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 Internet 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.
Michael Vega Sanz
President/Founder of Lula
Michael Vega-Sanz is Co-Founder/President of Lula
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About Lula: Lula Technologies is a peer-to-peer car sharing platform that connects vehicle owners with drivers seeking to rent such vehicles .
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Toby Simpson
Co-Founder & COO of Fetch.AI
Toby Simpson is a producer of the successful a-life Creatures series of games and early developer at Deepmind. His thirty years’ experience in software, ten as a CTO, are now focussed on crypto-economics.
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About Fetch.AI: Fetch.AI develops a decentralized network for digital representatives to find, communicate, and trade with each other.
Humayun Sheikh
Co-Founder & CEO of Fetch.AI
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About Fetch.AI: Fetch.AI develops a decentralized network for digital representatives to find, communicate, and trade with each other.
Luana Lopes Lara
Co-Founder of Kalshi
Luana is from Brazil and studied Computer Science and Math at MIT. She’s passionate about the Kardashians, movies and music.
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About Kalshi: Kalshi is an exchange app that allows people to trade on event outcomes.
Tarek Mansour
Founder of Kalshi
Tarek Mansour is the Co-Founder of Kalshi.
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About Kalshi: Kalshi is an exchange app that allows people to trade on event outcomes.
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.
Shinta Nurfauzia
Co-Founder & CEO of Lemonilo
Shinta Nurfauzia is Co-Founder & CEO at Konsula.
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About Lemonilo: Lemonilo is a curated marketplace for healthy food and cosmetics.
Patrick Colangelo
Founder & CEO of Vidy
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About Black Diamond Capital Investors LLC, Vidy: The video layer on top of the internet.
Dirk Englund
Co-Founder of DUST Identity
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About DUST Identity, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, QuEra Computing: DUST Identity is a proprietary technology which utilizes nanodiamonds to create an unclonable identity layer on any object.
Ophir Gaathon
Co-Founder & CEO of DUST Identity
Ophir Gaathon is the CEO and co-founder of DUST Identity.
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About DUST Identity: DUST Identity is a proprietary technology which utilizes nanodiamonds to create an unclonable identity layer on any object.
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.
Edward Roberts
Co-Founder of Sohu.com
Edward Roberts is the David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology, and the founder and chair of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is an expert in advanced technology management and entrepreneurship, a serial high-tech entrepreneur, and a leading angel investor. Professor Roberts has literally written the book on high-tech business creation and growth. His Entrepreneurs in High-Technology: Lessons from MIT and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 1991) won the Association of American Publishers Award for Outstanding Book in Business and Management. He has authored over 160 articles and 11 books, the most recent being Innovation: Driving Product, Process, and Market Change (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2002). His major 2009 report (updated in 2011), Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT, documents the history of entrepreneurship at MIT and demonstrates the enormous economic impact generated by companies founded by MIT alumni. His own entrepreneurship is as prolific in academia as in industry. Under the direction of Professor Jay Forrester, Roberts was a founding member of the MIT System Dynamics Group in 1958. In 1990 he founded the MIT Entrepreneurship Center (now renamed the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship), which he has since chaired. He was a founder of MIT Sloan’s Management of Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group, which he chaired for more than 30 years. During the 1970s Professor Roberts co-founded multiple MIT programs in health care delivery, including an interdisciplinary PhD program in Health Policy and Management. During that time he co-directed MIT’s extensive collaboration in management and organizational development with the Association of American Medical Colleges. In 1980 Roberts co-founded and chaired for nearly 20 years, the mid-career MIT Management of Technology (MOT) Program, MIT’s first advanced degree program offered by two Schools. Most recently, in 2006 he co-created and still chairs the MIT Sloan Entrepreneurship & Innovation MBA Track. During the past 50 years, Roberts has become internationally known for his research, teaching, and active involvement in many aspects of technology management, including technology strategy, corporate venturing, product innovation management, and technology-based entrepreneurship. He served as co-director of the MIT International Center for Research on the Management of Technology. When not occupied with his MIT responsibilities, Roberts is actively involved as a co-founder, board member, and angel investor in many high-tech startups. He was the CEO and co-founder of Pugh-Roberts Associates, Inc. (1963), an international management consulting firm specializing in system dynamics, strategic planning, and technology management, sold in 1990 to PA Consulting Group. He is a director of Medical Information Technology, Inc. (Meditech)—a leading producer of healthcare information systems which he co-founded in 1969. He is also a co-founder and a director of Sohu.com, Inc. (1995), a leading Chinese Internet firm that was among the earliest in China. In addition, he co-founded and served for 18 years as a general partner of the Zero Stage Capital and First Stage Capital Equity Funds, a group of venture capital funds investing in early-stage technology-based firms. Later Roberts became a co-founding (and then the longest serving) member of CommonAngels, Inc., the largest angel group in Greater Boston. Over many years Dr. Roberts has been a director and co-founder of numerous emerging technology companies, including Advanced Magnetics (now AMAG Pharmaceuticals), Interactive SuperComputing (sold to Microsoft), InTouch Systems (sold to Comverse Technologies), Inverness Medical Technologies (now part of Johnson & Johnson), Pegasystems, and Tyco Laboratories (now Tyco International). In addition to Meditech and Sohu.com, Roberts’s current board memberships include Cooper Human Systems, Daktari Diagnostics, DynoMedia (Beijing), PR Restaurants, and Visible Measures. Professor Roberts also served on advisory boards for many companies and government agencies, including the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (1967-1970) and the U.S. Department of Commerce Technical Advisory Board (1967-1972), as well as task forces of the Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, the National Research Council, and the White House. He has been involved for many years in efforts to stimulate the high-tech entrepreneurship of Israel. Roberts holds four degrees from MIT: an SB and SM in electrical engineering, an SM in management, and a PhD in economics.
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About Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, MIT – Sloan School of Management, Sohu.com: Sohu offers a network of web properties and community-based products and services for Chinese users.
Pilgrim Beart
CEO & Founder of DevicePilot
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About 1248, DevicePilot: DevicePilot provides Service Monitoring for connected devices
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
Nelson Joyce
Co-Founder of Tettra
Co-Founder at Tettra.
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About Tettra: Organize and share your team’s collective knowledge
Wick Egan
Co-Founder of Point
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About Point: Point helps the user to easily save snippets of text, templates, and other content, and re-use them effortlessly on any website.
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
Josh Schanker
President and Founder of BookBub
Josh is a serial entrepreneur who has launched, sold, advised, and invested in various startups. His previous companies include Sombasa Media, an email marketing firm he grew and sold to About.com, and Sconex, a social networking site for teens bought by Alloy Media. Josh holds an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.
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About BookBub: BookBub is a free service that helps connect millions of readers to books and author’s they’ll love.
Nicholas Ciarelli
Founder of BookBub
Nick is a digital media entrepreneur. He is the founder of Think Secret, a news site dedicated to publishing reports about Apple for nearly a decade, that tussled with the company over First Amendment issues. Nick was also one of the early team members at The Daily Beast, serving in a product role. Nick holds a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.
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About BookBub: BookBub is a free service that helps connect millions of readers to books and author’s they’ll love.
Anum Hussain
Co-Founder and CEO of Below the Fold
Anum Hussain is the Co-Founder and CEO at Below the Fold. Nearly 3,000 miles away from campus, two MIT graduates met in a cafe in Los Angeles. What was intended to be an introductory chat turned into a deep conversation about how to use technology to radically improve the way we consume news online. To get started on that journey, our debut product is a Google Chrome extension that helps news seekers save time and dig deeper. As you read an article, Acciyo appears to the right of your screen like a bookmark sleeve, using natural language processing to populate a timeline of everything published on that subject, kind of like previous chapters of a news story. We aim to make it easier for any news reader to get the context they need to read the news with ease. The root of our name, accio, means “to summon” or “to fetch” in Latin. For those of you who recognize it as the popular Harry Potter spell – yes, that is the actual inspiration for our name. With backgrounds in journalism and media, experience in product marketing and design, and a little bit of magic … we’re on a mission to transform reading the news from a survivalist exercise into a rich, motivating experience.
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About Below the Fold: Below the Fold uses machine learning to provide automatic context on any news article.
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.
Jason Hill
Co-Founder & CEO of BeTH
Jason Hill is Founder and CEO of BeTH, a medtech start-up and pioneer of human-device interface technology aimed at delivering unprecedented healthcare savings and comfort for patients worldwide. Specific expertise in the development products that rely on novel technologies and are differentiated by human centered design. Previously principal of Sonhill Research and Design with specialty in market research, product positioning design strategy and execution for of novel technologies for various start-ups and think tank Applied Minds. Jason co-authored research framework and served as a mentor at the D-Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has lectured on design at Harvard University. Jason received a Bachelor of Science with Honors from Art Center College of Design (Pasadena) and certificate form highly selective graduate business school exchange program at INSEAD (Singapore).
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About BeTH: Human-device interface solutions.
Gregory Kollmer
Co-Founder and CEO of Palmos
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About Palmos: Palmos is building a platform for analyzing localized climate risk and identifying appropriate climate adaptation measures.
Zied Etleb
Co Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Curiato Inc.
Zied Etleb is the co-founder and chief executive officer at Curiato.
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About Curiato Inc.: Provides caregivers and patients a holistic, end-to-end, management system.
Daniel Watts
Founder & Managing Director of Aluminati Network Group
Daniel leads the Aluminati team and has overall responsibility for defining the company’s technical and business strategies and with his deep sector knowledge he leads product innovation. Daniel founded the company in 2002 when he graduated from Oxford with an honours degree in Computation. An expert in online engagement, Daniel is regularly invited to speak at industry conferences and is in regular attendance at multiple CASE events per year. In his spare time Daniel enjoys the physical and mental challenges of basketball and has also coached the Darwin College ladies team to Cambridge championship titles for 4 consecutive years.
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About Aluminati Network Group: Aluminati Network Group provide online services and platforms to unite alumni, student and member networks.
Mark Richer
CEO and Founder of StarLeaf
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About StarLeaf: StarLeaf is the cleanest business tool for teams to effortlessly connect using messaging, meeting and calling.
Peter White
Founder and CEO of Rethink Technology Research
Peter is the CEO of Rethink Technology Research and helped create the company in 2002.
Peter is the principal analyst on Rethink Energy, focusing on the transition from fossil fuels to renewables, taking in Wind, Solar, Energy storage and the new Hydrogen economy. He also touches on the digitalization of the grid, the effect of EVs on electricity supply and any new ideas in energy.
Peter’s coverage area takes in solar design including perovskite, multi-junction solar, crystalline silicon, as well as floating platforms, carbon-nanotube layering, all types of turbines and lithium ion batteries or other form of energy storage, green hydrogen production economics, undersea cabling, demand response utility systems and Distributed Energy Management Systems.
Peter was previously involved in technology since 1978. For 17 years at Rethink, his research was focused on video and digital networks. He has consulted with set top and home gateway manufacturers, encoder specialists, chip vendors, flash memory providers, security companies and TV UI specialists over that time.
If you want to email Peter, ask him a question or invite him to attend or speak at an event, then please email peter@rethinkresearch.biz
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About Rethink Technology Research: Experts in Wireless, Video and Renewable Energy. Rethink is the thought leader in emerging wireless technologies, video-based quadruple play and the energy transition.
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.
Josh Harris
Founder & CEO of Doc2
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About Doc2: Allowing SMEs to create, send and eSign their contracts in seconds.
Brian Sullivan
Technical Founder of Sullivan Software Systems
Inventor of Open Platform as a Service & Green Code openplatformasaservice.com sullivansoftwaresystems.com
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About Sullivan Software Systems: Inventors of Open Platform as a Service & Green Code
Greg McHale
Founder of LetsAllDoGood
Founder of LetsAllDoGood
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About LetsAllDoGood: The smartphone app for all the good in the world.
Zhuoqun Li
CEO and Founder of ZifiSense
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About ZifiSense: ZifiSense is a telecommunications company.
Matthew George
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of GroupZoom
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About GroupZoom: GroopZoom is an online service that connects clients to restaurants in real time for group dining, large parties and special events.
Chih Chun Chen
Founder of Cambridge Coding Academy
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About Cambridge Coding Academy: Cambridge Coding Academy is a constantly growing community of young coders and pre-university students.
Chih Chun Chen
Founder of Cambridge Coding Academy
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About Cambridge Coding Academy: Cambridge Coding Academy is a constantly growing community of young coders and pre-university students.