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 Software 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.
Jeremy Hitchcock
Founder / Exec Chair of Minim
Operator/tech/investor, 2x founder/CEO, Bookery MHT.
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About Bookery Manchester, Minim, New North Ventures, Orbit Group: Minim (NASDAQ: MINM) was born as a networking company and now delivers intelligent software to protect and improve the WiFi we depend on.
Neal Patterson
Co-Founder of Cerner
Neal Patterson is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Cerner, a company he co-founded with two colleagues in 1979. Today Cerner is the world’s largest independent health information technology company with $3.4 billion in revenues in 2014 and more than 21,000 associates worldwide. In 2015, Cerner was ranked by Forbes as one of the “World’s Most Innovative Companies” and by Fortune as one of the “World’s Most Admired Companies.” Widely respected for his vision and strategic thinking, Patterson has a unique ability to anticipate and articulate how information technology will transform health care. Starting with a single laboratory information system in 1979, by the mid-1980s, Patterson was investing in creating a suite of fully integrated, clinically focused commercial health care applications. Cerner entered the 1990s with a first of-its-kind application set built on a common platform with real-time interactive decision support. In the mid-1990s, Cerner invested significant resources to rebuild the platform on client-server technology using a person-centric data model. During his multi-decade tenure as CEO, Patterson has led Cerner to invest more than $4 billion in R&D of health IT, and the solutions Cerner has designed are deployed at more than 18,000 health care facilities in more than 30 countries. As a public company, Cerner has outperformed the broader markets since its inception and today is listed on the S&P 500 and NASDAQ-100 indexes. Patterson is co-founder and serves on the executive board of the First Hand Foundation, a non-profit foundation that provides assistance to children with critical health care needs. He serves as a Lifetime Director for the 116-year-old American Royal Association celebrating agrarian lifestyles and values, and he gives time to support the development of other entrepreneurs. He and Cerner co-founder Cliff Illig, along with others, are co-owners of Kansas City’s Major League Soccer franchise, Sporting KC. Patterson grew up on his family’s farm near Manchester, Okla. He earned a bachelor’s degree in finance and master’s degree in business administration from Oklahoma State University.
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About Cerner, First Hand Foundation: Cerner is a supplier of healthcare information technology solutions, services, devices, and hardware.
Matthew Scullion
Co-Founder and CEO of Matillion
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About Matillion: Matillion is an integration platform for cloud data warehouses.
Lauren Riley
Founder & CEO of The Link App
Lauren Riley is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at The Link App.
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About The Link App: The Link App is an easy-to-use platform that reinvents a law firm’s client experience.
Michael Denham
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Mindtrace
Michael is Professor Emeritus at the University of Plymouth, UK where he was Director of the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience. He received his PhD from Imperial Colege and has 40+ years of experience in academia and industry.
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About Mindtrace: Mindtrace builds intelligent systems which exploit the synergy of brain-inspired algorithms and neuromorphic hardware.
Kamelia Dimova
Co-Founder, Research Director of Mindtrace
Kamelia has 10+ years of research experience in computational neuroscience and machine learning. She has MSc degrees in Physics and Cognitive Science, and a PhD in Computational Neuroscience from the University of Plymouth.
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About Mindtrace: Mindtrace builds intelligent systems which exploit the synergy of brain-inspired algorithms and neuromorphic hardware.
James Doyle
Co-Founder and COO of Orka Technology Group
James Doyle is the Co-Founder and COO at Orka Technology Group.
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About Orka Technology Group: Orka Technology Group develops solutions that help hourly workers with sourcing, on-boarding, and getting paid for work.
Tom Pickersgill
Co-Founder and CEO of Orka Technology Group
Tom Pickersgill is the Co-Founder and CEO at Orka Technology Group.
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About Orka Technology Group: Orka Technology Group develops solutions that help hourly workers with sourcing, on-boarding, and getting paid for work.
Ryzal Yusoff
Founder of Reader Mode
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About Reader Mode: Reader Mode is a chrome reading extension and web app that removes clutter, ads, and distractions.
Jamaal Brathwaite
Founder & CEO of Jobseekrs
Barbadian-British entrepreneur residing in Manchester, UK. Passionate about: start-ups, entrepreneurship, aviation, social enterprises, cloud technology, human capital, starting and globally scaling innovate business ideas and above all…., creating a more joyful, healthy & happy world. Founder & CEO of Jobseekrs®, the “Future of Hiring”. A next generation ‘jobs & recruitment’ platform that utilises revolutionary technology to further enhance the personalization and pairing experience moving past the current access barriers for candidates seeking jobs or visa versa. My first startup was NextGen Interview Ltd. Imagine being able to see and hear from candidates before organizing face-to-face meetings. Now let me introduce you to NextGen Interview: the newest way for employers to find qualified applicants and job-seekers to find their dream jobs in the most technologically efficient manner possible. It offered a convenient way to screen candidates which assists reducing interviewing costs during the recruitment process and enhancing branding. Prior to launching Jobseekrs® & NextGen Interview, I served as a Senior Sales Manager with the Appco Group (#1 Direct Marketing Company in the world), managing sales representatives from SRJ Marketing and was awarded the Sales Leadership Excellence Award in 2012. My goal is to be a globally successful and inspirational leader, who creates vision and opportunity for myself and for those around me. I want to be someone who leads by example and strives for success. I will always work hard to ensure optimum performance of my business. I like to think of myself an open, honest and approachable leader, who shares the trials and tribulations. I believe that it’s my generosity and fair approach which makes me a strong leader, and I will ensure that my businesses benefit from good people and their commitment to excel in their roles.
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About : Jobseekrs is the world’s first, video interactive job-site that mitigates unconscious bias when matching great candidates to suitable roles.
Glyn Powditch
CTO & Co Founder of Dream AI Ltd T/A Dream Agility
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About Dream AI Ltd T/A Dream Agility, Pre-PIM AI, SBG Bury: Multi-award winning, AI company with proprietary Visual AI and Machine Learning, specialising in Retail
Damian Hanson
Co-Founder of CircleLoop
Damian Hanson joined Mission Labs as Director & Co-Founder in 2016.
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About CircleLoop, Mission Labs: A Cloud-based phone software for business.
David Hague
Co-Founder of CircleLoop
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About CircleLoop, Mission Labs: A Cloud-based phone software for business.
Louis-James Davis
CEO And Founder of VST Enterprises
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About Kidscan Children’s Cancer Research, Manchester Metropolitan University, V-Health Passport, VST Enterprises: VST Enterprises has been widely recognize for its development of VCode.
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.
Andrew Threlfall
Founder of Malinko
Since starting Malinko when it was just an early stage idea a few years ago, it’s been an exciting journey to build the team to where we are now. My work is split between growing the company and working with the team on all areas of product, engineering and ensuring customer delight. It is a genuine privilege to work in the health and social care sectors – my wife is a hospital doctor so I get to hear first hand how systems such as Malinko make a real difference on the front line.
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About Liquid Bronze, Malinko: Malinko is a social care organisations.
Andrew Ramsden
Founder of eSafe Global
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About e-Safe Systems, eSafe Global: A safeguarding software company.
Alexander Alimovs
Founder & CEO of Automations.io
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About Automations.io: No-code automation platform to visually automate repetitive work and build workflows to save time and increase productivity.
Craig Gidley
Founder of Viper
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About : UK-based award-winning nightlife app that allows users to browse and book tables or booths, drinks packages and queue jump in bars and clubs
Stephen Powell
Founder of Viper
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About : UK-based award-winning nightlife app that allows users to browse and book tables or booths, drinks packages and queue jump in bars and clubs
Craig Davies
Founder of Viper
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About : UK-based award-winning nightlife app that allows users to browse and book tables or booths, drinks packages and queue jump in bars and clubs
Craig Davies
Founder of Viper
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About : UK-based award-winning nightlife app that allows users to browse and book tables or booths, drinks packages and queue jump in bars and clubs
Alex Seewald
Founder, Managing Director of Openshadow Ltd
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About Openshadow Ltd: Mobile software development. Research and Development. Project Management.
Bharat Lad
Chief Executive Officer (Founder) of DadShed
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About Aaron Mani, DadShed, RoomAgree: DadShed is enabling the data within buildings to be ‘easily’ accessible for marketplace opportunities.
Alison Keeling
Co-Founder & Director of Jobtrain
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About Jobtrain: Streamline recruitment and secure top-talent through Jobtrain’s innovative applicant tracking system and online candidate management.
Lee Connolly
Founder and CEO of Swimphony
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About Kinetic Insight, Swimphony: Swimphony is a swimming software solution that facilitates the management, delivery, and evaluation of learn to swim programmes.
Hector Kolonas
Co-Founder of Syncaroo
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About included.co, Syncaroo: Syncaroo develops infrastructure of various kinds of digital automations.
Tom Dunlop
Founder & CEO of Summize
As an accomplished commercial and technology lawyer, Tom’s experience with reviewing contracts was the catalyst that led to Summize. Prior to this, he worked as a Global Legal Director for several fast-growth technology companies.
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About Summize: Summize is the lightweight platform for contracts that provides bridges the gap between legal and technology.
David Smith
Founder & CDO of Summize
Alongside Tom, Dave founded Summize to meet the need of legal teams everywhere. Before Summize, he worked at AppSense as a Senior Software Engineer and has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry.
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About Summize: Summize is the lightweight platform for contracts that provides bridges the gap between legal and technology.
Ian Huang
Founder & Lead Developer of Pubble
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About Learnpipe, Pubble: Pubble is a messaging platform that simplifies how your team interacts with your customers and with each other.
Max Christian
Founder of Locometric
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About Locometric: Locometric provides individuals with a room-measuring iOS app that can also be used to create floor plans.
Bob Cote
CEO & Founder of SubItUp, Inc.
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About SubItUp, Inc.: Online Employee Scheduling & Management Software
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.
Rachael Burns
Co-Founder of TOTEM
Rachael Burns is a software engineer who has worked in the cultural sector, building touch screen software, installations and standalone apps for some of the most innovative museums and galleries around the world. Rachael’s creative ideas, strong art direction, and technical knowledge have aided her in comfortably creating bespoke interactive exhibition solutions for the last decade.
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About TOTEM: TOTEM craft experiences for curious minds, creating bespoke tools, exciting products and playful installations.
James Gilbert
Co-Founder of TOTEM
I’m a Designer / Director for brands large and small http://www.studiocontents.com http://www.hellototem.co.uk
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About TOTEM: TOTEM craft experiences for curious minds, creating bespoke tools, exciting products and playful installations.
James Gilbert
Co-Founder of TOTEM
I’m a Designer / Director for brands large and small http://www.studiocontents.com http://www.hellototem.co.uk
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About TOTEM: TOTEM craft experiences for curious minds, creating bespoke tools, exciting products and playful installations.
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.
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.
