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 Cambridge based Founder operating in the Enterprise 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.
Richard Friesner
Co-Founder of Schrödinger
Richard A. Friesner is Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University and Director of the Columbia Center for Biomolecular Simulation. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts of Sciences, and has been awarded a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and an NIH Research Career Development Award. Current interests include quantum chemistry, development of potential functions for molecular simulation, continuum electrostatic models, and protein folding. Dr. Friesner is a co-founder of Schrödinger, and a member of Schrödinger’s Board of Directors.
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About Columbia University, Schrödinger: Schrödinger develops a chemical simulation software for use in pharmaceutical and biotechnology research.
Christopher O’Donnell
Co-Founder of ProfitWell
Christopher O’Donnell is Chief Product Officer at HubSpot, as well as the Co-Founder at ProfitWell, he is also a technology product strategist, designer, and evangelist. Christopher joined HubSpot as a part of the Performable acquisition in June of 2011. Prior to joining Performable in the Fall of 2010, Christopher managed a team of designers and product managers serving the largest customers in the world: our nation’s various military and intelligence organizations. Simultaneously, Christopher started and drove a content-driven social media marketing effort that today boasts over a million readers. Prior to working in online marketing and product development, Christopher operated a music production business, where he put his B.A. in Music from Brown University to good use.
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About HubSpot, Price Intelligently, ProfitWell: ProfitWell provides business intelligence solutions for companies and businesses.
Jim Salem
Founder of Quickbase
Jim Salem is the Founder of Quick Base.
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About Quickbase: Quickbase helps organizations see, connect and control every element of the complex projects.
Claude von Roesgen
Founder of Quickbase
Claude von Roesgen is the Founder of Quick Base.
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About Quickbase: Quickbase helps organizations see, connect and control every element of the complex projects.
Joe Rice
Founder of Quickbase
Joe Rice is the Founder of Quick Base.
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About Quickbase: Quickbase helps organizations see, connect and control every element of the complex projects.
Nathan Wilson
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Nara Logics
CTO and Co-Founder at Nara Logics, Inc.
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About Nara Logics: Nara Logics is a neuroscience-based AI synaptic intelligence for better decisions.
Nelson Joyce
Co-Founder of Tettra
Co-Founder at Tettra.
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About Tettra: Organize and share your team’s collective knowledge
Mohamed Elmasry
CEO & Co-Founder of Tactful
Mohamed Elmasry is a person with “think, plan, act & accomplish” mentality who has a proven experience in motivating people to work towards challenging goals. I have been in the business world for several years running and growing businesses. I excelled in the fields of project management, business development, engineering management, and building strategic business relationships. My passion goes to distributive innovation, managing products development, defining processes and methodologies, also sustaining engineering and business activities.
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About Arm Holdings, Tactful: Unified Cognitive Customer Experience Platform
Michael Yaroshefsky
Founder & CEO of Visor
Michael Yaroshefsky is the founder and CEO of RocketVisor.
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About Visor: The world’s most connected spreadsheet
Layla Shaikley
Co-Founder and VP of Customer Experience of Wise Systems
Layla Shaikley is the co-founder and vice president of customer experience.
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About Wise Systems: Wise Systems’ autonomous dispatch and routing software uses AI to improve fleet efficiency and customer service for last-mile operations.
Neil Davidson
Founder of Business of Software
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About Business of Software, Redgate Software: Business of Software provides single-track software conference services.
Mariano Nunez
CEO & Co-Founder of Onapsis
As CEO, Mariano drives the strategic direction of the company. Under his leadership, Onapsis has become one of the fastest-growing technology and cybersecurity companies in the world. Starting his career as a cybersecurity researcher, Mariano was the first to publicly present on cybersecurity risks affecting SAP platforms and how to mitigate them at major conferences such as RSA, Black Hat and SANS. He was the developer of the first open source ERP penetration testing framework and has discovered critical security vulnerabilities in SAP, Oracle, IBM and Microsoft applications. Mariano has been interviewed and featured in mainstream media such as CNN, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Forbes and The New York Times. He has been distinguished by EY as “Entrepreneur of The Year 2018” and by MIT as a “Top 35 Innovator under the age of 35”, as well as having been selected as an Endeavor Entrepreneur. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and has completed executive training programs at Harvard Business School and Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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About Onapsis: Onapsis provides cybersecurity and compliance solutions for cloud and on-premise ERP and business-critical applications.
Jonathan Jackson
Co-Founder & CEO of Dimagi
Jonathan Jackson is the CEO and cofounder of Dimagi, a socially conscious technology company that develops CommCare, an open source, scalable mobile platform for low-resource settings. Jonathan is a social entrepreneur and innovator with extensive mobile technology expertise in both low-income and high-income settings. He has co-founded multiple organizations focused on improved healthcare delivery and poverty alleviation globally. As co-founder and CEO of Dimagi, Jonathan has overseen the growth of the company from the founding team to over 100 world-wide employees that operate programs in over 50 countries. He made an uncompromising commitment to open source software and developed a highly interactive, collaborative culture that fosters partnerships across academics, philanthropists, and implementers. Jonathan earned his bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
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About Dimagi: Dimagi is an award-winning technology company, developing scalable ICT solutions for low-resource settings.
Geoff Meyerson
CEO and Founder of Evolved Capital
Geoff brings a track record of success in investment banking, venture capital and licensing where he has closed >30 transactions of all varieties. While an investment banker in UBS’ Global Healthcare Investment Banking Group, he closed 12 financing and M&A transactions with a variety of life science companies. Geoff worked at MedImmune in business development working on their small molecule strategy, which resulted in three transactions, and where he also assisted with two other transactions. While a venture capitalist at SR One, the venture capital subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline, he closed eight transactions in the US and Europe, co-leading the due diligence for Algeta, which concluded an $800M partnership with Bayer leading to a 20x+ return to investors. Geoff worked in business development at Zelos Therapeutics where he negotiated a drug delivery collaboration with Aegis Therapeutics. He brings strong deal acumen, business and financial strategy, and negotiation capabilities. Geoff founded and is President and of an exclusive relationship building non-profit organization called, BioBreak. BioBreak has grown to four regions nationally (Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia and New Jersey) and has a membership base of >2,000 senior life science operating and investing executives. He also has served two terms on the board of the Wharton Health Care Management Alumni Association. Geoff was named by the Philadelphia Business Journal to their 40 Under Forty list for 2010. He holds an MBA in Health Care Management from the Wharton School, a Master of Biotechnology from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BS in Economics from Duke University. Geoff lives in Needham, MA with his wife, three children and new dog. He is a registered rep from FINRA having received his Series 79, 63, and 24 licenses.
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About Evolved Capital: Evolved Capital is a service that offers tools for streamlining financial transactions and organize the investment process.
Robert Suh
Founder and CEO of OnCorps
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About OnCorps: OnCorps is a provider of decision and behavioral science into machine learning nudges to help people make better decisions.
Sithamparanathan Sabesan
Founder and CEO of PervasID
Sithamparanathan Sabesan read a BEng (Hons) Electronic Engineering at Sheffield University in 2004, where he scored the highest marks in his year, and was awarded the Sir William Siemens Medal for being among the UK’s top 18 science and technology students. Sabesan worked on RFID since beginning his PhD on the subject of ‘Passive RFID real time sensing system for intelligent infrastructure’ at Cambridge University in 2007 and was elected to a Research Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge University in 2011. Prior to his PhD, he worked at ARM as an Electronic Engineer. Sabesan is a recipient of the 2011 Royal Academy of Engineering ERA Entrepreneurs Award and the 2011 UK ICT Pioneers of Connected World award. In 2014 he was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellowship, and most recently he was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year award, as well as the Sir George Macfarlane Medal 2016 for excellence in the early stage of the career. He is a Fellow of the ERA Foundation.
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About PervasID: PervasID is developing a high reliability
Victor Kostyuk
Co-Founder & CTO of OfferFit
Victor Kostyuk is the Co-Founder & CTO at OfferFit.
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About OfferFit: OfferFit selects the best message, incentive, timing, and channel for every customer.
Federico Cismondi
Founder & CEO of doDOC Corporation
Founder at doDOC
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About doDOC Corporation: doDOC allows several people to work on the same document at the same time. Plan, draft, edit, review and approve docs more than 70% faster.
Andy Ward FREng
CTO & Founder of Ubisense
Andy Ward FREng is the Chief Technology Officer and Founder at Ubisense.
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About Ubisense: Ubisense is a developer of real-time location systems that provide enterprise business automation services.
Pete Steggles
Founder & Chief Software Architect of Ubisense
Pete Steggles is the Founder and Chief Software Architect at Ubisense.
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About Ubisense: Ubisense is a developer of real-time location systems that provide enterprise business automation services.
Rupert Curwen
Founder and Applications Fellow of Ubisense
Rupert Curwen is the Founder and Software Director at Ubisense Limited.
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About Ubisense: Ubisense is a developer of real-time location systems that provide enterprise business automation services.
Paul Webster
Founder & Director of Hardware of Ubisense
Paul Webster is the Founder and Director of Hardware at Ubisense Limited.
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About Ubisense: Ubisense is a developer of real-time location systems that provide enterprise business automation services.
Davidm Couto
Co-Founder and CTO of Sonabos Technologies
David is a DJ and an electrical engineering candidate at MIT. His experience spinning tracks at local bars and clubs gave birth to the concepts behind their products, and now his signal processing expertise shapes the foundations of their technology.
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About Sonabos Technologies: Next-generation hardware and software products for DJs
