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 London based CEO’ operating in the Intelligent Systems space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Oliver Oram
Founder & CEO of Chainvine
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
John Robert Blamire
Chief Executive Officer of Falanx Group Ltd
John is a former officer in the British Army, having served in Northern Ireland, Iraq, Cyprus, Canada, USA and the Falkland Islands, gaining a wealth of operational experience. In 2001 he created a strategic-level intelligence unit within a high-risk area of Iraq, leading over 60 highly-qualified intelligence personnel. After leaving the Army he co-founded Praetorian Protection Ltd, a company providing specialist security services to clients in Africa. He holds a degree in Law and Business.
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About Falanx Group Ltd, Falanx Group Ltd: Falanx Group Ltd is a provider of various security and intelligence services to blue chip and government clients worldwide.
Priti Padhy
Co-founder & CEO at Cognino AI of Cognino AI
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About Cognino AI, ExtraaEdge: Cognino empowers Contextual decisions with Explainable AI. It transforms data at a cloud-scale into intelligence with speed and accuracy
Martina King
CEO of Featurespace
Martina is responsible for the strategic direction and corporate vision at Featurespace. She has served as CEO since October, 2012. Former Managing Director of augmented reality company Aurasma, Martina King has an extensive career in media technology. Her previous leadership roles include Managing Director of Capital Radio, where she doubled revenues as Sales Director and successfully defended the radio station’s number one position in London. Martina was also Managing Director for Europe at Yahoo!, where she rebuilt the UK and Ireland business after the ‘dot com’ collapse and subsequently led the rebuilding of Yahoo!’s European division. Martina is also non-executive director of Capita Group, Cineworld and Debenhams
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Bruce Beckloff
co-founder and CEO of Bloc Ventures
Bruce is the CEO and co-founder of Bloc Ventures, targeting investment in early life-cycle companies focused on the emerging Industrial Internet market. Before this Bruce was with ARM Holdings for 12 years serving as head of Corporate Development responsible for corporate strategy development, M&A, and investments. Bloc Ventures Recently, Bruce has been assisting the UK government as a venture capital Strategic Adviser helping the UK’s high growth early stage companies access financing from venture providers.He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor and a Masters in materials science and holds a Masters in Business administration from the Southern Methodist University.
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About Bloc Ventures: Bloc Ventures is an early-stage Deep Tech investment company. Pitch to Bloc here: https://blocventures.com/pitching/
Florian Thaler
Oil Strategist, CEO and Co-Founder at OilX of OilX
Florian is Oil Strategist, CEO and Co-Founder at OilX, a startup that is innovating oil trading analytics through deep empirical knowledge and state-of-the-art data science. Florian has >15 years’ oil experience at Shell, Citibank and Och-Ziff. He completed a doctorate at Vienna University of Economics and Business and a business administration degree at Bocconi University. Florian is one of 100 Future Energy Leaders of the World Energy Council.
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About OilX: OilX is a oil sector that provides a global real-time oil supply-demand balance.
Julian David
CEO of techUK
Julian David is the CEO of techUK. He was appointed as the director general of Intellect in March 2012 and led its transformation to techUK in November 2013. Julian leads techUK’s 60 strong team in representing more than 900 member companies, including multi-nationals and more than 500 SMEs to ensure that the digital tech industry is at the heart of a modern society and economy in Britain. He is also a trustee of the Tech Partnership which works to promote careers and skills development in the Digital Technology Industry.
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About techUK: techUK offers information technology services to small and medium businesses.
Jonathan Harris
Founder & CEO of Sub(x) technology
Founder & CEO at Sub(x) technology.
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About Sub(x) technology, Zeddit: Sub(x) offers AI-based Machine Learning for online customer acquisition.
Gabriel Jacobson
Co-founder & CEO of Valerann
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About Valerann: Valerann empowers road network operators and creates certainty through data – to save lives, reduce congestion and decrease emissions
Robin North
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Lead Technologist of Immense
Building tools to support fleets and mobility. Development, implementation, field test and evaluation of complex transport systems across multiple modes. Environmental monitoring and modelling methodologies for the appraisal of transport systems and projects. Identification and development of innovation opportunities for multiple stakeholders.
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About Immense: A global decision-support platform for new mobility
