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 United Kingdom based Founder operating in the Web Hosting 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.
Ditlev Bredahl
Co-Founder & CEO of OnApp
Ditlev has over a decade’s experience in the web hosting industry and has led the development of many acclaimed web hosting brands. As CEO of OnApp, Ditlev’s commercial and technical leadership saw the company expand from its July 2010 launch to 500+ clients and 80+ people in just 12 months. Ditlev moved into the rapidly-growing Internet sector in the mid-1990s, after a number of roles working for the European Parliament. He quickly developed a reputation as an entrepreneur and a specialist in start-up and turnaround scenarios. He has led UK2Group’s hosting companies as MD and CEO since February 2006, and played a key role in the group’s transformation. Ditlev is a Danish national and an incurable technophile. He lives in the UK but travels frequently to see clients and speak at events across the globe.
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About Kickass Capital, OnApp, PlatoScience: OnApp is a company that develops cloud management, CDN and storage software for service providers and enterprises.
Andrius Kazlauskas
Founder & CFO of Heficed
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About Heficed, IPXO: Heficed provides full-range services for IP lease, monetization, and management services.
Oliver Adderley
Founder and Managing Director of Jobster
Oliver Adderley is the founder and managing director at Jobster.
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About Jobster: Jobster is an online recruitment agency based in the United Kingdom
Martin Lewis
Founder of MoneySavingExpert
Martin Lewis is the Founder of moneysavingexpert.com . He launched the site on 22 February 2003. He sold moneysavingexpert.com for 87 million pound. Lewis, a former Sunday Express and News of the World columnist who also writes for the Telegraph and doles out financial advice on several TV shows, is sharing the windfall around. The site’s 42 employees will all get a slice of the money and he has announced that he will donate £10m to charity. He is giving £1 million to Citizens’ Advice as a response to the “terrible funding cuts” it has suffered, and the rest will be distributed through the Charities Aid Foundation.
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About MoneySavingExpert, Moneysupermarket: MoneySavingExpert.com is dedicated to saving you money on anything & everything by finding the best deals and beating the system.
Nicola Campli
Founder & CEO of Activism.com
Nicola Campli is a Founder & CEO at Activism.com.
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About Activism.com, Digital Capital Factory: Online Petition, the first and foremost location for hosting your online petition.
Chris Adams
Founder and CEO of Rochen
Chris Adams is Founder and CEO at Rochen.
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About Rochen: Our mission is to build innovative hosting services
Mike Carter
Founder and Managing Director of Ixis IT
A Drupal expert, solutions architect and big fan of open source software and contribution.
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About Ixis IT: Ixis IT is a company providing Drupal services including development, hosting and support.
Jon Harris
Founder & CEO of Simpl
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About Simpl: Simpl is the world’s simplest website builder. Mobile app for iPhone and iPad.
Aravind Sopinti
Founder of 9tree.co.uk
Founder at 9tree
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About 9tree.co.uk, 9tree.co.uk: 9tree provides IT consulting, digitalization, and managed services.
Giles Thomas
Founder of PythonAnywhere
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About PythonAnywhere: PythonAnywhere is a popular and growing platform-as-a-service that makes it easy for programmers to create, store and run their software in
