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 Software Engineering 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.
Sergiu Matei
Founder of Index
Sergiu Matei is the founder of Index, the London-based platform helping enterprises like Vodafone and Twilio find and hire world-class remote software developers, and be globally compliant from the get-go. Before launching Index, Sergiu founded Travod, the translation marketplace providing 2,000+ brands such as Amazon and Swissport with locally hired translators in 100+ countries in every continent across the globe.
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About Index, Index.dev: Index helps companies and organizations hire remote software developers and teams.
James Hawkins
Co-Founder / CEO of PostHog
James Hawkins is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at PostHog.
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About Hiberly, PostHog: PostHog provides a platform for open-source product analytics to helps software teams understand user behavior.
Tim Glaser
Co-Founder & CTO of PostHog
Tim Glaser is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at PostHog.
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About PostHog: PostHog provides a platform for open-source product analytics to helps software teams understand user behavior.
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.
Patrick Bergel
Co Founder of Chirp
Making things sing. Research Associate at UCL, Founder + Partner @animalsystems, Lord Creator @chirp_io. Looking forward to meeting you.
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About animal systems: Chirp uses existing speakers and microphones to enable frictionless M2M communication to seamlessly and securely transfer data via sound.
Armen Poghosyan
Founder, CEO of Actable AI
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About Actable AI: Actable AI helps you to analyze your data with powerful Causal AI and ML – without coding.
Arnor Davidsson
Co-Founder and chief technology officer of Insurami
Experienced technologist with strengths in entrepreneurship, software development, product management and user experience. Gained by working with a mixture of established tech companies and early stage startups.
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About Insurami: Insurami offers a deposit guarantee platform for commercial real estate
Robert Sams
Founder & CEO of clearmatics
Robert Sams Founded Clearmatics Technologies. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
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About clearmatics: Designing protocols and build platforms for decentralised Financial Market Infrastructure (dFMI).
Andrew Kuzmych
Co-Founder and CTO of TechMagic
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About TechMagic: Top JavaScript and Serverless developers
Franck Zeitoun
Co-Founder & CEO of Lendery
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About Lendery: Lendery is offers a set of technology tools to institutional investors in alternative lending
Givi Chkhartishvili
Founder of Noxtton
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About Academy of Digital Industries, Noxtton: Noxtton, multidimensional technology and consulting company
James Baldwin
CEO, Founder & Partner of Unai
James Baldwin was the managing director at ERN.
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About Unai: Software Development and Data Science
Martin McDonnell
Founder of Soluis
Martin McDonnell has built a group of successful businesses that deliver best in class 3D visualisation and interactive digital presentation. His vision to connect the latest digital technology platforms to the needs of different market sectors has led his businesses to be amongst the earliest innovators in bringing the benefits of augmented and virtual reality to a variety of industries including design, construction, manufacturing and healthcare. This drive has led his business Sublime to recently win one of only three inaugural Higgs EDGE awards and Soluis to win Innovate UK’s IC Tomorrow competition to develop augmented reality (AR) software, utilised at Crossrail sites in London. Martin is now pioneering (and a recognised thought leader) in the development of shared immersive solutions for business, and advanced AR assisted tools that will transform the world of work.
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About Edify, Soluis, Sublime: Soluis Group is a UK-based creative studio that specializes in design visualization, animation, software development, and more.
Peter Aron Zentai
Chief Architect and Co-Founder & CEO of JayStack Technologies
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About JayStack Technologies: JayStack Technologies is a software program development company that specializes in computer software, enterprise mobile development.
Richard Stobart
CEO & Founder of Unboxed
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About Unboxed: The largest Ruby on Rails development agency in London and Cape Town
Miiro Juuso
Founder, CEO of Releaseworks
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About Releaseworks: Releaseworks is a healthcare cloud engineering, information security governance and engineering support service partner.
Jonathan O’Keeffe
Founder & CEO of Machine Medicine Technologies
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About Machine Medicine Technologies: Machine Medicine are building an operating system for neuromodulation and other forms of precision neurotherapeutics.
