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 Oxford 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.
Sharon Pursey
Co-Founder, Head of Strategic Alliances of SafeToNet
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About SafeToNet: SafeToNet makes the digital world safer for children to explore and enjoy.
Lukas Lohove
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zizzle
Lukas developed his passion for understanding Chinese characters at UC Berkeley. When not learning Chinese, he enjoys riding boards – be it on snow, water or concrete.
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About Greator, Zizzle: Zizzle provides learning Mandarin Chinese has never been easier.
Paul McIntosh
Founder & CEO of Mustard
As head of the company Paul brings 25 years of experience working on the front line with blue-chip to start ups on everything from retail, service providers, technology, and more. The last ten years he has helped businesses from every industry successfully expand to new markets the right way the first time.
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About Mustard, The Mustard Concept: Mustard is a mobile app that enables users to find and connect with individuals interested in the same offline activities as themselves.
Roy Azoulay
Founder and CEO of Serelay
Roy is a Senior Technology Transfer Manager at Isis Innovation and has been managing the Isis Software Incubator since its inception in early 2011. He is responsible for the day-to-day running of incubator facilities, services and finances and in scaling it to support 27 ventures over its first three years of operation. He typically works with incubator ventures from the early stage of idea & business plan through to deployment of a minimum viable product and initial commercial traction and has supported ventures in securing VC, angel and competition based funds. Isis Software Incubator ventures Roy has worked with in the past include: pilio-ltd.com, theysayanalytics.com, colwiz.com, esplor.io, bounts.co.uk, onfido.co.uk, smarteatout.com, com and OxLegal.com.
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About Oxford University Innovation, Serelay: Serelay is establishing the industry standard for trusted media capture.
Christopher Hockley
Co-Founder and CTO of Cocoasoft
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About Cocoasoft, Wave Marketing: Cocoasoft is a software development firm that has developed and maintains a third party email application for the iPhone.
