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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 Founder operating in the mHealth 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.
Furquan Kidwai
Founder & CEO of Dawaai
Furquan Kidwai is an entrepreneur building a pharmacy for emerging Asia. Prior to this journey, Kidwai was an investment banker for over eight years in London where, in his last role, he was the Head of CEEMEA Financing as well as a Senior Vice President in the Fixed Income business at the Royal Bank of Scotland. Before joining RBS, Mr. Kidwai worked at Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers in their London and New York offices. Mr. Kidwai has a Master’s degree in International Relations from Cambridge University. He also holds an MSc in Financial Engineering & Risk Management from Imperial College London and BEng (Hons) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Bristol.
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About Dawaai: Dawaai operates as a digital health platform with an online network of pharmacies and generic medicine.
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Peter Ward
CEO and Co-Founder of Humanity
Peter Ward is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Humanity.
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About Humanity: Humanity is a healthcare company that aims to extend the healthspan of humanity.
Rafael López Schietekat
Founder & Managing Director of Diagnostikare
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About Diagnostikare: The first data-driven patient-centric virtual primary care platform in Mexico.
Matteo Berlucchi
CEO & Co-Founder of Healthily by Your.MD
Matteo’s digital career spans 20 years, during which he has conceived, built and launched several successful companies and services both online and on mobile. Most recently, Matteo was Chief Digital Officer at Northern & Shell, the largest independent media company in the UK,where he grew traffic and revenues 4-fold in just 12 months. Matteo was also the founder and CEO of aNobii, the ebook platform funded by Penguin Random House, HarperCollins which was acquired by Sainsbury’s in 2012. Matteo founded Livestation, the leading service for live TV news online and the first company in the world to stream live TV on iPhones. Livestation is also the winner of the Guardian Digital Innovation Award 2008. Prior to this, Matteo was CEO and co-founder of Skinkers, a software company, which defined the market for desktop widgets and the winner of several international innovation awards in the digital space. Matteo started his career by launching the first online property system in Europe in 1995.
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About Healthily by Your.MD, Vini Italiani: Healthily is the world’s first medically approved self-care app designed around you.
Ry Morgan
Co-Founder, COO & Product Strategy of Unmind
• Entrepreneurial rapscallion with a background highly attuned to tech, product and enterprise. Founded, built and grown several successful (and less successful!) ventures to-date. x
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About Unmind, Yomp: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Nick Taylor
Co-Founder and CEO of Unmind
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About Unmind: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Steve Peralta
Co-Founder & Chief Content Officer of Unmind
As a wellbeing consultant and facilitator, Steve has spent the past ten years helping people and organisations take proactive, effective steps to improve their wellbeing and performance. He has supported brands such as BBraun, Barclays, Absa, First National Bank and Discovery Health, focusing on evidence-based, positive behaviour change solutions. Steve designed and led the wellbeing programme for BSG, a South African business and tech consultancy which won the ‘Healthiest Company’ and ‘Healthiest Employees’ titles for small companies in the Discovery Healthy Company Index. Steve co-founded Unmind in 2016 and now works with leading academics and clinicians in creating engaging, evidence-based tools and training to help people understand and proactively support their mental health.
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About Unmind: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Ali Parsa
Founder and CEO of Babylon
Ali is an entrepreneur and engineer. He built Circle to become Europe’s largest partnership of clinicians, achieving around £200M in annual revenue, 3000 employees and a successful IPO, all during an economic recession. He was named by The Times as among the 100 global people to watch, and was the recipient of the Royal Award for young entrepreneurs for founding V&G earlier in his career. Ali is a UK Cabinet Office Ambassador and has a PhD in engineering Physics.
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About Babylon: Babylon is a world leading, digital-first, value-based care company.
Barney Gilbert
Founder, Co-CEO of Pando
Barney Gilbert worked in the NHS as a doctor before founding Pando, a healthtech company working to connect everyone working in healthcare. Listed in the UK’s Disruption50 Index for 2019. Forbes 30 Under 30 alum.
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About NHS England, Pando: Forward is now Pando! Pando is an essential tool for teamwork and secure collaboration in health and social care.
Philip Mundy
Founder of Pando
London-based Philip Mundy is a co-founder and Joint CEO of Forward Health, a secure messaging platform for healthcare professionals. Philip has previously founded a series of successful startups including ‘proptech’ company Goodlord. Since 2018, Philip has also sat on NHS England’s Clinical Entrepreneur Programme as a mentor.
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About Beem, Goodlord, Pando: Forward is now Pando! Pando is an essential tool for teamwork and secure collaboration in health and social care.
Lydia Yarlott
Founder, People of Pando
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About Pando: Forward is now Pando! Pando is an essential tool for teamwork and secure collaboration in health and social care.
Tim Antos
Founder & CEO of Kokoon Technology
A former stressed management consultant and finance professional Tim founded Kokoon in 2013 after struggling with mild insomnia. After successful treatment at a sleep clinic he founded Kokoon to make the knowledge and technology of the sleep clinic more accessible to all. Tim is an award-winning mechanical engineer who previous to working in consulting and finance had a short career developing medical products in Cambridge.
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About Kokoon Technology: Kokoon Technology is a digital health platform applying data to provide a personalized path to better sleep and mental health
Silja Litvin
Founder & CEO of PsycApps
I am a London based Psychologist, CEO and Founder of the Mental Health platform PsycApps. The mental health platform is also part of my PhD thesis in clinical psychology at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich with help of Oxford University College. • In 2013 I finished my Masters in Psychology from LMU majoring in Family and Clinical Psychology. • As aforementioned I am currently completing my postgraduate education as a PhD student of the LMU with help of University College, Oxford. To help raise awareness for both mental well-being in general and our products, I speak at conferences and mental health panels. Being half German, half American, I speak fluent English and German. My French is decent and I understand Italian quite well. Because of my modelling career I am well-traveled, culturally diverse and I am by nature an extroverted people person. Media (1)This position has 1 media
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About PsycApps, PsycApps, UCL, Wonder Women Tech: Digital Mental Health Games
Rinesh Amin
Founder and COO of DrDoctor
Rinesh Amin is the Founder and COO at DrDoctor.
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About DrDoctor: DrDoctor helps hospitals to deliver patient facing digital solutions.
Perran Pengelly
Founder and CTO of DrDoctor
Perran Pengelly is the Founder and CTO at DrDoctor.
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About DrDoctor: DrDoctor helps hospitals to deliver patient facing digital solutions.
Paul Varga
Co-Founder & CEO of Playbrush
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About Playbrush, University of Cambridge: Playbrush is a technology company that digitalises oral care for children.
Tolulope Ogunsina
Co-Founder of Playbrush
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About Playbrush: Playbrush is a technology company that digitalises oral care for children.
Benedikt Reinke
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Sympatient
Benedikt Reinke is the Co-Founder & Managing Director at Sympatient GmbH
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About Sympatient: Sympatient is building the first digital anxiety clinic.
Ifty Ahmed
Founder & CEO of Healthbit
Ifty Ahmed CEO & Founder Over 16 years experience driving digital strategy, integrated marketing and cutting-edge user-experience across the breadth of digital environments and platforms. Proven enterprise level project vision and delivery for renowned brands, including; Vodafone, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Microsoft, Manchester United, IBM, Visa, Reuters and GE. Co-founded award-winning, top 20 UK independent agency in 1997, acknowledged as the most efficient independent agency (New Media Age) for 5 consecutive years. Pioneered the ‘Seeker-Centric Design Process’ to promote competitive advantage for clients. Highly knowledgeable in customer engagement, advanced search-marketing, social media strategy and key web marketing and optimisation platforms and technologies.
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About Healthbit: Healthbit is a service designed to give families, carers and patients more control over their long-term health.
David Suter
Co Founder of Proof Work
David is a Digital Product Innovator creating the most usable and elegant tech for enterprise clients, agencies and funded startups. Coining the term “the creative technologist”. David for the past 15 years has been deploying digital tech and creative search marketing aimed at specifically increasing conversions and streamlining a business process. Using teams of mobile and web developers, expert digital marketers, technologies and superior brand strategist he has won many award and judged some of the worlds biggest brand campaigns. Facts: 1. 6 week tech and campaign resulted in 1 billion page views as verified by Red Hat Tech for LedZeppelin. 750,000 emails signed up and enjoyed by Universal and Harvey Goldsmith. 2. Official Harley Davidson, Official XFactor, Official Olympics London2012 shop 3. Judge for DMA (Direct Marketing Association) 4. 7 times Interactive Media Award winner
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About Proof Work: Proof Work decentralizes healthcare data on the blockchain.
Jay Li
Co-Founder & CTO of Lysa Health
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About Lysa Health: Smart and human, Lysa offers a new approach to diet management and nutrition.
Oliver Bryant
Founder of Nightingale Health
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About Nightingale Health: Nightingale Health is a London-based company focusing on transferring health information to and from digital devices.
