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 Semantic Search 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.
Yiannis Kiachopoulos
CEO, Co-Founder of Causaly
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About Causaly: Causaly is teaching computers to read all knowledge in Biomedicine
Carl Wong
Co-founder & CEO of LivingLens
Carl Wong With 17 years in marketing and customer insight roles, both client and agency side, Carl has a passion and enthusiasm for LivingLens that you’ll find infectious.Carl’s drives the vision for LivingLens and engages customers in the big idea. He likes the sound of his own voice, which is good, because he talks….A LOT! An avid Liverpool FC fan, full member of the Market Research Society, and holding the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Postgraduate Diploma, Carl lives a little while from the beach not far from Liverpool with his patient wife Cath, Daisy (4), Thomas (1), and crazy dog Stan (42 dog years).
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About LivingLens: LivingLens offers video-based insight tools that enable companies to turn consumer insight films into market research.
Mark Iremonger
CEO of iCrossing
Mark is the CEO of iCrossing in the UK. Owned by Hearst, iCrossing is the marketing agency for a modern world. Annual agency reviews by Forrester and Gartner have consistently ranked iCrossing as a market leader for the past five years. 2016 saw iCrossing collect the Grand Prix, Best Digital Full Service, Best Strategic Thinking and Best Search at the RAR Awards, the only UK awards based on independent client feedback. 2016 also saw iCrossing announce a strategic partnership and minority acquisition of content marketing agency Mediablaze, and move into a new home on Broadwick Street in the heart of London’s Soho. Mark became CEO in August 2015 following four years as Chief Strategy Officer. He joined from Proximity BBDO where he was Head of Digital and Planning for six years, leading its digital transformation. Before this he was MD of creative shop unit9, voted the 9th most creative agency in the UK by AdAge International, and MD of cross platform marketing start-up Sleeper, that challenged conventional advertising models by bringing the UK’s best TV and digital creatives together. Mark has been a member of the British Council’s Creative Industry’s Advisory Panel, a Vice Chair of BIMA, a member of D&AD, and is a board member of Wired Sussex, a member organisation that promotes digital creativity, innovation and growth.
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About iCrossing: iCrossing is a digital marketing company providing planning and development services for brands and agencies.
Dermot Corrigan
CEO of smartKYC
Dermot Corrigan is CEO of smartKYC, a specialist technology business that uses AI to automate KYC and enhanced due diligence intelligence gathering to identify and profile both risk and opportunity. Dermot has 30 years experience in the information services and media technology sectors. Having served in senior executive roles with Frost & Sullivan and PR Newswire he went on to build and launch the world’s first adverse media search engine for KYC while leading the news arm of LexisNexis (RELX PLC). He served as CEO of an Anglo-Australian visual search and facial recognition start-up (part of INM PLC) and has led two successful two exit transactions to Nasdaq-quoted acquirers, Exclusive Analysis, a political risk intelligence business to IHS Markit (INFO) and then mainstream and social monitoring specialist Gorkana Group to Cision (CISN).
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About smartKYC: smartKYC is an automated semantic engine for KYC and AML due diligence.
Charis Sfyrakis
CEO and Founder of Algomo
Charis Sfyrakis is the CEO and Founder at Algomo.
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About Algomo: Customer Service Automation in 100+ languages
