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 Personalization 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.
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.
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Aaron Simpson
Co-Founder & CEO of Quintessentially Group of Quintessentially
Aaron Simpson is the Co-Founder and CEO at Quintessentially.
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About Kindred, Quintessentially: Quintessentially is a U.K.-based company that provides private and corporate concierge services worldwide.
Guy Riese
Founder & CEO of Up Learn
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About Up Learn: Up Learn is an online education platform.
Paul Archer
Founder and Managing Director of Duel
World Record-breaking Adventurer, Best-selling Author and founder of Duel. Aside from his expeditions and writing, he has spent his career building technology, including the Daredevil Project app development studio, and consulting for advertising agencies and tech companies. He founded Duel to democratise and decentralise marketing for brands. Duel is solving the lack of emotional connection and social proof in often clinical looking online stores by rewarding customers for creating visual testimonials and advocating among their friends, rather than wasting millions on advertising to drive sales. Before this Paul conceived and implemented the It’s on the Meter Expedition to drive to London taxi around the World. The expedition broke two Guinness World Records, raised over £20,000 and passed through 50 countries after driving 80,000 miles from London to London in Hannah, a 1992 London Taxi bought of eBay. Paul is also an experienced speaker, moderator and a conference host. Including TEDx, SXSW, Festival of Media, Cannes Lions, Social Media Week, GenerationE, the Content Marketing Institute and Retail.Tech, as well as guest lecturing at the British School of Fashion.
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About Duel: Brand Advocacy Platform that enables purpose-led brands to drive organic growth & retention through word-of-mouth & advocacy
James William Middleton
Founder of Boomf
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About Boomf, Ella & Co: Boomf is an initial product, Boomf is a quite simply a better way to send a sentiment.
Donna North
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Dressipi
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About Dressipi: The leading independently verified Revenue Optimisation Platform for fashion retailers.
Chris Watts
CTO / Co-Founder of NumberEight
Chris is the co-founder and CTO of NumberEight, a London-based AI company that detects user context from smartphone sensors and uses it to build audiences of behaviourally similar users. He is an ex-IBMer, where he researched air pollution sensors and has multiple patents to his name. He holds computer science degrees from Southampton and Cambridge and brings the know-how to achieve the theory of context detection in the real world.
Chris’ team has since produced patent-pending inventions, including efficient techniques for smartphones to process high-frequency data without significant battery impact, the ability to make personal devices work together to adapt to context and mood, and the process of defining groups of people with similar interests using anonymised sensor data.
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About NumberEight: NumberEight solves mobile addressability at scale by giving new life to untapped 1st party data. The company empowers app developers, ad partners, and advertisers to explore the power of mobex (mobile context) to connect with their users in a relevant, impactful, and most importantly, a private way. They do this through our best-in-class mobile AI software, which predicts the live context of a user (e.g. running, commuting) from sensors present in the device, and then packages them neatly into ID-less behavioural audiences (e.g. joggers, frequent shoppers). All computation happens on-device, thus producing a privacy-by-design solution that guarantees a higher regulatory immunity.
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 Cadbury
Founder of Love Cocoa
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About HiP Chocolate, Kind Bag, Love Cocoa: Love Cocoa reinvents British favorites with a contemporary twist to give the quality handmade chocolate.
John Walker
Founder of gloudio
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About gloudio: gloudio offers an application that enables its users to access audio clips of travel guides.
Kashif Yamin
Founder and CEO of Incisively Limited
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About Incisively Limited: Incisively Limited increase eCommerce margins by optimizing products, pricing, promotions and placement using machine learning algorithms.
Douglas Higgins
Founder & Director of Mujo Mechanics
Douglas Higgins is the Founder & Director at Mujo Mechanics.
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About Mujo Mechanics: Mujo Mechanics provides smart devices and intelligent cloud platform for a data-driven approach to musculoskeletal health.
Jason Daniel Ting
Founder of Novos AI
Microsoft Ventures Accelerator Alumnus and Founder of Novos AI
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About Novos AI: The World’s Most Powerful Intelligence Engine
