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 Digital Marketing 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.
Michael Raven
Founder of Blazon Agency
Michael Raven is Founder & Managing Director of Blazon Agency. Michael has had Two Startup exits, and has ran 70 Agency Campaigns across Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and direct launches, actively participating in the raising of over $115M+ for his extensive list of clients.
Follow Michael Raven:
About Blazon Agency: The Brand Launch Agency
_______
Dylan Collins
Co-Founder and CEO of SuperAwesome
Dylan Collins is one of Europe’s most experienced digital media entrepreneurs, focusing on games, kids entertainment and the technology which underpins them. He is CEO of SuperAwesome, the #1 kid-safe brand engagement platform. SuperAwesome works with the biggest kids entertainment brands in the world including Disney, Hasbro, Warner Bros and Activision ensuring they connect safely with over a quarter of a billion kids each month. An active investor and advisor across both kids media and technology companies, he is Venture Partner with Hoxton Ventures and sits on the board of the UK’s top-rated marketing technology agency, Potato and Brown Bag Films, Europe’s leading kids animation studio. Previously Collins founded Jolt Online Gaming which became one of the pioneering social games publishers in Europe. Jolt was acquired by GameStop (NYSE: GME), the largest video games retailer in the world in 2009 to spearhead their digital media strategy. As founder and CEO of DemonWare in 2003, he led the company to become the leading online games technology firm in the global console games market. In 2007, DemonWare was acquired by Activision Blizzard (NYSE: ATVI), the world’s biggest video games publisher and is now the multiplayer backbone of the billion-dollar Call of Duty franchise.
Follow Dylan Collins:
About Box of Awesome, brown bag films, Hoxton Ventures, Potato, SuperAwesome: SuperAwesome offers kid-safe tools and technology for the children’s digital media ecosystem.
Gerard Keeley
CEO & Co-Founder of Vidsy
Co-Founder & CEO at Vidsy.
Follow Gerard Keeley:
About Vidsy: Vidsy is the creative technology engine powering mobile video ad creation for brands.
Archie Campbell
Co Founder of Vidsy
Follow Archie Campbell:
About Vidsy: Vidsy is the creative technology engine powering mobile video ad creation for brands.
Alex Morris
Founder of Vidsy
Follow Alex Morris:
About Vidsy: Vidsy is the creative technology engine powering mobile video ad creation for brands.
Raj Anand
Founder & CEO of Goodman Lantern
Raj is the winner of Europe’s Young Entrepreneur 2007 by BusinessWeek, Digital Future 50 by Revolution Magazine (alongside Twitter and Spotify), Courvoisier/The Observer Future 500 (2008) and Finalist of Sussex Entrepreneur 2008. He graduated from Sussex University with a Bachelors in Engineering (1.1)/Masters in Research, at 23 he setup Anderstand Limited and developed the majority of the software. Raj worked for the European Union, Sussex University research laboratory and Shell STEP internships developing software projects for several start-ups. Raj won many national awards for projects in computer science, leadership skills and entrepreneurship.
Follow Raj Anand:
About Goodman Lantern: Goodman Lantern provides content that helps you increase subscriptions and grow faster.
Thibault Launay
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Exclusible
Thibault Launay is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder at Exclusible.
Follow Thibault Launay:
About Exclusible: Exclusible is creating an NFT marketplace for luxury brands.
Evren Kacar
Founder, CEO of DAN Global
15 years of experience in digital marketing and agency business. Established Synergy, one of the first generation of digital marketing agencies in 2002. In line with the rising trends, Co-founded Boomerang Social Media Agency in 2010. Managed both agencies and supported the development of digital marketing industry in Turkey with DijitalAjanslar.com which began as a local network for digital agencies in 2013. Witnessed the rise of the digital age. Gained deep experience in all areas of digital marketing, working with global brands and Turkey’s most respectable brands since 2002, as the definiton of web agencies became interactive agencies with web 2.0, and digital agencies as of today. Established DAN Global in Turkey to provide online platforms, industry knowledge and various tools to support digital marketing agencies and global community of marketers. Expanded his business to the UK in 2017, and established DAN Global (UK) Ltd. in London which owns and operates the Digital Agency Network (DAN), an all-in-one platform to discover the best digital marketing agencies in the world.
Follow Evren Kacar:
About DAN Global, Digital Agency Network: DAN Global provides online platforms, industry knowledge and various tools to support digital agencies and global community of marketers.
Paramjit Uppal
Founder & Pacesetter of AND Digital
Paramjit Uppal is the Founder and Pacesetter of AND Digital. He is a graduate of The University of Manchester.
Follow Paramjit Uppal:
About AND Digital: AND Digital is a new way for digital delivery. We work with top clients to build remarkable digital products and teams.
Nikita Korotaev
Co-Founder & CTO of RELAYTO Document Experience Platform
Nikita Korotaev joined RELAYTO/ Document Experience as Co-Founder & CTO in 2017.
Follow Nikita Korotaev:
About Glocal Partners, RELAYTO Document Experience Platform: RELAYTO helps B2B marketers generate more leads & sales by turning static documents into interactive presentations & webpages
Anh Pham Vu
Co-Founder of UENI
Anh Pham Vu is the Co-founder at UENI.
Follow Anh Pham Vu:
About Astorg, UENI: UENI is a London based tech company that’s empowering businesses to get online and find the tools they need to succeed.
Christine Telyan
Co-Founder of UENI
Christine Telyan is the Co-founder at UENI.
Follow Christine Telyan:
About UENI: UENI is a London based tech company that’s empowering businesses to get online and find the tools they need to succeed.
Vernon Dias
Founder and Managing Director of Made by Fire
Follow Vernon Dias:
About Made by Fire: We create digital products for our ambitious clients with a team of over 100 specialists.
Ben Knight
Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder of Croud
Ben is the Co-founder of Croud, Google’s fastest growing agency in the UK in 2013 and 2014 Having worked within search for over ten years, Ben realised that there was a gap within the industry to deliver a more innovative and creative service to clients that could rival other agencies. In 2011, Ben, founded Croud as a new concept in digital to deliver excellence to clients expertise to help their clients grow their businesses. Prior to Croud, Ben has worked for a number of prestigious search agencies. Ben spent his first 6 years at The Search Works where he joined a small team learning his trade and later heading up the financial search vertical, Ben was a key member of the team during it’s growth from 12 to over 100 people. Following the sale at TSW, he joined Harvest Digital as Head of Search in a full service digital agency where he was responsible for paid and natural search as well as social media and analytics, in the 2 and half years he spent at Harvest he grew the size of them team 7 fold and revenues 10 fold before leaving this role in early 2011. Outside of work, Ben is an avid but often disappointed Liverpool football fan.
Follow Ben Knight:
About Croud, Croud: Croud is a digital marketing agency that provides services including SEO, PPC, content, programmatic, paid social, and analytics
Mike Adam
Founder and Architect of Amigo Technology
Follow Mike Adam:
About Amigo Technology: Amigo is a cloud-based marketing technology platform that turns marketing ideas into brilliant digital experiences.
Cameron Day
Founder of Together
Follow Cameron Day:
About Together: A full-service agency focused on helping tech companies acquire customers, attract talent and raise capital.
Steve Thompson
Founder of BigHand
Steve is the founder of BigHand Ltd and worked over 11 years to build the company into a global leader in developing and delivering dictation, mobile and speech technologies to the professional services sector. He exited the business through a successful MBO in 2006 and since then has inspired, invested in and consulted for many young entrepreneurial UK businesses.
Follow Steve Thompson:
About BigHand: BigHand develops voice productivity software solutions for legal, healthcare, property, and financial companies.
Michael Curry
Co-Founder of AVADO
Follow Michael Curry:
About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Phill Hullah
Co-Founder of AVADO
Follow Phill Hullah:
About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Ricardo Varela
Founder of Localistico
Ricardo has worked in search and maps teams in Microsoft, Google and Yahoo.
Follow Ricardo Varela:
About Localistico: Localistico is a local marketing and analytics platform for brick-and-mortar retailers.
Armaan Mehta
Co-Founder of Odore
Armaan Mehta is the Co-Founder at Odore.
Follow Armaan Mehta:
About Odore: We bring digital and data to sampling, providing data driven sampling solutions so brands get to know their customers better.
Karan Gupta
Co-Founder of Odore
Karan Gupta is the Co-Founder at Odore.
Follow Karan Gupta:
About Odore: We bring digital and data to sampling, providing data driven sampling solutions so brands get to know their customers better.
Singe (StJohn) Deakins
Founder and CEO of Citizenme
StJohn Deakins As Founder and CEO, StJohn oversees the commercial and technical direction for citizenme. His vision was to create a service for everyone that lets us take back control of our digital identities and asset our right to self. He works with our team, partners, suppliers, advocates, the media and the general public to ensure that the citizenme vision realises its potential to positively impact the lives of every single digital citizen. . StJohn is a successful serial Internet entrepreneur, digital visionary, mobile evangelist, and documentary producer. In late 2010 he sold his mobile multimedia platform company, 3ple-media, to a US private equity firm. StJohn subsequently advised on the acquisition of the NSN Wimax business unit by SkyView. In 1995 he was instrumental in helping to put Lloyd’s List, the world’s oldest daily newspaper, online. Later, his team at Agency.com developed the first British Airways booking system and global Internet presence. . StJohn produced the acclaimed crowd sourced documentary Twittamentary. He provides formal and informal advisory to a number of start-ups including Distrify, the innovative Internet movie distribution platform. StJohn returned to London to found citizenme after spending 12 years living in Singapore where he worked to advance mobile data services in the emerging markets of Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and South America.
Follow Singe (StJohn) Deakins:
About Citizenme: CitizenMe empowers us people and organisations with the true value of personal data.
Rob Lough
Chief Strategy Officer / Co-Founder of KidsKnowBest
Follow Rob Lough:
About KidsKnowBest: A full-service creative agency; driven by insights; powered by youth. Delivering effective and results-led solutions.
Joel Silverman
CEO / Co-Founder of KidsKnowBest
Follow Joel Silverman:
About KidsKnowBest: A full-service creative agency; driven by insights; powered by youth. Delivering effective and results-led solutions.
Gareth Balch
Founder&CEO of Two Circles
Gareth co-founded Two Circles in 2011 with Matt Rogan having spent his career helping sports organisations grow commercial revenues, most recently in Commercial Strategy roles at Manchester City. Prior to assuming the role of Two Circles Chief Executive, Gareth was Managing Director of the business, where he led the delivery of their client results. As a result of these results, the business grew significantly and won plaudits & awards for the quality and innovation of its work. In Gareth’s final year as Managing Director, 40% of Two Circles clients achieved all-time commercial growth records. As Chief Executive, Gareth leads their 100-strong business to deliver results for all of their stakeholders in each market. He is also actively involved in supporting ESP Properties growth strategy and sits on the Global Executive Committee for that organisation. Gareth represented Great Britain at 800m in an international career spanning seven years and still loves nothing more than pulling his trainers on.
Follow Gareth Balch:
About Two Circles: Two Circles is a sports marketing agency based in London.
Shumel Lais
Founder & CEO of Appsumer
Follow Shumel Lais:
About Appsumer: Appsumer automates user acquisition & performance marketing dashboards, reports & insights
Laurent Christen
CEO and Founder of e2y
Laurent Christen is a digital entrepreneur, mentor & investor. Prior to founding companies, Laurent gained 10+ years of experience managing strategy, marketing and eCommerce of Fortune 500 companies including Dell, LEGO and Nikon in European and global roles.
Follow Laurent Christen:
About e2y: e2y is an award-winning digital experience consultancy, delivering solutions for firms aiming to improve their customer experience.
Jonathan Lemer
Co-Founder of Brainbroker
Follow Jonathan Lemer:
About Brainbroker: Brainbroker is a digital agency that uses data-driven marketing techniques to generate customers for its client.
Larry Kotch
Co Founder & Marketing Strategist of Brainbroker
Follow Larry Kotch:
About Brainbroker: Brainbroker is a digital agency that uses data-driven marketing techniques to generate customers for its client.
Andrea Radrizzani
Chairman & Founder of Aser Ventures
Follow Andrea Radrizzani:
About Aser Ventures: Aser Ventures is an investment platform specialising in sports, media and entertainment.
Patrick Charlton
Co-Founder & CEO of Buzz Radar
Patrick is a social marketing and digital specialist, with a track record of creating a wide range of award-winning campaigns and projects for some of the world’s most exciting brands. He is co-founder of Buzz Radar, an industry leader in capturing and visualising real-time data. Buzz Radar makes live data of all types collaborative, easy to understand and shareable for everyone. He works with some of the world’s largest events, brands and retail spaces, including Twitter, Samsung, Nike, Google, adidas, Intel, Skype, Marks And Spencer, IBM, Red Bull and Adobe, helping them create a culture of listening and marketing in the moment. Over his career, Patrick has been lucky enough to lead major-ground breaking projects on multiple global social engagement campaigns, providing leadership, strategy, production savvy, creative direction and client management in a fast-paced, demanding environment with an online audience in the tens of millions.
Follow Patrick Charlton:
About Buzz Radar: Buzz Radar is an industry leader in making data, insightful, accessible and actionable
Matt Wilson
Co-Founder of Ball Street
Follow Matt Wilson:
About Ball Street: Ball Street is a group of sports fans that wanted to club together to create an independent, alternative to the mainstream sports media.
Eric Tomaszewski
Founder / Managing Director of Itoma Lux
Eric Tomaszewski is the Founder & Managing Director of Itoma Lux. He founded Itoma Lux in 2017 after 10 years of corporate experience with companies like Ocado, Magna Exteriors and Magna Interiors, Ishida Europe Ltd, and Kimberly-Clark.
Follow Eric Tomaszewski:
About Itoma Lux: We enable PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT with FINANCE and then de-risk it and increase chances of commercial success with MARKETING & SALES solutions.
Matthew Woods
Co-Founder of AFK Creators
Follow Matthew Woods:
About AFK Creators: Influencer Management and Marketing Agency, Gaming and Esports
Rasmus Gustavsen
Founder & iCEO of NerdPeople
Follow Rasmus Gustavsen:
About NerdPeople: DIgital Marketing, Software Development, Web and App development, QA. Our nerds will help you reach your business goals in next to no time!
Adriana Nem
Founder of relak.co
Founder at Relak
Follow Adriana Nem:
About Adriana Nem Swimwear, relak.co: Your Go-To Remote Work & Lifestyle Resource, Community & More. Join Us!
Garth Shephard
Founder & Partner of 72 Capital Limited
Follow Garth Shephard:
About 72 Capital Limited: Boutique M&A, fundraising and strategic adviser to the small and mid-cap technology, digital media and sport sectors.
Oliver Low
Co-Founder of Platform360
Follow Oliver Low:
About Platform360: Platform360 is the global leader in Native advertising solutions
Myles Anderson
Founder and CEO of BrightLocal
Follow Myles Anderson:
About BrightLocal: Take the lead in local search.
Ed Eliot
Founder & CTO of BrightLocal
Ed oversees technical operations. He built our first two tools and the basics of our admin panel. Ed brings 15 years of development experience to BrightLocal.
Follow Ed Eliot:
About BrightLocal: Take the lead in local search.
Tom Quick
Founder of EntityX
Follow Tom Quick:
About Afternoonify, EntityX: EntityX is utilizing its own cutting-edge Machine Learning and graph technology to elevate contextual targeting.
Toby Heelis
CEO (Co-Founder) of virtuall
Follow Toby Heelis:
About : Transforming industries by creating innovative products that connect the world more sustainably and profitably.
Daniel Emmerson
Co-Founder & Joint CEO of OpenAsset
Co-Founder of meterfy and OpenAsset.
Follow Daniel Emmerson:
About Meterfy, OpenAsset: OpenAsset is the only DAM solution built around projects, properties, and people.
Simon Douglass
Founder of Curated Digital
Simon Douglass founder has over 12 years of experience in Digital Marketing, joining Google when it was a fledgling start up back in 2003, working there for 7 years (with a break to attempt a full-time career as a stand-up comic) followed by a few years working for various digital agencies before forming Curated in July 2014.
Follow Simon Douglass:
About Curated Digital: Curated Digital is a digital marketing company with experience in search, social, email & partnerships.
Martin McDonnell
Founder of Soluis
Martin McDonnell has built a group of successful businesses that deliver best in class 3D visualisation and interactive digital presentation. His vision to connect the latest digital technology platforms to the needs of different market sectors has led his businesses to be amongst the earliest innovators in bringing the benefits of augmented and virtual reality to a variety of industries including design, construction, manufacturing and healthcare. This drive has led his business Sublime to recently win one of only three inaugural Higgs EDGE awards and Soluis to win Innovate UK’s IC Tomorrow competition to develop augmented reality (AR) software, utilised at Crossrail sites in London. Martin is now pioneering (and a recognised thought leader) in the development of shared immersive solutions for business, and advanced AR assisted tools that will transform the world of work.
Follow Martin McDonnell:
About Edify, Soluis, Sublime: Soluis Group is a UK-based creative studio that specializes in design visualization, animation, software development, and more.
A Hallam
Founder of Minelead.io
Entrepreneur & Investor
Follow A Hallam:
About Minelead.io: Minelead is a leading saas platform to find and verify b2b email addresses
Alex Vaidya
Co-Founder & CEO of StoryStream
Alex is the CEO and co-founder of StoryStream, a leading live content marketing platform that helps brands such as Porsche and Unilever to source and publish user-generated content, and other forms of live content, to create a more engaging customer experience. Alex is a specialist in content marketing and how the role of technology is changing the nature of the brand communications and the connected story.
Follow Alex Vaidya:
About StoryStream: StoryStream is the world’s most advanced content marketing platform built for automotive brands.
Ralf Gehrig
Co-Founder and CXO of Brilliant Basics
Follow Ralf Gehrig:
About Brilliant Basics: Brilliant Basics is a global digital product and customer experience studio.
Dave Ward
Founder & Creative Director of CreateFuture
Follow Dave Ward:
About CreateFuture: CreateFuture is a design and innovation firm that puts creativity to good use.
Beau Buckley
CEO & Founder of Revolucion One Digital
Beau Buckley launched Revolucion One early 2016 and is fast becoming one of Australia’s leading digital marketing agencies. With over 10 years experience in digital marketing, Beau’s expertise in SEO, PPC & Web Design has not only helped him build a six-figure business from home, but his strategies have generated his clients more than $3 million dollars in the last two years. He is also the Founder of SEO Services London, strategic marketing partner at Jack Frost Mobile Car Air Conditioning, and marketing partner at MNU Digital. Never shy of a challenge, what separates Beau from other experts, is taking struggling startups and turning them into six and seven figure businesses. Beau has the unique ability to look at a business, know the exact areas which need improvement and put together an actionable game plan the business can implement to generate results…fast. With his wealth of knowledge, years of experience and proven results, Beau has established himself as a true industry expert and a respected figure in the digital marketing space.
Follow Beau Buckley:
About Revolucion One Digital, SEO Services London, Streemie: Perth Digital Marketing Agency helping businesses generate more leads & sales with SEO, PPC & Web Design Solutions
Rod Brown
Co-Founder & CEO of Opun
Royal Navy veteran with experience of corporate and startup business. Co-founder of three startups, with two exits to corporate trade buyers (Tesco plc and John Lewis Partnership). Former Associate Consultant McKinsey & Co., ex Services Director at Tesco. Intrapreneur and entrepreneur. Spears Wealth Management Awards Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 nominee. British ex-Forces Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 nominee.
Follow Rod Brown:
About Opun: Why leave home improvement to chance? Opun is the smart new way to end your home improvement nightmares.
Jane Henry
Co-Founder of Marylebone Marketing
Jane Henry is Co-Founder of Marylebone – Difference Marketing. With a love of marketing, tech and entrepreneurship at the heart of everything we do – Marylebone makes the difference to you and your business. From revamping your established digital marketing or social media presence to supercharging the marketing for your startup, we offer bespoke marketing, communications, sponsorship and technology services that deliver results. The Marylebone difference is our passion and years of experience working on FTSE and NYSE companies, as well as consumer brands, startups and international sponsorship projects. From TV and movies launches (CNBC, NBC, Turner Broadcasting, ITV, Channel 4, London Film Festival) and tech innovations (telecoms, cable & satellite TV, Voice-to-Text, Saas, Shazam, Global Xpress satellites) to multi-million dollar sponsorship activation for the Volvo Ocean Race. Jane has held a wide range of roles in international corporate, B2B and consumer marketing and communications for leading organisations such as NBC Television, Nuance Communications, CNBC, Turner Broadcasting and Inmarsat.
Follow Jane Henry:
About Marylebone Marketing: Strategic, hands-on and agile approach to international marketing & PR, with a strong dose of passion and creativity, to get results.
Alexander Gash
Co-Founder of Marylebone Marketing
Alex is a creative and entrepreneurial individual with a passion for rooting out the wants and needs of clients.
Follow Alexander Gash:
About Marylebone Marketing: Strategic, hands-on and agile approach to international marketing & PR, with a strong dose of passion and creativity, to get results.
Giovanbattista Cimmino
CEO and Founder of SocialAsk
Giovanbattista Cimmino is an entrepreneur in the hospitality and digital industry. CEO and founder of the London-based social media agency SocialAsk, founder of the Remodels agency and creator of the Model Restaurant platform. Giovanbattista is the co-founder of Kowa Restaurant and Osteria Romana.
Follow Giovanbattista Cimmino:
About Entrepreneur.com, SocialAsk: SocialAsk is a London-based social media agency specialized in social media marketing and online reputation management.
Vicky Barton
Co-Founder and CCO of Secco
Follow Vicky Barton:
About Secco: UK based startup creating a mobile social economic network
Matthew Batten
Co-Founder of bownd
Follow Matthew Batten:
About bownd: Bownd is a provider of digital archeologist that intelligently gathers photos and conversations from across social profile.
Matthew Batten
Co-Founder of bownd
Follow Matthew Batten:
About bownd: Bownd is a provider of digital archeologist that intelligently gathers photos and conversations from across social profile.
Jeremy Davis
Co-Founder of XbyMe
Follow Jeremy Davis:
About XbyMe: Next generation digital marketing platform – Social Capital Exchange
James Robins
Founder, CEO of XbyMe
Follow James Robins:
About XbyMe: Next generation digital marketing platform – Social Capital Exchange
James Robins
Founder, CEO of XbyMe
Follow James Robins:
About XbyMe: Next generation digital marketing platform – Social Capital Exchange
Daniel Doulton
Founder of XbyMe
Follow Daniel Doulton:
About XbyMe: Next generation digital marketing platform – Social Capital Exchange
Josiah Holloway
Founder of Marketing Musicians Ltd.
Follow Josiah Holloway:
About Marketing Musicians Ltd.: Marketing Musicians are a Music Marketing and PR agency in the UK, dedicated to helping launch music careers through affordable services.
Ubbo Maagdenberg
CIO/Founder of EMARK
Follow Ubbo Maagdenberg:
About EMARK: Marketing and Ad Technology company
Waqas Iqbal
CEO & Founder of Vix Solutions
Follow Waqas Iqbal:
About Vix Solutions: IT & Digital Marketing company based in London
