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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 CEO’ operating in the Location Based Services 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.
Michelle Kennedy
Co-Founder & CEO of Peanut
Michelle joined Badoo originally as lead counsel over 4 years ago. Prior to joining Badoo she was a successful corporate lawyer at leading international law firm, Mishcon de Reya, before being poached by the firm’s successful biotech client, Quotient Bioscience to head up their legal team. During her time at Badoo, she built the legal, compliance, HR and talent teams before moving into a more operationally focused role, including a position on the board. Today, Michelle is responsible for most key areas of the business, and works closely with founder and CEO Andrey Andreev, on the existing product, and exciting ‘special projects’ coming soon….
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About Peanut: Peanut is an online platform that provides a safe space for women to connect across fertility and motherhood.
Chris Sheldrick
Co-Founder & CEO of what3words
Chris worked in the music business for 10 years, booking bands and managing production for events around the globe. He was constantly frustrated with suppliers not finding site entrances, and bands not finding their way from the hotel to their gigs. Chris tried distributing addresses and GPS coordinates for years but both failed him on numerous occasions. He was certain there was a better way: what3words was born.
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About TED Conferences, The World Economic Forum, what3words: what3words is a mapping technology startup that creates a proprietary geocode system for logistics firms.
John O’Nolan
Founder & CEO of Ghost
Founder at @TryGhost. Tweets about open source, startup life, non-profits, and publishing platforms. Travels the world with a bag of kites.
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About Ghost: Professional, modern, open source publishing
Baran Korkmaz
Founder, CEO of ARWAY
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About ARWAY: ARWAY is a spatial mapping platform critical to building the Metaverse.
Rebecca Lammers
CEO of Laika Network
A customer funded business, helping content owners manage and monetize their online content on YouTube, Facebook and other platforms. Our clients are spread across several sectors including music, TV, film, gaming, education and general entertainment. Corporate clients include Sony ATV, BMG, Kobalt Labels Services and Concord Music Publishing. Artist clients include The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Phil Collins and Genesis.
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About Laika Network: Laika Network helps content owners manage and monetize their online videos.
Akin Arslan
Founder, CEO of TIRPORT
Akin Arslan is the founder and CEO of TIRPORT.
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About AB PLUS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, TIRPORT, TTT GLOBAL: End-To-To-End Logistics Operation Management, Digital PODs, Instant Vetted Truckers
Ant Ganjou
Founder & CEO of CÜR Media
Ant Ganjou a creative entrepreneur with a proven track record of building businesses and generating long term value for clients across a wide range of industry vertices. Currently in my role as CEO at CURB we have helped over 300 clients win hundreds of awards and generate hundreds of millions of pounds in exposure as well as direct business.
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About Airhead, Brand Advance, CÜR Media, DOOH, Gravity Industries, Handi, Hydra, Lifesaver, move.ai: CUR Media is a mobile application that enables its users to create online profiles to share music with their photos and videos.
Harry Howe
Co-Founder & CEO of Dronestream
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About Apian, Dronestream: Dronestream is a platform that allows drone pilots to collaborate with their organisation remotely, from anywhere in the world.
Yohann Merran
Founder, CEO, Lead Dev of Meet My Friends
Founder, CEO, Lead Dev at Meet My Friends
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About Meet My Friends: MMF is a hybrid app between a social network and a city guide, to spontaneously discover events you’ll love exploring with your friends.
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.
James Cobb
Founder and CEO of Crowd Connected
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About Crowd Connected: Pioneering a new generation of big data location intelligence
Polly Barnfield OBE
Founder and CEO of Maybe*
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About Maybe*: Maybe*. The platform that connects the online, offline and social retail journey.
Mev-Rael
Founder & CEO and CTO of Bunny AI
Product Manager, Software Engineer, Designer, Leader, Martial Artist, Philanthropist, Buddhist, Teacher, Philosopher.
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About Bunny AI: Bunny AI is social search engine and marketplace for local on-demand services.
Christopher Kahler
Co-Founder and CEO of Qriously Technologies
Chris does CEO stuff. In line with Qriously’s roots, he is product-driven but interferes with everyone’s affairs whenever he can. He loves his job a little too much.
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About Qriously Technologies: Qriously Technologies is a service for measuring real-time, location-based public sentiment.
Colin Bray
CEO of 1Spatial
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About 1Spatial: 1Spatial provides the software solutions and services that manage the world’s largest spatial big data.
Colin Bray
CEO of 1Spatial
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About 1Spatial: 1Spatial provides the software solutions and services that manage the world’s largest spatial big data.
Sara Ahmadi
CEO of Shopest
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About Shopest: Shopest makes discovering nearby retail as fast and as simple as online.
Charlie Richardson
Co-Founder and CEO of Lumio Technologies
Charlie Richardson is the Co-Founder and CEO at Lumio Technologies.
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About Lumio Technologies: Lumio is you Intelligent wealth mentor. With the simple aim to maximize your money around your lifestyle
Erik Schmiegelow
CEO of Hivemind Technologies AG
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About Hivemind Technologies AG, Itellity: Machine-Learning enabled Data Analytics
Rossa Shanks
CEO & Co-Founder of GLP – Great Little Place
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About GLP – Great Little Place: GLP – Great Little Place is your little black book of great little places.
Tarun Sainani
CEO & Founder of World Around Me
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About World Around Me, WT InfoTech: World Around Me is a local discovery app to help searching local places & services – on the phone camera with augmented reality – anywhere.
Gavin Wheeldon
Chief Executive Officer of Purple
With over 15 years experience working in technology led or enabled businesses, Gavin has a deep understanding of the impact of technology on the bottom line of an organisation. Having sold his last business, Applied Language Solutions, a global language technology and services business, he set up So Purple Group with the prime focus on building an enterprise guest WiFi system that was end user friendly.
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About Purple, Syrenis: Purple is a WiFi analytics and marketing platform.
Nina Tumanishvili
Founder & CEO of HelloHub
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About HelloHub, Odin, TubeChat: Enhancing human connection through technology.
Koen van den Heuvel
Co-Founder and CEO of Fitu App
Koen van den Heuvel is the co-founder and CEO of Fitu App. Prior to this, Koen spent more than one year as a self-employed online retailer at Amazon.
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About Fitu App: Fitu App offer group fitness classes from freelance trainers for the price of a pint, at any desired time and location.
Eashan Maheshwari
Founder & CEO of Zappel
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About Anime Monk, Draper University, Zappel: Zappel is a mobile app that spontaneously connects the humans via hyperlocal informal events (known as Zappels).
Alexei Poliakov
Co-Founder & CEO of Locomizer
Co-Founder at Locomizer
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About Locomizer: Matching Audiences to Locations
Si Brown
Founder & CEO of skignz
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About skignz: skignz: A Precise Location AR platform providing an Enterprise API/SDK that is capable of placing digital content anywhere on the planet
Andrew Bowyer
Co-founder and CEO of Kleos Space
Andy Bowyer is the Co-founder and CEO at Kleos Space.
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About Kleos Space: Kleos Space develop the Geolocation Intelligence Data Service and over a longer term market disruptive in-Space technologies.
Martins Zeps
Co-Founder & CEO of MAZE
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About ENME, MAZE: A platform that exploits an ecosystem of location-aware devices in the physical space and uses a proprietary algorithm to connect people.
Erica Melargo
Founder, CEO of Britalians TV
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About Britalians TV: Entertainment TV Channel and Production Company
Marco Biagioli
Founder and CEO of Britalians TV
Founder of Joboundu.
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About Britalians TV: Entertainment TV Channel and Production Company
Marco Biagioli
Founder and CEO of Britalians TV
Founder of Joboundu.
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About Britalians TV: Entertainment TV Channel and Production Company
Seb Lyall
CEO / Founder of Locappy
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About Locappy: Locappy helps small local businesses reach out to their local community.
Chris Smith
Founder & CEO of 21:32 Ltd
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About 21:32 Ltd: Our technology helps brands connect with, learn from and engage customers, without ever knowing their name.
Chris Smith
Founder & CEO of 21:32 Ltd
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About 21:32 Ltd: Our technology helps brands connect with, learn from and engage customers, without ever knowing their name.
Jonathan Chapman
CEO of ProximityNow
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About ProximityNow: ProximityNow provides location based technology to improve enterprise profitability and customer understanding
Mark Varley
CEO of Addresscloud
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About Addresscloud: Addresscloud provides software services to locate and describe addresses with rooftop level accuracy using high quality data
