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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based CTO’ operating in the Augmented Reality space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Graeme Cox
CEO/CTO of Emteq
Graeme Cox has a degree in artificial intelligence, over 20 years experience in scaling product development teams, and has a track record of building profitable, high-growth technology businesses. He has founded and managed four technology businesses and has served as board member and advisor on several more across the range of software, hardware and services. A project and person manager with 20 years of continuous experience in the management of teams and individuals with project ownership, management and delivery of individual budgets up to $100 million.
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About Emteq: The world’s first emotion recognition and analysis platform in smart glasses
Oliver Norton
Chief Technology Officer of WRLD
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About WRLD: A 3D cloud-based platform of real-world environments to create digital twins.
Pravin Paratey
Co-founder and CTO of Kaizan
12+ years building high performing engineering teams and executing crucial products for companies during key growth stages.
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About Kaizan, Kantan: The AI assistant that amplifies your abilities at work – Stop writing notes, updates and reports – Get your AI to do it.
Daniel Thomas
Co-Founder & CTO of Gravity Sketch
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About Gravity Sketch: Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.
George MacKerron
CTO of PSYT
George got a double first from Cambridge and an MSc from Imperial College London before completing his PhD at LSE in the economics of happiness. He is a world leader in measuring wellbeing through technology, and created the hugely successful research app Mappiness.
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About Outsight International, PSYT, University of Sussex: PSYT exists to help individuals live happy, fulfilling and productive lives.
Steffan Donal
CTO of LIV
Steffan Donal is the CTO at LIV.
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About LIV: LIV creates technology to share Virtual Reality experiences.
Connell Gauld
Co-Founder and CTO of Zappar
As Zappar’s CTO, Connell oversees the ZapWorks team (Zappar’s AR/VR/MR creation software) as well as being responsible for all the cloud infrastructure and the core functionality of the Zappar app (which can also be embedded into third-party apps). Connell met Zappar Co-Founder Dr Simon Taylor whilst they were both studying engineering at the University of Cambridge. They founded Zappar, along with Caspar Thykier, 8 years ago and have seen it grow into one of the leading AR platforms with $3.75M in funding, 50 staff, and four offices around the world.
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About Zappar: Zappar is a clever little app that can see and recognise images and objects in the world around us.
Rafal Pastuszak
CTO of Storienteer
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About Storienteer, Typeform: Play and create augmented reality games on your smartphone
Tristan Cool
Chief Technology Officer of Aura Innovation
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About Aura Innovation: Aura Innovation is a Augmented Reality Head-Up Display for commercial vehicles and the autonomous future.
John Holder
CTO of Realities Centre
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About Hyperspatial, Realities Centre: Realities Centre is building a community focusing on augmented & virtual reality.
