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 Developer Tools 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.
Alex Mifsud
Chief Executive Officer of Weavr
Before founding Ixaris Alex worked as a senior consultant in the Cambridge-based tech practice of Arthur D. Little, a global management consultancy providing technology and innovation to blue chip clients. Alex holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Malta – where he later headed the computer science departments – as well as MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Edinburgh.
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About Weavr: Weavr is an online platform that creates, integrates, deploys, and runs digital payment flows.
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Alexis Richardson
CEO & Co-Founder of Weaveworks
Alexis is the co-founder and CEO of Weaveworks. He is also the chairman of the TOC for CNCF, and the co-founder of the Coed:Code meetups. Previously he was at Pivotal, as head of products for Spring, RabbitMQ, Redis, Apache Tomcat and vFabric. Alexis was responsible for resetting the product direction of Spring and transitioning the vFabric business from VMware. Alexis co-founded RabbitMQ, and was CEO of the Rabbit company acquired by VMware in 2010, where he worked on numerous cloud platforms. Rumours persist that he co-founded several other software companies including Cohesive Networks, after a career as a prop trader in fixed income derivatives, and a misspent youth studying and teaching mathematical logic.
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About Metalogic, Rabbit Technologies, Weaveworks: Weaveworks simplifies operating Kubernetes workloads and provides a developer-centric operating model for cloud-native applications.
Jerome de Lafargue
Co-founder & CEO of Zeroheight
Jerome de Lafargue is the Co-founder & CEO at zeroheight.
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About Zeroheight: Zeroheight is a DevOps platform that allows design teams to create up-to-date style guides and document their design system resources.
Emre Baran
CEO & co-founder of Cerbos
Emre Baran is currently an executive director in charge of engineering and product management at Qubit. Emre has been involved with information technology since 1999. He was a Senior Product Manager at Google before leaving after 4 years working on various AdWords and AdSense related products & building large scale artificial intelligence and analytics systems to scale and automate operations. Prior to Google, Emre was the co-founder and CTO of Yonja.com, Turkey’s largest social network. He also has 5 years of experience in IT consulting for telecommunications and federal & local financial systems industries in the United States. Emre holds degrees in Economics and Computer Science from University of Pennsylvania and an MBA degree from INSEAD.
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About Cerbos: Cerbos is a software company that makes user permissions and authorization simple to implement and manage.
James Hadley
CEO of Immersive Labs
James Hadley i the CEO of Immersive Labs.
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About Immersive Labs: Immersive Labs develops a platform that measures and improves cybersecurity skills across businesses.
Danny Goh
CEO of Nexus FrontierTech
Danny is a serial entrepreneur and an early stage investor. He is the Co Founder and CEO of Nexus Frontier Tech, an AI research firm to make AI easy to work with organisations by using natural language processing to transform idle information into structured data, enabling them to run better, leaner, and faster. He has also co-founded Innovatube Frontier Labs (IFL), which later merged with Nexus. IFL is a technology group that operates an R&D lab in software and AI developments, invests in early-stage start-ups with 20+ portfolios, and acts as an incubator to foster the local start-up community in South East Asia. IFL has a team of researchers and engineers to develop cutting-edge deep technology to help start-ups and enterprises bolster their operational capabilities. Danny currently serves as an Entrepreneurship Expert at the Said Business School, University of Oxford and he is also an appointed Fellow at the Center for Policy and Competitiveness at the École des Ponts Business School, Paris Tech. He is an advisor and judge to several technology start-ups and accelerators including Microsoft Accelerator, Startupbootcamp IoT, and LBS Launchpad. Danny serves as a visiting lecturer at various Universities in Europe and he is a speaker at various conferences including TEDx and Fintech events.
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About Cambridge Judge Business School, Innovatube, Nexus FrontierTech, Said Business School, University of Oxford: We integrate AI solutions into existing systems, helping save time & money by employing solutions tackling inefficiency & data waste.
Baran Korkmaz
Founder, CEO of ARWAY
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About ARWAY: ARWAY is a spatial mapping platform critical to building the Metaverse.
Craig Beddis
CEO of Hadean
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About Hadean: Deploy Cloud Native Applications Simply and Securely
Jaime Jorge
Co Founder & CEO of Codacy
Co Founder and CEO at Codacy.
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About Codacy: Codacy is an automated code review tool that helps developers save time in code reviews and manage technical debt.
Alexandre Omeyer
CEO of Stepsize
Alexandre Omeyer is the CEO of Stepsize. His career in the technology industry started at VC-backed startups IOVOX and then DueDil where he focused on business development. The multiple startups and projects Alex worked on with the team with whom he later co-founded Stepsize, forged him into a self-taught developer and lead him down the path of Artificial Intelligence. Specifically, how it could be used to radically simplify software development and make it accessible to all. Stepsize went through the Virgin Media x Techstars accelerator during the summer of 2016 and has since then attracted investments from some of the best Angel investors and VCs in the business.
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About Stepsize: Stepsize build devtools for teams to develop better software faster.
Sven Al Hamad
Co-Founder and CEO of Webiny
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About Webiny: Easiest way to adopt serverless.
Asim Aslam
CEO of M3O
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About M3O: Next Generation Cloud Platform
Conrad Poulson
CEO of Huq Industries
Founder of Huq Industries.
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About Huq Industries: Huq is building the world’s largest consumer research network, helping businesses understand their offline markets with digital precision.
Spokey Wheeler
CEO of Pharaoh Tools
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About Pharaoh Tools: Open source, PHP, full-stack DevOps tools
Deepak Prabhakara
CEO of BoxyHQ
Deepak Prabhakara is the CEO and co-founder at BoxyHQ. He brings close to two decades of expertise in the design, architecture and development of complex software products. Prior to founding BoxyHQ he was the CTO at Red Sift, a fast-growing cybersecurity startup. He has led product and engineering teams at several startups and worked on the Opera Mini and Mobile browsers, a product loved and used by millions of users across the globe.
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About BoxyHQ: BoxyHQ helps startups to enable enterprise features in any SaaS app with just a few lines of code.
Gaetano Checinski
Founder and CEO of LoopPerfect
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About LoopPerfect: LoopPerfect’s mission is to streamline the development of C++ code, by using a just-in-time compiler.
Zaid Daba’een
CEO of DeveloperHub.io
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About DeveloperHub.io, Kadence: Create beautiful powerful developer hubs, hassle-free.
Nicholas Hopper
Founder & CEO of Crozdesk
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About Crozdesk: Crozdesk is a discovery platform which connects software buyers with B2B SaaS products
Justin Halfpenny
CEO of MobileCaddy
CEO of MobileCaddy.
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About MobileCaddy: The uninterrupted delivery of business critical mobile apps for the force.com platform
Tony Russo
CEO of Polydone
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About Polydone: Polydone is a project management platform for Agile teams.
Bartek Wlodarczyk
Chief Executive Officer & President of SKY ENGINE
Bartek Włodarczyk is the Chief Executive Officer & President at Sky Engine.
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About SKY ENGINE: Evolutionary AI Platform for the Deep Learning in Virtual Reality with Synthetic Data for any Computer Vision applications
