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 Real Time 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.
Damien Tanner
Co-Founder of Pusher
Damien Tanner is a Founder at Konf and Rebase Ventures.
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About Konf, Pusher, Rebase Ventures, thoughtbot: Pusher Ltd. provides a hosted API service for adding real-time bi-directional.
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Max Williams
Co-Founder & CEO of Pusher
Max has spent the past 5 years running the London-based Ruby on Rails development shop New Bamboo, with his co-founder [Damien Tanner](http://crunchbase.com/person/damien-tanner). Their latest company is a realtime messaging service called Pusher (http://pusherapp.com), which was incubated inside New Bamboo. Max is passionate about realtime technology, and has the goal of making it more readily available for everyone.
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About Pusher: Pusher Ltd. provides a hosted API service for adding real-time bi-directional.
Josh DeSeno
Co-Founder of Fish Bowl VR
Josh DeSeno is Founder and CTO at Fish Bowl VR.
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About Fish Bowl VR: Fish Bowl VR is an online platform that assists its users in testing and analyzing VR applications.
Ollie Jerome
Co-Founder and Director of BestX
Ollie Jerome was most recently European Head of FX at Morgan Stanley in London, responsible for Sales, Trading & Structuring. Oliver joined Morgan Stanley in 2010, performing a number of roles including Head of FX & Emerging Markets Sales for EMEA & the US, and Head of FX & EM in Europe. He was a member of the MS Global FID Management Committee. Oliver began his career in FX Sales at Chase Manhattan in 1998, and was promoted to Managing Director in 2007. He remained at the institution through the merger with JPMorgan until 2009, when he left to work for Standard Chartered. Oliver has a BA in Economics from the University of Manchester.
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About BestX: BestX is provide independent trade technology and analytics that enable clients to define, achieve & demonstrate Best Execution.
Dugald Macdonald
Co-Founder & CEO of Sportable
Dugald Macdonald is a Co-Founder and serves as a Chief Executive Officer at Sportable. Prior to founding Sportable, he serves as an Investment Associate at GEM Investments for over a year.
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About Sportable: Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences.
Paul Watmough
Founder and CEO of MDX Technology
Paul is a successful business developer of technology companies serving the Capital Markets, Energy and Commodities sectors. He has founded and built a number of technology companies to market leading positions attracting investors and buyers. He is an energetic sales manager, having led global sales and marketing teams, with a proven track record. He is an innovative marketer widely connected and respected. Paul co-founded MDX Technology in 2010 where he currently serves as CEO.
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About MDX Technology: MDX Technology Ltd focuses on real-time market data connectivity solutions for Traders, Developers and Market Data Professionals.
Jonathan Nicol
Founder & Managing Director of Stratajet
Jonny Nicol Ranked as one of Aviation Week’s Top 10 Leaders of European Business Aviation (at EBACE 2016), Jonny Nicol has undoubtedly risen to be one of the most prominent and influential figures in the private aviation industry. A military man through and through, Jonny is adamant that preparation is the key to success. This is why his vision to revolutionise the private jet industry took five years to develop. Having trained as a fighter pilot and served as an officer and pilot for a decade with the British Army, Jonny Nicol left the British Armed Forces to pursue a career as a an entrepreneur. A self-taught computer scientist, Jonny developed a passion for using technology to disrupt typically traditional industries, his first two businesses doing precisely that in the recruitment and military sectors. After selling the second business to Hewlett Packard’s EDS Defence, Nicol spent time as a freelance commercial pilot, during which time he was struck by the archaic and inefficient nature of private aviation. Noting that old-fashioned systems, such as the means of booking a private jet over the phone via a broker, were holding back the industry from advancing in line with other travel innovations, Jonny set about building a system that could bring private jets into the modern age. Reinventing the industry was no mean feat, involving five years of highly advanced computer programming and overcoming major hurdles, but Stratajet, dubbed ‘the world’s most sophisticated price comparison site,’ is the result. The first of its kind, Stratajet is the world’s fastest private jet booking service. With a technology sophisticated enough to filter through all the necessary variables that go into calculating the cost of flights, it’s the only platform that gives customers direct access to the private jet market. It returns accurate costs of a large range of aircraft in seconds, all of which can be booked instantly. Streamlining an old-fashioned and time-consuming booking process, Stratajet is solving the major problems hampering private aviation; inefficiency and wastage. By cutting costs for aircraft operators and in turn driving down prices for the passenger, Stratajet is making private jet travel more widely accessible to the mainstream traveller.
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About Stratajet: Stratajet is a real-time private jet booking platform using the power of technology to give its passengers total control and freedom.
Fabian Blaicher
CTO & Co-Founder of Shipamax
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About Shipamax: Shipamax provides seamless fleet and deals management for operators and brokers.
Jenna Brown
CEO & Co-Founder of Shipamax
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About Shipamax: Shipamax provides seamless fleet and deals management for operators and brokers.
Jo Eckersley
CEO & Founder of Bubbl Ltd
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About Bubbl Ltd: Cutting-edge mobile app plug-in that allows companies to hyper-focus their marketing efforts with geo-triggered customer engagement tools.
Chris Watts
CTO / Co-Founder of NumberEight
Chris is the co-founder and CTO of NumberEight, a London-based AI company that detects user context from smartphone sensors and uses it to build audiences of behaviourally similar users. He is an ex-IBMer, where he researched air pollution sensors and has multiple patents to his name. He holds computer science degrees from Southampton and Cambridge and brings the know-how to achieve the theory of context detection in the real world.
Chris’ team has since produced patent-pending inventions, including efficient techniques for smartphones to process high-frequency data without significant battery impact, the ability to make personal devices work together to adapt to context and mood, and the process of defining groups of people with similar interests using anonymised sensor data.
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About NumberEight: NumberEight solves mobile addressability at scale by giving new life to untapped 1st party data. The company empowers app developers, ad partners, and advertisers to explore the power of mobex (mobile context) to connect with their users in a relevant, impactful, and most importantly, a private way. They do this through our best-in-class mobile AI software, which predicts the live context of a user (e.g. running, commuting) from sensors present in the device, and then packages them neatly into ID-less behavioural audiences (e.g. joggers, frequent shoppers). All computation happens on-device, thus producing a privacy-by-design solution that guarantees a higher regulatory immunity.
Abhishek Sen
CEO / Co-Founder of NumberEight
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About NumberEight: On-device AI software to predict user context using mobile sensors
James Gill
Founder and CEO of GoSquared
James Gill is a Founder and CEO at GoSquared.
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About GoSquared: GoSquared is a platform where businesses can communicate with their customers through analytics, CRM, live chat, and marketing automation.
Michael Arnaldi
CTO and Founder of CreditSCRIPT
Michael Arnaldi is CTO of CreditSCRIPT. He has been active in the fin-tech industry for the past 5 years and has a strong background on full-stack development in the field of scalable and highly available financial applications. His personal goal is to improve the financial industry and he is also co-founder and CTO of MyMonexEx a London-based Blockchain-focused platform. Michael is enrolled in Computer Science faculty, University of Pisa.
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About CreditSCRIPT, MATECHS: CreditSCRIPT is an alternative credit investment platform that helps professional investors assess loans and portfolios.
Jamie Davies
Co-Founder and Developer of Briefly
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About Briefly, TalkLife: Briefly offers real-time applications that provides in-person freelancing solutions for businesses.
Mark Gorski
Co-Founder & CEO of Sports Data Labs, Inc.
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About Sports Data Labs, Inc.: Unlock the Value of Human Data®
Henry Dowding
CEO/Founder of Hang
Henry Dowding is the 18-year-old Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hang.
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About Hang: Hang is real-time meeting space booking platform that’s redefining how people meet.
Matthew Hodgson
Founder & CEO of Mosaic Smart Data
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About Mosaic Smart Data: Mosaic Smart Data, the fintech which provides real-time data for fixed income, currencies and commodities.
Francis Sean O
Co-Founder of LOOX
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About LOOX: A real-time app-based marketplace to assist consumers in booking appointments with local beauty, health & fitness professionals on-demand.
Jason Daniel Ting
Founder of Novos AI
Microsoft Ventures Accelerator Alumnus and Founder of Novos AI
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About Novos AI: The World’s Most Powerful Intelligence Engine
Mohammed Abdulmajeed
Founder of I Give Online
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About I Give Online: Crowd funding online. Made Easy.
Mohammed Abdulmajeed
Founder of I Give Online
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About I Give Online: Crowd funding online. Made Easy.