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 CEO’ operating in the Real Time space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Matthew O’Riordan
CEO & Co-founder of Ably Realtime
A serial entrepreneur and seasoned developer with over 15 years of hands-on development experience. Matthew co-founded Econsultancy (http://econsultancy.com), a global digital marketing publishing, training and research business, with Ashley Friedlein and exited via a £25m trade sale to Centaur Media plc in 2012. Matthew was Co-founder and Technical Director of Aqueduct (http://aqueduct.co.uk), a leading digital agency in London and Founder of easyBacklog (http://easybacklog.com), a SaaS agile backlog management tool. Matthew was also founder of Lemon Studios http://lemonstudioslondon.com/ in 2016, a serviced office for digital marketing and technology companies in London.
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About Ably Realtime, easyBacklog, Open API Initiative: Ably is the platform to power synchronized digital experiences in realtime.
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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.
Dugald Macdonald
Co-Founder & CEO of Sportable
Dugald Macdonald is a Co-Founder and serves as a Chief Executive Officer at Sportable. Prior to founding Sportable, he serves as an Investment Associate at GEM Investments for over a year.
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About Sportable: Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences.
Paul Watmough
Founder and CEO of MDX Technology
Paul is a successful business developer of technology companies serving the Capital Markets, Energy and Commodities sectors. He has founded and built a number of technology companies to market leading positions attracting investors and buyers. He is an energetic sales manager, having led global sales and marketing teams, with a proven track record. He is an innovative marketer widely connected and respected. Paul co-founded MDX Technology in 2010 where he currently serves as CEO.
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About MDX Technology: MDX Technology Ltd focuses on real-time market data connectivity solutions for Traders, Developers and Market Data Professionals.
Jenna Brown
CEO & Co-Founder of Shipamax
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About Shipamax: Shipamax provides seamless fleet and deals management for operators and brokers.
Steve Klin
CEO of BlueVenn
As Chief Executive Officer Steve has over 20 years’ experience in the Database, Analytics and Digital marketplace. This includes Co founding eWare Interactive (Personalisation & Analytics eventually purchased by GB Group), Sales Director of Alterian Plc. (Analytics & Campaign Management) and most recently European Managing Director of smartFOCUS Plc (Analytics, Campaign Management & Digital) where revenues grew 7 fold before being acquired by Emailvision.
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About BlueVenn: BlueVenn’s software provides real-time analysis of customer data that create highly personalized and relevant marketing campaigns.
Jo Eckersley
CEO & Founder of Bubbl Ltd
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About Bubbl Ltd: Cutting-edge mobile app plug-in that allows companies to hyper-focus their marketing efforts with geo-triggered customer engagement tools.
Abhishek Sen
CEO / Co-Founder of NumberEight
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About NumberEight: On-device AI software to predict user context using mobile sensors
James Gill
Founder and CEO of GoSquared
James Gill is a Founder and CEO at GoSquared.
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About GoSquared: GoSquared is a platform where businesses can communicate with their customers through analytics, CRM, live chat, and marketing automation.
Mark Gorski
Co-Founder & CEO of Sports Data Labs, Inc.
Mark is Co-Founder & CEO of Sports Data Labs, Inc., an AI and monetization platform unlocking the value of sensor-based health data.
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About Sports Data Labs, Inc.: Sports Data Labs, Inc. (SD Labs) is a venture-backed, award-winning leader in collection, analysis and distribution of real-time Human Data from on-body sensors and other sensing systems.
Henry Dowding
CEO/Founder of Hang
Henry Dowding is the 18-year-old Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hang.
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About Hang: Hang is real-time meeting space booking platform that’s redefining how people meet.
Martin Luke
CEO of Vox Markets
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About Vox Markets: Online network connecting traders and investors to a dynamic network of information, people, companies and ideas.
Matthew Hodgson
Founder & CEO of Mosaic Smart Data
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About Mosaic Smart Data: Mosaic Smart Data, the fintech which provides real-time data for fixed income, currencies and commodities.
