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 CTO’ operating in the Internet space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Rajiv Mathur
CTO of Chainvine
Dr Rajiv Mathur is the co-founder chief technologist at Chainvine – Blockchain/DLT technology company headquartered in the UK. Dr Mathur has 20 years of extensive industry and academic research experience with numerous years in technology leadership roles both in the UK and internationally with some of the best known companies in the world such as Vodafone, Telefonica, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, Nationwide Building Society etc. His experience in the industry has been in technology architecture, fraud detection and security of payments, digital transformation and agile delivery. In addition to his work in the industry, Dr Mathur also comes from an academic research background with his last academic position at Distributed Systems Engineering Research Group within the Computer Science Department at Imperial College London. Dr Mathur has a PhD in Mobile Communications Architecture from University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK.
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
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David Abensour
CTO of Fospha Marketing
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About Fospha Marketing: The Direct to Consumer Growth Platform
Paddy Byers
CTO & Co-founder of Ably Realtime
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About Ably Realtime: Ably is the platform to power synchronized digital experiences in realtime.
Adam Neilson
CTO of Wefarm
Experienced and pragmatic technologist, strategist and respected team leader. Clear, creative and effective channel between technical and commercial teams with a track record of operational excellence and highly scalable service delivery.
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About Wefarm: Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables users to share information via SMS.
Paul Felby
Chief Technology Officer of Adthena
Paul is a supremely talented software engineer and architect and has built a career for major names such as the Logica Space and Defence Division and Live Nation Entertainment / Ticketmaster, as well as spending time in the US teaching gifted children programming and electronics. Now our Chief Technology Officer and Product Director, Paul is responsible for the research and innovation at Adthena, delivering even better results for our clients, and the Architecture and development to ensure the quality of our data and application. With a first class degree in Computer Science with Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Paul was also winner of the Wind River Systems Award – given to the final year BSc Computer Science student who obtains the highest degree mark.
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About Adthena: Adthena is a competitive intelligence solution for search marketers.
John Fogelin
CTO & Security Officer of AppyWay
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Ben Phillips
CTO & Co-Founder of Thread
Ben is the co-founder of Thread.com and runs the development team there. Founded last year, Thread brings personal styling to everyone, and it’s free. Before Thread, Ben co-founded Playfire and scaled the site to over 1.5 million users. Ben also enjoys product and graphic design but leaves these things to the experts most of the time.
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About Thread: Thread operates as an online personal styling platform designed to help men find clothes.
Xav Kearney
Co-founder, CPO & CTO of Otta
Xav graduated from Imperial College with a Masters in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, and specialised in Machine Learning. During his studies, he joined Nested as a Data Scientist for 3 months, and then returned a year later to work as a Software Engineer for 6 months.
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About Otta: Otta is the recruitment platform that recruits man power in technology sector.
Michael Robinson
CTO of Snupps
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About Snupps: Snupps helps people organize, share and discover the stuff they own and value.
Michael Robinson
CTO of Snupps
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About Snupps: Snupps helps people organize, share and discover the stuff they own and value.
Richard Orme
Group Chief Technology Officer of Photobox
Richard joined Metapack in 2012 and is responsible for MetaPack’s Technology delivery and strategy. Prior to joining MetaPack he worked in the US logistics software industry developing market leading solutions with UPS, FedEx and Pitney Bowes. He has also worked in the UK Telecomms industry on volume and availability systems for the UK’s largest fibre optic network at ntl (now Virgin Media). He has over twenty years of software development and delivery experience working in a range of technologies with a strong focus on highly available logistics platforms and data integration.
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About ComplyAdvantage, Photobox: PhotoBox is Europe’s leading community for sharing, printing and personal publishing with over 30 million members.
Dominique Guinard
Co-Founder & CTO of EVRYTHNG
Dominique Guinard is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of EVRYTHNG, the Internet of Things Smart Products Platform that connects any consumer product to the Web, and manages real-time data to drive applications. He is also a co-founder of WebofThings.org. Prior to that, he worked at MIT Auto-ID Labs, SAP, Auto-ID Labs Zurich, and Sun Microsystems. Guinard holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science. Later on, he obtained a PhD from ETH Zurich. He was listed 5th amongst the top 100 IoT thinkers by Postscapes. Early in 2012, his PhD research was granted the ETH Medal.
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About Blockchain Research Institute, EVRYTHNG, Webofthings.org: EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
Jeremy Longley
CTO & Co Founder of FunFair Technologies
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About FunFair Technologies: FunFair provides blockchain powered solutions to the online gaming industry.
Aaron Asaro
CTO of Kopernio
Aaron Asaro is the CTO of Kopernio.
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About Kopernio: Kopernio is a free web-based software that enables access to academic journal articles.
George Goodyer
CTO of Skyscanner
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About Skyscanner: Skyscanner operates as a trips meta-search engine company.
Patrick Gleeson
CTO of Groupladder
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About Groupladder: Groupladder is a provide a unique mortgage product.
Brendan O’Reilly
CTO of O2
Brendan is Telefónica UK’s Chief Technology Officer, with over 15 years’ experience in Mobile Telecoms. Brendan has accountability for O2’s strategy, design, planning, test, delivery and operation of the entire mobile and fixed network, messaging and wifi supported by his team of more than 600 professional engineers. Brendan has held a number of senior roles in the Networks Leadership Team over the past seven years, with achievements including leading the development of O2’s network share partnership with Vodafone in June 2012. He is also experienced in detailed planning and delivery of radio and transmission networks. Delivering the best experience to O2’s customers is at the heart of how Brendan works and knows his people are key to achieve this. Brendan also has a strong focus on his people encouraging development and self-learning across all of Networks.
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About O2: O2 provides services such as non-voice services, including text, media messaging, games, music, and video, as well as data connections.
Vlad Ilyushchenko
Co-founder / CTO of QuestDB
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About QuestDB: QuestDB is an open-source SQL database designed to process time-series data, faster.
Mark Durrand
CTO of TotallyMoney
Mark has a long track record of delivering innovative software solutions in cutting edge development environments. He was director of IT at uSwitch.com, helping re-invent the brand following its acquisition by Forward Group. Prior to that he managed the web development team at Visa Europe. During his career Mark has developed a keen interest in Agile and Lean approaches to software development and has spoken at many conferences on his experiences.
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About TotallyMoney: TotallyMoney puts customers right at the center of their credit data, helping them make smarter financial decisions.
Tim Boughton
CTO & Co-founder of Mention Me
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About Mention Me: Harness the exponential power of your brand fans
Gyan Chawdhary
Founder & CTO of Codebashing
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About Codebashing: Codebashing | Train, Refresh and Validate your development teams’ Application Security knowledge using our cloud-based e-learning platform.
Simon McCabe
CTO of BaseStone
As well as a PhD in Physics, Simon has an extensive background in mobile and enterprise development. He has worked within the financial industry and other technology startup companies, with one successful exit under his belt.
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About BaseStone, BeneTalk, Songkick: BaseStone is a mobile and web application built for construction teams to access, capture and communicate information.
Bret Boivin
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of Incopro
Incopro’s cutting-edge technology has been spearheaded by anti-piracy expert Bret Boivin. Bret initially made his mark as a Systems Engineer for Warner Brothers, working on a wide variety of projects including security for its first massively multiplayer online game. In 2006 he began managing internet anti-piracy operations for the UK, co-ordinating activities across Europe, Asia and the Middle East for both Warner Brothers and NBC Universal. Working in the film industry and constantly breaking new ground in content protection technology provided a unique insight into what content owners really need. Bret has pioneered new standards in film studio enforcement capabilities, developing significant new technology, extending piracy monitoring capabilities and helping shape strategic focus.
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About Incopro: Incopro is an online brand and intellectual property protection company.
Ashish Kumar
Co-Founder & CTO of HowNow
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About HowNow: HowNow is a London-based EdTech startup that connects experts and learners by offering interactive video lessons.
Co-Founder and CTO of Clouder
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About Clouder: Clouder is a marketplace, subscription service and hyperlocal delivery.
Sachin Deshpande
Chief Technology Officer of Made by Fire
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About Made by Fire: We create digital products for our ambitious clients with a team of over 100 specialists.
Daniel Jones
Chief Technology Officer of Chirp
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About Chirp: Chirp uses existing speakers and microphones to enable frictionless M2M communication to seamlessly and securely transfer data via sound.
James King
Co-Founder & CTO of Encore Technologies
An avid pianist and our CTO, James is rarely seen away from a keyboard of some kind.
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About Encore Technologies: Encore is an online network of musicians that enables them to access many performance opportunities in the music community around them.
Seb Chakraborty
Executive Director (Digital CTO) of Virgin Media
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About Virgin Media: Virgin Media is a UK-based company offering TV, broadband, landline phone and cellular services.
James Meier
CTO of Synervoz Communications
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About 01system, Switchboard, Synervoz Communications: Synervoz is building the world’s most flexible communications platform.
Chris O’Sullivan
Co-Founder and CTO of Lexoo
Chris has been developing websites and apps for more than 10 years – with companies such as Forward Partners, Aegis Media, and the BBC. He loves playing board games and drinking cocktails – ideally at the same time.
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About HitMeUp, Lexoo, What I want for Xmas: Lexoo is a lawyer comparison marketplace that helps businesses choose a lawyer with confidence.
Daniel Howard
CTO of SimbaPay
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About SimbaPay: SimbaPay is a B2B SaaS for banks in Africa that enables their customers to send money abroad using mobile money or e-banking.
Pavel Sich
CTO of Moovshack
As software architect, Pavel is responsible for the technical direction and full software development lifecycle at Sequent, Moovshack and IOSBITS.
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About Moovshack: The first fully interactive, mobile-first property platform that doubles as a free-to-list portal & a brandable estate agent app
Ramiz Khan
CTO of Plumm
Ramiz brings over almost 17+ yrs. of experience working in software industry, including a wide range of cloud-based software engineering services encompassing infrastructure, security, storage, quality analysis and overall management and maintenance of a web application. He has extensive expertise working on cloud computing architectures. He believes in learning constantly and is strongly committed to excellence in the way technological growth will impact our daily life. He is the Co-Founder of Futuristic5 IT Solutions based in Pune, India.
Currently, He is working as the Chief Technology Officer at Plumm based in London, UK.
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About Futuristic5 IT Solutions, Plumm: Plumm offers 1:1 online therapy sessions and courses with certified and experienced mental health therapists globally.
Mike Fenna
CTO of AVADO
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Jonathon Valentine
Founder and CTO of ThingCo
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About ThingCo: Telematics, Cars, IoT, SaaS, Insurance, ADAS, Intelligent voice,Automotive
Wojciech Soczyński
CEO / CTO of TH-EY
I’m a software developer with almost 10 years of experience. I have created software for such different industries like culture, marketing and finance. I believe that a software project can only be successful if the development team deeply understands the business domain and it’s problems. If you are looking for someone to solve your problems through technology, just write me a message and let’s begin the journey!
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About TH-EY: Web & Mobile Software Development
Todd Mansill
Chief Technology Officer of yourfeed
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About yourfeed: yourfeed is an online platform that connects people to relevant opportunities via their real life skills!
Andrew Kuzmych
Co-Founder and CTO of TechMagic
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About TechMagic: Top JavaScript and Serverless developers
Jonathan del Strother
CTO of Audioboom
Jonathan del Strother is CTO at AudioBoo.
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About Audioboom: Audioboom is a podcasting distribution platform.
Ben Roeder
CTO of Sohonet
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About Sohonet: Sohonet operates the largest private network for Media & Entertainment in the world, linking over 400 leading studios and creatives.
Tristan Cool
Chief Technology Officer of Aura Innovation
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About Aura Innovation: Aura Innovation is a Augmented Reality Head-Up Display for commercial vehicles and the autonomous future.
Ian Pridham
Co-Founder & CTO of Openplay
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About Openplay: OpenPlay is an online platform that allows any sports facility to take online bookings, payments and manage their customers.
Michael Groves
Chief Technology Officer of Mucho
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About Mucho: Mucho is a platform that brings together brands, retailers and content providers that share this passion.
Michael Groves
Chief Technology Officer of Mucho
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About Mucho: Mucho is a platform that brings together brands, retailers and content providers that share this passion.
Richard Hoptroff
Founder & CTO of Hoptroff
Awarded a PhD in Physics by King’s College London for work in optical computing and artificial intelligence. A long track record of technological innovation in AI, Bluetooth and, most recently, time synchronisation. Currently working on developing hyper-accurate synchronised timestamping solutions for the financial services sector and beyond, based on a unique combination of grandmaster atomic clock engineering and proprietary software.
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About Hoptroff: We develop proprietary UTC time synchronisation solutions, combining AI with resilient and secure network technology.
Alexandru Todorut
CTO of ScreenHits TV
Alex is a graduate of Kingston University where he received a Masters in Software Engineering. His course work exposed him to different coding environments which he employs at ScreenHits. Alex oversees the entire programming and coding team at ScreenHits, as well as the development of all aspects of the site for the consumer and business portals and works with our third party technology partners.
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About ScreenHits TV: ScreenHits TV app integrates all your TV and film streaming apps, Live TV and VOD channels into one place.
Dan Makin
CTO of Yourkeys
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About Yourkeys: ‘Yourkeys is a real-time transactional and data platform for house builders and estate agents selling properties.
Canh Ho
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of VerseHub
Canh Ho is the Founder and CTO at VerseHub.
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About VerseHub: We bring blockchain technology into individual lives and businesses
Jon Beer
CTO and Co-Founder of Zapnito
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About Zapnito: Zapnito is the SaaS online community platform for intelligence-driven organizations.
Richard Petrie
Chief Technology Officer of London Internet Exchange (LINX)
Richard Petrie is a CTO at Linx.
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About London Internet Exchange (LINX): London Internet Exchange (LINX) is a global leader of Internet Exchange Points (IXP).
Matteo Avalle
Co-Founder & CTO of Fluentify
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About Fluentify: Fluentify connects language learners with carefully selected native speakers around the world trough 30-minutes individual live sessions.
Amy Boyd
CTO of CityMunch
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About CityMunch: CityMunch brings together restaurants and consumers, tackling under-utilised capacity at off-peak times and reducing the cost of eating-out.
Irina Dumitrescu
Co-Founder and CTO of Nossa Data
Irina Dumitrescu is the Co-Founder and CTO of Nossa Data.
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About Nossa Data: Nossa Data digitises company ESG reporting and data management across multiple frameworks, to reduce cost of capital and compliance.
John Spenler
CTO & COO of Phoenix Interactive Design
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About Phoenix Interactive Design: Phoenix has pioneered many of the banking industry’s most dramatic innovations,
Matthew Travers
CTO of Hanhaa
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About Hanhaa: A full service MNO supplying private 4G/5G connectivity globally / A leader in supply chain analytics with our ParceLive platform.
Damon Hart-Davis
CTO & Co-Founder of Vestemi
Damon has a Masters in Computer Science with a focus on AI and 20 years of experience designing and optimising systems in the City. Previous start-ups included one of the UK’s first ISPs and a virtual credit company. He has also worked with DECC advising on energy efficiency from 2009.
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About Vestemi: Vestemi is a new technology product company with a social purpose.
Andrew Moss
CTO of Code Kingdoms
With an inexplicable knowledge of servers, the database and anything to do with ‘making stuff work’, Andrew is a key part in ensuring everything runs smoothly. Although he loves going on far-flung adventures to foreign countries and elaborate costume parties, it’s a wonder he’s ever allowed to leave the office for fear of ‘everything breaking again’.
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About Code Kingdoms: Code Kingdoms is an online platform which teaches kids how to code.
Dylan Beattie
CTO of Skills Matter
Dylan wrote his first web page in 1992 and never looked back. He’s been building data-driven web applications since the late 1990s, and has worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s the CTO at Skills Matter in London, he’s a Microsoft MVP, and he’s a regular speaker at conferences and user groups, where he’s spoken about topics from continuous delivery and Conway’s Law to the history of the web, federated authentication and hypermedia APIs. When he’s not wrangling code, Dylan plays guitar and writes songs.
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About Skills Matter: Skills Matter is a global community of 100,000+ members from 126 countries interacting, sharing knowledge, inspiring & improving each other.
Luis Rivera
Chief Technology Officer of Riverlan
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About Riverlan, Roland Berger: Riverlan assists in the delivery of projects that can benefit from innovation.
Henric Larsson
Co-Founder and CTO of Dashl
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About Dashl: A digital hair and beauty booking platform.
Robert Taylor
Co-Founder & CTO of Salesorder.com
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About Salesorder.com: Salesorder is an inventory and order management software for distributors, wholesalers, and ecommerce.
Surjit Bhachu
CTO of loomi.ai
Technical architect with over 16 years of experience delivering complex solutions at global brands like Tesco, Oracle, Vodafone, Toshiba and O2
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About loomi.ai: Loomi is an Intelligent Assistant platform for organising and prioritising user’s connected world.
Stephen Worn
CTO & Managing Director of DatacenterDynamics
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About DatacenterDynamics: DatacenterDynamics is a full service B2B information provider tailored to professionals that design, build, and operate data centers.
Amer Siddiqui
CTO of Muqawiloon.com
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About Muqawiloon.com: Muqawiloon.com is an online tendering and procurement platform to solve the dilemma facing both homeowners and construction managers.
Ethan Ghoreishi
Co-founder and CTO of Teamflow
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About Teamflow: Teamflow unlocks the power of human intelligence in organizations to improve productivity.
Jeremie Charlet
CTO & Co-Founder of Trackener
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About Trackener: Trackener is revolutionising the equine care with data and technology.
Chris Wright
Co-founder and CTO of Moixa Energy Holdings
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About Moixa Energy Holdings: Pioneer of energy storage, DC micro-grid power and aggregate electricity grid services in the UK
Michael Brown
Co-Founder & CTO of Fundzzle
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About Fundzzle: Fundzzle is an eco-friendly invitation, group gift and charity fundraising service all wrapped into one privately and securely.
Paul Ingles
CTO of RVU
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About RVU, Uswitch: RVU empowering consumers to make more confident home services and financial decisions.
Chris Poel
CTO of Sportolutions
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About Sportolutions, Sportolutions: Ticketing and Marketing Automation Solutions
Tomas Mac Carthy
CTO of Front
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About Front: An app that helps you save money smartly
Tomas Mac Carthy
CTO of Front
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About Front: An app that helps you save money smartly
Stuart Brown
CTO of Child Safe VPN
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About Child Safe VPN: Child Safe VPN Service – all a child needs for the safest online experience. Designed for children under 13 using NSPCC guidelines
Stuart Brown
CTO of Child Safe VPN
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About Child Safe VPN: Child Safe VPN Service – all a child needs for the safest online experience. Designed for children under 13 using NSPCC guidelines
James Stewart
Partner and CTO of Public Digital
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About Public Digital: Public Digital is a digital transformation consultancy that helps organizations adapt to the internet.
Ivan Brewis
CTO of URBER
A technologist who enjoys finding the myriad of meanings contained within data.
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About URBER: URBER is a city blogging platform
Ivan Brewis
CTO of URBER
A technologist who enjoys finding the myriad of meanings contained within data.
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About URBER: URBER is a city blogging platform
Stephan Meier
CTO of Screenburn
Stephan is the CTO of Screenburn, and together with a team of developers works on making our product great.
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About Screenburn: Screenburn is a Facebook VoD platform enabling the sale of film and TV from a Facebook page.
Richie Holland
CTO and Founder of vidmeup
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About smartvideo, vidmeup: Vidmeup is an online video platform that gives users the ability to create their own video website for free.
Sriganesh Kaleeswaran
CTO of FIITHIT
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About : Fitness Social platform to connect people with alike minds and share fitness contents. Get inspired and motivate others along the way.
