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 Art 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.
David Leitch
Co-Founder / CIO of Peak
David Leitch is the CIO and Co-Founder at Peak.
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About Peak: Peak is a decision intelligence company that provides a platform to offer data analysis services.
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.
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.
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
Allan Gray
CEO & Co Founder of Cosmient
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About Cosmient: E-COMMERCE FROM THE FUTURE!
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.
James J. Andrus
Technical Founder, CEO of Discovery Patterns
James J. Andrus is the technical founder and CEO of Discovery Patterns.
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About Discovery Patterns: We use artificial intelligence to discover early themes and trends among market events and companies for investors and strategists.
Ariel Tabaks
Co-Founder, Chief Design Officer of asya.ai
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About asya.ai: Asya is an app for mindful conversation powered by Ethical AI
