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 CEO’ operating in the Family space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Ian Chambers
CEO of Mind Candy
Ian’s wealth of entertainment experience comes from his time at Ubisoft and EA which in turn led to his role as Managing Director, International at IGN where he was responsible for its global expansion and making IGN the #1 video games media network in the world. Before joining Mind Candy Ian was Chief Digital Officer at GAME Digital Plc.
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About Mind Candy: Moshi provides a sleep and mindfulness app for kids featuring melodic stories created to help kids drift off to sleep quickly.
Roy Moed
Founder & CEO of LifeBook
Roy Moed is a Founder & CEO at LifeBook.
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About LifeBook: LifeBook is a UK-based startup offering professionally written autobiographies as gifts for friends and family members.
Robert Gelb
Founder & CEO of Kindaba
Rob is the CEO and founder of Kindaba. His strengths are in project management, logistics and in successfully running large scale projects. He was responsible for developing and leading Bus 52, a 501(c3) nonprofit project that featured the production of 100 documentary-style video pieces highlighting people and organisations who were doing inspiring things across America but lacked recognition. Responsibilities included all logistics and planning, fundraising of over $140,000, and outreach which included appearing on local and national TV in the US. Most recently, Rob completed a contract with the University of St Andrews where he planned, developed and executed the establishment of career and alumni outreach for the university’s international student and alumni population. This included organising over 50 in-country events, in-country career-related initiatives, the development of a successful university work shadowing programme, among others.
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About Heysummit, Kindaba: Visual Intelligent Messenger for Families
Sara Tateno
Founder and CEO of Happity
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About Happity: Happity helps parents find baby & toddler classes. Fast.
Claire Skerrett
CEO / Founder of Picniq
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About Picniq: Picniq is a site for all parents on the hunt for fun things to do with the kids!
