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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 CEO’ operating in the Child Care 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.
Damian Kimmelman
Founder and CEO of Batelle
Founder of Batelle, Co-founder of Founders Pledge, Rho.co and DueDil
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About Batelle, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL): Batelle is a modern childcare company that uses high-tech solutions to support mental, emotional, and physical development.
Rachel Carrell
CEO of Koru Kids
Rachel is our CEO and founder. She came up with the idea for Koru Kids after watching her friends struggle to arrange their childcare and thinking, ‘There must be a better way’. Rachel was previously Managing Director of the world’s largest online doctor service, with 1.3 million patients in 3 countries; and also a chain of IVF clinics. Prior to that she worked at McKinsey for 6 years, and in the NHS. She has a Doctorate in Development from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. In 2014 she was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Rachel lives in North London with her husband and toddler, and can be found in the Highgate Wood playground almost every weekend.
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About Koru Kids, The World Economic Forum: Koru Kids is a building better childcare services, starting with nanny sharing in London.
Elizabeth Tweedale
Founder and CEO of Cypher Coders
Elizabeth Tweedale is the CEO and founder of Cypher Coders
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About Cypher Coders: Cypher inspires children to learn the language of the future through hands-on creative coding camps and courses.
Jen Lexmond
Founder & CEO of Easy Peasy
Jen Lexmond the founder of EasyPeasy, an app that sends game ideas to parents of pre-school children, to help develop the skills that will prepare them for school, and beyond. She hatched EasyPeasy in 2014 through the Design Council’s Knee High Challenge to come up with ideas improve the health and wellbeing of children under 5.
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About Easy Peasy: EasyPeasy is an app that sends game ideas to parents of young children, to help develop the skills that will prepare children for school.
Sara Tateno
Founder and CEO of Happity
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About Happity: Happity helps parents find baby & toddler classes. Fast.
