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 Reading based Founder operating in the Apps 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.
Richard Pursey
Founder & CEO of SafeToNet
A proven businessman having started and sold 4 technology companies and an insurance business. He was also a Board member of an NHS trust where he learned about social care and welfare issues but his biggest success came in the disaster recovery and risk management industry where he developed software to profile and predict the operational and risk behavioural patterns of businesses. It’s those same behavioural patterning techniques that are used in SafeToNet today.
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About SafeToNet: SafeToNet makes the digital world safer for children to explore and enjoy.
Ross Beale
Co-Founder of UniApp
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About Airbyte, UniApp: Graduate built – UniApp enhances student experience with email, timetable, attendance, lecture feedback and more built-in to a mobile app.
Paul Swaddle
Chairman & Co-Founder of Pocket App Limited
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About Pocket App Limited, The Supper Club, Westminster City Council, Westminster City Council: Pocket App is the UK’s Leading Mobile Development Agency, based in the heart of London.
Chris Janowski
Co-Founder of Hyperapptive, Inc.
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About Hyperapptive, Inc., Toast: A mobile application company focusing on social and productivity apps.
Daniel Gipple
Co-Founder and CEO of BetterPoints
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About BetterPoints: BetterPoints is a platform – a ‘Software as a Service’ (SAAS) – for motivating positive behaviour change through smartphones.
Matt Pritchard
Product & Co-Founder of Waffle
Matt Pritchard is a Co-Founder at Sellar and Waffle.
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About Sellar, Waffle: Waffle is an intelligent Messenger chatbot that enables restaurants to maximise their revenue through dynamic pricing.
