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 Brighton based Founder operating in the Information Technology 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.
Adam Billyard
Co-Founder & CTO of Polystream
Having been in the industry since the dawn of time (well at least 1981) Adam has a wealth of experience and expertise in realtime graphics development that has led to the creation of some of the most successful game franchises seen in the last 20 years. As a Co-Founder of Criterion, in 1992 Adam oversaw the development of Renderware; one of the most successful 3D rendering engines subsequently instrumental to some of the largest game franchises of the last few years. Following Criterion’s acquisition by EA, Adam became VP and CTO at EATech until leaving in 2008 to pursue new challenges. Having founded Lightup software, Adam delivered the highly successful LightUp Analytics for energy efficient building design. With all this it shouldn’t be a surprise that Adam is a named inventor on 10 patents and counting.
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About Elektraglide, Polystream: Building the 3D internet // Powering a new era of instantly scalable, cloud native, metaverse experiences
Tim Fleming
Founder of Future Visual
Tim is a fan of those moments in life that make you go “wow” and he has always loved the power of visual images to help create those moments. Crafting a career around this knowledge has led to some very interesting adventures and Tim is now an award-winning content producer, global show director and virtual reality innovator. Always wanting to try new ideas and ground them in impact with an audience, Tim has worked with the BBC, Ferrari, Sony, Nokia, Oracle, Unilever, Lockheed Martin and many others. As founder of the studio Plastic Reality, Tim has been show director for Fatboy Slim, creating shows for millions of people on the beaches of Brighton, Brazil and Bondi. 2007: Tim saw the launch of the iPhone and thought…”hmmm video in your pocket…. interesting” and founded televisual top 10 corporate production company Plastic Pictures. Sensing the same sea change in 2014, Tim set up Future Visual to focus on Virtual Reality. October 2015: Future Visual’s product SiPVR (Shopping & Immersion Platform) won the Innovate UK award to partner with John Lewis developing Immersive Retail. Jan 2016: Future Visual won an Innovate UK Smart Grant to study Operational, Transactional and Pedagogic innovation using VR. July 2016: SiPVR finished in the top 10 out of 4,000 applicants to win investment and mentoring in the Publicis Startup 90 competition. Tim has seen huge change and advancements throughout many aspects of the content producing industries, but the transformative potential of virtual reality means that the fun has just begun.
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About Future Visual: Future Visual are developing VR to help you build incredible experiences for your friends, customers and colleagues.
Esin Yavuz
Co-Founder of Cyanapse
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About Cyanapse: Cyanapse delivers AI solutions to augment human perception.
Paul Wroe
CEO & Co-Founder of Qflow
A career spanning 16 years of development, team leader and CTO roles in the software industry. Paul has brought to market numerous mission critical and high profile projects.
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About Qflow: The leading event check-in management solution.
Anthony Sergeant
CCO & Co-Founder of Qflow
15 years experience within the Electronic music and events industry including co-founder and head of MAD, UK based music store, label collective and global music distribution.
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About Qflow: The leading event check-in management solution.
Martin Higham
Founder & Partner of Ocasta
Martin Higham serves as a co-founder and partner at Ocasta.
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About Ocasta: Ocasta develops knowledge, training & education tech for your employees or students.
Charlie Newman
Co-Founder and CEO of Risktalk
Charlie Newman is a Co-Founder and CEO of Risktalk company.
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About Curtain Call, Risktalk: RiskTalk is a 21st century communication tool that is designed to fight risk incubation by allowing people to report about issues.
Max Mitchell
Creator, Founder of Crypter
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About Crypter: Facebook Chat Encrypter
Max Mitchell
Creator, Founder of Crypter
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About Crypter: Facebook Chat Encrypter
