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 Cambridgeshire based Founder operating in the Security 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.
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero
Co-Founder, Co-Inventor, and CEO of Nu Quantum
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero is the co-inventor of Nu Quantum technology and currently serves the company as Chief Executive Officer. Carmen is a national award-winning physicist and leader of pro-equality action in science and beyond.
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About Nu Quantum: Nu Quantum is a quantum networking start-up building the entanglement fabric essential to scaling quantum computers.
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Matthew Applegate
Chief Technical Officer & Co-Founder of Nu Quantum
Matthew Applegate is the co-inventor of Nu Quantum technology and currently serves the company as CTO. Matthew is a computer scientist, mathematician, and industry expert turned quantum physicist.
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About Nu Quantum: Nu Quantum is a telecommunications company that develops end-to-end quantum cryptography 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.
Dan Cvrcek
Founder of KeyChest
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About KeyChest, Smart Architects: KeyChest is a certificate management tool that helps small to medium sized businesses to website expiration due to unmanaged encryption.
Will Hunt
Co-Founder of In.security
Will Hunt is an information security enthusiast who has worked in IT security for the past 9 years. He is an Associate Director at NotSoSecure and was an infrastructure hacking trainer at Blackhat USA 2017. Prior to this he was a pentester and trainer, developing and delivering technical and non-technical courses for a leading IT security firm. Before pentesting Will was an experienced digital forensics consultant and trainer. He runs the blog stealthsploit.com and has identified and responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities in various software.
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About In.security: In.security is a specialist cyber security organisation providing technical and educational services.
Owen Shearing
Co-Founder of In.security
Owen Shearing has worked in the IT industry for a number of years, the last 6 specifically within security. He is an Associate Director at NotSoSecure, a specialist IT security company delivering high-end IT security consultancy and training. Owen has delivered NotSoSecure training courses at Blackhat Asia, USA and EU over the past couple of years. He runs the blog rebootuser.com and has authored tools which can be found at github.com/rebootuser.
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About In.security: In.security is a specialist cyber security organisation providing technical and educational services.
Roger Gross
Founder & head of engineering of Silicon:SAFE
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About Silicon:SAFE: Silicon:SAFE develops impenetrable network storage solutions in hardware that prevent bulk theft of sensitive data.
