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 Open Source 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.
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
Alexandros Marinos
Founder & CEO of Balena
Alexandros Marinos is the Founder & CEO at resin.io
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About Balena: Balena is a complete set of tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices.
Alan Vey
CEO and Co-Founder of Aventus Network Systems
Alan is an entrepreneur in the blockchain industry and is currently focused on his role as co-founder and CEO of Aventus Network Services, a blockchain layer 2 network, reshaping digital assets including ticketing, loyalty and financial assets, to name a few. Before moving into Blockchain, Alan worked at Deloitte in the Entrepreneurial Business Department and macro hedge fund Brevan Howard. He completed a Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence at Imperial College London. His masters thesis investigated film rights distribution using blockchain in partnership with BAFTA. a
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About : Aventus is a layer-2 blockchain protocol that brings scalability, lower costs, and speed to Ethereum transactions.
James Hawkins
Co-Founder / CEO of PostHog
James Hawkins is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at PostHog.
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About Hiberly, PostHog: PostHog provides a platform for open-source product analytics to helps software teams understand user behavior.
Antonios Chalkiopoulos
Founder & CEO of Lenses.io
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About Lenses.io: DataOps – A real-time applications and data operation portal
Anthony Finbow
Chief Executive Officer of Eagle Genomics
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About 360Leaders, Eagle Genomics, Henley Business School, Solv: Eagle Genomics is a enterprise software solutions company to enable the management, orchestration and exploitation of life sciences data.
Alex Housley
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Seldon
Alex is a serial entrepreneur on a mission to establish the new open standard for predictive AI, to make the world a more personalised, productive and fun place. He is the co-creator of the Genome Laser, which sequenced the inventors of the laser and high-speed genome sequencing and blasted their DNA into space with an enormous laser.
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About Seldon: Machine Learning Deployment Platform
Jeremy Basset
CEO of CO:CUBED
Jeremy has built his career by helping large corporates define and build their future organisation. Through CO:CUBED, he works with some of the worlds largest businesses to re-think their organisational approach to innovation and helping them build and execute their collaborative innovation capabilieis. Prior to launching CO:CUBED, Jeremy spent 13 years at Unilever where he was responsible for launching and then leading the Unilever Foundry, Unilever’s platform to engage with startups and innovative companies who can help Unilever pioneer the future. Through the Foundry, over 1500 of Unilever marketers have worked with over 150 startups, brining innovative technology and an entrepreneurial culture to Unilever. Originally Australian, Jeremy’s career has taken him from Australia to New Zealand, Singapore he now resides in the UK. Jeremy has a marketing and commercial background, with a degree in Accounting & Marketing, he’s CPA qualified and has an MBA from London Business School.
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About CO:CUBED: CO:CUBED helps FTSE100 companies to embrace the startup revolution, by defining and executing their collaborative innovation capabilities.
Fintan Galvin
CEO of Invotra Ltd
Fintan is the founder / owner of Invotra. He has a passion for delivery and keeping things focussed and connected. With over 25 years in enterprise technology he has a vast array of knowledge in getting large scales systems developed and deployed out to the people that count.
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About : Enterprise Intranet and Portal solutions for organisations worldwide
Asim Aslam
CEO of M3O
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About M3O: Next Generation Cloud Platform
Shubham Nagar
Chief Executive Officer of InfoAxon Technologies Limited
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About InfoAxon Technologies Limited: InfoAxon Technologies is a provider of enterprise services and business solutions powered by open source.
Neil Tocher
Co-Founder, CEO, CTO of NCTech
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About NCTech: NCTech is a big data and analytics provider. Pioneering edge-to-cloud big data capture & provision with ML/AI for Google, government & AEC
Michael Messele
CEO of Pillar Project
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About Pillar Project, Pillar Project: Platform to contextually manage your identity and transact with the services of the emerging web3 digital economy.
Spokey Wheeler
CEO of Pharaoh Tools
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About Pharaoh Tools: Open source, PHP, full-stack DevOps tools
Ian Finlay
CEO of Abiquo Group
Prior to joining Claranet, Ian Finlay was CTO of ControlCircle, leading a team of 50 to design, develop, deliver and support a range of networking and managed hosting services and maintaining data centre facilities across Europe and in Singapore. Before that, he held the position of Vice President of IT and Business Systems at Interoute Communications, where he led a worldwide organisation of more than 60 staff to drive business agility, productivity and customer service through innovative technology solutions focused on business priorities. In addition to his work with ControlCircle and Interoute Communications, Ian has held senior positions at FLAG Telecom, Vanco Ltd and Novell UK Ltd.
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About Abiquo Group: Abiquo Group develops hybrid cloud management software for customers to build and monetize cloud-based services.
Deepak Prabhakara
CEO of BoxyHQ
Deepak Prabhakara is the CEO and co-founder at BoxyHQ.
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About BoxyHQ, onDMARC, Red Sift: BoxyHQ helps startups to enable enterprise features in any SaaS app with just a few lines of code.
Sam Parton
Co-Founder & CEO of Openplay
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About Openplay: OpenPlay is an online platform that allows any sports facility to take online bookings, payments and manage their customers.
Chris Adams
Founder and CEO of Rochen
Chris Adams is Founder and CEO at Rochen.
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About Rochen: Our mission is to build innovative hosting services
Ben Vaughan
CEO of ARToolworks
Ben Vaughan has spent the last 20 years involved in the real time 3D visualization industry, prior to which he spent five years as an investment banker and seven years working in the City of London as a strategic marketing and investor relations consultant. His technology career started in the early 1990s with one of the UK’s pioneering virtual reality companies (Virtuality PLC) where he was the head of External Affairs. He then co-founded a VC-backed start-up in California before moving to the East Coast to run a business unit for InterSense Inc. Since 2000, Ben has worked for his own company and become involved in several software start-ups in a variety of senior executive positions. In addition to his role at ARToolworks, Ben is on the board of Simulation Synthesis Ltd, a developer of real time 3D authoring software.
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About ARToolworks: ARToolworks offers access to the computer vision algorithm which allows its users to modify the source code to fit their applications.
Mitul Limbani
CEO of Enterux Solutions
CEO at Enterux Solutions
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About Enterux Solutions: Enterux Solutions is a Telecommunication company.
