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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 Psychology 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.
Ankur Modi
Founder and CEO of StatusToday
Ankur Modi is the former CEO and Co-Founder of StatusToday, one of the UK’s top AI Startups. He is an expert in big data with a unique specialization in Psychology. Prior to StatusToday, Ankur worked at Microsoft, driving international efforts behind MS Office, Office 365 and Dynamics. In 2017 he was featured by Forbes’ as 30 Under 30 in Technology and Immigration while also being invited as a guest advisor to Westminster Parliament to present evidence on AI.
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About StatusToday: StatusToday is an AI that gives people analytics to drive organizational change.
Mircea Danila Dumitrescu
Founder and CTO of StatusToday
Before StatusToday, Mircea established himself as a highly technical enterprise architect and adviser. He lead innovations focused on system security and IT scale such as at Just-Eat and Kurt Geiger for millions of users. Mircea is an established technical leader in large scale cloud infrastructure.
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About StatusToday: StatusToday is an AI that gives people analytics to drive organizational change.
Silja Litvin
Founder & CEO of PsycApps
I am a London based Psychologist, CEO and Founder of the Mental Health platform PsycApps. The mental health platform is also part of my PhD thesis in clinical psychology at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich with help of Oxford University College. • In 2013 I finished my Masters in Psychology from LMU majoring in Family and Clinical Psychology. • As aforementioned I am currently completing my postgraduate education as a PhD student of the LMU with help of University College, Oxford. To help raise awareness for both mental well-being in general and our products, I speak at conferences and mental health panels. Being half German, half American, I speak fluent English and German. My French is decent and I understand Italian quite well. Because of my modelling career I am well-traveled, culturally diverse and I am by nature an extroverted people person. Media (1)This position has 1 media
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About PsycApps, PsycApps, UCL, Wonder Women Tech: Digital Mental Health Games
Jose Simoes
Co-Founder of Zenklub
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About Zenklub: Zenklub is the mental and emotional wellbeing platform in Brazil.
Benedikt Reinke
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Sympatient
Benedikt Reinke is the Co-Founder & Managing Director at Sympatient GmbH
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About Sympatient: Sympatient is building the first digital anxiety clinic.
Jen Hyatt
Founder and Chief Executive of Big White Wall
Widely recognised for achievements in the fields of social entrepreneurship and digital technology. Has founded or co-created over 30 organizations worldwide, ranging from the National Telephone Helplines Association in the UK to a major grant-making foundation in the Balkans. 2007, founded Big White Wall, recognizing stigma and poor access were preventing millions from getting mental health support; guides strategic growth while launching new enterprises focused on using technology to improve access to legal advice and a digital approach to the improved social, physical and psychological health of teenagers. 2013, created the Collaborative on Health and Technology (ChaT) to help evidence-based digital healthcare companies achieve scale in the UK. Public speaker. Named: one of top 50 innovators in healthcare, Health Service Journal; Schwab Foundation Global Social Entrepreneur (2015); WCIT Social Entrepreneur of the Year (2015); Red Magazine’s Digital Woman of the Year (2015). Recipient, NatWest Everywoman Iris Award (2015). In 2015, Jen was invited to be a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts as well as sit on the Strategy Committee of the Guy’s and St Thomas Charity.
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About Big White Wall: Big White Wall is a digital mental health and well-being service supporting members through contracts in healthcare and other markets.
Martin Schoel
Founder of ChooseHelp
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About ChooseHelp: ChooseHelp provides private addiction treatment through a network of treatment centers and drug rehabilitation centers.
Roger Searl
Founder, Managing Director of INFO/NATION
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About INFO/NATION: INFO/NATION is an extensive database of Greater China’s high net worth individuals and ultra high net worth individuals (HNWI and UHNWI).
