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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 Education 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.
Paul Egan
Chief Incubation Officer & Chief Technology Officer of Founders Factory
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About Founders Factory: Founders Factory is a global corporate-backed venture studio and accelerator.
Bhaskar Khemchandani
CTO of Uplatz
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About : Uplatz is UK-based leading global training provider with a huge portfolio of courses on cutting-edge technologies, software, cloud and data.
Chris Evans
Chief Technology Officer of Drops
Currently CTO @ Drops. A reliable, resilient and proactive technologist taking a catalystic approach to building product. Proven track record of scaling and supporting cross-functional engineering teams from the ground up. Plans, executes and nurtures any technical project. Supported a variety of companies at differing stages, assisting in VC, PE, crowdfunding and angel investment sourcing including expectation management.
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About Drops: Drops is a game-based language learning application.
Sam Stagg
CTO of Third Space Learning
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About Third Space Learning: Third Space aims to help every student access great quality online tuition to help them succeed in, and love, their learning
Joe Simms
Chief Technology Officer of Uptime App
Joe Simms is the Chief Technology Officer at Uptime App.
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About Uptime App: Uptime App: Thousands of 5-minute Knowledge Hacks from the world’s best books, courses and documentaries, for free.
Daniel Engelke
CTO of BibliU
Chief Technology Officer with a history of working in the e-learning industry. Skilled in Javascript, Python, C++ and Management. Has a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Engineering with majors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Physics and Applied Maths from the University of Western Australia.
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About BibliU: An EdTech innovator, BibliU’s platform enables colleges and universities with digital content management, automation, and analytics.
Kimeshan Naidoo
Co-Founder and CTO of Unibuddy
Kimeshan Naidoo is CTO & Co-Founder at Unibuddy.
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About Unibuddy: Unibuddy helping universities and students to attract, engage and convert prospects through peer interactions.
Daniel Zohar
CTO of Memrise
Daniel Zohar serves as Chief Technology Officer of Memrise.Daniel Zohar helps ensure Memrise works flawlessly on all platforms, and coordinates all of technical efforts. Aside from a glittering career founding and growing startups, he is a keen heavy metal guitarist and an expert at moving large objects at or near the earth’s surface.
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About Memrise: Memrise is a language learning platform available in iOS, android, and web.
Gyan Chawdhary
Founder & CTO of Codebashing
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About Codebashing: Codebashing | Train, Refresh and Validate your development teams’ Application Security knowledge using our cloud-based e-learning platform.
Ashish Kumar
Co-Founder & CTO of HowNow
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About HowNow: HowNow is a London-based EdTech startup that connects experts and learners by offering interactive video lessons.
Manuel Apilongo
CTO of Springpod
Manuel Apilongo currently works as Chief Technology Officer at Springpod.
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About Springpod: Springpod is an early careers attraction, engagement and recruitment technology that helps young people discover their futures.
Andy Skipper
CTO Coach and Founder of CTO Craft
Consultant CTO to online businesses around Europe; founding CTO with Made.com, a designer furniture retailer launched in March 2010 under Pro Founders and Jaina Capital among others. Responsible for technology and partner selection, business process modelling, team building and resource strategy, production infrastructure design. Executive-level technical manager, with a hands-on development and testing background. Having operated as a CTO for a number of high growth startups since 2006, he’s built and managed several successful agile teams of PHP, Python, Java and .Net developers and testers, including internationally distributed teams. A certified Scrum Product Owner, he specialises in implementing agile practices which provide means of constant improvement within the development and operations teams, and a culture of improved transparency with the rest of the business.
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About CTO Craft, Saccade Consulting: Learning experiences, coaching and peer mentoring network for CTOs and engineering managers
Patrick Verdon
Co-Founder & CTO of Tutorfair
Patrick is a serial entrepreneur based in Cambridge, UK and is currently the CEO of Youreko, a cleantech start-up he founded which provides consumer friendly energy efficiency information for household electricals. Prior to Youreko, Patrick was the CTO of ZYB, the networking and mobile backup site, sold to Vodafone in 2008 for 31.5M euro.
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About Tutorfair, Youreko, ZYB: Tutorfair is a marketplace for tutors that makes great tutors available to all
Tom Percival
CTO of toucanBox
Tom Percival currently serves toucanBox as the CTO. Prior to joining toucanBox, Tom spent eight years with the Graze as the co-founder and CTO.
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About toucanBox: ToucanBox delivers packages of educational and inspirational activities that are suitable for children.
Brian Carroll
CTO of MusicGurus
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About MusicGurus: MusicGurus is an online learning company that helps anyone learn music from the world’s top artists.
Stuart Cochran
CTO of BridgeU
Stuart is Chief Technology Officer at Huddle and is responsible for overall product design and direction, technology and infrastructure strategy, and technical operations. He has over 20 years’ experience in both start-up and large, public enterprise software companies. Stuart has a BSc (Hons) in Theoretical Physics and a MSc in Computing and Computer Modelling of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems.
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About BridgeU: BridgeU provides a market leading guidance platform that connects universities with international schools in 130 countries.
Timothy Omer
CTO of Changing Health
Senior Technology Manager with a 14+ year career spanning Digital Media and Consultancy, experienced in design and execution of ERP, Business Processes, Revenue, Delivery, Support and IT Operation Systems. Working with people, systems and processes to lead and deliver efficient and flexible Agile solutions. A Type 1 Diabetic for over 20 years he has been frustrated with the lack access and progress of technology to help him manage this data-intensive condition and frustrated that he has to rely on one of the most unreliable processors of this data – himself. Working with the #WeAreNotWaiting community of citizen hackers to build an Artificial Pancreas mobile app to help reduce the burden of capturing data, lower costs and producing suggestions on adjustments to his medication. With the aim to provide a fully automated, portable, data-rich Closed Loop system.
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About Changing Health: Changing Health provides personalised, digital behaviour change programmes for Type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, and weight management.
Klaas Ardinois
CTO of Macademia
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About Macademia: Macademia is an award-winning global EdTech company providing educational programming and games for children.
Matteo Avalle
Co-Founder & CTO of Fluentify
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About Fluentify: Fluentify connects language learners with carefully selected native speakers around the world trough 30-minutes individual live sessions.
Samuel Colvin
CTO of TutorCruncher
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About TutorCruncher: TutorCruncher is a tutoring management software offering CRM, online payments, invoicing and timesheets, and more related features.
Andrew Moss
CTO of Code Kingdoms
With an inexplicable knowledge of servers, the database and anything to do with ‘making stuff work’, Andrew is a key part in ensuring everything runs smoothly. Although he loves going on far-flung adventures to foreign countries and elaborate costume parties, it’s a wonder he’s ever allowed to leave the office for fear of ‘everything breaking again’.
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About Code Kingdoms: Code Kingdoms is an online platform which teaches kids how to code.
Jamie Stuart
Director & CTO of Onebillion
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About Onebillion: At onebillion, develop apps to help educate children, wherever they are.
Dan Williams
Co-Founder and CTO of Workshop
Dan Williams is the co-founder and CTO of Workshop Technology. Prior to co-founding Workshop, Dan served as an analyst at Metapraxis. Before that, he held positions for various companies including Intro, Team Bath Racing electric, Oxalis Group, and Sagentia.
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About Workshop: Workshop is a technology-driven company that creates tools for learning and teaching in partnership in educators and brands.
Steve Mansell
Chief Technology Officer of V-Learning Solutions
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About V-Learning Solutions: V-Learning Solutions provides virtual learning solutions that are more effective than traditional training methods.
Sander Melnikov
CTO of Campusboard
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About Campusboard: Campusboard is an online marketplace for university campuses.
Stein Fletcher
CTO of Musitude
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About Musitude: A web & app music learning/playing solution for non-musicians
