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 CTO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
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.
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Dongho Kim
Co-Founder & CTO of Secondmind
Dongho’s research interests are various fields of machine learning and in particular decision making under uncertainty via reinforcement learning. He is originally from South Korea and a former postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University Engineering Department. He is co-founder and CTO at PROWLER.io. He used to play the keyboard and write songs in a rock band. He has also been practising guitar with games like Rocksmith.
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About Secondmind: Machine learning for automotive innovators
Mark Cheverton
CTO of Redgate Software
After two decades in the business, the Internet continues to fascinate me with its potential for disruptive innovation. I thrive on the challenge of launching new products and companies, putting my own startup experience and broad range of skills to good use. I’m always looking for new challenges and to work with people with big ideas who believe they can change the world. Specialties: Internet technologies; mobile; online gaming; cloud computing; enterprise architecture; scalability; government; SaaS; PaaS; innovation; start-ups; Internet of Things
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About Redgate Software: Redgate is the leading provider of software for professionals working on the Microsoft data platform.
Jay Jamison
Chief Technology Officer of Quickbase
Jay Jamison is a Partner at BlueRun Ventures. At BlueRun, he focuses on early stage consumer mobile and enterprise mobile investments. He currently serves on the boards of AppCentral, AppRedeem, Foodspotting and Thumb.
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About Quickbase: Quickbase helps organizations see, connect and control every element of the complex projects.
Giulio Ruffini
President, CTO, Co-Founder of Neuroelectrics
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About Neuroelectrics: Neuroelectrics is a digital brain health company that diagnoses and treats brain disorders, and improves overall brain health.
Philip Clifton
CTO of Wonde
CTO & Co-Founder at Wonde.
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About Wonde: Wonde provides third party applications access to secure school data.
Yudong Cao
CTO of Zapata Computing
Yudong Cao obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2016 from Purdue University. His thesis was awarded 2016 Chorafas Award in Computer Science and Informatics. From late 2016 till present he serves as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University, working with Alan Aspuru-Guzik on quantum algorithms for quantum chemistry and quantum machine learning. Recently, with other Harvard scientists he co-founded a Boston startup Zapata Computing focusing on quantum computing software development.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Zapata Computing: Zapata Computing is a quantum software company that offers computing solutions for industrial and commercial use.
Laurence Bargery
Co Founder & CTO of AccuRx
Laurence Bargery is a Co-founder & CTO at accuRx.
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About AccuRx: AccuRx is on a mission to bring patients and their healthcare teams together.
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.
Greg Law
CTO of Undo
Greg has 15 years’ experience in both academia and innovative start-up software companies. His Ph.D. thesis was nominated for the 2001 British Computer Society Distinguished Dissertation Award. In 2005 he co-founded Undo Software, which he now runs.
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About Undo: Undo allows some of the biggest software companies to improve the quality of their products and fix customer issues quickly.
Karthik Dinakar
CTO & Co-Founder of Pienso
Karthik Dinakar is a computer scientist in machine learning, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction. Karthik was a Reid Hoffman Fellow at MIT and the recipient of the 2015 Dewey Winburne Award. Karthik has previously held positions at Microsoft and Deutsche. He was invited to the White House on two occasions to present his research on the computational detection of cyberbullying and use of probabilistic graphical Bayesian models for crisis counseling. Karthik holds a doctoral degree from MIT.
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About Pienso: Pienso is a machine learning platform that makes it easy to turn text data into insights for non-programmers.
Ali Kamil
Co-founder and CTO of Wise Systems
Ali Kamil is the co-founder at Wise Systems.
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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.
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.
Zack Anderson
Co-Founder & CTO of ClearMotion
Zack Anderson is Chief Technology Officer, Board Director, and co-founder of ClearMotion, where he is responsible for driving ClearMotion’s technology vision.
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About ClearMotion: ClearMotion is a global automotive technology company that commercializes a proactive ride system.
Ray Chun
Cofounder/CTO of Service Route
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About Service Route: Service Route is a property maintenance platform that helps maintenance professionals manage and grow their businesses.
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
Bruce Schneier
CTO of IBM Resilient
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and author. Described by The Economist as a “security guru,” he is best known as a refreshingly candid and lucid security critic and commentator. When people want to know how security really works, they turn to Schneier. His first bestseller, Applied Cryptography, explained how the arcane science of secret codes actually works, and was described by Wired as “the book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published.” His book on computer and network security, Secrets and Lies, was called by Fortune “[a] jewel box of little surprises you can actually use.” Beyond Fear tackles the problems of security from the small to the large: personal safety, crime, corporate security, national security. His current book, Schneier on Security, offers insight into everything from the risk of identity theft (vastly overrated) to the long-range security threat of unchecked presidential power and the surprisingly simple way to tamper-proof elections. Regularly quoted in the media — and subject of an Internet meme — he has testified on security before the United States Congress on several occasions and has written articles and op eds for many major publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, Forbes, Wired, Nature, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Washington Post. Schneier also publishes a free monthly newsletter, Crypto-Gram, with over 150,000 readers. In its ten years of regular publication, Crypto-Gram has become one of the most widely read forums for free-wheeling discussions, pointed critiques, and serious debate about security. As head curmudgeon at the table, Schneier explains, debunks, and draws lessons from security stories that make the news.
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About Counterpane Internet Security, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Law School, IBM Resilient, Open Technology Institute: IBM Resilient provides incident management software empowering organizations to thrive in the face of cyberattacks and business crises.
Yang Lu
Co-founder and CTO of Vivacity Labs
Yang is responsible for the technical choices Vivacity makes, and for the team that builds our products. Following his role as Technical Director of Cambridge’s solar car team, Yang spent time at a leading technology consultancy, working on technical solutions from in-ear monitoring using the internet-of-things to high-speed genetic sequencing. As a technology polyglot, with a 1st and Distinction from Cambridge in Engineering, Yang leads Vivacity’s technology development, driving technical excellence across the business.
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About Vivacity Labs: Vivacity Labs makes intelligent cameras to gather transport data, using the latest machine learning & computer vision techniques.
Tristram Norman
Co-Founder & CTO of Simprints
Tristram Norman, CTO and Co-Founder of Simprints. Tristram is a software engineer with an MSc with high honors from the University of London and professional certifications from MIT in Big Data. His software portfolio includes a complete systems portal with energy industry leader JDR Cables Inc. Tristram is a Forbes 30 under 30 Social Entrepreneur.
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About Simprints: Simprints is a nonprofit company building technology to increase effectiveness in how the world fights global poverty.
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
Steve Clarke
CTO and SVP Engineering (IoT) of Wyld Networks AB
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About Wyld Networks AB: Wyld Networks enables affordable low power IoT connectivity through LEO satellites.
Brian Muse
CTO of Robin
CTO & Partner at One Mighty Roar
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About One Mighty Roar, Robin: Robin is a workplace platform that puts people before places Used by businesses of all sizes to successfully manage hybrid work.
Seth Neel
Co-founder, CTO of Welligence
Harvard Professor, Machine Learning Researcher, Welligence Co-Founder. All things artificial intelligence, data privacy, fairness, and energy. For Welligence-related inquires contact me at firstname.lastname@welligence.com.
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About Welligence: Welligence is a company that specializes in upstream analytics.
Benjamin King
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Tumelo
Benjamin King is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Tumelo.
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About Tumelo: Tumelo is an impact-focused financial technology firm with the mission of giving every investor a voice.
Christopher Coleman
CTO of Memfault
Christopher Coleman is the chief technology officer of Memfault.
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About Memfault: Memfault provides solutions for firmware delivery, monitoring, and diagnostics to consumer electronics businesses.
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.
Matthew Stannard
CTO & Head of Robots of The Happiness Index
Matt Stannard is the Head of Robots and CTO at The Happiness Index Ltd. Passionate about innovating and driving businesses forward through the use of technology, Matt designed and built the very first iteration of The Happiness Index tool alongside the founders, whilst working for a previous organisation. Since then Matt has taken a leading role in evolving the data and analytics behind the platform which helps organisations measure their culture through the use of neuroscience.
On top of this Matt works as a consultant in data and analytics, developing holistic measurement strategies, as well as helping evolve a ‘cloud first’ strategy. He’s also a passionate Ipswich Town fan who loves nothing more than watching them win at Portman Road alongside his wife and kids!
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About The Happiness Index: Driven by their vision of #FreedomToBeHuman, The Happiness Index has created the world’s only employee engagement AND happiness platform. The platform enables HR and People professionals to move from employee feedback to real-time, actionable insights all in one place, with the ultimate goal of building thriving workplaces all over the world.
Konstantin Klitenik
Co-founder & CTO of ODYN
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About ODYN: Helping large BCOs move inventory faster via low-cost end-to-end supply chain visibility and predictive analytics
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.
Larry Rudolph
CTO of ReDigi
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About Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ReDigi, Two Sigma: ReDigi is an online marketplace and cloud-based service providing pre-owned, legally-acquired digital music.
Nick Parsons
CTO and Vice President of Engineering of Polatis
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About HUBER+SUHNER, Polatis: Polatis is a tech company delivering optical switching solutions for remote fiber-layer provisioning, protection and monitoring.
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
Sam Workman
CTO & Co-Founder of Modit
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About Modit: A collaboration platform for staging and reviewing live development
