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 Web Development 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.
Adil Mohammed
CEO and Founder of Virtuoso
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About Virtuoso: Virtuoso develops a next-gen digital QA platform to enable users to deliver tomorrow’s QA and test automation solutions.
Matt Hagger
Founder & CEO of E-Man Venture Labs
English born entrepreneur and investor in the technology space. He is widely regarded as one of the country’s most influential product directors with a focus on customer behaviour, user experience and logic, winning many awards for his work, as a founder or consultant/advisor to major global consumer brands and high paced start ups. At only 21, Matt created Net Sorcerer; the first real-time desktop news alerts platform in the UK, winning a patent & innovation award from the UK’s DTI, raising investment in excess of $500,000. The platform was later adopted by Sky News/Sports to deliver breaking content in real-time. Matt creates and incubates technology out of his startup studio e-Man labs whom he Founded after graduating from business school aged 21. The company now boasts 7 figure turnovers with a small but dedicated team of 26. E-Man is incubating AR game Snatch and doctors on demand service, Zoomdoc. Both set to launch out of beta in Early 2017. Matt is in the Co-Founding team and was an initial shareholder, in both. Matt is an investor and Co-Founder of Bizk.it a business tools platform for start ups and small business owners. He also has an investment in Redeemia, which launched in September 2012 and followed this with investments in Pocket High Street, Juxtafeed, Burn This (acquired by BodyBoard), 123 Friday and Octane Inc in 2014. In 2016 Matt invested in ANA, Wise Amigo, Zoomdoc, 123 Friday and Snatch. Matt was the Founder and CEO of Samsung Ventures funded, Zkatter, in San Francisco until 2013 and now he spends his time based London with offices in Los Angeles as he works on the launch and scale of a start up called Doppels, based in Venice Beach. Matt remains the company’s Co-Founder and CEO.
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About E-Man Venture Labs, Snatch: e-Man is a start up studio and launches 3-5 companies per year
Raj Anand
Founder & CEO of Goodman Lantern
Raj is the winner of Europe’s Young Entrepreneur 2007 by BusinessWeek, Digital Future 50 by Revolution Magazine (alongside Twitter and Spotify), Courvoisier/The Observer Future 500 (2008) and Finalist of Sussex Entrepreneur 2008. He graduated from Sussex University with a Bachelors in Engineering (1.1)/Masters in Research, at 23 he setup Anderstand Limited and developed the majority of the software. Raj worked for the European Union, Sussex University research laboratory and Shell STEP internships developing software projects for several start-ups. Raj won many national awards for projects in computer science, leadership skills and entrepreneurship.
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About Goodman Lantern: Goodman Lantern provides content that helps you increase subscriptions and grow faster.
Olivier de Trogoff
CEO @ Maje invest and member of the Board of Director @ ClicData of ClicData
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About : ClicData is a provider of cloud-based dashboard systems that are designed to improve business efficiency through better reporting.
Callum Adamson
CEO of Distributed
CEO of distributed.co. Early stage startup advisor and investor. Previously founded Wits End Digital Awne.
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About Distributed: Quality Driven Tech Teams. On-demand.
Hans-Holger Albrecht
CEO of Deezer
Hans-Holger Albrecht is the chief executive officer of Deezer, a global on-demand audio provider that offers a digital music streaming service in more than 180 countries. Prior to Deezer, he served Modern Times Group for 12 years as the president and chief executive officer of the company. Previously, he served the same company holding different positions such as head of pay-TV operations, business area manager, and chief operating officer. Albrecht holds a PhD in law from Ruhr Universitaet Bochum and a Master of Law degree from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau.
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About Deezer, Veon: Deezer is the world’s most diverse, dynamic and personal global music streaming company and includes a unique personalisation model, Flow.
Laurent Cordonnier
Chief Financial, Legal & Human Capital Officer & Deputy CEO of Deezer
Laurent Cordonnier is the deputy CEO/chief financial, legal and human capital officer at Deezer.
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About Deezer: Deezer is the world’s most diverse, dynamic and personal global music streaming company and includes a unique personalisation model, Flow.
Mark Wrighton
Chief Executive Officer of Huddle
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About Huddle: Huddle is the enterprise document collaboration company that helps organizations across the globe to collaborate intelligently.
Adrian Lovett
President & CEO of World Wide Web Foundation
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About World Wide Web Foundation: Organization for Web Advancement
Adam Korbl
Founder & CEO of Crowded Road
Adam is a seasoned entrepreneur and mobile app guru. He co-founded Glide, the world’s first instant video messaging platform and serves as the Chief Product & Marketing Office. Founded Crowded Road (http://crowdedroad.com), a mobile app consulting outfit that has consulted for a range of global brands such as Billabong, Inc. and has produced 30+ profitable apps, including the popular iFax suite (http://ifaxapp.com) that is currently the highest grossing fax app on both the iOS and Android app markets. Adam has been featured by the NY Times, WSJ, USA Today, Mashable and TechCrunch for his previous initiatives and holds an MBA, from the Fordham Graduate School of Business.
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About Crowded Road: Crowded Road is a mobile app consulting outfit that has produced over 40 mobile apps, including the popular iOS/Android business app iFax.
Maulik Sailor
CEO of Innovify
Maulik has a deep and long lasting passion for entrepreneurship and wanted a way to share that passion with the world. That’s why he founded Innovify. A company that allows him to help new entrepreneurs take their ideas to market and watch their companies flourish. His history working for leading companies like Nokia, Microsoft, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, Betfair, and Visa gave him the experience and contacts that every new startup dreams of having, while his unique vision and creative spirit will help your company achieve lasting success in the marketplace. A few startups Maulik has been founder/co-founder includes Innovify, Landbay, Kwanji, Brickowner, Instantt and more. Maulik obtained his MBA (Distinction) from Imperial College, London, MSc from Brunel University, London and B. Eng. from Sardar Patel University, India.
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About CodeMonk.ai, Innovify, Tech London Advocates: Innovify is a digital venture studio enabling startups and corporates to convert their ideas in to Most Lovable Products
David Peto
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Aframe
David founded Aframe with a vision to create a video platform that is powerful enough to handle the huge volumes and myriad formats of video production, but is simple enough that anyone could use it. He’s taken this idea from a one-room office covered in post it notes, to a global business with offices across the UK and US, raising significant Venture Capital funding along the way.
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About Aframe: Aframe Media is a SaaS-based company that provides cloud video production storage and workflow.
Vinita Rathi
CEO & Co-Founder of Systango
Vinita, Ex Vice President Goldman Sachs, London and now founder of IT agency Systango.com which helps and hand holds founders, especially, with no technology background to build their product and get it out of the door just like an in-house team would do. She has successfully put together a team, handpicked her members that work in sprints, agile and work shoulder to shoulder. When the time is right Systango then helps start up build local team and transition seamlessly. Vinita recently helped a founder who was struggling in building his product despite of having a fantastic idea. The company now has a working product, team of two in-house developers and Vinita jumps in as and when deadlines are more aggressive than what their in-house team can handle. In her community time, Vinita is Director of WomenWhoCode.com London Chapter. She is also founder of WomenHackForNonProfits.com – an initiative to increase women developer’s footprint in open source & non profit projects. It has more than 200 women developer volunteers and about 5 non profits registered to work with. In her spare time she also runs CodePunt.Today – a daily challenge website in alpha to keep developer’s developer by heart. When she is not doing one of the projects above, she is probably playing with her 4 year old son!
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About Systango: Systango is a software company provides custom web, mobile application, game, ecommerce development services.
Sebastian Lewis
Founder & CEO of Mettrr
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About Mettrr: Mettrr designs, builds and manages professional websites tailored to your small business.
Yannis Piperakis-Papadakis
CEO of DOPE Studio
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About DOPE Studio: DOPE creates [D]ata driven, fully [O]ptimized, top [P]erforming, digital [E]xperiences for local & international brands!
Michael Berhane
Co-Founder & CEO of People of Color in Tech
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About People of Color in Tech: POCiT’s objective is to highlight the current achievement of ‘people of color’ within the sphere of technology & startups to inspire others.
Sven Al Hamad
Co-Founder and CEO of Webiny
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About Webiny: Easiest way to adopt serverless.
Alexandra Hussenot
Founder & CEO of Immersionn
Alexandra is the founder of Immersionn, the world’s first VR Discovery Engine and she is also the UK lead for ‘Women in Immersive Technologies’, a community of 1000 members that aims to empower European women working in XR. She is also 1 in 10 members of the UK5G Creative Industries working group reporting the department in charge of Digital, Medias, Culture and Sport (DCMS). Prior to this, Alexandra pursued an international business career at insurance firm, Allianz, managing an £80M global business. She has also worked all over Europe during her 11 years at Sony Ericsson (now Sony Mobile) and has solid experience designing and launching software and service products, particularly covering user experience design and continuous improvements. She also lead large scale operations for mobile phone repairs and remanufacturing.
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About Immersionn: Immersionn is a content discovery company. We allow people to discover VR content they would never find
Dobromir Todorov
CEO | Chief Cloud Officer & Co-founder of HeleCloud
Dob Todorov, CEO & Chief Cloud Officer, has co-founded and led many start-ups in the technology and financial services industries. With solutions architecture, security and systems engineering experience at organisations including HP, Accenture, Visa, BT Global Services and International Network Services (INS), he was subsequently employed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) as CTO for Public Sector in EMEA, and Principal Architect for Security & Compliance in EMEA. He has supported clients as diverse as central and local government, large internationals and emerging start-ups in their design and implementation of cloud solutions following AWS best practice. Dob is passionate about the opportunities for business advantage coming from technology innovation and strategic digital disruption.
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About HeleCloud: HeleCloud provides strategic technology consultancy, engineering and managed cloud services on the AWS Platform
Kathryn Parsons
Co-Founder and CEO of Decoded
Kathryn Parsons is co-founder and CEO of Decoded, a technology education company founded in East London in 2011, which launched with the promise to teach anyone Code in a Day. The firm’s accelerated learning experiences have since expanded to include the worlds of code, data, innovation, cyber security and artificial intelligence. In addition to growing and scaling the business, Kathryn is a regular keynote speaker and campaigns globally for code on curriculums and gender diversity in technology. Described by the Evening Standard as “a woman on a mission to teach us all to code”, Kathryn was part of the successful campaign to have code introduced as a mandatory subject to the UK national curriculum in September 2014. In 2016 she was appointed Chairwoman of the UK Government Institute of Coding and received an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. In 2017 Kathryn joined the London Mayor’s Business Advisory Board, the UK Government Cyber Security Skills Advisory Board and the non-executive board of the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. She’s a self-confessed language lover, having studied Japanese and Mandarin in her spare time and Latin and Ancient Greek at Cambridge University.For her code is just another language, one used by billions.
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About Decoded: Decoded is the world’s leading Tech Educator, teaching digital skills to whole organisations and business leaders from across all sectors.
Alexander Malin
CEO of Forty Seven
Founder of Forty Seven
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About Forty Seven: Forty Seven is a software consulting and development company providing IT outsourcing services.
Julian M. Baladurage
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of MBJ LONDON
Julian Baladurage joined MBJ LONDON as CEO & Co-founder in 2011.
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About Forbes New York Business Council, MBJ LONDON: MBJ LONDON is a web and app development company offering Website as a Service.
Charlie Horrell
CEO of Imagen Ltd
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About Imagen Ltd: Imagen Ltd is a modular enterprise video platform that enables content owners to publish and monetize media archives.
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.
Rasmus Gustavsen
Founder & iCEO of NerdPeople
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About NerdPeople: DIgital Marketing, Software Development, Web and App development, QA. Our nerds will help you reach your business goals in next to no time!
David Olsan
CEO of Mars Spiders Digital
I founded Mars Spiders to instantly deliver massive value and have fun creating successful company from scratch. Perfection is the passion for the detail and the habit/act of delivering more services and a better quality of services – this isn’t a cliché, but a beacon of light for Mars Spiders. I have the finest brains roaming this planet (and Mars – we dream big and beyond the galaxy) on my team. Mars Spiders manages an array of sensational projects, from quirky campaign sites to large corporate sites. We design and develop revolutionary applications for iOS, Android, and the web, digital content, video production, motion graphics, and much more. Mars Spiders is frequently acknowledged for its startling fast, focused and thorough approach when producing innovative digital products. Our goal is to continuously develop with a broader understanding of business objectives. We are extremely organized & 100% agile in managing our team’s workload. We apply and encourage an open communication flow, consistently meeting deliverable expectations and deadlines. We lead and motivate others, aiming to inspire individuals to reach their maximum potential. Prior to embarking on remarkable adventure with Mars Spiders, I acted as the creative digital expert and senior mobile and web consultant. I’ve had many years of professional experience, delivering large-scale projects and high-profile work for several multinational companies. We served thousands and even millions of consumers at T-Mobile, Adidas, Tesco, Kellogg’s, Intel, Microsoft, MSN, NHS, Harper Collins, BT, Ford and Bloomsbury Publishing. Spiders are still a young beast but we are already trusted by the giants such as the British Library and Bureau Veritas. “David is the new new thing” Peter York
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About Mars Spiders Digital: We are a London digital agency specilized in Web and App development and design.
Kirill Mikhailenko
CEO of BITOTEK
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About BITOTEK: Bitotek is an innovative IT agency that specialises in developing systems and apps for start-ups and online businesses.
Anton Skrypnyk
Co-Founder & CEO of KindGeek
Anton Skrypnyk is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at KindGeek.
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About KindGeek: KindGeek is a software development company that helps entrepreneurs with product development and technical aspects of their projects.
Adrian Wheeler
CEO of Insaneye
SHUB.ONE B2B SOCIAL MEDIA / AUTOCROC.COM – Website and Mobile app founder/entrepreneur
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About Insaneye: Insaneye – Developers of Websites & Mobile apps.
Peter Aron Zentai
Chief Architect and Co-Founder & CEO of JayStack Technologies
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About JayStack Technologies: JayStack Technologies is a software program development company that specializes in computer software, enterprise mobile development.
Matthew Stubbs
Founder & CEO of BookingTek
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About BookingTek: BookingTek is develop and deliver innovative direct booking solutions for hospitality.
Richard Stobart
CEO & Founder of Unboxed
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About Unboxed: The largest Ruby on Rails development agency in London and Cape Town
Rishi Kapoor
Founder and CEO of Webosaurus
Rishi Kapoor is the founder and CEO of Webosaurus. He is the previous Head of Performance Marketing for Monster UK/IE. He has over 15 years of experience in performance based online advertising and recently has taken up a new role where he is focussed on aligning the recruitment sector to the mainstream consumer advertising sector by making recruiting ROI more transparent & accessible. He has also been actively involved with the Internet Advertising Bureau(IAB) helping formulate the best practices for the online lead generation & performance marketing sector. His B2C specialisation is helping him transform talent acquisition strategy for leading gig economy and forward thinking brands. Close
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About Monster, Webosaurus: Webosaurus is a full service performance marketing agency that transform lead acquisition.
Marius Anton
Chief Exec. Officer (CEO) of SMARTUNIT Digital Marketing Agency
Chief Exec. Officer (CEO) at SMARTUNIT Digital Marketing Agency.
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About SMARTUNIT Digital Marketing Agency: Smartunity Digital Marketing Agency utilizes search engine optimization to increase web traffic.
Sam Hartnell
CEO / Founder of Xzero Entertainment
Sam Hartnell – YouTube Network Entrepreneur, Founder of Xzero Entertainment Xzero Entertainment Network (XEN) is a media & technology company that brings together content owners, network operators and advertisers to create economically sustainable online and mobile video business models. XEN specializes in the aggregation, optimization, protection and monetization of video content. We create compelling distribution opportunities for its content partners and income generation opportunities for its network and advertising partners.
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About Xzero Entertainment, YouTube: DigiYouTube MCN Network – Business Development & Music Distribution
Anant Sharma
CEO of Matter Of Form
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About Matter Of Form: Matter Of Form is a leading Experience Design Consultancy. We help timeless brands design what’s next.
Bruno Belcastro
CEO of Pixel2HTML
Bruno Belcastro Pinto is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pixel2HTML. With over 10 years of experience in the Digital and Web Development Industry, he has collaborated with an extensive range of clients such as Starbucks, Diageo, Samsung, Natural Stacks, Auth0, Edelman and many more. His skills include Digital Strategy, Product Management, Sales Development, User Experience Design and Management at large.
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About Pixel2HTML: Pixel2HTML is a young PSD to HTML company, formed by professional designers, programmers and customer support specialists focused on.
Kyriacos Constantinou
CEO of B3website
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About B3website: B3Website has been providing reliable Internet hosting infrastructure solutions as well domain registration and website development.
Kyriacos Constantinou
CEO of B3website
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About B3website: B3Website has been providing reliable Internet hosting infrastructure solutions as well domain registration and website development.
Erkut Evirgen
CEO, Principal Consultant of Wisen
Erkut Evirgen is the founder and principal consultant at Wisen.
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About Wisen: Wisely Crafted Software Solutions
David Turner
Founder and CEO of Pathwise Robotics
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About Pathwise Robotics, The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA): Pathwise Robotics develops autonomous robot assistants for public spaces.
Benjmain Fountain
CEO & Founder of Zed Zed Ltd
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About Zed Zed Ltd: Zed Zed is a crowd working platform under one brand. We are building the world’s largest and most talented Tech Team.
Toni Hopponen
Chief Executive Officer of Flockler
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About Flockler: The Best Social Aggregator & Social Website Builder
Thiago Vieira
CEO of Bevieri Sistemas
Thiago Vieira is the CEO at Bevieri Sistemas.
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About Bevieri Sistemas: Bevieri Sistemas is a customized systems development, consulting, and training company.
