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 Sussex 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.
Phil Carr
Founder & CEO of My PT Hub
Phil Carr is the founder of My PT Hub.
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About My PT Hub: My PT Hub is an online web and mobile app, enabling personal trainers & fitness professionals to manage their clients.
Andrew Foyle
Co-Founder & CEO of Miappi
Andrew Foyle joined Miappi as Co-Founder and Chief Executive in 2012.
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About Miappi: Miappi helps brands to discover authentic consumer stories, manage the digital rights and to distribute to marketing channels and ecommerce.
Mathew Prior
CEO of TrustedHousesitters
Mathew is a successful and highly respected global travel and leisure leader with significant experience across multiple industry sectors, business models and geographies. He has led and grown some of the most iconic experiential leisure brands across the globe, ranging from Crystal Ski, the UK’s largest ski tour operator, to Le Boat, the European leader in self-drive boating vacations based in France, to Sunsail & The Moorings, the worldwide leader in yacht charter vacations based in the USA. He is currently CEO of TrustedHousesitters, the leading online marketplace for in-home vacation pet care. He has a reputation as a capable and popular leader, balancing clear strategic thinking and decision-making with a robust approach to strategy execution in international organisations, harnessing the power of digital technology to deliver new and innovative customer experiences along the way. He has led both high growth businesses and those requiring the strong leadership of a performance turnaround, and his experience has led him to gain a strong understanding of doing business in the UK, continental Europe and the USA. Mathew lives in Brighton with his family and enjoys skiing, sailing, and all sports that are based upon a moving ball.
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About Travelopia, TrustedHousesitters: The world’s largest sharing economy marketplace for vacation pet care
Hannah Dawson
Founder and CEO of Futrli
Hannah is one of the leading female entrepreneurs in the SaaS space and flies the flag for women in technology by leading Futrli with an innovative approach to diversity; this is a passion close to her heart and core to their strategy as they grow the team globally. She had the original idea for Futrli when she was running another business and had a pain to solve. Frustrated by not having the right information at her fingertips, she resolved to create a technology platform that made her feel more secure in the crucial business decisions she and her team had to make without having to do any heavy lifting. Hannah leads Futrli as CEO and is the chief visionary in the development of Futrli’s platform.
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About Futrli: Futrli is on a quest to move the needle on the small business economy.
Mark Hla
Founder and CEO of Pure360
Mark Hla is Founder and CEO at Pure360.
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About Pure360: Pure360 provides email marketing and SMS software for businesses to access customers via mobile and web devices.
Gary Preston
Co-founder and CEO of CoverageBook
Founder of coveragebook.com. A tool we’ve built to stop people wasting precious time designing ugly PR reports. And spend more time doing the important stuff. Like being creative, cultivating influencer relationships etc.
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About CoverageBook: A tool to help in house and agency PR teams to showcase media coverage & measure performance
Sébastien Béhuret
CEO & CTO of Cyanapse
Co-Founder, CEO & CTO at Cyanapse, PhD in Computational Neuroscience
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About Cyanapse: Cyanapse delivers AI solutions to augment human perception.
Russell Miles
CEO of ChaosIQ
Russ Miles is CEO of ChaosIQ.io, where he and his team build commercial and open source products and provide services to companies applying chaos engineering to build confidence in the resilience of their production systems. Russ is an international consultant, trainer, speaker, and author. His most recent book, Antifragile Software: Building Adaptable Software with Microservices, explores how to apply chaos engineering to construct and manage complex, distributed systems in production with confidence.
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About ChaosIQ: The Chaos Engineering Open Source Company
Simon Riley
Founder, CEO of MakerClub
Part inventor, part wizard. With a degree in computer science and a penchant for a love ballad, do not get stuck in a lift with him.
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About MakerClub: 3D Printed Robotics for the Maker Generation
Charlie Newman
Co-Founder and CEO of Risktalk
Charlie Newman is a Co-Founder and CEO of Risktalk company.
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About Curtain Call, Risktalk: RiskTalk is a 21st century communication tool that is designed to fight risk incubation by allowing people to report about issues.
Kevin Dixon
Founder & CEO of Boxxstep
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About Boxxstep: Buyer Relationship Management (BRM) – The sales platform that aligns selling with buying
Agnes Nelly Archer
CEO of App4grabs Limited
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About App4grabs Limited: We offer you 2 base apps, one for Android and one for iPhone, for £999 or bespoke apps because every business deserves a mobile presence.
Agnes Nelly Archer
CEO of App4grabs Limited
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About App4grabs Limited: We offer you 2 base apps, one for Android and one for iPhone, for £999 or bespoke apps because every business deserves a mobile presence.
Jeff Tawney
Co-Founder and CEO of The Great Unwashed
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About The Great Unwashed: An experienced games development team specialising in “High Impact” comedy games.
