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 Web Browsers 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.
Vikram Simha
Co-Founder and CTO of Pouch
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About Global Savings Group, Pouch: Pouch is a technology company that develops tools to save online shoppers time, money and hassle.
Jonny Plein
Co-Founder and CFO of Pouch
Jonny was a member of the University of Nottingham Enactus team for 3 years. During his time within the Enactus team, he ran run an international project in Cambodia, presented at two national competitions and help lead the team as vice-president. Jonny started Enactus Nottingham’s commercial ventures arm by running a student concert called UNIAID. This concert was his first hand experience at trying anything entrepreneurial himself. After University he joined EY on their grad scheme and completed his ACA. Whilst at EY Jonnys’ now co-founder came to him with the idea for Pouch, a free online tool (a browser extension) that automatically sources all the best available voucher codes and automatically displays them as you are shopping online, so you never need to search for a voucher code again. In January 2017 he left EY to work on Pouch full time. In only a few months Jonny and his co-founder managed to achieve quite a lot. They raised funds, won the Mass Challenge start up accelerator and have been featured in publications such as Forbes and The Telegraph.
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About Global Savings Group, Pouch: Pouch is a technology company that develops tools to save online shoppers time, money and hassle.
Kwame Ferreira
Founder & CEO of Impossible
Kwame is founder and CEO of impossible.com which helps develop businesses through a planet centric design approach, aligning business goals with planetary needs. Kwame has, among many other things, created record labels (enchufada.com), emotional wearables (bond-touch.com), bot engines (nikabot.com) and kind insurance companies (kinsu.co.uk).
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About Impossible: A new social network of giving and receiving. impossible. Do good. Feel good.
Lily Cole
Founder of Impossible
Lily Cole is an actress, social entrepreneur and Founder of Impossible.com, a social network that encourages users to exchange skills and services for free in the hope of encouraging a peer-to-peer gift economy.
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About Impossible: A new social network of giving and receiving. impossible. Do good. Feel good.
Jesper Green
Co-Founder & Head Of Product of Converdiant
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About Converdiant: Converdiant helps businesses to increase their website revenue through easy-to-use conversion rate optimization tools
Sophie de Oliveira Barata
Prosthetics Artist and Founder of Alternative Limb Project
Sophie comes from an art background, with a first class honours degree in Special Effects prosthetics for film and TV. She worked as a sculptor for 8 years at one of the UK’s leading prosthetic providers, making realistic, bespoke prosthetics for amputees. In her spare time she made more experimental art work in this medium before setting up her own studio and launching the Alternative Limb Project. Sophie now works as a specialist consultant and works alongside prosthetists to produce realistic-looking artificial limbs as well as more imaginative limbs with direct input from the client to reflect their interests and personality.
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About Alternative Limb Project: The Alternative Limb Project was created in September 2011 after prosthetic limb designer Sophie De OIiveira Barata.
Donna McLean
Founder of passingboxes
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About passingboxes: passingboxes provides services to help secure your digital legacy and pass on the things that really matter.
