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 Telecommunications 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.
Mostafa Afgani
Co-Founder and CTO of pureLiFi
Mostafa is a respected hardware and firmware engineer. A chief architect of VLC hardware platforms over the past three years, Mostafa holds three patents and has filed for two more in the VLC field. Prior to co-founding pureLiFi he developed sensitive signal anomaly detection hardware for Agilent and held a research position at DoCoMo labs, Munich, Germany. Mostafa has BSc and MSc degrees in electronics from Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany and a PhD in communications and signal processing from the University of Edinburgh.
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About pureLiFi: pureLiFi develops technology for communication networks that integrates data and lighting utility infrastructures.
Tughrul Arslan
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Sensewhere
Tughrul Arslan has held the Chair of Integrated electronic Systems at the University of Edinburgh. Arslan is an internationally recognized researcher in the design of low power systems and reconfigurable technology. He has been involved in two Proof of Concept projects concluded with a successful formation of 2 companies. He is co-inventor of a number of Sofant patents. Since 1989 he has carried out research into low power system architectures, ranging from circuits to sensors, and reconfigurable technology. He has authored more than 300 journal and conference articles.
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About Sensewhere, University of Edinburgh: Sensewhere provide hyper-local indoor positioning technology and applications for mobile devices.
Zankar Sevak
Co-Founder and Vice President of Sensewhere
Zankar Sevak serves as Vice President of Engineering at sensewhere Limited. Zankar Sevak is responsible for designing and developing the main GNSS application and support software for GNSS devices. He is the Principle Inventor of sensewhere proprietary Assisted GNSS technology and has worked at sensewhere for three years.
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About Sensewhere: Sensewhere provide hyper-local indoor positioning technology and applications for mobile devices.
Nakul Haridas
Co-Founder & MEMS Technology Manager of Sofant Technologies
Nakul Haridas is responsible for the research of Sofant future technologies in accordance with market needs. Nakul brings with him experience in the MEMS technology and antenna design. Nakul is a co-founder of Sofant and co-inventor on Sofant’s patents. He has industry experience having worked for Micro World Software, Phoenix Telecom Pvt. Ltd, National Panasonic India, Terna EDA Centre.
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About Sofant Technologies: Sofant Technologies offers Smart Antenna and tunable RF solutions for next generation mobile and wearable devices.
Tom Walls
Founder & CEO of CIQUAL
Tom brings over 25 years of senior leadership experience in the telecommunications industry to the CIQUAL team. Prior to founding CIQUAL, Tom was a Vice President and GM at Agilent Technologies, managing the Operational Support Systems Business, growing the business to Number 1 in the market. Tom’s wide experience covers non-executive director roles, M&A deals and divestitures. From 2002-2007, Tom was a member and advisory director of the TeleManagement Forum.
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About CIQUAL: CIQUAL offers Session Insight, a system that delivers a real-time, dynamic view of mobile broadband service and user experience.
Mark Hay
Founder, CEO, and CTO of Melrose Labs
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About Melrose Labs: Communication services inception, development and operation. Enabling and optimising communications. #CPaaS #SaaS #UCaaS #APIs
