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 Founder operating in the Architecture 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.
Jose Ojeda
Co-Founder & COO of 011h
Entrepreneur/Leader in tech
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About 011h: 011h specializes in sustainable building development
Benoit Pagotto
Co-Founder – Marketing Director of IVR nation
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About IVR nation: High end interactive Virtual reality experiences that have the power to changes industries.
Olivier Demangel
Founder – Design Director of IVR nation
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About IVR nation: High end interactive Virtual reality experiences that have the power to changes industries.
Darren Lester
Founder & CEO of SpecifiedBy
Founder at SpecifiedBy
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About SpecifiedBy: SpecifiedBy helps architects, designers and specifiers to make informed decisions about building products
Joan Figuerola Hurtado
Co-Founder & CTO of SpecifiedBy
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About SpecifiedBy: SpecifiedBy helps architects, designers and specifiers to make informed decisions about building products
Ondrej Chudy
Founder of TMD STUDIO
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About TMD STUDIO, Trust List: TMD STUDIO provides creative ideas and online solutions to architectural designs.
Afzal Amijee
Founder of Vimodi
Founder of Vimodi.
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About Vimodi: Mobile Presentation Discussion & Collaboration App
Danny Campbell
Founder & Director of Hoko
Danny Campbell is the Founder & Director of Hoko & he Attended De Montfort University in 2015.
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About Hoko: Hoko is a architecture platform focus on customer service and design.
Frank Staiger
Founder, Managing Director of Via Studios
Frank Staiger is Managing Director and founder of Via Studios. He has over twelve years experience in online design, development and digital management with a growing and exciting client portfolio including both private and public sectors. He has worked with many art directors, studios, developers and clients during his career. Via is the engine room driving his unstoppable passion for the internet and the digital sector. What’s more, the experience he brings to projects mediates between excitement for new channels and a sound business sense of what will work to deliver on the bottom line. Before founding the company back in 1998, German-born Frank was working freelance for many years in the media industry, including production and team management for large magazine publications. He also worked in branding, graphic design, pre-production and typography for traditional advertising agencies across Manchester.
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About Via Studios: Online Design, Usability and Development
Daniel Nordh
Founder of Curator & Co
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About Curator & Co, Paymobil: A fast and visual tool for creative thinking.
Romill Bettany
Co-Founder and Engineering Director of Modulous
Romill Bettany is the co-founder and engineering director at Modulous.
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About Modulous: Redefining the design & delivery of affordable, sustainable & smart homes by leveraging disruptive digital technologies
Daniel Azougy
CEO & Founder of Tropic By the Sea
Daniel Azougy has the experience and strategies to turn businesses around, even those that have underperformed or are insolvent. He has developed his approach to giving companies a second chance through a proven three-part strategy. First, Azougy helps clients cut their budgets and drive down expenses that can eat up the company’s resources. Second, he urges a restructuring of the workforce and suggests ways to improve efficiency. Third, Azougy works together with clients to find ways to improves services and products and to drive demand. Daniel Azougy’s Tropic by the Sea business development consulting service was created through Daniel Azougy’s experience as a civil litigation attorney. Through his work in law, he was able to see how and why businesses end up in difficulty and to find solutions to mend the situation. Before attending law school at Tel Aviv University, he served in the Golani Brigade in the Israel Defense forces. His family emigrated from Morocco to Israel when he was seven years old and settled in Ashdod. Daniel Azougy travels often from Israel to the United Kingdom to meet with managers and to create solutions to improve business strategies. He is well-versed in issues faced by companies and clients in the U.K and in Israel. He was instrumental in overseeing the purchase of nursing homes in the U.K, and has worked on behalf of clients who want to see financial improvement for themselves and their firms. With his many years of experience, his solid grasp of intricacies of the global economy and success in turning around businesses, Daniel Azougy is able to give advice that can transform a company. Individuals and businesses can face financial headwinds at any time, but often the solution is not difficult to implement if one has the expertise to turn a company around. Daniel Azougy has that expertise.
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About Tropic By the Sea: Business man, Daniel Azougy’s leading construction project on Ashdud, Israel coastline.
Gemma Milne
Co Founder of Science Disrupt
Gemma Milne is a Science & Technology Writer covering all things deep tech, including biotech, advanced computing, space, energy and innovation in academia, for titles such as Forbes, the BBC, CNBC, the Guardian, and Quartz. She is also Co-Host of Science: Disrupt – a podcast interviewing the innovators, iconoclasts & entrepreneurs creating change in science. As a deep tech consultant, she is an Expert Advisor for the European Commission and Innovate UK, and a Scout for Backed VC. Gemma is an Innovation Jury Member for SXSW and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, and she is currently writing her first book on hype and idealism in science and tech.
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About Science Disrupt: Science Disrupt discussions with the innovators, iconoclasts, and entrepreneurs intent on creating change in science.
Salvatore Ruocco
Co-Founder of Vieweet
Salvatore Ruocco is Co-Founder at Vieweet.
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About Permira, Vieweet: Vieweet is a leading global provider of dynamic technology for the Real Estate Industry.
Daniel Emmerson
Co-Founder & Joint CEO of OpenAsset
Co-Founder of meterfy and OpenAsset.
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About Meterfy, OpenAsset: OpenAsset is the only DAM solution built around projects, properties, and people.
Andrew Cox
Co-Founder, Fellow Director & Mechanical Engineer of Clear Water Revival
Fellow Director and co-founder Andrew Cox is a qualified mechanical engineer and has been involved in business and new product development of environmental technologies for over 13 years. He has considerable experience in product development including specification, design, patents, prototyping, project management, procurement, manufacturing and quality assurance. Previously Andrew has designed numerous award winning clean-tech products from wind turbines to solar products. Andrew’s industrial experience is wide ranging; he has established wind turbine production facilities in Wales, written and implemented numerous manufacturing quality standards and established steel fabrication facilities in Ukraine for production of solar PV carports. Andrew is responsible for new product development, business operations and rollout of new technology.
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About Clear Water Revival: Clear Water Revival is a leading company in the design and construction of natural swimming pools and natural swimming ponds.
Matthew Batten
Co-Founder of bownd
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About bownd: Bownd is a provider of digital archeologist that intelligently gathers photos and conversations from across social profile.
Matthew Batten
Co-Founder of bownd
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About bownd: Bownd is a provider of digital archeologist that intelligently gathers photos and conversations from across social profile.
John Davenport
Founder of SpectoLabs
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About SpectoLabs: Fast delivery tools for complex environments
Tom Cunliffe
CEO, Founder of SpectoLabs
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About SpectoLabs: Fast delivery tools for complex environments
