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 CTO’ operating in the Marketplace space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Owen Turner-Major
Co-Founder & CTO of Fat Llama
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About Fat Llama: Fat Llama is a peer-to-peer rental marketplace which allows people to rent spare items to others nearby, fully insured.
David Osojnik
Chief Technology Officer of Bitstamp
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About Bitstamp: Bitstamp allows companies and individuals from all around the world to buy and sell bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum, ripple, and bitcoin cash.
Emre Kazan
CTO & Co-Founder of Plentific
Emre Kazan is the co-Founder of Plentific.
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About Plentific: Plentific is a SaaS platform that provides smart property management solutions for landlords and property managers.
Brad Wright
Chief Technology Officer of Pollen
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About Pollen: Pollen builds, curates, and delivers the best travel experiences.
David Santoro
CTO / Co-Founder of Carwow
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About Carwow: Carwow is a company that helps efficiently connect car buyers to car dealers.
Tuomas Hietanen
Co-Founder and CTO of Fund Ourselves
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About Fund Ourselves: Short-term credit from the people to the people.
Gaurav Rana
Chief Technology Officer of BABB
Gaurav is an experienced CTO and an industry veteran in the blockchain space with a history of working with distributed systems and financial services at scale. He has contributed to dozens of pivotal projects and seminal literature, and invented pioneering technology in the industry since 2010. Gaurav is a techstars alum, and ex CTO of startups Everledger and Atlas.
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About BABB: BABB is a world bank for the micro-economy: a global marketplace for human innovation, financial autonomy and wealth creation.
Stephen Mason
Co-Founder & CTO of Splyt
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About Splyt: Splyt is a B2B mobility marketplace that connects institutional supply and demand for ground-based transport.
Co-Founder and CTO of Clouder
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About Clouder: Clouder is a marketplace, subscription service and hyperlocal delivery.
Dotun Rominiyi
Blockchain Strategy – Emerging Tech & Innovation, CTO Office of London Stock Exchange
A Product & Technology expert leader with over 14 years combined experience across the blockchain, FinTech and video gaming sectors. Specialising in executive management, product leadership, with expert skills in blockchain development, games and high performance real-time applications. I have proven commercially focused product leadership as well as technical expertise in Solidity, C/C++, C#, Python, R, Rust, full-stack JavaScript (Node.js) and Java development across a variety of platforms. I’m available for conferences and speaking engagements with a focus on either blockchain & DLT, video games, FinTech or other emerging technologies. Consultancy services offered: https://clarity.fm/dotunrominiyi
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About London Stock Exchange: London Stock Exchange is an online marketplace that enables stock brokers and traders to buy and sell stocks, bonds, and other securities.
James King
Co-Founder & CTO of Encore Technologies
An avid pianist and our CTO, James is rarely seen away from a keyboard of some kind.
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About Encore Technologies: Encore is an online network of musicians that enables them to access many performance opportunities in the music community around them.
Joe Barbour
Chief Technology Officer of Knoma
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About Knoma: Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.
Christopher Moon
CEO & CTO of Tribe Travel
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About Tribe Travel: Tribe Travel is a marketplace and club for youth travelers.
Chris O’Sullivan
Co-Founder and CTO of Lexoo
Chris has been developing websites and apps for more than 10 years – with companies such as Forward Partners, Aegis Media, and the BBC. He loves playing board games and drinking cocktails – ideally at the same time.
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About HitMeUp, Lexoo, What I want for Xmas: Lexoo is a lawyer comparison marketplace that helps businesses choose a lawyer with confidence.
Gabriele Cacciola
CTO of Ocyan
Gabriele has engineering in his DNA: focused and visionary about tech. His experience as Big Data in the Fintech space with ClearScore (since they were a small startup to the worldwide scale it is now) followed many years spent in high tech startups and corporates. When is not busy directing Ocyan’s tech work, he works along with AWS to present his Big Data serverless platforms and support other startups in this journey.
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About Ocyan: Financial marketplace for European Expats
Gavin Love
Chief Technology Officer of MyBuilder
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About MyBuilder: MyBuilder connects consumers, builders, and tradesmen and offers a platform that promotes high quality work.
Rajesh Kothandaraman
Chief Technology Officer of KidSitter
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About KidSitter: Online marketplace for finding trusted, reliable and thoroughly vetted childcare
Joe Vallender
Co-founder and CTO of LandlordInvest
Joe has worked extensively in areas such as publishing, business systems and data analysis. He combines over 10 years practical IT experience working with business-critical systems and management roles engaging a range of clients in B2B, B2C and the public sector. Joe is an experienced landlord, and has experienced many of the issues LandlordInvest is trying to solve.
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About LandlordInvest: LandlordInvest is an online marketplace which matches professional landlords.
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.
William Jones
CTO & Co-Founder of Sano Genetics
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About Sano Genetics: Sano Genetics is a personalised medicine research platform with data privacy and transparency at its core.
Joe Grimes
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Spacehop
Co-Founder of Spacehop
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About Spacehop: An online platform for people to list and book cheap, flexible office space at the days and hours of their choosing in London and the UK.
Paul Wolf
CTO of BitPoster
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About BitPoster, Yewleaf: BitPoster is a marketplace for programmatic trading of outdoor media.
Robert Taylor
CTO & Co-Founder of Origin
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About Origin: Origin is the primary marketplace for fixed income borrowers and dealers.
Will Cavendish
CTO / CSO of Tradefox
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About Tradefox: The leading business intelligence & trading platform for the global trade of scrap & recyclable commodities.
Paul Ford
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of DadShed
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About DadShed: DadShed is enabling the data within buildings to be ‘easily’ accessible for marketplace opportunities.
Dan Harrison
CTO and Co-Founder of Snaptrip
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About RentalTrips, Snaptrip: Snaptrip is a marketplace for people to discover the best last minute cottage holiday deals in the UK.
James Pursaill
Co-Founder & CTO of Plend
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About Plend: Building a better way to borrow, where people are no longer held back by their credit history
Peter J Bentley
CTO and Co-founder of Kazoova
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About Braintree Ltd, Kazoova: Marketplace for quirky activities
Dermot Dwyer
CTO of BiBox
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About BiBox: Bibox offers integrated and orchestrated bank solutions through the BiBox Marketplace
Dermot Dwyer
CTO of BiBox
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About BiBox: Bibox offers integrated and orchestrated bank solutions through the BiBox Marketplace
Victor Olatunya
CTO of AtHashtags
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About AtHashtags: Combined Online and real world Marketplace that allows vendors to sell and connect with consumers online and in multiple physical locations
Sander Melnikov
CTO of Campusboard
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About Campusboard: Campusboard is an online marketplace for university campuses.
Guillermo Acilu
Co-Founder & CTO of FrontM
Guillermo Acilu is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at FrontM.
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About FrontM: FrontM provides a private-labeled application marketplace for airlines, cruises, shipping, and remote enterprises.
Pablo Fernandez De Luisa
CTO of Sportmate
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About Sportmate: Play sport with a click of a button. Marketplace for sports players and facilities.
Julian Jaffe
CTO of LIQUITY
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About LIQUITY: Liquity is an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of private company equity.
Josh Kopecek
CTO of SwarmBuild
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About ECHOES, SwarmBuild: SwarmBuild is an online marketplace for designs and digital fabrication, including 3D printing, CNC and laser cutting.
David Quinlan
CTO of MeetingRooms.com
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About MeetingRooms.com: Global marketplace for meeting rooms.
