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 Cambridgeshire based Founder operating in the FinTech 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.
Goncalo de Vasconcelos
Founder and CEO of Rnwl
A serial entrepreneur himself, Gonçalo is only too aware of the long path leading to a successful funding round. In September 2011 Gonçalo graduated with an MBA from Judge Business School, University of Cambridge where he was awarded the ‘Best Dissertation’ prize and the Benavitch Scholarship for academic and professional achievements. His past experience has shown him that often entrepreneurs have to spend too much time chasing investors instead of focusing on the most important part of their business: their customers. He has a vision of how to help great entrepreneurs to fulfil their dreams and that vision is called “SyndicateRoom”. He is passionate about giving the crowd access to the top deals into which experienced business angels are investing their own money. This is what drives his vision for SyndicateRoom. Gonçalo is also a contributor for Forbes, writing regularly about equity crowdfunding, business angel investment and venture capital investment and speaks regularly at public events about the same themes. In his spare time Gonçalo cycles long distances to raise money for charities (his last ride was from Cambridge to Paris), plays tennis and, when in warmer climates, sails with his wife whenever there is half a chance.
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About Fund Twenty8, Rnwl: Rnwl is an over-the-top insurance platform making insurance simple for consumers. Insurtech.
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.
Hamish Anderson
Founder & CEO of Money Mover
Hamish has worked in senior roles for some big banks, and has spent most of his career trying to explain complicated stuff in a simple way. Most recently at HSBC, and formerly at Merrill Lynch, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Schroders, his clients were a variety of companies, institutions and asset managers. Hamish took the leap into entrepreneurship and co-founded Money Mover to help SMEs benefit from a transparent and cost-effective way to make international payments. At Money Mover he embraces all aspects of the day-to-day business with enthusiasm, in addition to directing its marketing and development.
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About Money Mover: Money Mover is a global payments and currency exchange platform for small/medium enterprises (SMEs) and the mass affluent.
Justin Washtell-Blaise
Founder & Chief Data Scientist of SubjectiveSystems
Ph.D. CTO & Co-founder ForecastThis. Data Scientist and specialist in development of Machine Learning, NLP & high-throughput systems.
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About SubjectiveSystems: Financial modeling, decision science, data science.
Harry Evelegh
Founder of Methodise.net
Founder at Methodise.net
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About Methodise.net: Delivering crypto liquidity in Africa
