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 Mobile 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.
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.
David Perrault
Founder of ETA Wireless, Inc.
– Professor of electrical engineering at MIT – 20 years+ experience in power conversion and switched-mode power amplifiers. – Author of more than 75 papers in refereed journals on power conversion and RF topics; holds over 50 patents – Co-founder of
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About ETA Wireless, Inc.: Eta Wireless designs power management ICs that reduce energy consumption and heat dissipation of mobile devices.
Kamal Quadir
CEO & Founder of BKash
Kamal Quadir is the CEO & Founder at BKash.
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About BKash: BKash Limited (a subsidiary of BRAC Bank Limited) is dedicated to providing Mobile Financial Services in Bangladesh.
Corbin Church
Co-Founder and CEO of Cambridge Touch Technologies Ltd.
Accomplished and energetic entrepreneur working in the high-technology industries of flat panel displays, semiconductors and enterprise SaaS; executive level management and technical experience in all aspects of high-growth company operations. – Experienced in technology commercialization, including: business development and strategy, sales and marketing, customer development, IP management, contract and licensing negotiation, and fund raising.
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About : Pressure Sensitive Multi-Touch for Next-Generation Smart Devices including Smartphones, Tablets, Automotive and Industrial
Arokia Nathan
Co-Founder and Director of Cambridge Touch Technologies Ltd.
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About : Pressure Sensitive Multi-Touch for Next-Generation Smart Devices including Smartphones, Tablets, Automotive and Industrial
Hari Balakrishnan
CTO & Founder of Cambridge Mobile Telematics
Hari Balakrishnan led the MIT CarTel project with Sam Madden, developing several award-winning papers and technologies that were the academic origins of Cambridge Mobile Telematics. He is also the Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science at MIT and a Faculty Director of Wireless@MIT; he is well-known for several widely cited papers and contributions to mobile and sensor computing, networking, and distributed systems. He co-founded StreamBase (acquired by TIBCO), was an advisor to Meraki (acquired by Cisco) from its pre-founding days, and contributed to Sandburst Corporation (acquired by Broadcom), all MIT spin-offs.
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About Cambridge Mobile Telematics: Cambridge Mobile Telematics develops DriveWell, a complete telematics and behavioral analytics solution to improve safety.
Bill Powers
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge Mobile Telematics
Bill has played a vital role in building and managing a number of successful organizations at companies like Swoop and Traffic.com. As EVP/Sales at Traffic.com, his efforts shaped a sales organization that led to the company’s acquisition by NAVTEQ, and, subsequently, Nokia. He is recognized as a leader in emerging media and technology. He is a past member of the Sales Executive Council of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Additionally, Bill established the Luke Vincent Powers Foundation in memory of his son, Luke. He serves as the Foundation’s President, which supports disadvantaged children.
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About Cambridge Mobile Telematics: Cambridge Mobile Telematics develops DriveWell, a complete telematics and behavioral analytics solution to improve safety.
Jonathan Hakim
Founder & CEO of Cignifi
Jonathan Hakim is the Founder & CEO at Cignifi.
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About Cignifi: Cignifi uses mobile behavior data in emerging markets to deliver credit scores and marketing tools to telecom and financial companies.
Rohit Makol
Founder & COO of HeyHub
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About HeyHub: The community experience and tenant engagement platform driving operational efficiency across your spaces.
Johnny Monsarrat
Founder, CEO of Monsarrat
In 1994, Johnny Monsarrat invented the MMO at founder and CEO of Turbine, which won two videogame “Oscars”, created a market now earning $20 billion a year, and was bought by Warner Brothers for $160 million. Now as CEO of Monsarrat, Inc., Johnny Monsarrat and a team of former Turbine staff are inventing the next big thing after Pokemon Go. Johnny Monsarrat is an Ivy League award-winning public speaker educated at Harvard, Brown University, MIT, and MIT Sloan.
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About Monsarrat: The next big thing in mobile AR walking games
Ryan Pijai
Co-Founder & CEO of Octant
Ryan Pijai is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Octant Technologies.
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About Octant: Octant is a developer of a platform used to video data collection services for autonomous vehicle developers.
Etienne Leroy
CMO & CPO and Co-Founder of OpenFrame
Etienne Leroy, is the Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Product Officer, and Co-Founder at OpenFrame.
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About Avincel Consulting, OpenFrame, Sharalike, WOO Sports: OpenFrame is a software application platform that helps real estate agents to create video tours and connect to their clients.
Geordie McClelland
Founder, Chief of Strategy of altr
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About altr: Digital Product Strategy & Experience Design.
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.
Andrew Yu
Founder & CTO of Modo Labs
Andrew Yu is an expert on smartphones and mobile devices, with more than 16 years of Internet and mobile software experience in the U.S. and Asia. In addition to his role as Chief Executive Officer, Yu is also the co-founder of iMobileU, a community of educational institutions with a shared interest in mobile development with hundreds of members from some of the top universities in the world. Prior to his role with Modo Labs, Yu was the mobile platform manager, architect and instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), spearheading its mobility strategy, which included device recommendations, end-user support and application development, which produced the MIT Mobile Framework. Yu co-instructed with Prof. Hal Abelson MIT’s Developing Mobile Applications computer science class, where student teams developed innovative software for various smartphone platforms in partnership with Google, Nokia and Microsoft. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences promoting mobile applications at universities and the author of the book The OS Wars: Smartphone systems battle for markets, published by CLSA. Yu graduated from Harvard University with a BA in physics and East Asian studies. He also studied electrical engineering and computer science at MIT.
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About Modo Labs: Modo Labs empowers ordinary people to create extraordinary apps, no technical skills required.
Eric Kim
Co-Founder & Vice President of Design of Modo Labs
Eric Kim has 17 years of interdisciplinary design experience with a specific emphasis on the architecture and visual design of web and mobile applications for clients from technology startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. Eric’s emphasis in all of his design work is on making technology-driven experiences not just functional, but enjoyable and enlightened as well. Eric graduated from Harvard University in 1994 with an BA with honors in Visual and Environmental Studies, with a concentration in architecture and graphic design. Eric also serves on Modo Labs’ board of directors.
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About Modo Labs: Modo Labs empowers ordinary people to create extraordinary apps, no technical skills required.
Sam Westwood
Co-Founder of Opensignal
Sam has over 10 years of experience working within telecoms, including co-founding RepeaterStore, a mobile signal solutions provider improving signal in homes and offices. At OpenSignal, Sam has lead the creation of the company’s suite of enterprise products and built an innovative high-concurrency architecture, capable of handling large quantities of data. Sam is an OpenSignal co-founder and holds a Physics degree from Oxford University.
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About Opensignal, PlentyWays: Opensignal is a mobile analytics company.
Raphael Rouvinov
Co-Founder of Summer Playbook
Raphael Rouvinov is the Cofounder & CTO at Swipehouse.
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About Pascal Capital, Playbook, Summer Playbook, Swipehouse: Summer Playbook is an online community of young people around the world who want to get offline and hang out in person.
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.
Kelsey Theriault
Co-Founder and Senior Front-End Engineer of Ledgie
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About Ledgie: Ledgie is an upcoming personal finance app for cryptocurrency users.
Chris Linder
Co-Founder – Lead Engineer of Demiurge Studios
Chris is a co-founder of Demiurge Studios. As Lead Engineer, he focuses on engineering and project management. Chris is currently leading Demiurge’s multiplayer development on Aliens: Colonial Marines. Chris received a double major in Computer Science and Cognitive Science with a minor in fine art from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Demiurge Studios: Demiurge Studios is an American video game development company that develops and markets mobile, console, and personal computer games.
John Harper
Founder & CEO of Rize
John Harper believes that there is an underlying need in our society for a greater understanding of our own mental well-being. John brings together all the best tools he’s found with support from mental health professionals and institutions. He has reached out to specialists in mental health, smartphone technology, and business development to provide an innovative tool like nothing else out there.
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About Rize: Rize is providing a gamified app that helps users to understand, track and improve their mental well being.
Kin Lo
Founder & CEO of Kaymbu
Founder at Kaymbu
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About Kaymbu: Kaymbu empowers early childhood educators to make learning visible and strengthen school communities.
Jordan Wilson
Founder of Politicking
Jordan Wilson is the founder of Politicking App.
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About Politicking: Politicking is a mobile application that improves the millennial vote by providing information about micro and macro politics.
Ken Banks
Founder of FrontlineSMS
Ken Banks is the founder of [Frontline SMS](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/frontlinesms) and [Kiwanja.net](http://www.Kiwanja.net). He specializes in the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change in the developing world. He combines over 22 years in I.T. with over 15 years experience living and working throughout Africa in countries including Kenya, Nigeria (where he ran a primate sanctuary), South Africa, Mozambique, Cameroon, Zambia, Uganda and Zimbabwe. In 1999 he graduated from Sussex University with honours in Social Anthropology with Development Studies His vision is to empower others to create social change, and he does this by developing and providing tools to mostly grassroots organisations who seek to better use technology in their work. In 2007 he hit headline news on the BBC when his text messaging application – FrontlineSMS – was used to help monitor the Nigerian Presidential elections. Since launch the software has been successfully implemented in over forty countries including Afghanistan, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, the Philippines and Pakistan Ken has recently been interviewed by the BBC World Service, The Economist, BBC News Online, The New York Times, Nokia, Mongabay.com, The Africa Journal, White African and the Sussex University Alumni magazine, among many others, and he was recently invited to take part in an Aspen Institute round table discussion on the use of mobiles in activism and civic engagement. Ken has written about his work, and the wider role of mobile technology, for a number of publications including Pambazuka News, Didactics World and Vodafone Receiver magazine, and has a regular online column in PC World. He has also acted as an official judge for the Global Mobile Awards, the Mobile Messaging Awards and his own nGOmobile initiative, and is a regional judge for the 2008 Adjudication Panel for the African ICT Achievers Awards Programme He has spoken about the application of mobile technology at a number of conferences, workshops and organisations including Nokia, IDEO, Stanford University, the MacArthur Foundation, Amnesty International and the University of Arizona. He has also presented papers at the W3C Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries (Bangalore, 2006 and Sao Paulo, 2008) and the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (Canada, 2007), where he also sat on a specialist panel discussing web delivery models for emerging markets. Ken also spoke at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (2008), and delivered a keynote address at Mobile Messaging 2008 in Cannes Ken was recently awarded grants from the MacArthur Foundation and the Open Society Institute (OSI), and has been short listed for two mobile industry awards for the development of FrontlineSMS. Between 2006 and 2007 he was based at Stanford University as a Visiting Fellow on the Reuters Digital Vision Program. He currently spends his time between Cambridge (UK) and Stanford University in California.
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About FrontlineSMS, Kiwanja.Net: FrontlineSMS is free, open source software.
Ron Suskind
Founder & CEO of Sidekicks
Ron’s latest bestseller, Life, Animated (2014), chronicles his family’s twenty-year journey raising and connecting to their autistic son. The Suskinds are also the subject of an award-winning documentary feature of the same name (2016). Their story has driven activism and research about the compensatory strengths of those with autism and others who are “differently-abled” due to distinctive neurology or sociocultural backgrounds. Ron’s company, Sidekicks, is leading efforts to build a next generation of augmentative technologies to lift and support these communities. Ron’s other works include Confidence Men (2011), about the fall of the U.S. economy and the presidency of Barack Obama; The Way of the World (2008), about the forces fighting the global “hearts and minds” struggle at a time when awesomely destructive weapons are available to the common man; The One Percent Doctrine (2006), about the U.S. government’s frantic improvisation to fight a new kind of war after 9/11; The Price of Loyalty (2004), about the inner workings of the American government and presidency of George W. Bush; and A Hope in the Unseen (1998), a nonfiction narrative that helped redefine national debates on race, class and achievement. Ron often appears on network television and has been a contributor for The New York Times Magazine and Esquire. Ron was the Wall Street Journal’s senior national affairs reporter from 1993 until his departure in 2000, and won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. He currently lives in Cambridge, MA, with his wife, Cornelia Kennedy Suskind, and lectures about narrative and justice at Harvard Law School.
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About Sidekicks: Sidekicks is a revolutionary way for parents to give their kids on the autism spectrum a friend who loves the same things they love!
Jonathan Woods
Co Founder & CEO of Emogo Technologies Inc
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About Emogo Technologies Inc: Mobile App designed to create collections of media in an album and share in iMessage. Media includes photos, videos, links, gifs and notes.
Greg McHale
Founder of LetsAllDoGood
Founder of LetsAllDoGood
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About LetsAllDoGood: The smartphone app for all the good in the world.
Thomas Goijarts
Founder & CEO of Caro Health
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About Caro Health: Caro Health delivers a digital companion that provides relevant content, guidance and actionable notification to improve patient outcomes.
