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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 Education 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.
Carl Bennett
Founder & CEO of Trade Skills 4U
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About Trade Skills 4U: Trade Skills 4U offer electrical courses including Part P and City & Guilds 17th Edition.
David Allison
Co-Founder and CEO of GetMyFirstJob
David is the Co-Founder and CEO of GetMyFirstJob Limited. He is passionate about improving access to opportunities for young people and helping business access the next generation of talent. Following a career with Ford where, after a number of roles from advanced product development to European product planning, he discovered his passion for organisational and people development. David was instrumental in setting up and running Ford’s partnership with Loughborough University and was Director of the Henry Ford College. Having gained an MBA, David left Ford to focus on Learning and Development. Following a number of senior roles at specialist training and L&D businesses, he co-founded GetMyFirstJob in 2011. David has served as a Trustee / NED of NCFE, one of the UK’s leading awarding organisations, and was designated a National Leader of Governance in 2014 following his work with schools. He remains a visiting lecturer at the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University.
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About GetMyFirstJob: GetMyFirstJob is a web-based platform that improves the speed and quality of matching young people to the right apprenticeship.
Rose Luckin
Founder and CEO of EDUCATE Ventures Research
Rose is Professor of Learner Centred Design at UCL Knowledge Lab. Rose’s research involves the design and evaluation of educational technology using theories from the learning sciences and techniques from artificial intelligence. She works closely with the education technology industry, in particular Start-ups and SMEs, to enable them to integrate research evidence and methods into their products. Rose has advised research councils in various countries and has written widely about educational technologies. She has taught in schools, FE and HE, and she is a Governor and Trustee at St Paul’s school in London and the Self Managed Learning College in Brighton.
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About EDUCATE Ventures Research, UCL Institute of Education: Educate serves as a catalyst for the development of EdTech products and services that are supported by facts.
Martin Higham
Founder & Partner of Ocasta
Martin Higham serves as a co-founder and partner at Ocasta.
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About Ocasta: Ocasta develops knowledge, training & education tech for your employees or students.
Mark Nagurski
CEO and Co-Founder of Makematic
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About Makematic, Really Practical: Connecting brands with education through exceptional content and distribution
Alex Cheney
Founder & CEO of Smarter Learn Limited
Alex Cheney is a Founder & CEO at Smarter Learn Limited.
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About Smarter Learn Limited: Smarter Learn is a publisher of educational games and digital content for smartphones, tablets, and laptops.
Brandon Relph
CEO and Founder of goCreative
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About goCreative: The team at goCreative creates builds, graphics and resources in the video game Minecraft to be used in gaming and education to teach.
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
Jodie Oliver
Founder of Planet EdTech
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About Planet EdTech: Bringing Education and Technology Together
