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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 Cambridge based Founder operating in the Big Data 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.
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Nathan Wilson
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Nara Logics
CTO and Co-Founder at Nara Logics, Inc.
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About Nara Logics: Nara Logics is a neuroscience-based AI synaptic intelligence for better decisions.
Pilgrim Beart
CEO & Founder of DevicePilot
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About 1248, DevicePilot: DevicePilot provides Service Monitoring for connected devices
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
Jonathan Hakim
Founder & CEO of Cignifi
Jonathan Hakim is the Founder & CEO at Cignifi.
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About Cignifi: Cignifi uses mobile behavior data in emerging markets to deliver credit scores and marketing tools to telecom and financial companies.
Karthik Dinakar
CTO & Co-Founder of Pienso
Karthik Dinakar is a computer scientist in machine learning, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction. Karthik was a Reid Hoffman Fellow at MIT and the recipient of the 2015 Dewey Winburne Award. Karthik has previously held positions at Microsoft and Deutsche. He was invited to the White House on two occasions to present his research on the computational detection of cyberbullying and use of probabilistic graphical Bayesian models for crisis counseling. Karthik holds a doctoral degree from MIT.
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About Pienso: Pienso is a machine learning platform that makes it easy to turn text data into insights for non-programmers.
Ryan Pijai
Co-Founder & CEO of Octant
Ryan Pijai is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Octant Technologies.
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About Octant: Octant is a developer of a platform used to video data collection services for autonomous vehicle developers.
Matthew George
Founder & CEO of Bridj
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About Bridj: BRIDJ is an intelligent public transport service powered by a demand responsive technology platform.
Phillip Ragon
Founder & CEO of Intersystems
Since founding InterSystems in 1978, Ragon has led the company to worldwide prominence in the database, interoperability, and healthcare application markets. Prior to starting InterSystems, Ragon co-founded a healthcare software company that became a leader in the U.S. and is now part of GE Healthcare. He has served as a healthcare IT consultant to academic and government institutions and received a prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in healthcare information technology. Ragon is a Trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where he also served as Honorary Co-Chair of the MGH Campaign. He is on the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows. He is also a member of the MIT Corporation, the governing body of MIT, and chairs the Visiting Committee that reviews the Physics Department. In 2008, Ragon helped created the Ragon Institute, a joint research center of MGH, MIT, and Harvard. The vision of the Ragon Institute is to harness the immune system through science to prevent and cure disease, and its immediate objective is the creation of a vaccine for HIV. The son of a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, Ragon was born in Arizona. He grew up in a variety of states and graduated from high school in Bogota, Colombia. He obtained an S.B. (B.S) in physics from MIT.
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About Intersystems: InterSystems is a vendor of software and technology for high-performance database management, integration, and health information systems.
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.
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.
Adam Durant
Founder & CEO of SATAVIA
Adam Durant is CEO and Founder of Satavia. Prior to founding SATAVIA, Dr. Durant worked as a professional scientist and held posts at the University of Cambridge and Norwegian Institute for Air Research. Dr. Durant has grown Satavia to achieve global recognition in the Tällt Ventures Disrupt 100 list in 2017 and was selected to participate in the 2017 SVC2UK CEO Summit held at Buckingham Palace. In addition, he has taken SATAVIA to the finals of Pitch@Palace 6.0; Mass Challenge 2016; and Copernicus Masters 2016. He has also won over £1.5m grant funding since 2015 from Innovate UK, Aerospace Technology Institute, and the European Space Agency for Satavia.
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About SATAVIA: SATAVIA simplifies decision-making for smarter, greener aviation
Jeff McAulay
Co-Founder & President of Energetic Insurance
Jeff McAulay is the Co-Founder & President at Energetic Insurance
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About ADL Ventures, Energetic Insurance: Energetic Insurance unlock solar financing for unrated or below investment grade organizations.
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.
Julian Chesterfield
Founder and CEO of Sunlight.Io
Julian Chesterfield, founder and CEO of Sunlight, has worked in the cloud and virtualisation industry for over 15 years. After completing his PhD at Cambridge University, he became involved in writing a technology called Xen, which became the foundation of the public cloud back in 2007 when it was adopted by Amazon and most of the emerging public cloud infrastructure providers of the day.
Julian began Sunlight as an incubation project in 2013 to build a lightweight hypervisor for low-power Arm processors. On seeing its value for data-intensive applications at the Edge, Julian and the founding team built it into a full hyperconverged infrastructure stack – Sunlight. Sunlight secured $6m in Series A funding in December 2020 and has gone on to launch new products, including the Sunlight Infrastructure Manager (SIM) and Marketplace.
Julian previously held positions at OnApp, as Chief Scientific Officer, and Citrix, as Storage Architect
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About Sunlight.Io: Sunlight.io makes running and managing applications and infrastructure at the edge as easy as in the cloud. Sunlight works with efficient, ruggedized edge hardware – so you can consolidate all of your in-location edge applications with full isolation, security and high availability.
Mick Correll
President and Co-Founder of Genospace
Mick Correll is the Co-Founder & President of Genospace.
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About Genospace: Genospace is a medicine software platform that genomics is driving the development of precision medicine.
Jacob Feala
Founder of Outlier Bio
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About Outlier Bio: Outlier Bio is a secure platform helps consultants to manage value-based pricing for their clients.
Jacob Feala
Founder of Outlier Bio
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About Outlier Bio: Outlier Bio is a secure platform helps consultants to manage value-based pricing for their clients.
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.
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.
