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 CEO’ operating in the Mobile Payments space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Nikolay Storonsky
Founder & CEO of Revolut
Nikolay Storonsky is the Founder and CEO at Revolut. He is a former Equity Derivatives Trader at Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers. Storonsky graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT) with a master of science in General and Applied Physics and earned a master of arts in Applied Economics and Finance at New Economic School.
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
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Sanja Kon
CEO of Utrust
Sanja is a senior digital executive with more than 10 years’ experience in developing and executing global digital strategy, delivering sustainable revenue growth in multinationals within the E-Commerce, Fintech and Telecommunication industries. As the VP of Global Partnerships UTRUST, Sanja’s main focus is to partner with key international players to improve the accessibility of digital assets and increase cryptocurrency merchant adoption. As a creative strategist, always focused on innovation, Sanja has guided cross- functional teams to develop and execute the Marketplaces proposition at PayPal, with the aim of providing the best in class online payment experience to e-commerce platforms. Sanja headed the European Partnerships strategy at eBay, forming key global relationships to enhance the selling experience for eBay professional merchants. As Head of the Italian Consumer Strategy team at eBay, Sanja redesigned the omni-channel customer experience for eBay’s core vertical experiences, including the re-launch of the Fashion buying and selling hubs. A multi lingual communicator, fluent in English, Italian, Croatian, Serbian and Slovene, Sanja is an excellent influencer with a proven track of building and leading international teams in challenging commercial environments. Fascinated by how technological innovation impacts on our life, constantly investigating new start-ups that will shape our future. Sanja is a speaker at international conferences, sharing her vision and knowledge on how the digital landscape impacts consumer’s behaviours.
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About Utrust: Web3 payments technology. The radically better way to pay and get paid globally
Richard Ells
CEO of Electroneum
Richard Ells is a founder of Electroneum; the world’s fastest growing cryptocurrency. Owner of two other successful digital businesses; SiteWizard (digital agency) and Retortal (social media scheduler).
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About Electroneum: Electroneum is a digital payments ecosystem that allows anyone to store, send and receive digital funds via their smartphone.
Jeremy Nicholds
CEO of Judopay
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About Judopay: Judopay is a mobile-first payments platform.
Breon Corcoran
CEO of Zepz
Formerly CEO of Paddy Power Betfair plc, in 2016 Breon Corcoran led the merger of Betfair and Paddy Power to form one of the world’s largest online gaming companies. Prior to this, Breon was the CEO at Betfair until 2016 and COO of Paddy Power until 2011. In the 1990s, Breon was a Vice-President, Equity Derivative Trading, at J.P Morgan and has also worked at Bankers Trust. He has a BA (Mathematics) from Trinity College, Dublin and an MBA from INSEAD. In 2016, Breon was awarded the UK’s Sunday Times’ ‘Business Leader of the Year’ award. He is currently a non-executive director at the wealth management company, Tilney Group.
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About Zepz: Zepz is a money transfer service that helps migrants send money to their loved ones all over the world.
William Reeve
Chief Executive Officer of Goodlord
William Reeve is a serial entrepreneur and business angel based in London. He serves as non-executive Director for a variety of high-growth businesses including DealChecker.co.uk, Graze, iAnnounce, True Knowledge, and Zoopla. William co-founded Fletcher Research in 1997, which rapidly became the UK’s leading internet research business. He sold it to Forrester Research (NASDAQ:FORR) in 1999. William co-founded ScreenSelect in 2003. ScreenSelect grew rapidly and took over a variety of other businesses, before rebranding as LOVEFiLM.com in 2006. LOVEFiLM.com is now the leading international online film rental business. It is backed by Amazon.com, Arts Alliance, Balderton Capital, DFJ Esprit, and Index Ventures.
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About Goodlord: Goodlord offers a cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords, and tenants manage the rental process.
Nicholas Dryden
CEO of Fingopay
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About FinGo, Fingopay, Sthaler: Identity authentication platform
Nick Katz
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of acasa
Nick Katz has worked in the US and the UK for nearly a decade in just about every segment of the real estate industry possible. He’s bought and sold commercial buildings, improved the energy efficiency of hotels, and deployed software to large property portfolios. In 2013 Nick joined VC backed Honest Buildings as Head of Europe before launching Splittable. Nick loves the idea of leveraging technology to help people live better at home. He’s an expert at dealing with housemate issues having rented and shared nine properties in London.
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About acasa, Locatable: acasa is a household management tool and bill splitting package that helps students, sharers and couples.
Freddy Macnamara
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Cuvva
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About Cuvva: Radically better insurance, fit for the future.
Mustafa Khanwala
Founder and CEO of MishiPay
Mustafa is a Mechatronic Engineer who has previously worked in and led projects with companies like Porsche, National Instruments, Barclays and TATA and has proven track record in successful innovation. He has sales experience through working in his family business and starting a food delivery venture in Manchester in 2011. Towards the end of his MSc Engineering with Finance degree at UCL, he thought of the idea for MishiPay after having waited too long in a queue to buy 1 just item. He then started MishiPay as a side project and designed and built the first functional prototype by himself. Having worked on MishiPay for several months and after seeing the technology working in real life, he rejected offers from Goldman Sachs, KPMG and Barclays to work full-time on MishiPay. He also called up Tanvi then, a brilliant computer systems engineer, his friend since 5 years and someone he’s worked with previously. He convinced her to join MishiPay as CoFounder and CTO and they haven’t looked back since. As proof of their teamwork, just look at their accomplishments since Nov 2015; live public trials in London, Cisco global partnership, seed investment, major retailer projects in India, Europe and the Middle East, awards from Mayor of London, Government of India, Anita Borg Institute, University of Manchester, UCL and others.
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About MishiPay: Mishipay is an app allowing you to never have to stand in line to pay at a store again.
George Urdea
Co-founder & CEO of Nobly POS – Point of Sale
Founder @ Nobly POS – POINT OF SALE
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About Nobly POS – Point of Sale: Nobly is the point-of-sale, inventory management and CRM app for the iPad. A system that is beautiful designed, quick and easy to use.
Baris Ozaydinli
Founder & CEO of Scooch
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About Fitwell, Founders Factory, Founders Factory, Scooch: Scooch is a mobile application that encourages individuals to reach a medically recommended level of movement.
Ian Hooper
CEO & Founder of Scooch
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About Scooch: Scooch is a mobile application that encourages individuals to reach a medically recommended level of movement.
Shashi Fernando
CEO of Auctus Alternative
CEO, Yonder & Beyond. Chairman, Boppl. Chairman, Prism Digital. Chairman, Wondr. Former CEO of Saffron Digital. Former board member of HTC. Former CCO of HTC. Previously the founder and CEO of Saffron Digital which raised $3million in 2007 and was acquired by HTC in 2011 for the value of $50million. Built an exceptional team from scratch to 120 strong across the London and Los Angeles offices. Delivered technologies into the heart of the mobile and entertainment industry by securing clients such as Vodafone, T-Mobile, Samsung USA, Paramount, Disney. Fernando is cited in the Top 50 in the world for Mobile Entertainment consecutively for 2 years, as well as placing for Mobile Power 50, the 50 most powerful people in mobile industry.
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About Auctus Alternative, Boppl Limited, Saffron Digital: Invest. Manage. Succeed. Equipping startups with vital capabilities beyond capital.
Cameron Parry
CEO & Founder of Tally
Serial innovator and Chief Executive of listed fintech and natural resources public companies, including the world’s first blockchain company to IPO on a recognised stock market (Dec 2015). Founder and CEO of Tally® – the standalone physical gold monetary system and digital currency and first in the world to offer individual accounts with international bank account numbers for a non-government issued currency. Joint CEO of FCA-licensed 35-year-old London Stockbroking firm, First Equity Limited (FCA Licence No. 124394) and a Financial Conduct Authority approved person (FCA Ref No. CJP01234). Created the vertically integrated gold company Lionsgold Limited (LSE: LION). Founder and inaugural CEO of London Stock Market AIM-listed natural resources investing company Metal Tiger PLC (LSE: MTR) and co-Founder of Coinsilium Group Limited (NEX: COIN).
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About Tally Money: Tally® is a standalone monetary system, payments platform and commodity currency that seamlessly operates with the global banking system’s infrastructure whilst safeguarding customers from the systemic devaluation and risks of the fiat currency fractional reserve banking system.
Hammad Kayani
CEO, Founder of BitFutr
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About BitFutr: BitFutr is the home of your Crypto. The BitFutr app helps you spend your crypto, get up to 8% in saving and invest your crypto 24/7.
Justin Floyd
Founder and CEO of RedCloud Technologies
Justin Floyd Recognised as a leading Entrepreneur for almost 3 decades Justin Floyd has founded and invested in a number of innovative businesses. Since 1987 he has been involved in companies that have included Vecta Software Corporation, a leading Cloud Business Intelligence company and the world’s first leasing exchange that generated over $2 billion in transactions over two years. Mr. Floyd is a trusted adviser to a number of Entrepreneurs who’s products and services are changing markets. He is the Founding Partner of RedCloud VC, an investment company that backs entrepreneurs in emerging and developing markets focusing on mobile, cloud and disruptive technologies.
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About RedCloud Technologies: RedCloud believe technology will universally change the way in which services are distributed & accessed by people in new digital economy.
Dan Wagner
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Rezolve
Dan Wagner began his career as a junior Account Executive at the advertising agency WCRS. While doing market research, that involved laborious searching of back copies of newspapers, journals, and research reports Dan first generated the concept of an electronic, PC-based information service. In 1985 at the age of 20, he left WCRS to pursue his ambition of creating such a service and established M.A.I.D. Dan was the driving force behind M.A.I.D.’s growth and development, including listings on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Throughout his career he has engineered numerous acquisitions and has been responsible for forging a wide array of strategic alliances. He led M.A.I.D.’s move into the Internet technology and eCommerce markets, being one of the first to understand their huge potential, and conceived the technology which is now Venda, in 1998. He has won a variety of business awards that recognize his achievements including The World Economic Forum’s Global Leader of Tomorrow in 1997 and Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 1999.
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About Bright Station Ltd., Bright Station Ventures, Rezolve, Venda: Rezolve allows any kind of product or media to instantly trigger a highly relevant, contextual engagement between consumer and retailer
Jens Lauritzson
CEO of Flexion
JI founded Flexion in 2007 with a mission to help mobile game and app developers monetize their products more effectively. Having experienced how difficult it was to monetise and find distribution for apps with the traditional Pay-Per-Download model as a developer gave me the idea to help others in the same situation. The company has since become the leading enabling solution and covers a range of monetization and discovery features. Flexion works with most of the top tier game developers and some of the best service providers in areas such as carrier billing, advertising, app discovery and search. Prior to Flexion I worked with mobile game developers and aggregators and I have had the opportunity to grow a global network of contacts within the mobile content industry for 13 years.
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About Flexion, Mobile Sensations Limited: Flexion is a monetization and distribution platform for developers and publishers.
Gary Goodman
Founder & CEO of Yumpingo
Gary Goodman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Yumpingo.
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About Yumpingo: Yumpingo is an internet company that specializes in customer engagement and analytics platforms designed for the Hospitality Industry.
Philippe Morel
CEO of SETL
Philippe leads SETL’s overall strategy and operations. Prior to joining SETL, Philippe was the worldwide leader for Capital Markets, as well as the EMEA Leader for the Private Equity and Principal Investor Practice at a top-tier strategy consulting firm. Philippe has over 25 years of experience in financial services across the European markets, particularly in advising Corporates and Financial institutions on their strategies, organization, and change management.
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About SETL: SETL is a technology company that focuses on blockchain settlements and payments.
Richard Ambrose
CEO of Azimo
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About Azimo: Azimo is an online money transfer company that provides a fast, secure, and low-cost alternative to legacy high street remittance services.
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.
Myles Stephenson
CEO & Co-Founder of Modulr
Myles Stephenson is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Modulr.
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About Modulr: Modulr is a fintech company that provides Payments as a Service API for digital businesses.
Prask Sutton
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Onvi
Founder & CEO of Wi5.
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About Onvi: The mobile-first POS system for hospitality
Michael Rolph
CEO and Co-Founder of Yoyo Wallet
Michael Rolph started his career at Barclaycard, First Data and PayPal. Prior to founding Yoyo, he was a founding member and Director at Anthemis Group, the specialist FinTech advisory and investment firm. During this time he advised multiple start-ups like Azimo and The Currency Cloud in their early stages as well as established players like Vocalink, Skrill and the Banks on digital innovation, investment and M&A. He is currently an advisor to Firestartr and has previously been a mentor at Seedcamp, the early stage funding company and a non-executive director at The MoBank Group.
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About Yoyo Wallet: Yoyo Wallet is a mobile payment, loyalty and marketing platform.
Sonny Michael Holmqvist
CEO of Basebone
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About Basebone: Basebone is a digital content business focused on the mobile phone user. We are the creators and owners of baseplay streaming services.
Hamish Blythe
Founder & CEO of Trilo
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About Trilo: Building the simplest way for people to pay people
Elliot Hall
Co-Founder & CEO of Zapaygo
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About Zapaygo: Zapaygo provides a menu of goods or services and a pre-order and payment facility to consumers.
David Nunn
Founder & CEO of Rvvup
David Nunn is the founder and CEO of Rvvup.
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About Rvvup: Bridging the 3 Generations of Payments
Adrian Wong
Founder & CEO of MOXI AI
Founder & CEO at MOXI AI, the personal butler for your social life. Building the future of socialising by being the fastest and easiest way to plan a group activity that everyone wants, and make it happen. Multi-disciplinary leader having led UX, creative, agile IT & business relationship management teams, cross-industry for tech start-ups, digital agencies & major corporates. 20 years building products, brands and experiences. Launched a global online gaming product in a saturated market securing one million users in 15 months. Hands on expertise in UX/UI Design, Marketing & Branding.
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About MOXI AI, Venture Agenda: MOXI is an AI butler for your social life. The fastest way to achieve group consensus.
Michael Simeon
Co-founder & CEO of VPD.money
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About VPD.money: VPD.money is a financial services company that provides borderless mobile banking experience and other financial services for customers
Dennis Collet
Co-Founder & Co-Chief Executive Officer of Orderella
Dennis Collet is the CEO and co-founder of Orderella. He is also the COO of Kaiser Advisory ltd. He earned his master’s degree at Copenhagen Business School and his bachelor’s degree at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
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About Orderella: Orderella is the leading mobile ordering and payment platform for the hospitality industry available in the UK.
Ebbe Groes
Member of board, Investor, Phd Economics, Harvard, CEO & Founder Everymatrix ltd of Shopbox
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About : Shopbox is a cloud-based checkout system that empowers business owners in hospitality to run their business hassle-free.
Enrique Dominguez
Co-founder and CEO of Incubapps
Enrique Dominguez is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dialcom Networks, LLC. Prior to being an entrepreneur in the technology sector, Mr. Dominguez worked in the investment banking and financial technology services industries. In 1997, he co-founded Dinacom Technologies, an IP telephony software manufacturer. He also co-founded Ola Internet in 1999, the first Spanish IP telephony operator. He served on the board of Ola Internet and Netfinger Systems.
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About Dialcom Networks, Incubapps, Incubapps Limited: Build your mobile presence for free and publish segmented offers instantly.
Michael Messele
CEO of Pillar Project
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About Pillar Project, Pillar Project: Platform to contextually manage your identity and transact with the services of the emerging web3 digital economy.
Shahid Amin
Chief Executive Officer of Rizq
Shahid Amin is the Chief Executive Officer of Rizq.
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About Rizq: Rizq is the first fully digital sharia-compliant, ethical account in the UK.
Rob Weisz
CEO of Fonix
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About Fonix, Mobile Interactive Technology: Fonix is a cellular phone distributor that supplies telecommunication handsets.
Matthew Stubbs
Founder & CEO of BookingTek
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About BookingTek: BookingTek is develop and deliver innovative direct booking solutions for hospitality.
Karen Rossouw
Chief Executive Officer of Kashing
An energetic, proactive and highly dynamic leader with exceptional managerial and motivational skills and a proven ability to achieve immediate and long-term goals and meet operational demands. Excellent communication, marketing, project management skills, combined with extensive experience and a successful track record leading strategy and building strong relationships.
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About Kashing: Kashing uses smart payment technology that enables independent businesses to accept card payments.
Nicola Horlick
CEO of Money&Co.
Nicola is the CEO of Money&Co, a person-to-business lending platform, which connects people looking for a better rate of interest on their cash with businesses seeking finance to grow. Money&Co. is experiencing rapid growth as many companies are still finding it difficult to borrow money from banks. In 2010, Nicola set up Derby Street Films and there are now three Derby Street vehicles, which fund the development of feature films. Nicola is also the Chairman of Glentham Capital Limited, which is currently raising a film finance fund. Nicola read Jurisprudence at Balliol College, Oxford.
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About Money&Co.: Money&Co. is at the forefront of the P2B (Person to Business) world.
Cristóbal Rosa
CEO of PayMet Ltd.
CEO PayMet Ltd.
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About PayMet Ltd.: Secure Mobile Payment and Loyalty
Andy Cooper
Founder | CEO of Bill Hut
Andy is currently working as co-founder on a pre-launch service named Bill Hut. Website : www.billhut.com Blog: www.blog.billhut.com
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About Bill Hut: Bill Hut is an online platform that makes managing bills in house shares easy and transparent from one applciation.
