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 Small and Medium Businesses 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.
Nick Stevenson
Chief Technology Officer of Growth Street
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About Growth Street: Growth Street is fast, flexible overdrafts for growing businesses.
Dave Ettle
Co-Founder & CTO of Zynstra
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About Zynstra: Zynstra is transforming edge computing at the retail edge.
Mike Moate
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Countingup
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About Countingup: The one that does your books. Countingup is the UK’s #1 banking & accounting app. Dead easy. Super fast. Self sorting.
Patrick Craston
CTO of Intruder
Patrick has worked in software development for a decade. Before joining Intruder he was the Head of Development at one of the UK’s leading cyber security agencies. He has a PhD in Computer Science where he explored human cognition using artificial intelligence technologies.
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About Intruder: Intruder is a cloud-based vulnerability scanner that finds cyber security weaknesses in your external infrastructure.
Nick Buller
Chief Technology Officer of ThinCats
Nick’s entrepreneurial spirit, developed at the helm of several London based start-ups, is coupled with a direct appreciation of how investment in technology can transform businesses. This has driven him to ThinCats, where he is able to use this first-hand experience to help facilitate the funding of UK SMEs. Nick is responsible for overseeing technological advancement at ThinCats; spearheading innovation, building infrastructure, maximising security and promoting development across the business. He has vast experience in finance and technology; having spent over 10 years at Barclays at Director level, he has held CTO positions at a number of other London-based technology firms, as well as CTO for ESF Capital.
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About ThinCats: ThinCats is an alternative finance provider dedicated to funding growing and ambitious mid-sized SMEs across the UK.
Richard Bastin
CTO of Cashplus
Richard is passionate about Technology. Really passionate. No obstacle is too big to overcome and all requirements have a solution. He blends his exceptional tech savvy, knowledge of standards and frameworks, with strong team leadership skills and real business acumen to deliver a highly effective development strategy and process that fulfils both the needs of the business and our customers. Richard has over 20 years IT experience across a variety of industries and has a strong track record of building teams of dedicated software engineers to design and deliver innovative products for customers. He has enviable experience of delivering Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions. Prior to joining The Currency Cloud, Richard had a variety of roles in technology including being the CTO at Digital Look providing real time stock market data solutions for various stockbrokers, media organisations and banks including HSBC and Barclays. Richard has also been Head of Platform Operations at Venda, delivering high availability and high transactional volume for over 100 eCommerce customers including Tesco, Wickes, Republic and many others.
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About Cashplus: Cashplus is a digital challenger to UK banks and has served more than 1.6m customers since launching in 2005
Morné Van Dalen
CTO of Liberis
CTO of Liberis Group.
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About Liberis: Liberis provides access to simple, flexible, and fair finance for small businesses.
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.
Robert Ashcroft
Co-Founder & CTO of Zenstores
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About Zenstores: Zenstores is a platform to propel online sellers to ecommerce greatness.
Greg Dickson
Chief Technology Officer of Appointedd
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About Appointedd, Appointedd: Appointedd is a cutting-edge online booking and scheduling solution that makes it easier for you to connect with your customers.
Lukas Dirzys
Founder and CTO of Creative AI
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About Creative AI: Creative AI gives every business, big or small, the power of a dedicated marketing team.
Yan Zhang
Co-Founder and CTO of Kuan Intelligence
Yan Zhang is Co-Founder and CTO at Kuan Intelligence.
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About Kuan Intelligence: Kuan Intelligence is a cross-border payment platform for E-Commerce backed by Blockchain Technology.
Kit Barker
Chief Technology Officer of MyHRToolkit
Kit Barker has had a long association with Myhrtoolkit, becoming Technical Director in 2014. Kit’s background is in developing successful Software as a Service platforms, with a strong focus on infrastructure and application security. As well as his own hands-on programming with native PHP and frameworks such as Laravel, Lumen and Zend, he leads the development team in innovation and extending the myhrtoolkit application.
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About MyHRToolkit: MyHRToolkit is an HR software package specifically designed for small and medium sized (SME) businesses.
