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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 Tutoring 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.
Bertie Hubbard
Co-Founder and CEO of MyTutor
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About MyTutor: MyTutor offers affordable 1-to-1 tutorials online by connecting tutors from the UK’s best unis with pupils at home and in schools
James Grant
Co-Founder & Managing Director of MyTutor
James is a driven, passionate and ambitious entrepreneur, with experience in sales, leadership, strategy, product, digital marketing and fundraising. He started a fledgling events business at 15, which grew to a team of 30, catering for over 1,200 weekly guests. After completing a Philosophy degree at University of Birmingham, James worked for Barclays Wealth, in the Chief of Staff Team, within the Office of the Chief Executive, helping to set the Division’s strategic agenda and taking responsibility for the implementation of sponsored projects. James is a co-founder of MyTutor, creating a new world of one-to-one tuition. The team are unwaveringly focused on their mission to give every student access to 1-1 support. The platform provides live, online one-to-one lessons, delivered by bright, inspiring undergraduates studying at the UK’s leading universities – their secondary aim is to become the leading provider of work to these students. MyTutor uses AI-driven matching algorithms to ensure perfect student-tutor matches and every lesson is taught in an interactive online learning space, which facilitates live video and audio chat, document editing, file sharing and lesson recording. The company’s proudest achievement has been helping 92% of their pupils in 2016 hit or exceed their grade targets. James enjoys public speaking and has presented at a number of education and business events. His other interests include sport (football, rugby, athletics), music (blues & hip hop), travelling, reading and all things startup. He has won a number of awards over the past few years, including Unltd’s ‘Do it’, Mercia’s ‘The Pitch’, O2 ‘Think Bigger’ and Santander’s ‘Spark’.
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About MyTutor: MyTutor offers affordable 1-to-1 tutorials online by connecting tutors from the UK’s best unis with pupils at home and in schools
Robert Grabiner
Founder and Executive Director of MyTutor
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About MyTutor: MyTutor offers affordable 1-to-1 tutorials online by connecting tutors from the UK’s best unis with pupils at home and in schools
Andrew Ground
Co-Founder & CEO of Tutorfair
Andrew is driven by a desire to find good tutors for his own children, Adam and Sophia, our strongest critics – woe betide a tutor who produces a boring video. Andrew loves good user experience and is totally dedicated to using the Internet to provide choice and transparency to both parents and tutors. He was also UK MD of LOVEFILM, and a school governor.
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About Tutorfair: Tutorfair is a marketplace for tutors that makes great tutors available to all
Mark Maclaine
Co-Founder & Director of Education of Tutorfair
A tutor for 16 years, and awesome at it. Students are inspired by his energy and enthusiasm. He instils a love of learning which goes far beyond the Maths & Science he teaches. We love Mark … and all his stories. He’s responsible for making sure this works for tutors and is ruthless about vetting tutors to ensure we’ve got the best. Mark is equally passionate about our social mission and ensuring that it really makes a difference.
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About Tutorfair: Tutorfair is a marketplace for tutors that makes great tutors available to all
Patrick Verdon
Co-Founder & CTO of Tutorfair
Patrick is a serial entrepreneur based in Cambridge, UK and is currently the CEO of Youreko, a cleantech start-up he founded which provides consumer friendly energy efficiency information for household electricals. Prior to Youreko, Patrick was the CTO of ZYB, the networking and mobile backup site, sold to Vodafone in 2008 for 31.5M euro.
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About Tutorfair, Youreko, ZYB: Tutorfair is a marketplace for tutors that makes great tutors available to all
Alex Dyer
Founder and Director of Tutor House
Alex is the founder and director of Tutor House and has a degree in Psychology. He has worked in the educational industry for 14 years; teaching Psychology for 8 years at a School in London and now running Tutor House, after setting it up in 2012. Alex still tutors every week, he writes for the Huffington Post and has appeared on the BBC and ITV to discuss educational topics. Alex is an educational consultant and UCAS expert, he’s worked with hundred of students over the years. He’s obsessed with squash, but is distinctly average.
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About Tutor House: High Growth B2C Marketplace for tutoring. Based in London, but operates thought he UK and abroad.
Tom Baker
Co-Founder of Tutorean
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About Tutorean: Tutorean uses machine learning to find the perfect tutor for any student, and aims to make tutoring more personalised than ever before.
Tom Baker
Co-Founder of Tutorean
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About Tutorean: Tutorean uses machine learning to find the perfect tutor for any student, and aims to make tutoring more personalised than ever before.
Marek Sotak
Founder of Inline Manual
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About Inline Manual: Inline Manual provides a service to guide, support and engage prospects and customers right within an application.
Fadoua Saadi
Founder and CEO of PrivateTuitionOnline.Com
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About PrivateTuitionOnline.Com: PrivateTuitionOnline.Com offers tutoring subscription service that live tutoring affordable and productive through our internet classrooms.
Jacob Parackal
Co Founder, Chief Operating Officer of Select My Tutor
Co-Founder at Select My Tutor
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About Select My Tutor: Connecting Private Home Tutors & Students in UK
