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 Internet Radio 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.
Ben Drury
Co-Founder and CEO of Yoto
Ben began his career in 1996 as a founder of dotmusic.com, an internal venture at United News and Media which attracted over 1.8m unique users per month (in 1999). In 2000 Ben was recruited by BT Group to head up the broadband music efforts at their ISP BT Openworld where he successfully launched a major music channel. Following the partnership between BT and Yahoo! to form BT Yahoo! in 2003, Ben engineered the sale of dotmusic to Yahoo! for approx. £3.3m. Ben then founded 7digital with James Kane in 2004 with the vision of creating a digital media marketplace. 7digital operates services that bring together suppliers and consumers of digital media. In September 2008 7digital.com was the first company in Europe to launch DRM-free MP3 downloads with all four major record labels. In September 2009 HMV Group acquired a 50% equity stake in 7digital with an investment of £7.7m. Ben was named by Growing Business magazine as a Young Gun 2006 – the award for leading entrepreneurs under 35. In 2007, 7digital was awarded the prestigious Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award as one of the most promising technology companies in Europe.
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About Pimoroni, Yoto: Yoto – The screen-free audio platform for kids.
James Mulvany
Founder/CEO of Radio.co
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About Igniso, matchmaker, Podcast.co, Radio.co: Radio.co is an all-in-one platform that lets one run radio station.
Michal Marcinik
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of AdTonos
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About AdTonos, E2E: Creating innovative technologies for voice commerce, enabling voice transactions. Bringing the power like Adwords has to audio advertising.
Alex Hunter
Founder & CEO of Rushmore.fm
Alex Hunter is an angel investor and company incubator.
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About Ignite Accelerator, Rushmore.fm: We want to bring artists and music fans closer together.
Matt Auckland
Founder & Broadcaster of Sumo Radio
Founder of digital media startups Sumo Radio & The DJ Book, and proprietor of The Laughing Buddha IT Solutions. Matt is a talented freelance Full Stack Web developer, IT Consultant, Broadcaster, Producer, DJ, and Blogger. Head of Broadcast IT at Unity 101 Community Radio, and Voice FM (Southampton), Matt has been featured in the book “Make it Happen: The Prince’s Trust Guide to Starting your own Business”. Matt is producer and co-host of the weekly Global House Party, a globally syndicated radio show and podcast, co-hosted by international DJ/Producer Ridney. The show is available weekly around the world on 16 stations in 6 countries including UK, Spain, Canada, and USA. As well as over 9,000 podcast listeners per month. Matt also works with renowned multi award winning music producer Artful (Mark Hill, formerly of Artful Dodger). As a DJ, Matt has been spinning for over 25yrs. His passion for dance music has taken him into clubs, radio and beyond. In the last two years his Deep House mixes on YouTube have notched up over 166,025 views, an achievement he is extremely proud of. A self-confessed geek and keen amateur photographer, Matt has a passion for broadcasting, radio, music, and tech. He enjoys new challenges, and creating solutions.
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About After Partie, Sumo Radio: Love Dance Music? Love Sumo. Live streaming only the very best in dance music.
