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 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.
Crawford Taylor
Co-Founder & CEO of Nude
Crawford is the CEO of Nude, a savings account and financial friend for first-time home buyers. He was previously a senior owning partner at Hymans Robertson LLP, one of the largest independent pension consultants in the UK. After spending decades helping older people save for retirement, he is now helping the younger generation buy their first home. He wants to make the home buying experience easier, faster and fairer for young people across the UK. He started Nude to change an outdated, complex and unfair home buying experience that has ultimately resulted in Generation Rent and a growing financial gap between home owners and renters. Nude is the first to guide home buyers all the way, from saving their first £5 through to paying off their mortgage. His ultimate vision is to help people tick off every major financial milestone – there’s children’s accounts, retirements savings and plenty more to fix. Whatever the goal, the focus is always to make it easier, faster and fairer for people to save for it.
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About Nude: The new way to save for and purchase your first home.
Marty Bell
Co-Founder of Nude
Co-founder of pre-launch fintech startup Nude and sunglasses brand Tens, with a background in building and growing exciting brands for millennial audiences. Tens launched in 2014, picking up 10,000 customers in the first 8 weeks, before receiving significant investment from Sir Richard Branson in 2016 to accelerate growth of the international audience. Tens’ in-house marketing campaigns have been featured by press worldwide. Marty is also founder of Poolside FM; a super-summer internet radio station with 350,000+ annual listeners. Featured by TechCrunch, Harpers Bazaar, The Next Web, VICE and (for some reason) tweeted by multiple tech billionaires.
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About Nude: The new way to save for and purchase your first home.
Stephen Doherty
Co-Founder & COO of Nude
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About Nude: The new way to save for and purchase your first home.
Ronnie Somerville
Founder of 5pm.co.uk
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About 5pm.co.uk, simpleERB: 5pm.co.uk is an online lifestyle site that provides free booking for restaurants, health and beauty spas, and daily 5pm Big Deals.
Louis Schena
Co-Founder & CEO of Swipii
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About Swipii: Customer loyalty, card-linking, automated marketing, open banking, digital, SMB, local businesses
Christopher Kalika
Founder of Digital Receipts
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About Digital Receipts: A simple, safe and secure place to store your receipts.
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
