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 Founder operating in the Apps 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.
Ben Stoneham
Founder and CTO of Autologyx
Ben Stoneham is the Founder and CTO of Autologyx.
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About Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Founder, CTO, and Chairman of PocketPills
Abhinav Gupta is a Co-Founder of :PocketPills. He also co-founded Rocket Fuel, a provider of artificial intelligence advertising solutions. Prior to that, he was an engineering director at Yahoo!, where he led the development of their next-generation behavior-targeting platform.As a founding member of the behavioral targeting group at Yahoo!, he helped cultivate a start-up environment, building the team and platform from scratch. He holds a B. Tech in computer science from the IIT Delhi, and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin. He has co-authored almost twenty patents in the areas of database queries and optimization, behavioral targeting, and web-based user analytics.
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About PocketPills, Pravega Ventures: Pocketpills is Canada’s leading online pharmacy, delivers medication by the dose, straight to customer’s door.
Harj Samra
Co-Founder of PocketPills
Harj Samra is a Co-Founder at PocketPills.
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About PocketPills: Pocketpills is Canada’s leading online pharmacy, delivers medication by the dose, straight to customer’s door.
Emilie Kidd
Founder of Earwig Academic Reporting
Emilie-Kate Kidd is Founder at Earwig Academic Reporting.
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About Earwig Academic Reporting, Parents In Need: Earwig Academic Reporting is an application that provides students with academic timelines of photos, videos, and documents.
Hans Wiberg
Founder & boardmember of Be My Eyes
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About Be My Eyes: Be My Eyes is a free app that connects blind and low-vision people with sighted volunteers and companies.
Graham Mills
Founder & Director of StaySafe
Graham Mills is a Founder at StaySafe.
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About Scotechnics, StaySafe, Technics: StaySafe Personal GPS tracker app is your personal safety guardian.
Dave Shaw
Founder of emotuit
Founder at emotuit
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About emotuit: Engagement Analytics in eLearning. Helping teachers understand where their students and content aren’t engaged/ing
Chris Thompson
Co-Founder of HUDJO
Chris has spent the past 17 years leading and growing businesses in the travel and technology sectors. Prior to that he was a department head at one of the world’s largest travel and leisure PLCs. Chris focusses on building strategy, teams and processes that are efficient and create value.
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About : A community portal, for people to list convenient, secure locations for bicycle parking, so users can interact with their neighbourhoods