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 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.
Guillaume Pousaz
Founder & CEO of Checkout.com
Guillaume Pousaz is CEO and founder of Checkout.com, a leading digital payments solution company. Guillaume believes that financial complexity is a barrier to innovation which is blocking global economic prosperity. Having witnessed the growth of the internet since he was young, he founded Checkout.com in 2012 with a mission to build the banking that businesses deserve. Over the last decade, he has worked with some of the world’s most innovative companies to provide them with solutions to complex payment problems. Checkout.com is now one of the largest fintechs globally with 13 offices and a team of 750+ people. Originally hailing from Switzerland, he has since lived all over the world as he drove Checkout.com’s ambitious international expansion.
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About Checkout.com: Checkout.com is a global payments solution provider on a mission to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy
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Alexander Edward Chesterman
Founder & CEO of Cazoo
Alex Chesterman is the founder and CEO of Cazoo. He was the Founder & CEO of ZPG Plc, a FTSE-250 listed company. Previously Alex co-founded Lovefilm, Europe’s leading digital movie rental business, which was successfully sold to Amazon. Alex is also one of the UK’s most active tech angel investors having backed dozens of early stage digital startups and was awarded an OBE for services to services to digital entrepreneurship in 2016.
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About Cazoo, Zoopla Property Group Plc (ZPG): Cazoo is an online used car marketplace designed to transform the way people buy, finance, or rent used cars.
Andrew Pearce
Co-Founder & CEO of thortful
Co-Founder and CEO at thortful.
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About thortful: thortful is an online greeting card marketplace.
Vladimir Kholiaznikov
Founder of Jiffy Grocery
Vladimir Kholiaznikov is the co-founder of Jiffy Grocery.
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About Jiffy Grocery: Jiffy is an online supermarket with an on-demand delivery service that offers fresh produce, meals, and household essentials.
Stefan Hobl
CFO & Co-Founder of Butter.co.uk
Stefan Hobl joined Butter.co.uk as CFO & Co-Founder in 2017.
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About Butter.co.uk: Butter lets you spread the cost of shopping from any online store with a simple monthly instalment plan. Download the app now!
Anton Soulier
Founder & CEO of Taster
Anton Soulier is the Founder of Taster. He is a former Business Development, Business Operations Manager, Regional Manager, and Deputy General Manager France at Deliveroo. Mr. Soulier received a master’s degree in Finance at NEOMA Business School.
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About Taster: Taster is a food delivery company that operates dozens of restaurants that only exist on food delivery platforms.
Brian Harrison
CEO & Co-Founder of Swoon Editions
Brian Harrison is CEO and Co-Founder of Swoon Editions. Brian was formerly a senior executive at kgb inc, and served as Global CEO of kgb deals and CEO of The Number UK LTD (118 118). Previously he was the executive responsible for digital strategy at Telegraph Media Group, which is where he first worked with co-founder Debbie Williamson.
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About Swoon Editions, Telegraph Media Group: Swoon Editions is a design-led furniture brand.
Debbie Williamson
Co-Founder of Swoon Editions
Debbie Williamson joined Swoon as Co-founder in 2011.
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About MercerBell, Swoon Editions, Telegraph Media Group, Telegraph Media Group, Virgin Media: Swoon Editions is a design-led furniture brand.
Michael Raven
Founder of Blazon Agency
Michael Raven is Founder & Managing Director of Blazon Agency. Michael has had Two Startup exits, and has ran 70 Agency Campaigns across Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and direct launches, actively participating in the raising of over $115M+ for his extensive list of clients.
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About Blazon Agency: The Brand Launch Agency
Bilal Al-Qureshi
Co-Founder and COO of Krowd
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About Krowd: Krowd to help people sift through the millions of products and services online.
Omar Rafii
Co-Founder and CEO of Krowd
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About Krowd: Krowd to help people sift through the millions of products and services online.
Jason Torres
Co-Founder & CTO of Slerp
Jason Torres is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Slerp.
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About Slerp: Slerp is an e-commerce platform for the hospitality industry.
Aron Gelbard
Co-Founder and CEO of Bloom & Wild
Aron Gelbard is the Co-founder & CEO of Bloom & Wild, the venture-backed online and mobile flower gifting service he launched in 2013. Bloom & Wild is using technology to re-imagine flowers. Bloom & Wild makes it possible to order flowers in under a minute, and through-the-letterbox delivery means that receiving their flowers is as easy as receiving a letter. Their bouquets are trend-led, being the first florist to create a constantly changing range at scale as ‘fast fashion for flowers’. Bloom & Wild’s iPhone app, Android app and overall service are consistently 5-star rated, meaning that they are already the UK’s top rated online florist with a 75% Net Promoter Score. They grew by several 100% in both 2015 and 2016 and are now delivering tens of thousands of bouquets every month. Prior to Bloom & Wild, Aron worked as a management consultant, advising technology, retail and consumer products companies at Bain & Company, having previously worked at Google and OC&C. Aron has an MA in Modern Languages from Jesus College, Oxford, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Bloom & Wild: Bloom & Wild is an online flower delivery platform developing a modern approach for sending flowers to loved ones.
Kirill Chliaifchtein
Founder & CEO of SwiftGift
Founder & CEO at SwiftGift
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About SwiftGift: SwiftGift is the world’s first Instant Gift Messenger App which allows you to send real gifts to anyone in your phone’s contact book.
Galahad Clark
Founder & Managing Director of Vivobarefoot
Galahad Clark is the Founder and Managing Director of Vivobarefoot.
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About Terra Plana, Vivobarefoot: UK-based shoe brand and Crowdcube alum
Furquan Kidwai
Founder & CEO of Dawaai
Furquan Kidwai is an entrepreneur building a pharmacy for emerging Asia. Prior to this journey, Kidwai was an investment banker for over eight years in London where, in his last role, he was the Head of CEEMEA Financing as well as a Senior Vice President in the Fixed Income business at the Royal Bank of Scotland. Before joining RBS, Mr. Kidwai worked at Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers in their London and New York offices. Mr. Kidwai has a Master’s degree in International Relations from Cambridge University. He also holds an MSc in Financial Engineering & Risk Management from Imperial College London and BEng (Hons) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Bristol.
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About Dawaai: Dawaai operates as a digital health platform with an online network of pharmacies and generic medicine.
Angus Elphinstone
CEO and Founder of AnyVan
Worked in transport and removal sector for the last 8 years launching White Van Gentlemen in 2006, a personable yet professional removal and storage company based in central London. Starting with 1 vehicle and one employee from inception growing to 10 vehicles and 300 containers by 2013. Leaving the daily management of the company in 2009, I started AnyVan.com in order to change the dynamics of the transport industry with the growing necessity for an online marketplace allowing the consumer to dictate the market value. Launched in Q4 2009, AnyVan’s sole aim was to create a product that is synonymous with ‘everything’ moving. AnyVan is a reverse auction process saving the consumer money and CO2 emissions while at the same time increasing revenues for the transport providers by utilising empty capacity. With a user-base of currently over 1,200,000, AnyVan is making inroads into disrupting the industry by means of a more competitive price point, efficiency, ease of use and giving the user the ability to compare suppliers by way of customer reviews.
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About AnyStorage Ltd., AnyVan: AnyVan moves anything anywhere in the UK and Europe
Riya Grover
Co-Founder and CEO of Feedr
Riya Grover is the founder and CEO of Feedr, a scalable technology platform empowering healthy and artisan food vendors to produce and supply meals for the workplace.
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About Feedr: Feedr is an enterprise food technology platform that gives corporate customers software to support healthier daily eating in workplaces
Elizabeth Swanton
Co-Founder and COO of Feedr
Elizabeth Swanton is the founder and COO of Feedr, a scalable technology platform empowering healthy and artisan food vendors to produce and supply meals for the workplace.
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About Feedr: Feedr is an enterprise food technology platform that gives corporate customers software to support healthier daily eating in workplaces
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.
Mandeep Singh
Co-Founder of Trouva
Mandeep was previously an investor at BC Partners, one of Europe’s largest Private Equity funds, who owned a number of technology and retail businesses, such as Intelsat, Foxtons (where Mandeep was on the board), Phones4U and Petsmart. Prior to that Mandeep was a retail strategy consultant at OC&C and advised Arcadia/TopShop and DFS amongst others, which was where he first saw the impact that online was having on offline retail. During this time Mandeep was seconded to Asda Wal-Mart, helped launch their first small stores. Although he’d say Trouva was his first “start-up”, Mandeep set up his first business, a web development agency, from his bedroom when he was 15. Mandeep studied Physics at Cambridge University and has been interviewed about the future of retail by media such as BBC One (BBC Breakfast News) and The Sunday Times. In his spare time Mandeep is a judge for the Techpreneurs Entrepreneur of the Year awards and an Ambassador for Bright Mentors, which encourages entrepreneurs to mentor secondary school children.
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About Trouva: Trouva, the online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world
Alex Loizou
Co-Founder, CEO of Trouva
Alex co-founded StreetHub after graduating from the 2012 Cohort of Entrepreneur First. He is an experienced iOS, Javascript and PHP developer, and studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Cologne.
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About Trouva: Trouva, the online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world
Glen Walker
Co-Founder & Director of Trouva
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About Trouva: Trouva, the online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world
Sophie Hill
Founder & CEO of Threads Styling
Sophie started her career in buying & merchandising roles at HQs of some of the leading fashion retail brands. This exposure to retail inspired her to found Threads in 2010. Threads uses unique technology to create a new world of retail. With social media & content, instant messaging & strong brand partnerships Threads is the leader in what they define as luxury chat commerce. Sophie is now dedicated with her team to continue to lead in this space and pioneer the next generation of retail. Education from Leeds & Harvard university.
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About Threads Styling: Threads Styling is a fashion technology company.
Lloyd Amsdon
Co-Founder of Watchfinder
Lloyd Amsdon is the Founder and Brand Director of Watchfinder.
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About Watchfinder: Watchfinder is the world’s leading retailer of pre-owned watches
Nick Jenkins
Founder of Moonpig.com
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About Moonpig.com: Moonpig is a website where people can design their own greeting cards to send to others.
Alex Buttle
Co-Founder, Marketing Director of Motorway
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About Motorway: Motorway is an online used-car marketplace for professional car dealers that sells their cars using their smartphones.
Harry Jones
Co-Founder & CPO of Motorway
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About Motorway: Motorway is an online used-car marketplace for professional car dealers that sells their cars using their smartphones.
Tom Leathes
Co-Founder & CEO of Motorway
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About Motorway: Motorway is an online used-car marketplace for professional car dealers that sells their cars using their smartphones.
José Neves
Founder, Co-Chairman & CEO of Farfetch
In 2008 José Neves launched Farfetch, bringing together his interests in fashion and technology, as well as his experience in design, wholesale and retail, to create a business that would celebrate and support the diversity of the global fashion industry. The seasoned entrepreneur had experienced first-hand the challenges facing bricks-and-mortar retailers wanting to expand online. His vision was to create a single portal, offering independent boutiques the opportunity to compete with the leaders of fashion e-commerce. Farfetch now comprises more than 300 boutiques, offering over 100,000 pieces from 1,000 brands. With customers in almost 190 countries, the site receives an average of 10 million monthly hits. José has been involved in the fashion start-up world since the mid-1990s when he launched footwear business SWEAR. José later founded SIX London, a fashion licensing and wholesale company selling to 600 retailers worldwide. In 2001 José opened the renowned bstore, which won the British Fashion Award for Retailer of the Year in 2006. José has received numerous accolades as an entrepreneur and for his business ventures, including The Business of Fashion’s 500 People Shaping the Fashion Industry in 2013, Ernst & Young’s 2013 Entrepreneur of the Year and Vogue’s DirectorsOf.COM Top Entrepreneur in 2011.
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About Farfetch, Farfetch China, PlatformE, SIX London: Farfetch is an online luxury fashion retail platform.
Alan Vaksman
Founder and Managing Partner of Digital Horizon
Alan is the Managing Partner and co-founder of VC and Venture Builder, Digital Horizon. He is also Director at a number of fintech startups including YesGrowth, SteadyPay and ANNA Money UK.
Alan has over 20 years’ experience in the financial sector, having held senior roles at international banks and leading consulting companies in South Africa and Europe including PWC, KPMG, Goldman Sachs and First National Bank. He has lived and worked in numerous countries around the world, and this experience has made Alan a passionate advocate for immigrant-led businesses.
Alan is also a successful startup co-founder. Since founding Digital Horizon, Alan has built and exited Factorin, a blockchain trade finance platform digitizing processes across buyers, sellers, and banks and Aximetria, a Swiss crypto financial services provider. His experience also includes investing in Monday (IPO), Lemonade (IPO), Market Kurly, Carta, Relativity Space and others.
Alan has an economics and psychology bachelor’s degree, a postgraduate law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and an MBA degree from NYU Stern School of business (USA), LSE (UK), HSE (France) under TRIUM eMBA program.
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About Digital Horizon: Digital Horizon is a next generation venture capital firm headquartered in London.
Digital Horizon has substituted the traditional approach to venture capital investment for its ‘new age’ methodology, which accelerates return on investment at every stage, minimizes risk and maximizes profitability. Digital Horizon supports and empowers passionate founders, especially migratory and diverse talents, who are creating enduring and meaningful start-ups.
Digital Horizon manages two multistage funds, a growth fund and a venture builder, and predominantly focuses on the fintech and enterprise software sectors. Its funds have invested in a portfolio of successful start-ups including Klarna, Lemonade, Monday.com, Ably, and Bolt.
Digital Horizon was founded in 2018 by Alan Vaksman, a venture capitalist and banker with over 20 years of experience in UK, Europe, and Africa. It now employs almost 100 specialists with expertise in VC, IT and product development.
Shahar Tamari
Co-Founder & COO of Global-e
Highly motivated businessman with more than 20 years experience in financial institutions, eCommerce and Payments. Specializing in online and ecommerce payment processing of credit cards and alternative payment options, ePayments operations and Payments platforms management. Business development of digital delivery channels, E-Banking, Mobile Banking, online and off line payments systems, Specialties: online Banking, Credit cards, Debit cards, payments, e Payments, Card acquiring, alternative payment options, e Wallets, e Banking, Mobile Banking, e Business, business development, risk management, eCommerce, conversion, optimization.
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About Global-e: Global-e is cross-border e-commerce enablement platform that enables brands and retailers to deliver purchase experiences to customers.
Nir Debbi
Co-Founder and CMO of Global-e
Co-founder, CRO Nir has vast experience in strategic planning and business development, working for over 10 years in managerial positions in the high-tech and financial sectors. Before co-founding Global-e, Nir served as SVP and Head of Strategy and Business Development at Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest bank, following a term as Head of Retail Strategy. He holds an MBA and a B.Sc. in Economics, both from the Tel-Aviv University.
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About Global-e: Global-e is cross-border e-commerce enablement platform that enables brands and retailers to deliver purchase experiences to customers.
George Graham
CEO & Co-Founder of Wolf & Badger
CEO & Co-Founder of Wolf & Badger.
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About Raw Press Juice, Wolf & Badger, Wolf & Badger: Wolf & Badger is a multi-channel retail platform for the finest independent, ethical and unique brands from around the globe.
Henry Graham
Creative Director & Co-Founder of Wolf & Badger
Henry Graham is Creative Director & Co-Founder @ Wolf & Badger.
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About Wolf & Badger: Wolf & Badger is a multi-channel retail platform for the finest independent, ethical and unique brands from around the globe.
Sebastjan Trepca
CPO, CoFounder of Lyst
Sebastjan is currently a cofounder and CTO of Lyst, a social curation platform for online fashion. Prior to founding Lyst, he was VP of Engineering at Noovo, a content sharing and discovery startup. He was also Technical Lead at Social Expeditions, founded the Python Community of Slovenia and studied Computer Science at the University of Ljubljana.
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About Lyst: Lyst is a global fashion search platform that allows users to browse through thousands of online fashion stores.
Chris Morton
Co-Founder & CEO of Lyst
Chris Morton is the CEO and cofounder of Lyst (www.lyst.com), a social curation platform for online fashion. Prior to founding Lyst, Chris was an investor at Balderton Capital and Benchmark Capital, focussing on consumer internet; specifically ecommerce, music and games. Chris was also Business Development Manager of the Energy and Materials division at QinetiQ, one of Europe’s leading technology R&D organisations. Chris earned his M.A. in Natural Sciences (Physics and Philosophy) from Cambridge University, 2003, and he is a DERA Scholar.
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About Lyst: Lyst is a global fashion search platform that allows users to browse through thousands of online fashion stores.
Bertie Hubbard
Co-Founder and CEO of MyTutor
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About MyTutor: MyTutor offers affordable 1-to-1 tutorials online by connecting tutors from the UK’s best unis with pupils at home and in schools
James Grant
Co-Founder & Managing Director of MyTutor
James is a driven, passionate and ambitious entrepreneur, with experience in sales, leadership, strategy, product, digital marketing and fundraising. He started a fledgling events business at 15, which grew to a team of 30, catering for over 1,200 weekly guests. After completing a Philosophy degree at University of Birmingham, James worked for Barclays Wealth, in the Chief of Staff Team, within the Office of the Chief Executive, helping to set the Division’s strategic agenda and taking responsibility for the implementation of sponsored projects. James is a co-founder of MyTutor, creating a new world of one-to-one tuition. The team are unwaveringly focused on their mission to give every student access to 1-1 support. The platform provides live, online one-to-one lessons, delivered by bright, inspiring undergraduates studying at the UK’s leading universities – their secondary aim is to become the leading provider of work to these students. MyTutor uses AI-driven matching algorithms to ensure perfect student-tutor matches and every lesson is taught in an interactive online learning space, which facilitates live video and audio chat, document editing, file sharing and lesson recording. The company’s proudest achievement has been helping 92% of their pupils in 2016 hit or exceed their grade targets. James enjoys public speaking and has presented at a number of education and business events. His other interests include sport (football, rugby, athletics), music (blues & hip hop), travelling, reading and all things startup. He has won a number of awards over the past few years, including Unltd’s ‘Do it’, Mercia’s ‘The Pitch’, O2 ‘Think Bigger’ and Santander’s ‘Spark’.
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About MyTutor: MyTutor offers affordable 1-to-1 tutorials online by connecting tutors from the UK’s best unis with pupils at home and in schools
Robert Grabiner
Founder and Executive Director of MyTutor
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About MyTutor: MyTutor offers affordable 1-to-1 tutorials online by connecting tutors from the UK’s best unis with pupils at home and in schools
Steven Novick
CEO & Founder of Farmstand
Previously built 2 billion-dollar businesses and climbed the 7 Summits including Everest. Beating cancer made him passionate about health + the environment and growing up working class has made him appreciate affordability + convenience.
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About Farmstand: Farmstand is the Earth’s first meal delivery service focused on the Future of Work. We feed your team in the office and at home.
Taymoor Atighetchi
Founder & CEO of Papier
Taymoor Atighetchi is a Founder & Managing Director at The Tab.
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About Papier: Papier offers customizable stationery such as wedding cards, notebooks, planners, and notecards.
Vikram Simha
Co-Founder and CTO of Pouch
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About Global Savings Group, Pouch: Pouch is a technology company that develops tools to save online shoppers time, money and hassle.
Jonny Plein
Co-Founder and CFO of Pouch
Jonny was a member of the University of Nottingham Enactus team for 3 years. During his time within the Enactus team, he ran run an international project in Cambodia, presented at two national competitions and help lead the team as vice-president. Jonny started Enactus Nottingham’s commercial ventures arm by running a student concert called UNIAID. This concert was his first hand experience at trying anything entrepreneurial himself. After University he joined EY on their grad scheme and completed his ACA. Whilst at EY Jonnys’ now co-founder came to him with the idea for Pouch, a free online tool (a browser extension) that automatically sources all the best available voucher codes and automatically displays them as you are shopping online, so you never need to search for a voucher code again. In January 2017 he left EY to work on Pouch full time. In only a few months Jonny and his co-founder managed to achieve quite a lot. They raised funds, won the Mass Challenge start up accelerator and have been featured in publications such as Forbes and The Telegraph.
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About Global Savings Group, Pouch: Pouch is a technology company that develops tools to save online shoppers time, money and hassle.
Adam Levene
Founder of HERO
Adam Levene is the Founder of HERO®.
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About HERO: HERO is a Virtual Shopping Platform for eCommerce.
Jan Farrarons
Founder & Director of Judopay
Jan Farrarons is the founder of Dojo, Capital On Tap, and Judopay.
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About Capital on Tap, Dojo, Judopay: Judopay is a mobile-first payments platform.
Nick Robertson
Founder & CEO of ASOS
Nick Robertson is a Founder & CEO At ASOS.
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About ASOS, ASOS Ventures: Asos is an online platform engaged in the retail of fashion and beauty products for men and women.
Chris Gibbons
CEO & Founder of Laced
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About Laced: Laced is a marketplace for the buying and selling of authentic sneakers, connecting thousands of buyers and sellers worldwide.
Patrick Wall
Founder & CEO of Metapack
Patrick incorporated MetaPack in November 1999. He is responsible for strategic direction and team leadership. His career includes operations director and general manager for ICS, a national carrier delivering over 100 million items a year and a director of the specialist courier network, Hays DX. He has also worked with retailers as a strategy consultant with McKinsey Inc and as a supplier with Cadbury Schweppes plc. Patrick has over 30 years experience in distribution operations, consulting, sales and marketing.
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About Metapack: Metapack provides delivery management solutions that enable online retailers to increase user engagement and sales conversions.
Timo Boldt
Founder and CEO of Gousto
Timo is the co-founder and CEO of Gousto, which he started in 2012 as an easier way for families to cook and share good food together.A few years – and a LOT of recipe boxes – later, and it’s pretty clear that he was onto something… Timo’s interests include gender equality, sustainability, technology and food (of course!).
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About Gousto: Gousto is an online meal-kit manufacturer and retailer, using AI and automation to provide extensive choice and personalisation.
Ali Barmada
Co-Founder of Brokers Digital
Ali Barmada is a Co-Founder at Brokers Digital. Ali brings more than 10 years of financial and strategical experience to the company.
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About Brokers Digital: Helping You Buy & Sell Online Businesses
Sam Browne
CEO & Co-Founder of Let’s Do This
Sam Browne mainly work on hiring and developing relationships with distributors. If you’re a Javascript engineer I will definitely buy you dinner! I love races in the wild from ultras to adventure races and I used to be a race director at an expedition race series.
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About Let’s Do This: Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet.
Peter Irikovsky
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder of Exponea (acquired by Bloomreach)
Peter Irikovsky is the CEO of Exponea, the leading customer data and experience platform (CDXP). Prior to heading up the Exponea team, Peter demonstrated his passion for entrepreneurialism as the CEO of Slevomat Group, where he helped grow revenue to €100m in fewer than four years. His past experience also includes LRJ Capital, McKinsey, and Groupon. Peter is a frequent speaker (Davos, Forbes, StartupGrind, US Embassy, EU commission), and serves as the head of the supervisory board at Duke of Edinburgh International Award in Slovakia, board member of National Monuments Foundation, and committee member at Millennium Calendar Prize. He is a Singularity University graduate and holds a degree in Computer Science.
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About Exponea (acquired by Bloomreach), Infinario: Customer Data and Experience Platform (CDXP) with marketing automation capabilities
Ben Phillips
CTO & Co-Founder of Thread
Ben is the co-founder of Thread.com and runs the development team there. Founded last year, Thread brings personal styling to everyone, and it’s free. Before Thread, Ben co-founded Playfire and scaled the site to over 1.5 million users. Ben also enjoys product and graphic design but leaves these things to the experts most of the time.
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About Thread: Thread operates as an online personal styling platform designed to help men find clothes.
Kieran O’Neill
CEO & Co-Founder of Thread
Kieran O’Neill is the CEO and co-founder of Thread.
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About Playfire, Thread: Thread operates as an online personal styling platform designed to help men find clothes.
Mariam Jimoh
Founder & CEO of Oja
Building the next solution transforming access to cultural groceries and world foods! Mariam Jimoh is Founder and CEO of Oja. Recently honoured in the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 Technology list, her mission is to unlock game-changing value in underrepresented groups through technology and community. Whilst studying an undergraduate degree she founded WCAN, a marketplace & network for the professional development of black women in the UK. Mariam’s work has trained and mentored thousands of black women and fast-tracked them to prestigious firms from Blackrock, Clifford Chance, and Goldman Sachs. In 2014, she was selected by McKinsey & Company as a Next Generation Women Leader. Since graduating from UCL, Mariam has gained experience as an M&A investment banker at Rothschild & Co. Combining her strategic insight with her business acumen, she founded Oja, the app transforming access to cultural groceries for households across the UK. She is building the UK’s first venture-backed digital supermarket for cultural communities.
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About Oja: Oja is an online supermarket for cultural groceries and world foods. Our mission is to revolutionise access to cultural and ethnic produce.
Kelu Liu
Founder & CEO of HungryPanda
Kelu Liu is the Founder & CEO at HungryPanda.
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About HungryPanda: HungryPanda is a Chinese food and grocery delivery company with extensive market coverage.
Cherry Freeman
Founder of LoveCrafts
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About LoveCrafts: LoveCrafts is a start-up that builds social marketplaces for the crafts sector.
Edward Griffith
Founder and CEO of LoveCrafts
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About LoveCrafts: LoveCrafts is a start-up that builds social marketplaces for the crafts sector.
Nigel Whiteoak
Founder of LoveCrafts
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About Broadmargins, LoveCrafts: LoveCrafts is a start-up that builds social marketplaces for the crafts sector.
Jean-Christophe Chopin
Founder and CEO of BORN
A creator and innovator by nature, JC is an entrepreneur who has had a strong presence in online financial services, digital insurance and stock brokerage. He has a wealth of international experience with expertise in the US as well as vast European digital and brand management knowledge. JC pioneered E*Trade Europe and Verisign in the early days of the Internet, and later went on to invest in real estate, time pieces and luxury fashion. His passion for skiing and extreme sports also led him to launch the ‘Carre Neige’ ski insurance within the Savoie region. Most recently, he has married his online finance expertise with his experience in design and luxury brands to create BORN, a B2B global market-network that connects design-led brands with retailers.
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About BORN: BORN is the world’s first private B2B platform that connects a global network of design-led lifestyle brands and retail buyers.
Aneeqa Khan
Founder & CEO of eporta
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About eporta: Europe’s leading B2B commerce platform for the furnishings industry.
Rohan Dhir
Founder & CEO of Archibald London
CEO of Archibald Optics.
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About Archibald London: Luxury Eyewear sold exclusively online at disruptive prices. Designed in London and handcrafted in Japan.
Hasna Kourda
Co-Founder & CEO of Save Your Wardrobe
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About Save Your Wardrobe: FashionTech startup using AI to make Fashion more digital and sustainable
Mehdi Doghri
Co-Founder & CTO of Save Your Wardrobe
Entrepreneur, Investor, Advisor. Interested in the Fintech, Fashion Tech, Retail Tech and consumer mobile apps.
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About Save Your Wardrobe: FashionTech startup using AI to make Fashion more digital and sustainable
Spyro Korsanos
Founder & Managing Partner of Fuse Venture Partners
An award-winning corporate advisor, investor and dealmaker, Spyro Korsanos is the founder and Managing Partner of Global Venture Partners. Global Venture Partners invests in the consumer internet sector and provides strategic advice and corporate finance for technology ventures. Since 2014, Spyro has led over 40 e-commerce transactions, valued at $2bn, which have created more than €1bn in capital gain. As a global development advisor, Spyro has been instrumental in the impressive growth of Delivery Hero, foodpanda and various Rocket Internet-backed businesses. Global Venture Partners has recently invested in Kurly, the Korean online grocer, and pet tech platform Felcana, based in the UK. Spyro was awarded TMT Rising Star in 2017. Previously, he held corporate strategy and investment roles with Sky, Liberty Global and Cable & Wireless. Spyro started his career as a corporate lawyer at Gilbert & Tobin and holds an MBA from INSEAD.
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About Fuse Venture Partners: FUSE VENTURE PARTNERS Investors in, and advisors to, investors and ventures in the high-growth internet space
Richard Moross
Founder, President & CEO of MOO.COM
Richard is the founder and CEO of moo.com, one of the world’s fastest-growing print businesses. Launched in late 2006, MOO is focussed on disrupting the trillion dollar print industry, with its unique approach to design, technology and operations. This has allowed it to sustain industry-leading NPS, gross margin and top-line growth for a business of its size. To date, MOO has served millions of customers in nearly 200 countries and employs over 400 people across 6 locations in the UK and USA. Before founding MOO, Richard worked for the design company Imagination, other past companies also include sorted.com and the BBC. Richard served on the board of Seedcamp and was a non-Executive Director of Ladbrokes PLC between 2012 and 2016. In October 2016 Richard joined N Brown PLC as a Non-Executive Director. Richard has been featured in the ‘Wired 100’ and ‘Media Guardian 100’ lists, was named amongst the Telegraph Newspaper’s ‘1,000 Most Powerful People in British Business’, and was ranked in the Guardian Newspaper’s top 10 most influential people in digital media. Richard is also an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and the Young Presidents Organisation.
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About MOO.COM: MOO.COM is an online print and design company.
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
Graham Cooke
Founder & CEO of Qubit
Graham has always been tuned into interesting technology and cut his teeth whilst creating a new on-demand TV technology in his pre-Google days. A budding entrepreneur from the age of 13 when he opened a coffee shop at school after buying an espresso machine, he started his first company when he was 15. Graham joined Google in 2005 and lead the global strategy around how to optimize conversion rate effectiveness. He decided to leave with 3 colleagues (Dan, Emre and Ian) to set up QuBit in order to tackle the emerging data revolution.
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
Daniel Price
Co-Founder of My 1st Years
Daniel Price is a Co-Founder at My 1st Years.
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About My 1st Years: My 1st Years offers personalised gifts for babies and children.
Amir Ofer
Founder & President of mySupermarket
Amir Ofer is Founder & President at mySupermarket.
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About mySupermarket: mySupermarket designs a supermarket shopping and comparison website that helps users to compare prices across different stores.
Raam Thakrar
Founder of TouchNote
Raam is a co-founder of Touchnote, an m-commerce start-up selling personalised greeting cards on both the web and mobile. Previous varied experience in consulting – strategy consulting in London, rural and small businesses in London, Washington DC and Central America. I was also a published journalist in Mexico. Next stop, pizza chef.
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About TouchNote: TouchNote helps you send thoughtful cards and prints to loved ones, right from your mobile, tablet or desktop.
Jenny Griffiths
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Snap Vision
Jenny Griffiths is an award-winning technology entrepreneur and Computer Vision engineer. She founded her company Snap Vision in 2011, which was the first in the world to offer visual search for fashion retailers and publishers across both mobile and web. Being so early in the journey of the development and commercialisation of today’s AI market, Jenny is a thought-leader not only in AI and computer vision, but also in how to innovate and how to drive markets into adopting new innovations. Her work has led to her winning a number of awards, from the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver medal for personal contributions to UK engineering, to being awarded an MBE for Services to Innovation at the age of just 27. This year she was named as one of Forbes Magazine’s Top 50 Women in Tech in the world.
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About Snap Vision, University of Bristol: Snap Vision specializes in the fields of AI computer games and machine learning.
Karl Knoflach
Chairman, Co-Founder, Head of Marketing and Product of C88 Financial Technologies
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About C88 Financial Technologies: C88 connects banks and insurers in Asia to consumers buying financial products online.
Theofilos Vasileiadis
CEO/Founder/Lead Investor of Socital
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About Socital: Socital is a SaaS platform specialized in personalization and lead generation for ecommerce.
Christer Holloman
Co-Founder & CEO of Divido
Christer Holloman is the CEO and co-founder of Divido (http://www.divido.com), a platform for retailers, lenders and payment providers that want to offer customers to pay anything in monthly instalments. Divido works with 500+ partners such as BMW, BNP and Mastercard. Prior to launching Divido, Christer set up Glassdoor.com in EMEA, now a billion-dollar Google-backed startup. Holloman holds an MBA from the University of Oxford.
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About Divido: Divido is a global white label consumer lending platform for financial institutions and multinational retailers.
Anders Hallsten
Co-Founder & CTO of Divido
Anders Hallsten is CTO and Co-Founder at Divido. Hallsten spent the last 10 years building e-commerce platforms for brands such as Hush Puppies and Fossil Watches.
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About Divido: Divido is a global white label consumer lending platform for financial institutions and multinational retailers.
Charles Walton
CEO/Founder of Kybotech
Charles is a British entrepreneur living near Nottingham, England. He is the CEO/Founder of Kybotech (founded ’00). Previously he worked at E C Walton & Co (acquired ‘05). He is an Investor in growth companies. He is a Mentor for tech startups.
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About BillyOh, Garden Buildings Direct, Kybotech, RedShed, WhatProtein: Kybotech designs and makes BillyOh outdoor buildings, the largest brand of its kind in the UK.
Will Wynne
Managing Director, Co-Founder & Chief Executive of Arena Online Ltd
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About Arena Online Ltd, Smart Pension: Flowers & gifts, London, UK & Europe
Richard H Harris
Group CEO, Founder of Ensygnia
Richard is known as a hands-on, technology entrepreneur with a track record of building and transforming early-stage technology companies such as Ensygnia, Swivel Secure, Mobix, SAVortex, Clearswift and Tumbleweed. As Chief Executive and a founder of Ensygnia, Richard conceptualised and patented a visual alternative to NFC called Onescan. Ensygnia’s Onescan platform enables a consumer to go from looking to buying in under 10s from first contact – including new customers! At the Mobile World Congress over 1500 industry leaders voted Onescan as one of top 3 the innovations most likely to have the greatest impact on the mobile industry over the next ten years! Ensygnia beat tough competition from AirWatch, CloudX, Metrical and SpatialBuzz to win the Mobile Industry Awards 2014: Best Use of Software. In his spare time, he enjoys Ceroc & Scuba, is a campaigner for the rights of vulnerable adults and mental health issues when possible working with Zacchaeus 2000 Trust and Mental Health Research UK as well as mentoring Nicholas Fearn a young man with Asperger’s. Also enjoys mucking around with molten glass, composing music, painting and digital art.
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About Ensygnia: Ensygnia delivers integration Platform as a Service for large payment companies and corporations deploying omnichannel solutions
Ben Patten
Founder & CEO of Good Club
Founded a number of businesses. Main skills are articulating a vision, finding the necessary resources and creating the foundations for growth. Recently studied the product management process to understand how to improve the success rate of creating a digital product. Worked closely with a number of different funding sources. Creating a business that brings sustainability to a mainstream audience. Loves swimming outdoors
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About Good Club: Good Club is a Zero Waste supermarket that offers different brands and sells groceries in reusable packaging.
Danny Blackman
Co-Founder & CPO of Good Club
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About Good Club: Good Club is a Zero Waste supermarket that offers different brands and sells groceries in reusable packaging.
Matthew Luczynski
Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Office of Travala.com
Matthew Luczynski is a Tech & Marketing Entrepreneur, Strategic & Innovative Thinker, and the Founder of Travala.com. Book 2,200,000 hotels and homes worldwide with savings of up to 40%. Pay with 30 cryptos and credit card. Best price guaranteed and 24/7 Support. Matthew has worked on a number of start-ups within the travel space, with a focus on Fintech & Blockchain technology.
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About Travala.com: Travala.com, the world’s leading cryptocurrency-friendly hotel booking service with the best prices on 2 Million+ properties, worldwide.
Natalie Massenet
Founder & Chairman of Net-a-porter.com
Natalie Massenet is cofounder and co-managing partner of Imaginary Ventures, a venture fund investing in early-stage opportunities at the intersection of retail and technology, as well as the non-executive co-chairwoman of Farfetch, a global e-commerce platform for luxury fashion. Massenet is best known for founding the luxury fashion online retailer Net-A-Porter, in 2000. In the year before she stepped down from her role following its merger with YOOX, the Net-A-Porter-Group recorded net revenues of almost $1 billion. Massenet began her career as a journalist and fashion editor, working at WWD and Tatler before setting up Net-A-Porter. In 2009, she was awarded an MBE, and in 2016 she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, both in recognition of her contributions to the U.K. fashion and retail industry. Massenet was chairman of the British Fashion Council between 2013 and 2017.
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About Daily Harvest, Imaginary Ventures, Net-a-porter.com: Net-a-porter.com is an online luxury fashion retailer.
Zack Sabban
Co-Founder and CEO of Festicket
While he was a student and later a banker in NYC and London, Zacharie traveled the world to fulfill his passion for live music. He attended countless festivals and concerts around the world where he realized the need for better access to information. His creativity, social network, and his amazing experience of music festivals are a competitive advantage for the growth of Festicket. Zacharie supervises all the operations and development of the company.
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About Festicket: Festicket is a marketplace to discover and book music festival tickets, accommodation, transfers and extras.
Al Gerrie
Co-Founder & CEO of ZigZag Global
Al Gerrie is Co-Founder & CEO at ZigZag Global.
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About We Are Pentagon, ZigZag Global: ZigZag Global is a software platform that helps retailers manage their returns globally.
Domantas Bakutis
Co-Founder & CEO of Multiorders
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About Cvsite.io, Multiorders: Saas, E-commerce, Order Management, Inventory Management, Shipping Management
Eshita Kabra
Founder of By Rotation
Founder By Rotation – UK’s fashion rental app • Worked at various large buy and sell side firms as an investment analyst • Singaporean Indian living in London
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About By Rotation: The World’s First Social Fashion Rental App.
Dan Wagner
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Rezolve
Dan Wagner began his career as a junior Account Executive at the advertising agency WCRS. While doing market research, that involved laborious searching of back copies of newspapers, journals, and research reports Dan first generated the concept of an electronic, PC-based information service. In 1985 at the age of 20, he left WCRS to pursue his ambition of creating such a service and established M.A.I.D. Dan was the driving force behind M.A.I.D.’s growth and development, including listings on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Throughout his career he has engineered numerous acquisitions and has been responsible for forging a wide array of strategic alliances. He led M.A.I.D.’s move into the Internet technology and eCommerce markets, being one of the first to understand their huge potential, and conceived the technology which is now Venda, in 1998. He has won a variety of business awards that recognize his achievements including The World Economic Forum’s Global Leader of Tomorrow in 1997 and Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 1999.
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About Bright Station Ltd., Bright Station Ventures, Rezolve, Venda: Rezolve allows any kind of product or media to instantly trigger a highly relevant, contextual engagement between consumer and retailer
Blake Reddy
Founder and CEO of easyGuide
As a Sir Stelios Scholar, Blake graduated from Cass Business School in 2012 with a Masters in Banking and International Finance. Blake spent the next 6-years building an investment management firm in London before taking on a new venture with Sir Stelios with the objective of creating an end-to-end customer journey across the tourism industry.
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About easyGuide: Discover and book tickets to top attractions, activities, experiences, tours and theatre shows in your favourite locations around the world!
Michael Liberty
Co-Founder and CPO of Signifyd
Michael is a Co-Founder and the Chief Operating Officer of Signifyd. Prior to Signifyd, he was the Head of Digital Goods and Platform Risk at PayPal. Before PayPal, Michael served as the Director of Business Development and then COO of GWC Warranty, a 120-person specialty insurance company based in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Michael spent the early part of his career in investment banking and private equity, working at J.P. Morgan and CIVC Partners. Michael holds an A.B. in Economics from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Stanford.
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About Signifyd: Signifyd is a provider of an enterprise-grade fraud technology solution for e-commerce stores.
James Washer
Founder of Super Snaps
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About Super Snaps: Super easy photo printing and gifting.
Filipa Neto
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Chic by Choice
Filipa Neto is co-founder and CEO of Chic by Choice, Europe’s leading luxury rental marketplace allowing women to rent the world’s best items sourced from brands and e-commerce platforms at a fraction of the retail price. Chic by Choice provides retailers a yield management solution that can help manage excessive stock in a clever way, providing an alternative that can generate up to 5 times more revenue than discounting or outlets. Filipa was able to raise €520k investment for the venture at the age of 23. The success of Chic by Choice later led to another €1.5m of investment to continue to grow the company in the UK and Germany. In July 2015, the company acquired Laremia, a German dress rental competitor, which already represents 20% of the company’s revenue. In little more than a year, Chic by Choice is established as the leading dress rental platform shipping to more than 15 countries in Europe and with outstanding month on month growth. Filipa currently manages a team of 16 with offices in London and Lisbon and she is also part of the Global Shapers community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum a network developed and led by young people who are exceptional in their potential, their achievements and their drive to make a contribution to their communities.
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About Chic by Choice, Farfetch, The World Economic Forum: Hire designer dresses curated by boutiques and department stores.
Luke Scheybeler
Co-Founder, Chief Creative Officer of Tracksmith
Luke Scheybeler is the Founder at Scheybeler
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About Scheybeler, Tracksmith: Tracksmith is an American sports apparel brand that produces clothes for performance athletes.
James Anderson
Founder of Zest
In 2013, at the age of 15, James Anderson founded Thinkspace; a project that aims to bring inspiring spaces where students can learn to code to schools across the globe. The non-profit organisation has received support from the likes of Richard Branson, Stephen Fry, Steve Wozniak, Jimmy Wales and many others. It’s made headlines in The Telegraph, The Guardian, BBC News and Forbes. At its launch James reached over 15 million via social media, had 100,000 visits to his website and received hundreds of emails from schools around the world interested in building a Thinkspace. Since then James has co-founded his second, for-profit, company with George Streten (14) — Space Lounges, the next-generation of coffee lounge that reimagines the current retail experience and brings fun back to the high street. He also presented a talk on the future of retail at the TedXTeen in the O2 last year.
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About Space Lounges, Thinkspace, WIFIPLUG, Zest: Zest is a company producing various products used by people like deodorants, soaps etc.
Nigel Phan
Founder and Managing Director of Whirli
I am the Founder of Whirli – the ever-changing toy box, a start-up venture based in the UK. Prior to founding Whirli, I was an Associate Partner in McKinsey & Company’s London Office. I worked with retailers, CPG companies, and other consumer businesses on topics including strategy, marketing & sales, and operations. More broadly, I also worked with organisations in other sectors on strategic topics such as Corporate / Portfolio Strategy and Growth Strategy.
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About Whirli: Whirli is a provider of toy sharing subscription service for kids.
Alex Ikonn
Co-Founder of Luxy Hair
Alex Ikonn works as Co-founder for Luxy Hair.
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About Luxy Hair: Luxy Hair is an e-commerce company specializing in clip-in hair extensions.
Xavier Collins
Co-Founder & Business Development Manager of Nexus Notes
Xavier Collins is a Co-Founder and Business Development Manager at Nexus Notes.
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About Nexus Notes, Turo: Nexus Notes operates as an online marketplace for university students to buy and sell their course notes.
Dmitry Gunyashov
Co-Founder & CEO of Cryptopay
Dmitry is a long-term bitcoin supporter and has been involved with the bitcoin community for more than 3 years. Moreover, he has an extensive experience in e-commerce and payment systems.
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About Cryptopay, LTC.Miner: Cryptopay is a digital currency firms, offering crypto-wallets, debit cards, B2B payments, & investments.
Tom Singh
Founder & Non-Executive Director of New Look
Tom Singh OBE is the Founder of New Look, a leading UK entrepreneur and active private investor with family interests spanning: retail, technology, real estate, renewable energy sectors and private equity. He currently holds the position of Non-Executive Board Member for New Look with over 900 stores worldwide which he founded in 1969. In addition to his responsibilities at New Look, Tom is a founding member of: the Social Investment Task Force, the Chairman of the UK Advisory Council for the British Asian Trust, and is a Trustee of the Pakhar Foundation. Tom is an active philanthropist and social investor and in recent years, has taken an increasing interest in the world of technology.
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About New Look: New Look is a retail seller of mens and womens clothing.
Ivan Mazour
Co-Founder & CEO of Ometria
Ivan Mazour is a Russian-born, London-based serial entrepreneur, investor and author. He is the CEO and Founder of Ometria – a predictive analytics and marketing platform built specifically for retailers, letting them use data to increase revenues and provide an improved customer experience. Ometria is his seventh company, in a career spanning various industries from property to education – http://www.ometria.com Alongside this main role, he is also the Founding Partner of Innova Kapital – an early stage VC firm investing in UK-based technology startups, including companies like YPlan and organisations like Entrepreneur First – http://www.innovakapital.com As well as holding multiple degrees in Mathematics from Cambridge University, and in Economics from the Open University, Ivan Mazour is the author of a number of books including “Russian Convoys – Memories of the Heart”. His translations of Russian literature have been staged professionally in various cities, and he has been presented with a UNESCO medal for his literary achievements. He regularly speaks at conferences around the world on topics of ecommerce, technology, and investment, and also writes a popular blog called “A Young Entrepreneur in London” – http://www.ivanmazour.com
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About Ometria: Ometria is a customer data and marketing platform that helps retailers increase CRM revenue by sending personalized marketing messages.
