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 Founder operating in the Cloud Computing 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.
Ditlev Bredahl
Co-Founder & CEO of OnApp
Ditlev has over a decade’s experience in the web hosting industry and has led the development of many acclaimed web hosting brands. As CEO of OnApp, Ditlev’s commercial and technical leadership saw the company expand from its July 2010 launch to 500+ clients and 80+ people in just 12 months. Ditlev moved into the rapidly-growing Internet sector in the mid-1990s, after a number of roles working for the European Parliament. He quickly developed a reputation as an entrepreneur and a specialist in start-up and turnaround scenarios. He has led UK2Group’s hosting companies as MD and CEO since February 2006, and played a key role in the group’s transformation. Ditlev is a Danish national and an incurable technophile. He lives in the UK but travels frequently to see clients and speak at events across the globe.
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About Kickass Capital, OnApp, PlatoScience: OnApp is a company that develops cloud management, CDN and storage software for service providers and enterprises.
Matthias Radestock
Co-Founder of Weaveworks
Matthias is the co-founder of Weaveworks. He previously co-founded RabbitMQ, and a number of other software technology start-ups. Matthias has a PhD in Computer Science from Imperial College, and has spent much of the past 20 years wrestling with distributed systems.
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About Weaveworks: Weaveworks simplifies operating Kubernetes workloads and provides a developer-centric operating model for cloud-native applications.
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.
Alistair Russell
Co-Founder/CTO of tray.io
Alistair Russell is the co-founder and CTO of Tray.
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About tray.io: Tray.io provides a cloud-based software integration platform for automators.
Manoj Ganapathy
Founder & CEO of SalesTrip
Proven entrepreneur solving real world business problems using technology. Previously built and sold Invoice IT to Salesforce.
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About SalesTrip: Expense management and travel booking system on Salesforce. Better track and justify expense spend with SalesTrip.
Richard Goodall
Founder of SalesTrip
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About PhiX Technologies, Precursive, SalesTrip: Expense management and travel booking system on Salesforce. Better track and justify expense spend with SalesTrip.
Andrius Kazlauskas
Founder & CFO of Heficed
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About Heficed, IPXO: Heficed provides full-range services for IP lease, monetization, and management services.
Craig Beddis
CEO of Hadean
An entrepreneurial senior executive with 25 successful years and experience grounded in building and transforming business and accelerating growth.
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About Hadean: Deploy Cloud Native Applications Simply and Securely
Alex Metaxas
Co-Founder and CTO of Cloud Maker
Alex Metaxas is Co-Founder and CTO at Cloud Maker
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About Cloud Maker: Cloud Maker is a Visual DevOps platform that enables organisations to easily design and build scalable cloud solutions.
Nick Smith
Co-Founder & CEO of Cloud Maker
Co-Founder and CEO of Cloud Maker. Striving to make technology work for the many, not just the few.
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About Cloud Maker: Cloud Maker is a Visual DevOps platform that enables organisations to easily design and build scalable cloud solutions.
Maggie Sanchez
CEO & Co-Founder of myCircle
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About myCircle: myCircle is a U.K.-based SaaS and data company that provides merchants with analytics and mobile financial app services.
David Alstadter
Chief Commercial Officer & Co-Founder of myCircle
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About 20th Century Studios, ISPN, Microsoft, MSN, myCircle, Paramount Pictures, Skywalker Sound, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company: myCircle is a U.K.-based SaaS and data company that provides merchants with analytics and mobile financial app services.
AF_initDataCallback({key: \’ds:1\'” alt=”” class=”wp-image-14850″ width=”154″ height=”152″/>David Leftley
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Bloc Ventures
David has more than 30 years global technology industry experience in start-ups and multi-nationals as an engineer, manager, director and investor. From 1983 he worked as a design engineer in the defence industry, specialising in radar and airborne electronic countermeasures, first at Cossor Electronics and then at Racal Defence. In 1987 he moved into the TV and film industry, working for Abacus Cox and then Vistek on the design of the world’s first digital TV production technology. In this time he progressed to become R&D Manager and later became General Manager. In 1996, as CTO he founded Digital Vision UK for DV AB of Sweden, a world leader in video compression, transmission and post production technology, securing contracts with the BBC, several Hollywood studios and customers as far afield as China. In 1999 DV AB successfully went to an IPO. In 2009 he joined Vodafone’s corporate venture team as head of its European activity, closing numerous investments in Mobile Health, Clean Tech, Infrastructure and Financial Tech services. In this time the fund ranked in the top 5 CVCs, achieved an IRR of 27% and in 2012 received an industry award for its exit of portfolio company Amobee for $321M. In 2010 David was ranked in Wired Magazine’s top 100 innovators’ list. He represented Vodafone on the boards of nine portfolio companies. In April 2013 David departed Vodafone to establish Bloc Ventures with Bruce. He has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Aston Birmingham, and is a Chartered Engineer.
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About Bloc Ventures: Bloc Ventures is an early-stage Deep Tech investment company. Pitch to Bloc here: https://blocventures.com/pitching/
Olga Saliba
Founder of Verimuchme
Olga co-founded Verimuchme as a result of having to share her personal information over again for pre-employment screening checks for various contract roles in the financial sector throughout her career. Winning a place on the GCHQ cyber accelerator programme she was able to complete the first version of the wallet and secure commercial partners for its launch. Olga has an extensive background in retail and investment banking, with her experience ranging from online banking to wealth management, client-on boarding, compliance and regulation including KYC and AML.
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About Verimuchme: Verimuchme is a digital wallet and exchange platform of verified personal information and documentation.
Alex Chircop
Founder, CEO and CTO of Ondat
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About : Ondat supports your freedom with industry-leading levels of data performance, resilience, security, and scale.
Simon Croome
Founder & VP of Engineering of Ondat
Simon Croome is the Founder & VP Engineering at StorageOS.
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About Ondat: Ondat supports your freedom with industry-leading levels of data performance, resilience, security, and scale.
Hugh Cox
Founder, Chief Data Officer of Rosslyn Data Technologies PLC
Hugh co-founded Rosslyn Analytics Ltd. and Ockham Capital Ltd. Prior to this was the COO Investments (EMEA) with Citigroup Private Bank, he also worked for Perot Systems, JP Morgan and Logica. After leaving the British Army he took a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA from City University Business School.
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About Rosslyn Data Technologies PLC: Rosslyn Data Technologies exists to challenge the traditional methods of managing and exploiting data.
Julia Salasky
CEO and Founder of Legl
Julia Salasky is the Founder and CEO of Legl and CrowdJustice , is a non-practising solicitor who was an associate at Linklaters in London, before working as a lawyer for the United Nations in Vienna and the Hague. She has also worked at a legal aid clinic in London
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About CrowdJustice, Legl: Legl provides cloud-based solutions bringing law firms into the digital-first world.
Mark Williams
Founder & CEO of CloudSaver
Mark has extensive experience in taking blue chip companies in the IT and telecommunications industry to the next level in their growth phase. At OrderDynamics, Mark creates the business development strategy for the European market with a focus on developing and managing the Business Development Team.
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About CloudSaver, FishNet Security: CloudSaver is a cost optimization firm that offers outsourcing, cloud computing and technical support to IT organizations.
Denis Ignatovich
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Imandra
Denis Ignatovich has over a decade of experience in trading, risk management, quantitative modeling and complex trading system design. Prior to joining AI, he was head of the central risk trading desk at Deutsche Bank London. He holds an MSc in Finance from the London School of Economics and degrees in CS and Finance from UT Austin.
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About Imandra: Imandra specializes in cloud-scale automated reasoning.
Bruce Grove
Co-Founder & CEO of Polystream
Bruce has 25 years experience across video game platforms, enterprise, telecoms, and avionics. Bruce came to Polystream following senior leadership roles at OnLive including engineering, business and corporate development, and overseeing the company’s launch and growth in Europe. Having spent more than ten years in the US in roles including engineering leadership at Sun Microsystems, Tellme Networks, and Dell XPS, Bruce then joined the first wave of the cloud gaming revolution as head of engineering at OnLive. Instrumental in delivering the world’s first direct-to-consumer cloud gaming solution, he moved back to the UK in 2011 to build OnLive’s European business; apparently he missed the pubs and curries, and rain. Having started his career building Harrier Jump Jets, Bruce figured that video games just seemed like a natural progression, and a little less expensive when you get it wrong.
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About Polystream: Building the 3D internet // Powering a new era of instantly scalable, cloud native, metaverse experiences
Abishek Raju
Founder and Technology Evangelist of Yobitel Communications
A highly motivated, self-driven, empowered Entrepreneur from strong IT Infrastructure background, Founder and successfully managing Yobitel Communications (Multi Cloud Business Intelligence Service Provider) Multi Cloud Technology & Business Advisor – Engineering the Open Cloud Architecture through SaaS Policy based Intelligence. Blockchain Evangelist & Technology Advisor – Redefining the evolution of Distributed Ledger Technology – DApps Applications through AI. My vision “Create a connected world and simplify IT in human life”.
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About Grabnpay eCommerce Private Limited, Yobitel Communications: Yobitel a Managed SaaS Cloud Service Provider offers Network & IT Infrastructure, Multi Cloud Hosting & Consulting, Container Orchestration
James Mitchell
Co-Founder & CEO of Strategic Blue
James Mitchell is the CEO of Strategic Blue, a financial cloud brokerage firm offering for cloud computing, financial and analytical services more commonly seen in the commoditized utilities markets. For the past six years, Dr. Mitchell has been pioneering various financial cloud brokerage concepts that are now gaining widespread acceptance and adoption based on his background as an originator of structured physical commodity transactions at Morgan Stanley. Featured in books and reports as the leading authority on how the IT market will change because of the move to a utility (or “cloud”) delivery model, he is a frequent speaker at events and has made successful predictions about how the cloud market will develop over the next five years. Dr. Mitchell correctly predicted the price coupling currently observed in the cloud IaaS market. His expertise in the pricing of pseudo-commodities is highly relevant for any organization looking to buy, sell, resell, or trade cloud services at scale. He has a doctorate in DNA Nanostructures from Oxford University and a first-class master’s degree in experimental and theoretical physics from Cambridge University.
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About Strategic Blue: A tech-enabled Financial Services company optimising procurement of cloud services like AWS using commodity trading techniques.
Mitun Patel
Managing Director & Founder of Netstar
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About Netstar: Netstar is an IT Support company in central London providing fully managed IT Support, Cyber Security and Technology Consulting services.
Chris Sargent
Founder and Digital Director of Sticky Pixel
Founder, UX / UI digital product designer and developer and snowboarder. I like to work with similar people to me; straightforward thinkers who recognise that knowledge, ability, experience and integrity go a long way in building credibility and trust. People who do everything to the best of their ability and who aren’t afraid to take risks or enthusiastically disagree.
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About Sticky Pixel: Sticky Pixel is a product design and software development company, specialised in FinTech and Blockchain applications
Imogen Wethered
CEO & Co-Founder of Qudini – Retail Choreography
Imogen Wethered is Founder & CEO at Qudini.
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About Qudini – Retail Choreography: Retail Choreography solutions to transforming customer experience, operations and data for retailers and banks.
Mark Richards
CEO & Founder of makepositive
As Chief Evangelist, Mark cares passionately about creating enterprises that redefine what “work” means. With the goal of releasing everyone from tedious admin and letting all loose to create their own art in the workplace. Inspirational Leader: Seth Godin translates our toughest challenges and fears into meaningful insight, advice and actions. Mark Richards is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Makepositive.
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About makepositive: Makepositive is a business and technology consultancy that delivers innovation cloud engagement and platform.
David Jones
Co-Founder of ipushpull
David Jones is the co-founder of iPushPull, the service that lets users link remote Excel spreadsheets and other desktop applications, and delivers live data to mobile devices. Previously he was a director of Applaud Technology, a startup which developed an investment portal for the private banking industry. Prior to that he worked in information technology at a series of leading investment banks, including BNP Paribas and Barclays Capital.
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About ipushpull: Live data sharing and workflow automation platform providing real-time interoperability of data across any application
Daniel Eccleston
Co-Founder of ipushpull
In 1999, after 5 years in the derivatives trading industry providing trading and risk management solutions, Dan co-founded one of the leading trading software providers for electronic markets. He built it into a successful business over the next 5 years leading to a trade sale. He then spent a number of years delivering trading platforms for a global broking house before launching a proprietary financial futures trading company. Subsequently he co-founded iPushPull, an exciting new venture to build a user-focussed cloud-based platform for sharing live data targeted at businesses globally.
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About ipushpull: Live data sharing and workflow automation platform providing real-time interoperability of data across any application
Adrian Harvey
Founder and CEO of Elephants don’t forget
Adrian Harvey is the founder and CEO of Elephants don’t forget. Prior to this, he worked as the managing director – Property Services of E.ON.
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About Elephants don’t forget: A low cost, cloud-based online application that continually measures individual employee knowledge gaps and automatic retrains as needed.
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
João Marques Lima
Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Data Economy
Fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish, João’s a hot-shot technology reporter currently serving as founding editor of Data Economy, part of BroadMedia, a Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC company. In 2019, he won the PPA 30 Under 30 award which shines a light on the outstanding efforts and achievements of the rising stars in consumer magazines and business media. At Data Economy, he manages the title across online, print, broadcast and events. João’s work has taken him around the world, reporting from locations in North America, APAC, Africa and all over Europe. With a deep interest in news, current affairs and history, prior to founding Data Economy, João experienced the reporting industry at Computer Business Review, the Daily Mail – where he delved into the investigation of five London-based Portuguese ISIS jihadists-, Channel 4 News, Channel 4, The Guardian, Antena Lusa, Future Behind and the Holloway Express. Specialised in the fields of IT infrastructure, data centres, IoT, AI, cloud and data, he has interviewed some of the world’s technology leaders and has delivered on several exclusives. At Data Economy, João manages the publication and is responsible for the majority of the editorial content. He has ranked 28 in the ‘Top 100 IoT Influencers of 2016’, ranked 28 in the ‘Top 100 M2M Influencers of 2016’, ranked 11 in the ‘Top Connected Car Influencers’, and features in the list of ‘IoT thought leaders to watch in the next four years [2016 onwards]’. At the age of just 12, he also founded his school’s newspaper and in 2012 he founded his own platform Corporation News Times International (CNT International), with an edition in English – CNTimes – and one in Portuguese – CNT Diário-, which soon attracted a vast readership worldwide. Between 2014 and 2015, João was the Head of Social Media for a UK parliamentary candidate of the general election’s winning party. João graduated from London Metropolitan University in 2014 with a BA in Journalism.
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About Data Economy: Data Economy brings what data centres have to offer closer to the enterprise and business world of cloud, data and the IoT.
João Marques Lima
Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Data Economy
Fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish, João’s a hot-shot technology reporter currently serving as founding editor of Data Economy, part of BroadMedia, a Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC company. In 2019, he won the PPA 30 Under 30 award which shines a light on the outstanding efforts and achievements of the rising stars in consumer magazines and business media. At Data Economy, he manages the title across online, print, broadcast and events. João’s work has taken him around the world, reporting from locations in North America, APAC, Africa and all over Europe. With a deep interest in news, current affairs and history, prior to founding Data Economy, João experienced the reporting industry at Computer Business Review, the Daily Mail – where he delved into the investigation of five London-based Portuguese ISIS jihadists-, Channel 4 News, Channel 4, The Guardian, Antena Lusa, Future Behind and the Holloway Express. Specialised in the fields of IT infrastructure, data centres, IoT, AI, cloud and data, he has interviewed some of the world’s technology leaders and has delivered on several exclusives. At Data Economy, João manages the publication and is responsible for the majority of the editorial content. He has ranked 28 in the ‘Top 100 IoT Influencers of 2016’, ranked 28 in the ‘Top 100 M2M Influencers of 2016’, ranked 11 in the ‘Top Connected Car Influencers’, and features in the list of ‘IoT thought leaders to watch in the next four years [2016 onwards]’. At the age of just 12, he also founded his school’s newspaper and in 2012 he founded his own platform Corporation News Times International (CNT International), with an edition in English – CNTimes – and one in Portuguese – CNT Diário-, which soon attracted a vast readership worldwide. Between 2014 and 2015, João was the Head of Social Media for a UK parliamentary candidate of the general election’s winning party. João graduated from London Metropolitan University in 2014 with a BA in Journalism.
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About Data Economy: Data Economy brings what data centres have to offer closer to the enterprise and business world of cloud, data and the IoT.
Roger Gosine
Founder & Managing Director of RMG Professional
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About RMG Professional: Taking Digital technologies to market: strategy, partnering and go-to-market consulting andi
Andreas Constantinou
CEO & Founder of VisionMobile
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About VisionMobile: VisionMobile is the leading analyst firm in the developer economy.
Giles Thomas
Founder of PythonAnywhere
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About PythonAnywhere: PythonAnywhere is a popular and growing platform-as-a-service that makes it easy for programmers to create, store and run their software in
Rajesh verma
Founder and Director of Ebuiteq Limited
Dynamic tech enthusiast working in Development, Architecture & Analysis, helping customers find their way to the best digital solution and deliver amazing digital experiences and software. My primary areas of interest: • Product development • Solution architecture (full stack: server, client, cloud, web, mobile, desktop) • Development (full stack: Java 8, React, JavaScript, Swift, iOS) • Mulesoft, Spring boot, Spring MVC, Docker, Kafka, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgresSQL, Oracle DB, Big data – Hadoop ecosystem • Integrations of Legacy, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Mainframes • AI & VR • Cloud platforms (Amazon AWS) • Test automation (TDD, BDD) • System Analysis • Continuous Delivery • Agile delivery (Scrum CSM, Safe) I am from a Product plus Consulting background with below-mentioned Industries/Domain experience: -Banking Finance: Open Banking, Trading, Commercial Banking -Others: Retail, Energy Media and Automotive Diagnostics
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About Ebuiteq Limited: Specialised in AI, Cloud, Data, APIs, UI, Digital technology resourcing pool and transformation.
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
David Richards
COO & Founder of Nubo Consulting Ltd
David Richards is a life-long technology entrepreneur with over 30-years international experience in various capacities most notably in high-profile start-ups. David started his career in Wireless R&D at Marconi before moving onto Racal where he worked in the division that span-out as Vodafone. At Racal he was project manager of a £1Bn security contract and gained Chartered Engineer status at the youngest age allowed. David moved into Executive BDM roles at famous Silicon Valley firms Daisy Systems, Sun Microsystems, and subsequently Paul Allen’s Seattle-based Asymetrix. David was a Product Manager at Daisy, a company as well known in its day as Twitter is today. Daisy exited through a trade sale to the US software company Intergraph in 1990. At Sun David was Solaris Product Manager and then Networks Division Manager where he was part of the team that launched the success that is Java. The number of Java licences issued worldwide is now counted in billions and continues to grow under new owners Oracle. At Asymetrix David was CEO in its biggest market, Europe. Asymetrix was Paul Allen’s first venture post-Microsoft. Asymetrix exited via an IPO on NASDAQ in 1998. In recent years David has used his Silicon Valley experience to help accelerate and finance SMEs. He was previously a mentor to the DTI’s Software Business Network (SBN) and then an Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Mentor to the SETsquared incubation partnership where he latterly focussed on University spin-outs. SETsquared is Europe’s leading university technology incubator and accelerator (UBI survey 2013). He is currently a Rockstar mentor and a Tech London Advocate. Since 1997 David has, on average, each year directly helped his mentees raise over £1m of his speciality of Seed and Equity Gap funding. David has held a number of Non-Executive Director roles in tech startups and SMEs, is a successful business angel, and has VC contacts worldwide. The vast majority of his companies are award winning and have either made successful exits or continue to trade as independent private companies. As an Angel he regularly beats the 2 x ROI benchmark. His VC contacts include the biggest and best in Silicon Valley, Boston, London, Paris and Munich. One of his most recent successes was to found a successful startup in France, acting as CEO. His key sectors are electronics, software and cleantech.
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About Nubo Consulting Ltd: Nubo Consulting [Nubo] are a leading independent IT consultancy specialising in the SME sector.
