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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 Cambridge based CEO’ operating in the Analytics space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Vinayak Ramesh
Co-Founder and CEO of Ikigai Labs
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About Ikigai Labs, Stealth: Ikigai helps analysts and operations teams automate data-intensive business, finance, analytics and supplychain operations within clicks.
Bhavesh Dayalji
Chief Executive Officer of Kensho
Bhavesh Dayalji is the Chief Executive Officer of Kensho.
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About Kensho: Kensho combines natural language search, graphical user interfaces, and secure cloud computing to create a new class of analytics tools.
Alicia Chong Rodriguez
Co-Founder and CEO of Bloomer Health Tech
Alicia Chong Rodriguez is the founder and CEO of Bloomer Tech. She holds two master’s degrees in engineering and management/integrated design and electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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About Bloomer Health Tech: Bloomer Tech uses everyday fabrics and machine learning for personalized detection, monitoring, and treatment of chronic diseases.
Konstantin Kiselev
CEO of Conundrum
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About Conundrum: Conundrum is a platform helps factories to solve the tasks of predictive maintenance.
Sam Bose
CEO / Founder of IntelliSense.io
Sam got exposed to the world of Machine 2 Machine some 10 years ago. Back then he could see the potential of technology in changing the world around us, but change came with numerous obstacles. After encountering the challenges of first generation technologies, IntellISense.io was started as one of the first next generation IoT solutions companies. The technology and solution were selected as one of the eight IoT solutions to be showcased by the UK government.
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About IntelliSense.io: An Industrial AI company focusing on the Mining sector increasing efficiency sustainability & safety with trusted & transparent AI solutions
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.
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.
Ganesh Pai
Founder & CEO of Uptycs
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About Uptycs: Uptycs is the provider of a cloud-native security analytics platform for security analysts, incident response teams, and IT professionals.
Colin Hill
Chairman and CEO of GNS Healthcare
Colin Hill co-founded GNS Healthcare in 2000 and has served as Chairman & CEO since then. He brings impressive leadership experience and a solid track record in commercializing machine learning technology and precision medicine platforms in the biopharmaceutical and managed care industries. In 2016, he was appointed to the board of directors of a leading publically traded mobile health company that pioneered remote cardiac monitoring – Biotelemetry Inc. (formerly CardioNet) (NASDAQ: BEAT). He was appointed in 2015 by Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker to the board of directors of the Center for Health Information and Analysis. He is also a founding board member of Transforming Medicine: The Elizabeth Kauffman Institute, a non-profit foundation (501c3) dedicated to the advancement of personalized medicine. He was a founding member of the Board of Directors of AesRx, a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of new treatments for sickle cell disease (acquired by Baxter in 2014). Colin was the founding chairman of O’Reilly Media’s Strata Rx in 2012, the first healthcare big data conference in the industry. Colin was the founding chairman of big data quantitative trading firm Fina Technologies and served from 2008 to 2011. In 2004, Colin was named to MIT Technology Review’s TR100 list of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35. He is a frequent speaker at national and international scientific and industry conferences including America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) annual meeting, the Pharmaceutical Researchers & Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) annual meeting, and the Forbes Healthcare Summit, and has been quoted in and appeared in numerous publications and television programs, including The Wall Street Journal, CNBC Morning Call & SquawkBox, Nature, Boston Globe, Politico, Forbes, Wired, and The Economist. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in physics and earned Master’s degrees in physics from both McGill University and Cornell University.
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About GNS Healthcare: GNS Healthcare is a big data analytics company focuses on discovering what works in the healthcare industry and for whom.
John Frank
CEO of Diffeo
John is CEO and co-founder of Diffeo, where he focuses on helping people digest complex information using collaborative machine intelligence. John’s previous startup, MetaCarta, pioneered map-based entity search and was acquired by Nokia in 2010, where he served as Chief Architect for Search until 2012. John has a B.S. from Yale, loves solar cars, and is a Hertz Fellow at MIT in soft condensed matter physics.
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About Diffeo: collaborative machine intelligence
Boyd Mulvey
CEO & Founder of Chorus Intelligence
Boyd started his career in 1990 as a data analyst for Credit Suisse Financial Products (CSFP), an investment bank which created and traded derivative financial instruments based in London. At CSFP Boyd created a database for analysing capital at risk for the bank called FRED (Financial Risk Exposure Database) which is still in use today. Boyd moved from analyst to strategy at UBS and then into investment banking where he helped to raise money for and float several technology companies on the UK Stock Exchange before launching a Venture Capitalist Fund called the CREATE East of England Fund, which specialised in investing into early stage tech companies around the Cambridge area. Following the completion of that Fund, Boyd founded Chorus Intelligence to focus on data analytics once again.
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About Chorus Intelligence: Chorus Intelligence provides technology that allows authorities to investigate crimes using mobile phone records.
Richard Baker
Chief Executive Officer of GeoSpock
Richard serves a Chief Executive Officer of Geospock, as well as serving as Non-Executive Director for Falcon Media House, a London Stock Exchange listed global Internet Media Group. He is the Chairman of TAB U.K. Ltd, a Data Science company based in Cambridge. Formerly, Richard was the joint founder and CEO of Cleartrade Exchange (CLTX), incorporated in Singapore, an electronic execution exchange for cash-settled, cleared derivatives and futures contracts. CLTX is regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) as a Recognized Market Operator (RMO) and as a Foreign Board of Trade (FBOT) in the USA by the CFTC. CLTX provides a specialized order matching engine giving access to an anonymous central limit order book and block traded futures across multiple asset classes and contracts. CLTX was subject to a 100% majority acquisition by the European Energy Exchange, a Deutsche Bourse company in late 2016. Richard has held several senior executive positions in technology, media and telecommunications. He has served as a non-executive board member in the internet technology solution sector and has directed and co-founded a digital media consulting services firm. Richard has a passion for people, innovation, driving high standards and achieving high results. Richard holds qualifications in technology and communications and is a frequent speaker at conferences and roundtables.
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About GeoSpock: GeoSpock builds GeoSpock DB, the unique space-time analytics database that delivers rapid insights at a fraction of the cost.
Steve Marsh
Founder and CEO of GeoSpock
Steven Marsh is a Co-Founder of GeoSpock Limited and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Steven Marsh is also the lead architect of the Collide platform and co-lead architect of GeoSpock DB. He has experience of building real-time and highly-scalable systems he has overseen the creation of GeoSpock’s state-of-the-art geo-location and social networking mobile development platform. Steven Marsh is a computer scientist. As part of his research, Steve is part of a team building a customisable FPGA-based super-computer designed to carry out real-time simulation of extreme-scale neural networks such as the brain. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
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About GeoSpock: GeoSpock builds GeoSpock DB, the unique space-time analytics database that delivers rapid insights at a fraction of the cost.
Andy Vidan
CEO of Composable Analytics, Inc.
Andy Vidan is the Co-Founder & CEO of Scrypt.He attend to the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2011.
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About Composable Analytics, Inc., Scrypt: Intelligent DataOps platform with built-in composable services for data orchestration, automation and analytics
Shravane Balabasqer
Founder | CEO of Carbon Analytics
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About Carbon Analytics: A granular asset focused carbon intelligence & offsetting platform for active industrial decarbonisation across the value chain.
Derek Adam Haas
CEO of Avant-garde Health
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About Avant-garde Health: Avant-garde Health enables hospitals and physicians to understand and improve their care processes, costs, and outcomes.
Misha Kapushesky
Chief Executive Officer of Genestack
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About Genestack: Genestack provides customers in the pharma, biotech and healthcare sectors with multi-omics data management and integration solutions.
Ed Colby
CEO and Founder of Purrmetrix
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About Purrmetrix: Purrmetrix uses real time data loggers to drive powerful, hassle free analytics.
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.
Phil Fersht
Founder, CEO and Chief Analyst of HFS Research
Phil Fersht is founder and Chief Executive Officer at HfS Research. He is an acclaimed author, analyst and visionary in Global Business Services and Outsourcing, the Digital Transformation of enterprise operations and talent strategies. Fersht founded HfS Research in 2010 and has masterminded the development of the HfS organization as a leading analyst for the firm, in addition to steering the business operations.Under Fersht’s stewardship, HfS Research has become a leading industry analyst firm. At HfS, he directs the firm’s research, advisory and global knowledge community, which today totals over 100,000 professionals and is served by a respected global analyst team. He is also author and creator of the most widely-read and acclaimed blog in the global services industry, entitled “Horses for Sources” and now entering its ninth year, attracting over a million visits per year across the globe. Phil received a Bachelor of Science, with Honors, in European Business & Technology from Coventry University, United Kingdom and a Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie in Business & Technology from the University of Grenoble, France. He also has a diploma from the Market Research Society in the United Kingdom.
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About HFS Research: It is our mission to provide visionary insight into the major innovations impacting business operations
John McInerney
Founder and CEO of Amperfii
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About Amperfii: Amperfii offers a data enablement platform that helps companies drive better business outcomes.
David Flanders
Chief Executive Officer of Agrimetrics
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About Agrimetrics: Agrimetrics is a big data platform for agri-food value chain, from farm through to consumer.
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.
Glendon Collingwood-Hall
Chief Executive Officer of BB1
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About BB1: Machine Learning using deep learning.
Joanna Burnett
Co-founder and CEO of GPrX Data
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About GPrX Data: GPrX Data translates NHS practice level prescribing data into easily-reviewed intelligence.
