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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 CTO’ operating in the Internet of Things space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Rajiv Mathur
CTO of Chainvine
Dr Rajiv Mathur is the co-founder chief technologist at Chainvine – Blockchain/DLT technology company headquartered in the UK. Dr Mathur has 20 years of extensive industry and academic research experience with numerous years in technology leadership roles both in the UK and internationally with some of the best known companies in the world such as Vodafone, Telefonica, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, Nationwide Building Society etc. His experience in the industry has been in technology architecture, fraud detection and security of payments, digital transformation and agile delivery. In addition to his work in the industry, Dr Mathur also comes from an academic research background with his last academic position at Distributed Systems Engineering Research Group within the Computer Science Department at Imperial College London. Dr Mathur has a PhD in Mobile Communications Architecture from University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK.
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
Paddy Byers
CTO & Co-founder of Ably Realtime
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About Ably Realtime: Ably is the platform to power synchronized digital experiences in realtime.
John Fogelin
CTO & Security Officer of AppyWay
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Dominique Guinard
Co-Founder & CTO of EVRYTHNG
Dominique Guinard is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of EVRYTHNG, the Internet of Things Smart Products Platform that connects any consumer product to the Web, and manages real-time data to drive applications. He is also a co-founder of WebofThings.org. Prior to that, he worked at MIT Auto-ID Labs, SAP, Auto-ID Labs Zurich, and Sun Microsystems. Guinard holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science. Later on, he obtained a PhD from ETH Zurich. He was listed 5th amongst the top 100 IoT thinkers by Postscapes. Early in 2012, his PhD research was granted the ETH Medal.
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About Blockchain Research Institute, EVRYTHNG, Webofthings.org: EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
Patrick Gleeson
CTO of Groupladder
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About Groupladder: Groupladder is a provide a unique mortgage product.
Vlad Ilyushchenko
Co-founder / CTO of QuestDB
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About QuestDB: QuestDB is an open-source SQL database designed to process time-series data, faster.
Sachin Deshpande
Chief Technology Officer of Made by Fire
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About Made by Fire: We create digital products for our ambitious clients with a team of over 100 specialists.
Daniel Jones
Chief Technology Officer of Chirp
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About Chirp: Chirp uses existing speakers and microphones to enable frictionless M2M communication to seamlessly and securely transfer data via sound.
Jonathon Valentine
Founder and CTO of ThingCo
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About ThingCo: Telematics, Cars, IoT, SaaS, Insurance, ADAS, Intelligent voice,Automotive
Andrew Kuzmych
Co-Founder and CTO of TechMagic
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About TechMagic: Top JavaScript and Serverless developers
Tristan Cool
Chief Technology Officer of Aura Innovation
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About Aura Innovation: Aura Innovation is a Augmented Reality Head-Up Display for commercial vehicles and the autonomous future.
Matthew Travers
CTO of Hanhaa
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About Hanhaa: A full service MNO supplying private 4G/5G connectivity globally / A leader in supply chain analytics with our ParceLive platform.
Damon Hart-Davis
CTO & Co-Founder of Vestemi
Damon has a Masters in Computer Science with a focus on AI and 20 years of experience designing and optimising systems in the City. Previous start-ups included one of the UK’s first ISPs and a virtual credit company. He has also worked with DECC advising on energy efficiency from 2009.
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About Vestemi: Vestemi is a new technology product company with a social purpose.
Jeremie Charlet
CTO & Co-Founder of Trackener
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About Trackener: Trackener is revolutionising the equine care with data and technology.
Chris Wright
Co-founder and CTO of Moixa Energy Holdings
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About Moixa Energy Holdings: Pioneer of energy storage, DC micro-grid power and aggregate electricity grid services in the UK
Stuart Brown
CTO of Child Safe VPN
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About Child Safe VPN: Child Safe VPN Service – all a child needs for the safest online experience. Designed for children under 13 using NSPCC guidelines
Stuart Brown
CTO of Child Safe VPN
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About Child Safe VPN: Child Safe VPN Service – all a child needs for the safest online experience. Designed for children under 13 using NSPCC guidelines
Richie Holland
CTO and Founder of vidmeup
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About smartvideo, vidmeup: Vidmeup is an online video platform that gives users the ability to create their own video website for free.
