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 Belfast based Founder operating in the Software 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.
Damien Coyle
CEO & Founder of NeuroCONCISE
Damian Coyle, an Ulster University professor, has spent 15 years developing mind-controlled communications in a bid to help people who have become “locked in” – paralysed and trapped in their own bodies, unable to communicate.
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About NeuroCONCISE, Smart Nano NI, Ulster University: NeuroCONCISE offers a wearable neurotechnology which includes hardware and software that non-invasively measures.
Rachel Davis
Co-Founder & COO of Hurree
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About Hurree: Hurree is a mobile marketing and engagement platform.
Chris Hutton
Founder & CEO of Axon Financial Systems
Chris began his career in the financial technology sector when he joined Harco Technology in 2005, and went on to become head of the DART business within NYSE Technologies in 2011. Chris is now CEO and one of the founding members of Axon.
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About Axon Financial Systems: Axon is a technology-driven product and services business.
Ross Webster
Founder & Director of BrightPay – Payroll Software
Ross is a highly competent software architect, programmer, graphic designer and user experience specialist. With a passion for innovation, Ross excels at creating software applications that solve real-world problems, simplify the complex, and delight customers.
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About BrightPay – Payroll Software, Thesaurus Software: BrightPay offers a payroll software package for payroll managements.
Chris Johnston
Founder and CEO of Adoreboard
Chris Johnston is the CEO & founder of Adoreboard, a business intelligence company providing emotional analysis for brands online. He has extensive experience working in a strategic communication advisory role for global companies including Hewlett-Packard, Danske Bank and Grant Thornton. He has studied at Kennedy School at Harvard, Montana State University and University of Ulster. He has held fellowships with: NATO working group (Atlantic Council), Transatlantic Network 2020 (British Council) and The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
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About Adoreboard, The Atlantic Council, The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA): Adoreboard is a unique platform that helps brands to understand online customer emotion.
Peter Hamilton
Co-Founder, Chief Scientist & Senior Vice President, Research & Development of PathXL
Professor Peter Hamilton is the Founder of PathXL Ltd and is the Head of the Bioimaging and Informatics Research Group at Queen’s University Belfast. For the past 25 years he has been leading research on computer vision and decision support in diagnostic cancer pathology and the identification of novel digital tissue and cell markers for diagnostics, prognostics and for predicting response to therapy in cancer. He sits on the committees of a number of major medical research organisations including the International Society for Cellular Oncology.
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About PathXL: PathXL is a global pioneer in the use of web-based solutions for digital pathology.
Scott Fischaber
Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Analytics Engines
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About Analytics Engines, Smart Nano NI: Analytics Engines provides customers with fast and efficient processing of business and application data.
Paul Moorhead
CTO and Founder of Kraydel
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About Kraydel: Kraydel addresses social isolation and maintains independence through TV-video calling and an IoT platform for sensors.
Richard Mcconnell
Co-Founder & COO of Liopa
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About Anaeko, Liopa: Liopa’s LipRead deciphers speech from lip movements. It uses AI and deep learning for automated lip reading.
Joseph Boyle
CEO & Co Founder of Salt Communications
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About Salt Communications: Salt is the first company to provide a holistic solution for closed encrypted communications between modern smartphone users.
Adam Whiteside
Co-Founder of Whitepot Studios
Co-Founder of Whitepot Studios, where I do a load of start up stuff and lead Game Design and Development. Unity, Phaser and much more!
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About Whitepot Studios: A kickass games studio founded in 2016, creating Android, iOS, & PC games, for clients & bespoke use cases, using both HTML5 & Unity
Victoria Potts
Co-Founder, Production & Dev of Whitepot Studios
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About Whitepot Studios: A kickass games studio founded in 2016, creating Android, iOS, & PC games, for clients & bespoke use cases, using both HTML5 & Unity
Bob Marks
Founder of Video First Software
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About Video First Software: Video First Software develops a testing software that focuses on video capture and processing.
Matthew Bradley
Co-Founder & CEO of Flyte Technologies
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About Flyte Technologies: Flight planning software for commercial drone pilots
Neil Bradley
Founder of Food Safe System
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About Food Safe System: Food Safe System is an app and digital platform to digitise and automate food safety compliance for the food service industry.
Richard Dale
CEO, Co-Founder of Flowlens Ltd.
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About Flowlens Ltd.: Flowlens Ltd. develops custom software for manufacturers and engineering services.
Martin McKeaveney
Co-Founder & CTO of Budibase
Martin McKeaveney is the Co-Founder and CTO at Budibase.
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About Budibase: Budibase is an open-source web app builder, designed for speed and customization.
