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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 Marketplace 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 โ Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth โ Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management โ Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact โ Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data โ 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.
Dominic Mills
Co-Founder & CEO of Yuup
After starting his career as a consultant with global system integrator Unisys, Dominic founded Auros, a digital agency specialising in tech build, in 2001. Auros built a reputation for delivering large-scale, technically complex digital projects for clients such as the NHS, Swinton Insurance and Virgin Media. Auros was acquired by Zone in 2013 with Dominic joining the Zone board. As CTO he played a key role in the team that led the combined business through a period of significant growth, following a minority investment from BGF in 2015 to fund further acquisition. Zone was acquired by NASDAQ listed Cognizant in 2017 and Dominic stayed with the business until September 2019 to oversee the transition. He was a non-exec director of community interest company Bristol Media from 2017 to 2020. In January 2020 Dominic conceived and co-founded Yuup โ a startup inspired by his vision of what experiences could be and driven by a desire to help local people and enterprises identify new opportunities to thrive.
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About Yuup: Online marketplace for local experiences
Rob Hall
Founder & CEO of Wriggle
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About Wriggle: A web and app marketplace helping people discover and transact at handpicked local food & drink establishments.
Simon Hills
Co-Founder of Helpfulpeeps
Co-founder of HelpfulPeeps
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About BibShot, Helpfulpeeps: Helpfulpeeps is a social marketplace for local help
Saf Nazeer
Co-Founder and CEO of Helpfulpeeps
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About Helpfulpeeps: Helpfulpeeps is a social marketplace for local help
Huw Owen
Co-Founder of TravelLocal
Huw is originally from Wales, as his name gives away, and is a failed musician, which has had no effect whatsoever on TravelLocal. However, he has lived and worked in some far-flung places โ as a teacher in Japan, managing a local travel company in Cambodia and latterly working with the UN to mentor local travel entrepreneurs in Uganda and Egypt. He has worked in the travel industry since 2003, and spends most of his time extolling the benefits of buying local to just about anyone who will listen, whilst ensuring that our customers are well looked after. Huw has travelled all over the globe, but seeing a mountain gorilla at close quarters is like no other travel experience heโs ever had. He was in thick forest in Bwindi, Uganda, where he came across not one, but three silverbacks. Their sheer size and strength simply took his breath away.
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About TravelLocal: Global managed marketplace for tailor-made holidays.
