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 Sussex based Founder operating in the Computer 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.
Charles Nduka
Co Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Emteq
Charles Nduka studied medicine at Oxford University, where he also undertook an undergraduate intercalated degree on Physiological Sciences. He completed his clinical studies for the MB BS degree at St. Mary’s Hospital, in London. He graduated as a doctor in 1994 with a Distinction in Surgery. He was also awarded Honours in Surgery by the University of London. Following his internship he spent 2 years in full-time research with Professor Sir Ara Darzi at Imperial College in the Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology. For his thesis on he was awarded a doctoral degree (MD, Doctor of Medicine) by the University of London. He undertook his surgical training in London teaching Hospitals including the Royal London & St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals. He completed his specialist training at the Royal Marsden Hospital. He was awarded the Macgregor Gold Medal for his performance in the plastic and reconstructive surgery FRCS examination. Charles has a long track record of R &D and has worked with industrial partners on clinical trials, technology evaluations or as a consultant for 20 years. Previous collaborators include Glaxo-Smithkline, 3DmD, Allergan, ICN, Johnson and Johnson. He has won numerous research awards including from the Wellcome Trust, the National Institute for Health Research, Innovate UK and the Nominet Trust. He is an internationally recognised specialist in facial muscle disorders and in 2007 established the largest unit treating facial paralysis in the UK at the Queen Victoria Hospital. He has multiple patents pending. In 2013 he identified the potential of wearable sensors for monitoring facial muscle activity and funded the development of prototype sensors and proof of concept technologies. He has taken a sabbatical from his full-time clinical role at Queen Victoria Hospital in order to focus on Emteq and develop further IP and products.
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About BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF AESTHETIC PLASTIC SURGEONS, Emteq, Facial Palsy UK, Queen Victoria Hospital: The world’s first emotion recognition and analysis platform in smart glasses
Hannah Dawson
Founder and CEO of Futrli
Hannah is one of the leading female entrepreneurs in the SaaS space and flies the flag for women in technology by leading Futrli with an innovative approach to diversity; this is a passion close to her heart and core to their strategy as they grow the team globally. She had the original idea for Futrli when she was running another business and had a pain to solve. Frustrated by not having the right information at her fingertips, she resolved to create a technology platform that made her feel more secure in the crucial business decisions she and her team had to make without having to do any heavy lifting. Hannah leads Futrli as CEO and is the chief visionary in the development of Futrli’s platform.
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About Futrli: Futrli is on a quest to move the needle on the small business economy.
Paul Broadhurst
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Technetix
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About Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), Technetix: Technetix is designing, manufacture, source and supply critical broadband technology and solutions to major cable operators worldwide.
Tony Hazel
Founder of grt.tech
Tony has been working with computers since the mid 1970’s when his father, who was also a computer engineer, first brought home a machine that he could use (a Sord M222 if anyone remembers them!) For the last 12 years he has worked in schools in Brighton and still works in a large Junior school now. He decided to branch out on his own and start grt.tech in 2017. He is responsible for hundreds of users and hundreds of computers everyday and there’s nothing he hasn’t encountered before! He has dedicated grt.tech to provide you with the best customer service and computer repair available in the local area. When your Laptop, PC or Mac needs repairing, you won’t have to worry for long or go very far, we can come to you! Tony is highly skilled in dealing with all computers and gadgets whether you need home or business computer repairs. Your local computer business serving Worthing, Sompting, Lancing, Steyning and Shoreham-by-Sea.
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About grt.tech: IT Services, Computer Repair
Tony Hazel
Founder of grt.tech
Tony has been working with computers since the mid 1970’s when his father, who was also a computer engineer, first brought home a machine that he could use (a Sord M222 if anyone remembers them!) For the last 12 years he has worked in schools in Brighton and still works in a large Junior school now. He decided to branch out on his own and start grt.tech in 2017. He is responsible for hundreds of users and hundreds of computers everyday and there’s nothing he hasn’t encountered before! He has dedicated grt.tech to provide you with the best customer service and computer repair available in the local area. When your Laptop, PC or Mac needs repairing, you won’t have to worry for long or go very far, we can come to you! Tony is highly skilled in dealing with all computers and gadgets whether you need home or business computer repairs. Your local computer business serving Worthing, Sompting, Lancing, Steyning and Shoreham-by-Sea.
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About grt.tech: IT Services, Computer Repair
