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 Edinburgh based Founder operating in the E-Commerce 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.
James Browm
Founder & CEO of Beer52
James Browm is a CEO & Founder of Beer52.com.
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About Beer52: Beer52 is the UK’s most popular craft beer club.
Lucy Cardwell
Founder of Lucky Cloud Skincare
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About Lucky Cloud Skincare: Lucky Cloud Skincare is a natural, vegan friendly skin care company based in Edinburgh.
Kristian Tapaninaho
Founder & CEO of Ooni
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About Ooni: Ooni is the number one pizza oven brand in the world.
Michael Welch
Founder & Managing Director of Blackcircles.com
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About Blackcircles.com: Blackcircles.com is an online marketplace for new vehicle tires.
Cally Russell
Founder & CEO of Mallzee
Cally is a young entrpreuner with a big vision. He holds a passion for changing the way we interact online and how design and data should be key in this. He is currently the lead on Mallzee.com and aims to have this new way to shop online live in the later stages of 2012.
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About Mallzee: Mallzee is a B2C clothing retail app and a B2B data suite for clothing retailers to improve margins and make smarter buying decisions
Ray Bugg
Founder of DIGIT
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About DIGIT: DIGIT is Scotland’s leading technology media & events company.
Daniel Rodgers
Founder & CEO of QikServe
Daniel is a serial entrepreneur involved in a number of ventures before seeing an opportunity to disrupt global hospitality with digital self-service. Daniel has delivered on market opportunities, such as kiosk, to ensure QikServe is on the digital pathways that lead to mobile self-service.
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About QikServe: QikServe is the enterprise platform for guest self-service in hospitality.
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
Ramy Habeeb
Founder of Kotobarabia
Ramy is the founder and director of Kotobarabia, a dedicated Arabic ePublishing, digitization and digital services consulting house. Kotobarabia has digitized over 14,000 titles and continues to curate new collections for an expanding market. As an industry expert Ramy has worked with Google, Nielsen, British Council, Publishing Perspectives, Benetech and Sarmady, amongst other multinational organizations and government bodies. He is the recipient of the British Council’s Egyptian Publisher of the Year, and has been shortlisted for Endeavor’s Entrepreneur Fellowship.
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About Kotobarabia: Kotobarabia is the first online e-bookstore that specializes exclusively in Arabic content.
David Oxley
Founder of InverLife
David has over 12 year’s experience of pioneering solutions for online content management/delivery and leads the e-commerce and server-side code technology. He is passionate about integrating disparate technology to create new applications.
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About InverLife: InverLife is an online marketplace for the $40B Self Improvement industry.
Rachel Willmer
Founder & CEO of Luzme
Rachel Willmer is a technology entrepreneur, with 3 decades of life at the sharp end of new technologies. Her most recent startup, Luzme, has been featured on TechCrunch, CNet and LifeHacker, and Rachel is on ProductHunt’s list of “Inspiring Female Founders”.
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About Luzme: Luzme is the original ebook search site. All major ebook stores searched in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and India
