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 Information Technology 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.
Richard Barlow
Founder & CEO of Wejo
Richard is wejo’s founder & CEO. Richard’s passion for big data led directly to wejo’s goal of making telematics available in the mass market. As a director and founder of a number of worldwide businesses in the insurance, banking and mobile sectors, including the world’s largest lead exchange provider, Richard is highly regarded for his strategic vision and ability to deliver commercial success.
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About Wejo: Wejo gathers & analyzes car data from connected cars to help car manufacturers improve their products through data driven descisions.
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Jonathan Whiteside
CTO and Co-Founder of Building Blocks
Jonathan Whiteside is the managing director for design and technology at Dept.
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About Building Blocks: Building Blocks helps global companies solve complex problems using digital technologies.
Allan Gray
CEO & Co Founder of Cosmient
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About Cosmient: E-COMMERCE FROM THE FUTURE!
Steve Tyrrell
Co-Founder and Sales Director of FourNet
Steve Tyrrell is the Co-Founder and Sales Director of FourNet.
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About FourNet: FourNet is a cloud and managed communications service company providing cloud, collaboration, and contact center solutions.
Richard Pennington
Managing Director and Co-Founder of FourNet
Richard Pennington is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of FourNet.
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About 4NET Information Technologies, FourNet: FourNet is a cloud and managed communications service company providing cloud, collaboration, and contact center solutions.
Michael Jervis
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of FourNet
Michael Jervis is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of FourNet.
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About FourNet: FourNet is a cloud and managed communications service company providing cloud, collaboration, and contact center solutions.
Francis Jennings
Co-Founder and Operations Director of FourNet
Francis Jennings is the Co-Founder and Operations Director of FourNet.
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About FourNet: FourNet is a cloud and managed communications service company providing cloud, collaboration, and contact center solutions.
Jeremy Gidlow
CEO & Co-Founder of Netacea
Jeremy is actively involved in Intechnica and splits his time between the general management of the business, designing client solutions, and leading consultancy projects for digital transformation and IT due diligence.
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About Intechnica, Netacea: Smarter Bot Management using Intent Analytics™ powered by machine learning. A sophisticated approach for sophisticated threats.
Frank Staiger
Founder, Managing Director of Via Studios
Frank Staiger is Managing Director and founder of Via Studios. He has over twelve years experience in online design, development and digital management with a growing and exciting client portfolio including both private and public sectors. He has worked with many art directors, studios, developers and clients during his career. Via is the engine room driving his unstoppable passion for the internet and the digital sector. What’s more, the experience he brings to projects mediates between excitement for new channels and a sound business sense of what will work to deliver on the bottom line. Before founding the company back in 1998, German-born Frank was working freelance for many years in the media industry, including production and team management for large magazine publications. He also worked in branding, graphic design, pre-production and typography for traditional advertising agencies across Manchester.
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About Via Studios: Online Design, Usability and Development
Alex Seewald
Founder, Managing Director of Openshadow Ltd
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About Openshadow Ltd: Mobile software development. Research and Development. Project Management.
Hector Kolonas
Co-Founder of Syncaroo
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About included.co, Syncaroo: Syncaroo develops infrastructure of various kinds of digital automations.
Andy Etches
Co-Founder and Director of Rezzil
Andy Etches is the Co-Founder and Director of Rezzil.
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About Rezzil: Rezzil improves resilience ,performance and reaction times across a wide range of sports, from beginner to Elite level.
Adam Dickinson
Co-Founder and Development Director of Rezzil
Adam Dickinson is the Co-Founder and Development Director of Rezzil.
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About Rezzil: Rezzil improves resilience, performance and reaction times across a wide range of sports, from beginner to Elite level.
Stuart Houghton
Business Operations Director and Co-Founder of Planixs
Stuart was the original founder of NWCL in March 2006, the predecessor to Planixs, which delivered finance management and control services to FTSE 100 companies. Previously Stuart was a senior manager at Accenture, the global management consultancy company working in a number of sectors including financial services, government and retail. Stuart spent 10 years at Accenture and latterly focused on the setup and optimisation of the Programme and Resource Management Offices for large scale transformation engagements. Educated at University of Warwick, Stuart studied Computer Science and Business Studies. He is also a keen snowboarder and photographer with a number of his photographs displayed in companies around the UK.
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About Planixs: Planixs is a Graphite Platform Company.
James Blake
CEO & Founder of HelloSoda
Before SODA, James headed up the global sales divisions at 2 of the World’s biggest credit data reference agencies; Experian and Callcredit. With clients including Bank of America, HSBC, William Hill, Wonga and Google, James oversaw a 64% growth trend across his last 5 years in a corporate environment. James now brings his proven track record and extensive contact list to the world of FinTech startups, with HelloSODA, and aims to replicate his huge successes all over again.
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About HelloSoda: HelloSoda is Designed To Predict Your Credit Rating And Potential For Fraud.
Rick Turner
CEO and Founder of Ditto
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About Ditto: A company at the top of its game in harnessing intelligent systems and emerging technologies.
Phil Goddard
Founder of Play XD
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About Play XD: Play XD develops software and applications based on the client’s requirements.
Benji Silverstone
Co-Founder of Urbix
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About Urbix: Urbix is SAAS smart city management platform and intelligence reporting.
Ged Wilson
Co-Founder of MotiMate
Passionate about compelling ideas and motivated to make them happen. Has experience stemming from the recruitment industry in the field of engineering. Has taken this experience to start up Venator-Global which worked with some of the largest oil and gas companies to supply skilled Local and Expat engineers within the African continent. Currently seeking investment for MotiMate – a highly disruptive and revolutionary brand! Watch this space!
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About MotiMate: A revolution for Loyalty Rewards
Mike Kelly
Founder & CEO of DataCentred
Mike Kelly is a Founder & CEO at DataCentred.
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About DataCentred: DataCentred has been created by the founder who established the first pan-European colocation company.
Peter Baba
Founder/CTO of RecruitBubble
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About RecruitBubble: Recruit Bubble is a Specialist Recruitment Software solution that helps recruiters businesses grow faster and run more efficiently.
