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 Software 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.
Indiana Gregg
Founder /CEO of Wedo
Indiana Gregg born in Terre Haute, Indiana[1] is a singer-songwriter and tech entrepreneur living in Lenzie near Glasgow, Scotland.[2][3] Her music contains elements of pop, soul and folk. Releases include featured artist on Kool & the Gang’s “The Hits Reloaded” where she performed their hit titled “Tonight” and a 2007 debut release of her album “Woman At Work” with singles “Sweet Things”, “Love Is Blind” and “One of Us” released from the album in April, June and October 2007 respectively. Indiana was also founder and director of Kerchoonz.com, a social networking platform and artist aggregation and marketplace that was launched in 2008 and bought-out in 2010. The model for which changed the face of the music industry today In 2005 two of her songs, “Sweet Things” and “For Life”, made it to the top finalists in the Pop category (56 finalists out of the 4000 songs entered) of The UK Songwriting Contest. These two songs were later also released on her 2007 album titled Woman at Work.[12] In 2005, Indiana also did a supporting tour with Wet Wet Wet. Five additional songs by Gregg made the semi-finalist category in the same year: “Something like me”, “Crazy”, “How Many Tears”, “Love is Blind”, and “Oh Me Oh My” all of which were also included on her debut album “Woman At Work”. In 2005, the demo album “Something like me” had a limited release on the independent label Onestone Music.[13] Later that year, Onestone Music did a deal with Scottish label Gr8pop Ltd. In 2006, Gr8pop ltd. did a deal with Ingenious VCT with a view to release Gregg’s debut album in 2007. Career as an Executive Indiana was also founder and director of Kerchoonz.com, a social networking platform and artist aggregation and marketplace that was launched in 2008 and bought-out in 2010. The model for which changed the face of the music industry today. Other roles: Global managing director of Cosmetic Laboratory of Europe. CMO of Digitzs a Fintech company in the payments space. [16] She is a keynote speaker MIDEM on digital marketing and effective content delivery. Tippit Festival on the topic of Socially Conscious Creativity and Entrepreneurship.[16] Indiana has served executive and non-exec roles and has founded several companies including Kerchoonz, GRUV, Gr8pop, Digital-Unicorns and Eventous. Tours and “Home Concerts” Indiana received media attention in early summer of 2007 surrounding her “home concert” competitions where fans entered from all over the world to win a chance at having her play in their home for their friends. The competitions were covered in articles appearing in the Evening Times, Daily Record, Daily Mirror and various regional newspapers in the UK. Videos of her home gigs were posted to YouTube, Myspace, MSN and various other websites with a message about the free competition details. Winners for the series were announced on Myspace and subsequently, UKgigs TV began filming the new series in May 2007. Subsequently, videos of the home gigs were streamed on the front pages of Bebo and over the UK gigs and theatre networks. The Home concerts first appeared in the press when the Express wrote about a surprise concert she performed for a fan’s fiancée home in 2005 after he saw her live in Exeter supporting Wet Wet Wet. Indiana Gregg announced home concerts in the fall of 2005 which took place primarily in October. In December 2005, she embarked on Starbucks coffee house tour in every major UK city playing intimate acoustic sets in the coffee houses throughout 2006 whilst recording her debut album in the same year.[17] In February and March 2007, she played a UK support[1] tour with Lemar. Indiana, 35[18] married Ian Morrow, 50[18] during a 22-date[1] arena and theatre tour with Lemar on March 22, 2007, in Gretna Green’s Famous Blacksmith’s following her concert at the SECC in Glasgow. Immediately following the Lemar tour, in April 2007 she began a third “House Gigs” tour which led to UKgigs.tv taking interest in filming the home concerts. The first filmed home concert took place in her own Glasgow home on May 21. On May 23, she played a concert in Finchley North London for the Ovarian Cancer Support group. On May 25, she played a home concert for young fashion designer Hannah Marshall in Colchester. Subsequent gigs were scheduled and filmed across the UK in Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester, Glasgow, and Edinburgh the week beginning June 10. Scotland’s Daily Record featured the Indiana Gregg Home gigs on June 12 along with a contest for Father’s Day where contestants could win a home concert for their father by texting or phoning The Daily Record in Scotland. On Wednesday, June 13, The Daily Mirror ran a feature on the front page of the “Your Life” section about Indiana Gregg’s house gigs featuring a home concert she did in Clare O’Hagan’s front room in support of Ovarian Cancer.[19] The general awareness at this early stage of her career led to performances in festivals in the UK in summer 2007.[20][21] Legal threats against The Pirate Bay On July 22, 2008, Indiana Gregg, instigated a series of e-mails with ThePirateBay.org concerning a perceived copyright violation. Indiana then wrote a lengthy article on the subject of respecting artists’ copyrights internationally.[22] Discography Sweet Things (March 26, 2007, Gr8pop) (Single) Woman at Work (April 2, 2007, Gr8pop) (Album) One of Us (October 8, 2007, Gr8pop) (Single) Sweet Things (November 6, 2007, Gr8pop/Playground Scandinavia) Woman at Work (November 12, 2007, Gr8pop/Playground Scandinavia) Tonight Kool & The Gang(August 2004)[23]
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About Wedo: The world’s first live streaming social platform & neobank for people to monetize their skills!
Corentin Guillo
Founder & CEO of Bird.i
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About Bird.i: Bird.i provides access to the latest, up to date satellite imagery, helping you obtain valuable insights & make better business decisions.
Cameron Graham
Co-Founder & CEO of Storii
Cameron Graham is a Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at StoriiCare.
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About Entrepreneurial Scotland, Storii, University of Strathclyde: Software for Senior Care
Arturas Sikorskis
Co-Founder of Storii
Arturas Sikorskis is a Co-Founder at StoriiCare.
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About Storii: Software for Senior Care
Vitalij Kornijenko
Co-Founder & Software Engineer of Storii
Vitalij Kornijenko is a Co-Founder and Software Engineer at StoriiCare.
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About Storii: Software for Senior Care
Wendy McDougall
CEO and Founder of Firefish Software
Wendy McDougall is the CEO and founder of Firefish Software. Prior to that, Wendy served as a regional director at TEAM (The Employment Agents Movement). She was the founder and managing director at 9-20 Recruitment.
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About Firefish Software: Firefish Software is a recruitment and marketing SaaS platform that helps recruiters reach, engage, and recruit top candidates.
Peter Docherty
Founder & CTO of ThinkAnalytics
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About ThinkAnalytics: ThinkAnalytics provides and deploys real-time personalized content recommendation search engines to the markets.
Adam Gordon
CEO & Co-Founder of Candidate.ID
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About Candidate.ID, Social Media Search: Candidate.ID is a marketing automation software specifically developed for recruitment.
Eduardo Estelles
CEO & Founder of Logic Energy ltd.
Technology entrepreneur and techno junkie. Specialised in custom software for the renewable energy sector, in particular for Utilities: DSM, data aggregation, IoT, remote data collection, data analysis and custom back and front ends.
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About Logic Energy ltd.: Keyturn software solutions for new energy technologies and Utilities
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.
Murray McNicol
Founder/CEO of spoonfed
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About spoonfed: Spoonfed is a software-as-a-service catering software
Neil Stewart
Founder & CTO of Metaforic
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About Metaforic: Metaforic provides security software with a built-in framework that resists attacks from malware, bots, hackers and other attempts.
Linda Howell
Director & Co-Founder of iMetaFilm
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About iMetaFilm: iMetaFilm will create a new industry sector which will digitise the world’s film heritage.
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