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 Glasgow based Founder operating in the Information Technology 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.
Craig Johnston
CTO & Co-Founder of ENOUGH
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About ENOUGH, Swedish Biomimetics 3000: ENOUGH is a foodtech startup producing protein through fermenting fungi using renewable feedstocks.
Matt Tyburski
Chief Scientist and Founder of Global Surface Intelligence Ltd.
Matt is an interdisciplinary geospatial data scientist. He has a PhD, LLM, MSc and BA. He has 10 years’ post-PhD experience originating data science concepts in the private sector as wells as leading on data science systems development at Johns Hopkins and within the U.S. Federal Government.
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About Global Surface Intelligence Ltd.: Global Surface Intelligence is an Edinburgh-based earth observation and artificial-intelligence-as-a-service provider
Rogelio Arellano
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of Citruslabs
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About Citruslabs: Clinical trials run on Citrus
Christopher Kalika
Founder of Digital Receipts
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About Digital Receipts: A simple, safe and secure place to store your receipts.
Scott McEwan
CEO and Co-Founder of Boston Networks
Scott co-founded Boston Networks in 2000 following a number of years in Networking & Building Services Operations, Sales & Engineering. From the outset, Scott has played a key role in the development of Boston’s diverse client base and the management of the growing staff base. As Chief Executive, Scott has driven the company’s growth and transition to an all-encompassing Smart Building, Fire & Security and Managed Service provider. Spearheading the company, Scott ensures the strategic direction is highly focused, efficient and successful. Ultimately responsible for the company’s performance and operational integrity, Scott ensures that his Senior Team is fully supported and that Boston Networks remains at the forefront of the market.
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About Boston Networks: Boston Networks design, manage and maintain multi-site infrastructures to drive businesses and connect people, places, and devices.
Raj Sark
Founder of Connect-In Ltd
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About Connect-In Ltd: Connect is a Company Overview Innovatively Scottish technology-driven product development.
Vincenz Klemt
Co-Founder of Connect-In Ltd
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About Connect-In Ltd: Connect is a Company Overview Innovatively Scottish technology-driven product development.
Vincenz Klemt
Co-Founder of Connect-In Ltd
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About Connect-In Ltd: Connect is a Company Overview Innovatively Scottish technology-driven product development.
Anthony Harris
Co-Founder & VP Strategy of Escrow London / Escrow London North America
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About Escrow London / Escrow London North America: Market Leading Software Escrow and SaaS Escrow Services (AWS/Azure) with automated deposits directly from GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab.
David Heath
Founder & CEO of Cutitronics
David Heath is Founder & CEO of Cutitronics and is the very reason we are all here. He provides leadership, guidance and inspiration on a daily basis. David’s extensive academic career led him to qualify as a medical devices researcher with degrees in physics and engineering, working in a multidisciplinary clinical, commercial and engineering team. Throughout his PhD and post-doctoral research, he focussed on transdermal medical technology. But it was while presenting at a skincare conference that David had his “light bulb moment”, realising that the expertise he developed working on transdermal medical technology could be reapplied to solve some of the major challenges of the cosmetic skincare industry. And from here Cutitronics was born! David secured funding to develop technology for the cosmetic skincare industry and validate his innovation both technically and commercially. During this time, the company was spun out of the University of Strathclyde, receiving recognition from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Engineering and ERA Foundation for both his entrepreneurial approach and outstanding technology innovation. In 2015 David began to recruit the Cutitronics team, bringing together the experience and expertise essential to launching such disruptive technology into the skincare market.
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About Cutitronics: Cutitronics is skincare start-up
Alistair Tweedie
Co-Founder & Designer of ShoutAbout
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About ShoutAbout: A simple link shortener for YouTubers, Instagramers, Bloggers, Marketers, Sales & Superheroes
Chris Shennan
Co-Founder and Technical Lead of ShoutAbout
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About ShoutAbout: A simple link shortener for YouTubers, Instagramers, Bloggers, Marketers, Sales & Superheroes
Ijonas Kisselbach
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of EmergeAdapt
Ijonas is the current CTO and Co-Founder of EmergeAdapt, a startup business founded in 2012 with the sole intent to make customer service adaptive to changing environments – through the use of their case management platform – CaseBlocks. CaseBlocks is currently in closed beta with a handful of medium-sized businesses. Check out http://www.caseblocks.com or contact Ijonas if you’re interested to find out more. Ijonas is also involved in the Scottish tech community organizing the local chapter of Techmeetup.co.uk in Glasgow – a monthly meetup drawing a crowd of 70+ designers, coders and geek all-rounders. For info on events checkout http://www.techmeetup.co.uk, You’ll find him on most social networks under the name: ijonas. Specialties: product management, deployment & production planning, GUI design, interaction design, UX, learning new programming languages, enterprise content management systems, software product design, test driven development
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About EmergeAdapt: EmergeAdapt are the creators of CaseBlocks which enables users to create cloud based business solutions.
Greg Lavelle
Founder and Owner of Etellect Ltd
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About Etellect Ltd: Business Automation Specialists
Stewart McKee
Founder of HuddleAI
Software developer with a wide range of experience from software development, through to team leadership and CTO level. Innovative solutions to problems, drawing on all 17 years professional experience. Enjoys building a solid product, both in working in the code and managing the team. Good communicator and works well in a team, but has the ability to build a full stack application including infrastructure if required.
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About HuddleAI: Saas Conversational Agent for Data
