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 Partner operating in the Blockchain space. If you think a Partner 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.
Mark Evans
Founding Partner and Associate of Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)
Mark is currently an LP and Investment Committee member at Kindred Capital, a European Seed-Stage Venture fund, based in London. He was a General Partner at Balderton Capital/ Benchmark Europe from 2002 through 2015, and an EIR at Benchmark Capital in 1999/2000. He spent the prior 15 years @ Goldman Sachs, where he was a General Partner and Management Committee member. He studied Economics at both University of Oxford and Queen’s University in Canada.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Headspace, Kindred Capital: Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a no-fee/no-equity mentoring program for the founders and executives of pre-seed stage ventures.
Niklas Zennström
Founding Partner and Associate of Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)
Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He works daily with founders and sits on the boards of Farmdrop, Lilium, Pipedrive, Oden Technologies and Varjo. Niklas is an experienced technology investor and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and managed globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa and Joltid. Niklas founded Atomico in 2006. He is passionate about partnering about founders solving big challenges facing their planet with digital technology. In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies with his wife, Catherine. They focus their efforts in two areas: human rights and the environment. Niklas also founded the Race for the Baltic, a foundation for a well-managed and sustainable Baltic Sea, one of the most threatened major bodies of water in the world. Niklas is a keen yachtsman and has won four World Championships with his yacht racing team, Rán. Niklas holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.
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About Atomico, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Joost: Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a no-fee/no-equity mentoring program for the founders and executives of pre-seed stage ventures.
Peter Davies
Founding Partner and Associate of Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)
Peter is the founder of Verv. A serial entrepreneur with an engineering background, Peter also founded Austin Consultants, the UK’s highest certified LabVIEW Consultancy specialising in automated test, measurement and control systems for aerospace and automotive industries. Co-founder of the European Workshop for NILM technology and organiser of the London LabVIEW user group, Peter was also a finalist for the Rising Star Award in the Energy Innovation Awards in 2014 and then went on to win Innovator of the Year at the 2016 Business Green Technology Awards.
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About Austin Consultants, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), European NILM Workshop (Non-Intrusive-Load-Monitoring): Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a no-fee/no-equity mentoring program for the founders and executives of pre-seed stage ventures.
Robin Klein
Founding Partner and Associate of Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)
Robin Klein is the Non – Executive Chairman of MOO Print Ltd. He is also a Venture Partner at Index Ventures. Robin joined the London office of Index Ventures in April 2010 as a Venture Partner. He is a founding partner of The Accelerator Group, a seed investment company specialising in e-commerce, digital media and Internet services. He is currently Chairman of Quickbridge (Wonga), Moo Print Ltd, MyBuilder. He sits on the Boards of EDITD, Farfetch, FreeAgent, OneFineStay, Skimlinks, Zoopla. Robin is a governor of Rhyl primary school. He is also a past Chairman of Great Ormond Street hospital’s funding company. Robin has 25 years of operating experience, 20 years of which as entrepreneur and 14 years of investing experience and he has been on the boards of three publicly quoted companies. In his last operating role as Chairman and CEO of Innovations, he conducted the very first UK ecommerce transaction in May 1995. Since starting his investment career in earnest in 1998 by co-founding The Accelerator Group (TAG) with his son, Saul, they have made over sixty investments. Robin is passionate about helping to build the European technology start-up ecosystem and actively supports Saul in the promotion of Seedcamp and OpenCoffee. He has a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering. An MSc in Industrial Engineering.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Latitude, LocalGlobe, Moneysupermarket, PrimeLocation.com, The Accelerator Group, The Digital Property Group: Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a no-fee/no-equity mentoring program for the founders and executives of pre-seed stage ventures.
Richard Muirhead
Founding Managing Partner of Fabric Ventures
Since 1995, Richard Muirhead has been involved in starting, funding, building and finding long-term homes for innovative software and internet businesses. He is currently Chairman of Tixdaq (www.tixdaq.com) and investor/advisor to T5M (www.t5m.com). From October 2002 to 2009, he was Chairman, CEO and Founder of [Tideway Systems] (http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tideway) which with its IT discovery platform tackled the persistent and fundamental challenge of managing change in distributed applications. Tideway’s hundreds of clients included JPMorganChase, Avis, CarphoneWarehouse, Wachovia and BT. Tideway was acquired for cash by BMC Software in October 2009 and its product Foundation is a key strategic platform for BMC going forward. Between 2001 and 2002, Richard was Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Accel Partners at the inception of their London office. From 1995 to 2001, he was a co-founder SVP of Orchestream. Listing on LSE and NASDAQ, with a peak market capitalization that reached £1.0 billion. Now sold and supported by Oracle, Orchestream’s IP service activation software products are automating operations at service providers such as AT&T, Telstra and Vodafone to this day. Richard was a Technology Pioneer at the World Economic Forum for 2009, a finalist in the UK Technology Innovation & Growth Entrepreneur of the Year Award for 2006 and runner-up in the British Computing Society’s Intel IT Leader of the Year Award for 2008. Richard holds an MA in Engineering from Cambridge University and is a citizen of both Australia and the United Kingdom.
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About Fabric Ventures, Firestartr: Fabric Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in scalable decentralized networks.
Max Mersch
Co-founder & General Partner of Fabric Ventures
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About Fabric Ventures: Fabric Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in scalable decentralized networks.
Anastasiya Belyaeva
Co-founder & Partner, Venture Platform of Fabric Ventures
Founder & Partner @ Fabric Ventures – investing in decentralised data networks
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About Fabric Ventures: Fabric Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in scalable decentralized networks.
Alessio Treglia
Head of EMEA Partnership of Tendermint
Alessio Treglia is the head of EMEA Partnerships at Tendermint.
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About Tendermint: Tendermint brings simplicity, security, and speed to the world’s blockchains.
Michael Siwek
Founding Partner of DMALINK
In 2013, Michael founded 7Hedge, a London-based FX Brokerage – underpinned by Deutsche Bank clearing and settlement. He later sold the business to a former Hotspot (CBOE Global Markets) executive. In 2015, Michael established DMALINK, offering order execution services, market data, and analytics used by banks, asset managers, and funds globally. In 2020, Michael co-founded DeFinity Markets, co-owned by DMALINK, an institutional digital asset ECN and DeFi marketplace for foreign exchange, cryptographic assets, and CBDC. Michael comes from a Financial Services background with senior positions at Gain Capital and The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). His specialty is Regulatory Technology, Market Data, and multi-asset class execution venues. Michael has a particular affinity for building, operating and distributing electronic trading venues from the ground up.
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About DeFinity Markets, DMALINK: DMALINK is a data-centric trading and RegTech platform for professional Foreign Exchange traders globally.
Abdalla Kablan
Managing Partner of Wyzer
Abdalla Kablan is a serial entrepreneur, and award winning fintech expert. He specialises in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the design of complex financial systems. Throughout his career he founded a number of startups and companies specializing in deep learning, professional match making, and Fintech. Furthermore, Kablans is an Alumni of Microsoft Ventures, UK and worked on projects, which were featured at the World Economic Forum 2017 in Davos. Kablan is also an academic at the University of Malta where he lectures and researches topics related to computational intelligence, financial engineering, and financial data science. During his PhD studies between 2007-2011 Dr Kablan researched the cryptographic block algorithms behind bitcoin (now known as blockchain), and is a renowned expert in the field of distributed ledgers. Furthermore Dr Kablan advices governments on matters related to strategic development and utilisation of technology, Fintech, and Blockchain/DLT technologies.
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About Caledo, University of Malta, Wyzer: Wyzer assists organizations in fin-tech, AI, and blockchain.
Quentin Adam
Operating Partner of Tioga Capital Partners
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About Tioga Capital Partners: Tioga Capital Partners is a blockchain-focused venture capital firm.
