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 Mining 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.
Anand Verma
Founder & CEO of Expect. (trading name of Exponential Climate Technologies Ltd.)
Anand Verma @anandverma Anand is the Founder and CEO of climate tech startup Expect. A London-based company committed to decarbonising greening companies, profitably. Prior to my recent ventures, I was the Owner, Founder and CEO of Brilliant Basics (acquired by Infosys), an award winning Global Digital and Innovation company headquartered in London with studios all over the world. Successfully acquired by Infosys in 2017 to accelerate Design and Innovation for Infosys and its clients globally. I also led Infosys’ digital capabilities in EMEA and was a part of the Infosys leadership team. I am also deeply involved with leading design school and university partnerships for Infosys. I am a digital visionary, innovator and successful entrepreneur who understands new products and services, revenue growth, operations and people. I have over 20 years’ experience in management consulting, digital and tech businesses. I have built a successful career by consistently delivering value through digital and customer-centricity. I love creating value by reducing complexity in the digital world at both speed x scale. Prior to founding Brilliant Basics, I was one of the youngest Presidents and CEO’s at Interpublic Group (IPG) leading IPG Mediabrands Ventures in EMEA, a global advertising and media conglomerate where I led digital Operations, Innovative Products and Services and M&A. And previous to that I held leadership roles at Sapient (now a part of Publicis), AKQA (now a part of WPP) and Modem Media (now a part of Publicis). I am an active investor, adviser, non exec board director, academia, podcast host and speaker. Related Information: – Anand was a co-founder of atp.io in 2012, a Marketing Tech Platform. – Anand was a cofounder of Everpress, a product incubator. – Anand was a co-founder of haberdash app, a digital textile printing startup. – Anand was a co-founder of Weekly, a media startup. – Anand was a co-founder of Mesmerise, a VR and AR Tech Platform. – Anand was the Founder and CEO of Brilliant Basics (acquired by Infosys) – Anand was INED for HML Holdings Plc, next generation Property Management company. Exited to Harwood Capital PE. – Anand was a Senior Leader at Infosys, Sapient, Publicis.Sapient, Interpublic Group IPG, AKQA…
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About Expect. (trading name of Exponential Climate Technologies Ltd.): Expect. is the decarbonisation management platform for large enterprises and heavy industries.
Jeremy J. Martin
Founder and Director of Medgold Resources
Mr. Martin holds a degree in mining geology from the Camborne School of Mines, and a MSc. in mineral exploration from the University of Leicester. He has worked in South America and in Central America and Europe, where he was responsible for grassroots regional metalliferous exploration programmes through to resources definition and mine development. Jeremy has been involved in the formation of two AIM traded companies and has completed a number of high value mineral project transactions. He has served on the board of Ovoca Gold Plc and is a member of the Society of Economic Geologists and the Institute of Mining Analysts.
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About Horizonte Minerals, Medgold Resources: Medgold is a Mediterranean-focused TSX-V listed gold exploration and development company.
Marie-Alicia Chang
Founder of Musicmetric
Marie-Alicia is a Founder at Musicmetric Analytics.
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About Musicmetric, Semetric: Musicmetric offers analytics and trend forecasting services for the music industry.
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.
Jeremy Wrathall
Founder and CEO of Cornish Lithium
Jeremy Wrathall is the founder and CEO of Cornish Lithium.
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About Cornish Lithium: Cornish Lithium is focused on exploring for lithium within the hot springs.
Catherine Downes
Co-Founder of usheru
Founder at usherU
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About usheru: usheru powers direct ticketing and marketing data insights for film distributors.
Ollie Fegan
Co-Founder of usheru
Founder of usherU
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About usheru: usheru powers direct ticketing and marketing data insights for film distributors.
Jacob Laurvigen
Group CEO & Co-Founder of Dexi
Jacob Laurvigen has been helping businesses achieving above expectations and personally invested in multiple successful start-up’s!
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About Blockware, Dexi, Mozenda: Dexi provides the leading Data Extraction and Data Automation Software.
Givi Chkhartishvili
Founder of Noxtton
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About Academy of Digital Industries, Noxtton: Noxtton, multidimensional technology and consulting company
Agata Boczkowska
COO and Co-Founder of RAIS
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About RAIS: The Customer Intelligence Business – helping D2C brands grow the value of their customers faster.
Thomas Gatten
CEO & Founder of Growth Intelligence
Tom Gatten is a thought-leader in big data-driven B2B marketing and predictive lead generation. Before founding GrowthIntel he worked as a broadcast journalist for the BBC and at business intelligence firm IHS.
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About Growth Intelligence: Growth Intelligence is a UK technology company offering a software-as-a-service product to B2B corporations.
Prashant Majmudar
Founder & CTO of Growth Intelligence
Prash spent six years as an engineer at BAE Systems Detica, where he oversaw the delivery of sensor and electro-optic surveillance systems for the Ministry of Defence. He is a proponent and advocate of the use of full stack data science, machine-learning and predictive lead generation. He co-authored GrowthIntel and NIESR’s 2013 report on the UK digital economy and is well versed in Python and Natural Language Processing. – See more at: http://growthintel.com/about-us/#sthash.1CIDS80S.dpuf
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About Growth Intelligence: Growth Intelligence is a UK technology company offering a software-as-a-service product to B2B corporations.
Julian Hammond
Co-Founder/Chairman of Zamare Minerals
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About Zamare Minerals: Zamare discovers, acquires, and explores mineral resources, such as copper and cobalt, that are needed in renewable energy industries.
Daniel Abrouk
Co-Founder and Head of EMEA and Business Strategy of InfoTrie
Daniel Abrouk has close to 10 years of experience in the Financial Industry.
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About InfoTrie: InfoTrie offers cutting edge technology to analyze the humongous flow of information produced by the financial industry.
Andrew Rhomberg
Founder of Jellybooks
Founder at Jellybooks
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About Jellybooks: Jellybooks helps authors and publishers develop traction by identifying and reaching out to the most influential readers.
