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This list showcases the top London based Founder operating in the Drones 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.
Alex Caccia
Co-Founder & CEO of Animal Dynamics
An entrepreneur with start-up experience in, media, technology, manufacturing and a background in finance and investment banking. After a career in the City as a fund manager, and subsequently in investment banking, Alex founded a successful sports equipment business called WaterRower Ltd. In 1999 Alex joined Sportal, a European dotcom start-up, where he was head of advanced technology development. In 2003 Alex was involved in forming The Cloud (WiFi Aggregator, sold to Sky in 2010). From 2005-2010 Alex was CEO of Marmalade Technology Ltd, a leading mobile applications cross platform software SDK. In 2012, Alex founded an exercise technology business called Muoverti Ltd.
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About Animal Dynamics, iNeed: Animal Dynamics is a spinout company from the Department of Zoology at University of Oxford
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Theo Pape
Founder, CEO of DRONEWORK
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About DRONEWORK, Flickreel: DRONEWORK is a drone mission matching platform for professional drone operators.
Richard Grogan
Founder & Executive Chairman of Zenaura
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About Zenaura: Zenaura is a IoT controlled home fragrance with aspirational design.
Simon Sassoon
Founder of Zenaura
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About Zenaura: Zenaura is a IoT controlled home fragrance with aspirational design.
Petter Neby
Founder and CEO of Punkt. Tronics
Petter Neby is a Norwegian technology entrepreneur. Mr. Neby launched his first business in Norway in 1989, at the age of seventeen, and in 1991 moved to Paris, to work for an international consumer electronics company. Innovation and creativity has led Mr. Neby to find and manage successful businesses in the telecommunications, enterprise software and website areas. Mr. Neby created Punkt. in 2008 to offer straightforward alternatives to multi-function devices that started to dominate the consumer electronic marketplace.
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About Punkt. Tronics: Punkt. is a Swiss design led technology company that aims to make life simpler by creating timeless and outstanding products
Ming Kong
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TG0
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About TG0: TG0 is an R&D start-up creating novel 3D controls.
Daniela Menzky
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Angoka
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About Angoka, Auto Clubs International, CyNation, CyNation: ANGOKA is an IoT security company focused on protecting machine-to-machine communications for Smart Cities and Mobility.
Shadi Razak
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Angoka
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About Angoka, CyNation: ANGOKA is an IoT security company focused on protecting machine-to-machine communications for Smart Cities and Mobility.
Stefan Leutenegger
Co-Founder of SLAMcore
Stefan is a Lecturer in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. His research is focused on autonomous robot navigation: robots need dedicated sensing capabilities as well as algorithms for localisation within a potentially unknown environment. This includes localisation and mapping with a suite of sensors, most importantly cameras, to be processed efficiently to yield accurate results in real-time. In the past, he has mostly worked with Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), in order to allow them to fly autonomously and close to the ground. He received a BSc and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich in 2006, 2008, respectively, and a PhD in 2014, working at the Autonomous Systems Lab of ETH Zurich on Unmanned Solar Airplanes: Design and Algorithms for Efficient and Robust Autonomous Operation.
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About SLAMcore: SLAMcore provides location, mapping and perception software for robots and other autonomous machines to become spatially intelligent
Owen Nicholson
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of SLAMcore
Over a decade of experience in early stage R&D management working on both UK government and industry research portfolios. Successfully delivered technologies in a wide range of areas including UK augmented reality for the UK Special Forces, next generation nuclear submarines and domestic electronics. Worked for four years building and managing the University Research Programme for a leading global engineering company, transferring technologies from top research institutions around the world. Specialised in the strategic and commercial aspects of technology development acting as an advisor to the UK government on university technology transfer.
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About SLAMcore: SLAMcore provides location, mapping and perception software for robots and other autonomous machines to become spatially intelligent
Jacek Zienkiewicz
Co-Founder & VP of Engineering of SLAMcore
Jacek’s background is in robotics and sensing. He achieved a Master’s Degree in Control Engineering and Robotics, specialising in motion planning algorithms for autonomous vehicles. After five years developing novel laser-based distance measurement algorithms and software for SICK AG, he moved to London to pursue his research interests. He earned his PhD with the Robot Vision Group at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. His research aims to develop a dense visual perception system suitable for mobile robot navigation and guidance.
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About SLAMcore: SLAMcore provides location, mapping and perception software for robots and other autonomous machines to become spatially intelligent
Andrew Davison
Co-Founder of SLAMcore
Andrew is Professor of Robot Vision at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London and leads Imperial’s Robot Vision Research Group. He has spent 20 years conducting pioneering research in visual SLAM, with a particular emphasis on methods that work in real-time with commodity cameras. He has developed and collaborated on breakthrough SLAM systems including MonoSLAM and KinectFusion, and his research contributions have over 15,000 academic citations. He also has extensive experience of collaborating with industry on the application of SLAM methods to real products.
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About SLAMcore: SLAMcore provides location, mapping and perception software for robots and other autonomous machines to become spatially intelligent
Kirill Shilov
Founder & CEO of Sky-Drones
Kirill Shilov – Founder / CEO Sky-Drones, holds his MSc degree with honours in Aerospace Engineering, majoring in Flight Dynamics and Control and BSc degree with honours in Applied Math and Physics. Kirill has extensive scientific, engineering and business experience. Before starting Sky-Drones full time Kirill was engineer at Autonomous Control Systems Lab in Tokyo, Japan and Perspective Robotics GmbH in Zürich, Switzerland.
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About Sky-Drones: We accelerate the development and adoption of commercial drones for enterprise by building connected hardware and software products.
Robert Garbett
Founder & Chief Executive of Drone Major Group
Robert Garbett is an ex-military entrepreneur who in 2007 left the military as a Major following injury in service. During his military service, Robert Garbett established senior level expertise in electronic systems engineering, aeronautical engineering, airworthiness, aviation risk, technical authorship, standards, planning and project management.
In 2017, he created Drone Major Group which is now the world’s leading independent drone and counter-drone consultancy delivering advice and guidance to organisations looking to adopt drone and counter-drone technology into their business or organisation and support to suppliers around the world.
Robert Garbett is the UK Lead on all ISO committees authoring the global standards for Unmanned Air Systems (UAS). He is also the founder and driving force behind the UK’s Drone Delivery Group which has assembled over 400 senior UK drone industry stakeholders in an industry-led initiative to deliver strategic white papers to the Government on the future commercialisation of the drone industry.
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About Drone Major Group: Drone Major Group delivers a range of advisory services focussed around the rapidly growing drone industry.
Ridha Azaiz
Founder of Aerial Power
Ridha Azaiz is Founder at Aerial Power.
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About Aerial Power: Aerial Power is developing UAV’s for the cleaning of solar panels, mirrors, and windows.
Paul Fischer
Co_Founder of ImagineAir
Paul Fischer, M.D. A graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Dr. Fischer’s interest in small aircraft travel began over a decade ago when he realized its potential for dramatically simplifying business and leisure travel. As a cofounder, he brings years of business and entrepreneurial experience to ImagineAir, having been the CEO and founding partner for the Center for Primary Care, PC, Primary Care Properties, LLC, and several other successful companies during his career.
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About ImagineAir: ImagineAir offers personal air taxi services.
Ashley Widowson
Founder of AJ-Drone Ltd
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About AJ-Drone Ltd: AJ-Drone Ltd is a photography and videography business.
Cosima Pole
Founder/Director/Designer of Creature Clothes Ltd.
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About Creature Clothes Ltd.: Dog and Cat Collars, Beds and accessories. Designed and made by hand in the UK
