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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 Founder operating in the Property Management 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.
Tom Allason
Founder and CEO of Residently
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About eBay, Residently, Residently: We’re building the world’s home brand with a digital experience that combines the freedom of renting with the rewards of owning.
Cem Savas
CEO & Co-Founder of Plentific
Cem Savas is the chief executive officer & co-founder of Plentific.
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About Plentific: Plentific is a SaaS platform that provides smart property management solutions for landlords and property managers.
Emre Kazan
CTO & Co-Founder of Plentific
Emre Kazan is the co-Founder of Plentific.
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About Plentific: Plentific is a SaaS platform that provides smart property management solutions for landlords and property managers.
George Spencer
Founder and CEO of Rentify
George Spencer is founder and CEO at Rentify, a software platform which helps landlords market, manage, and make money from their properties. Prior to Rentify George enjoyed a brief but eventful career encompassing web development, brand marketing, and advertising; where he was notable only for being unsuccessful in persuading the British public to eat more of a certain wheat-based breakfast cereal. Since then, George has been working on Rentify and helping to make landlords’ lives easier across the United Kingdom.
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About Rentify: Rentify is an online platform that helps individuals market and manage their properties.
Daniel Attia
Founder & CEO of YOPA
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About YOPA, YOPA: YOPA provides real estate agency services that assist clients in selling their properties.
Andrew Barclay
Founder of YOPA
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About YOPA: YOPA provides real estate agency services that assist clients in selling their properties.
Alexander Limpert
Co-Founder and CEO of GuestReady
Before launching GuestReady, Alex was a Country Managing Director in Taiwan and Philippines at Rocket Internet owned foodpanda, a global food delivery company. Prior to this, he was a management consultant at Oliver Wyman in London, where he advised leading companies across a variety of industries including travel and hospitality. He holds an MSc with Distinction from London School of Economics (LSE) and a BA in Business Administration from University of St.Gallen (HSG). Alex has travelled to more than 50 countries for business and leisure, and therefore understands the needs of the modern business traveller and how any property can be turned into a guest-ready Airbnb home.
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About GuestReady: GuestReady is a platform for real estate management with a focus on short-term rentals.
Nick Katz
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of acasa
Nick Katz has worked in the US and the UK for nearly a decade in just about every segment of the real estate industry possible. He’s bought and sold commercial buildings, improved the energy efficiency of hotels, and deployed software to large property portfolios. In 2013 Nick joined VC backed Honest Buildings as Head of Europe before launching Splittable. Nick loves the idea of leveraging technology to help people live better at home. He’s an expert at dealing with housemate issues having rented and shared nine properties in London.
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About acasa, Locatable: acasa is a household management tool and bill splitting package that helps students, sharers and couples.
Anj Latif
Co-Founder and CTO of British Pearl
Anj Latif is one of the founders of British Pearl and is the Chief Technical Officer. He is responsible for the design, implementation and administration of the entire IT infrastructure, including information security. Anj is a highly motivated and ambitious professional with extensive experience in IT management and networking and two decades’ experience in the SME sector. He has worked with companies in retail, legal, manufacturing, finance and health using technologies from Cisco, WatchGuard, Citrix, VMware and Microsoft. He has a BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering from Oxford Brookes University.
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About British Pearl: British Pearl is an online property investment platform facilitating share and loan-based investment in UK property.
Ali Celiker
Founder and CEO of British Pearl
Ali Celiker is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of British Pearl. He is an experienced financial professional and entrepreneur and has spent the last 19 years in financial services. He thrives on building innovative businesses with inspirational people and is principally interested in the alternative finance market , with a focus on equity and debt based collective investment platforms. Prior to establishing British Pearl Ali worked within the global capital markets as a trader and sales person. This included Vice President, Head European Financing Trader at Paloma Securities London Limited and Associate Director, Interest rates sales trader at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc. He has also worked for BNP Paribas, J.P.Morgan and Martins Brokers (UK) PLC. He holds a BA (Hons) in Economics and Econometrics from Kent University and other banking related professional qualifications.
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About British Pearl: British Pearl is an online property investment platform facilitating share and loan-based investment in UK property.
James Jenkins-Yates
Founder & CEO of Houst
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About Houst: Houst (prev. Airsorted) is a short-let management service that increases yields and handles everything including cleaning, laundry and keys.
Tom Jones
Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer of Houst
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About Houst: Houst (prev. Airsorted) is a short-let management service that increases yields and handles everything including cleaning, laundry and keys.
David Toplas
Founder and Director of Vesta Property
David has a long track record of innovation in investments which balance social and commercial returns. He has created, built and invested in businesses and run institutional funds as well as established a charity and social enterprise. David enjoys his work, cars and playing hockey.
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About Mill Group, Vesta Property: Vesta (www.vestaproperty.com) is a data-driven marketplace for buying and selling residential investment property.
Guy Westlake
Founder of Lavanda
Guy is an entrepreneur and investor who’s experienced online/technology businesses at pretty much every level – from 1-man startup to global multinational. He is Co-founder & CEO at Lavanda in London. Guy knows what it means to roll your sleeves up and get your hands dirty, whilst understanding the need to establish scalable processes that can support rapid growth. He is passionate about culture and working with exceptional people to build innovative businesses that create meaningful value. He speaks Spanish, French and Italian. Studied at the ESCP Europe and University of Bristol. His interests are UX, e-commerce, web 2.0, social media, cloud computing, analytics, ECM, Business process management, web content management, software, business solutions, strategic marketing, consultancy, innovations, cinema, music, literature, current affairs, entrepreneurship, start-ups.
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About Lavanda: Lavanda is an award-winning next generation SaaS platform powering the convergence of residential real estate, hospitality and travel.
Alexander Gosling
President and Co-Founder of Strike
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About Strike: Strike (formerly known as HouseSimple) is an online estate agent agency.
Adrian Melrose
Co Founder & CEO of Inn Style Ltd
Adrian is a South African born Chartered Accountant who qualified at Deloitte. He is currently the co-founder, seed-investor and executive chairman of Inn Style Ltd, a startup that provides a cloud based admin and booking solution to owner managed accommodation owners.
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About Inn Style Ltd: Inn Style is an intelligent, easy-to-use property management system for hotels, inns, B&Bs and self-catering properties.
Marc Trup
Founder, CEO of Arthur Online
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About Arthur Online: Arthur simplifies property management, anywhere , anytime.
Rochelle Trup
Founder, CFO of Arthur Online
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About Arthur Online: Arthur simplifies property management, anywhere , anytime.
Christian Samuel
Founder of Resooma
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About Personalised Co, Resooma: We’re building an end-to-end rental marketplace with simplified payment solutions that serves both tenants and property owners.
Darius Bradbury
Co-Founder of OpenRent
Darius Bradbury is a Founder at OpenRent.
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About OpenRent: OpenRent turns renting a property into a streamlined, online process offering drastically lower costs.
Adam Hyslop
Co-Founder of OpenRent
Adam Hyslop is a Founder at OpenRent.
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About OpenRent: OpenRent turns renting a property into a streamlined, online process offering drastically lower costs.
Zoe Duong Vu
Co-Founder and Shareholder of Pass the Keys
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About Pass the Keys: Pass the Keys is an airbnb management company offers an expert Airbnb and short let management service.
Alexander Lyakhotskiy
Founder & CEO of Pass the Keys
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About Pass the Keys: Pass the Keys is an airbnb management company offers an expert Airbnb and short let management service.
Adam Fudakowski
Founder and CEO of Switchee
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About Switchee: Data analytics and IoT business serving large social landlords
Nigel Purves
Co-Founder & CEO of Wayhome
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About Let Engine, Wayhome: Start owning a home today from just 5% deposit
Gemma Young
Founder of Settled
Gemma is passionate about technology’s potential to radically improve people’s lives. She’s on a mission to erase the anxieties that overshadow the joy of buying and selling a home. For well over a decade, Gemma’s been immersed in the online world, with experience that includes one of the UK’s first digital agencies and – back in its early days – Google. During her time at Google, Gemma worked across Silicon Valley, Europe and Africa. With her experience both on the front line of digital, and previously as an estate agent, she’s leveraged some the most innovative technological advances in her drive to reshape the home buying and selling experience, creating Settled.
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About Settled: A technology platform digitising the residential home purchase and sales process
Bilal Khan
CTO and Co-Founder of Skwire
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About Apply.Property, Skwire: Skwire provides an online tool to manage and acquire real estate investment.
Calum Brannan
CEO & Founder of Howsy
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About Howsy: Howsy is a real estate management platform that provides repairs management and renewal services for landlords and tenants.
Maxime Leufroy-Murat
City Relay Founder and CEO of City Relay
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About City Relay, FG Properties, Outswitch: London’s premier short let management company. Short lets, but smarter.
Jan Vanhoutte
CPO & Co-Founder of Shepper
Co-founder and CPO at Shepper, passionate about designing and developing awesome products.
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About Shepper: Shepper collects data on physical assets for businesses using the power of technology and people
Ben Prouty
CEO & Co-Founder of Shepper
Builder of innovative new on-demand services. Previously part of the early Zipcar and LOVESPACE teams.
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About Poncho, Shepper: Shepper collects data on physical assets for businesses using the power of technology and people
Tom Scarborough
Founder of MoveWise
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About MoveWise: MoveWise is a UK-based proptech company that uses deep technology to help property sellers efficiently sell their homes.
Branislav Dikov
Co-Founder & COO of Dulo Properties
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About Dulo Properties: Dulo Properties is a UK-based real estate company.
Mark Croston
Founder & Managing Director of Propeasy
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About Propeasy: Propeasy provides assistance to people interested in property investments.
Daniel Mohamed
Founder & Managing Director of Urban Intelligence
Founder & CEO at Urban Intelligence
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About Urban Intelligence: Data-Driven Property Development
Akshay Ruparelia
Founder and Managing Director of Doorsteps
Akshay Ruparelia is the Founder of Doorsteps.
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About Doorsteps: Doorsteps is a UK-based online estate agents.
Camran Khan
Founder & CEO of brightLET
My passion for technology has featured me among the top 10 best CTO’s in the Country, with awards and recognition from Barclays, NatWest, and KPMG to name a few. In 2017, I was scouted by the University of Cambridge as one of the top 20 disruptive CEO’s in the UK to join Judge Business School (JBS). I have a very strong interest in Machine Learning (ML), AI solutions, Blockchain, and clever automation to reduce huge operational overheads. I have successfully worked closely with brands such as; Microsoft, Intel, EA Games, Coca-Cola, Virgin Media, Mo Farah, Microsoft, Intel, Dabs.com, and Amazon.
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About brightLET: brightLET is a UK based multi-award winning automated property rental technology for landlords, tenants, and tradesmen!
Utsav Goenka
Founder & CEO of Vyomm
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About HomeHapp, Vyomm: Vyomm is a revolutionary platform that brings together home buyers, sellers, and estate agents.
Sebastien Goldenberg
CEO and Co-Founder of TheHouseShop.com
Seb is co-founder and CEO at TheHouseShop.com, UK’s largest property marketplace. It offers free property advertising for private landlords, private sellers and estate agents. TheHouseShop is disrupting the whole property ecosystem, using technology to make rental transactions fully-digitized, safe, secure and cost-effective. TheHouseShop is also the only fully secure property website, where every private advertiser is verified. Seb is the also chair of the start-up and SME club at the French Chamber of Commerce in the UK.
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About TheHouseShop.com: The House Shop is the UK’s number 1 place for property, working with homeowners, landlords, estate agents.
Nick Marr
Co Founder of TheHouseShop.com
Nick Marr is an Entrepreneur, Digital Marketing Expert, Managment executive for several disruptive digital start-ups, leadership coach and founder of several real estate businesses. Nick primary role and passion is that of Chief Marketing Officer at the disruptive property marketing platform TheHouseShop.com a UK based property website that assists homeowners and agents with real estate marketing. He has helped introduce Online property marketing to the UK’s by owing the first ‘for sale by owner’ platform. International real estate marketing as founder of an overseas property platform Content marketing to UK publishers as European Sales Director at MGID Europe Video personalisation as Vice President of International Sales of disruptive platform IRIS.TV Claims to fame – Key advisor to the British government representing the newly emerging online property sector. The government subsequently introduced new legislation allowing for new online real estate business models to operate see Business Owner Nick is behind the following real estate sector websites: Overseas property portal at HomesGoFast.Com Europe’s No.1 European real estate portal at EuropeanProperty.com Business Consultant Advisor and business consultant for start-ups, digital businesses and investment funds understand the complexities of the UK online property sector. Coach Leadership coach at the Leadership Academy for Senior Officers and Detectives for The Metropolitan Police London and for commercial Senior Management Teams
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About TheHouseShop.com: The House Shop is the UK’s number 1 place for property, working with homeowners, landlords, estate agents.
Rebecca Peach
CEO & Founder of I Am The Agent
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About I Am The Agent: I Am The Agent is a unique online estate and letting agent with a no commission fee structure.
Lucy Sharp
Co-Founder & Chief Communications Officer of Dot Residential
Over 15 years’ experience managing the PR strategies of major tech, finance and fashion companies, most recently Lucy was Head of PR at the early stage equity fundraising platform Seedrs. Prior to that Lucy was the UK PR Manager for Amazon Marketplace, where she also lead the UK launches of Amazon Lending, Launchpad and Tickets.
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About Dot Residential: Turnkey investment properties optimised for short-term rentals
Gray Stern
Founder & CEO of Dot Residential
A New Zealand native with a banking background, Stern founded Dot in 2018. Frustrated with the innate inefficiencies of the property market, Dot’s mission is to decouple housing from bureaucracy using intelligent processes. Gray previously co-founded Landbay, a fast-growing marketplace lender that provides mortgage finance to the UK’s private rented sector.
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About Dot Residential, LANDBAY: Turnkey investment properties optimised for short-term rentals
Frederick Bristol
Founder of Brickowner
Founder at Brickowner.
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About Brickowner, Bristolestates: UK property investment platform
Gavin Wiseman
Co-Founder of Zero Deposit
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About Zero Deposit: A trading name of Global Property Ventures Limited.
Jon Notley
Co Founder & CEO of Zero Deposit
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About Zero Deposit: A trading name of Global Property Ventures Limited.
Tom Wallace
Founder & CEO of Re-Leased Property Software
Tom Wallace is the Founder and CEO at Re-Leased Property Software.
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About Re-Leased Property Software: Re-Leased is a centralised cloud-based property management software designed for landlords and property managers.
Andrew Dunn
Co-Founder of CapitalRise
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About CapitalRise: CapitalRise is a Property Investment Platform.
Uma Rajah
Co-Founder & CEO of CapitalRise
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About CapitalRise: CapitalRise is a Property Investment Platform.
Alex Michelin
Co-Founder of CapitalRise
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About CapitalRise: CapitalRise is a Property Investment Platform.
saurabh saxena
Founder of Houzen
Business builder. Adviser to some of the largest buyout PE GPs/LPs and CXOs at fortune 200 companies. Pre-MBA Lean Sigma consultant to Fortune 100 companies. Worked across 20+ industries, lived in 3 continents. Built and exited several businesses. Currently busy building a fast growing proptech/fintech business.
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About Advention Business Partners, Houzen: Houzen is a Computer Vision, AI & Finance led platform which helps buy homes grow home equity value at certainty and speed
Colby Short
Co-Founder and CEO of GetAgent
Founder of GetAgent.
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About GetAgent: GetAgent is the easiest way to find an estate agent to market or manage your property.
Eleanor Bowden
CEO & Founder of Nest Funding
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About Nest Funding: Nest Funding helps people own their home and the new way to buy a home without a deposit.
Maxwell Wilson
Founder of Spokesafe
Maxwell Wilson is the Founder of SPOKESAFE.
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About Spokesafe: Spokesafe is an urban mobility platform that gives cyclists access to a growing network of secure parking spaces at the click of a button.
Haashim Rifai
Co-Founder @ EMOH of EMOH
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About EMOH: EMOH is an online platform that enables users to sell their homes online without the need for middlemen.
Kamran Chaudhry
Co-Founder @ EMOH of EMOH
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About EMOH: EMOH is an online platform that enables users to sell their homes online without the need for middlemen.
Merilee Karr
Founder & CEO of UnderTheDoormat
Merilee has travelled the world to over 60 countries – and feels at home in many of its major cities. A strategist, property management and partnership expert formerly working for a global energy company, she has always been inspired by authentic and memorable travel experiences. When she’s not feeding her own wanderlust, she loves hiking, cycling, skiing and taking part in the occasional triathlon. Merilee has a passion for changing the world. 12 years working for Shell and being able to observe different cultures around the globe, gave birth to her desire to actually start making a difference in the way things are done. Combining her drive for initiating change with her love of travelling, Merilee realised the potential for tourists to experience a new destination like a local while allowing homeowners to earn extra income with piece of mind through the growing sharing economy.
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About UnderTheDoormat: Our mission is to redefine the future of accommodation.
Nikhil Adwalpalkar
Founder of ShareDining
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About ShareDining: ShareDining is a commercial kitchen sourcing platform.
Luke Barnes
Co-Founder & CEO of Fruitful Homes™
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About Fruitful Homes™: Fruitful combines real estate crowdfunding with modular home developments to make beautiful, affordable homes
James Davis
Founder & CEO of Upad
James Davis is a Founder & CEO at upad.
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About Upad: Upad is the UK’s largest online letting agency.
Mark Iandoli
Co-Founder and Head of Service of Evo
Mark Iandoli is the Co-Founder and Head of Service at Evo.
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About Evo: A fusion of property professionals, skilled trades and simple technology that makes rental property maintenance hassle free.
