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 GovTech 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.
Daniel Korski
CEO and Co-Founder of Public
Daniel Korski is the Deputy Head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit and a special adviser to the Prime Minister. David Cameron. He previously worked as an adviser to Andrew Mitchell MP, the former Conservative Chief Whip, and for the British member of the European Commission, Catherine Ashton, as well as for Edward Llewellyn during his time as chief of staff to Lord Paddy Ashdown, the then-UN High Representative of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Daniel has also worked in a number of positions in London, Washington DC, Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan. He was deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2005 to advise President Hamid Karzai’s government, and in 2007 he ran the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Basra in Iraq, overseeing the post-conflict reconstruction of Basra province during the height of the conflict. He also undertook a secondment to the US State Department under then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In between these postings, Korski helped establish and was the deputy head of the cross-departmental Stabilisation Unit. Before working for the British government, Daniel worked in Parliament as a policy adviser to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee. In 2008 he helped establish the bi-partisan think-tank the European Council on Foreign Relations. He has written for The Spectator, The Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung, New York Times and European Voice. He holds a first class BSc in International Relations and History from the London School of Economics and an MPhil in International Relations from Cambridge.
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About Public: Public is a venture capital firm that supports technology startups aiming to work more deeply with the UK’s public services.
Grete-Maarja Tott
Co – Founder and Marketing of Xpass
Grete-Maarja Tott is the Co-Founder and Marketing at Xpass.
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About Xpass: We help autonomous owners truly become financially included
Kosta Mavroulakis
Founder and CEO of Empact Ventures
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About Empact Ventures: Empact Ventures co-designs some of the leading startup, tech and non-profit initiatives for large private or public sector organisations
Tanya Filer
Founder and Director of StateUp
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About StateUp, University of Cambridge: StateUp is building the knowledge and ideas infrastructure for public-purpose technology.
Shelley Taylor
Founder & CEO of trellyz
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About Digital Fan Clubs, trellyz: trellyz, a cloud-hosted platform, powers the public services supply chain across diverse networks at scale
