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 Founder operating in the E-Commerce 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.
Matt Barker
Founder & CEO of MPB
Matt’s focus and passion is on verticalized online marketplaces within the secondary goods sector, with particular emphasis on managed marketplaces that take ownership of the product through the customer transaction process Matt founded mpb.com having developed his interest in markeplaces whilst studying Economics at The University of Warwick. Matt has since grown MPB into the largest marketplace in Europe for photographers and videographers to trade equipment. Matt believes that key to a successful product marketplace are strong network effects and an end to end focus on customer experience, delivered by the best AI and CX led technology at every stage of the transaction cycle. MPB is now internationalising, with a full US launch completed in November 2016. Matt continues to lead MPB as CEO and plans to grow MPB into the largest marketplace in the world for photographers and videographers.
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About MPB: MPB is an online platform specializing in used photography and videography kit.
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.
Graeme Carr
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Paladone
Graeme Carr is Managing Director at Paladone Products Ltd
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About Paladone: Paladone is a gift designer company that creates and innovates giftware with a history of spanning 21 years.
Cameron Wall
Co-Founder & Non-Exec. Director of RainCheck
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About Clash, Codesign Cooperative, RainCheck: RainCheck is a Contextual Commerce platform that allows brands to both track & influence online product discovery to in-store sales.
Katie Pennington-Collins
Co-Founder of Creation Express
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About Creation Express: Creation Express is the new gift concept that allows high street shoppers to create personalised gifts in store!
Kurt Abbott
Co-Founder of Creation Express
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About Creation Express: Creation Express is the new gift concept that allows high street shoppers to create personalised gifts in store!
Stuart McClure
Founder & Chief Growth Officer of Love the Sales
Stuart McClure is the Founder and Chief Growth Officer at Love the Sales.
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About Love the Sales: Love the Sales takes the sales on many websites and puts them on one website.
Kevin Dixon
Founder & CEO of Boxxstep
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About Boxxstep: Buyer Relationship Management (BRM) – The sales platform that aligns selling with buying
