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This list showcases the top London based Founder operating in the Cooking 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.
Siddhi Mittal
Co-Founder of yhangry
Siddhi Mittal is the Co-Founder of Yhangry.
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About yhangry: yhangry is a private chef platform where users can book a professional chef to come cook for them at home
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Giles Humphries
Founder, CMO of Mindful Chef
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About Mindful Chef: Mindful Chef delivers all the fresh ingredients you need to create delicious, heathy meals.
Robert Grieg-Gran
Founder of Mindful Chef
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About Mindful Chef: Mindful Chef delivers all the fresh ingredients you need to create delicious, heathy meals.
Myles Hopper
Founder, Director of Mindful Chef
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About Mindful Chef: Mindful Chef delivers all the fresh ingredients you need to create delicious, heathy meals.
Oli Ashness
Founder of SimplyCook
Oli Ashness is the Founder at SimplyCook.
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About SimplyCook: SimplyCook offers home recipe kits with easy step-by-step guides to cook restaurant-quality food in less than 20 minutes.
Matthew Cockerill
Creative Director and Head of Studio of Swift Creatives
Matthew is a well-established designer who has been creating world-leading products and experiences for over 20 years. Working internationally across multiple sectors to help brands increase their business value through innovation and the design of physical and digital products and experiences. His work includes consumer electronics, healthcare, domestic appliances, alcoholic beverages, endurance sports, transportation and environments. He created the world’s first ethical and modular smartphone for Fairphone which won a Cannes Lion award in 2017, imagined future lifestyles and product categories for Samsung Electronics, created luxurious whisky experiences for Diageo, retail activations for Gatorade, award experiences for Google and helped define the passenger experience at Heathrow T5. Matthew regularly brings his innovative thinking to the wider world through speaking at conferences, panel talks, commentating in the press, university lecturing and judging industry events, including the steering group for the 2017/18 Cannes Lion Award. Before joining Swift Creatives, Matthew was a board director at Seymourpowell for 10 years and has worked in-house in Seoul, South Korea for Samsung Electronics.
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About Swift Creatives: Swift Creatives is an international design studio, helping brands create innovative designs and meaningful experiences
Pedro Nuñez Porras
Founder and CEO of Eskesso
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About Eskesso: Eskesso is smart sous vide cooking appliance and cloud platform.
Duncan Scott
Founder & CEO of Supper
Before starting Supper, Duncan worked in Wealth Management in Mayfair, London. Over the previous 6 years Duncan had worked his way up from starting in financial sales, to Heading up sales and marketing and later being in charge of corporate strategy and business performance. Duncan has a degree in Economics and a Masters in Finance and Wealth Management as well as qualifications in tax and accounting.
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About Supper: Supper is an online marketplace for home-cooked food, bringing cookery enthusiasts and hungry Londoners together in a takeaway service
Damien Kennedy
Founder of Wheyhey
Damien Kennedy is the Founder of Wheyhey.
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About Wheyhey: Wheyhey is a London based health food brand.
Henry Dimbleby
Co-Founder of LEON
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About LEON: Leon belives that food should taste good and do you good.
Allegra McEvedy
Founder of LEON
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About LEON: Leon belives that food should taste good and do you good.
