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 Leicester 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.
Stefan Richter
Founder of muchosmedia
Stefan is the founder and managing director of muchosmedia ltd (founded in early 2008), a UK based software company which specialises in real-time enabled web applications, with Scribblar.com being one of the examples. Over the past few years Stefan has established himself as a sought after industry expert and consultant for Flex and Flash Media Server, and his personal blog FlashComGuru.com is one of the largest resources covering Flash Video and related technologies on the web. Stefan is the co-author of ‘Hands-on Guide to Flash Video’ published by Elsevier in 2007 and he continues to speak at many industry events including Adobe MAX and Streaming Media Europe.
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About Membermeister, muchosmedia: Muchosmedia develops software solutions, focusing on video integration and real-time collaboration through websites.
Craig Foster
Co-Founder and Senior Consultant of Valour Consultancy
Craig Foster is the co-founder of Valour Consultancy, a leading provider of market intelligence and consultancy to the aviation community. He has extensive experience covering a wide variety of technology markets including the Internet of Things, M2M, smart home, smart grid, home energy management, maritime VSAT and in-flight entertainment and connectivity. Foster has been an industry analyst for seven years and is based in Leicester in the United Kingdom. Prior to establishing Valour Consultancy, he was a principal analyst at ABI Research and a market analyst at IMS Research. At ABI, he launched a new research area devoted to the home automation market, before focusing his efforts on expanding the research portfolio of the company’s M2M service. At IMS, Foster’s research focused on the power transmission and low voltage products markets, after which he moved on to take responsibility for the company’s then-nascent aerospace research group. Foster also engages in some freelance analytical work and has completed projects for the likes of Datamonitor, Gigaom Research, Futuresource Consulting, Navigant Research and Tractica. Foster is a regular participant in panel discussions and webinars and has been widely quoted in trade journals, magazines, and other forms of online and print media, most notably Forbes and The Sunday Times. He holds a BA in economics from the University of Leicester.
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About Valour Consultancy: Valour Consultancy is a UK-based provider of market intelligence services founded in 2012.
Aaron Gabriel
Founder & Market Analyst of Cryptonvest
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About Cryptonvest: Cryptonvest An online platform for Buying, Selling, Investing and Storing cryptocurrencies.
Surya Bathulapalli
Founder of Cryptonvest
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About Cryptonvest: Cryptonvest An online platform for Buying, Selling, Investing and Storing cryptocurrencies.
Penny Pullan
Founder & Director of Making Projects Work
Dr Penny Pullan works with people in organisations who are grappling with tricky projects: uncertain, with ambiguous requirements, disinterested stakeholders and often teams dispersed around the country or the world. An experienced Business Analyst and Facilitator, Penny hosts the virtual BA Summit (www.basummit.com) in November each year, interacting with more than one thousand BAs all over the world. She is a Director of Making Projects Work Ltd. whose clients range from Rolls-Royce to Save the Children, the UK Government to Price Waterhouse Coopers and ESI. Penny holds a range of qualifications, including Certified Professional Facilitator. Penny’s book, ‘A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management’, was published by Gower in 2011 and co-authored with Ruth Murray-Webster. Penny’s previous roles include facilitating business change at Mars Inc, together with business analysis and project management roles in several other multinationals.
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About Making Projects Work: Making Projects Work is a company to support workshops through workshop design and raising project team performance.
