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 Unified Communications 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.
Tariq Rauf
Founder & CEO of Qatalog
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About Qatalog: The work hub for modern teams and knowledge workers.
Clare Stewart Munn
Chief Executive Office, Founder of Box Media
Media Executive and entrepreneur passionate about communication, Ai and equal pay. Focused on disrupting how information is digested and expressed in the workforce. In 94 Munn’s script and animation treatment to entertain and educate children about Africa and the environment was licensed by Paramount/Simon & Schuster Interactive . In parallel she co-founded Penga Partners with a vision to disrupt communication and training in the workplace. This became Employment Law Training Inc. owned by Littler Mendleson. ELT-Inc.com became the first multidimensional, online site for compliance story based training. Instrumental in raising $15 million from Lazard and selling for multiple X 10 years later. After ELT, Munn became EVP of Global BD & Partnerships instrumental in raising Series B $22 million for Playback Media, a $28M venture back software and media company founded in 1998 in Silicon Valley to deliver cutting edge e- Learning videos to Global 50 companies. Even though both companies had successes, Munn realized broadband was not quite there to create her vision of streaming mixed media short format engaging episodic videos in the workplace and after founding an award winning boutique agency, The Communication Group, Munn concentrated on creating brand and digital strategies for Fortune 100 clients including Hitachi, Maxtor, Cisco, McKesson, AMD, ebay, Danskin, Eddie Bauer etc. This became the 1st 50 Green Certified agency in SF. Coined and trademarked CQ: Communication Quotient: Expressive & Receptive Intelligence, and H2H, Human 2 Human. And soon after being an Executive Producer of The Square – a 3 Emmy, Oscar Nominated film with Netflix, Munn knew it was finally time to realize her vision of 20 years ago and Boxspring Entertainment was founded in 2016. Boxspring was the 1st 100 to sign the Equal Pay Pledge.
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About Box Media, Unreasonable: Reinventing Learning. An EdTech company producing short form media and technology tools focused on the Future of Work
Steve Tyrrell
Co-Founder and Sales Director of FourNet
Steve Tyrrell is the Co-Founder and Sales Director of FourNet.
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About FourNet: FourNet is a cloud and managed communications service company providing cloud, collaboration, and contact center solutions.
Richard Pennington
Managing Director and Co-Founder of FourNet
Richard Pennington is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of FourNet.
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About 4NET Information Technologies, FourNet: FourNet is a cloud and managed communications service company providing cloud, collaboration, and contact center solutions.
Michael Jervis
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of FourNet
Michael Jervis is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of FourNet.
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About FourNet: FourNet is a cloud and managed communications service company providing cloud, collaboration, and contact center solutions.
Francis Jennings
Co-Founder and Operations Director of FourNet
Francis Jennings is the Co-Founder and Operations Director of FourNet.
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About FourNet: FourNet is a cloud and managed communications service company providing cloud, collaboration, and contact center solutions.
Daniel Allen
CEO & Founder of Sipcom
With a proven entrepreneurial track record, Daniel is an acknowledged business leader and innovator in the Communications and Collaboration services market. An experienced board level executive for over 18 years, Daniel was Sales Director for a Sunday Times Fast Track 100 company in 2005 & 2006 and was a finalist in the NatWest sponsored Entrepreneur of the Year and Fastest Growing Company in 2010. Daniel held senior positions with a number of leading technology providers before forming Sipcom in 2006. In 2018, Daniel was also recognized as one of the Top 40 under 40 Jewish Entrepreneurs in New York by the Young Jewish Professionals Organisation. In 2020, Daniel also led Sipcom to its inclusion in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 – the list for Britain’s fastest growing technology companies.
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About Sipcom: Communications and collaboration on any scale.
