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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Founder operating in the STEM Education 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.
Thomas Woolf
Founder of EdAid
Thomas is an entrepreneur and former professional athlete. His pioneering approach to frontier markets and technology has seen him build successful businesses in the UK, Middle East & Africa. Thomas’s commercial grounding was delivering innovative solutions for some of the UK’s leading banks as part of Accenture’s Financial Services strategy team in London with career highlights being his work with the World Economic Forum and Islamic Finance ecosystem development. The growth of the UAE as a regional hub for commerce and enterprise saw Thomas move to Dubai in 2005 and build his own successful businesses in the health/fitness and financial technology industries. In 2011, Thomas launched JustGiving the world’s largest fundraising platform for charities across the Middle East and Africa. JustGiving has raised over $4 Billion for 12,000 charities since 2002 and is scaling and transforming charitable giving across the MEA region. In 2016 Thomas launched EdAid.com a crowd funding platform for students to finance their higher education, interest free. EdAid’s mandate is to reduce the cost of higher education, increase access to university, and improve the employability of graduates leaving the system. In his spare time, for fun, Thomas remains a competitive athlete and is Head Coach for Nike in the Middle East.
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About EdAid: EdAid is the alternative lending platform for graduate-level, Higher Education.
Fadl Al Tarzi
Founder & CEO of Nexford University
+15 years of experience in media & technology-related businesses. Hands-on experience building successful strategies, growing companies, raising VC funds, building & managing teams. Founded and played pivotal role in growing several successful businesses,
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About Nexford University: A next generation online university providing students with access to quality, affordable, dynamic education.
Justin Hsu
CEO / Founder of MarcoPolo Learning
Justin Hsu is one of the founders of Marco Polo Learning.
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About MarcoPolo Learning: MarcoPolo Learning is an award-winning digital curriculum developer for early learners.
Somesh Selvachandran
Co-Founder & CTO of Magpie Education
Somesh built electronic trading systems for Morgan Stanley, before leaving to co-found Innovate My Curriculum and Talking Circles. He enjoys pouring his passion for computing into projects to help teachers in the classroom and get more kids coding.
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About Magpie Education: Magpie Education is Creating curriculum tools for teachers to inspire the next generation of STEM Innovators.
Joachim Horn
Founder & CEO of SAM Labs
Joachim Horn is a Founder at Sam Labs.
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About SAM Labs: SAM Labs is an edtech company that empowers teachers with the most engaging STEAM solution.
Ben Schogler
Co-Founder of SKOOG Inc.
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About SKOOG Inc.: SKOOG is a Children’s Early Learning Interactive platform that delivers a metaverse of insanely interactive content experiences.
David Skulina
Co-Founder of SKOOG Inc.
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About SKOOG Inc.: SKOOG is a Children’s Early Learning Interactive platform that delivers a metaverse of insanely interactive content experiences.
David Skulina
Co-Founder of SKOOG Inc.
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About SKOOG Inc.: SKOOG is a Children’s Early Learning Interactive platform that delivers a metaverse of insanely interactive content experiences.
