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 Founder operating in the Communities 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.
Chirdeep Singh Chhabra
Founder of Ocean Protocol
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About Ocean Protocol: Ocean Protocol is a decentralized data exchange protocol that lets people share and monetize data while…
Michelle Kennedy
Co-Founder & CEO of Peanut
Michelle joined Badoo originally as lead counsel over 4 years ago. Prior to joining Badoo she was a successful corporate lawyer at leading international law firm, Mishcon de Reya, before being poached by the firm’s successful biotech client, Quotient Bioscience to head up their legal team. During her time at Badoo, she built the legal, compliance, HR and talent teams before moving into a more operationally focused role, including a position on the board. Today, Michelle is responsible for most key areas of the business, and works closely with founder and CEO Andrey Andreev, on the existing product, and exciting ‘special projects’ coming soon….
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About Peanut: Peanut is an online platform that provides a safe space for women to connect across fertility and motherhood.
Priyanka Gill
Founder & CEO of POPxo
Priyanka Gill is the Co-Founder and President of MyGlamm. She is also the Founder & CEO of POPxo, India’s largest community of women.
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About MyGlamm, POPxo: POPxo is India’s online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.
Tessa Clarke
Co-Founder of OLIO
My parents are farmers and so I know how much hard work goes into producing the food we all eat, and absolutely *hate* throwing it away! Fast forward to 2014, I was moving country and the removal men said I had to bin our food – I couldn’t do it and that was the light bulb moment when OLIO was born.
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About Hot Topics, OLIO, OLIO, Unreasonable, Virgin StartUp: OLIO is a global food sharing app connecting neighbors, volunteers, and businesses.
Saasha Celestial-One
Co-Founder & COO of OLIO
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About OLIO: OLIO is a global food sharing app connecting neighbors, volunteers, and businesses.
Natalia Vodianova
Founder, CEO of Naked Heart Foundation
Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova, nicknamed Supernova, is a Russian model, philanthropist and occasional film actress. She is well known for her rags to riches life story and for her eight-season, seven-figure contract with Calvin Klein.
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About Naked Heart Foundation: Naked Heart Foundation was founded by supermodel, Natalia Vodianova, with an aim to construct modern play parks in urban areas of Russia.
Till Behnke
Founder and Managing Partner of nebenan.de
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About nebenan.de: nebenan.de is a social network for neighbors.
Petter Neby
Founder and CEO of Punkt. Tronics
Petter Neby is a Norwegian technology entrepreneur. Mr. Neby launched his first business in Norway in 1989, at the age of seventeen, and in 1991 moved to Paris, to work for an international consumer electronics company. Innovation and creativity has led Mr. Neby to find and manage successful businesses in the telecommunications, enterprise software and website areas. Mr. Neby created Punkt. in 2008 to offer straightforward alternatives to multi-function devices that started to dominate the consumer electronic marketplace.
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About Punkt. Tronics: Punkt. is a Swiss design led technology company that aims to make life simpler by creating timeless and outstanding products
Rafe Offer
Founder and Executive Chair of Sofar Sounds
Rafe Offer has held senior marketing positions such as Global Marketing Director of Coca-Cola, Director of Global Marketing at The Walt Disney Company and Director of innovation for Diageo. Rafe is an internationally lauded specialist in teamwork, leadership and brand innovation. Now he’s focusing his energy on SofarSounds.com
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About Sofar Sounds, Sofar Sounds: Sofar Sounds is a global community hosting curated, secret performances in more than 400 cities around the world.
May Al-Karooni
Founder & CEO of Globechain
May Al-Karooni is the founder of Globechain – an award winning British reuse marketplace that connects corporates to charities and smes to redistribute free unwanted items, creating social impact data to its members. May previously worked within the investment banking and asset management industry, fundraising monies for venture capital, property and hedge funds for the last 10 years totaling over £120 million in funds raised. In 2013 May set up Globechain after seeing a demand for a new online circular economy within the waste management industry after her own employer expressed a need to reuse items in a more collaborative way. Globechain has gained huge momentum growing to 10,000 members with eBay as its mentors and securing contracts with some of the world’s largest brands as well as growing a large network of charities nationally and internationally. Globechain works within the retail, commercial and construction industry and last year diverted 5,100,000 kilos from landfill with items being re distributed within the UK as well as abroad as far as Sierra Leone, Guinea, Kenya, Libya and the Ukraine providing savings of over £1,500,000 to charitable causes.
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About Globechain: Globechain is a B2B reuse marketplace connecting businesses to charities, creating social impact data.
Ashley Friedlein
CEO & Founder of Guild
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About Ably Realtime, Cambridge Judge Business School, Centaur Media Plc, Econsultancy, Founders4Schools, Guild: Guild is the platform for professional communities and networking.
Elizabeth Varley
Founder & CEO of TechHub
Elizabeth is a serial entrepreneur and founded TechHub, the community for high-growth tech companies. TechHub has worked with thousands of companies to help them scale. TechHub member companies have been acquired by Google, Facebook, Twitter, Oracle and Microsoft among others, and have raised over $1billion in funding. TechHub also helps corporates like Google and BT access innovation culture and to work with startups to solve business challenges or develop new products. Previously Elizabeth ran an editorial and content agency, and built communities. She’s been selected for Computer Weekly’s UKtech50 top influencers, the Debrett’s 500, and Vogue UK’s Generation Tech among others. Elizabeth also sits on the board of the Digital City Exchange smart cities programme at Imperial College, the Open Data Institute’s Data Pitch technology innovation board, and the Silicon Valley Bank early-stage advisory board. @evarley @TechHub
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About TechHub: TechHub is the home of technology entrepreneurs and startup teams
Max Filippov
Founder of Airfair
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About Accel, Airfair: Airfair is an event platform that provides a virtual event toolkit that enables to engage an audience within an intuitive environment.
Anthony Gell
Founder & CEO of LeadersIn
Anthony Gell is the Author of The Book of Leadership (2014, Hachette Group) and the founder and CEO of LeadersIn, an online and offline community dedicated to sharing wisdom from world leaders in their field. Before launching LeadersIn, Anthony was the Regional CEO of global publishing and conference company. During his tenure there, he oversaw the turnaround of the New York office and had profit and loss responsibilities for all regional offices spanning out over South Africa, Singapore, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Dubai and China. For the series LeadersIn Business Anthony has interviewed some of the most famous business leaders in the world, and some of the coolest people on the planet. He is an avid public speaker and has been asked to interview business leaders at many leading institutions including London Business School and Imperial College, London.
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About LeadersIn: LeadersIn we interview these people and share their interviews with our global community.
Robin Souter
Founder / Transformation Director of Opogo
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About Opogo: Opogo is a community platform designed to help schools attract and retain the talent that’s right for them.
Global CEO & Co-Founder of Andiamo
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About Andiamo, UnLtd: Custom medical wearables platform
Greg Secker
Founder of Greg Secker Foundation
English entrepreneur and founder of: • The Greg Secker Foundation • FX Capital – a managed account forex investment service • Learn to Trade, the World’s largest trader training company with operations in England, South Africa, Australia and the Philippines. • Smart Charts – known to be one of the most effective Forex trading systems – identifying profitable opportunities and reducing risk for private self directed traders. • Capital Index – award winning STP Forex brokerage. • Global Success Summits – an international seminars events company – bringing the worlds most successful speakers to the platform.
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About Greg Secker Foundation: Charity committed to positively improving the quality of life of people around the world.
Alexander Badalyan
CFO and Co-Founder of Mashroom
Alexander Badalyan is the CFO and Co-Founder at Mashroom.
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About Mashroom: Mashroom is a proptech startup that provides end-to-end property letting services to landlords and tenants.
Stepan Dobrovolskiy
CEO and Co-Founder of Mashroom
Stepan Dobrovolskiy is the CEO and Co-Founder at Mashroom.
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About Mashroom: Mashroom is a proptech startup that provides end-to-end property letting services to landlords and tenants.
Andrew Skipwith
Founder and CEO of Rated People
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About Rated People: Rated People is an online recommendation service that connects homeowners with local, recommended tradespeople.
Chris Howard
Founder of The Rattle
Chris is a serial technology entrepreneur from MIT specialising in creating companies that blend deep tech with phsychology. Formerly an entrepreneur in residence for Techstars, UCL, and the Digital Catapult, Chris is currently the founding CEO of The Rattle – a tech enabled incubator for the music industry.
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About The Rattle, University College London (UCL): The Rattle is a venture studio and incubator for provocative artists, hackers, inventors, and startups.
Jon Eades
Director and Co-Founder of The Rattle
Jon heads up Abbey Road’s new technology and innovation department, Abbey Road Red, managing the music tech start-up incubation program and partnering with researchers to investigate emerging technologies for music.
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About Abbey Road Red, Abbey Road Studios, The Rattle: The Rattle is a venture studio and incubator for provocative artists, hackers, inventors, and startups.
Bobby Bloomfield
Founder of The Rattle
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About The Rattle: The Rattle is a venture studio and incubator for provocative artists, hackers, inventors, and startups.
Amin Hamzianpour
Co-Founder of The Qube
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About The Qube: Creatives, Music, Art, Film, Photography
James King
Co-Founder & CTO of Encore Technologies
An avid pianist and our CTO, James is rarely seen away from a keyboard of some kind.
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About Encore Technologies: Encore is an online network of musicians that enables them to access many performance opportunities in the music community around them.
Andy Hobsbawm
Co-Founder of Do The Green Thing
Andy established the first international Internet agency in 1994 which merged with pioneering digital services firm Agency.com in 1997 where he was European MD then Chairman until 2009. Andy co-founded the award-winning online community Do The Green Thing in 2007. He has been listed among the 100 top digital influencers by Wired UK and was recently named among the 20 inaugural inductees of the British Interactive Multimedia Association’s Digital Hall of Fame, alongside Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Jonathan Ive and Dr. Mike Lynch. He has been a weekly columnist about the new economy for the Financial Times, a member of GartnerG2’s first advisory board on online advertising and spoken at numerous conferences including TED. He has yet to receive any royalties from obscure pop songs released by a minor independent record label in Europe.
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About Bethnal Green Ventures, Do The Green Thing, EVRYTHNG: Do The Green Thing is a company that uses creativity to reach people about climate change.
Martin Lewis
Founder of MoneySavingExpert
Martin Lewis is the Founder of moneysavingexpert.com . He launched the site on 22 February 2003. He sold moneysavingexpert.com for 87 million pound. Lewis, a former Sunday Express and News of the World columnist who also writes for the Telegraph and doles out financial advice on several TV shows, is sharing the windfall around. The site’s 42 employees will all get a slice of the money and he has announced that he will donate £10m to charity. He is giving £1 million to Citizens’ Advice as a response to the “terrible funding cuts” it has suffered, and the rest will be distributed through the Charities Aid Foundation.
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About MoneySavingExpert, Moneysupermarket: MoneySavingExpert.com is dedicated to saving you money on anything & everything by finding the best deals and beating the system.
Michael Rose
Co-Founder of Tahora
Michael Rose is the Co-Founder at Tahora.
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About Tahora: Tahora is a workplace connectedness technology that transforms people’s favorite things into real-world connections.
Amit Pate
Founder & CEO of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
Jorge Armanet
CEO & Co Founder of HealthUnlocked
Technology and Media Entrepreneur In 2000 he founded Plataforma Publico, an open source media lab that promotes cultural creativity and ideas; in 2002 he founded the popular network and magazine Hecho en Chile – a Chilean ‘Big Issue’ and support network for low-income students; in 2007 he founded DO TANK, a technology lab building functional prototypes for the private sector to test and scale new web business models; and in 2009 he co-founded HealthUnlocked, the social health platform. He holds degrees in Engineering, Economics, Arts and Business from the Catholic University of Chile, Goldsmiths College, and Cambridge University. He held academic scholarships from the British Chevening, the Shell Centenary Fund, the Cambridge Overseas Trust and the Jesus College Foundation. Based in London, UK, he is now full time and permanently dedicated to HealthUnlocked.
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About HealthUnlocked: HealthUnlocked is a social network for health.
Gabriela Hersham
Founder & CEO of Huckletree
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About Huckletree: The brave home of innovation.
Andrew Lynch
Co-Founder & COO of Huckletree
Co-Founder & COO at Huckletree, a coworking community of creators, innovators, entrepreneurs and VC-backed startups.
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About Huckletree: The brave home of innovation.
Mike Thompson
Director and Co-Founder, London of Impact Hub
Mike is Director of Goodbrand and has been with them since it began. Mike is responsible for the stewardship of the Goodbrand community and its resources. He is also chairman of AddVenture, a Romanian social enterprise and another GoodBrand Idea and co-founder of Good Leaders Online (www.glo-china.com). Mike is currently based at the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai, from where he writes, travels and speaks on sustainable enterprise and responsible leadership. Mike’s passions are adventuring and the poetry and song of the Welsh landscape.
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About Impact Hub: Impact Hub provides a workspace that connects entrepreneurs for environmental and sustainability initiatives.
Wahida Samie
Founder of Studentbase
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About Studentbase: Creating the Global Student Network
Yiorgos Nikoletakis
CEO & Founder of 100mentors
Yiorgos enjoys surrounding himself with his role models: educators & entrepreneurs. After having worked in 4 US states, Spain, Greece & China, “arguing like I am right, listening like I am wrong” is his favorite motto.
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About 100mentors: We empower today’s youth to consciously take their once in a lifetime decisions & prepare them for the workplace of the future.
Kaan Akın
Founder, CEO of Hackquarters
Tech investor, startup mentor and founder of Hackquarters Startup Accelerator. He is involved with corporate accelerator programs.
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About Hackquarters: Hackquarters accelerated 150+ startups and helped 40+ corporates to innovate with startup collaboration
Emily Forbes
Founder and CEO of Seenit
Emily Forbes is the Founder and CEO of Seenit.
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About Seenit: Industry-leading video crowdsourcing solution
Wahab Ahmad
CEO and Founder of TimeAway
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About PenAndWeb, TimeAway: Enriching family holidays, tried and tested by like minded mums
Faye Woodcock
Co-Founder and Head of Product of TimeAway
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About TimeAway: Enriching family holidays, tried and tested by like minded mums
Jeanette Carlsson
Founder & CEO of Tech Nordic Advocates
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About newmedia2.0, Tech Nordic Advocates: Tech Nordic Advocates is Northern Europe’s largest and only pan-Nordic/Baltic tech/startup community.
Roddy Campbell
Founder of Vrumi
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About Vrumi: Vrumi frees microbusinesses, startups & independent outfits of all sorts from the burden of inflexible and costly conventional office rents.
William Sieghart
Founder of Vrumi
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About Vrumi: Vrumi frees microbusinesses, startups & independent outfits of all sorts from the burden of inflexible and costly conventional office rents.
Pip Jamieson
Founder & CEO of The Dots
Pip Jamieson is the Founder & CEO of The Dots (https://the-dots.com), a professional network for people that don’t wear suits to work -‘dubbed “The next LinkedIn?’ by Forbes. Delightfully Dyslexic with a distinctive marmite laugh (you either love it or you hate it) Pip was named by The Sunday Times as one of the Top 100 Disruptive Entrepreneurs innovating in their respective fields & as one of the trailblazing leaders having a positive impact on the world. Being a dyslexic sole female tech founder, Pip has put promoting social responsibility and helping business build diverse teams at the heart of everything they do! 68% + of The Dots community is female, 31% + BAME & 16% + LGBT+. The Dots also do a lot of work around socioeconomic diversity and neurodiversity to fuel a more balanced industry of the future.
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About The Dots: The professional network for people who don’t wear suits to work.
Germán Bencci
Founder & CEO of CodeYourFuture
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About CodeYourFuture: CodeYourFuture is a non-profit organisation supporting refugees with the dream of becoming developers.
Benji Vaughan
Founder / CEO of Disciple Media
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About Disciple Media: Disciple helps you host, engage and monetise your community on your terms. Create your own community app and gather your customers.
Mat Hunter
Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Plus X
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About Plus X: Plus X creates workspaces that unlock potential, business growth and innovation, community collaboration, and positive social impact.
Lu Li
Founder, CEO of Blooming Founders
Lu Li is the founder of Blooming Founders, a business incubation platform designed for early stage female entrepreneurs and diverse teams. Blooming Founders runs popular events and an award-winning co-working space in Shoreditch that give our members a competitive edge in building and growing their businesses. We offer fundraising support for selected startups. We also offer event and marketing services to corporates and government entities who want to leverage our diverse network. Lu has also published the book Dear Female Founder which contains 66 personal letters of advice written by female entrepreneurs from 20 countries. It is globally available on Amazon and Kindle. In her previous corporate career, Lu has launched FMCG products for Procter & Gamble across Western Europe and has worked on several consulting projects for McKinsey, BMW and T-Mobile.
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About Blooming Founders: Blooming Founders is a business incubation platform designed for early stage female entrepreneurs and diverse teams.
Gurnek Bains
Founder and CEO of Global Future
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About Global Future: Global Future educates, informs, and helps people understand the benefits of globalization.
Charles Michel
Co-Founder of Crossmodalism
Charles is a French/Colombian artist and chef. He conducts research on sensory and food aesthetics in Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. He has published over a dozen papers in scientific journals on the role of the senses perception, and multisensory experience design. At the intersection of science, art and entrepreneurship, Charles aims to inspire solutions for important challenges in the human/food relationship. He is currently part of the Crossmodalism movement in London.
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About Crossmodalism: Crossmodalism is an art, Science and Innovation platform exploring the limits of human creation.
Solitaire Townsend
Co-Founder & Chief Solutionist of Futerra
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About Futerra: To make sustainable development so desirable it becomes normal.
Rishi Sareen
Co-Founder & CEO of Startifi
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About Startifi: The social network for everything startup! A global platform for startups, entrepreneurs and investors!
Joslyn Ma
Co-Founder of World Law Forum
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About : An independent, non-partisan, international community of change-makers committed to transform the world through law.
Richard Millington
Founder & Managing Director of FeverBee
Richard Millington has spent the past decade helping 250+ companies develop some of the world’s largest online communities. Richard is the founder of FeverBee, an international community consultancy, and the author of Buzzing Communities. Richard’s clients have included Google, Facebook, Oracle, Wikipedia, EMC, Greenpeace, and many more. Prior to FeverBee, Richard interned with Seth Godin in New York.
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About FeverBee: FeverBee provides consultancy, training, and technology to help you build your community.
Simon Maylott
CEO & Co-Founder of Indie Media Labs
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About Indie Media Labs: SaaS digital publishing and distribution service for book publishers and direct to consumer whitelabel all-in-one publishing platform
Matt Bradbeer
COO & Co-Founder of Indie Media Labs
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About Indie Media Labs: SaaS digital publishing and distribution service for book publishers and direct to consumer whitelabel all-in-one publishing platform
Matt Bradbeer
COO & Co-Founder of Indie Media Labs
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About Indie Media Labs: SaaS digital publishing and distribution service for book publishers and direct to consumer whitelabel all-in-one publishing platform
Andy Heald
Co Founder of Gen Community
Andy has 12 years private wealth-management experience – FSA registered. In 2009 he set up Cornwall Renewables, Energy and Management (CREAM) installing and advising on wind and solar PV projects for private and commercial clients. Andy holds an MSc Energy, Environmental Technology & Economics (Merit) from City University, London, a Securities Diploma and a BA Hons Political Theory & Economics (1993). He teaches kite – surfing and organises a monthly beach clean on Fistral beach, Cornwall.
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About Gen Community: Gen Community invest in green ethical low carbon projects with positive social impact, and fair returns for investors.
Claude Borna
Founder and Chief Evangelist of TUIM – The Universe Is Mine
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About TUIM – The Universe Is Mine: We’re a thriving global community matchmaking creative and tech talent to build the future of fashion.
Daniel Ospina
Co-Founder and CEO of Conductal
Daniel is an Organization Designer. Through his company, Conductal, Daniel uses Social System Design to create incentives and processes that spark creativity and enable business agility at scale in startups and established organisations. Beyond Conductal, Daniel is a visiting lecturer on System Design at Oxford University, a Co-founder of Crossmodalism, an Associate Fellow of London University, and a Fellow of the RSA.
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About Conductal: Conductal help smaller organizations to scale and larger ones to manage communities and innovate.
Bridget Greenwood
Founder of The Bigger Pie
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About The Bigger Pie: The Bigger Pie supports women in blockchain and emerging technology.
Raphael Mazet
Co-Founder of Alice SI
Multilingual public relations and public affairs consultant specialised in running international corporate communication campaigns. Expertise includes media relations, government relations, M&A communications and digital communications. Currently based in Brazil, advising on corporate communications in Latin America. Specialties:Corporate communications, public relations, public affairs, financial communications, M&A, digital communications
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About Alice SI, CliqStart: Alice SI is using the approach to provide donors
Alice Weightman
Founder & CEO of The Work Crowd
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About The Work Crowd: The Work Crowd is changing the way talented people choose to work and how work finds talented people!
Meir Moalem
Founder and CEO of Sky and Space Global
Meir has a B.Sc. in Physics and Computer Sciences (with honours) and an M.A. from the Diplomacy and National Security executive program (with honours). Currently he is working on his PhD in national security and space programs in Tel Aviv University, Israel. Meir has also received the Israel National Defence award in 2009.
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About MultiModis, Sky and Space Global: Sky and Space Global provides affordable voice, data and instant messaging services to Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime.
Luca Comunian
CMO and Co-Founder of PeopleTrip
Equity Derivatives Marketer @ BNP Paribas – MSc Graduate @Bocconi University
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About PeopleTrip: Peopletrip helps travellers simplify their lives, by accessing a targeted community
Jesse Hopps
Founder & CEO of Demand Metric
Jesse worked for 5 years at IT analyst firm Info-Tech Research Group before founding Demand Metric. His primary responsibilities are building the team and partner ecosystem. When not working on the business Jesse likes to spend time with his family in Canada & Colombia.
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About Demand Metric: Agile project management software built for Marketers powered by 1,000+ practical tools & resources.
Dan Ebanks
Co-Founder and CEO of Firesouls
Dan Ebanks is a cofounder and CEO and leads on concept design, business development and investment
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About Firesouls: Firesouls is online exchange that brings together government suppliers and local civic projects to create social value.
Anne Jenkin
Founder & Co-Chairwoman of Women2Win
Baroness Jenkin became a peer in 2011 is recognition of her charity work. She is the chairwoman of both the Conservative Friends of International Development and the Sustainable Resource APPG. She is founder and co-chairwoman of Women2Win, an organisation which aims to encourage more women to become Conservative MPs. Baroness Jenkin has worked for the Prince’s Trust in the past and represents the Albert Hall on certain matters. As a member of the Lords, she has asked questions recently on AIDS and HIV, Millennium Development Goals, and development both related to health and poverty. In May 2011, she took part in the ‘Live below the line’ campaign, living on £1 per day for a week. She was elected to the Board of Trustees in February 2013.
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About Women2Win: Women2Win is an organization that works to bring equality to parliament by mentoring conservative women for a variety of public offices.
Maria Baibakova
Founder & Director of Baibakov Art Projects
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About Baibakov Art Projects: Baibakov Art Projects is a contemporary art organization with a mission of supporting Russian artists globally.
Louise Campbell
Founder of Foodnation
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About Craft Nation, Foodnation: Discover your food community
Thierry Clarke
Founder & CEO of InvestorConnected
Thierry Clarke is the founder and CEO of InvestorConnected. He is also the lead consultant of EBRD. He earned his degree at Queen Mary University of London.
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About InvestorConnected: InvestorConnected is an online community where entrepreneurs and investors combine their resources to build successful businesses together.
Russ Shaw
Founder of Tech London Advocates
Russ Shaw is the founder of Tech London Advocates and Global Tech Advocates. He originally founded Tech London Advocates in 2013 to give the private sector in tech an independent voice. Since then he has been championing London as a global tech hub and campaigning to address some of the biggest challenges facing tech companies in the UK – diversity, digital skills, immigration, infrastructure and access to funding. Key achievements for Tech London Advocates (TLA) include successfully campaigning for the introduction of a Chief Digital Officer for London and placing digital jobs on the Shortage Occupation List for the first time. Russ is a founding partner of London Tech Week, a London Tech Ambassador for the Mayor of London and Advisory Board member for Founders4Schools and the Government’s Digital Skills Partnership. He is a Trustee for Modern Muse Charity, which supports young women and girls who want to study STEM subjects. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the success of London’s tech ecosystem and has been invited to tech hubs around the world to share his experience. In 2016, Russ created Global Tech Advocates, which now licenses the TLA operating model to countries around the world, including Scandinavia, Belfast, the Bay Area, the North of England, Singapore, Shanghai, Spain and Bogotá. Russ was previously the Chairman of The Marketing Group of Great Britain following senior positions at Skype, Telefónica, O2 and CEO of a later stage startup called Mobileway. In his role as Marketing Director for O2, Russ brokered the relationship with The O2, the most successful indoor venue in the world. He is an angel and venture investor and has been non-executive director of a number of high growth businesses, including Dialog Semiconductor and Unwire. He has a BS from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Tech London Advocates: Supporting technology start-ups in finding new investment, new talent and achieving high growth.
Kathrin Burckhardt
Co-Founder of Cat in a Flat
Kathrin is a Co-founder of the Award Winning start-up CatinaFlat.com, UK’s fastest growing Cat Sitter Community that connects cat owners with insured, cat-loving sitters in their neighbourhood.
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About Cat in a Flat: Cat in a Flat The best way to find trusted cat sitters in your area.
Julie Barnes
Co-Founder of Cat in a Flat
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About Cat in a Flat: Cat in a Flat The best way to find trusted cat sitters in your area.
Katie Massie-Taylor
Founder of Mush
Katie Massie-Taylor is the Founder of Mush.
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About Mush: Mush is an online social platform that enables mothers to meet other mothers with kids the same age.
Jamie Reece
Founder and CEO of Booking Spaces
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About Booking Spaces: Booking Spaces Disruptive venue booking platform, connecting those looking for spaces with the spaces available for hire.
Glynis Murray
Co-Founder of Good Hemp Food
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About Good Hemp Food: Good Hemp Food Provide Natural hemp seed,milk,oil.
Aldo de Pape
Founder of TeachPitch
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About TeachPitch: TeachPitch provides tools and resources to allow educators to share different aspects of teaching and learning.
Peter Dickinson
Founder of Animo APP
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About Animo APP: Amino has authentic mobile communities for whatever you’re into.
Hana Sutch
Co-Founder and Chief Walker & Talker of Go Jauntly
Hana has over 15 years experience in the digital product design business, previously operations director at at an award-winning design studio and now co-owner at Furthermore, a digital product and service design studio. Hana is at the front line of the business and in the past has led key projects for the likes of Google, Xbox and Nike, some of the world’s most innovative and disruptive brands. She is a strong believer in the power of tech for good. Her little jaunts are mostly with her husband and four year old explorer and as long as they are by the sea or have incredible views, they always finish their walks knackered but happy.
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About Go Jauntly: Go Jauntly is a health and wellness company working to increase walking, mobility and outdoor adventures.
Steve Johnson
Co-Founder and Chief Explorer of Go Jauntly
With 15 years experience under his belt, working both agency and client-side, Steve is our resident UX visionary. Formerly Head of Design and Product Management at Global Radio and founder at Furthermore, he is firm believer in iterative design, prototyping and user research at every juncture. Steve focuses on service design, user experience, user research and tech innovation day to day whilst simultaneously tending to his large collection of Rhododendrons. His walks are normally made up of nice views, rough terrain, places to go with kids, hills, lakes and lots of wildlife with the family in tow.
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About Go Jauntly: Go Jauntly is a health and wellness company working to increase walking, mobility and outdoor adventures.
Chris Green
Co-Founder of Young Foodies
Chris Green is the co-founder at Young Foodies.
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About Young Foodies: Young Foodies provides a community and specialist services for the most exciting food and drink challenger brands
Thomas Cleverdon
Co-Founder of Plantribe.io
Entrepreneur and founder of over a dozen companies in both Tech, Entertainment and Automotive sectors. A galvanized optimist, inspiring team player with a can-do attitude and unrelenting perseverance – Enjoying life & making it count! Recent projects include a portfolio of 14 high profit e-commerce ventures across 8 major international markets. Stoked to be gearing up for the launch of an MVP peer-to-peer marketplace project.
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About Plantribe.io: Plantribe.io is the online community for houseplans. Launching 2017
Ergys Peka
Founder / Director of 6 Degrees Network
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About : A hybrid networking company, for ordinary individuals to meet extraordinary people within their field of practice.
Claire Beegan
Co-Founder of Pondera.me
Claire Beegan was Co-Founder at Pondera.me.
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About Pondera.me: Pondera.me is based in Saint Albans, New South Wales, Australia.
Charlene Laidley
Founder and Chairwoman of FutureProof Foundation
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About FutureProof Foundation: FutureProof Foundation is an award-winning not-for-profit volunteer-led organisation connecting young women and girls in schools.
Emma Watkins
Founder & Yoga Teacher of Agora London
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About Agora London: AGORA is a Founders’ Club focused on driving start up growth through the power of the right connection and also on the key determinants.
Jez Murrell
CEO & Founder of FRNZY
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About FRNZY: FRNZY is an online, community-led marketplace that makes group buying a more social, relevant and rewarding experience for everyone.
Jez Murrell
CEO & Founder of FRNZY
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About FRNZY: FRNZY is an online, community-led marketplace that makes group buying a more social, relevant and rewarding experience for everyone.
Servane Mouazan
Founder, CEO of Ogunte CIC
Servane has worked for 16 years as a conscious innovation entrepreneur. She founded Ogunte C.I.C, a certified B-Corp that helps create “a better world, powered by women”. Ogunte has supported over 5000 women changemakers and developed the first incubator for women social entrepreneurs in the UK. Servane is running the Womanity Award, an initiative by the Womanity Foundation, one of the TOP 500 NGO’s. The award is investing in Tech for Good organisations that develop and replicate ICT programmes to prevent violence against women.
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About Ogunte CIC: Ogunte connects and develops women social entrepreneurs to amplify their impact and change the course of the world.
Seb Lyall
CEO / Founder of Locappy
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About Locappy: Locappy helps small local businesses reach out to their local community.
Ivan Genchev
Director/Founder of Enjoy Minded
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About Enjoy Minded: Enjoy your favourite activities with like-minded people
Ivan Genchev
Director/Founder of Enjoy Minded
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About Enjoy Minded: Enjoy your favourite activities with like-minded people
Hugh Whittingstall
Founder of River Cottage
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a multi-award-winning writer and broadcaster known for his uncompromising commitment to seasonal, ethically produced food and his concern for the environment. He has earned a huge following through his River Cottage TV series and books, as well as campaigns such as Hugh’s Fish Fight, Hugh’s War on Waste and his latest, Britain’s Fat Fight. Hugh’s early smallholding experiences were shown in the Channel 4 River Cottage series and led to the publication of The River Cottage Cookbook (2001), which won the Glenfiddich Trophy and the André Simon Food Book of the Year award. Thirteen more books have followed, including the acclaimed River Cottage Meat Book and the immensely popular River Cottage Veg Everyday. Hugh’s latest book is River Cottage Much More Veg.
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About River Cottage: River Cottage has given millions of TV viewers a taste for great cooking since 1998.
Hugh Whittingstall
Founder of River Cottage
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a multi-award-winning writer and broadcaster known for his uncompromising commitment to seasonal, ethically produced food and his concern for the environment. He has earned a huge following through his River Cottage TV series and books, as well as campaigns such as Hugh’s Fish Fight, Hugh’s War on Waste and his latest, Britain’s Fat Fight. Hugh’s early smallholding experiences were shown in the Channel 4 River Cottage series and led to the publication of The River Cottage Cookbook (2001), which won the Glenfiddich Trophy and the André Simon Food Book of the Year award. Thirteen more books have followed, including the acclaimed River Cottage Meat Book and the immensely popular River Cottage Veg Everyday. Hugh’s latest book is River Cottage Much More Veg.
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About River Cottage: River Cottage has given millions of TV viewers a taste for great cooking since 1998.
Suzie Neuwirth
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Peer2Peer Finance News
Suzie Neuwirth founded Peer2Peer Finance News in 2016, having seen a gap in the market for good quality, focused coverage of such an innovative and fast-growing sector. She is an experienced journalist who has edited the business sections of two national newspapers and worked at London freesheet City AM. She has been interviewed on various broadcasting outlets including Sky News and Share Radio. Earlier in her career, she worked for a number of trade magazines and edited a Middle East-focused insurance publication for two years.
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About Peer2Peer Finance News: Peer2Peer Finance News is the first online & print monthly magazine dedicated purely to the UK’s fast-growing peer-to-peer finance industry.
Charlie Lines
Events Director and Founder of The Ecommerce Club
Charlie Lines is the director and founder at Mixing Digital and The Ecommerce Club. She used to work as a freelance Marketing & Sales manager for CleanTech magazine. Charlie is a graduate of Thomas Bennett Community College & Crawley College of Technology.
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About The Ecommerce Club: The Ecommerce Club is a member-led group dedicated to encouraging and supporting retailers in developing e-commerce expertise.
Charlie Lines
Events Director and Founder of The Ecommerce Club
Charlie Lines is the director and founder at Mixing Digital and The Ecommerce Club. She used to work as a freelance Marketing & Sales manager for CleanTech magazine. Charlie is a graduate of Thomas Bennett Community College & Crawley College of Technology.
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About The Ecommerce Club: The Ecommerce Club is a member-led group dedicated to encouraging and supporting retailers in developing e-commerce expertise.
Pete James
Co-Founder of Ruumi
Co-Founder of Ruumi.
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About Ruumi: Share your home with great people in London.
Pete James
Co-Founder of Ruumi
Co-Founder of Ruumi.
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About Ruumi: Share your home with great people in London.
Sally Durcan
Founder of Talk to Mums
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About Hotcow, Talk to Mums: Talk to Mums is a community of mums that trial, share and talk about brands and products.
