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 United Kingdom based CEO’ operating in the Predictive Analytics space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Tugce Bulut
Founder and CEO of Streetbees
Tugce is passionate about the power of data and the positive change it can bring to the world. She is a published author and Master’s graduate from Cambridge, specialising in poverty alleviation and global living standards. Before founding Streetbees, she spent 6 years as a strategy consultant advising technology and consumer companies to accelerate growth in international markets.
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About Streetbees: Streetbees is a human intelligence platform that collects and analyzes offline consumer behavior.
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Martin Blinder
Founder and CEO of Tictrac
Martin is an Internet and Digital Health entrepreneur with a focus on consumer web. He is co-founder and CEO of Tictrac, a leading Connected Health platform that engages people in their health, through their data. Tictrac is at the forefront of the consumerization of healthcare, centralizing an otherwise fragmented sector around the consumer, under the credo: consumer engagement is the key to better health outcomes. Tictrac won Best New Company at Health 2.0 in 2012. Martin was named among the 15 most influential in Digital Health, and has been featured in Wired, NYT, BBC, CNBC, Fortune, Mashable, Wall Street Journal, among others. He is also an active member of YPO, London chapter. Prior to Tictrac, Martin cofounded one of the first online financial services sites in Europe and has advised Prime Ministers and other state officials on innovation, foreign direct investment and entrepreneurship.
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About Tictrac: Tictrac is a connected health platform that engages people in their health through their data.
Tom Wood
CEO of Cazana
Tom hails from a business & innovation background having led technology teams within investment banking and pharmaceutical sectors and founded and sold companies in the marketing technology space. Tom has always had a passion for cars and considers himself very lucky to work on his hobby every day.
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About Car and Classic, Cazana: Cazana data helps motor retailers, insurers and lenders digitally transform with big data and machine learning technology
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CEO & Co-Founder of AMPLYFI
Chris Ganje is co-founder and CEO of AMPLYFI, a company that has developed the world’s first business intelligence platform to combine leading artificial intelligence, surface and deep web harvesting and decision support visualisations within a single integrated, user-friendly platform.
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About AMPLYFI, Innovate UK: AMPLYFI is a privately held company that provides software platform capable of intelligently harvesting open source data from the internet.
Priti Padhy
Co-founder & CEO at Cognino AI of Cognino AI
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About Cognino AI, ExtraaEdge: Cognino empowers Contextual decisions with Explainable AI. It transforms data at a cloud-scale into intelligence with speed and accuracy
Jonathan Pope
Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder of Corax
Former army Captain and Sandhurst graduate, Jonathan is an insurance industry thought leader and speaker, and has acted as a board level cyber risk advisor.
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About Corax: Cyber risk intelligence platform providing data and modelling on the cyber exposure of millions of companies worldwide.
George Frangou
Chief Executive Officer, Founder of Massive Analytic
George is Massive Analytic’s founder and Executive Chairman (formerly CEO), Artificial Precognition inventor and Oscar product architect. Pushing ICT boundaries for more than 30 years, he has many firsts including the UK fibre optic broadband network run by Virgin Media. George’s CV includes CEO Platon UK (now Delloitte), analytic company Pronus founder and KPMG senior executive. Degrees incude Astrophysics and wireless and optical communications from world leading universities including UCL. Professional accreditations and honours include Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institute of Directors (FIoD), FRSA, Fellow of The Chartered Institute for IT.
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About Massive Analytic, Massive Analytic: Massive Analytic is a London-based analytics innovator, with patented world leading technologies and global big data heritage.
Yaniv Altshuler
Co-Founder & CEO of Endor
Yaniv Altshuler is Co-Founder & CTO at Endor.
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About Endor: Predictive software platform that lets business users ask any predictive question and get high-quality results in minutes instead of months.
Mohammed Zulfiquar
President & CEO of Datatecnics
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About Datatecnics: Datatecnics is an intelligent infrastructure firm revolutionizing global asset management with predictive analytics.
Cyrille Najjar
CEO of Sensio Air
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About HIAGO Inc., Sensio Air, White sur White: Sensio Air is a healthcare analytics company that helps people with asthma and allergy predict prevent and manage their symptoms.
Riham Satti
Co-founder / CEO of MeVitae
Riham Satti, CEO of MeVitae is amongst the top 50 disruptive game changers in Thames Valley, top 100 influential UK tech business leaders and according to Forbes a ‘female founder taking the UK by storm’. As well as her involvement in the tech ecosystem and working with innovative start-up companies, Riham’s main interests lie in leveraging technology to unleash human capital and solve the biggest employment challenges, supported by the likes of Microsoft, European Space Agency and Oxford University – quoted as ‘disruptive recruitment technology innovation’ by Stephen Kelly (CEO of Sage). She is involved in several initiatives in promoting female founders and women in STEM. Riham is a computational neuroscientist from Oxford and Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London.
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About MeVitae, Tech London Advocates, techUK: Deep tech company helping companies find talent smarter, faster and fairer without unconscious or algorithmic bias.
Mark Perera
Founder & CEO of Vizibl
CEO of Old St Labs / Founder of Procurement Leaders / Vizibl co-founder
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About Vizibl: Vizibl’s application puts collaboration, innovation and sustainability at the heart of supplier relationships. Their best in class digital platform enables enterprise organisations to tackle their most ambitious challenges collaboratively with suppliers and partners, to drive mutual value & sustainable business growth.
Ege Akpinar
Founder and CEO of Pointr
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About Pointr: Pointr is an indoor positioning and navigation company with analytics and messaging features.
Loubna Bouarfa
Co-Founder & CEO of OKRA Technologies
Loubna has won several awards and was recognised as a leading innovator by the MIT Technology Review in 2017. Beyond her business, Loubna has recently been appointed by the European Commission as a High-Level Expert on Artificial Intelligence. She will support the EU by developing recommendations on ethical, legal and societal issues related to AI, impacting the health, safety and freedom of the wider society. On a personal level, Loubna is a strong advocate for diversity and challenging the status quo. Having lived in Morocco, moving to the Netherlands at the age of 17, and later to the UK with a young family, she realised the power of remaining outside her comfort zone.
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About OKRA Technologies: OKRA is an AI analytics company for healthcare. We combine complex data sets, you get evidence-based insights and predictions in real time.
Richard Heyns
Founder and CEO of brytlyt
Founder at brytlyt.
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About brytlyt: Brytlyt provides transformational serverless acceleration for analytics
Rasmus Hansen
Co-founder & CEO of Airfinity
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About Airfinity: Airfinity is a science information and analytics company
Francesca Carlesi
Co-Founder and CEO of Molo
Francesca Carlesi is Co-founder and CEO at MoloFinance. Francesca is a senior executive with more than 15 years of experience in the financial sector across various domains (strategy,/business development, finance, M&A, regulation) and sectors (private equity, retail and commercial banking, investment banking, asset and wealth management).
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About Molo: Molo is a digital mortgage lending platform that uses technology and AI to make home financing faster, better, and cheaper.
Seth Ward
CEO & Founder of Pynk
Online since the ’80s, I grew up eating my cereals off of arcade game machines which led to my first thriving business aged 8 – running a lunchtime arcade sanctuary for my school buddies in my garage (in true Silicon Valley style). Serial tech entrepreneur and incubator since the ’90s. A hands-on, can-do leader, I’ve: – Raised investment (and delivered ROI) – Coded prototypes, alphas and betas – Set up data-driven analytics that enabled rapid growth – Recruited and led globally disperse tech teams – Built a business from $500 to eight figures in 4 years with zero investment – Pioneered digital download and mobile video streaming platforms for AOL, Vodafone, Orange and Universal Music – Co-founded a business which transformed professional soccer scouting before selling to an industry leader And I… – love to immerse myself in the most positively disruptive technology (from those arcade games and pre-WWW internet in the ’90s, web in the 90s, mobile in the 00s and now blockchain and AI in the 10s – learn to teach, and teach to learn; I feel most alive when I’m learning and applying new thinking – realise that as a society we need to actively shape our use of technology to help us reach our human potential rather than allowing it to rule our lives and diminish our connection to each other I first started mining Bitcoin in 2011. I’m currently focused on the blockchain space, dedicated to helping everyday investors and startups. I love blockchain, and I kinda love capitalism – both are broken right now, but could fix each other. Let’s make things better!
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About Pynk: Pynk is where everyday people invest better together.
Simon Kampa
CEO & Co-Founder of Senseye
Simon is the CEO of Senseye, a company exploiting the Internet of Things with advanced analytics and machine learning. Senseye’s vision is to enable everyone to benefit from such technologies, not just large organisations. Their product is currently undergoing beta testing within the agriculture, renewable and manufacturing sectors. In his previous position, he was the Managing Director of Critical Software, an advanced software engineering company serving the aerospace and defence industries. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in the Semantic Web.
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About Senseye: Senseye is a cloud-based software for predictive maintenance.
James Cobb
Founder and CEO of Crowd Connected
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About Crowd Connected: Pioneering a new generation of big data location intelligence
Malcolm Glaister
CEO and Founder of SiriusInsight.AI
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About SiriusInsight.AI: Real-Time Intelligence: Sea, Land, Cyber
Jeremy Annis
CEO & CTO of Ripjar
Jeremy Annis serves as the Chief Executive and Technology Officer at Ripjar.
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About Ripjar: Ripjar is a data intelligence company that transforms global institutions ability to manage strategic risks.
Daniel Thompson
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Kluster
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About Kluster: Forecast, manage pipeline, and execute strategies to beat your revenue target using Kluster’s revenue analytics platform.
Julian Mills
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Quorso
Julian is a former partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a leader in the Travel, Transport, and Infrastructure practices. He also founded and co-chaired the Global Infrastructure Initiative with Madeleine Albright, a gathering of the world’s most influential infrastructure leaders. Julian spent much of his childhood growing up on a remote Scottish island surrounded by sheep and has degrees from Oxford University and Stanford University.
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About Quorso: A new era for store management: Agile. Simple. Human.
Chris Johnston
Founder and CEO of Adoreboard
Chris Johnston is the CEO & founder of Adoreboard, a business intelligence company providing emotional analysis for brands online. He has extensive experience working in a strategic communication advisory role for global companies including Hewlett-Packard, Danske Bank and Grant Thornton. He has studied at Kennedy School at Harvard, Montana State University and University of Ulster. He has held fellowships with: NATO working group (Atlantic Council), Transatlantic Network 2020 (British Council) and The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
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About Adoreboard, The Atlantic Council, The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA): Adoreboard is a unique platform that helps brands to understand online customer emotion.
Sam Amrani
CEO & Founder of Olvin
Founder & CEO of Olvin.com and Founder of Tamoco.com, interested in and focussed on AI, geo-spatial data, real-world intelligence, analytics, communication and insight.
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About Olvin, Tamoco: Olvin helps real-world businesses get proactive through its AI powered predictive analytics platform.
Richard Gascoigne
CEO of Solutionpath Limited
Solutionpath Limited co-founder and director delivering insight solutions on organisations data assets.
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About Solutionpath, Solutionpath Limited: Solutionpath Limited provides Stream solution oferring insight in to student behaviours to support progression and attainment.
Maria McKavanagh
Chief Executive Officer of Verv
Ex National Instruments, responsible for multi-million pound sales territory within Aerospace & Automotive winning ‘new sales person of the year’ for EMEIA as well as an Engineering Impact award. Holds a degree in Electronic Systems Engineering.
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About Verv: High definition fault detection technology for the next generation of smarter, longer lasting and more sustainable appliances
Sarvesh Kumar
Founder and CEO of Singular Intelligence
Founder & CEO at Singular Intelligence, building an AI Platform and Applied AI products for Smart Retail and Commerce. Earlier Built successful businesses in Europe, the US, and India. Singular Intelligence enables brands and retailers to significantly improve their profit, customer experience, and market share by automated, real-time analysis and recommendations for profitable promotions and supply planning considering all market & operations factors. Sarvesh is an Industry Expert in AI, Analytics, Data and Business Intelligence. Enabling Business Value from Data to customers like Unilever, GSK, Tesco, Barclays, Three Telecom, British Telecom, CISCO, British Petroleum etc. across customers in Europe, US, and Asia. Sarvesh founded Singular Intelligence, to pioneer a new way of consuming insight from the variety and velocity of data and build a data-driven business. Sarvesh holds an Oxford Post Graduate Diploma in Strategy & Innovation, in addition to an Engineering Degree.
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About Singular Intelligence: Singular Intelligence is an AI Platform for brands & retailers that automates & augments commercial decisions leveraging all market factors
Owen McCormack
CEO of Hoxton Analytics
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About Hoxton Analytics: Cloud computer vision software to digitise and automate processes in physical spaces.
Furtak Aleksandr
CEO of Mighty Digital
I have a telecom engineering background and extensive entrepreneurial experience as a Product Owner in high-growth digital areas, including mobility, gaming, marketplaces. Currently, I’m a CEO at Mighty Digital, and we empower data-informed growth for digital consumer products. We help clients leverage data to acquire, activate, and retain more customers. We build full-scale data solutions and analytics teams. If that sounds interesting to you – drop me a line, and let’s grow together!
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About Mighty Digital: Mighty Digital is a growth engineering agency that empowers data-informed decision making for digital consumer brands
Donna North
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Dressipi
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About Dressipi: The leading independently verified Revenue Optimisation Platform for fashion retailers.
Michalis Michael
Founder and CEO of DMR
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About DMR: DMR owns proprietary AI technology that adds intelligence to unstructured data from any source and language, to produce invaluable insights.
Edward Upton
Founder and CEO of Littledata
Edward Upton is the Founder and CEO at Littledata.
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About Littledata, Teachable: Littledata is an ecommerce analytics connector for Shopify stores.
Herbert Siu
CEO & Co-Founder of Quokka
Serial entrepreneur. Sharp insights with proven experience in UK PE/VC. Also a CFA & CPA.
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About Quokka: Quokka is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) employee engagement platform that develop engaged & high-performing teams
Thomas Gatten
CEO & Founder of Growth Intelligence
Tom Gatten is a thought-leader in big data-driven B2B marketing and predictive lead generation. Before founding GrowthIntel he worked as a broadcast journalist for the BBC and at business intelligence firm IHS.
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About Growth Intelligence: Growth Intelligence is a UK technology company offering a software-as-a-service product to B2B corporations.
Alex Money
Founder and CEO of Oxford Earth Observation (OxEO)
Alex Money is the Founder and CEO at Oxford Earth Observation.
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About Oxford Earth Observation (OxEO): We project the location- specific impacts of climate change, on variables that we observe
Peter McCaul
CEO of Pearlai
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About Pearlai: Péarlaí has the best of Google analytics & Adwords for physical spaces with greater detail, insights and greater benefits.
Ashutosh Natraj
CEO & CoFounder of Vidrona
Oxford University Researcher turned entrepreneur with 9 years of experience in academia and industry across the world such as IBM Research. Ash holds a PhD in Robotics and Computer Vision for UAVs(Distinction), Erasmus Mundus (ViBOT) scholar with 3 Masters in Robotics and Computer Vision.
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About Vidrona, Vine Rangers: Vidrona is a British AI Based Predictive Prescriptive Analytics Company for the Utilities. It helps utilities to increase RoI.
Mark Gorski
Co-Founder & CEO of Sports Data Labs, Inc.
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About Sports Data Labs, Inc.: Unlock the Value of Human Data®
John McInerney
Founder and CEO of Amperfii
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About Amperfii: Amperfii offers a data enablement platform that helps companies drive better business outcomes.
Philip Callow
CEO of OAG
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About OAG: OAG is a leading global travel data provider with the world’s largest network of flight information data.
Bruno Zamborlin
CEO & Founder of Mogees
My research focuses on new methods for gestural interaction with everyday objects and their applications in the creation of new interfaces for musical expression.
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About Hypersurfaces, Mogees: Mogees is Pioneering AI in sensor tech we transform any surface into a data-enabled one.
Pete Ferguson
Co-Founder CEO of Prospective
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About Prospective: Autonomous Networked Operations
David Swift
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Tech Entrepreneur of SwiftERM
Founder and Tech Entrepreneur, he was a mail order and then ecommerce marketing consultant exclusively for retail and the ecommerce, for 35+ years, for such clients as The White Company, Liberty and Next. He personally invested in his technology identified the need from the retail perspective. It stands alone as the only fully automated email remarketing software in the world.
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About SwiftERM: SwiftERM is predictive personalisation software for ecommerce.
Mark Rittman
CEO of Rittman Analytics
Founder at MJR Analytics, ltd.
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About Rittman Analytics: Data Engineering, Data Strategy and Data Analytics Consultancy
Mark Rittman
CEO of Rittman Analytics
Founder at MJR Analytics, ltd.
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About Rittman Analytics: Data Engineering, Data Strategy and Data Analytics Consultancy
Will Crandle
Co-founder and CEO of Horsefly
Will Crandle is Co-Founder & CEO at Horsefly
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About Horsefly: Horsefly is an exclusive talent mapping & talent planning software tool.
