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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 United Kingdom based Manager operating in the SaaS space. If you think a Manager 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.
Simon Johnson
General Manager – UK and Ireland of Freshworks
Simon Johnson is the UK General Manager at Freshworks.
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About Freshworks: Freshworks provides businesses with SaaS customer engagement solutions.
Richard Whitehead
Principal Product Marketing Manager of Adobe
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Victoria Domalik
Principle Product Manager of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Nick Roberts
Business Development Manager of Cognism
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About Cognism: Cognism is a B2B sales acceleration software company that provides a marketing and sales acceleration solution.
Jonathon Illet
Senior Business Development Manager of Cognism
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About Cognism: Cognism is a B2B sales acceleration software company that provides a marketing and sales acceleration solution.
Ollie Parsley
Senior Engineering Manager of Meltwater
Ollie started off as a web developer and has founded numerous websites on very low or non-existent budget and next to no marketing. This has not stopped his websites from picking up large numbers of users and press. He then went on to found Hootware Limited and is currently the CEO. Hootware Limited has since moved from Twitter and Social Media focused apps (such FootyTweets and H1Debate) to the Android mobile security market.
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About FeedMorf, FootyTweets, Hootware Ltd, Meltwater: Meltwater is a media Intelligence & social listening tools for measuring, managing and magnifying corporate reputation.
Lucas Stoops
Investment Manager of Force Over Mass Capital
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About Force Over Mass Capital: Force Over Mass Capital is a London based venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology investments.
Shariq Kochhar
Content and Editorial Manager of Plentific
Shariq Kochhar is the content and editorial manager of Plentific.
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About Plentific: Plentific is a SaaS platform that provides smart property management solutions for landlords and property managers.
Andrew Crail
EMEA Senior Manager Solutions Engineering & Enterprise Solutions of Akamai Technologies
Andy Crail is the EMEA Senior Manager Solutions Engineering, Enterprise Solutions at Akamai Technologies.
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Paul Jackson
Senior Manager of Akamai Technologies
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Nicole Pretorius
Senior Product Manager of Emitwise
Nicole was born and raised in South Africa, educated at St. Andrews University in Scotland, and is currently immersed in the tech industry having cofounded SheCanCode – a career consulting and coaching platform that aspires to bridge the digital skills gap by empowering diverse technologists to enter and remain in the tech industry.
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About Emitwise: Emitwise empowers businesses to automatically measure, report, and reduce their carbon footprint in real-time.
Sergio Freitas
Engineering Manager & Lead Software Engineer of ThousandEyes
Sergio Freitas serves as the Lead Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at ThousandEyes.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Sergio Freitas
Engineering Manager & Lead Software Engineer of ThousandEyes
Sergio Freitas serves as the Lead Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at ThousandEyes.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Hiwot Mendahun
Technical Product Manager (Security) of Mimecast
Hiwot Mendahun is a cyber resilience expert and product manager at Mimecast. Having joined Mimecast in 2011, Hiwot works closely with all areas of the organization to bring new security products and service innovations to our customers. Hiwot has a passion for security and technology and holds a master’s degree in Information Security and a bachelor’s degree in Artificial Intelligence. When not saving the world, Hiwot shares her enthusiasm by mentoring young people on behalf of The Princes Trust.
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About Mimecast: Mimecast is a SaaS-based email management platform enabling companies to administer business communications and data.
Richard Davis
Group Product Marketing Manager of Proofpoint
Richard is a seasoned Cybersecurity professional with over 20 years’ experience and passionate about helping organisations protect their people. Richard has been at Proofpoint for the last 10 years and has held various roles including Principal Architect, EMEA Product Manager and is currently part of the Global Cybersecurity Strategy team. As part of this team Richard regularly meets Proofpoint Customers to advise on their cyber security strategy. Richard holds an Engineering degree from the University of Exeter and started his career working as a software engineer for a small security vendor, followed by a number of years working in the IT Security Channel.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Enzo Raso
Senior Product Manager of Citrix Systems
Enzo Raso is a senior product manager for Citrix XenServer in the Citrix Core Infrastructure Group. He has overseen delivery of every Citrix XenServer release since 6.2, and is responsible for customer outreach, product strategy and roadmap formulation. Prior to joining Citrix, Enzo spent five years as head of R&D with Betfair, the world’s biggest betting exchange. He holds a bachelor of science degree in mathematics.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Andrew Cresswell
Senior Product Manager of Citrix Systems
Andy is the Citrix release product manager for XenApp and XenDesktop for current releases across the products, both on-premises and cloud versions. He is also the PM for Studio, AppDNA, App-V and Workspace Environment Manager. Relatively new to Citrix, Andy brings 12 years’ experience from a Citrix customer view and has a large portfolio of experience with many technologies supporting virtualized computing.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Andrew Cresswell
Senior Product Manager of Citrix Systems
Andy is the Citrix release product manager for XenApp and XenDesktop for current releases across the products, both on-premises and cloud versions. He is also the PM for Studio, AppDNA, App-V and Workspace Environment Manager. Relatively new to Citrix, Andy brings 12 years’ experience from a Citrix customer view and has a large portfolio of experience with many technologies supporting virtualized computing.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
David Garghan
Recruitment Manager of Wandera
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About Wandera: Wandera provides a unified cloud security solution to protect the modern workplace
Tom Singell
Partnerships Manager of Showpad
Tom Singell is the Partnerships Manager at Showpad.
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About Showpad: The best thing to ever happen to your sales team
Jess Portnoy
Open Source Community Manager and Packaging Lead of Kaltura
Jess Portnoy is senior director of packaging and open source at Kaltura. Jess has been an open source developer and believer for 18 years. Jess also grows pets at GitHub, SourceForge, and Nagios Exchange.
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About Kaltura: Kaltura develops video SaaS solutions for enterprises of all industries.
Sophie Harpur
Product Manager of Split Software
Sophie is passionate about making the complex world of experimentation accessible to everyone with core engineering, growth, design and product principles in mind. As Product Manager at Split, her goal is to help companies across a wide range of industries experiment and rollout software in the safest and most effective way. Before Split, she held several positions at Skyscanner, spending her last year as the Growth Experimentation Manager.
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About Split Software: Split Software is a feature delivery platform that powers engineering teams to build impactful products.
Sarah Leviseur
Product Manager of Attest
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About Attest: Attest is a consumer research platform that delivers consumer data that drive predictable and repeatable growth to businesses.
Gareth Jones
Technical Implementation Manager of Autologyx
Technical Implementation Manager at Autologyx.
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About Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Ashly Harwood
Product Manager of Autologyx
Product Manager at autologyx.
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About Autologyx, Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Rachel Chambers
Implementation Manager of Autologyx
Implementation Manager at autologyx.
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About Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Rachel Chambers
Implementation Manager of Autologyx
Implementation Manager at autologyx.
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About Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Mandi Walls
Technical Community Manager, EMEA of Chef Software
Mandi Walls is Director of Consulting, EMEA at Chef. For Chef, she travels the world helping organizations increase their effectiveness using configuration management and modernizing IT practices. Prior to joining Chef, she ran large web properties for AOL, including AOL.com, Games.com and Moviefone. Mandi has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from GWU and an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler. She is a regular speaker at technical conferences and is the author of “Building a DevOps Culture”, published by O’Reilly.
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About Chef Software: Chef is a continuous automation platform powered by community and open source software engines.
Dan Joyce
General Manager EMEA of SafetyCulture
Dan Joyce is the general manager of EMEA at SafetyCulture.
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About MayDate, My Mate Your Date, SafetyCulture: SafetyCulture is the operational heartbeat of working teams around the world.
Emily Oxley
Senior Customer Success Manager of Zephr
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About Zephr: Zephr is a technology platform for media companies to grow their subscription revenue.
Joe Jordan-Richardson
Sales Manager of Properr
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About Properr: Simplifying the property purchasing process.
Jayne May
Business Development Manager of Properr
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About Properr: Simplifying the property purchasing process.
Matthew Robinson
Manager, Marketing Communications, UK of Acxiom
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About Acxiom: Acxiom is a SaaS-based company providing enterprise data analytics to fuel data-driven results.
David Barker
Principal Product Manager of Acxiom
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About Acxiom: Acxiom is a SaaS-based company providing enterprise data analytics to fuel data-driven results.
Gareth Owens
UK Country Manager of Linkfluence
Gareth Owens is the UK managing director of Linkfluence. Previously he served on the same company as the UK commercial director.
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About CARMA, Linkfluence: Linkfluence is a media intelligence company that analyzes conversations on social networks to create business opportunities for brands.
John Galpin
Distribution Account Manager of ConnectWise
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About ConnectWise: ConnectWise is a software company that transforms how technology solution providers build, manage, and grow their businesses.
Adam Shillcock
Manager, Sales Engineering UK&I of Datto
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About Datto: Datto provides backup, recovery, and business continuity solutions to managed service providers worldwide.
Adam Shillcock
Manager, Sales Engineering UK&I of Datto
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About Datto: Datto provides backup, recovery, and business continuity solutions to managed service providers worldwide.
Nick Colin
Regional Sales Manager – EMEA North of Centrify
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About Centrify, Centrify: Centrify secures enterprise identities against cyberthreats that target today’s hybrid IT environment.
Nathan Sansby
Strategic Partnership Manager of Sorted Group
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About Sorted Group: Sorted Group is a global SaaS company that provides data-driven software for checkouts, warehouses, and shipping.
Suzy Carter Kent
Customer Success Manager of Adestra
Suzy has over 5 years digital marketing experience, now specialising in email. Suzy is dedicated to helping clients achieve their marketing goals and empowering clients to realise the full potential of the MessageFocus platform and their wider marketing technology ecosystem.
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About Adestra: Adestra is a trusted provider of First-Person Marketing solutions for global and growing brands.
David Szabo
Product Manager of Capdesk
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About BrandVee, Capdesk: Capdesk is an equity management platform helping companies manage cap tables, shareholder registers, and employee shares.
Luke Usher
Operations Manager of Operatix
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About Operatix: Operatix supports B2B Software vendors generate pipeline throughout North America and Europe.
Laura Byrne
Sales Manager of Spirable
Laura Byrne is the new business executive at Spirable.
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About Spirable: Building a future where video is always contextual, reactive, and inspires action.
Louise Chawich
Operations Manager of BookingLive
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About BookingLive: BookingLive provides powerful scheduling, reservation and purchasing experiences that create profitable customer relationships.
Darragh Lee
Office Manager of Uleska
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About Uleska: Uleska is an application security automation platform. We help security and development teams manage application security at scale.
Kaspar L. Palgi
Project Manager, Coder, Co-Founder of CrewNew.com – Freelancers’ Agency
I’m a BA IT graduate that’s best at UX/software planning, software architecture and developing software in various programming languages/frameworks/platforms, including Python, PHP, Node.js, Ruby and more. I’m worked with various frameworks like Django, Flask, Rails, CodeIgnitor, Yii, Zend etc. I have experience also with most of the popular open source solutions like Django CMS, KeystoneJS, MODx, Magento, WordPress, OpenCart, Prestashop, vTiger, Odoo, Rhadoop/Hadoop and the list goes on. I always keep my eyes open for the most promising new technologies such as MEAN Stack, Kivy, Meteor and many various others that facilitate building multi-platform applications. I’m a very adept project manager that can always come up with a short/smart and simple solution that works. I’ve completed a teaching course at university that has given me plenty of experience teaching in front of a classroom, performing remote one-on-one training and creating easy to follow manuals. My general skills are in business development. I started my first business when I was 13 and my first IT company when I was 17. Right now I’m a shareholder of four different companies and am currently working on establishing a promising new start-up that will utilise IT management to make freelancers (like us) much more productive.
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About CrewNew.com – Freelancers’ Agency: Platform for project managers. Work with hand picked freelancers used to work together & managed by local PMs. Mostly European developers.
Daniel Sim
General Manager – Shopify of Rewind
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About Rewind: Rewind protects businesses by backing up their SaaS data.
Olubusayo Longe
Co-Founder and Product Manager of Formplus
Olubusayo is co-founder and product manager at Form+.
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About Formplus: Formplus is a cloud-based, enterprise-focused data collection SaaS.
Richard Robinson
General Manager of Leadfamly
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About DMA UK, Leadfamly: Leadfamly is the marketing gamification platform that empowers ambitious marketers to get, keep and grow more customers.
Victoria Humble
Trade & Affiliate Manager of My Bespoke Room
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About My Bespoke Room: The UK’s No.1 Rated Interior Design Service; PLUS SaaS tool for Interior Designers to streamline and run their own business.
Victoria Humble
Trade & Affiliate Manager of My Bespoke Room
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About My Bespoke Room: The UK’s No.1 Rated Interior Design Service; PLUS SaaS tool for Interior Designers to streamline and run their own business.
Ian Clarke
Product Development Manager of ServiceTracker
Ian started his career as a salesman in the water industry and has always had a passion for what could be achieved with technology. Ian has held a variety of technical roles over the past 10 years redesigning processes and developing software for large corporations throughout the UK.
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About ServiceTracker: ServiceTracker provides users with a comprehensive software solution on which the platform integrates every function of their businesses.
Jovana Ljiljak
Digital Marketing Manager of Forbidden Technologies plc
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About Forbidden Technologies plc: Forbidden Technologies is a developer of cloud based video editing software.
Candice Rose
Marketing Manager of Forbidden Technologies plc
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About Forbidden Technologies plc: Forbidden Technologies is a developer of cloud based video editing software.
Amy Creeden
Content Manager of Forbidden Technologies plc
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About Forbidden Technologies plc: Forbidden Technologies is a developer of cloud based video editing software.
Russell Jones
Development Manager of Hudman Solutions
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About Hudman Solutions: Hudman Solutions is an award winning SaaS ERP software solution, cost-effective for small businesses.
Gabriele Plate
Manager, Client Services Europe of UpClear
Gabriele joined UpClear after five years of FMCG experience through consulting and industry work in Europe. He brings expertise in commercial transformation methodologies along with Pricing and Revenue Management best practices. Gabriele is now leading UpClear’s growth agenda in the UK as well as the development and ongoing improvement of Analytics and Trade Promotion Optimization capabilities.
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About UpClear: UpClear is a provider of Revenue Growth Management (RGM) expertise to Consumer Goods manufacturers and distributors across four continents.
Ed Bishop
Business Development Manager of UpClear
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About UpClear: UpClear is a provider of Revenue Growth Management (RGM) expertise to Consumer Goods manufacturers and distributors across four continents.
Martin Brown
General Manager of Gnatta
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About FM Outsource, Gnatta: Gnatta allows businesses of all sizes to listen and engage with their customers on an individual basis via one single interface.
Paul Mitchell
Regional Sales Manager of SiteSpect
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About SiteSpect: SiteSpect offers an optimization platform that enables web and mobile marketers to improve conversion rate and engagement.
Adrian Quayle
General Manager UK of pliXos
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About pliXos: pliXos offers products and consulting services that focus on information technology outsourcing projects.
Russell Dyas
QA Manager of Rencore
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About Rencore: Rencore is a GRC SaaS provider, helping organizations to stay in control of their Microsoft 365 cloud.
Oliver Bridge
UK Country Manager of Verbate
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About Bonjoro, Verbate: Verbate is a self-managed video survey platform that offers instant feedback from users around the world.
Lesley Mace
Brand Account Manager of Elevaate
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About Elevaate: Elevaate is the most efficient way for retailers and their suppliers to execute trade funded activity online.
Lesley Mace
Brand Account Manager of Elevaate
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About Elevaate: Elevaate is the most efficient way for retailers and their suppliers to execute trade funded activity online.
Helen Liggat
Manager, Content & Merchandising of PowaWeb
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About PowaWeb: PowaWeb is an enterprise class, feature rich, Software as a Service ecommerce platform built with international scale in mind.
Will Griffiths
Sales Manager of MyGravity
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About MyGravity: MyGravity enhances trust between businesses and consumers with a digital loyalty and marketing solution.
Marcelo Vilela
General Manager of Contsimples Contabilidade
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About Contsimples Contabilidade: Contsimples is an online accounting platform, focused on managing the accounting and tax operations of small businesses.
