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 SaaS 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.
Gil Benghiat
Founder, VP of Products & Implementation of DataKitchen
Gil Benghiat is a Founder and VP of Product & Implementation of DataKitchen, a company on a mission to provide the software, service, and knowledge that enables every data analytics team to successfully implement DataOps. At DataKitchen, Gil leads an Implementation Team of talented software and data engineering professionals responsible for guiding customers’ adoption of DataOps and optimal use of DataKitchen’s DataOps Platform. Gil also leads a Product Development Team responsible for the definition, design, development, quality, and operation of DataKitchen’s SaaS DataOps Platform. Gil has over 35 years of experience in software engineering spanning multiple technical leadership roles at data-oriented technology companies, such as AT&T Bell Laboratories collecting and displaying network data, managing data at Sybase, collecting and cleaning clinical trial data at Phase Forward, integrating pharmaceutical sales data at LeapFrogRx, and liberating his clients’ data at Solid Oak Consulting. At previous companies, he achieved results such as growing a company from 4 to 320 employees and revenue from $0 to $60M resulting in IPO and improving the scalability of the product to increase the number of systems managed from 300 to 12,000. Gil holds an Sc.B. from Brown University in Applied Mathematics and Biology and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About DataKitchen: DataKitchen is a DataOps software company that helps organizations deliver more data products faster with lower errors that customers trust.
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Nischal Nadhamuni
CTO & Founder of Klarity
Nischal is Cofounder and CTO of Klarity. Nischal is an MIT hacker (B.S. 18′) with strong Machine Learning background. Before he co-founded Klarity, he built an automated fraudulent user detection tool at Flipkart and worked on algorithms to detect cancer causing mutations using Machine Learning for Mass General Hospital.
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About Klarity: Klarity uses Artificial Intelligence to automate Billing & RevRec contract review for SaaS and Software companies.
Andrew Antoš
CEO & Founder of Klarity
Andrew is Cofounder and CEO of Klarity. Andrew is a Harvard lawyer (LL.M. 17′) and spends his time on product development, doing sales and business strategy. Before Klarity, he worked as an associate at Squire Patton Boggs where he was focusing on Technology M&A and IP & Licensing.
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About Klarity: Klarity uses Artificial Intelligence to automate Billing & RevRec contract review for SaaS and Software companies.
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.
Eduarda Bardavid
Co-Founder & CEO of Drag
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About Drag: The Everything Inbox for teams. One single place to support customers, manage tasks and close deals, from the place teams love – Email.
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.
Jackson Noel
Co-Founder and CEO of Appcues
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About Appcues: Appcues provides a no-code platform helping teams to track and analyze product usage and publish in-app tours, announcements, and surveys.
Nelson Joyce
Co-Founder of Tettra
Co-Founder at Tettra.
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About Tettra: Organize and share your team’s collective knowledge
Josh Kanner
Founder & CEO of Smartvid io
Software entrepreneur and executive with background in cloud, mobility, and web environments. Was founder or management team member of two venture capital backed software companies that revolutionized their respective markets before being acquired. Co-founded a third and managed it through the startup and seed funding process. Deep functional skills in marketing, product management, and business development. Domain expertise in AEC (architecture, engineering and construction), information security (infosec), and strategic sourcing. www.linkedin.com/pub/josh-kanner/0/99/717/ (CrunchBase bug not updating “website” links in profile)
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About CVP Management, Smartvid io: Our AI-powered Safety Suite helps companies identify their highest risk projects and act to prevent incidents from occurring.
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
Devon Kinkead
Founder & CEO of Micronotes
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About Micronotes: Micronotes is an AI-enabled cloud-based marketing automation company leverging automated interviews to solve the digital engagement problem.
Charles Lee
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Kontainers
Charles Lee is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Kontainers.
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About Kontainers: Kontainers is as Enterprise SAAS Provider providing e-commerce capabilities to Freight Forwarders and Shipping Lines
Kevin Marzec
Founder and CTO of FrontDesk Master
Founder and CTO at FrontDesk Master, CTO at ThisWay Global
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About FrontDesk Master: FrontDesk Master is a Game changer in property management systems
Iqbal Kaur
Co Founder & VP – Data Sciences of Zylotech
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About Zylotech: Zylotech is a B2B customer data platform that delivers trusted data governance for both people and companies.
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.
Josh Harris
Founder & CEO of Doc2
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About Doc2: Allowing SMEs to create, send and eSign their contracts in seconds.
Manasi Vartak
Founder and CEO of Verta
Manasi Vartak is the founder and CEO of Verta.ai, an early-stage startup building software to help data science and machine learning teams rapidly build and integrate ML across products. Manasi is the creator of ModelDB, the first open source model management system used at Fortune 500 companies and in popular open source projects including Kubeflow. Manasi earned her PhD in computer science from MIT CSAIL, where she worked on software systems for data science and ML. Besides ML Infra, Manasi has worked on personalizing the Twitter newsfeed, automated data visualization, and ML model debugging. She’s a recipient of the Facebook PhD Fellowship and the Google Anita Borg Scholarship.
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About Verta: Verta builds software infrastructure to help enterprise data science and machine learning (ML) teams develop and deploy ML models.
Oliver Hilbourne
Founder and Director of Outfield
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About Outfield: Bringing the future to fruit farming
Jerry Pett
Co-Founder & CEO of Thymometrics
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About Thymometrics: Always-On & Pulse Employee Engagement Surveys and Employee Feedback Solutions
Ariel Assaf
Founder of Cloudoscope
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About Cloudoscope: Revenue acceleration for IT solution providers
Mark Stewart
Founder of sizzlepig
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About sizzlepig: Patented cloud process, templated based mass custom images.
Sam Workman
CTO & Co-Founder of Modit
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About Modit: A collaboration platform for staging and reviewing live development
