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 Somerset based CEO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Nick East
Co-Founder & CEO of Zynstra
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About Zynstra: Zynstra is transforming edge computing at the retail edge.
Gavin Eddy
Founder & CEO of We Are Coherent
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About Forward Space, We Are Coherent: Coherent is a web application specifically designed to manage coworking or shared workspaces and connect their communities
Simon Ponsford
Chief Executive Officer of YellowDog
To Simon, technology related business problems are like a juicy bone to get his teeth into. He has 16 years of experience in high growth start-up environments working in CIO, CTO and Technical Architect roles in the UK, Europe, Middle East and North America, with several cloud computing related patents to his name. He is passionate about delivering ‘green’ technology and is best known for designing the world’s lowest powered Windows PC in 2008. He is also responsible for KumoWatt, the leading training programme for IT professionals interested in reducing the carbon impact of what they do.
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About YellowDog: Helping businesses power their innovations with the most scalable cloud native scheduling and provisioning technology.
Ashish Vachhani
CEO & Co-Founder of Reflik
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About Reflik: Reflik specializes in the fields of employee referrals, social recruiting, crowdsourcing, recruiting, and talent acquisition.
Mat Clothier
CEO, CTO and Founder of Cloudhouse Technologies
Mat Clothier, CEO, CTO & Founder of Cloudhouse Technologies, has over 20 years’ industry experience. He started his first business whilst at university, providing CIO services to SMEs in the South West of England, and has since founded multiple organisations focusing on provisioning enterprise IT solutions. Mat is an expert in enterprise IT technology, virtualization and distributed management of applications, and devotes his time to developing solutions that simplify user access to modern enterprise IT applications. Mat is a motoring enthusiast and enjoys experimenting with new technologies. His focus is on producing IT solutions that make users’ lives easier, a promise that Cloudhouse Technologies constantly works towards. Mat graduated from the University of Plymouth with a BSc Hons in Computer Systems and Networks.
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About Cloudhouse Technologies: Cloudhouse Technologies is an infrastructure software vendor that liberates client and server applications to run on operating systems.
Rich Scanlon
President and CEO of CSF Corp.
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About CSF Corp.: CSF Corp. is a SaaS provider for toll-free provisioning, texting, and least cost routing (LCR).
Venkata (Prasad) Kunisetty
Founder & CEO of Effexoft
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About Effexoft: Effexoft is a SaaS based Supply Chain Management solutions company on Salesforce platform. Core product is Effecta.
Ben Vaughan
CEO of ARToolworks
Ben Vaughan has spent the last 20 years involved in the real time 3D visualization industry, prior to which he spent five years as an investment banker and seven years working in the City of London as a strategic marketing and investor relations consultant. His technology career started in the early 1990s with one of the UK’s pioneering virtual reality companies (Virtuality PLC) where he was the head of External Affairs. He then co-founded a VC-backed start-up in California before moving to the East Coast to run a business unit for InterSense Inc. Since 2000, Ben has worked for his own company and become involved in several software start-ups in a variety of senior executive positions. In addition to his role at ARToolworks, Ben is on the board of Simulation Synthesis Ltd, a developer of real time 3D authoring software.
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About ARToolworks: ARToolworks offers access to the computer vision algorithm which allows its users to modify the source code to fit their applications.
IDHAYAN KUMARESAN
FOUNDER & CEO of ZUPPUDY, LLC
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About ZUPPUDY, LLC: One-Stop Cloud Solutions for Online File Management, Electronic Signature, OCR, Backup & Restore and Data Archival
Pete Francomb
CEO & Founder of Cahootify
I am a serial entrepreneur and UX specialist dedicated to creating truly sustainable businesses where commercial return and human flourishing go hand in hand. I see that business is always personal (whether or not it’s social) and I strive for authentic working relationships where people are free to make and learn from mistakes as well as celebrate successes, and where “professionalism” doesn’t mean attempting to project a mask of competence that’s divorced from who you really are. My experience has included; launching and running companies that create web-based social, community, website or membership management software, UX design and testing for a number of startups, launching a nationally recognised fused glass company and running an agency providing graphics operators to the broadcast TV industry.
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About Cahootify: Just make it. Cahootify is the project portfolio and team-forming platform for filmmakers, producers and actors.
Robert Hogg
Chief Executive Officer of Black Marble
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About Black Marble, British Computer Society: Black Marble develops solutions across the Microsoft platform, from custom developed software solutions.
