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 Enterprise 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.
Jonathan Scudder
Founder of ForgeRock
Jonathan held key roles in a variety of large identity projects before co-founding ForgeRock in Norway, running finance and operations and then relocating to build the ForgeRock engineering lab in Bristol. He believes that awesome humans are the basis of great companies, and has spent the ForgeRock years proving this. He has sat on several voluntary, political and private boards and founded a handful of small companies in the past, but thinks ForgeRock is the best thing since sliced bread. Jonathan is a qualified youth and community worker, and has a degree in Informatics from the University of Oslo, Norway.
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About ForgeRock: ForgeRock is a multinational software company that develops commercial open source identity and access management products.
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Gareth Williams
Founder & Non-Executive Director of YellowDog
Gareth hounds the YellowDog kennel, spearheading the vision to build a world where people do more, create more, discover more; unleashed from limited computing power. Following an MEng in Information Systems Engineering from the University of Durham, Gareth cut his canines working in software and telecoms at companies including Orange, Experian QAS, FREEDOM4 and Arieso, where he was part of the Management Team that completed the successful sale of the company to JDSU in March 2013 for $85m. One day he had a brilliant idea for using spare mobile capacity which, following a chat with someone in the animation department at the University of the West of England, gave birth to what is now YellowDog. When not coming up with brilliant ideas, he is a dad, a keen cyclist, an ardent reader, a Samaritans Listening Volunteer. He also likes ale and talking to anyone (usually together). You can email Gareth on gareth@yellowdog.co or phone +44 (0) 330 223 2499.
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About YellowDog: Helping businesses power their innovations with the most scalable cloud native scheduling and provisioning technology.
Nikolaos Lygkonis
CEO & Founder of PeopleGoal
Co founder of PeopleGoal.
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About PeopleGoal: PeopleGoal is a configurable employee performance and engagement platform.
Rupert Jabelman
CTO & Founder of Col8
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About Col8: Unlocking the potential in every video by allowing you to search and use it more intuitively
Charles Smith
CEO & Founder of Col8
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About Col8, Coremination Ltd: Unlocking the potential in every video by allowing you to search and use it more intuitively
Francisco Martín
Co-Founder and Senior Software Engineer of Wenenu
Francisco has been part in different start-ups, all about making lives safer, from road safety devices, to risk management, and now on the cloud with Wenenu, whose mission is to democratise reliable Backups and Disaster Recovery verification tools for everyone, with ease, with a DevOps first approach and cost effectiveness as goals, as opposed to heavy, expensive and boring competitors. Wenenu is based in London, UK, being a fully remote company. Francisco has a MCc in Computer Science and Engineering by the University of Granada, Spain.
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About Wenenu: Verify your cloud backups and Disaster Recovery plans ahead of time with ease, sleep better.
