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 Herefordshire based Founder operating in the Software 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.
Edward Budd
Co-Founder of Adhara
Ed has performed a broad range of leadership and transformation roles both in Deutsche Bank’s Investment Bank (1998-2010) and GTB (2011-Present) including Head of eCommerce, Distribution Product Development/Autobahn, CIB and Head of Product Strategy & COO for Product Management, GTB. In 2015 he was selected as one of the rising stars in Brummel’s third annual Ones to Watch/Rising Stars awards, acknowledging outstanding talent in London’s financial-services sector and related fields.
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About Adhara, Deutsche Bank: Real time global liquidity management, FX and international payments on CBDCs and tokenized money for banks and central banks
Duncan Cowan
Co-Founder & CTO of Howbout
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About Howbout: The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple.
Nicholas van der Walle
Founder & CEO of Astute Graphics
With a strong engineering background and a flair for innovation, Nick steers an amazing team to create great stuff.
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About Astute Graphics: Intuitive Tools for Digital Artists
Zsolt Pardi
Co-Founder & CEO of ZoVolt Ltd
Zsolt Pardi is Co-Founder & CEO at ZoVolt Ltd.
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About ZoVolt Ltd: ZoVolt is a wireless sensor manufacturer specializes in zigBee based wireless sensors that communicate with users.
Nadeem Shakoor
Co-Founder and Group COO of AI-XPRT
Nadeem is a highly focused and experienced commercial and risk specialist with extensive global networks and experience in the HSSE, Energy, Technology, Finance, IT and Telecoms industries. Nadeem has been a cofounder of two businesses Senoi Ltd and Eduworks UK Limited. He has over 20 years commercial experience in the software sector. Seven of those years have been spent in developing solutions using AI and Machine Learning. Nadeem has led successful global direct and indirect teams to deliver complex solutions and revenue.
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About AI-XPRT: AI-XPRT is provides artificial intelligence solution to automate regulatory compliance assurance and financial audit.
Mark Howells
Founder of Konnektis
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About Konnektis: A digital platform to improve communication between paid carers, volunteers and family members in domiciliary care.
