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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 Founder operating in the Impact Investing 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.
Henry Wigan
Founder & Director of Investment of Mustard Seed
Henry is Co-Founder and Director of Investment at Mustard Seed. Henry is a frequent panelist on impact investing; Google Campus, Imperial, INSEAD, IESE, LBS, Oxford Skoll Centre, amongst others. Henry was formerly a Director and Portfolio Manager at BlackRock in London, having started his career at Goldman Sachs. Henry is a recipient of the Goldman Sachs Global Leadership scholarship for social entrepreneurship. Henry has a First Class Honours degree from London School of Economics in Economics and Economic History, and has authored a private paper on Impact Investing in Frontier Markets. Mustard Seed seeks to enable the creation of world-class businesses that generate positive and sustainable outcomes in the areas of economic inclusion, education, environmental sustainability, health, and family and the community.
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About MSM, Mustard Seed: Mustard Seed invests in world-class early-stage businesses that seek to generate compelling financial and societal returns.
Alexander Pitt
Co-Founder & Director of Growth of Mustard Seed
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About MSM, Mustard Seed: Mustard Seed invests in world-class early-stage businesses that seek to generate compelling financial and societal returns.
Moaffak Ahmed
Founder of Cooler Future
Serial entrepreneur and hands-on early stage investor with over 25 years of marketing and business development experience in Europe, North America and Asia.
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About Cooler Future, HyperIn, Sisu Game Ventures, Veturi Venture Accelerator: Cooler Future is a fintech startup developing transparent and effective impact investment solutions for the climate-conscious generation.
Antoine Argouges
Founder & CEO of tulipshare
Antoine Argouges is the Founder and CEO at Tulipshare.
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About tulipshare: Tulipshare is the first activist investment platform, with a focus on impactful project to make this planet better.
Duncan Grierson
CEO and Founder of Clim8 Invest
Duncan Grierson is a Entrepreneur with VC experience in Paris, London, Silicon Valley & Chicago. He is a Founder CEO of 2 ventures backed by over £50m from likes of Goldman Sachs, Fidelity et al.
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About Clim8 Invest, Lirica, Moixa Energy Holdings: Clim8 Invest provides an app that allows individuals to invest in industries that work towards fighting climate change.
Jonty Hurwitz
Founder of DAIZY
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About DAIZY: Crypto and stock risk, impact, ESG. Transparency. Finally.
Francois Mazoudier
Founder & Managing Partner of TLC
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About TLC: TLC is a co-investment club for Tech CEOs (and Tech Leaders) with significant track records.
Khing Oei
Founder & CEO of AlphaSwap
Khing is an investor and entrepreneur. Prior to founding AlphaSwap, Khing founded and ran Eyck Capital, a hedge fund with peak AUM of $200mm. Khing started his career at Goldman Sachs in M&A and subsequently worked as an investor/portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs’ Special Situations Investing Group and multi-billion dollar hedge funds Fortress and Halcyon. Khing holds a Master of Science in Econometrics and an Associate’s Degree in Business Mathematics & Computer Science from VU University in Amsterdam.
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About AlphaSwap, Privium Fund Management: AlphaSwap is an investment technology platform, bundling its analyst community’s best stock ideas into Data-as-a-Service
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.
Mark Little
Co-Founder, COO & CMO of Pynk
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About Pynk: Pynk is where everyday people invest better together.
Toby Hanington
Co-Founder of The Baobab Network
Toby Hanington joined The Baobab Network as Co Founder in 2016.
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About The Baobab Network: The Baobab Network is a tech accelerator that backs early stage ventures in Africa.
Tom Fairburn
Co-Founder of The Baobab Network
Tom Fairburn joined The Baobab Network as Co-Founder in 2016.
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About The Baobab Network: The Baobab Network is a tech accelerator that backs early stage ventures in Africa.
Frederick Bristol
Founder of Brickowner
Founder at Brickowner.
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About Brickowner, Bristolestates: UK property investment platform
Chris Webb
CEO & Founder of GreenGrowth
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About GreenGrowth: GreenGrowth is a sustainable retail investments platform, bringing transparency and personalisation to retail investing
Lars Kroijer
Founder & MD of AlliedCrowds
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About AlliedCrowds: AlliedCrowds combines technology, data, and finance to scale the sustainable development goals.
Andrew Pickett
Co-Founder and CTO of ShareIn
Andrew has been pioneering web technology at startups since 2000. He benefits from combining his software development expertise with an excellent business background.
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About ShareIn: ShareIn help our clients deliver market leading direct investment channels.
Jude Cook
CEO, Co-Founder, Investment Based Crowdfunding Platforms of ShareIn
Jude has been hooked on crowdfunding since 2011. She’s a chartered accountant who loves hearing about exciting new companies and passionate about fuelling their growth.
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About ShareIn: ShareIn help our clients deliver market leading direct investment channels.
Francis Michel
Founder of GSFX Investments
Founder at GSFX Investment
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About GSFX Investments: GSFX Investments are a London based investment company.
Amma Gyampo
Founder of Impact Investing Ghana
Amma Gyampo is the founding member of Impact Investing Ghana.
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About Impact Investing Ghana: Impact Investing Ghana is an an independent global group catalyzing impact that creates awareness and engagement about impact investment.
