has been granted the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers, one of the City of London’s oldest livery companies and has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. He has served as an officer in the Australian and British Armies, including tours of duty in Malaysia, East Timor, Iraq, Falkland Islands and Afghanistan; he currently commands the City of London Fusiliers Company of the London Regiment. He spent several years in Australian military intelligence, where he established a multi-discipline team working on the fusion of intelligence collection and analysis across different technical intelligence sources, for which he was awarded the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation’s Outstanding Service Award. He was awarded the United States Bronze Star Medal and the Australian Joint Operations Command Commendation for service in Iraq. James completed three bachelor degrees concurrently from Griffith University in Law, International Business and Modern Asian Studies, a Diploma in Export Management and a Masters in International Relations and Asian Politics (University of Queensland). James is a qualified Justice of the Peace.
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About Voyage Control: Voyage Control is a cutting-edge ‘Air Traffic Control’ for inbound logistics management. Powerful, efficient, and easy to use.
Shravin Bharti Mittal
Co-Founder of Unbound
Shravin is the Founder of Unbound and a Director of Bharti Global Ltd (Bharti family office). Unbound is a globally focused long term technology investment arm that aims to build and back technology companies. Select investments include Databricks, mPharma and FreightHub. Bharti Global has numerous investments in Telecommunications, Technology, Energy and Hospitality. Portfolio companies: Airtel, One Web, Delonex Energy, TriTon, mPharma, Hike and Hoxton Hotels. Previously, Shravin was an Investor at Softbank (2016-2017). Prior to that, Shravin was an Assistant Director at Better Capital (2014-2015), a Private Equity firm in London. Between 2010 to 2012 Shravin was the MD at Airtel in Africa and India. Prior to that he worked with J.P.Morgan in Investment Banking Covering TMT. Shravin has an MBA from Harvard Business School (Class 2014) and founded Airtel Rising Stars (a youth football initiative in Africa and India).
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About Unbound: Unbound focuses on fast-growing growth stage technology companies.
Fraser Robinson
Co-Founder & CEO of Beacon
Fraser Robinson is Non Executive Director at Taggstar
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About Beacon, Taggstar: Beacon is a digital supply chain and freight platform developed to optimize supply chains with insights and visibility.
Sam Al-Mukhtar
Co-Founder & CEO of Geomiq
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About Geomiq: Geomiq is an intelligent platform that provides Instant quotes and Instant ordering of custom manufactured parts.
Pasi William Sachiti
Founder & CEO of Academy of Robotics
William Sachiti is a UK based serial entrepreneur best known for creating a UK driverless car manufacture company competing with multinational incumbents such as Google, Uber and Tesla. The company designs and builds the autonomous vehicles in their UK warehouse. William has started and exited three previous tech start-ups in row, the latest MyCityVenue, an A.I. driven experiences platform serving 1.6 million users was acquired in 2015 by Secret Escapes. Before MyCityVenue, William was the the BBC Investment program Dragons Den, where he pitched a start-up, digital outdoor advertising on bins. The Dragons famously said he needs to be wheeled out of the bin. The company he pitched subsequently was licensed in several countries before being acquired. One of William’s first start-ups he started at 19, was called 123-registration. This company was also acquired for an undisclosed amount.
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About Academy of Robotics: The Academy of Robotics is a technology institute with an extraordinary technical team of engineers, scientists, and researchers.
Stefan Friederichs
Co-Founder & CTO of Leaf Logistics
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About Leaf Logistics: Leaf Logistics connects shippers, providers, and partners to bring financial market efficiency to the transportation marketplace.
Ben Dixon
Co-Founder & CTO of Sona
Ben is a senior developer focused on web application development. He primarily creates Ruby on Rails and Android applications. He also has experience in front-end development in both Backbone and Angular JS as well as infrastructure management with Chef and Docker. He’s the author of Reliably Deploying Rails Applications (http://www.deployingrailsbook.com/) which covers how to deploy medium-sized Rails Applications in an easy, scalable fashion, and spoke at Railsconf 2014 on this topic. He also spoke at Railsconf 2015 on how Docker can be tightly integrated with Rails to do far more interesting things than just deployment. He is currently CTO of Sona, the unified frontend for the frontline workforce.
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About Sona: Sona is the employee app for tomorrow’s workforce.
Oli Johnson
Co-Founder of Sona
Oli Johnson is a Co-founder of Sona.
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About Sona: Sona is the employee app for tomorrow’s workforce.
Askar Bulegenov
Founder & CEO of Grocemania
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About Grocemania: On-demand grocery delivery platform. Find and shop from any local grocery store and get your order in minutes!
Akin Arslan
Founder, CEO of TIRPORT
Akin Arslan is the founder and CEO of TIRPORT.
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About AB PLUS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, TIRPORT, TTT GLOBAL: End-To-To-End Logistics Operation Management, Digital PODs, Instant Vetted Truckers
Karin Cabili
Founder & CEO of Dropit Shopping
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About Dropit Shopping: Dropit provides a digital handsfree shopping solution for malls and central shopping districts, delivering bags from store to door.
Philip Ashton
Co-Founder & CEO of 7bridges
From a background in analysis and development in management consultancy (Oliver Wyman) and specialist logistics provision (World Courier), Philip co-founded 7bridges to apply customised AI to logistics operations. MSci Cambridge University.
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About 7bridges: 7bridges is a smart logistics platform that delivers visibility and control over logistics processes.
Andrius Balkunas
CEO & Founder of ParcelABC
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About ParcelABC: ParcelABC is a logistics company that unites thousands of local and international delivery companies.
Seb Robert
CEO & Founder of Gophr
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About Gophr: We build technology for the same-day courier community that creates industry-leading delivery experiences
Krzysztof Worsa
CTO & Co-Founder of Gophr
Co-Founder, CTO, Board Member at Gophr.
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About Gophr: We build technology for the same-day courier community that creates industry-leading delivery experiences
Limor Schweitzer
Founder and CTO of MOV.AI
Born in the UK, lived in Italy, USA, Israel and currently in Portugal, loves all things technical, has been granted some 15 patents, accumulated 25 years experience in IT, Telecom, web and robotics, and rarely ever worked for a company he didn’t own. Seasoned technologist entrepreneur with a passion to create startups that engage talented teams in transforming ideas into products and mind share. Born in the UK, lived in Italy, USA, Israel and currently in Portugal. Israeli Army-Intelligence, studied Physics, filed lots of patents and raised quite a bit of venture capital. Specialties Creating startups. Software development and distribution, IT services, Telecom software marketing, Internet Security, Computer Networks. Internet of Things, E-Commerce and making humanoid robots run.
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About BIND 4.0 Open Innovation and Acceleration Program, MOV.AI, RoboSavvy: We provide robotic developers with enterprise grade ROS development & run time environment (Robotics engine platform).
Jose Manuel Moller
Founder & CEO of Algramo
Jose Manuel Moller is the Founder and CEO at Algramo.
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About Algramo: Algramo aims to establish a wholesale relationship with manufacturers of consumer products such as detergents.
Pierfrancesco Ronzi
Co-Founder and CEO of Weengs
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About Weengs: Weengs provides all the logistics services people need to build and grow their e-commerce businesses.
Alex Christodoulou
Co-Founder and CTO of Weengs
Alex Christodoulou is the Co-founder & CTO at [Weengs](http://www.weengs.co.uk), where he leads the tech team while taking care of how the vision of the company is reflected on the product. Serial entrepreneur with a background in software engineering, algorithms and long experience in web/mobile developing. His major academic research was a study on hybrid Artificial Intelligence systems, merging neural networks with heuristic rules in decision making systems. Also founder of [Locish](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/locish), a real-time Q&A app operating in NYC and SF.
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About Weengs: Weengs provides all the logistics services people need to build and grow their e-commerce businesses.
Greg Zontanos
Co-Founder and CPO of Weengs
Co-Founder at Weengs, Locish
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About Weengs: Weengs provides all the logistics services people need to build and grow their e-commerce businesses.
Sebastian Steinhauser
CEO & Founder of Parcelly
CEO & Founder at Parcelly. Most recently building an international last- and first-mile logistics tech platform. Prior to that, Sebastian spent 7+ years in London’s City with some of Europe’s leading financial institutions.
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About Parcelly: The tech platform that enables retailers and carriers to resolve last-mile delivery and first-mile fulfilment challenges
Leroy Lawrence
Founder of Pigee
Leroy Lawrence is the Founder of Pigee Inc.
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About Pigee: Pigee is a Mobile App that allows tourists to post home purchases directly from the shops and street markets they visit.
Frank Jackel
Managing Director and Co-Founder of Metalshub
Senior Ferroalloys Marketing Executive with previous roles as Head of Niobium Sales team at China Moly, Head of Ferroalloys Sales at Anglo American and Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. Frank holds a Dipl.-Ing. and a PhD in Metallurgy from RWTH Aachen University. Frank is married and has three daughters, loves triathlon and tennis, fancies road bikes and supports Schalke 04.
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About Metalshub: Metalshub is the leading metals trading and price intelligence platform.
Krupa Patel
Founder of DeliveryCube
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About Delivery Club, DeliveryCube: Delivery Cube is a technology consulting firm that specialises in developing solutions for large multichannel retailers and e-commerce.
Alex Norton
Co-Founder and Director of Locus
Alex Norton is the Co-Founder & Director at Locus. He is also the Co-Founder of The Bureau Group and Private debt investments at Qbera Capital LLP and also the Investor at Freetrade. Mr. Norton was a Co-founder at Poochie. Alex studied Economics and Finance at Queen Mary, U. of London.
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About Locus: Locus provides one-click checkout & 30 minute delivery option for urban shoppers.
Fayimora Femi-Balogun
Co-Founder & Director of Technology of Locus
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About Locus: Locus provides one-click checkout & 30 minute delivery option for urban shoppers.
Ben Kingsbury
Founder and CTO of MicroTech Ceramics Ltd.
Ben has 8 years of experience in the fabrication of ceramic membranes and substrates for a wide range of applications and has published and presented extensively in these fields. He has been a research consultant to several major industrial partners to develop and commercialise novel ceramic products for automotive catalysis. This expertise matches perfectly with the product development stage that SSL is at, by bringing on board a unique set of skills and the analytical perspective of a PhD Engineering degree. Ben is advising mainly on membrane manufacturing methods and membrane microstructure expertise, for added value in the different application settings of the technology.
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About MicroTech Ceramics Ltd.: MicroTech Ceramics Ltd. develops novel ceramic substrates for the automotive emissions control market.
Charlie Pool
Founder & CEO of Stowga
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About Stowga: Stowga is the on-demand marketplace for buying and selling warehousing and logistics services.
Joey Scully
Co-Founder/Head of Design & Product of Stowga
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About London data unit, Stowga: Stowga is the on-demand marketplace for buying and selling warehousing and logistics services.
James Wilkinson
Founder & CEO of Envio
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About Envio: Envio powers scalable home demo programs for high-end consumer technology brands
Phill Davies
Co-Founder & Commercial Director of Magway
Phill Davies is the Co-Founder and Commercial Director at Magway.
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About Magway: Magway is an all-electric, zero emissions, low-footprint, high-capacity delivery system.
Rupert Cruise
Co-Founder & Technical Director of Magway
Rupert Cruise is the Co-Founder and Technical Director at Magway.
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About Magway: Magway is an all-electric, zero emissions, low-footprint, high-capacity delivery system.
Jatinder Wasu
Founder & CEO of Swishd
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About Swishd: When you need something delivered or collected, Swishd helps you find someone who is already going that way
Alex Wan
Co-Founder of Natromi Motors
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About Natromi Motors: Natromi Motors is a sustainable energy and transportation platform.
Pete Ferguson
Co-Founder CEO of Prospective
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About Prospective: Autonomous Networked Operations
Alan Kennedy
Founder and Executive Director of TEAM-UP
Alan Kennedy with extensive cross-sector experience, over the past six years Alan has been focused on bringing best-collaboration practice to pharma-logistics. He is a supply chain consultant specialising in supply chain dynamics and is founder and Executive Director of Pharma TEAM-UP, a non-profit initiative with the goal of fostering closer supply chain integration. He is one of the principal architects behind the Poseidon program, which has been conceived to radically transform the transportation of pharmaceutical products by sea. This is being achieved through the application of contemporary supply chain best-practice and structured, multi-party collaboration. He regularly presents on this topic and has authored numerous papers.
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About TEAM-UP: Pharma TEAM-UP is a non-profit initiative with the goal of fostering end-to-end supply chain collaboration.
Anuar Ustay
Founder of City Link
Founder at City Link
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About City Link: Smart, Safe & Affordable Transport for People
David Reid
Co-Founder of feedPack
David spent 10yrs working for private equity family office, controlled by Rothschild. Experienced as a director of the Joint Ventures division with a FTSE 100 partner.
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About feedPack: FeedPack helps companies to connect with their customers, gain valuable insights and improve business performance and growth.
Benjamin Levi
Founder of Lagodel
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About Lagodel: Lagodel is a mobile app built for the Lagos market.
