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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 United Kingdom based Founder operating in the Veterinary 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.
Julien Renard
Co Founder of Vetstoria
Julien Renard is the Co-Founder of Vestoria.
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About Vetstoria: Real-time Online Scheduling for Vets
Julien Poublon
Co Founder of Vetstoria
Julien Poublon is a Co-Founder of Vestoria.
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About Vetstoria: Real-time Online Scheduling for Vets
Jonny Gould
Founder and CEO of Itch
Jonny Gould is the Founder and CEO at Itch Pet and Monster Pet Supplies. He is a former Founder of Leaf International. Mr. Gould received a bachelor of science in Management Sciences at UMIST.
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About Itch: Itch uses data to create personalised subscription packs that help pets to live happy & healthy .
Nick Bolas
Founder & Director of Hallmarq Veterinary Imaging
Nick Bolas is the Founder and Director at Hallmarq Veterinary Imaging Ltd.
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About Hallmarq Veterinary Imaging: Hallmarq Veterinary Imaging is a global leader in innovative diagnostic imaging.
Robert Dawson
Co-Founder of Vet-AI
Robert Dawson is the Co-Founder at Vet-AI.
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About Vet-AI: Vet-AI is developing ground-breaking technologies that aim to prevent and predict conditions developing in animals.
Paul Hallett
Co-Founder of Vet-AI
Paul Hallett is the Co-Founder at Vet-AI
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About Vet-AI: Vet-AI is developing ground-breaking technologies that aim to prevent and predict conditions developing in animals.
Andrew Hall-Ponselè
Founder and Director of Operations of Biotangents
Andy designed the Leapfrog Assembly™ technology upon which Biotangents was founded and led the successful project to apply it to the biosynthesis of high-value terpenoids. He now leads operations at Biotangents and is part of an ambitious team that has secured and fulfilled multiple contracts to perform DNA manipulation work for industrial and academic customers. Andy has been involved in synthetic biology since 2008 when, as a student under Professor Chris French, he led the University of Edinburgh iGEM team to a gold medal. He holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford, where he used metabolic engineering approaches to provide new insights into the control of metabolism in plants. On his return to Edinburgh, Andy worked as a Senior Scientist in a University of Edinburgh-based start-up, delivering collaborative projects as varied as synthetic promoter design and polysaccharide biosynthesis.
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About Biotangents: Biotangents develop pen-side diagnostic devices to detect infectious diseases in livestock quickly.
Lina Gasiūnaitė
Founder and Director of Science of Biotangents
As the Director of Science at Biotangents, Lina is leading delivery of Moduleic Sensing™ for the diagnosis of infectious diseases in livestock. Lina completed her undergraduate studies in Molecular Biology at Vilnius University and holds an MSc in Biotechnology from the University of Edinburgh. As part of her dissertation, she incorporated standardisation into a proprietary combinatorial DNA assembly technology, making it compatible with the widely used BioBrick™ standard. Lina also acted as an advisor to the University of Edinburgh’s 2013 gold medal-winning iGEM team. After graduation, Lina continued to work in DNA manipulation and metabolic engineering of bacteria, delivering varied projects with local SMEs and multinational partners.
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About Biotangents: Biotangents develop pen-side diagnostic devices to detect infectious diseases in livestock quickly.
James Andrews
Founder of Felcana
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About Felcana: Felcana is a Digital Pet Health Platform of intelligent pet care products. Helping you track, monitor & understand your dog or cat’s needs.
Euan Mackenzie
Founder of Trakz
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About 1partCarbon, Trakz: Trakz, a GPS and activity tracking IoT device for pets, with associated data interpretation for insurers, retailers & pet service providers.
