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 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.
Nick East
Co-Founder & CEO of Zynstra
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About Zynstra: Zynstra is transforming edge computing at the retail edge.
Matt Patel
COO & Co-Founder of Malbek
Matt Patel in his career has enjoyed challenging roles focused on customer satisfaction, sales, and marketing, as well as leading product teams. Matt can best be described as a peaceful warrior, building trusted relationships with internal staff, channel partners, and customers as well as creating a highly collaborative and respectful environment where positive results are inevitable. As COO and co-founder at Malbek, Matt is focused on overall operational excellence across the departments, including sales, marketing, services, and support.
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About Malbek: Malbek is an AI platform that provides enterprise contract lifecycle management from request, redlining, signature, and commitment tracking.
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
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.
David O’Brien
Founder of Private Inc
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About Private Inc: Pending
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.
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.
Mike Griffiths
Managing Director & Founder of Expert Agent
“I’ve been in the estate agency industry since 1977 – I did a Land Management degree, qualified in Leicester and then worked in volume residential sales in Leicester, Birmingham, Twickenham and the South West. I even ran my own agency for a year. I drifted into writing estate agency software for myself and turned that into a business in 1988. It became the biggest supplier of estate agency software through the ’90s and I was lucky enough to sell it to a now vanished Rightmove competitor in 2000. I worked for them for a couple of years, left, took some time off and decided that I wanted to get back involved – I missed the challenge of developing software. I was joined by my old business management team and we launched Expert Agent in 2004. At the time, a totally cloud-based solution was brave but it has certainly paid off! I genuinely understand the challenges that agents face, and genuinely enjoy thinking of ways that our products can help solve them. I’m ultimately responsible for ensuring that everything works well for you.”
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About Expert Agent: Expert Agent provides a complete workflow solution and essential systems for estate agents.
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.
Simon Starr
CTO & Founder of Cahootify
Simon Starr is a developer, technical consultant and investor who specialises in advising web startups and helping them to build and launch their products.
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About Cahootify: Just make it. Cahootify is the project portfolio and team-forming platform for filmmakers, producers and actors.
Chris May
Founder & Managing Director of Mayden
The founder and managing director of Mayden. Formerly from a manufacturing background he has dedicated his career to the healthcare sector for the last 21 years, initially as a hospital manager and then as a management consultant specialising in information analysis and modelling to support strategic reviews and business cases. Chris is passionate about maximising the opportunities presented by the internet both to provide joined up healthcare and to increase the cost-effectiveness of healthcare IT. This is now his primary area of interest.
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About Mayden: Mayden provides end-to-end managed web applications and bespoke system development to the healthcare sector.
James Allen
Founder of TrackHat Ltd.
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About TrackHat Ltd.: TrackHat provides head tracking software.
James Allen
Founder of TrackHat Ltd.
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About TrackHat Ltd.: TrackHat provides head tracking software.
