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 Collaboration 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.
Ajay Patel
Founder & CEO of HighQ
Ajay Patel As Founder of HighQ, Ajay continues to deliver on his vision of enabling a new, modern, highly efficient and ‘best in class’ secure platform of collaborative engagement and transaction for security, compliance and regulatory minded enterprises. As Chief Executive Officer, he leads the company growth strategy, product direction and senior management team. Ajay graduated with a first-class degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Manchester University and later completed a Master’s degree in Information Systems at LSE. He qualified as a chartered accountant at PwC in London and later occupied roles in leading investment banks Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. After spending several years in the City, he realised the corporate environment didn’t fulfil his creative, professional or personal ambitions and subsequently started HighQ.The idea was simple: to create a dynamic, fun and successful company that puts its employees and clients at the centre of everything it does.
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About HighQ: HighQ empowers leading law firms and corporate legal teams to transform the way they work and deliver legal services.
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Nate Macleitch
CEO of QuickBlox
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About QuickBlox, Techstars: QuickBlox is a cloud communication backend that allows to add Chat, Video calling, Push Notifications, Cloud Sync into mobile and web apps.
Mark Wrighton
Chief Executive Officer of Huddle
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About Huddle: Huddle is the enterprise document collaboration company that helps organizations across the globe to collaborate intelligently.
Tariq Rauf
Founder & CEO of Qatalog
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About Qatalog: The work hub for modern teams and knowledge workers.
Joe Taylor
Co-founder & CEO of Nemo
CEO and co-founder of Nemo. I’ve been building sync/async collaboration tools for distributed teams since 2013, with particular focus on audio/video. I’ve managed remote teams across multiple timezones and countries. Formerly manager of Cisco’s collaboration innovation labs in San Francisco and New York. Before that, head of UX and Mobile at Assemblage Inc in London/Copenhagen (acquired by Cisco in June 2014).
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About Nemo: Get more out of your virtual meetings – automatically
Elizabeth Tweedale
Founder and CEO of Cypher Coders
Elizabeth Tweedale is the CEO and founder of Cypher Coders
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About Cypher Coders: Cypher inspires children to learn the language of the future through hands-on creative coding camps and courses.
Mark Perera
Founder & CEO of Vizibl
CEO of Old St Labs / Founder of Procurement Leaders / Vizibl co-founder
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About Vizibl: Vizibl’s application puts collaboration, innovation and sustainability at the heart of supplier relationships. Their best in class digital platform enables enterprise organisations to tackle their most ambitious challenges collaboratively with suppliers and partners, to drive mutual value & sustainable business growth.
Sean Nolan
Founder & CEO of Blink
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About Blink: We make remote working less remote. Welcome to the Frontline of the Future.
Tristan Rogers
CEO of Concrete
Tristan Rogers is CEO & Board Member at Concrete
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About Concrete: Concrete provides retail brands a platform to train and retain store staff.
Annil Chandel
CEO & Co-Founder of Wurkr
Annil Chandel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wurkr.
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About KnownFour, Wurkr: Wurkr is a video platform that allows teams to collaborate from anywhere within an immersive virtual workspace.
Randhir Shinde
CEO of Galaxkey
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About Galaxkey, Image Analyzer: Galaxkey is an encryption platform to easily protect confidential information.
Mat Hunter
Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Plus X
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About Plus X: Plus X creates workspaces that unlock potential, business growth and innovation, community collaboration, and positive social impact.
Daniel Allen
CEO & Founder of Sipcom
With a proven entrepreneurial track record, Daniel is an acknowledged business leader and innovator in the Communications and Collaboration services market. An experienced board level executive for over 18 years, Daniel was Sales Director for a Sunday Times Fast Track 100 company in 2005 & 2006 and was a finalist in the NatWest sponsored Entrepreneur of the Year and Fastest Growing Company in 2010. Daniel held senior positions with a number of leading technology providers before forming Sipcom in 2006. In 2018, Daniel was also recognized as one of the Top 40 under 40 Jewish Entrepreneurs in New York by the Young Jewish Professionals Organisation. In 2020, Daniel also led Sipcom to its inclusion in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 – the list for Britain’s fastest growing technology companies.
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About Sipcom: Communications and collaboration on any scale.
Dhrupad Karwa
Co-Founder & CEO of HaikuJAM
Dhrupad Karwa is the Co-Founder and CEO at HaikuJAM
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About HaikuJAM, Inspo: Collaborative Poetry & Artistic Expression App
Simon Maylott
CEO & Co-Founder of Indie Media Labs
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About Indie Media Labs: SaaS digital publishing and distribution service for book publishers and direct to consumer whitelabel all-in-one publishing platform
Sumit Pasupalak
CEO & Founder of Ubiq
Sumit Pasupalak is CEO at Ubiq.
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About Inovia Capital, Ubiq: Ubiq enables individuals and organizations to give wireless presentations.
