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 Bristol based Founder operating in the E-Commerce 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.
Panagiotis Tsarouchis
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Duel
Panagiotis ‘Naio’ Tsarouchis is an award winning designer and developer with prolific experience in entrepreneurship having founded design and technology education startups including Consider Magazine, Art In Progress and Treesix. Naio is Duel’s Co-Founder, CTO and expert in both complex computer science and user-centric design, having built Duel from a UGC platform into a fully-featured Brand Advocacy suite. As a fellow Co-Founder of Daredevil Project gaming studio, he has a deep, technical understanding of how gaming virology, authentic brands and customer behaviour intersect on a platform level. When not working, you’ll probably find him rescuing art in Bristol, adding to his impressive rum collection and rocking his synth.
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About Duel: Brand Advocacy Platform that enables purpose-led brands to drive organic growth & retention through word-of-mouth & advocacy
James Mikkelson
Founder of Coinbench
Founder of Coinbench.
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About Coinbench, Mad Capsule Media, Shiptheory: Coinbench allows merchants to take payments from customers in many crypto currencies
Thomas Palmer
Co-Founder & CEO of Zenstores
Thomas R. Palmer is Executive Chairman and co-founder of iModules Software. Tom’s experience includes being a Managing Director and General Partner with two venture capital firms, AH Ventures and Kansas City Equity Partners. In these capacities, he led investments in the areas of information technology and communications, serving on company boards and through to successful exits including IPO and acquistions. Tom was also a Kauffman Fellow with the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, with KCEP as his resident firm. He also served as a Manager of Business Analysis at Trans National Group, where he performed strategic planning, international expansion, investments, and divestitures. As a Lecturer at the University of Missouri, Tom taught Venture Capital Finance for six years. He holds a MBA in Entrepreneurial Finance and Marketing from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Business at Northwestern University and an undergraduate degree in Economics and Computer Science from Dartmouth College.
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About AH Ventures, iModules Software, Zenstores: Zenstores is a platform to propel online sellers to ecommerce greatness.
Ben Reynhart
Co-Founder & Product Developer of Zenstores
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About Zenstores: Zenstores is a platform to propel online sellers to ecommerce greatness.
Robert Ashcroft
Co-Founder & CTO of Zenstores
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About Zenstores: Zenstores is a platform to propel online sellers to ecommerce greatness.
Alex Kwarts
Co-Founder of Haynes Group
Alex Kwarts is Executive Director at Haynes.
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About Haynes Group: Haynes Group Provides online sales of car manuals and automotive related sites.
Paul Wickers
Founder of Huggg
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About Huggg: Impactful gifts for your people, sorted in seconds
Peter Edlin
Co-Founder & Designer of Huskr
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About Huskr: Huskr is a group deals platform with a curated products and services range, aiming to support the growth of independent online sellers.
Samwul Datong
Co-Founder & Back-End Developer of Huskr
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About Huskr: Huskr is a group deals platform with a curated products and services range, aiming to support the growth of independent online sellers.
David Telford
Founder of Seg
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About Seg: Connecting your ecommerce platform and your website to email.
Matt Wilson
Co-Founder of Datemakers
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About Datemakers: Datemakers is an online booking platform that aims to make dates less boring.
Molly Masters
Founder of Books That Matter
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About Books That Matter: Books That Matter is a monthly subscription box service providing thought-provoking and important literature to empower and inspire.
