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 Edinburgh based Founder operating in the Social 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.
Mike Kent
Co-Founder & Director of Dexerto
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About Dexerto: Dexerto is the world’s largest digital esports and gaming lifestyle platform news platform.
Robert Gelb
Founder & CEO of Kindaba
Rob is the CEO and founder of Kindaba. His strengths are in project management, logistics and in successfully running large scale projects. He was responsible for developing and leading Bus 52, a 501(c3) nonprofit project that featured the production of 100 documentary-style video pieces highlighting people and organisations who were doing inspiring things across America but lacked recognition. Responsibilities included all logistics and planning, fundraising of over $140,000, and outreach which included appearing on local and national TV in the US. Most recently, Rob completed a contract with the University of St Andrews where he planned, developed and executed the establishment of career and alumni outreach for the university’s international student and alumni population. This included organising over 50 in-country events, in-country career-related initiatives, the development of a successful university work shadowing programme, among others.
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About Heysummit, Kindaba: Visual Intelligent Messenger for Families
Nicholas Guy
CEO and Co-Founder of No LogoSphere
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About No LogoSphere: No LogoSphere is a next-gen market research business.
Russell Barnard
Co-Founder of Snappd
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About Snappd, Webfolio: Increase engagement, conversions & revenue for your brand with mobile first video
Creeshla Doherty
Co Founder of Snappd
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About Snappd, Webfolio: Increase engagement, conversions & revenue for your brand with mobile first video
Creeshla Doherty
Co Founder of Snappd
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About Snappd, Webfolio: Increase engagement, conversions & revenue for your brand with mobile first video
Deborah Wake
Founder/CEO of My Diabetes My Way
Dr. Deborah Wake (DW) (CEO/Co-Founder MyWay Digital Health, Senior Clinical Lecturer (University of Dundee), NHS Diabetes Consultant, (MBChB, BSc, Ph.D., Clin Ed Dip)) has a unique mix of business, clinical, educational and academic skills. She has a national clinical/ academic reputation for technology, informatics and automated support for diabetes care. She is a national clinical lead for internationally award-winning and cost-saving MyDiabetesMyWay offering online data access and education to all patients in Scotland with diabetes (>30,000 registrants). In 2017, she co-founded the MyWay Digital Health company to commercialize MyDiabetesMyWay outwith Scotland. She has won several business/entrepreneurship awards including; Scottish EDGE, Bio Dundee, Venture and was a top 3 finalist in AccelerateHER, and Women Ahead. Dr. Wake graduated MBChB (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh and subsequently gained a Ph.D. and Diploma in Medical Education. She is passionate about technology and education delivery. She has been a Principle Investigator for multiple research projects (>£2million funding, >40 publications)). 2010-2017, she was program director/ clinical lead for Kuwait Scotland e-Health Innovation Network, delivering formal postgraduate education to over 300 Kuwait diabetes health care professions. Dr. Wake has also developed and delivered a number of free Diabetes MOOCs (massive online courses) educating over 20,000 participants to date, and online structured education for patients. Dr. Wake was a Diabetes UK clinical champion (2015-17) and has an active role in public health communication. She contributes regularly to the radio, was a resident on-screen doctor for STVs flagship show ‘The Hour’ and Health Columnist for The Scotsman newspaper for many years. She developed the first medical podcast series in the UK (Dr. Pods Healthcast) in 2005. Her focus now is on driving MyWay Digital Health company to international success, transforming diabetes care.
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About My Diabetes My Way, MyWay Digital Health: My Diabetes My Way is an NHS Scotland interactive diabetes website to help support people who have diabetes and their family and friends.
Ruaridh Currie
Co-Founder of Rockifi Ltd
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About Rockifi Ltd: The Heavy Streaming Platform
Ruaridh Currie
Co-Founder of Rockifi Ltd
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About Rockifi Ltd: The Heavy Streaming Platform
Alberto Comino
Co-Founder of DropBy
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About DropBy: DropBy any cities and places across the world – sharing and uncovering – every single day!
Alberto Comino
Co-Founder of DropBy
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About DropBy: DropBy any cities and places across the world – sharing and uncovering – every single day!
