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 CEO’ operating in the Mobile Apps space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Marc Boyan
Founder & CEO of Miroma Ventures
Marc began his career in marketing with the Goldsmith family, creating and selling events such as World Wrestling Federation, Net Aid, Smash Hits & Route of Kings. His first business venture started in 2000, setting up tourist information channel, City Tour TV. The concept can now be found in various airlines, black taxis and hotels in the UK. In 2003, Marc spotted an opportunity to use barter in all areas of modern commerce and set up corporate barter company, Miroma International. He has grown the business into one of the leading corporate barter companies in Europe with Miroma International’s growth trajectory recognized in The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 report on UK businesses for four years in a row between 2008 and 2011. Outside of Miroma International, Marc has also focused on building out the Miroma Ventures portfolio, focusing on media, technology and consumer investments. Marc is a dedicated supporter of the Rays of Sunshine Children’s Charity, sitting on its Executive Board.
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About Miroma Group, Miroma Ventures: Miroma Ventures is the investment arm of The Miroma Group, predominantly investing in growth stage consumer brands and media platforms.
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Michael Skelly
CEO of Stacker
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About Stacker: Stacker is a no-code software creation platform that develops an application to help developers build software.
Shahzad Younas
Founder & CEO of Muzz
Shahzad Younas is the founder and CEO of Muzz.
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About Muzz: Muzz is the worlds biggest dating app for Muslims looking for their life partner. Backed by Y Combinator S17.
Alex Algard
CEO & Co-Founder of Hiya
Alex advises Ekata on strategy and product development in his role as Chairman. He is currently the CEO of Hiya and Chairman of Whitepages, which he founded in 1997. He holds a B.A. in Economics and an M.S. in Engineering, both from Stanford University. He was selected as Software Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young.
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About Hiya: Hiya is a developer of a caller identification application designed to offer a better phone experience to mobile users worldwide.
Henri Moissinac
Co-Founder & CEO of dott
Henri Moissinac runs Consumer Partnerships at Uber EMEA,in London.Previously, he led Mobile Partnerships at Facebook, based in California. Before that, he led eBay mobile.
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About dott: Dott offers dock-less, shared electrical scooters and bikes as alternatives for short-distance travel.
Dom Santry
Co-Founder & CEO of Daisie
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About Daisie: Daisie is where creators learn together.
Anton Chirkunov
Founder & CEO of Wheely
Anton Chirkunov is the Founder and CEO at Wheely.
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About Wheely: Wheely is a luxury ride-hailing service, allowing customers to book chauffeur-driven journeys both on-demand and pre-booked through an app.
Faisal Khalid
CEO & Founder of Bits
Faisal is the Founder and CEO of Renters Union, a popular chatbot ‘lawyer’ that provides free, instant, personalised legal advice to Londoners. It has been covered in TechCrunch, TimeOut, EveningStandard and numerous legal blogs, and been hailed by users as ‘something the Mayor should have built’, ‘BRILLIANT’ and ‘totally rubbish.’ Faisal previously built and sold a fintech venture, and spent several years in banking and private equity, before learning to code and moving to tech. Faisal holds a BA from Harvard University, and MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, and lives in London.
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About Bits, RentersUnion: Bits helps people build their credit score by providing them with a digital credit card that they pay off every month.
Geri Cupi
Founder & CEO of Twig
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About Twig: Twig is a fintech startup that provides a mobile banking app.
Itamar Lesuisse
Co-founder & CEO of Argent
Itamar is the co-founder and CEO of Argent. Prior to Argent, Itamar founded and led Peak, the top ranked mobile cognitive training service with over 50,000,000 users and 500,000 subscribers. Itamar led Peak to a profitable 8 digit per year business. He successfully sold it to Lagardere SCA in 2016. Before Peak, Itamar worked at Boston Consulting Group, Amazon and VISA. He holds a Masters in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering.
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About Argent, Imperial College London: Argent is the most simple and secure smart wallet for crypto.
Ales Spetic
Co-founder & CEO of Klevio
Aleš Špetič is a co-founder and CEO of Klevio, a startups working on platform for managing access. Previously he ran a hardware startup that built and shipped its first product to over 50 countries worldwide from Ljubljana, Slovenia without traditional or crowd funding. Previously he cofounded and ran Zemanta, one of the first successful East European startups. Even though he holds an MBA and has extensive managerial experience in IT companies of different sizes, he started his career with a computer science degree and an O’Reilly book on SQL programing. He’s also Slovenia’s Digital Champion, a father, food and wine enthusiast, and a certified pastry chef.
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About Klevio, Koto Labs: Klevio lets users open doors and share their virtual keys using a smartphone.
Anthony Eskinazi
Founder & CEO of JustPark
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About JustPark: JustPark is a parking app reinventing parking for the digital era.
Daniel Shellard
CEO, Co-Founder of Fiit
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About Fiit: The UK’s highest-rated fitness platform, Fiit has thousands of global members and partnerships with brands including Sky and The Gym Group.
Del Titus Bawuah
Chief Executive Officer of lili
Del Titus Bawuah is a London based entrepreneur with a background in real estate management and alternative investments.
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About lili: Outdoor City pods offering flexible stay which can be accessed via smartphone or unique code on the move by the hour.
Neil Saada
CEO of Teech App Ltd.
Neil Saada is the Co-Founder at Dropdaze .
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About Dropdaze, NASASEASONS, Teech App Ltd.: Teech is an app that connects students to vetted mentors as soon as they have a question.
Mike Jordan
CEO of Bink
Over 20 years’ experience in the payment card industry at American Express, HSBC and AlphaCard. Mike has worked across diverse cultures and multiple geographies including Europe and the Middle East. Mike has experience in joint venture business management at board level and as CEO of AlphaCard and is highly active in the European FinTech community.
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About Bink, JAGARS LLP: Bink develops a mobile application that links card payment to loyalty schemes.
Reda Bennis
Co-Founder and CEO of Zebra Fuel
Reda Bennis (@reda_zebra) is the CEO & Co-Founder @ Zebra Fuel
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About Inside Capital, Zebra Fuel: Zebra Fuel is a mobile fuel delivery service that delivers fuel into a vehicle directly at a preferred delivery time.
Baris Ozaydinli
Founder & CEO of Scooch
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About Fitwell, Founders Factory, Founders Factory, Scooch: Scooch is a mobile application that encourages individuals to reach a medically recommended level of movement.
Ian Hooper
CEO & Founder of Scooch
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About Scooch: Scooch is a mobile application that encourages individuals to reach a medically recommended level of movement.
Chris Edson
Co-founder & CEO of Second Nature
Christopher Edson CEO & Founder of EU Top 50 Startup, Forbes 30 Under 30
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About Second Nature: Second Nature is a digital programme that helps people lead healthier lives
Andrea De Gottardo
Co-founder and CEO of Kroo
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About Kroo: Kroo is a financial technology company that develops innovative services for a new generation of customers.
Dana Dunne
CEO of eDreams ODIGEO
Dana Dunne is the CEO of eDreams ODIEGO. Prior to eDreams, Dana Dunne served as CCO at EasyJet Plc., and was in charge of sales (especially online sales), marketing, productivity management and of the customer service center. Before that, he was the CEO of AOl Europe Sarl, a division of AOC LLC. He has a deep experience in high-profile international telecommunication companies, as he has been the president of the main business units at Belgacom and US West, two of the most outstanding telecommunication companies in Europe and in the US.Dana holds an MBA from Wharton Business School and a degree in Economics from Weslevan University. He has a double nationality: American and British. On March 31st 2017, Dunne owned 713. 112 shares in eDreams ODIEGO. Dana Dunne was appointed CEO of eDreams during a shareholder meeting held on the 22nd of July 2015.
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About eDreams ODIGEO: eDreams ODIGEO is one of the world’s largest online travel companies and one of the largest European e-commerce businesses.
Mike Raitsyn
CEO of Bullboard
Mike Raitsyn is the Founder at Kwork.
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About Kwork: The company is building unique mobile financial instruments that helps traders increase their performance on the markets.
Ranbir Arora
Co-Founder, CEO of Dorm
Ranbir Arora is the CEO and Co-Founder at Dorm.
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About Dorm: Dorm is an audio learning app that aggregates and curates the world’s podcasting content.
Ashley Friedlein
CEO & Founder of Guild
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About Ably Realtime, Cambridge Judge Business School, Centaur Media Plc, Econsultancy, Founders4Schools, Guild: Guild is the platform for professional communities and networking.
Nick D’Aloisio
Co-founder and CEO of Sphere (Acquired by Twitter)
Nick D’Aloisio is an English computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as the inventor of Summly, which is a summarization and artificial intelligence technology developed with SRI International. D’Aloisio has been recognised as the youngest person to receive a round of venture capital in technology from a Billionaire, at just 15 years of age. As of March 2013, Summly was sold to Yahoo for a reported $30 million US dollars making him one of the youngest self-made millionaires ever. D’Aloisio was awarded “Innovator of the Year” in New York City by the Wall Street Journal for his work on Summly and at Yahoo. D’Aloisio was also included in TIME Magazine’s ‘Time 100’ as one of the world’s most influential teenagers, as well as being profiled in their “Secrets of Genius” Publication. D’Aloisio currently leads the critically acclaimed Yahoo News Digest, which launched at CES 2014 and won the 2014 Apple Design Award at WWDC for its technological and product excellence. He is also an undergraduate student at Hertford College, Oxford University, where he is studying Computer Science and Philosophy, and is the “Entrepreneur in Residence” at Airbnb.
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About Sphere (Acquired by Twitter): Now part of Twitter! Sphere is a community chat app turns groups into close, vibrant, purposeful and productive communities, instantly!
Daneh Westropp
Founder & CEO of Pickle
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About Pickle: Find different friends for different things!
Dan Wagner
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Rezolve
Dan Wagner began his career as a junior Account Executive at the advertising agency WCRS. While doing market research, that involved laborious searching of back copies of newspapers, journals, and research reports Dan first generated the concept of an electronic, PC-based information service. In 1985 at the age of 20, he left WCRS to pursue his ambition of creating such a service and established M.A.I.D. Dan was the driving force behind M.A.I.D.’s growth and development, including listings on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Throughout his career he has engineered numerous acquisitions and has been responsible for forging a wide array of strategic alliances. He led M.A.I.D.’s move into the Internet technology and eCommerce markets, being one of the first to understand their huge potential, and conceived the technology which is now Venda, in 1998. He has won a variety of business awards that recognize his achievements including The World Economic Forum’s Global Leader of Tomorrow in 1997 and Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 1999.
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About Bright Station Ltd., Bright Station Ventures, Rezolve, Venda: Rezolve allows any kind of product or media to instantly trigger a highly relevant, contextual engagement between consumer and retailer
Pip Wilson
Co-Founder and CEO of amicable
A successful entrepreneur, director, angel investor and start-up mentor, Pip is passionate about empowering women in tech and disrupting traditional business models. Pip Wilson is co-founder and CEO of amicable apps: the faster, fairer, fixed-price way to an amicable divorce. In 2002 Pip co-founded Bluefin Solutions, a SAP consultancy and a full SAP Services Partner, which she exited last year to Mindtree. Pip is also a trustee and board member of The Girls’ Network, a foundation that matches girls from low socio-economic backgrounds with inspirational female mentors. She believes in the power of teams, the importance of diversity, and that the best businesses help employees balance life with work. In her view, successful start-ups of the future will combine a sustainable business model with a clear social purpose and diverse teams. This view drives her investment decisions.
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About amicable: Amicable offers a divorce service that works with couples to help them reach fairer agreements.
Kwame Ferreira
Founder & CEO of Impossible
Kwame is founder and CEO of impossible.com which helps develop businesses through a planet centric design approach, aligning business goals with planetary needs. Kwame has, among many other things, created record labels (enchufada.com), emotional wearables (bond-touch.com), bot engines (nikabot.com) and kind insurance companies (kinsu.co.uk).
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About Impossible: A new social network of giving and receiving. impossible. Do good. Feel good.
Nimeshh Patel
CEO of Wrisk
Former AOL COO with experience building and operating international businesses. Adept at assembling high performance teams. Strong passion for innovation and entrepreneurship with an affinity for product evangelism.
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About Wrisk: Wrisk offers a customizable platform that enables businesses to create mobile-first insurance experiences for their customers.
Sylvester Lewis
Co-Founder & CEO of SUPPA Networking
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About SUPPA Networking: Build your social and professional network by making meaningful in-person connections at some of the best restaurants and bars in London.
Adam Ward
CEO & Co-Founder of Airtime Rewards
Adam is the co-founder and CEO of Airtime Rewards Ltd.
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About Airtime Rewards: Airtime Rewards is an innovative loyalty platform pioneering unique rewards solutions with mobile operators.
Phil Carr
Founder & CEO of My PT Hub
Phil Carr is the founder of My PT Hub.
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About My PT Hub: My PT Hub is an online web and mobile app, enabling personal trainers & fitness professionals to manage their clients.
Raluca Diana Papuc
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Anvex
Raluca Diana Papuc is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Anvex App – Technology Startup.
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About Anvex: The new easy way to get connected with top freelancers for everyday help and inspiration.
Jason jefferys
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Fetch
Jason Jefferys is a Chief Executive Officer at Fetchmyorder.
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About Fetch, The Takeaway App Company: FETCH is the app where you can order and pay for food and drink in bars and restaurants.
Tejen Barbezat
Founder & CEO of Gignify
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About FIT.live, Gignify: Gignify aims to become the largest centralised talent marketplace in the world
Justin Hsu
CEO / Founder of MarcoPolo Learning
Justin Hsu is one of the founders of Marco Polo Learning.
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About MarcoPolo Learning: MarcoPolo Learning is an award-winning digital curriculum developer for early learners.
Robert Tezescu
CEO & Founder of Antares Code Studio
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About Antares Code Studio, Xtraordinary Ltd: Custom software services, including web and mobile application development.
Branko Milutinovic
Co-Founder & CEO of Nordeus
Branko Milutinovic is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of one of the fastest growing European gaming company Nordeus. Over the previous 4 years bootstrapped Nordeus have grown from 3 to 150 people, pioneering the cross-platform game development & publishing and becoming one of the most successful social and mobile gaming companies world wide. Engineer by education, gamer in heart, Branko grew up playing sports, enjoying video games and coding. Not much has changed since. Nordeus is best known for Top Eleven, one of the most popular sports video games in the world with more than 5 million players on a daily basis and legendary Jose Mourinho as the official face of the game. Branko earned his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Belgrade (2002-2008).
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About Nordeus: Nordeus develops mobile and browser-based social network games for web, Android and iOS devices.
Sheenu Chawla
CEO and Co-Founder of Sush Labs
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About Sush Labs: Sush Labs is in designing, developing mobile and webs cloud-backed digital solutions.
Jon Hook
CEO of BoomHits
Jon Hook is a mobile marketing executive and entrepreneur experienced in building, launching and running mobile technology and media businesses. He was a co-founder of Odyssey Mobile Interaction, which was acquired by Phunware in December 2014. Jon is currently General Manager of Advertising at Phunware. He is also a board advisor at Avanatta, Kaizen App and BPA EMEA. Hook’s agency experience includes time as Head of the Mobile Practice at MediaCom and Client Services Director at Carat. He was named in Media Week’s 30 Under 30, is a member of the IAB Mobile Council and recently became one of The Drum’s Mobile Top 50. He also speaks regularly at industry events including Cannes Lions, Mobile Media Summit New York and London, AdWeek New York and London, Digital Shoreditch, MMA Forum London, Mobile Venture Summit (Chicago) and TUNE Postback.
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About BoomHits: BoomHits is a publisher of the next generation of free-to-play mobile games.
Jake Schofield
Founder and CEO of Labstep
Jake Schofield is the CEO and Founder at Labstep.
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About Labstep: Labstep captures real time scientific process data to provide an internally shareable timeline of a lab’s activity.
Yohann Merran
Founder, CEO, Lead Dev of Meet My Friends
Founder, CEO, Lead Dev at Meet My Friends
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About Meet My Friends: MMF is a hybrid app between a social network and a city guide, to spontaneously discover events you’ll love exploring with your friends.
Dmitri Lipnitsky
CEO & Co-Founder of Gismart
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About GeoZilla, Gismart, Intellectsoft, SE Ranking: A leading developer and publisher of entertainment-focused apps and games.
Ari Last
Founder & CEO of bubble app
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About bubble app: Bubble, an on-demand mobile app, connects parents with babysitters that their friends already know and trust.
Mankaran Ahluwalia
Co-Founder and CEO of YAYZY
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About YAYZY: Yayzy is an application for carbon footprint calculator.
Edoardo Moreni
Founder & CEO of Emma
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About Emma: Emma is a financial app advocate that helps users avoid overdrafts, find wasteful subscriptions, and allows users control of their finances.
Lukas Zoerner
Co-founder & CEO of Mespo
Lukas Zoerner is the Co-founder & CEO of Mobillity. Before founding Mobillity, he worked in Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division advising Power & Utility companies across EMEA. Lukas holds a degree in business administration from the University of Mannheim in Germany.
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About Mespo: Mespo is an independent platform that manages money across all of the accounts.
Tazio Puri Negri
CEO of Blue Bus Innovation
Tazio Puri Negri is the founder and chief executive officer at B.Bus.
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About Blue Bus Innovation: B.Bus is a transportation company that provides a private shuttle that connects hotels to airports in Luton and Stansted Area.
Sachin Karia
Co-Founder and CEO of The Sauce
Sachin Karia is the founder and CEO at The Sauce.
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About The Sauce: The Sauce has a vision for bringing the next generation back together in real life using the power of social video profiles.
Richard Pursey
Founder & CEO of SafeToNet
A proven businessman having started and sold 4 technology companies and an insurance business. He was also a Board member of an NHS trust where he learned about social care and welfare issues but his biggest success came in the disaster recovery and risk management industry where he developed software to profile and predict the operational and risk behavioural patterns of businesses. It’s those same behavioural patterning techniques that are used in SafeToNet today.
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About SafeToNet: SafeToNet makes the digital world safer for children to explore and enjoy.
Dominic Dinardo
CEO of Aforza
Dinardo has been working in cloud computing since he joined Salesforce in 2002 and in that time he helped pioneer the Cloud Computing marketplace in Europe and beyond. Previously, he had a number of technical consulting and management roles within IBM Tivoli and Shell. Since 2012 he has held executive positions in Industry Cloud companies Veeva and Vlocity focusing on the Life Sciences, Telecoms, Energy and Insurance sectors. Prior to his time at Salesforce, Dinardo held a number of technical consulting and management roles within IBM Tivoli and Shell. In all, Dinardo has more than 25 years of technology sales and management experience. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from The University of Glasgow.
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About Aforza: Aforza develops cloud and mobile apps for consumer goods companies.
Angus Hulme
Chief Executive Officer of Sliding-Doors
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About Sliding-Doors: Sliding-Doors is a mobile dating application that helps everyone to locate their ideal partner relatively conveniently.
Jamila Jamani
CEO and Founder of Modist
Jamila Jamani is the founder and CEO of Modist. She is also a business development director at Village Supermarket Ltd. Jamila holds a master’s degree in fashion and luxury brand management.
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About Modist: Modist is a digital platform that gives sales teams one access point to e-commerce, client, inventory, and digital marketing information.
Ravi Sharma
Founder & CEO of PoochPlay Limited
Ravi is the Founder & CEO of PoochPlay, a UK based startup behind the revolutionary intelligent dog well-being management app and a Bluetooth enabled activity tracker that delivers valuable benefits to dog owner. Previously, Ravi managed enterprise level product development projects for over a decade for leading brand viz. Faber & Faber, Pineapple Studios, Aman Resorts, Chanel, Elemis, Affordable Art Fair, Lulu Guinness, Karen Millen and many more. Ravi is an electronic engineer, possesses a degree in IT, a degree in business administration, a masters in marketing and management and is a PRINCE2 certified professional.
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About PoochPlay Limited: PoochPlay is a free mobile app & dog activity tracker that manages your dog’s complete well-being!
Glen Dormieux
Founder & CEO of Playrcart
Glen Dormieux is the Founder at Playrcart.
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About Playrcart: Playrcart lets you browse and watch video content.
Nyasinga Onyancha
CEO & Co-Founder of SimbaPay
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About SimbaPay: SimbaPay is a B2B SaaS for banks in Africa that enables their customers to send money abroad using mobile money or e-banking.
Ian Naylor
Founder & CEO of AppInstitute
Ian Naylor is Founder & CEO at AppInstitute.
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About AppInstitute: AppInstitute is a software developer of a digital framework for small businesses to create their own mobile applications.
Alena Golden
Co-Founder and CEO of BattleMe – Hip Hop Community and Rap Studio
Alena Golden is a Co-Founder and CEO of BattleMe – Hip Hop Community and Rap Studio.
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About BattleMe – Hip Hop Community and Rap Studio: Mobile app creating a community where freestylers and rappers can record tracks and grow their talent through winning contests.
Gabriel DOMBRI
CEO of Tapptitude | a product building studio
Gabriel is the CEO in Tapptitude and growth advisor in Spherik Accelerator. With over 10 years of digital experience, Gabriel has been at the intersection between marketing and product, for the last 5 years with a steady focus to help founders build better products and build sustainable businesses around them. Frequent mentor and adviser for startups worldwide and present constantly as speaker on product and tech events in Europe. Currently, Gabriel is the CEO of Tapptitude, a product agency focused on building mobile products.
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About Tapptitude | a product building studio: Tapptitude focuses on helping startup founders conceptualise, build, and grow digital products that have an impact at scale.
Benjamin Alun-Jones
CEO of Helipaddy
Benjamin Alun-Jones is the COO of Helipaddy.
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About Helipaddy: Helipaddy is a global helicopter landing site database.
Caspar Thykier
Co-Founder, CEO of Zappar
Caspar Thykier is Co-Founder & CEO at Zappar.
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About Veemee, Zappar: Zappar is a clever little app that can see and recognise images and objects in the world around us.
Alex Durrant
Co-Founder and CEO of Jigsaw
Alex Durrant is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jigsaw.
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About Jigsaw: Jigsaw develops a dating app that covers the user’s face in a jigsaw puzzle.
Rider Latham
CEO & Co-Founder of Secret Spa
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About Secret Spa: Luxury beauty treatments…any time and any place.
Leo Scott Smith
Founder & CEO of Tended
Leo Scott Smith is Tended’s CEO and founder, having started the business in 2017 to create transformative tech solutions that can put an end to occupational fatalities. He was named as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 2021, the Midlands Startup Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2019 Great British Entrepreneur Awards, and sits as the Lead Digital Advisor and Vice Chair for Lincoln City’s £20m economic regeneration plan. As a serial entrepreneur with eight years’ experience in AI and IoT, Leo has grown Tended into an award-winning safety technology company that has raised over £4.5m of private investment to date.
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About Tended: Tended combines wearable technology with behavioural psychology to transform safety in high-risk working environments. With five years’ 5 years’ experience developing safety wearables, Tended has deployed over 10,000 wearables in safety-critical environments. The company counts industry-leading organisations, including Network Rail, Siemens, and Unilever, as its clients, helping them solve complex safety challenges.
The company develops its solutions alongside behavioural science and psychology experts and has developed a first-of-its kind safety culture change solution, which is now part of HS2’s main safety strategy.
André Coelho
Founder, CEO of Saffe
André Aranha Coelho is the founder of Saffe Payments.
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About Saffe: Saffe is a face recognition platform for payments and financial services.
Lukas Lohove
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zizzle
Lukas developed his passion for understanding Chinese characters at UC Berkeley. When not learning Chinese, he enjoys riding boards – be it on snow, water or concrete.
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About Greator, Zizzle: Zizzle provides learning Mandarin Chinese has never been easier.
Draven McConville
CEO of Klipboard
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About Klipboard: Mobile Field Service Made Simple. Connect Your Office, Mobile Workers & Customers Together
Iglika B. Ghouse
Founder, CEO of USPAAH – Your Spa At Home
Perfectionist at heart with over 10 years spent working in investment banking both in UK and US, Iglika knows what it takes to drive change. In 2015 she made a bold turn in her career and launched USPAAH – Your Spa At Home. Iglika is responsible for setting the vision for the company, as well as managing operations and the team of Sparistas. When not tackling business challenges, she can be found in the park with her pooch Tiger, or spending quality time with her family and friends.
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About USPAAH – Your Spa At Home: USPAAH delivers Massage, Nail and Beauty treatments to client’s home, hotel or office in as little as an hour.
Sacha Nasan
CEO & Co-Founder of Blindlee
Sacha Nasan is the Belgium-based child prodigy behind the free downloadable video sharing app called Talenty, and is a one-man tour-de-force who has also become an ardent supporter of start-ups: “I’m passionate about start-ups because they are usually innovating in some way. I believe that, in today’s world, we have to keep innovating and modernizing. Start-ups provide new solutions to common and usually simple problems and continuously develop new technologies. By doing so, they contribute to the well-being of mankind.” At 14, Sacha launched his first mobile app which sold 83,000 downloads in only 2 days, and which was ranked as the #1 top overall free app in Belgium and France for those two days. At 16, Sacha built Talenty, an app-enabled social network that invites people around the world to upload videos which showcase their skills and talents. To join Talenty, please go to: http://gettalenty.com
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About Blindlee, Relief: Improve Your Wellbeing, ScholarshipOwl: Tired of swiping? Blind speed dating over 3-minute blurred video calls.
Tiff Burns
Founder / CEO of LuckyTrip
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About LuckyTrip: LuckyTrip is a travel inspiration app that lets you find a trip in one tap.
Pablo Ruiz
CEO & Co-founder of The PayPro
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About The PayPro: The PayPro is an online tool designed around the needs of professionals and small businesses to make payments in over 30 currencies.
Enrique Dominguez
Co-founder and CEO of Incubapps
Enrique Dominguez is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dialcom Networks, LLC. Prior to being an entrepreneur in the technology sector, Mr. Dominguez worked in the investment banking and financial technology services industries. In 1997, he co-founded Dinacom Technologies, an IP telephony software manufacturer. He also co-founded Ola Internet in 1999, the first Spanish IP telephony operator. He served on the board of Ola Internet and Netfinger Systems.
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About Dialcom Networks, Incubapps, Incubapps Limited: Build your mobile presence for free and publish segmented offers instantly.
Khaled McGonnell
Founder & CEO of fastgardener
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About fastgardener: Book vetted, professional gardeners via our website or app in seconds.
John Harper
Founder & CEO of Rize
John Harper believes that there is an underlying need in our society for a greater understanding of our own mental well-being. John brings together all the best tools he’s found with support from mental health professionals and institutions. He has reached out to specialists in mental health, smartphone technology, and business development to provide an innovative tool like nothing else out there.
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About Rize: Rize is providing a gamified app that helps users to understand, track and improve their mental well being.
Dhrupad Karwa
Co-Founder & CEO of HaikuJAM
Dhrupad Karwa is the Co-Founder and CEO at HaikuJAM
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About HaikuJAM, Inspo: Collaborative Poetry & Artistic Expression App
Felix Hamer
Co-Founder and CEO of Waggle-It
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About Buzzer Feedback, Waggle-It: Waggle-It is an anonymous location based social polling app that allows users to crowdsource everyday dilemmas
Paul Lynton
Founder & CEO of JiveBird
Paul Lynton is the founder of JiveBird.
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About JiveBird: JiveBird is a unique digital consumer package targeted at the card & gift market – the next disruptive innovation in the greetings market.
Bob Skerrett
CEO, IMS, Insurance Division of IMS – Part of Trak Global Group
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About IMS – Part of Trak Global Group: IMS (Insurance & Mobility Solutions) is a global provider of connected car solutions, services, and analytics.
Jean-Michel Chalayer
Co-Founder & CEO of LeSalon Beauty
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About LeSalon Beauty: LeSalon is delivering a branded, consistent and high-quality at-home beauty service.
Toby Staveley
CEO of Edplus
CEO co-founder of Edplus; serial entrepreneur
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About Edplus: Making learning easier for everyone
Louise Doherty
Founder and CEO of Yoller
Louise is CEO and founder of PlanSnap, the social planning platform that uses machine learning and group psychology to help people to meet in real life, really quickly. An ex strategic marketer working for the BBC, ASOS and AB InBev, Louise specialises in scaling consumer digital products. PlanSnap is a Techstars alumni, and Louise was a finalist for Most Inspirational Startup Founder 2018.
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About Yoller: Yoller gets people to meet in real life, really quickly – even if your friends don’t have the app.
Jo Eckersley
CEO & Founder of Bubbl Ltd
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About Bubbl Ltd: Cutting-edge mobile app plug-in that allows companies to hyper-focus their marketing efforts with geo-triggered customer engagement tools.
Luca Manara
Co-Founder & CEO of AppQuality
Luca Manara is a co-founder and CEO at App Quality.
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About AppQuality: UNGUESS is the tech platform to bring collective wisdom in your decision making processes, fast and at any time needed
James Gill
Founder and CEO of GoSquared
James Gill is a Founder and CEO at GoSquared.
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About GoSquared: GoSquared is a platform where businesses can communicate with their customers through analytics, CRM, live chat, and marketing automation.
Olga Sklyar
CEO of Warefly
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About 10tracks, MusicSense, Warefly: Warefly is a digital product studio creating a variety of consumer apps.
Justin Short
CEO and Founder of Nous
Before founding NOUS® Justin worked at a number of investment banks over a period of 14 years, building fully automated trading strategies including Market Making Engines; Smart Order Routers; Agency Benchmark Algorithms and Options Pricing Engines. He also ran regional teams to determine the product strategy and directly influenced the global product, organised the necessary quantitative research, designed and tested fully automated low-latency trading strategies, and coded or provided input to the development team.
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About Nous: Nous designs and develops virtual trading platform for financial market.
Douglas Lloyd
CEO & Co-Founder of Macademia
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About Macademia: Macademia is an award-winning global EdTech company providing educational programming and games for children.
William Berry
Founder and CEO of cabs.com
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About cabs.com: cabs.com provides taxi services, airport transfers, executive cars, and tailored travel services.
Andrew Jervis
Co-Founder and CEO of ClickMechanic
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About ClickMechanic: ClickMechanic is an online marketplace for users to find mechanics.
Nina Tumanishvili
Founder & CEO of HelloHub
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About HelloHub, Odin, TubeChat: Enhancing human connection through technology.
Lee Connolly
Founder and CEO of Swimphony
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About Kinetic Insight, Swimphony: Swimphony is a swimming software solution that facilitates the management, delivery, and evaluation of learn to swim programmes.
Gaetano Checinski
Founder and CEO of LoopPerfect
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About LoopPerfect: LoopPerfect’s mission is to streamline the development of C++ code, by using a just-in-time compiler.
Kirill Mikhailenko
CEO of BITOTEK
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About BITOTEK: Bitotek is an innovative IT agency that specialises in developing systems and apps for start-ups and online businesses.
Ned Mortimer
CEO of Ally Chatbot
Ned Mortimer is the Chief Executive Officer at Ally Chatbot.
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About Ally Chatbot: Ally Chatbot is a civic and social organization that features a software platform that utilizes artificial intelligence.
Ned Mortimer
CEO of Ally Chatbot
Ned Mortimer is the Chief Executive Officer at Ally Chatbot.
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About Ally Chatbot: Ally Chatbot is a civic and social organization that features a software platform that utilizes artificial intelligence.
Anton Skrypnyk
Co-Founder & CEO of KindGeek
Anton Skrypnyk is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at KindGeek.
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About KindGeek: KindGeek is a software development company that helps entrepreneurs with product development and technical aspects of their projects.
Matthew Sockalingum
CEO of Blow Dry Pass
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About Blow Dry Pass: Blow Dry Pass is a mobile app using GPS to find branded blow dry counters around the city with a monthly subscription.
Benjamin Dyer
Co-Founder & CEO of Powered Now
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About Powered Now, SellerDeck: Powered Now is engaged in the development of mobile applications for its own purposes and clients.
Shaun Lancaster
Founder & CEO of In Your Stride
Sports marketing expert, brand specialist, ex retail chain owner, lover of tech, triathlete, muddy runner, surfer.
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About In Your Stride: InYourStride mobile running app with adaptive training plans for runners over 5k, 10k, half marathon or marathon. GPS tracking.
