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 Somerset based Founder operating in the Internet 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.
Gavin Eddy
Founder & CEO of We Are Coherent
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About Forward Space, We Are Coherent: Coherent is a web application specifically designed to manage coworking or shared workspaces and connect their communities
Ashish Vachhani
CEO & Co-Founder of Reflik
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About Reflik: Reflik specializes in the fields of employee referrals, social recruiting, crowdsourcing, recruiting, and talent acquisition.
Gregory Jooste
Founder of phnxdigital
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About phnxdigital: phnxdigital is a Property Development Marketing, their offer a wide range of custom Digital & Print Transformation solutions.
Mat Clothier
CEO, CTO and Founder of Cloudhouse Technologies
Mat Clothier, CEO, CTO & Founder of Cloudhouse Technologies, has over 20 years’ industry experience. He started his first business whilst at university, providing CIO services to SMEs in the South West of England, and has since founded multiple organisations focusing on provisioning enterprise IT solutions. Mat is an expert in enterprise IT technology, virtualization and distributed management of applications, and devotes his time to developing solutions that simplify user access to modern enterprise IT applications. Mat is a motoring enthusiast and enjoys experimenting with new technologies. His focus is on producing IT solutions that make users’ lives easier, a promise that Cloudhouse Technologies constantly works towards. Mat graduated from the University of Plymouth with a BSc Hons in Computer Systems and Networks.
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About Cloudhouse Technologies: Cloudhouse Technologies is an infrastructure software vendor that liberates client and server applications to run on operating systems.
Gavin Reynoldson
Founder of GenUp Digital
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About GenUp Digital: GenUp Digital builds business websites, e-commerce stores, and membership sites for brands and businesses.
Paul Barker
Founder and CTO of Claritum
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About Claritum: Our cloud based spend management platform helps companies gain visibility and control of expenditure
Pete Francomb
CEO & Founder of Cahootify
I am a serial entrepreneur and UX specialist dedicated to creating truly sustainable businesses where commercial return and human flourishing go hand in hand. I see that business is always personal (whether or not it’s social) and I strive for authentic working relationships where people are free to make and learn from mistakes as well as celebrate successes, and where “professionalism” doesn’t mean attempting to project a mask of competence that’s divorced from who you really are. My experience has included; launching and running companies that create web-based social, community, website or membership management software, UX design and testing for a number of startups, launching a nationally recognised fused glass company and running an agency providing graphics operators to the broadcast TV industry.
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About Cahootify: Just make it. Cahootify is the project portfolio and team-forming platform for filmmakers, producers and actors.
Simon Starr
CTO & Founder of Cahootify
Simon Starr is a developer, technical consultant and investor who specialises in advising web startups and helping them to build and launch their products.
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About Cahootify: Just make it. Cahootify is the project portfolio and team-forming platform for filmmakers, producers and actors.
