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 CRM 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.
Robin Farrell
Founder of Arch International Group
Experienced business builder and investor | Private equity and asset financier 30 years experience across asset management, structured finance, private equity, business development, investment banking, risk management and trading. Structured over $30 billion (equity) of corporate and investment transactions and set up numerous multi-$billion businesses. Management of alternative and traditional asset portfolios for families and institutions over a 25 year period. Founded ARCH in 2002, building it into an international investment banking and asset management group, with highly diverse focus on alternative investments, hedge funds, mutual funds, thematic private equity and physical assets. Offices in London, Zurich, Dubai, Riyadh, Delhi, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Gibraltar. Prior to ARCH Global, Mr. Farrell was a consultant to Goldman Sachs International and Global Head of the Alternative Investments Group at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. Earlier experience includes Head of Equity Structured Products for Societe Generale and Executive Director – Global Equity Derivatives for Union Bank of Switzerland. Spent the first part of his career in Quantitative Investment Management and Risk Management, including the management of c.£1 billion of investment / derivative portfolios, mutual funds and structured products for the Legal and General Group and the building of trading and risk management systems for Barings Treasury and Trading (Global Fixed Income). Mr Farrell graduated from the Imperial College London in Mathematics (BSc. ARCS) in 1988. He is a Chartered Mathematician and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and the Royal Statistical Society.
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About Arch International Group: Arch International Group Inc is a premier IT staffing and solutions company with a nationwide and growing international presence.
Benoy Berry
CEO & Founder of Contec Global Inc.
As CEO and managing director of Continental Transfer Technique Limited (Contec Global), Benoy Berry leads a Chicago firm that engages in ventures around the globe in hospitality, secure technologies, infrastructure, and research and development. In recent years, Benoy Berry has emphasized investments in the energy sector, and his firm maintains a longstanding presence in the African oil, gas, and power markets. His company also pursues alternative technology projects, including the development of an electric automobile in China and an ammonia-powered vehicle. Benoy Berry has a degree in economics from Delhi University along with an MA in finance from the same institution. He pursued doctoral studies in communication arts at the World Open University. His professional accomplishments include earning the Nigeria Association of Science’s Outstanding Achievement in Technology Award in 2011. Benoy Berry supports a number of humanitarian causes, and he also received an award for sponsoring the National Anti-Human Trafficking Campaign.
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About Contec Global Inc.: Continental Transfer Technique Limited (CONTEC), a biometric technology and secured system organization.
Nicolas Sharp
Founder and CEO of Attio
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About Attio: Attio is a CRM tool to manage teams’ workflows and relationships.
Amrit Dhangal
Co-Founder and COO of Tagove
Amrit Dhangal is COO & co-founder at Tagove.
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About Acquire, Clutch, RudderStack, Tagove, The Bricks: Tagove is a live chat software for website and mobile apps with Video chat, Remote co browsing, Chatbots, and Profile management tools.
Steve Reid
Co-Founder and CEO of Simba Sleep
CEO and co-founder at Simba Sleep CEO and co-founder of Tribesports
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About Simba Sleep, Tribesports: Simba Sleep is an e-commerce company that offers a variety of mattresses.
Oli Marlow-Thomas
Founder & President of Ad-Lib.io
Founder & President of Ad-Lib.
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About Ad-Lib.io: Powering Creative Effectiveness
Josh Bowyer
CEO & Co-Founder of Zint Technology
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About SalesSift, Zint Technology: Zint Technology is a specialist sales intelligence platform that helps sales teams to identify, win and grow accounts.
Markus Ehrnrooth
Co-Founder of KNOMI
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About KNOMI: Fashion. Anytime + anywhere. For you, by you.
Tsewang Wangkang
Co-Founder of Embargo
Tsewang is the visionary. Tibetan by origin, born in India and raised in Switzerland, his background is multi-faceted. He studied finance at the University of Zurich and went onto work in London, Hong Kong and Switzerland for several, multi-national bulge, bracket banks. He has spent over nine years in Investment Banking at JP Morgan and UBS, where he led a number of major mergers and acquisitions as well as capital market transactions. Tsewang also established the regional franchise and promoted strategic equity solutions in Europe. As co-founder of Embargo, one of his key strengths is knowing how to lead the business, identify its needs, as well as find solutions. Since launching the business, Tsewang implements his high-level expertise to continuously drive innovation across all elements of the company.
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About Embargo: Beacon powered loyalty app and SaaS/CRM system for hospitality businesses and customers
Jamila Jamani
CEO and Founder of Modist
Jamila Jamani is the founder and CEO of Modist. She is also a business development director at Village Supermarket Ltd. Jamila holds a master’s degree in fashion and luxury brand management.
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About Modist: Modist is a digital platform that gives sales teams one access point to e-commerce, client, inventory, and digital marketing information.
Tom Brown
Founder of The Information Lab
Tom has managed The Information Lab since it’s foundation in 2010 and has worked in a veriety of technical and data related roles for over 20 years. The Information Lab is the current EMEA Tableau Resellar of the Year and Alteryx partner of the year. They have helped over 1000 customers deploy Tableau across their 8 European offices
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About The Information Lab: The Information Lab is a team of passionate Tableau software professionals.
Richard Ozols
Founder and CEO of Solution Rock
Richard Ozols is the Founder and CEO of Formyoula and Solution Rock.
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About Solution Rock: Solution Rock specializes in Salesforce CRM implementations and Force.com application developments.
Dinesh Acharya
Co-Founder and CTO of Solution Rock
Dinesh Acharya is the Co-Founder and CTO of Formyoula.com and Solution Rock Technologies.
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About Solution Rock: Solution Rock specializes in Salesforce CRM implementations and Force.com application developments.
Adrian Maseda
Co-Founder & COO of Cheerfy
Adrian has worked for many years for large corporations like Nortel and Aricent Group in various Business Management and Sales roles. Adrian then became an entrepreneur: Co-Founder @ We2 (Social Wifi), Founder @ Protos (an advisory firm). Adrian is now focused is his latest project, Cheerfy. Adrian believes in using technology to solve problems and reshape how things work. In particular, he sees opportunity in the intersection between social and hyper-localised interactions in a mobile world.
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About Cheerfy, Protos Global Services: The new way restaurants sell post-COVID
Audrey Mandela
Founder & Director of Mandela Associates
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About Mandela Associates: Mandela Associates was founded in 1999 providing management consulting services.
Catherine Downes
Co-Founder of usheru
Founder at usherU
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About usheru: usheru powers direct ticketing and marketing data insights for film distributors.
Ollie Fegan
Co-Founder of usheru
Founder of usherU
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About usheru: usheru powers direct ticketing and marketing data insights for film distributors.
Kaspar L. Palgi
Project Manager, Coder, Co-Founder of CrewNew.com – Freelancers’ Agency
I’m a BA IT graduate that’s best at UX/software planning, software architecture and developing software in various programming languages/frameworks/platforms, including Python, PHP, Node.js, Ruby and more. I’m worked with various frameworks like Django, Flask, Rails, CodeIgnitor, Yii, Zend etc. I have experience also with most of the popular open source solutions like Django CMS, KeystoneJS, MODx, Magento, WordPress, OpenCart, Prestashop, vTiger, Odoo, Rhadoop/Hadoop and the list goes on. I always keep my eyes open for the most promising new technologies such as MEAN Stack, Kivy, Meteor and many various others that facilitate building multi-platform applications. I’m a very adept project manager that can always come up with a short/smart and simple solution that works. I’ve completed a teaching course at university that has given me plenty of experience teaching in front of a classroom, performing remote one-on-one training and creating easy to follow manuals. My general skills are in business development. I started my first business when I was 13 and my first IT company when I was 17. Right now I’m a shareholder of four different companies and am currently working on establishing a promising new start-up that will utilise IT management to make freelancers (like us) much more productive.
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About CrewNew.com – Freelancers’ Agency: Platform for project managers. Work with hand picked freelancers used to work together & managed by local PMs. Mostly European developers.
Leo Bassam
Founder of Plutio
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About Plutio: Plutio gives you everything you need to manage your business, collaborate with your teams and work closer with clients, all from one place.
James Gill
Founder and CEO of GoSquared
James Gill is a Founder and CEO at GoSquared.
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About GoSquared: GoSquared is a platform where businesses can communicate with their customers through analytics, CRM, live chat, and marketing automation.
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.
Agata Boczkowska
COO and Co-Founder of RAIS
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About RAIS: The Customer Intelligence Business – helping D2C brands grow the value of their customers faster.
Alvaro Costa
Founder of Synthetic Data
Alvaro Costa, CEO of Synthetic Data, a software house with clients such as Daimler, Santander, Telefónica, Alkol Biotech, etc. He’s the author of 4 books, the last on Big Data, and a professor of Big Data at Madrid’s EOI – Escuela de Organización Industrial. He holds a Master´s Degree in Computer Engineering from USF – University of South Florida and has developed a two-way transmission architecture based on Spark Streaming and the AMQP messaging system called Roundabout.
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About Synthetic Data: Synthetic Data is a software house focused on Big Data, IOT, and AI solutions.
Simon Hay
Co Founder & CEO of Firefly Learning
Simon Hay is the Co-founder and CEO at Firefly.
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About Firefly Learning: Firefly Learning is an edtech company that develops a SaaS learning and teaching support platform for schools.
Joe Mathewson
Co-Founder & COO of Firefly Learning
Joe Mathewson is the Founder and COO at Firefly Learning.
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About Firefly Learning: Firefly Learning is an edtech company that develops a SaaS learning and teaching support platform for schools.
Joe Gallard
Co-Founder, CEO of Reducer
Joe is CEO of Reducer. Prior to this he worked at Deloitte, Gousto and carwow.
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About Reducer: Reducer empowers businesses by giving them the information needed to make smart buying decisions.
Stuart Kemp
Co-Founder and CTO of Reducer
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About Reducer: Reducer empowers businesses by giving them the information needed to make smart buying decisions.
Nick Chaffe
CEO & Co-Founder of Asperato
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About Asperato: Puts Salesforce or Financialforce in charge of payment collection; say hello to better cashflow + fewer manual processes.
Jonathan Anthony
Managing Director / CEO & Founder of adAPPt
Jonathan Anthony Following a long career in the broadcast industry Jon Anthony founded technology partner adappt.co.uk in 2011 with a focus on the convergent media space. adappt originally created a mobile platform with an emphasis on ease of consumption of information, which is used by banks, government organisation and NGOs. Recently Jon architected The World Health Organisation Event Information System and Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network platforms, bringing a social media approach to critical systems knowledge sharing. Jon is a seed investor in Artificial Intelligence based data classifier TheHub.ai. TheHub.ai work with clients to structure, correlate and interpret disparate data streams.
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About adAPPt: adAPPt have highly experienced teams, with design, development and marketing portfolios from media multinationals and blue chip companies.
Javier Burón
Co-Founder & CEO of Audiense
Javier Burón is a dedicated internet enthusiast with wide experience in social media and has spoken at many events across Europe. Entrepreneur by nature, he has gained in-depth knowledge in this area over the last five years thanks to numerous successful consulting projects, and designing and developing a wide variety of social apps (e24apps.com). Javier Burón has a Masters in Information Systems, Computing Engineering and is a recent past lecturer at Córdoba University.
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About Audiense: Audiense is a develops delivering unique consumer insight and engagement capabilities to many of the world’s biggest brands and agencies.
Amnon Kruvi
Founder of Kruvi Solutions
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About Kruvi Solutions: Time Management and Workforce Management Solutions
Geraint Waters
Founder and CEO of Provar
Geraint Waters is the CEO and Co-founder at Provar.
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About Provar: Provar test automation designed for Salesforce.
Iskren Kulev
CEO, Founder of KindLink
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About KindLink: Online platform for businesses to manage and engage with employees through their social responsibility
Darren Hill
Founder & CEO of Inzite
Founder & CEO, Inzite (inzite.com)
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About Inzite: Smart discovery tools and streamlined scheduling help your customers hold meetings with the right people, at the right time.
Sunny Paris
Co-Founder and CEO of noCRM.io
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About noCRM.io: Intuitive lead management software that streamlines your sales process to increase lead conversions.
Petko Petkov
Founder of Websecurify
Petko Petkov is a Founder at Websecurify.
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About Websecurify: Websecurify specialises in he development of automatic and manual penetration testing tools and solutions.
Richard Gilder
Co-Founder and CRO of SalesMethods
Richard Gilder is a co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at SalesMethods.
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About SalesMethods: SalesMethods is the leader in sales performance software for Salesforce that empowers sales team success.
Jim Cook
Founder of Mobi Ad
35 year tech executive. Macintosh Product Manager at Apple. Multiple Startups.
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About Mobi Ad, Nymbl Science: Mobile advertising consultancy and blog
Sharon O’Dea
Co-Founder of Lithos Partners
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About Lithos Partners: Lithos Partners are an international digital communications and collaboration consultancy
Jon Milward
Founder and Director of Compete366
Jon has spent the last seven years working closely with Microsoft in the cloud computing and business intelligence space. Since 1998, Jon has run and grown five different technology businesses in both Business Unit Director and Managing Director capacities, and has direct experience of start-up, turnaround, trade sale and acquisition integration in the SMB space. Co-founding Compete366 in 2014, Jon’s wealth of experience allows him to advise first hand on cloud computing solutions for SMBs in order to help them become more competitive.
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About Compete366: Compete366 is a consultancy that works with their customers to make them more competitive through the adoption of Cloud technologies.
Desmond Kelleher
Founder / CEO of Mental Technologies
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About Mental Technologies: Know the mind. Know the language. Know the data.
Christoffer Torris Olsen
Founder / CTO of Mental Technologies
Christoffer Torris Olsen is the Senior Software Engineer at Lystable.
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About Mental Technologies: Know the mind. Know the language. Know the data.
Desmond Kelleher
Founder / CEO of Mental Technologies
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About Mental Technologies: Know the mind. Know the language. Know the data.
Christoffer Torris Olsen
Founder / CTO of Mental Technologies
Christoffer Torris Olsen is the Senior Software Engineer at Lystable.
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About Mental Technologies: Know the mind. Know the language. Know the data.
Paddy Moogan
Co-Founder of Aira.net
Paddy is co-founder of Aira, a digital marketing agency based in Milton Keynes specialising in SEO, PPC and content-driven digital PR campaigns. He has worked in digital since getting bored during his law degree at University and has worked with brands around the world to help them grow organic search traffic. He started his own agency in January 2015 and now works with clients in the UK, US, Europe and Australia.
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About Aira.net: Aira is a fast growing team of passionate digital marketers.
AJ Morits
Founder of MarketingX
Founder at MX
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About MarketingX, MF Laboratories: One-spot self-serve marketing automation.
Harry Cox
Founder of MarketingX
Founder at MX
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About MarketingX: One-spot self-serve marketing automation.
Waqas Iqbal
CEO & Founder of Vix Solutions
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About Vix Solutions: IT & Digital Marketing company based in London
