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 Founder operating in the Internet 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.
Shawn Kalin
Founder & Director of Development of RURALTY International
Kalin has more that 20 years experience with scaling businesses into new markets. The big move in recent years is the convergence of real estate tech and fintech. Our major play is the undervalued real estate outside of the major cities. Our brand and platform is RURALTY.com
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About ActionTax.ca, RURALTY International, Virtly, WebShowing: Real Estate Tech, PropTech, Fintech.
Art Thornhill
Founder of RURALTY International
A 40 year Canadian business and government specialist has provided thousands of clients with financial, legal and political consultations and execution of plans.
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About RURALTY International: Real Estate Tech, PropTech, Fintech.
Peter Mildon
COO & Co Founder of Vivacity Labs
Peter is responsible for the commercial delivery of Vivacity. After graduating from Cambridge University, Peter joined a leading systems engineering consultancy, leading projects across the oil, civil nuclear, and renewables industries. With substantial process-driven experience under his belt, Peter leads operations at Vivacity, ensuring we deliver on time and to specification, every time.
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About Vivacity Labs: Vivacity Labs makes intelligent cameras to gather transport data, using the latest machine learning & computer vision techniques.
Robert Newry
Managing Director and Co-Founder of Arctic Shores
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About Arctic Shores: Arctic Shores pioneer behavioural assessments combining neuroscience, AI and game technology to generate data-driven people insights.
Jack Culpan
Founder & CEO of Sponsor My Society
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About Sponsor My Society: We connect university clubs and societies with businesses.
Garima Garg
Co-Founder of SkyCandle
Garima Garg is a Co-Founder at SkyCandle.
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About SkyCandle: Online retailer and home decor brand
Mark Rendle
Founder & CTO of oort Inc
Mark is the founder and CTO of Oort Corporation, a new company building cloud-based software for people who build cloud-based software. Oort’s first product, Zudio, a Windows Azure Storage toolkit, is currently in public preview and will be fully launching in April 2013. Mark has been a Windows Azure Development MVP for three years. In his spare time, Mark work’s on the Simple.Data not-an-ORM and Simple.Web projects, and wanders the world speaking at conferences and user groups. Or he just geeks out learning new programming languages and frameworks; in 2013 he’s working a lot with TypeScript and AngularJS.
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About oort Inc: OORT designs and manufactures hardware and software solutions which enable customers to turn their home or office into a smart one.
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.
Stephen Swindon
Co-Founder of LoveSeitan
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About LoveSeitan: Probably the Best Seitan in the World
