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 Delivery 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.
Anton Soulier
Founder & CEO of Taster
Anton Soulier is the Founder of Taster. He is a former Business Development, Business Operations Manager, Regional Manager, and Deputy General Manager France at Deliveroo. Mr. Soulier received a master’s degree in Finance at NEOMA Business School.
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About Taster: Taster is a food delivery company that operates dozens of restaurants that only exist on food delivery platforms.
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Aron Gelbard
Co-Founder and CEO of Bloom & Wild
Aron Gelbard is the Co-founder & CEO of Bloom & Wild, the venture-backed online and mobile flower gifting service he launched in 2013. Bloom & Wild is using technology to re-imagine flowers. Bloom & Wild makes it possible to order flowers in under a minute, and through-the-letterbox delivery means that receiving their flowers is as easy as receiving a letter. Their bouquets are trend-led, being the first florist to create a constantly changing range at scale as ‘fast fashion for flowers’. Bloom & Wild’s iPhone app, Android app and overall service are consistently 5-star rated, meaning that they are already the UK’s top rated online florist with a 75% Net Promoter Score. They grew by several 100% in both 2015 and 2016 and are now delivering tens of thousands of bouquets every month. Prior to Bloom & Wild, Aron worked as a management consultant, advising technology, retail and consumer products companies at Bain & Company, having previously worked at Google and OC&C. Aron has an MA in Modern Languages from Jesus College, Oxford, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Bloom & Wild: Bloom & Wild is an online flower delivery platform developing a modern approach for sending flowers to loved ones.
Riya Grover
Co-Founder and CEO of Feedr
Riya Grover is the founder and CEO of Feedr, a scalable technology platform empowering healthy and artisan food vendors to produce and supply meals for the workplace.
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About Feedr: Feedr is an enterprise food technology platform that gives corporate customers software to support healthier daily eating in workplaces
Jonathan Petrides
Founder and CEO of AllPlants
Jonathan Petrides is Co-Founder of Allplants.
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About AllPlants: AllPlants is a VC-backed B-Corp on a mission to become Earth’s most forward-thinking food company.
Steven Novick
CEO & Founder of Farmstand
Previously built 2 billion-dollar businesses and climbed the 7 Summits including Everest. Beating cancer made him passionate about health + the environment and growing up working class has made him appreciate affordability + convenience.
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About Farmstand: Farmstand is the Earth’s first meal delivery service focused on the Future of Work. We feed your team in the office and at home.
Patrick Wall
Founder & CEO of Metapack
Patrick incorporated MetaPack in November 1999. He is responsible for strategic direction and team leadership. His career includes operations director and general manager for ICS, a national carrier delivering over 100 million items a year and a director of the specialist courier network, Hays DX. He has also worked with retailers as a strategy consultant with McKinsey Inc and as a supplier with Cadbury Schweppes plc. Patrick has over 30 years experience in distribution operations, consulting, sales and marketing.
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About Metapack: Metapack provides delivery management solutions that enable online retailers to increase user engagement and sales conversions.
Timo Boldt
Founder and CEO of Gousto
Timo is the co-founder and CEO of Gousto, which he started in 2012 as an easier way for families to cook and share good food together.A few years – and a LOT of recipe boxes – later, and it’s pretty clear that he was onto something… Timo’s interests include gender equality, sustainability, technology and food (of course!).
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About Gousto: Gousto is an online meal-kit manufacturer and retailer, using AI and automation to provide extensive choice and personalisation.
Mariam Jimoh
Founder & CEO of Oja
Building the next solution transforming access to cultural groceries and world foods! Mariam Jimoh is Founder and CEO of Oja. Recently honoured in the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 Technology list, her mission is to unlock game-changing value in underrepresented groups through technology and community. Whilst studying an undergraduate degree she founded WCAN, a marketplace & network for the professional development of black women in the UK. Mariam’s work has trained and mentored thousands of black women and fast-tracked them to prestigious firms from Blackrock, Clifford Chance, and Goldman Sachs. In 2014, she was selected by McKinsey & Company as a Next Generation Women Leader. Since graduating from UCL, Mariam has gained experience as an M&A investment banker at Rothschild & Co. Combining her strategic insight with her business acumen, she founded Oja, the app transforming access to cultural groceries for households across the UK. She is building the UK’s first venture-backed digital supermarket for cultural communities.
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About Oja: Oja is an online supermarket for cultural groceries and world foods. Our mission is to revolutionise access to cultural and ethnic produce.
Kelu Liu
Founder & CEO of HungryPanda
Kelu Liu is the Founder & CEO at HungryPanda.
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About HungryPanda: HungryPanda is a Chinese food and grocery delivery company with extensive market coverage.
Peter Georgiou
Founder and CEO of Supper
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About Supper: Delivering London exceptional food.
Mohammad Khodadadi
Founder / CEO of SATIS.AI
Mohammad Khodadadi is a Director/Chief of data, Technologist, Entrepreneur. Mo is an accomplished technologist and entrepreneur with over 15 years of industry experience that includes building and managing large teams, designing complex AI oriented data architectures, and leading high-growth intelligence-driven businesses. His interests include applying artificial intelligence and machine learning concepts to health and biotech and developing cognitive ecosystems capable of contextual deduction from data for actionable suggestions. Prior to joining Babylon, he founded and ran um.ai, a food advisor that tracks/suggest what you eat. He was also CTO at Klappo, a semantic platform for food ingredients, enabling the development of applications that help people to make educated choices about what they consume. He completed his PhD in Computer Science, speciality in formal methods, and his MSC in Bioinformatic at The University of Manchester. He is also one of the first of 100 tech exceptional talent visa holders in the UK and the winner of sirius enterprenurship competition by UK Trade and Investment ministry.
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About SATIS.AI: Food that makes sense | Delicious, Nutritious and affordable, while green and fair
Alessandro Savelli
Founder, MD and CEO of Pasta Evangelists
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About Pasta Evangelists: Pasta Evangelists is freshly made by Italian hands every day.
Tim Lee
CEO of Mindful Chef
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About Mindful Chef: Mindful Chef delivers all the fresh ingredients you need to create delicious, heathy meals.
James Henderson
Co-founder and CEO of Zephr
James Henderson is co-founder and CEO of Zephr, the dynamic Subscription Experience Platform built for the effective optimisation and personalisation of the user experience, in order to drive conversion.
After a decade of building custom technologies for clients such as The Telegraph, Discovery and HSBC, James co-founded Zephr in 2018.
James and co-founder Chris Scott raised $3M in funding in 2018 to build Zephr, and then raised another $8M in 2020 on the back of huge success. Today, Zephr operates out of London and New York, with employees representing all corners of the world, and serves a host of international digital publishing and media brands by enabling them to create dynamic experiences for their customers.
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About Zephr: Zephr is a technology platform for media companies to grow their subscription revenue.
Jeremy Hibbert-Garibaldi
Founder & CEO of Collectiv Food
Founder and CEO at Collectiv Food .
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About Collectiv Food: Collectiv Food is an automated and sustainable food supply chain that provides businesses with transparency and lower costs of ingredients
Bassel El Koussa
CEO & Co-Founder of Quiqup
Bassel El Koussa is the Co-Founder and CEO of Quiqup.
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About Quiqup: Quiqup is a provider of on-demand, same-day, and scheduled delivery solutions to retailers and restaurants.
Fuad Fatullaev
CEO and Founder of Bringit
Key Expertise: Strategy, Business Development, Logistics&Operations, Team Building
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About Bringit: The very latest and most advanced on-demand food and groceries delivery service in London, UK
Randel Darby
CEO of AirPortr
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About AirPortr: AirPortr is a Software and Service company developing and delivering innovative baggage services for passengers, airlines and airports.
Seb Robert
CEO & Founder of Gophr
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About Gophr: We build technology for the same-day courier community that creates industry-leading delivery experiences
Mark Kieve
CEO of Zao.com
CEO at Zao.com
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About Pixid, Zao.com: Zao offers social recruiting and employee referral program management software for companies.
Richa Bhalla
Founder & CEO of Pedals
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About Pedals, Petal & Cycle: Pedals is a green, affordable, on-demand bicycle delivery service
Sebastian Steinhauser
CEO & Founder of Parcelly
CEO & Founder at Parcelly. Most recently building an international last- and first-mile logistics tech platform. Prior to that, Sebastian spent 7+ years in London’s City with some of Europe’s leading financial institutions.
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About Parcelly: The tech platform that enables retailers and carriers to resolve last-mile delivery and first-mile fulfilment challenges
Limvirak Chea
Co-founder & CEO of Fixter
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About Fixter: Fixter is an end-to-end online car maintenance service.
Marco Nardone
Founder & CEO of Wineapp
Marco Nardone is the Founder and CEO of Wineapp – UK’s largest app for on-demand wine delivery. www.wineapp.com / Available on iOS and Android. Wineapp is VC-backed by Rocket Internet and Speedinvest.
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About Wineapp: Mobile App – On-demand Fine Wine Delivery
Abul Rob
Founder & CEO of HalalEat
Abul Rob is the Founder and CEO of halaleat.com, a marketplace platform listing local halal verified restaurants and takeaways. He has worked for both of the UK’s leading takeaway food platforms and his career has always been at a Sales and Management level. Being a Muslim himself and having witnessed the lack of verified Halal choice for the growing Muslim population in the UK, he is now aiming to be the first Muslim entrepreneur to ignite the Halal revolution and pioneer the development of the Halal Eco-System beyond food that will touch and benefit the lives of every Muslim. His startup, HalalEat is now a finalist of MassChallenge (UK), the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet.Through MassChallenge resource pool, Abul and his team are mapping out the blueprint to conquer the Halal Economy.
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About HalalEat: HalalEat is an on demand marketplace platform allowing consumers to order Halal verified takeaway food from local restaurant and takeaways.
Ann-Christine Roope
Founder & CEO of Ethan Partners
Ann-Christine is Founder and CEO of Ethan Partners a global executive search company focusing on high growth Internet companies. Ethan Partners has supported over 150 successful Internet companies and placed more than 3000 high profile candidates. Clients include among others Uber, Houzz, Naspers, Zomato, Ringier, Deliveroo, and Goldman Sachs. Previously Ann-Christine was Director of International Recruiting at Rocket Internet where she was responsible for Founder and Senior Executive recruiting for +75 portfolio companies in +45 countries, taking Rocket Internet from a few 1000 people European company to a +25.000 person global organization in 2 years. Before this Ann-Christine was Director of International Recruiting at Groupon as they entered +50 countries globally. Ann-Christine has also supported some of the largest VC’s and PE’s globally with talent acquisition. Ann-Christine holds a Master in Marketing and Business Communication from Copenhagen Business School.
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About Ethan Partners: Ethan Partners is a specialized executive search firm.
Andrew Reeve
CEO and Co-founder of HonestBrew
On an entrepreneurial adventure creating a craft beer platform and brewery – Honest Brew.
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About HonestBrew: HonestBrew is an online craft beer retailer, sourcing and stocking the best craft beers from independent breweries.
Natalie Campbell
Co-Chief Executive Officer of Belu
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About Belu, The Guardian US: Belu is a beverage company that prioritizes people and the environment.
Mark Lilley
CEO of Abokado
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About Abokado: Abokado owns and operates a chain of food bars and restaurants in the United Kingdom.
Nadeem Abbas
CEO & Founder of Love2Laundry
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About Love2Laundry: Founded in 2014, Love2Laundry is a digital laundry and dry-cleaning delivery service.
Duncan Scott
Founder & CEO of Supper
Before starting Supper, Duncan worked in Wealth Management in Mayfair, London. Over the previous 6 years Duncan had worked his way up from starting in financial sales, to Heading up sales and marketing and later being in charge of corporate strategy and business performance. Duncan has a degree in Economics and a Masters in Finance and Wealth Management as well as qualifications in tax and accounting.
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About Supper: Supper is an online marketplace for home-cooked food, bringing cookery enthusiasts and hungry Londoners together in a takeaway service
Tom Ladds
Founder & CEO of Hired By Startups
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About Hired By Startups: Hired By Startups provides onsite and external talent acquisition solutions to some of the UK’s fastest growing startups & scale-ups.
Ed Hodges
CEO of HelloDone
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About HelloDone: Automating social messaging for online retail brands
Oliver Bridge
Founder & CEO of Cornerstone
Oliver Bridge is a Founder at Cornerstone.
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About Cornerstone: Cornerstone is a subscription service for men’s toiletries.
Lanre Akinlagun
Founder and CEO of Drinks.ng
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About Drinks.ng: Drinks.ng is a technology based company transforming the way beverages are shopped, sold and shipped online in Nigeria
Paddy Griffith
CEO of Huski Mountain Delivery
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About Huski Mountain Delivery: Huski is an online food and drink delivery service in the French Alps, bringing ready to heat meals to people on ski holidays.
Dan Ebanks
Co-Founder and CEO of Firesouls
Dan Ebanks is a cofounder and CEO and leads on concept design, business development and investment
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About Firesouls: Firesouls is online exchange that brings together government suppliers and local civic projects to create social value.
David Jackson
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of EeBria
David Jackson is a Co-Founder & CEO at EeBria.
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About EeBria: EeBria is different from other websites.
Jon Hulme
Co-Founder and CEO of Craft Clubs
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About Craft Clubs: Craft Clubs offers quality food and drink brands a powerful new way to reach consumers, both in their homes and online.
Jatinder Wasu
Founder & CEO of Swishd
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About Swishd: When you need something delivered or collected, Swishd helps you find someone who is already going that way
Sven Herold
CEO & Founder of LiveTube
Sven is a Media Executive with more than 15 years’ experience in Television, Communications and Reputation Management. He is an award-winning broadcast journalist who worked as a Senior Investigative Correspondent, Feature Writer and News & Entertainment Correspondent at major broadcasters across Europe and the U.S. Most recently, he was a global VP and member of the Communication & Marketing leadership team at Shell International. He built and led both Shell’s and SAP’s global Television divisions. In 2015, Sven founded LiveTube, a global media-house specialising in original live content-creation and distribution via mobile devices.
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About LiveTube: The world’s first Curated Live Video Platform.
James Middleton
Founder and CEO of Street Stream
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About Street Stream: Street Stream is a scalable marketplace platform for businesses to facilitate same day & last mile delivery
Nick Morley
CEO of CashPal
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About CashPal: Global Cash Delivery and remittance
Ben Portsmouth
Co Founder and CEO of Andromeda POS
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About Andromeda POS: POS , Digital Ordering and Cloud Services for Delivery Restauarants
Nicko Williamson
CEO & Co-Founder of WeFlex
In 2007, Nicko founded Climatecars – an environmentally friendly executive car service – growing it into one of the largest players in the sector over the next 6 years. Climatecars was sold to Addison Lee in May 2015. In 2013 Nicko Co-Founded Bounce, a ride sharing app, leading the business through 2 fundraises, and the successful launch of our product. Bounce decided to stop trading following competitive pressure in 2015. Nicko now leads WeFlex which provides vehicle funding for drivers on the Uber platform in London.
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About WeFlex, YAC (Yell-A-Car) *working title: WeFlex provides flexible vehicle finance, vehicle leases and short-term vehicle rental to Uber and delivery drivers.
Dave Thompson
Founder & CEO of Magictab
Dave Thompson is Founder & CEO at Magictab.
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About Magictab: MagicTab is a visual, interactive tabletop menu that makes food look beautiful.
Tony Bowden
Chief Executive Officer of Helicon Health
Tony Bowden is the CEO at Helicon Health.
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About Helicon Health: Helicon Health delivers digital healthcare to improve outcomes and reduce the cost of chronic disease.
Zahars Zelenskis
Founder and CEO of Waiz.ai
Entrepreneur, sport-minded, and judo addicted. Exited about sustainability.
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About Waiz.ai: Waiz.ai offers smart food waste management for consumers.
