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 Cambridge based Founder operating in the Analytics 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.
Gil Benghiat
Founder, VP of Products & Implementation of DataKitchen
Gil Benghiat is a Founder and VP of Product & Implementation of DataKitchen, a company on a mission to provide the software, service, and knowledge that enables every data analytics team to successfully implement DataOps. At DataKitchen, Gil leads an Implementation Team of talented software and data engineering professionals responsible for guiding customers’ adoption of DataOps and optimal use of DataKitchen’s DataOps Platform. Gil also leads a Product Development Team responsible for the definition, design, development, quality, and operation of DataKitchen’s SaaS DataOps Platform. Gil has over 35 years of experience in software engineering spanning multiple technical leadership roles at data-oriented technology companies, such as AT&T Bell Laboratories collecting and displaying network data, managing data at Sybase, collecting and cleaning clinical trial data at Phase Forward, integrating pharmaceutical sales data at LeapFrogRx, and liberating his clients’ data at Solid Oak Consulting. At previous companies, he achieved results such as growing a company from 4 to 320 employees and revenue from $0 to $60M resulting in IPO and improving the scalability of the product to increase the number of systems managed from 300 to 12,000. Gil holds an Sc.B. from Brown University in Applied Mathematics and Biology and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About DataKitchen: DataKitchen is a DataOps software company that helps organizations deliver more data products faster with lower errors that customers trust.
Vinayak Ramesh
Co-Founder and CEO of Ikigai Labs
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About Ikigai Labs, Stealth: Ikigai helps analysts and operations teams automate data-intensive business, finance, analytics and supplychain operations within clicks.
Christopher O’Donnell
Co-Founder of ProfitWell
Christopher O’Donnell is Chief Product Officer at HubSpot, as well as the Co-Founder at ProfitWell, he is also a technology product strategist, designer, and evangelist. Christopher joined HubSpot as a part of the Performable acquisition in June of 2011. Prior to joining Performable in the Fall of 2010, Christopher managed a team of designers and product managers serving the largest customers in the world: our nation’s various military and intelligence organizations. Simultaneously, Christopher started and drove a content-driven social media marketing effort that today boasts over a million readers. Prior to working in online marketing and product development, Christopher operated a music production business, where he put his B.A. in Music from Brown University to good use.
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About HubSpot, Price Intelligently, ProfitWell: ProfitWell provides business intelligence solutions for companies and businesses.
Alicia Chong Rodriguez
Co-Founder and CEO of Bloomer Health Tech
Alicia Chong Rodriguez is the founder and CEO of Bloomer Tech. She holds two master’s degrees in engineering and management/integrated design and electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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About Bloomer Health Tech: Bloomer Tech uses everyday fabrics and machine learning for personalized detection, monitoring, and treatment of chronic diseases.
Sam Bose
CEO / Founder of IntelliSense.io
Sam got exposed to the world of Machine 2 Machine some 10 years ago. Back then he could see the potential of technology in changing the world around us, but change came with numerous obstacles. After encountering the challenges of first generation technologies, IntellISense.io was started as one of the first next generation IoT solutions companies. The technology and solution were selected as one of the eight IoT solutions to be showcased by the UK government.
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About IntelliSense.io: An Industrial AI company focusing on the Mining sector increasing efficiency sustainability & safety with trusted & transparent AI solutions
Michael Ross
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of DynamicAction
Michael Ross joined DynamicAction as Co-founder and Chief Scientist in 2007.Michael has spent the last 20 years in the ecommerce world. He joined McKinsey in 1994 and spent 5 years consulting in the early days of the internet. From 1999 to 2006, he was co-founder and CEO of figleaves.com [which was sold to N.Brown in 2010]. Since 2007, he has been the Co-founder and Chief Scientist of DynamicAction (and former parent company eCommera), which delivers technology and decision analytics solutions for multichannel retailers including Neiman Marcus, ASDA, Brooks Brothers, Jaeger and many others. He is also a non-executive director of Abcam plc and Wex photographic.
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About DynamicAction, EDITED, London Business School, N Brown Group, Sainsbury’s Bank: DynamicAction is an analytics solution designed specifically for eCommerce, store, and omnichannel retail teams.
Jackson Noel
Co-Founder and CEO of Appcues
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About Appcues: Appcues provides a no-code platform helping teams to track and analyze product usage and publish in-app tours, announcements, and surveys.
Josh Kanner
Founder & CEO of Smartvid io
Software entrepreneur and executive with background in cloud, mobility, and web environments. Was founder or management team member of two venture capital backed software companies that revolutionized their respective markets before being acquired. Co-founded a third and managed it through the startup and seed funding process. Deep functional skills in marketing, product management, and business development. Domain expertise in AEC (architecture, engineering and construction), information security (infosec), and strategic sourcing. www.linkedin.com/pub/josh-kanner/0/99/717/ (CrunchBase bug not updating “website” links in profile)
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About CVP Management, Smartvid io: Our AI-powered Safety Suite helps companies identify their highest risk projects and act to prevent incidents from occurring.
Ganesh Pai
Founder & CEO of Uptycs
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About Uptycs: Uptycs is the provider of a cloud-native security analytics platform for security analysts, incident response teams, and IT professionals.
Lane Rettig
Founder of Seratis
Lane is a software developer with a passion for entrepreneurship, business and technology. He previously worked at a quant hedge fund and is currently a Wharton MBA student.
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About CurrencySpot, Seratis: Communication for healthcare providers
David Excell
Founder of Featurespace
Dave is Featurespace’s Founder and CTO,responsible for working directly with our clients. Dave is an experienced technology innovator with over 18 years dedicated to the study of engineering. He has received several accolades in his field, including the ITC Enterprise Award for Young Entrepreneur. Under his leadership, Featurespace has progressed from a concept to a commercial success. Dave currently resides in the U.S. and is managing the Featurespace global expansion from Atlanta, Georgia.
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
David Lester
Founder of Segterra, Inc.
David has more than 25 years of experience in various health and wellness sectors. He has been recognized as a leader in personalized medicine and diagnostics for his work at Theranos, Gene Express, Pfizer, Pharmacia, and the FDA.
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About Segterra, Inc.: Segterra provides science-based personalized health analytics such as blood.
Christian Reich
Founder of Segterra, Inc.
Christian has more than 18 years of experience in life sciences research, systems biology, computational biology, and medicine. He was previously VP of Scientific Research at Genstruct and held various positions at Millennium and the European Bioinformatics Institute.
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About Segterra, Inc.: Segterra provides science-based personalized health analytics such as blood.
Brendan Schwartz
Co-Founder, CTO of Wistia
Brendan is the CTO and co-founder of Wistia. In fourth grade, he owned an iguana named Iggy whose favorite snack was zucchini flowers. In high school, he was the president of Model UN, voted ‘Most Likely to Succeed’, and only wore khakis. As a junior in college, Brendan hosted an anti-gravity themed party to celebrate the launch of his new website. Today, he loves quiet nights at home and Sleepytime Tea. Brendan’s a proud owner of a nose hair trimmer, but he’s yet to use it.
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About Wistia: Wistia is the video platform of choice for business.
Boyd Mulvey
CEO & Founder of Chorus Intelligence
Boyd started his career in 1990 as a data analyst for Credit Suisse Financial Products (CSFP), an investment bank which created and traded derivative financial instruments based in London. At CSFP Boyd created a database for analysing capital at risk for the bank called FRED (Financial Risk Exposure Database) which is still in use today. Boyd moved from analyst to strategy at UBS and then into investment banking where he helped to raise money for and float several technology companies on the UK Stock Exchange before launching a Venture Capitalist Fund called the CREATE East of England Fund, which specialised in investing into early stage tech companies around the Cambridge area. Following the completion of that Fund, Boyd founded Chorus Intelligence to focus on data analytics once again.
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About Chorus Intelligence: Chorus Intelligence provides technology that allows authorities to investigate crimes using mobile phone records.
Sam Westwood
Co-Founder of Opensignal
Sam has over 10 years of experience working within telecoms, including co-founding RepeaterStore, a mobile signal solutions provider improving signal in homes and offices. At OpenSignal, Sam has lead the creation of the company’s suite of enterprise products and built an innovative high-concurrency architecture, capable of handling large quantities of data. Sam is an OpenSignal co-founder and holds a Physics degree from Oxford University.
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About Opensignal, PlentyWays: Opensignal is a mobile analytics company.
Steve Marsh
Founder and CEO of GeoSpock
Steven Marsh is a Co-Founder of GeoSpock Limited and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Steven Marsh is also the lead architect of the Collide platform and co-lead architect of GeoSpock DB. He has experience of building real-time and highly-scalable systems he has overseen the creation of GeoSpock’s state-of-the-art geo-location and social networking mobile development platform. Steven Marsh is a computer scientist. As part of his research, Steve is part of a team building a customisable FPGA-based super-computer designed to carry out real-time simulation of extreme-scale neural networks such as the brain. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
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About GeoSpock: GeoSpock builds GeoSpock DB, the unique space-time analytics database that delivers rapid insights at a fraction of the cost.
Shravane Balabasqer
Founder | CEO of Carbon Analytics
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About Carbon Analytics: A granular asset focused carbon intelligence & offsetting platform for active industrial decarbonisation across the value chain.
Iqbal Kaur
Co Founder & VP – Data Sciences of Zylotech
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About Zylotech: Zylotech is a B2B customer data platform that delivers trusted data governance for both people and companies.
Ed Colby
CEO and Founder of Purrmetrix
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About Purrmetrix: Purrmetrix uses real time data loggers to drive powerful, hassle free analytics.
Robert Suh
Founder and CEO of OnCorps
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About OnCorps: OnCorps is a provider of decision and behavioral science into machine learning nudges to help people make better decisions.
Phil Fersht
Founder, CEO and Chief Analyst of HFS Research
Phil Fersht is founder and Chief Executive Officer at HfS Research. He is an acclaimed author, analyst and visionary in Global Business Services and Outsourcing, the Digital Transformation of enterprise operations and talent strategies. Fersht founded HfS Research in 2010 and has masterminded the development of the HfS organization as a leading analyst for the firm, in addition to steering the business operations.Under Fersht’s stewardship, HfS Research has become a leading industry analyst firm. At HfS, he directs the firm’s research, advisory and global knowledge community, which today totals over 100,000 professionals and is served by a respected global analyst team. He is also author and creator of the most widely-read and acclaimed blog in the global services industry, entitled “Horses for Sources” and now entering its ninth year, attracting over a million visits per year across the globe. Phil received a Bachelor of Science, with Honors, in European Business & Technology from Coventry University, United Kingdom and a Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie in Business & Technology from the University of Grenoble, France. He also has a diploma from the Market Research Society in the United Kingdom.
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About HFS Research: It is our mission to provide visionary insight into the major innovations impacting business operations
Victor Kostyuk
Co-Founder & CTO of OfferFit
Victor Kostyuk is the Co-Founder & CTO at OfferFit.
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About OfferFit: OfferFit selects the best message, incentive, timing, and channel for every customer.
John McInerney
Founder and CEO of Amperfii
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About Amperfii: Amperfii offers a data enablement platform that helps companies drive better business outcomes.
Justin Washtell-Blaise
Founder & Chief Data Scientist of SubjectiveSystems
Ph.D. CTO & Co-founder ForecastThis. Data Scientist and specialist in development of Machine Learning, NLP & high-throughput systems.
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About SubjectiveSystems: Financial modeling, decision science, data science.
Manasi Vartak
Founder and CEO of Verta
Manasi Vartak is the founder and CEO of Verta.ai, an early-stage startup building software to help data science and machine learning teams rapidly build and integrate ML across products. Manasi is the creator of ModelDB, the first open source model management system used at Fortune 500 companies and in popular open source projects including Kubeflow. Manasi earned her PhD in computer science from MIT CSAIL, where she worked on software systems for data science and ML. Besides ML Infra, Manasi has worked on personalizing the Twitter newsfeed, automated data visualization, and ML model debugging. She’s a recipient of the Facebook PhD Fellowship and the Google Anita Borg Scholarship.
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About Verta: Verta builds software infrastructure to help enterprise data science and machine learning (ML) teams develop and deploy ML models.
Tanya Cashorali
Founder of TCB Analytics
Tanya Cashorali is the founding partner of TCB Analytics, a Boston-based data consultancy, and the chief data officer of Stattleship, a sports content and data business that connects brands with sports fans through social media. Previously, she worked as a data scientist at Biogen. Tanya started her career in bioinformatics and has applied her experience to other data-rich verticals such as telecom, finance, and sports. She brings over 10 years of experience using R in data scientist roles as well as managing and training data analysts, and she’s helped grow a handful of Boston startups.
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About TCB Analytics: TCB Analytics offers a full range of analytics solutions to help you manage, analyze and visualize your data.
Andrés Pérez Torres
Founder of Sfier
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About Sfier: Sfier is an intelligent management platform for bars and restaurants.
Daniel Weitzner
Co-Founder of TrustLayers
Daniel J. Weitzner is Founding Director of the MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative, Principal Research Scientist at CSAIL, and teaches Internet public policy in MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. He was United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Internet Policy in the White House where he led initiatives on privacy, cybersecurity, copyright, and digital trade policies, and was responsible for the Obama Administration’s Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights and the OECD Internet Policymaking Principles. Weitzner is a founder of the Center for Democracy and Technology, led the World Wide Wed Consortium’s public policy activities, and was Deputy Policy Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is recipient of the International Association of Privacy Professionals Leadership Award (2013), the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award (2016) and is a member of Council on Foreign Relations.
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About Massachusetts Institute of Technology, TrustLayers: Real-time policy engine enables companies’ confident personal info use at big data scale, while preserving consumers’ and partners’ trust.
Ariel Assaf
Founder of Cloudoscope
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About Cloudoscope: Revenue acceleration for IT solution providers
