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 Manchester based Founder operating in the E-Commerce 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.
Wing Chan
Co-Founder of Sourceful.com
Wing Chan is the Co-Founder at Sourceful.
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About Preloved, Sourceful.com, THG: Sourceful provides a sourcing and supply chain platform that helps clients find environmentally sustainable packaging for their products.
Mahmud Kamani
Co-Founder and Joint Chief Executive of Boohoo Group
Mahmud founded boohoo.com with Carol Kane in 2006, leveraging over 30 years of experience in the fashion and clothing industry. Mahmud is an entrepreneur, with expertise encompassing all areas of the supply chain from sourcing, import and wholesale. Mahmud is an inspirational leader, having built a strong team and engendered loyalty from many long-serving employees.
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About Boohoo Group: Boohoo is an online store that offers a range of clothing, accessories, and footwear brands.
Carol Kane
Co-Founder of Boohoo Group
Carol co-founded boohoo.com with Mahmud Kamani in 2006 following their shared recognition in the opportunity for online retail. As part of her role as joint Chief Executive, Carol oversees the Group’s product, marketing and brand strategy across the UK and internationally. She has worked in the fashion industry throughout her career, initially as a designer and then as a fashion buyer. Before setting up boohoo.com, Carol and Mahmud worked together for over 20 years supplying high street retailers.
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About Boohoo Group: Boohoo is an online store that offers a range of clothing, accessories, and footwear brands.
Maxim Saini
CEO & Co Founder of Helplama
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About Helplama, Stealth Startup: Helplama is an uber for 24*7 live support that offers support for niche categories with help of expert AI and category expert humans.
Eric Hobson
Co Founder – Director of Cultured UK Ltd
Eric is a Co-Founder and Director of Cultured UK Ltd, an eCommerce and Wholesale business. Recently Eric acted as a Strategy Advisor at PrivateDoc Ltd a UK Online Pharmacy business, COO at Food Dudes Health Ltd an in school health programme and as CEO at Autology an eLearning business. Previously Eric was CEO and Founder of the award winning mobile game publisher Connect 2 Media Ltd, and is a well known figure in the Market for Mobile Entertainment. In 2007 Eric was voted by Mobile Entertainment magazine as one of the Top 50 most influential executives in the global mobile marketplace. Eric is a serial entrepreneur, founding and then selling Blue Beck Ltd, a critically acclaimed Game Developer, to Hands On Mobile Inc in 2004 for $5 million. Eric then went on to be President of EMEA, APAC and Lat Am for Hands On, growing the business into one of the leading Mobile Game Publishers in the region. Prior to entering the mobile business Eric had a long career in Consumer Goods Marketing and International Business Development, encompassing Unilever, Boots The Chemist and was International Marketing Director at the FMCG multi national PZ Cussons. Eric holds an MBA from Nottingham University
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About Cultured UK Ltd: Cultured UK Ltd is a UK Jewellery Wholesaler and eCommerce Business
Tomas Mjartan
Co-Founder of IMPACT
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About IMPACT: IMPACT is about getting people more engaged towards the causes that they care about.
Ian Cowley
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Cartridge Save
Ian Cowley is the managing director of Cartridge Save.
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About Cartridge Save: Cartridge Save is an online printer cartridge retail shop.
Justin Gilchrist
Founder & Head of Growth of WellBox
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About Flyte, WellBox: WellBox helps companies spread the love to their work-from-homers with personalized gift boxes delivered straight to their door.
Joe Darwen
Founder of Veo
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About Veo: Sustainable shopping, solved. The world’s most sustainable online shopping destination.
Mark Murphy
Founder of Foodomnia
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About Foodomnia: Foodomnia builds delivery-only, digitally native food concepts for the takeaway marketplace.
Louis Trebaol
Co-Founder of Heat Oracle
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About Heat Oracle: Heat Oracle is a IoT enabled marketplace to help users save money on home heating costs
Amit Kumar Deswal
Founder and CEO of Curtis and Hayes
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About Curtis and Hayes: Curtis and Hayes bring forth the exclusively designed furniture that combines luxury with affordability.
Anique Hassan
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Anique Studios
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About Anique Studios, Fire: Our professional, tailored web design service ensures a great design.
Kevin Jones
Founder of Shopblocks
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About Shopblocks: Shopblocks is a hosted ecommerce platform.
Alex Everitt
Founder of Condelo
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About Condelo: Chatbot powered customer support for your website
Mark Stringer
MD & Founder of AHOY
After a lot of hard work, late nights and tears, Mark has created one of the “hidden gems in digital”. Thankfully though, AHOY are now becoming less of a secret after a string of RAR and Prolific North award wins. So we thought we would start the staff bio’s by interviewing our gaffer.
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About AHOY: Ahoy is a website and graphic design agency located in Manchester and London.
Ajit Gupta
Founder & CEO of ShopnSocial
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About ShopnSocial: ShopnSocial’s mission is to make online shopping fun, intuitive and efficient. ShopnSocial is a mobile social browsing platform.
William Harvey
CEO / Founder of camono
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About camono: camono is a SaaS procurement startup that connects buyers with suppliers to save time and costs.
