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 Energy 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.
Patrick Sheehan
Founder and Managing Partner of ETF Partners
Patrick is a founder and Partner of the Environmental Technologies Fund. Patrick has worked in venture capital since 1985. He was instrumental in founding 3i’s venture capital practice, and later became the founding Managing Director of its Silicon Valley operation. Before this, he was a research engineer for GEC and Marconi Space Systems. He was a member of the Executive Committee and Board of EVCA from 2007 to 2010, during which time he also chaired the Venture Capital Committee. Patrick has a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from UCL, London.
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About ETF Partners: ETF Partners supports talented entrepreneurs and management teams with investment capital and experience.
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Peter Horsburgh
Venture Partner and Founder of ETF Partners
Founder and Chairman at ETF Partners (Environmental Technologies Fund).
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About ETF Partners: ETF Partners supports talented entrepreneurs and management teams with investment capital and experience.
Ning Zhang
Co-Founder & Executive Director of Limejump
Ning Zhang is the Co-founder at Limejump.
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About Limejump: Limejump is a Technology-Driven Utility: harnessing the power of big data to positively disrupt and transform today’s energy market.
Laurent Van Houcke
Co-Founder & Chief Operations Officer of BBOXX
Laurent is a graduate from Imperial College London where he obtained a first class honours (M.Eng) degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering. He was part of a team of students that founded “e.quinox” in 2008 and co-founded BBOXX in 2010.Laurent is responsible for macromanaging BBOXX’s operations globally from shipping to the point of sales going through marketing and long term business development in our different markets. Laurent has professional experience in the Energy Distribution Sector with EDF Energy in London and the Energy Consultancy Sector with Norman Disney & young. Laurent travels across our different markets to support BBOXX’s local partners from a technical, market and business development points of view.
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About BBOXX: BBOXX designs, manufactures, and distributes plug and play solar systems.
Christopher Baker-Brian
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer & Chief Technology Innovation Officer of BBOXX
Christopher is a graduate of Imperial College London, where he obtained a first class honours (M.Eng) degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering. He was part of a team of students that founded “e.quinox” in 2008 and co-founded BBOXX in 2010. Christopher is responsible for product development, supply chain and BBOXX’s manufacturing partnerships. In addition, Christopher has extensive technical experience in the petro-chemicals (Shell) and aerospace (Rolls-Royce) industries. He is a full member of the IEEE and IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology) and currently serves as a general member of the 2011-2014 IEEE Ad-Hoc Committee on Humanitarian Activities.
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About BBOXX: BBOXX designs, manufactures, and distributes plug and play solar systems.
Dan Mauger
CIO & Co-Founder of Demand Logic
Dan is an experienced developer of enterprise information and ecommerce systems and has an MSc in Information Systems from City University for which he won a departmental award. Dan leads on the development of Demand Logic’s core software, from the underlying data management engines to the front-end web application.
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About Demand Logic: Demand Logic is an online energy efficiency system that analyzes data from building management systems.
Joe Short
Chief Scientist & Co-Founder of Demand Logic
Joe is a clean-tech innovator and advocate who has worked for over 25 years in the sustainability sector, both in campaign organisations and start-ups. He has a degree in physics/philosophy from York University, trained in journalism at Reuters, has an MSc in renewable energy technology and a masters in sustainable development. Before co-founding Demand Logic, he successfully promoted demand response in policy and Parliament. At Demand Logic he leads on innovation, science and machine learning, as well as working on design, communications and development.
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About Demand Logic: Demand Logic is an online energy efficiency system that analyzes data from building management systems.
Mike Darby
CEO & Co-Founder of Demand Logic
Mike is a leading expert in building services engineering, and has worked in the field for over 20 years. He has designed and delivered controls systems for multi-million pound installations, including for major banks, covering business-critical systems. Mike leads all our engineering and energy efficiency work and provides consultancy support for clients.
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About Demand Logic: Demand Logic is an online energy efficiency system that analyzes data from building management systems.
