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 Software 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.
Tony Jamous
CEO and Co-Founder of Oyster®
Tony Jamous is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor. He has made over 15 direct investments in global technology companies with a focus on developer tools, platforms models, impact, FinTech and HR Tech. Five of his companies have realized an exit to-date. Tony is currently building the future of work through his new venture Oyster, a distributed talent enablement platform that allows growing companies to tap into the global talent pool and offer their remote workers around the world a great employment experience. Priori to Oyster, Tony co-founded and led Nexmo, a leader in CPAAS (Communication Platform As A Service) acquired by Vonage in 2016. Tony started his career in 2004 in the cloud, communication and mobile industries. At mBlox and Boku, Tony opened up global messaging and payment services. Tony holds a Masters in Computer Science from Grenoble Institute of Technology in France and an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland, with a focus on leadership development and organization behavior.
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About Oyster®: Oyster is a Distributed HR platform that empowers companies to hire, pay, and care for talented teammates regardless of location.
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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…
Romain Afflelou
Co-Founder of Cosmo Connected
Romain spearheaded the digital strategy of Alain Afflelou Group before becoming an investor in numerous start-ups. He uses his fine-tuned analysis skills to support and invest in innovative start-ups. In addition to being a major shareholder and Co founder of Cosmo Connected a French start-up specialized in connected objects related to security and mobility. Romain is Director and Board member of Multiwave Technologies /develops breakthrough metamaterial technologies to improve people’s lives. Serial investor in +50Tech companies 6over6 (Acquired by 1-800 contacts) Cityscoot Clay Inc VR Cowboy Bike Epicery Everoad (Ex Convargo) Fithouse Fré Skincare Fokoya Guillotine Vodka Klassroom Laminate Technologies MeetFabric Molotov TV Multiwave Technologies Nestor Octopus Officeriders Onoff telecom Pledg Quiqup Universal Standard Shapr Spendesk Zipdrug…(Acquire by Anthem Pharmacy)
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About Cosmo Connected: The Leader in Connected Safety in Urban Mobility.
Gilbert Verdian
CEO and Founder of Quant Network
Gilbert is building the Internet of Trust by converging Blockchain and Cybersecurity as the Founder and CEO of Quant Network, tasked with connecting the world’s networks to blockchains. Having over 20 years of industry experience and C-level accountability, he has worked across Government in Downing St, HM Treasury, Cabinet Office, Ministry of Justice and NSW Health and private sector at CSC, EY and HSBC. Having a keen interest in disruptive technology, he’s the author behind the Blockchain ISO Standard TC307 initiative and is the Chair of the UK’s national committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger technologies (DLT/1). He also sits on committees in the Federal Reserve, the EU’s Blockchain Observatory, PayUK’s Cybersecurity board and UK Government’s DLT committees. He’s actively working to advance technology in the areas of AI, Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Fintech & Health.
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About International Organization for Standardization, Quant Network, Remitt, Trudera, Wekitt: We’re unleashing the power of networks as connected as the world we live in.
Damien Lane
Co-Founder & Partner of Episode 1
Damien Lane has spent the last 20 years investing in private companies, both in Private Equity where he was a partner with Electra Partners, then at Octopus Ventures where he was a senior member of the investment team. Having made a number of angel investments, Damien co-founded Episode 1 with Simon and Adrian in 2012. While at Episode 1, Damien has led investments in Carwow, Scurri, Touch Surgery, Attest and Zipcube and loves working with early stage teams of entrepreneurs; helping them develop their early stage startup into a fast growth enterprises capable of raising more funding from later stage investors. When he is not trying to help businesses to implement an optimal approach to growth, Damien can mostly be found running around Hampstead Heath or the Coastal paths of Great Britain. Having trained obsessively to run a 2:52 Marathon in 2015, he is now trying to dip below 2:50, in the spirit of continuous improvement. Damien has an MBA from Cambridge University and a Masters degree in PE from Oxford University.
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About Adludio, Episode 1, Scurri: Episode1 Ventures is a venture capital fund set up to invest in early-stage technology companies based in London, UK.
Misha Gopaul
Founder of FATMAP
Misha is a serial entrepreneur with nearly two decades of experience founding and running successful technology companies. He started his first business, Fabric Technologies, building computers in his bedroom which grew to a team of over 120 people before a merger with a publicly listed competitor in 2011. He plays an active role in the European tech eco-system as an advisor, angel investor and mentor and currently serves on the Board at NEX Abide Financial and Workplace Fabric. In 2013, a chance meeting with adventurer and self-professed mapping geek, David Cowell sparked the beginning of his most ambitious project to date, combining his passion for mountains and technology – to build FATMAP, the world’s leading adventure platform and the most precise and detailed 3D map of the outdoors – a 1:1 map in virtual reality. Competing with established mapping giants has called for an innovative approach to business models and partnerships. Using gaming technology and disruptive models from the tech and music industry FATMAP is on a mission to map the world in human scale detail and build the highest resolution computational map of our planet.
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About CME Group Regulatory Reporting, FATMAP: FATMAP is an outdoor adventure platform for web & mobile.
Alexander Asseily
Co-Founder of Elvie
Alex is an entrepreneur and investor with more than 20 years of experience in consumer products and wearable technology. Among other things, Alex co-founded Jawbone, where he led the team to release its most iconic consumer products. Alex advises a number of companies and charities in the US and Europe, including Nectarine Health, Lilium and Atomico.
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About Elvie, State.it: Elvie is a British femtech company developing smart technology for women.
Tania Boler
Founder and CEO of Elvie
Tania is an internationally recognized women’s health expert and has held leadership positions for various global NGOs and the United Nations. Passionate about challenging taboo women’s issues, Tania founded Elvie in 2013, partnering with Alexander Asseily to create a global hub of connected health and lifestyle products for women.
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About Elvie: Elvie is a British femtech company developing smart technology for women.
Sergiu Matei
Founder of Index
Sergiu Matei is the founder of Index, the London-based platform helping enterprises like Vodafone and Twilio find and hire world-class remote software developers, and be globally compliant from the get-go. Before launching Index, Sergiu founded Travod, the translation marketplace providing 2,000+ brands such as Amazon and Swissport with locally hired translators in 100+ countries in every continent across the globe.
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About Index, Index.dev: Index helps companies and organizations hire remote software developers and teams.
Indu Khemchandani
Founder of Uplatz
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About Uplatz: Uplatz is UK-based leading global training provider with a huge portfolio of courses on cutting-edge technologies, software, cloud and data.
Roland Lamb
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ROLI
After leaving school in the UK, Roland moved to Japan to practise Zen Buddhism. He then moved on to Harvard University, and a degree in Classical Chinese and Sanskrit Philosophy. This – naturally – led to an interest in technology and industrial design, so he won a scholarship to pursue an MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art. While at RCA, he invented an award-winning new approach to building pressure-sensing interfaces and ROLI was born. Roland is joined on ROLI’s board of Directors by Salahdin Imam, Sarah Chalfant and Tahmima Anam.
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About ROLI: ROLI is a London-based music technology company that produces musical instruments and software products.
Oliver Oram
Founder & CEO of Chainvine
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
Joanna Hubbard
Co-Founder and CEO of Electron
Jo-Jo Hubbard is the co-founder and COO of Electron, one of the original energy tech firms to harness blockchain technology for transactive grid systems. She is a thought leader on the topic of digital energy and a frequent keynote speaker at energy and technology events. Her previous experience includes renewable energy investment banking, cleantech VC, and strategy consulting at McKinsey & Co. Jo-Jo sits on advisory boards for several UK utilities on digital transformation and community trading models and writes for international publications on these topics.
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About Electron: Electron is accelerating the energy industry’s transition to Net Zero by making granular, market-based interactions possible.
Paul Ellis
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Electron
Paul Ellis is co-founder and CEO at Electron, a new platform focusing on reinventing the retail energy market in the UK using the Ethereum blockchain. Prior to Electron, Paul spent 13 years in Investment Banking. He founded a development business and fin tech incubator. He then created and ran an electronic trading platform for credit derivatives for a number of years.
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About Electron: Electron is accelerating the energy industry’s transition to Net Zero by making granular, market-based interactions possible.
Michele Riccardo Esposito
Co-Founder & CTO of Candu
Michele Riccardo Esposito is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Candu.
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About Candu: Candu is a product experience platform for software teams who want to design, refine, and personalize their application’s user interface.
Alastair Moore
Co-Founder & Director of Satalia
Alastair Moore is a UCL PhD computer scientist with 10 years experience in AI/ML, UX design, marketplaces, mobile and early stage tech innovation. He was on the founding team of UCL spin-out Satalia.com and venture backed Wearepopup.com. Alastair Moore activities at UCL include helping create The Mobile Academy and the set up IDEALondon innovation centre at the heart of TechCity with Cisco and DC Thomson. He have been a member of the Special Group for Entrepreneurship for the British Computer Society and have mentored at the Wayra Academy, Springboard Mobile (now Techstars London) & Startupbootcamp IoT.
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About Mishcon de Reya, Royal Academy of Engineering, Satalia, UCL School of Management, We Are Pop Up: Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Daniel Hulme
Co-Founder & CEO of Satalia
Daniel is the CEO of Satalia (NPComplete Ltd) a UCL spin-out that provides AI inspired solutions to solve industries hardest problems. He’s the co-founder of the Advanced Skills Initiative that transitions scientists into industry as data scientists. Daniel has a Masters and Doctorate in AI from UCL, and is Director of UCL’s Business Analytics MSc; applying AI to solve business/social problems. He lectures in Computer Science and Management Science at UCL and PCL. Daniel has Advisory and Executive positions in many companies, he holds an international Kauffman Global Entrepreneur Scholarship and actively promotes entrepreneurship and technology innovation across the globe.
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About Satalia, University College London (UCL): Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Rob Whitehead
CPO & Co-Founder of Improbable
Robert Whitehead is the Co-Founder & CTO at Improbable. He worked as Cohort Member at Entrepreneur First. He served as Technical Consultant at McKinsey & Company. He was the Founder of TyroTech Software. He also served as Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg LP.
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About Improbable, Improbable: Improbable is a UK-based games technology company that is dedicated to building powerful technology designed to help problems.
Herman Narula
CEO and Co-Founder of Improbable
Herman Narula is the cofounder and CEO of Improbable, a London-based technology startup born out of Cambridge University. Improbable is creating SpatialOS, a distributed, cloud-based platform for game development that integrates with and augments existing workflows, engines, and tools. SpatialOS empowers developers to build, run and operate previously impossible online games, with unprecedented levels of scale, complexity and persistence. Improbable has investment from some of the world’s most admired venture capitalists. Improbable currently has a team of over 200 people in offices in London and San Francisco, including top software engineering talent from world-renowned academic institutions and companies such as Google, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Microsoft. Founded in 2012, Improbable received $20m in Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz in March 2015, with a $30m follow-on led by Horizons Ventures in July 2015. In May 2017 Improbable announced a $502m Series B funding round, led by SoftBank and including Andreessen Horowitz and Horizons Ventures. Herman holds a computer science degree from Cambridge, and is interested in the potential impact that powerful, virtual worlds will have on how they think, play and make decisions.
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About Improbable: Improbable is a UK-based games technology company that is dedicated to building powerful technology designed to help problems.
Hew Leith
Founder & CEO of Atomley
Founder and CEO of Atomley, an automated lead generation platform for B2B webinars. We qualify webinar attendees in real-time with Atomley’s mobile surveys, which achieve over 70% response rates. https://atomley.com Also founder of 10x, an award-winning innovation consultancy. A few of our remarkable products include: 1) AI beer: https://bloom.bg/3bZr8cg 2) Platform to cure loneliness: https://bit.ly/35oTpq0 3) App for pregnant commuters: https://bbc.in/2KQNeBQ 4) AI bar: https://fxn.ws/2KPR4Lp 5) IoT bank: https://bbc.in/2xu3O7A 6) 1st emoji passcode: https://cnb.cx/3aW1XGj
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About 10x, Atomley, Intelligent Layer, IntelligentX: Atomley is an automated lead generation platform for B2B webinars.
James Harrison
Co-Founder & CTO of Genesis Global
James has over 20 years experience in senior technology, development & implementation roles for some of the worlds leading investment banks including Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, HSBC and vendors incl. Fidessa. During his career James has lived in New York, London, & Hong Kong. Prior to genesis global, James was regarded as one of the leaders in this field, managing global technical teams in supporting & delivering mission-critical, real-time systems for tier 1 global banking institutions needing their trading businesses to run near 24-7.
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About Genesis Global: Genesis Global is a low-code technology platform that helps financial institutions build new applications.
Ali Minaei
Co-Founder and CTO of Gr4vy
Ali is the Co-Founder and CTO of Gr4vy. who has more than 15 years’ experience in tech engineering, has been in payment for the past 8 years working at PayPal and Wonga prior to Yoyo. At Yoyo he is responsible for leading and scaling the Engineering team and building the next generation of Yoyo’s payment and loyalty platform.
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About Gr4vy: Gr4vy is a cloud payment orchestration platform that helps businesses manage their payment solutions
Cristiano Betta
Co-Founder and CPO of Gr4vy
Cristiano is the Co-Founder and CPO of Gr4vy.
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About Gr4vy: Gr4vy is a cloud payment orchestration platform that helps businesses manage their payment solutions
Dylan Collins
Co-Founder and CEO of SuperAwesome
Dylan Collins is one of Europe’s most experienced digital media entrepreneurs, focusing on games, kids entertainment and the technology which underpins them. He is CEO of SuperAwesome, the #1 kid-safe brand engagement platform. SuperAwesome works with the biggest kids entertainment brands in the world including Disney, Hasbro, Warner Bros and Activision ensuring they connect safely with over a quarter of a billion kids each month. An active investor and advisor across both kids media and technology companies, he is Venture Partner with Hoxton Ventures and sits on the board of the UK’s top-rated marketing technology agency, Potato and Brown Bag Films, Europe’s leading kids animation studio. Previously Collins founded Jolt Online Gaming which became one of the pioneering social games publishers in Europe. Jolt was acquired by GameStop (NYSE: GME), the largest video games retailer in the world in 2009 to spearhead their digital media strategy. As founder and CEO of DemonWare in 2003, he led the company to become the leading online games technology firm in the global console games market. In 2007, DemonWare was acquired by Activision Blizzard (NYSE: ATVI), the world’s biggest video games publisher and is now the multiplayer backbone of the billion-dollar Call of Duty franchise.
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About Box of Awesome, brown bag films, Hoxton Ventures, Potato, SuperAwesome: SuperAwesome offers kid-safe tools and technology for the children’s digital media ecosystem.
Ignacio Leonhardt
Founder of Handy
Ignacio Leonhardt is the technical co-founder at Handybook.com. He graduated with a degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Duke University and a Masters degree in Finance from London School of Economics. He previously worked as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs and as an Associate at Cambridge Associates in London.
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About Handy, Kyan Health: Handy, formerly Handybook, is an app through which users can book cleaners, plumbers, handymen, and other household service providers.
Andrew Xeni
CEO, Co-Founder of Fabacus
A highly driven and experienced CEO with a diverse portfolio of business interests. Andrew’s primary focus has till recently been in the family garment manufacturing business, Europride Ltd., founded with his brother. Having supplied most of the UKs largest fashion retailers for over a decade, Andrew understands their supply chain needs. The businesses boast a combined annual turnover in excess of $150m, with over 2,000 employees globally and including vested interests in the full supply chain: Factories in the UK, Eastern Europe, Morocco and Sri Lanka, a UK dye house, a UK knitting plant, fabric import business, and UK printing facilities. Andrew also has two ecommerce brands, Baaclothing.Com and NobodysChild.Com, that compliment his fully integrated vertical manufacturing service. Fabacus is the brainchild of all this supply chain, retail and ecommerce experience. Understanding exactly what is needed to improve each process and make businesses faster and more cost efficient, Andrew alongside his co-founder Ray Noppé, were able to build a suite of solutions. Fabacus delivers optimal efficiency for greater profit through customisable software for business intelligence, data management, relationship management and e-commerce marketing optimisation. To date Fabacus has successfully integrated its solution with the likes of Charlotte Tilbury, Salesforce and Revel. In addition to Fabacus and Europride Ltd, Andrew continues to invest in technology alongside New Look founder, Tom Singh, as well as property development and music interests: Launching his own music label, supporting and developing new talents.
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About Fabacus: Fabacus is a technology business that transforms brand licensing through the power of data.
Marc Blinder
Co-Founder & CEO of Aikon
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About Aikon, Emmerge: Aikon provides API-based Blockchain as a Service for top public blockchains including EOS, Ethereum and Libra
Adil Mohammed
CEO and Founder of Virtuoso
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About Virtuoso: Virtuoso develops a next-gen digital QA platform to enable users to deliver tomorrow’s QA and test automation solutions.
Anil Stocker
CEO & Co-Founder of MarketFinance
Anil Stocker is the CEO & Co-founder of MarketInvoice.Whilst working in financial services (Lehman Brothers) in his early twenties and spending time with many company CFOs, Anil realised how difficult it was for small businesses to raise the funding they needed to drive their business forward. His ambition was to use technology and data to completely reinvent how businesses go about financing their growth, and breathe fresh life into outdated financial products. Anil has led the growth of the company, team and its culture since launch. He was named in Forbes Magazine’s ’30 under 30′, and was recently invited to speak at No. 10 Downing St as a part of HM Treasury’s Fintech Week.
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About MarketFinance: MarketFinance is a FinTech company providing business finance solutions that help companies grow.
Sultan Murad Saidov
Co-Founder and President of Beamery
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About Beamery, Seed.jobs: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Michael Paterson
Co-Founder & CTO of Beamery
Michael Paterson joined Beamery as Co-Founder and CTO in 2015.
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About Beamery: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Abakar Saidov
Co Founder & CEO of Beamery
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About Beamery: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Mark Beeston
Founder & Managing Partner of Illuminate Financial
Mark Beeston founded Illuminate after a 25+ year career in capital markets where he had been both the consumer of capital markets technologies as well as the entrepreneur, operator, and funder of capital markets businesses. Prior to founding Illuminate, Mark was the CEO for the Post Trade Risk and Information business at ICAP (now Nex) where he oversaw the creation of ICAP’s own investment subsidiary. Prior to ICAP Mark launched T-Zero (now ICELink) during his time at Creditex before the company was acquired by ICE in 2008. He started his career with 13 years at Deutsche Bank in derivatives trading and management, including periods as COO for both the Global Rates and Global Credit businesses. Mark has an undergraduate degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Mark was listed on the Institutional Investor Fintech Finance 35 and top 40 Lists, Financial News Fintech 40 Power List, Institutional Investor Trade Technology Top 30 and Top 40 Lists, and Derivatives Intelligence/Derivatives Week Rising Stars.
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About Illuminate Financial: Illuminate Financial is a venture capital firm backing companies that solve problems in financial services.
Peter Lord
CEO and Co-Founder of Codat
Peter Lord is the co-founder and CEO of Codat with a technical background and previous experience in fintech. After graduating from Southampton University with a degree in Computer Science, Peter joined Credit Suisse as a software engineer but quickly became frustrated with the speed of development. Wanting to experience working in a start-up, he joined MarketInvoice and was tasked with building an integration to accounting software Xero, experience that would later spark the idea for Codat. Through his personal experiences as software engineer, and later as a product owner, Peter is passionate that Codat’s focus is on creating a simple API that powers clients’ solutions to real problems faced by small businesses.
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About Codat: Codat is an API platform that provides real-time connectivity to the financial software used by small businesses.
Naré Vardanyan
Co-Founder and CEO of Ntropy Network
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About Ntropy Network: Enabling products without data barriers.
Denis Shafranik
Partner & Co-Founder of Concentric
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About Concentric, ERMAK Group, Supremum Capital: Concentric invests in software technology business in the financial services, mobility, real estate, industrial, and logistics sectors.
Vishal Marria
Founder & CEO of Quantexa
Vishal is a globally recognised leader in solving clients’ financial crime and surveillance challenges. He is accomplished at building teams and helping clients to use innovative data analytics for their financial crime challenges. Previously Executive Director at EY, Vishal led major programs at international banks including global Anti Financial Crime technology strategy, data-driven remediation and end to end reviews of strategy and policy. Vishal was instrumental in directing and building the Detica NetReveal business globally and strives to bring together business and IT to address financial crime risks.
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About Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Stephen Chandler
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Notion Capital
Stephen Chandler is Co-founder and Managing Partner at Notion Capital. An entrepreneur, investor and company builder, with 20 years experience in forming, funding, running, advising and investing in technology businesses, he has been a co-founder of over ten businesses with involvement in dozens more, where he helped a number of leading tech companies develop and execute winning market strategies. He has primary responsibility for the external fundraising activities of the firm and is active in deal origination in SaaS, FinTech and eCommerce enablement in the UK and Nordic region. He is / was the Notion Capital representative on the boards of Tradeshift, Mojn, Selfnet and Star.
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About Notion Capital, SeedCloud: Notion is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on technology and cloud computing markets.
CEO & Founder of Flown
Alicia Navarro is the Founder & CEO at Flown.
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About Flown: Flown offers ideal mental and physical spaces for individuals and teams to think and work more creatively and productively.
Daniel McPherson
Co Founder of Logical Glue
Daniel McPherson has founded and successfully exited several companies in the UK and US. He has made about 20 investments and is now also focused on incubating startups. Together with Tom Singh (founder of the New Look chain) Daniel has founded the Launch a start up launch pad, which is building some great companies.
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About Beacon Capital, Logical Glue: Logical Glue is a software company that creates products to analyze data for a business to predict profitable outcomes for a business.
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
Inga Mullins
Founder & CEO of Fluency
Inga Mullins is a Founder & CEO at Fluency
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About Fluency: Fluency is a CBDC proprietary blockchain revolutionising and powering the existing financial system.
Chris Bruce
Co-Founder of Thomsons Online Benefits
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About Thomsons Online Benefits: Thomsons Online Benefits is a global benefits management and employee engagement software company.
Hossein Kakavand
Founder and CEO of Luther Systems
Hossein is an entrepreneur with a diverse background in the enterprise technology industry. He did his Ph.D at Stanford in Information Systems and Statistics, and subsequently Stanford Business School. He was a fund manager at Soliton Capital, a quantitative hedge fund. He was at Funding Circle (LON: FCH), a leading Fintech platform focused on Peer to Peer (P2P) financing. He has also advised startups, with highly successful exits including, a distributed computation platform for automation of portfolio risk modelling, a specialized platform for large scale statistical computation, and a big data analytics recommendation engine.
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About Luther Systems: Luther Systems streamlines enterprise processes leveraging blockchain technology.
Raj Anand
Founder & CEO of Goodman Lantern
Raj is the winner of Europe’s Young Entrepreneur 2007 by BusinessWeek, Digital Future 50 by Revolution Magazine (alongside Twitter and Spotify), Courvoisier/The Observer Future 500 (2008) and Finalist of Sussex Entrepreneur 2008. He graduated from Sussex University with a Bachelors in Engineering (1.1)/Masters in Research, at 23 he setup Anderstand Limited and developed the majority of the software. Raj worked for the European Union, Sussex University research laboratory and Shell STEP internships developing software projects for several start-ups. Raj won many national awards for projects in computer science, leadership skills and entrepreneurship.
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About Goodman Lantern: Goodman Lantern provides content that helps you increase subscriptions and grow faster.
Alex Vratskides
Co-Founder & CEO of Persado
Alex Vratskides is the CEO of Persado, which he co-founded in 2012. Previously, Alex co-founded Upstream in 2001 and served as the company’s CEO between 2004 and 2012. During his tenure, the company grew to become a global leader in mobile marketing, with mobile operator clients in more than 40 countries. Alex was responsible for setting Upstream’s strategic direction and spearheading its international sales expansion and product innovation. Prior to founding Upstream, Alex worked as a management consultant at OC&C/McKenna Group, based out of Boston. He is the first angel investor for Luluvise, where he is also a board member, and serves on the board of advisors of Seyyer. Alex holds a BS in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University and a Masters of Engineering in Operations Research from Cornell University.
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About Persado: Persado Marketing Language Cloud delivers AI-generated language that resonates the most with any audience, segment or individual.
James Swanston
Founder & CEO of Voyage Control
James is the founder of Voyage Control, a technology business focused on making freight deliveries. James is an advisor to Lord Mawson OBE for the St Paul’s Way Transformation Project, one of the UK’s biggest regeneration projects based in East London, with a focus on encouraging students to look at science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and enterprise. James is the chair of the Transport Working Group of the Energy Managers Association, founded by Lord Redesdale to help major UK businesses to help address the challenges of energy scarcity and climate change. He was recently listed in the Tech City Almanac as one of the 100 key figures helping to redefine digital business in London. He is a director of Green and Tonic, a fast growing networking group for sustainability leaders in London and has previously assisted the Sustainable Development Commission on smart mobility and was awarded the Greenbang award for smart transport in 2011. James regularly speaks at events on sustainability and entrepreneurship topics. He has been granted the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers, one of the City of London’s oldest livery companies and has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. He has served as an officer in the Australian and British Armies, including tours of duty in Malaysia, East Timor, Iraq, Falkland Islands and Afghanistan; he currently commands the City of London Fusiliers Company of the London Regiment. He spent several years in Australian military intelligence, where he established a multi-discipline team working on the fusion of intelligence collection and analysis across different technical intelligence sources, for which he was awarded the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation’s Outstanding Service Award. He was awarded the United States Bronze Star Medal and the Australian Joint Operations Command Commendation for service in Iraq. James completed three bachelor degrees concurrently from Griffith University in Law, International Business and Modern Asian Studies, a Diploma in Export Management and a Masters in International Relations and Asian Politics (University of Queensland). James is a qualified Justice of the Peace.
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About Voyage Control: Voyage Control is a cutting-edge ‘Air Traffic Control’ for inbound logistics management. Powerful, efficient, and easy to use.
Nicholas Shekerdemian
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Headstart
Nicholas Shekerdemian is the co-founder and executive chairman at Headstart.
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About Headstart, The Venture Collective: Headstart is diversity recruiting software focused on breaking the cycle of exclusion.
Ilyas Khan
CEO & Founder of Cambridge Quantum Computing
Ilyas Khan is the founder of Cambridge Quantum Computing. Ilyas is also the Chairman and a founding Trustee of The Stephen Hawking Foundation, and the Leader in Residence at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School where he is also a Fellow in Management Practice. He is also a Fellow of St Edmund’s College Cambridge. Ilyas started his career in merchant banking with J Henry Schroder Wagg, and worked and lived in Hong Kong from 1989 to 2008. He has been an active investor in early stage companies since 1999, having built and then sold two start up companies of his own. Since 2013 has been instrumental in backing the Judge Business School’s highly regarded business accelerator programme. He is the Senior partner in a non executive capacity at Stanhill Capital Partners, and has a small number of other non executive positions. The Stanhill Foundation that was established by Ilyas supports research and scholarship in a number of areas and currently funds a number of doctoral and post doctoral students in the area of mathematics, quantum mechanics and philosophy.
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About Cambridge Quantum Computing, Quantinuum, Stanhill Capital Partners: CQCL develops tools for the commercialisation of quantum computers by understanding quantum protocols and also quantum algorithms.
Jamie Burke
CEO & Founder of Outlier Ventures
Jamie Burke is the chief executive officer of Outlier Ventures.
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About Outlier Ventures: The World’s Leading Open Metaverse Accelerator
Nick Hynes
CEO & Founder of Somo
A true business visionary, Nick has established some of the most successful fast-growth digital companies of the last two decades. In recognition of his contribution to the digital industry, he was recently shortlisted as one of the top 20 most influential and inspirational Britons in the BIMA Digital Hall of Fame. Nick founded Somo in 2009 with Carl Uminski to help companies make sense of the huge opportunities and the disruptive potential of mobile technology. In his role as CEO, Nick defines the overall strategy, has recruited the team, and shaped the culture of Somo, establishing corporate-scale governance in this rapid-growth business. Nick was formerly CEO and owner of The IMW Group, comprising search marketing agency, The Search Works, and digital tech business, The Technology Works. He launched operations across Asia, with offices in Tokyo and Seoul, and established The Search Works as Europe’s largest search agency, before the group was acquired by TradeDoubler AB in 2007 for $112 million. Before that, Nick was founder, CEO and President of Overture Europe. Here he launched the paid search industry in Europe, building Overture from a start up to an established billion dollar business across 16 countries, in just 30 months. Acquiring AltaVista FAST Technology Search along the way, Overture secured exclusive, multi-year distribution deals with every premium portal and ISP in Europe. The company was sold for $1.63 billion to Yahoo! in 2003 and became Yahoo! Search Marketing. In his early career, Nick created the electronic points system for Air Miles, transforming a struggling paper voucher business into a $62 million per annum profitable business in four years. Nick developed and implemented Air Miles loyalty schemes across NatWest, BT and Vodafone (building their first customer database). He also introduced the world’s first national Smart Card programme for Shell, and the ‘Reward’ loyalty scheme for Sainsbury’s. Nick’s career began as a fast-track graduate at British Airways, where he led a number of global initiatives. Appointed as BA’s youngest senior manager at the age of 29, he was sponsored by the airline to complete an MBA at the University of Bath in 1992.
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About : Somo, part of the CI&T family (NYSE: CINT), is a leading digital product agency, delivering digital ambitions at pace and scale.
Carl Uminski
COO & Co- Founder of Somo
Carl is an internet industry pioneer with over 16 years’ experience creating new products, platforms and executing scalable growth strategies for businesses across the globe. Carl’s impact on the mobile industry was recently acknowledged by The Drum, who named him the most influential person in mobile.As COO & Co-Founder, Carl takes hands on leadership for the delivery of all Somo’s products and advertising businesses, splitting his time between our international offices. Carl has a unique knowledge of the mobile industry ranging from technical challenges to the commercial opportunities for brands to succeed in mobile. He has advised and executed for over 60 international brands on their mobile strategy, working with the leaders of companies including Audi, Groupon, Zynga, Fidelity Investments & BP. Prior to founding Somo, Carl was co-founder at Overture Europe, the company to pioneer the multi-billion dollar pay-per-click advertising industry into Europe. As CTO, he was integral in leading the business to success in 15 European countries, and its eventual sale to Yahoo! for $1.63 billion in 2003. A leader in search and social networking, he was headhunted to the Silicon Valley, where he created the Yahoo! One Search mobile platform, working with some of the world’s largest mobile brands. Previously, Carl was responsible for running real-time systems such as aircraft parking, flight information and security at seven British airports including London’s Heathrow Airport.
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About : Somo, part of the CI&T family (NYSE: CINT), is a leading digital product agency, delivering digital ambitions at pace and scale.
George Spencer
Founder and CEO of Rentify
George Spencer is founder and CEO at Rentify, a software platform which helps landlords market, manage, and make money from their properties. Prior to Rentify George enjoyed a brief but eventful career encompassing web development, brand marketing, and advertising; where he was notable only for being unsuccessful in persuading the British public to eat more of a certain wheat-based breakfast cereal. Since then, George has been working on Rentify and helping to make landlords’ lives easier across the United Kingdom.
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About Rentify: Rentify is an online platform that helps individuals market and manage their properties.
Amit Gudka
Founder of Field Nation
Amit Gudka is the Founder of Field.
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About Field Nation: Field Nation is an online marketplace that enables businesses to find and manage their contingent workforce.
Rusty Johnson
Co-Founder & CTO of SharpCloud Software
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About SharpCloud Software: Data visualization software that transforms business data into engaging visual stories, helping you make smarter strategic decisions.
Nuno Job
Co-Founder of Decipad
Nuno Job is the co-founder of Decipad.
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About Decipad: Decipad is an interactive notebook to gather information, build models in minute and bring your ideas to life. No coding required.
Theo Pape
Founder, CEO of DRONEWORK
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About DRONEWORK, Flickreel: DRONEWORK is a drone mission matching platform for professional drone operators.
Paul Taylor
Founder and CEO of Thought Machine
Paul is a serial entrepreneur specialising in speech, language and artificial intelligence. In 2006, he co-founded Phonetic Arts, which developed speech software for the games industry. Phonetic Arts was acquired by Google in 2010, and Paul worked at Google as head of the text-to-speech group and as a research scientist until leaving in 2013. 2004-2006 Paul was a visiting lecturer at Cambridge University, working and teaching in the Engineering department. During this time, he wrote Text-to-Speech synthesis, widely regarded as the definitive book in the field. In 2000, Paul co-founded Rhetorical Systems which was the world leader in text-to-speech. Rhetorical was acquired by Nuance in 2004. From 1989-2000, Paul was at Edinburgh University, where he gained his PhD, worked as a post-doc, tenured lecturer and eventually director of the Centre for Speech Technology Research. He is author of more than 80 academic papers.
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About Thought Machine: Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
Alexandros Marinos
Founder & CEO of Balena
Alexandros Marinos is the Founder & CEO at resin.io
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About Balena: Balena is a complete set of tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices.
Anand Verma
Founder & CEO of Expect. (trading name of Exponential Climate Technologies Ltd.)
Anand Verma @anandverma Anand is the Founder and CEO of climate tech startup Expect. A London-based company committed to decarbonising greening companies, profitably. Prior to my recent ventures, I was the Owner, Founder and CEO of Brilliant Basics (acquired by Infosys), an award winning Global Digital and Innovation company headquartered in London with studios all over the world. Successfully acquired by Infosys in 2017 to accelerate Design and Innovation for Infosys and its clients globally. I also led Infosys’ digital capabilities in EMEA and was a part of the Infosys leadership team. I am also deeply involved with leading design school and university partnerships for Infosys. I am a digital visionary, innovator and successful entrepreneur who understands new products and services, revenue growth, operations and people. I have over 20 years’ experience in management consulting, digital and tech businesses. I have built a successful career by consistently delivering value through digital and customer-centricity. I love creating value by reducing complexity in the digital world at both speed x scale. Prior to founding Brilliant Basics, I was one of the youngest Presidents and CEO’s at Interpublic Group (IPG) leading IPG Mediabrands Ventures in EMEA, a global advertising and media conglomerate where I led digital Operations, Innovative Products and Services and M&A. And previous to that I held leadership roles at Sapient (now a part of Publicis), AKQA (now a part of WPP) and Modem Media (now a part of Publicis). I am an active investor, adviser, non exec board director, academia, podcast host and speaker. Related Information: – Anand was a co-founder of atp.io in 2012, a Marketing Tech Platform. – Anand was a cofounder of Everpress, a product incubator. – Anand was a co-founder of haberdash app, a digital textile printing startup. – Anand was a co-founder of Weekly, a media startup. – Anand was a co-founder of Mesmerise, a VR and AR Tech Platform. – Anand was the Founder and CEO of Brilliant Basics (acquired by Infosys) – Anand was INED for HML Holdings Plc, next generation Property Management company. Exited to Harwood Capital PE. – Anand was a Senior Leader at Infosys, Sapient, Publicis.Sapient, Interpublic Group IPG, AKQA…
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About Expect. (trading name of Exponential Climate Technologies Ltd.): Expect. is the decarbonisation management platform for large enterprises and heavy industries.
Kabir Barday
Founder, CEO of OneTrust
Barday is Fellow of Information Privacy, a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT), and Chief Executive Officer of OneTrust. Barday oversees all aspects of OneTrust’s product development, operations, and sales, and is the driving force behind the company’s international expansion. Prior to OneTrust, Barday served as Director of Product Management at AirWatch, which was acquired by VMware in 2014 for $1.54B. At AirWatch, Barday received the HPE-IAPP’s Most Innovative Privacy Technology Award after launching the Privacy First program.
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About CookiePro, OneTrust: OneTrust helps companies manage privacy, security, and governance requirements in a regulatory environment that constantly changes.
Oliur Rahman
Founder of UltraLinx
I’m a designer and entrepreneur living in the South East of England. I’m also known as UltraLinx online.
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About UltraLinx, YouTube: A web magazine covering the coolest content, from Technology to Design.
Christian Owens
Founder, CEO of Paddle
Christian Owens is a technology entrepreneur located in the United Kingdom. Christian has been involved with a number of startups but most notably his own two [Branchr Advertising](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/branchr-advertising) and [Mac Bundle Box](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mac-bundle-box). Christian is currently the Founder and Director of Branchr Advertising. A company with a new approach on CPC based internet advertising that allows fair ad distribution, without contracts or startup fees. Previously Christian was involved in the creation of various web based technologies and applications that have since been sold. Christian also started The Dream Apps, a privately funded Macintosh software development company.
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About Paddle, The Thiel Foundation: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Harrison Rose
Co-Founder, Chief Customer Officer of Paddle
Co-Founder, Chief Customer Officer at Paddle
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About Paddle: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Johnny Boufarhat
Founder and CEO of Hopin
Johnny Boufarhat is the Founder and CEO at Hopin.
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About Hopin: Hopin is an event platform provider that connects communities through virtual, hybrid, and in-person events.
Chris Wray
Co-Founder and Chief Legal Officer of Mattereum
Chris Wray is Chief Legal Officer, responsible for legal design of Mattereum’s smart property platform and delivery of smart contract consulting projects, as well as heading the group’s corporate legal function. Chris studied physics and philosophy at New College, Oxford, before co-founding ophthalmic lens technology company Adlens. He later attended City Law School and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2011. Chris’ legal practice focused on company and shareholder litigation, and licensing and joint ventures in respect of technology and intellectual property. He also practices as a commercial mediator, accredited by ADR Group; and he is a director of the Centre for Vision in the Developing World, which has designed and distributed low-cost, self-adjustable glasses for communities lacking access to professional eye care.
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About Mattereum: Mattereum is a provider of legally-enforceable smart contracts.
Nicolas Shulman
Founder and CEO of BlockDox
Nic Shulman is the award winning founder and CEO of BlockDox. He is a lawyer, author and a recognised expert in the field of building management appearing on national tv, radio and in newspapers.
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About BlockDox, FPRA, News on the Block: BlockDox is a software platform and mobile application.
Tim Groot
CEO and Co-Founder of Grip
Tim is an entrepreneur at heart, having started his first company at the of age 17. He graduated with a BBA in International Management from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His passion for the app development space eventually lead him to co-found Grip in 2014. Tim is also a member of Founders of the Future.
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About Grip: Grip is a market engagement platform used by event organizers to create virtual and live event experiences.
Dan Karger
Co-Founder of TaxScouts
Co-Founder at TaxScouts.
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About TaxScouts: TaxScouts is a tax preparation platform that makes tax planning easier.
Dean Fankhauser
CEO, Co-Founder of Bitcompare
Dean Fankhauser is the CEO and Founder of Bitcompare.
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About Bitcompare, Nuji: Your crypto comparison site
Paolo Malaguti
Founder & CEO of Credit-Vision
Paolo is the driving force behind Credit-Vision. Under his leadership the Company has rapidly grown into an award-winning FinTech start-up partnering with major technology and financial firms, as well as receiving the backing of the UK Government’s digital innovation department (InnovateUK). Paolo founded Credit-Vision following a decade working in leveraged finance at various leading banks where he appreciated the fundamental role of data accessibility and accuracy in the private credit markets as well as the potential for financial data platforms to substantially improve market efficiency. Paolo studied finance at the University of Bologna, where he is also a regular guest speaker, and the University of Pennsylvania/Wharton. He holds Chartered Accountant and Auditor qualifications and he often features in various specialist financial and technology media outlets.
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About Credit-Vision: Credit-Vision identifies, captures, aggregates and contextualises financial data for investors in corporate credit.
Zachary Williamson
Co-Founder and CTO of Aztec Protocol
Zachary Williamson is Co-Founder & CTO at CreditMint.
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About Aztec Protocol, CreditMint: Aztec develops an ethereum trading protocol that enables private transactions across the public blockchain.
Paul Thomas
Founder and Managing Director of Lead Forensics
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About Lead Forensics: Lead Forensics is the B2B software that identifies anonymous website visitors, providing full contact details and customer journey insight.
Maria Chatzou Dunford
CEO and Co-Founder of Lifebit
Dr. Maria Chatzou, CEO of Lifebit, is a biotech innovator and a proud geek, expert in bioinformatics, medical informatics and high performance computing. She is also a passionate entrepreneur and has founded two companies, Innovation Forum Barcelona and Techstars-backed Lifebit. Prior to Lifebit, she was a researcher at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, in Barcelona, where she was designing and deploying tools and methods that facilitate the analysis of Big Biomedical Data, allow for biological discoveries, and promote personalised medicine. She was part of the developing team of Nextflow, a programming framework that is revolutionising the computational analysis of genomic data and setting the foundations for personalised medicine computational analyses. Maria is also a frequent industry speaker and has spoken in many international conferences on the subjects of docker containers, genomics workflows, the computational challenges of personalised medicine, AI and HPC in genomics, women in leadership, entrepreneurship, science ventures, among many other topics.
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About Lifebit: Lifebit CloudOS is the intelligent genomics platform that is the industry standard for unified, secure research over distributed big data.
Pablo Prieto Barja
CTO and Co-Founder of Lifebit
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About Lifebit: Lifebit CloudOS is the intelligent genomics platform that is the industry standard for unified, secure research over distributed big data.
Fraser Robinson
Co-Founder & CEO of Beacon
Fraser Robinson is Non Executive Director at Taggstar
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About Beacon, Taggstar: Beacon is a digital supply chain and freight platform developed to optimize supply chains with insights and visibility.
Laurent Laffy
Founder and Executive Chairman of SeedLegals
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About Prepay Technologies, SeedLegals: The simple way for companies to complete the legals needed to raise investment and distribute equity
Anthony Drogon
Founder & CTO of SeedLegals
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About SeedLegals: The simple way for companies to complete the legals needed to raise investment and distribute equity
Alex Rea
Founder of Colony
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About Colony : Colony provides a social collaboration platform that makes it easy for people all over the world to build companies together online.
Andy Chung
Co-Founder of Stealth
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About Eden Ventures, Stealth, Tiny VC: Making AEC software talk to each other in real-time.
Ben Cuthbert
Co-Founder and CEO of Celer Technologies
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About Celer Technologies: Celer is a financial software company that creates modular systems that have the flexibility to meet today’s dynamic business environment.
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.
Damien Tanner
Co-Founder of Pusher
Damien Tanner is a Founder at Konf and Rebase Ventures.
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About Konf, Pusher, Rebase Ventures, thoughtbot: Pusher Ltd. provides a hosted API service for adding real-time bi-directional.
Max Williams
Co-Founder & CEO of Pusher
Max has spent the past 5 years running the London-based Ruby on Rails development shop New Bamboo, with his co-founder [Damien Tanner](http://crunchbase.com/person/damien-tanner). Their latest company is a realtime messaging service called Pusher (http://pusherapp.com), which was incubated inside New Bamboo. Max is passionate about realtime technology, and has the goal of making it more readily available for everyone.
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About Pusher: Pusher Ltd. provides a hosted API service for adding real-time bi-directional.
Pavan Palety
Founder & CCO of Samya.AI
Pavan Palety is the Founder and Chief Customer Officer at Samya.ai.
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About Samya.AI: Samya.AI operates as a revenue growth AI company that brings the power of deep learning.
Rafael López Schietekat
Founder & Managing Director of Diagnostikare
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About Diagnostikare: The first data-driven patient-centric virtual primary care platform in Mexico.
Dan Hubert
CEO & Founder of AppyWay
Dan initially founded AppyParking after experiencing first-hand the pain of parking caused by a fragmented and broken market when trying to park near the Royal Albert Hall for a concert. From this was born the AppyParking mobile app, but more questions quickly arose… What if we could digitise parking spaces? And not just spaces – but all of the UK’s kerbs? What opportunities would that unlock? How could a digitised, dynamic kerb not only meet the ever-growing demands of urban transport today – but shape that of tomorrow? From that lightbulb moment onwards, Dan was hooked and with AppyWay, he’s leading the charge to help cities thrive, from the kerb up.
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
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.
Jack Beaman
Co-Founder & CEO of Syft
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About Fuse Universal, Syft: Syft is the UK’s market leading flexible staffing platform.
Novo Abakare
Co-Founder & COO of Syft
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About Syft: Syft is the UK’s market leading flexible staffing platform.
Oz Alashe
CEO & Founder of CybSafe
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About CybSafe, Royal United Services Institute, SPRITE+: A behavioural security and data analytics platform helps people make better security decisions, and improve their security behaviour.
Sean Lumley
Co-Founder of CybSafe
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About CybSafe: A behavioural security and data analytics platform helps people make better security decisions, and improve their security behaviour.
Fahd Rachidy
Founder and CEO of ABAKA Holdings
Fahd is a serial entrepreneur passionate about helping the industry creates secure financial futures for everyone, and re-inventing the way the financial industry works using Artificial Intelligence. Fahd was previously co-founder of Scientificbeta.com, the leading index retirement digital platform recently acquired by SGX for $205m. Ecole Centrale, Sorbonne University, Lycée Louis Le Grand Paris.
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About ABAKA Holdings: ABAKA is the Enterprise platform powered by Artificial Intelligence enabling institutions to build digital retirement solutions
Henry Ludlam
Founder of Percent
Henry Ludlam is the Founder at Percent.
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About Percent: Percent is the API-first fintech powering purpose worldwide.
Jessi Baker
Founder & CEO of Provenance
Jessi Baker is the founder of Provenance, building the future of supply chain transparency and product trust on the blockchain. She is an Art and Science hybrid, with Master’s degrees in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and Design from the Royal College of Art. She has worked with brands on technology strategy across the US and Europe, including Adidas, The Four Seasons, The Guggenheim Museum, British Airways and Will.I.Am. She is an associate researcher at the Intel Institute for Sustainable Cities and a regular speaker on technology and social business.
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About Intel, Provenance: Provenance is the leading software solution for sustainability communications
Ray Kyrson
Co-Founder of Propoly
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About Propoly: Propoly is a digital platform that enables letting agents to use the latest technologies to reduce on admin. (Acquired in 2021 by LFL)
Tom Mundy
Co-Founder and COO of Goodlord
Tom co-founded Goodlord as a renter in 2014 after becoming frustrated with the inefficiencies in the tenancy process and discovering letting agents were fed up with it, too. Now Goodlord is a leading player in the UK Proptech community and with over £18m of funding they are on mission to make renting simple and transparent for all.
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About Goodlord: Goodlord offers a cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords, and tenants manage the rental process.
Richard White
Co-Founder and President of Goodlord
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About Goodlord, Pickles: Goodlord offers a cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords, and tenants manage the rental process.
Frederic Nze
CEO and Founder of Loal
Frederic Nze is the founder and CEO of Oakam, a digital micro-lender that is expanding credit access for the UK’s 12 million financially-excluded consumers. Oakam has captured the opportunity presented by the rapid democratization of smartphone technology to disrupt micro-lending by making borrowing more affordable and accessible for the working class. Prior to founding Oakam, Frederic spent his career in credit risk management and consumer finance at firms including American Express, Barclays and GE Capital. He first came across the UK’s micro-lending opportunity while working on a pilot project at Barclays to evaluate product offerings for lower income customers, and realizing the potential of this market, decided to found Oakam in 2006. Raised in Cental Africa, Frederic saw firsthand how informal community lending helped to jumpstart entrepreneurs and fledgling businesses. With global ambitions for Oakam, Frederic’s ultimate goal is to bring the concept back to the developing world.
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About Akrod Limited, Loal: Loal equips those poorly served by mainstream providers to build their credit profiles and live life on another level
Vassili Philippov
Founder & CEO of MEL Science
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About MEL Science: MEL Science develops up to date chemistry kit subscription and VR software for learning chemistry
