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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 Predictive Analytics 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.
Daniel McPherson
Co Founder of Logical Glue
Daniel McPherson has founded and successfully exited several companies in the UK and US. He has made about 20 investments and is now also focused on incubating startups. Together with Tom Singh (founder of the New Look chain) Daniel has founded the Launch a start up launch pad, which is building some great companies.
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About Beacon Capital, Logical Glue: Logical Glue is a software company that creates products to analyze data for a business to predict profitable outcomes for a business.
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Tugce Bulut
Founder and CEO of Streetbees
Tugce is passionate about the power of data and the positive change it can bring to the world. She is a published author and Master’s graduate from Cambridge, specialising in poverty alleviation and global living standards. Before founding Streetbees, she spent 6 years as a strategy consultant advising technology and consumer companies to accelerate growth in international markets.
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About Streetbees: Streetbees is a human intelligence platform that collects and analyzes offline consumer behavior.
Oliver May
Co-Founder and CCO of Streetbees
Oliver May is a mathematics and data geek who’s found his true calling in the vitality of the mobile tech world. After 5 years at Morgan Stanley as a trader, Oli co-founded and bootstrapped Fairshare, an elegant app designed to transform the shared living experience. He’s passionate about data and geolocation tech, and making the world more accessible with Streetbees. He also hits a mean forehand at table tennis.
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About Streetbees: Streetbees is a human intelligence platform that collects and analyzes offline consumer behavior.
Martin Blinder
Founder and CEO of Tictrac
Martin is an Internet and Digital Health entrepreneur with a focus on consumer web. He is co-founder and CEO of Tictrac, a leading Connected Health platform that engages people in their health, through their data. Tictrac is at the forefront of the consumerization of healthcare, centralizing an otherwise fragmented sector around the consumer, under the credo: consumer engagement is the key to better health outcomes. Tictrac won Best New Company at Health 2.0 in 2012. Martin was named among the 15 most influential in Digital Health, and has been featured in Wired, NYT, BBC, CNBC, Fortune, Mashable, Wall Street Journal, among others. He is also an active member of YPO, London chapter. Prior to Tictrac, Martin cofounded one of the first online financial services sites in Europe and has advised Prime Ministers and other state officials on innovation, foreign direct investment and entrepreneurship.
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About Tictrac: Tictrac is a connected health platform that engages people in their health through their data.
Oliver MacCarthy
Founder and Chief Creative Technologist of Tictrac
Oliver MacCarthy is the Founder and Chief Creative Technologist at Tictrac
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About Tictrac: Tictrac is a connected health platform that engages people in their health through their data.
Rupert Schneider
Co-Founder of Gardenia Technologies
Rupert Schneider is the co-founder at Gardenia Technologies.
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About Gardenia Technologies: Insightful Innovation in Working Capital
Jonathan Schneider
Co-Founder of Gardenia Technologies
Jonathan Schneider is the co-founder at Gardenia Technologies.
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About Gardenia Technologies: Insightful Innovation in Working Capital
George Frangou
Chief Executive Officer, Founder of Massive Analytic
George is Massive Analytic’s founder and Executive Chairman (formerly CEO), Artificial Precognition inventor and Oscar product architect. Pushing ICT boundaries for more than 30 years, he has many firsts including the UK fibre optic broadband network run by Virgin Media. George’s CV includes CEO Platon UK (now Delloitte), analytic company Pronus founder and KPMG senior executive. Degrees incude Astrophysics and wireless and optical communications from world leading universities including UCL. Professional accreditations and honours include Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institute of Directors (FIoD), FRSA, Fellow of The Chartered Institute for IT.
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About Massive Analytic, Massive Analytic: Massive Analytic is a London-based analytics innovator, with patented world leading technologies and global big data heritage.
Martin Robinson
Co-Founder of Massive Analytic
Martin’s focus is operations and investment. Over the last 20 years, Martin has led early-stage businesses and blue chip firms at board level in finance, operations and IT roles. He has the ability to make strategy a reality and he has consistently achieved high investment returns for investors and venture capitalists. Martin’s CV includes Operations & Finance Director ML Integration (sold to CW) and Hamilton Rentals (sold to Compel). He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, FCCA, and has an honours degree in Business Studies.
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About Massive Analytic: Massive Analytic is a London-based analytics innovator, with patented world leading technologies and global big data heritage.
Yaniv Altshuler
Co-Founder & CEO of Endor
Yaniv Altshuler is Co-Founder & CTO at Endor.
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About Endor: Predictive software platform that lets business users ask any predictive question and get high-quality results in minutes instead of months.
Eve Tamraz Najjar
Co Founder and Chief Scientist of Sensio Air
Graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris where she wrote a thesis on the neuronal interactions during the development of the cranial circuits, Eve also has a scientific background in Toxicology, Health and Environment. Her interest in cutting edge technology led her to specialize in Synthetic Biology, an emerging research area at the convergence of advances in chemistry, biology, computer science, and engineering. She is now an Allergy UK ambassador and focuses all of her time on bringing high-end laboratory equipment to the end users in order to simplify allergy and asthma prevention.
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About Sensio Air: Sensio Air is a healthcare analytics company that helps people with asthma and allergy predict prevent and manage their symptoms.
Mark Perera
Founder & CEO of Vizibl
CEO of Old St Labs / Founder of Procurement Leaders / Vizibl co-founder
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About Vizibl: Vizibl’s application puts collaboration, innovation and sustainability at the heart of supplier relationships. Their best in class digital platform enables enterprise organisations to tackle their most ambitious challenges collaboratively with suppliers and partners, to drive mutual value & sustainable business growth.
Alex Short
Founder of Vizibl
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About Vizibl: Vizibl is a global cloud platform that enables enterprise companies to manage their innovation lifecycle.
Ege Akpinar
Founder and CEO of Pointr
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About Pointr: Pointr is an indoor positioning and navigation company with analytics and messaging features.
Loubna Bouarfa
Co-Founder & CEO of OKRA Technologies
Loubna has won several awards and was recognised as a leading innovator by the MIT Technology Review in 2017. Beyond her business, Loubna has recently been appointed by the European Commission as a High-Level Expert on Artificial Intelligence. She will support the EU by developing recommendations on ethical, legal and societal issues related to AI, impacting the health, safety and freedom of the wider society. On a personal level, Loubna is a strong advocate for diversity and challenging the status quo. Having lived in Morocco, moving to the Netherlands at the age of 17, and later to the UK with a young family, she realised the power of remaining outside her comfort zone.
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About OKRA Technologies: OKRA is an AI analytics company for healthcare. We combine complex data sets, you get evidence-based insights and predictions in real time.
Richard Heyns
Founder and CEO of brytlyt
Founder at brytlyt.
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About brytlyt: Brytlyt provides transformational serverless acceleration for analytics
Prashant Kumar
Co-Founder & CTO of Cardinality
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About Cardinality: Cardinality’s innovative new analytics platform has been designed from the ground up with the primary focus on the Telco market.
Sacha Carton
Co-Founder & COO of Airfinity
Sacha is co-founder & COO at Airfinity – a science information and analytics company. He is a data, tech and media entrepreneur who previously co-founded ad pepper media (FRA: APM), Adbrain (sold to NSDQ: TTD), Scala Ventures and advisory firm Ogmenta and has been an investor, advisor and director in multiple media, data, adtech, PE and M&A companies in Europe and the US.
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About Airfinity, Scala Ventures: Airfinity is a science information and analytics company
Francesca Carlesi
Co-Founder and CEO of Molo
Francesca Carlesi is Co-founder and CEO at MoloFinance. Francesca is a senior executive with more than 15 years of experience in the financial sector across various domains (strategy,/business development, finance, M&A, regulation) and sectors (private equity, retail and commercial banking, investment banking, asset and wealth management).
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About Molo: Molo is a digital mortgage lending platform that uses technology and AI to make home financing faster, better, and cheaper.
Seth Ward
CEO & Founder of Pynk
Online since the ’80s, I grew up eating my cereals off of arcade game machines which led to my first thriving business aged 8 – running a lunchtime arcade sanctuary for my school buddies in my garage (in true Silicon Valley style). Serial tech entrepreneur and incubator since the ’90s. A hands-on, can-do leader, I’ve: – Raised investment (and delivered ROI) – Coded prototypes, alphas and betas – Set up data-driven analytics that enabled rapid growth – Recruited and led globally disperse tech teams – Built a business from $500 to eight figures in 4 years with zero investment – Pioneered digital download and mobile video streaming platforms for AOL, Vodafone, Orange and Universal Music – Co-founded a business which transformed professional soccer scouting before selling to an industry leader And I… – love to immerse myself in the most positively disruptive technology (from those arcade games and pre-WWW internet in the ’90s, web in the 90s, mobile in the 00s and now blockchain and AI in the 10s – learn to teach, and teach to learn; I feel most alive when I’m learning and applying new thinking – realise that as a society we need to actively shape our use of technology to help us reach our human potential rather than allowing it to rule our lives and diminish our connection to each other I first started mining Bitcoin in 2011. I’m currently focused on the blockchain space, dedicated to helping everyday investors and startups. I love blockchain, and I kinda love capitalism – both are broken right now, but could fix each other. Let’s make things better!
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About Pynk: Pynk is where everyday people invest better together.
Mark Little
Co-Founder, COO & CMO of Pynk
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About Pynk: Pynk is where everyday people invest better together.
Rory Brown
Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer of Kluster
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About Kluster: Forecast, manage pipeline, and execute strategies to beat your revenue target using Kluster’s revenue analytics platform.
Daniel Thompson
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Kluster
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About Kluster: Forecast, manage pipeline, and execute strategies to beat your revenue target using Kluster’s revenue analytics platform.
Julian Mills
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Quorso
Julian is a former partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a leader in the Travel, Transport, and Infrastructure practices. He also founded and co-chaired the Global Infrastructure Initiative with Madeleine Albright, a gathering of the world’s most influential infrastructure leaders. Julian spent much of his childhood growing up on a remote Scottish island surrounded by sheep and has degrees from Oxford University and Stanford University.
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About Quorso: A new era for store management: Agile. Simple. Human.
Sam Amrani
CEO & Founder of Olvin
Founder & CEO of Olvin.com and Founder of Tamoco.com, interested in and focussed on AI, geo-spatial data, real-world intelligence, analytics, communication and insight.
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About Olvin, Tamoco: Olvin helps real-world businesses get proactive through its AI powered predictive analytics platform.
Panos Dimitriou
CTO & Founder of Encode
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About Encode: Enorasys Security Analytics enables continuous cyber situational awareness to address advanced persistent threats (APTs).
Sarvesh Kumar
Founder and CEO of Singular Intelligence
Founder & CEO at Singular Intelligence, building an AI Platform and Applied AI products for Smart Retail and Commerce. Earlier Built successful businesses in Europe, the US, and India. Singular Intelligence enables brands and retailers to significantly improve their profit, customer experience, and market share by automated, real-time analysis and recommendations for profitable promotions and supply planning considering all market & operations factors. Sarvesh is an Industry Expert in AI, Analytics, Data and Business Intelligence. Enabling Business Value from Data to customers like Unilever, GSK, Tesco, Barclays, Three Telecom, British Telecom, CISCO, British Petroleum etc. across customers in Europe, US, and Asia. Sarvesh founded Singular Intelligence, to pioneer a new way of consuming insight from the variety and velocity of data and build a data-driven business. Sarvesh holds an Oxford Post Graduate Diploma in Strategy & Innovation, in addition to an Engineering Degree.
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About Singular Intelligence: Singular Intelligence is an AI Platform for brands & retailers that automates & augments commercial decisions leveraging all market factors
William Thomas
Co-Founder and CTO of Hoxton Analytics
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About Hoxton Analytics: Cloud computer vision software to digitise and automate processes in physical spaces.
Donna North
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Dressipi
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About Dressipi: The leading independently verified Revenue Optimisation Platform for fashion retailers.
Michalis Michael
Founder and CEO of DMR
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About DMR: DMR owns proprietary AI technology that adds intelligence to unstructured data from any source and language, to produce invaluable insights.
Mike Fish
CEO and co-found of E-Numeracy and Director of BigData4Analytics
Mike Fish is founder and CEO of award-winning education software start-up E-Numeracy. E-Numeracy uses AI to help those who struggle with numeracy – one third of the population – to rebuild their confidence with numbers and to improve their employability. In addition Mike is director of AI & Analytics consultancy BigData4Analytics, whose clients include EY, Investec, Grant Thornton and Zurich Insurance.
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About BigData4Analytics: Management Consultants in Big Data
Adrian Karl
CTO & Co-Founder of Inspection2
Adrian has over 20 years’ experience working within the mobile telecommunications and Internet industry. Adrian joined Sky-Futures in 2014 to lead the delivery of a technology roadmap for Expanse® that aims to maximise the value and impact of the data captured by drones. Adrian has been involved in both the design and delivery of a wide range of high tech and business applications that have technology at the core. He now applies this experience and expertise to ensure Inspection² stay at the leading edge of AI technology with our software and sensor solutions.
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About Inspection2: Automate industrial asset management & inspection with Inspection2 an AI-powered asset management, data analytics and reporting software
Edward Upton
Founder and CEO of Littledata
Edward Upton is the Founder and CEO at Littledata.
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About Littledata, Teachable: Littledata is an ecommerce analytics connector for Shopify stores.
Thomas Gatten
CEO & Founder of Growth Intelligence
Tom Gatten is a thought-leader in big data-driven B2B marketing and predictive lead generation. Before founding GrowthIntel he worked as a broadcast journalist for the BBC and at business intelligence firm IHS.
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About Growth Intelligence: Growth Intelligence is a UK technology company offering a software-as-a-service product to B2B corporations.
Prashant Majmudar
Founder & CTO of Growth Intelligence
Prash spent six years as an engineer at BAE Systems Detica, where he oversaw the delivery of sensor and electro-optic surveillance systems for the Ministry of Defence. He is a proponent and advocate of the use of full stack data science, machine-learning and predictive lead generation. He co-authored GrowthIntel and NIESR’s 2013 report on the UK digital economy and is well versed in Python and Natural Language Processing. – See more at: http://growthintel.com/about-us/#sthash.1CIDS80S.dpuf
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About Growth Intelligence: Growth Intelligence is a UK technology company offering a software-as-a-service product to B2B corporations.
Lisa Mazza
Co-Founder & CCO of ThinkLab.ai
Co-founder of ThinkLab.AI, a machine learning algorithm marketplace offering clients artificial intelligence solutions to deliver game-changing insights from data. Lisa gained 10 years experience in finance prior to setting up ThinkLab, focusing on business development in foreign exchange markets and working closely with quant teams that were developing algorithms ensuring transparent and efficient ways of trading for clients. She also has experience in the Fitness & Health Tech sector. Lisa holds a first class degree in Business Management from the University of London, Queen Mary and is passionate to help democratise machine learning by creating a marketplace that brings academia and companies together to gain powerful insights into data.
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About ThinkLab.ai: ThinkLab is an educational platform.
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®
David Prior
Founder of Resilio
International technologist with 30 years practical and pragmatic experience. Founded six companies (so far!) and sold three. Now focused on the delivery phase of the Resilio growth story. Technology background spanning recruitment, insurance, consultancy, telecoms, and defence and security markets in places ranging from Omaha to Basra and most points in between. Powered by caffeine and curiosity and always bemused to see the way I think reflected in the comics of XKCD.
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About Resilio: Data Integration and Real-time Analytics to Amplify Humans and Make Time!
Bruno Zamborlin
CEO & Founder of Mogees
My research focuses on new methods for gestural interaction with everyday objects and their applications in the creation of new interfaces for musical expression.
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About Hypersurfaces, Mogees: Mogees is Pioneering AI in sensor tech we transform any surface into a data-enabled one.
Pete Ferguson
Co-Founder CEO of Prospective
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About Prospective: Autonomous Networked Operations
David Swift
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Tech Entrepreneur of SwiftERM
Founder and Tech Entrepreneur, he was a mail order and then ecommerce marketing consultant exclusively for retail and the ecommerce, for 35+ years, for such clients as The White Company, Liberty and Next. He personally invested in his technology identified the need from the retail perspective. It stands alone as the only fully automated email remarketing software in the world.
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About SwiftERM: SwiftERM is predictive personalisation software for ecommerce.
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
