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 Surrey based CEO’ operating in the Internet 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.
Jon Prideaux
CEO of Boku
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About Boku: Boku is a global mobile payments network providing mobile-enhanced payments in e-commerce and at physical point-of-sale.
Jalal Bagherli
CEO of Dialog Semiconductor
Jalal joined Dialog as CEO and an Executive Board Director in September 2005. He was previously Vice President & General Manager of the Mobile Multimedia business unit for Broadcom Corporation. Prior to that Jalal was the CEO of Alphamosaic, a venture-funded silicon start-up company in Cambridge, focusing on video processing chips for mobile applications. He has extensive experience of the semiconductor industry, through his previous professional and executive positions at Sony Semiconductor and Texas Instruments, managing semiconductor product businesses and working with customers in the Far East, Europe and North America. Jalal is a non-executive Director of Lime Microsystems Ltd since 2005 and was the Chairman of Global Semiconductor Association Europe from 2011 to 2013. He has a BSc (Hons) in Electronics Engineering from Essex University, and holds a PhD in Electronics from Kent University, UK.
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About Dialog Semiconductor: Dialog Semiconductor makes energy-efficient, highly-integrated, and mixed signal ICs for mobile, IoT, and solid state lighting applications.
Fintan Galvin
CEO of Invotra Ltd
Fintan is the founder / owner of Invotra. He has a passion for delivery and keeping things focussed and connected. With over 25 years in enterprise technology he has a vast array of knowledge in getting large scales systems developed and deployed out to the people that count.
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About : Enterprise Intranet and Portal solutions for organisations worldwide
Aamar Aslam
CEO of Funding Invoice
Aamar co-founded Funding Invoice after graduating from the University of Warwick in 2015. He is responsible for guiding and implementing the strategic vision of the company. Having suffered from cash flow issues in previous ventures, Aamar came up with the idea for Funding Invoice during his second year of university. After being accepted into the Warwick Ventures Software Incubator, Aamar, in his own words, “probably spent more time on Funding Invoice than his studies” in his final year. Since then, Aamar has won numerous awards including being named by startups.co.uk as one of 20 entrepreneurs to watch aged under 25. Aamar’s passions include entrepreneurship, Arsenal Football Club, boxing, fashion and his team.
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About Funding Invoice: Funding Invoice has a full online marketplace platform allowing you to upload your invoices and documents through their portal.
Jack Culpan
Founder & CEO of Sponsor My Society
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About Sponsor My Society: We connect university clubs and societies with businesses.
Charlie Hunt
CEO & Founder of Soak & Sleep
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About Soak & Sleep: Soak & Sleep is an online retailer for home bathroom and bedroom products.
Tirath Bansal
CEO of Myorb Limited
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About Myorb Limited: Myorb is an application that enables its users to upload and share data with others.
