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 Skill Assessment 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.
Sherry Coutu
Founder & Executive Chairman of Founders4Schools
Sherry Coutu is an angel investor and serves on the boards of companies, charities and universities.As an entrepreneur, Sherry established and successfully sold two businesses in the financial services industry. The first (acquired by Euromoney plc) has operations in more than 70 countries. The second was floated in 2000 on London and Nasdaq and the company was valued at more than $1 billion before being acquired (by AMP plc). Sherry is active in early stage investing and has raised several rounds of venture capital and public equity totaling more than $200 million. Sherry has decades of experience serving companies which range from fast growth private early stage to public and boards with turnover of more than £ 1 bn.She is a frequent public speaker, a national judge of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards, and presents regularly at the top business schools. She specialises in consumer, internet, information services and clean energy. Current university affiliations include Cambridge University and Harvard Business School. Charitable / Government affiliations include the Prince’s Trust, Cancer Research UK and NESTA.
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About Cambridge Angels group, Founders4Schools, London Stock Exchange, PrimeLocation.com, Raspberry Pi Foundation, Silicon Valley Comes to the UK, The Digital Property Group, University of Cambridge, Workfinder: Founders4Schools is a free service that enables teachers to invite founders of successful, businesses to visit schools, to inspire learners.
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Gregory Asmolov
Co-Founder of PitchMe
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About King’s College London, PitchMe: PitchMe is a skills-based talent marketplace introducing multilayered profiling of skills and innovative matching algorithms.
Lionel Viet
Founder of AssessUp
Founder of AssessUp.
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About AssessUp: The first objective platform for detecting and promoting talented professionals
Jill Hodges
Founder of Fire Tech
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About Fire Tech, Unreasonable: Fire Tech is the UK’s leading provider of extra-curricular learning experiences focused on tech and 21st century skills.
Agnieszka Łyniewska
Founder of NIKWELI
Agnieszka Łyniewska is the founder of Nikweli. As a founder sha brings drive, contacts, and business development knowledge.She is a former World Banker in Tanzania. She is an associate at Associate at McKinsey & Company. She earned her MBA at London Business School . Brings drive, contacts and business development knowledge.
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About NIKWELI: NIKWELI is a mobile-to-web job matching platform that connects employers and job seekers for the service sector positions.
