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 Open Source 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.
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.
Tim Glaser
Co-Founder & CTO of PostHog
Tim Glaser is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at PostHog.
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About 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
Abel Ureta-Vidal
Chief Product Officer & Founder of Eagle Genomics
With more than 12 years bioinformatics experience and a scientific background in molecular biology and immune-virology (PhD from the Pasteur Institute, France), Abel first mastered bioinformatics tools and code in the early 90s whilst working on viral phylogenetic studies. After his PhD, he joined the effort at Genoscope (Evry, France) in ramping up the human genome project, putting in place the automatic gene annotation system for human chromosome 14. In 2001, Abel moved to the European Bioinformatics Institute (Cambridge, UK) where he led the Ensembl comparative genomics team until 2007. He founded Eagle shortly before graduating from the Cambridge Judge Business School MBA program in 2008.
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About Eagle Genomics: 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
Kevin Hollands
Founder and CFO of Escrowblock
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About Escrowblock, XRED Foundation: Escrowblock is a platform that provides a gateway on the ethereum blockchain.
Neil S W Murray
Founder of The Nordic Web
Neil S W Murray founded The Nordic Web in 2014 in order to provide the Nordics with the quality coverage it deserves. As well as being Founding Editor of The Nordic Web, Neil is also an active community builder in the region, participating in a number of initiatives, and has previously worked for Tech.eu.
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About ConfiDental, The Nordic Web, The Nordic Web Ventures: The Nordic Web is an online source for content and data on nordic technology and startups.
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
Ian Pridham
Co-Founder & CTO 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.
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
James Wheare
Founder of IRCCloud
Founder at IRCCloud
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About IRCCloud: IRCCloud is a modern, always-connected IRC client that works on mobile and the web
James Wheare
Founder of IRCCloud
Founder at IRCCloud
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About IRCCloud: IRCCloud is a modern, always-connected IRC client that works on mobile and the web
