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 Private Social Networking 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.
Ashley Friedlein
CEO & Founder of Guild
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About Ably Realtime, Cambridge Judge Business School, Centaur Media Plc, Econsultancy, Founders4Schools, Guild: Guild is the platform for professional communities and networking.
Kevin Brown
CEO & Founder of FanCircles
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About Brandaisy, FanCircles: Reach followers and fans through your own fan club platform built for music artists, YouTubers, television shows and celebrities
Samantha North
Co-Founder of North Cyber Research
Samantha North is a disinformation researcher at the University of Bath, and is currently based in Lisbon. Her focus is on tribalism and how disinformation seeks to exploit existing fissures and divisions within our society. And she believes the design of social media platforms tends to make things worse still. North sees tribalism as a major ongoing threat to democracy and civil society, and offers ideas about how we can better understand this weakness and how to protect ourselves.
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About North Cyber Research: Helping brands and organisations understand, identify and counter disinformation and inauthentic online behaviour.
Matt Rantell
CEO & Founder of The Square
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About The Square: The Square is an award winning workforce management platform & hiring marketplace for construction businesses.
Linda Agata Senya
Founder of LiveArtSocial / LAS
Linda co-founded LiveArtSocial in May 2016 with Alexa Brossard and Andreas Fux. Prior to LiveArtSocial, Linda worked in Venture Capital & several advisory roles . Previously, she worked as Structured Derivatives Sales Manager at BNP Paribas Investment Bank. She received an M.Sc. from Copenhagen Business School (2012) and B.Sc. from University Paris Dauphine (2004).
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About ePlanet Capital, LiveArtSocial / LAS: Events Management & Networking Platform for Premium Businesses
Reid Jackson
Founder & CEO of Calfix
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About Calfix, OpenOcean, Teenage Republicans, Verdict: Calfix is a mobile application that allows users to compare their calendars.
Farid Jumah
CEO & Founder of ONE
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About ONE: ONE is a social networking platform that unifies all your social media accounts into ONE profile for you to share and connect.
