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 Communities 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.
Chirdeep Singh Chhabra
Founder of Ocean Protocol
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About Ocean Protocol: Ocean Protocol is a decentralized data exchange protocol that lets people share and monetize data while…
Michelle Kennedy
Co-Founder & CEO of Peanut
Michelle joined Badoo originally as lead counsel over 4 years ago. Prior to joining Badoo she was a successful corporate lawyer at leading international law firm, Mishcon de Reya, before being poached by the firm’s successful biotech client, Quotient Bioscience to head up their legal team. During her time at Badoo, she built the legal, compliance, HR and talent teams before moving into a more operationally focused role, including a position on the board. Today, Michelle is responsible for most key areas of the business, and works closely with founder and CEO Andrey Andreev, on the existing product, and exciting ‘special projects’ coming soon….
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About Peanut: Peanut is an online platform that provides a safe space for women to connect across fertility and motherhood.
Priyanka Gill
Founder & CEO of POPxo
Priyanka Gill is the Co-Founder and President of MyGlamm. She is also the Founder & CEO of POPxo, India’s largest community of women.
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About MyGlamm, POPxo: POPxo is India’s online community for women that deals everything from fashion, beauty, lifestyle, work, and etc.
Tessa Clarke
Co-Founder of OLIO
My parents are farmers and so I know how much hard work goes into producing the food we all eat, and absolutely *hate* throwing it away! Fast forward to 2014, I was moving country and the removal men said I had to bin our food – I couldn’t do it and that was the light bulb moment when OLIO was born.
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About Hot Topics, OLIO, OLIO, Unreasonable, Virgin StartUp: OLIO is a global food sharing app connecting neighbors, volunteers, and businesses.
Saasha Celestial-One
Co-Founder & COO of OLIO
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About OLIO: OLIO is a global food sharing app connecting neighbors, volunteers, and businesses.
Natalia Vodianova
Founder, CEO of Naked Heart Foundation
Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova, nicknamed Supernova, is a Russian model, philanthropist and occasional film actress. She is well known for her rags to riches life story and for her eight-season, seven-figure contract with Calvin Klein.
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About Naked Heart Foundation: Naked Heart Foundation was founded by supermodel, Natalia Vodianova, with an aim to construct modern play parks in urban areas of Russia.
Till Behnke
Founder and Managing Partner of nebenan.de
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About nebenan.de: nebenan.de is a social network for neighbors.
Nima Tamizi
Founder and Co-owner of Gamerclub
Nima Tamizi is a British software developer and founder of Gamerclub. He was always fascinated with software design and development therefore he decided to fully apply himself into studying and experimenting new programming languages.
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About Gamerclub: Gamerclub is a game server provider and community.
Petter Neby
Founder and CEO of Punkt. Tronics
Petter Neby is a Norwegian technology entrepreneur. Mr. Neby launched his first business in Norway in 1989, at the age of seventeen, and in 1991 moved to Paris, to work for an international consumer electronics company. Innovation and creativity has led Mr. Neby to find and manage successful businesses in the telecommunications, enterprise software and website areas. Mr. Neby created Punkt. in 2008 to offer straightforward alternatives to multi-function devices that started to dominate the consumer electronic marketplace.
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About Punkt. Tronics: Punkt. is a Swiss design led technology company that aims to make life simpler by creating timeless and outstanding products
Rafe Offer
Founder and Executive Chair of Sofar Sounds
Rafe Offer has held senior marketing positions such as Global Marketing Director of Coca-Cola, Director of Global Marketing at The Walt Disney Company and Director of innovation for Diageo. Rafe is an internationally lauded specialist in teamwork, leadership and brand innovation. Now he’s focusing his energy on SofarSounds.com
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About Sofar Sounds, Sofar Sounds: Sofar Sounds is a global community hosting curated, secret performances in more than 400 cities around the world.
May Al-Karooni
Founder & CEO of Globechain
May Al-Karooni is the founder of Globechain – an award winning British reuse marketplace that connects corporates to charities and smes to redistribute free unwanted items, creating social impact data to its members. May previously worked within the investment banking and asset management industry, fundraising monies for venture capital, property and hedge funds for the last 10 years totaling over £120 million in funds raised. In 2013 May set up Globechain after seeing a demand for a new online circular economy within the waste management industry after her own employer expressed a need to reuse items in a more collaborative way. Globechain has gained huge momentum growing to 10,000 members with eBay as its mentors and securing contracts with some of the world’s largest brands as well as growing a large network of charities nationally and internationally. Globechain works within the retail, commercial and construction industry and last year diverted 5,100,000 kilos from landfill with items being re distributed within the UK as well as abroad as far as Sierra Leone, Guinea, Kenya, Libya and the Ukraine providing savings of over £1,500,000 to charitable causes.
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About Globechain: Globechain is a B2B reuse marketplace connecting businesses to charities, creating social impact data.
Bryan Christie Teeth Whitening
CEO and Founder of Megawhite Teeth Whitening
Bryan Christies, born in Scotland 1982, attended Inveralmond High School. I have successfully completed an apprenticeship over 4 years (Bathgate Tech) in Design Manufacturing and Engineering process. Founder of Dentawhite Ltd (2007 -2012) I am passionate about brand awareness and have a very positive outlook to live and business. I have the ability to adapt to every changing situation. Intelligent and knowledgeable. I am a kind, caring and considerate. Visionary, I believe that anything is possible. Honest and Hardworking, inspirational character. Compelled to helping others. Achievements with Details: Over the last 6 years I have provided an affordable teeth whitening product that is available in 40 different countries worldwide and in over 200 salons throughout the UK. I have designed, manufactured and devolved the first pre-loaded whitening tray with air pocket technology, which holds our own unique exclusive formula. This has then leaded me to selling the rights to different countries, having the product branded internationally, and created employment. Our product has helped businesses generate revenue and profit. This has also introduced new customer and dynamic to existing businesses. Interests: I enjoy traveling around the world, experiencing different cultures, and understanding the History and Art of different countries. I have achieved one of my many goals of wanting to be an Entrepreneur. My hobbies are extreme sports, cars, collecting watches, charity organization and health and well being. Design and manufacturing is my passion, and I am always interested in new business startups, helping local communities. Design, develop and improve along with problem solving.
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About Megawhite Teeth Whitening: Megawhite has licensees all over the world and offers people an opportunity to improve their existing business.
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.
Elizabeth Varley
Founder & CEO of TechHub
Elizabeth is a serial entrepreneur and founded TechHub, the community for high-growth tech companies. TechHub has worked with thousands of companies to help them scale. TechHub member companies have been acquired by Google, Facebook, Twitter, Oracle and Microsoft among others, and have raised over $1billion in funding. TechHub also helps corporates like Google and BT access innovation culture and to work with startups to solve business challenges or develop new products. Previously Elizabeth ran an editorial and content agency, and built communities. She’s been selected for Computer Weekly’s UKtech50 top influencers, the Debrett’s 500, and Vogue UK’s Generation Tech among others. Elizabeth also sits on the board of the Digital City Exchange smart cities programme at Imperial College, the Open Data Institute’s Data Pitch technology innovation board, and the Silicon Valley Bank early-stage advisory board. @evarley @TechHub
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About TechHub: TechHub is the home of technology entrepreneurs and startup teams
Max Filippov
Founder of Airfair
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About Accel, Airfair: Airfair is an event platform that provides a virtual event toolkit that enables to engage an audience within an intuitive environment.
Anthony Gell
Founder & CEO of LeadersIn
Anthony Gell is the Author of The Book of Leadership (2014, Hachette Group) and the founder and CEO of LeadersIn, an online and offline community dedicated to sharing wisdom from world leaders in their field. Before launching LeadersIn, Anthony was the Regional CEO of global publishing and conference company. During his tenure there, he oversaw the turnaround of the New York office and had profit and loss responsibilities for all regional offices spanning out over South Africa, Singapore, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Dubai and China. For the series LeadersIn Business Anthony has interviewed some of the most famous business leaders in the world, and some of the coolest people on the planet. He is an avid public speaker and has been asked to interview business leaders at many leading institutions including London Business School and Imperial College, London.
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About LeadersIn: LeadersIn we interview these people and share their interviews with our global community.
Robin Souter
Founder / Transformation Director of Opogo
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About Opogo: Opogo is a community platform designed to help schools attract and retain the talent that’s right for them.
Global CEO & Co-Founder of Andiamo
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About Andiamo, UnLtd: Custom medical wearables platform
John David
CEO and Founder of Amnick
John is the Chair for the Telegraph newspaper Tech and Innovation task force, and also chair for the Industrial Internet of Things for Central and South Europe Council. Current initiatives John is leading on: Buying and selling best technologies and solutions from solution providers across the world – including IoT, Digital, Blockchain, Cyber, AI. Creation of a Digital University for 2020 with Tech and solution providers helping to train industry specialist as part of Amnick certificate/degrees International Collaboration team made up of city leaders, mayors, 110 tech companies, municipalities and universities from across the world (www.amnick.com). This initiative focuses on city challenges – digital inclusion, commercialisation – bringing in more money, connecting smaller cities, social mobility and intelligent transportation systems. Smart Cities magazine – where city leaders/tech sector/universities can all contribute at www.bpmm.co.uk John is also being appointed onto the Scientific Advisory Board for the Chinese Government. And is also working with the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development.
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About Amnick: Amnick is a collection of senior ex-local authority staff, as well a consortium of local authority and private sector-partnering org.
Benjamin Todd
CEO, Co Founder & Executive Director of 80,000 Hours
In under three years with Ben’s leadership, 80,000 Hours has grown from a student society, to an Oxford affiliated charity, featured on TED, the Washington Post, the BBC Today Programme and more. Ben has a 1st from Oxford in Physics and Philosophy, has published in Climate Physics and speaks Chinese. Before 80,000 Hours, he was the first undergraduate to intern as an analyst at a top investment fund. Rather than taking the job, he persuaded the Chairman to donate £60,000 to 80,000 Hours.
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About 80,000 Hours: 80,000 Hours is an evidence-based advice on careers that make a difference.
Greg Secker
Founder of Greg Secker Foundation
English entrepreneur and founder of: • The Greg Secker Foundation • FX Capital – a managed account forex investment service • Learn to Trade, the World’s largest trader training company with operations in England, South Africa, Australia and the Philippines. • Smart Charts – known to be one of the most effective Forex trading systems – identifying profitable opportunities and reducing risk for private self directed traders. • Capital Index – award winning STP Forex brokerage. • Global Success Summits – an international seminars events company – bringing the worlds most successful speakers to the platform.
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About Greg Secker Foundation: Charity committed to positively improving the quality of life of people around the world.
Alexander Badalyan
CFO and Co-Founder of Mashroom
Alexander Badalyan is the CFO and Co-Founder at Mashroom.
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About Mashroom: Mashroom is a proptech startup that provides end-to-end property letting services to landlords and tenants.
Stepan Dobrovolskiy
CEO and Co-Founder of Mashroom
Stepan Dobrovolskiy is the CEO and Co-Founder at Mashroom.
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About Mashroom: Mashroom is a proptech startup that provides end-to-end property letting services to landlords and tenants.
Andrew Skipwith
Founder and CEO of Rated People
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About Rated People: Rated People is an online recommendation service that connects homeowners with local, recommended tradespeople.
Sarah Simons
Founder of UKFEChat
Sarah accidentally became an FE lecturer in 2008 after several decades in show business. Since then she has worked in a number of colleges as a lecturer in functional skills English, as a support and inclusion specialist, and as a consultant, as well as being a regular columnist for The TES and a judge on The TES FE Awards. In November 2012, irritated that she couldn’t find like-minded FE colleagues to chat with on Twitter, she had a bit of a rant. It turned out that lots of other people felt the same and #UKFEchat was born. In the 3 years since that rant, colleagues in the UKFEchat community have had 3 FE guide books published, created a political manifesto, held gatherings around the country, had meetings with Ofsted FE chiefs, in addition to continuing the regular Thursday evening get togethers on Twitter to debate, share and collaborate. In October 2015 several hundred colleagues united for The UKFEchat National Conference in central London, the community’s most ambitious project to date. Sarah can often be found on Twitter @MrsSarahSimons banging on about FE stuff. She lives in Nottingham, has a husband, a son and 2 ridiculous dogs.
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About UKFEChat, UKFEChat: UKFEChat is a community of enthusiastic professionals who’re interested in the world of further education and skills.
Chris Howard
Founder of The Rattle
Chris is a serial technology entrepreneur from MIT specialising in creating companies that blend deep tech with phsychology. Formerly an entrepreneur in residence for Techstars, UCL, and the Digital Catapult, Chris is currently the founding CEO of The Rattle – a tech enabled incubator for the music industry.
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About The Rattle, University College London (UCL): The Rattle is a venture studio and incubator for provocative artists, hackers, inventors, and startups.
Jon Eades
Director and Co-Founder of The Rattle
Jon heads up Abbey Road’s new technology and innovation department, Abbey Road Red, managing the music tech start-up incubation program and partnering with researchers to investigate emerging technologies for music.
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About Abbey Road Red, Abbey Road Studios, The Rattle: The Rattle is a venture studio and incubator for provocative artists, hackers, inventors, and startups.
Bobby Bloomfield
Founder of The Rattle
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About The Rattle: The Rattle is a venture studio and incubator for provocative artists, hackers, inventors, and startups.
Amin Hamzianpour
Co-Founder of The Qube
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About The Qube: Creatives, Music, Art, Film, Photography
Fred Pytlak
Co-Founder, Director & Chief Client Officer of Office Practicum
Fred is a Founder, Director, and original CEO of Office Practicum. He currently serves as Chief Client Officer, a position from which he plans and executes strategy for his favorite saying: “Take care of the customer, and the rest will follow.” To that end, he directs improvements in the total customer experience for our users, from their first contact as a sales prospect through implementation, training, and regular renewals of the customer relationship. Fred started in Information Technology with a mission to develop an evolutionary suite of specialty software designed to support the patient/practitioner encounter while providing a comprehensive high quality Medical Practice Management software solution. As the original Founder, he created Office Practicum and maintains his deep involvement in its design and development. Fred lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Edna.
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About Office Practicum: OP is the industry leader in pediatric-specific EHR technology and practice solutions, built by pediatricians, for pediatricians.
James McAulay
Co-Founder & CEO of Encore Technologies
Our resident Cellist and CEO, James dreams of a future where live music is everywhere.
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About Encore Technologies: Encore is an online network of musicians that enables them to access many performance opportunities in the music community around them.
James King
Co-Founder & CTO of Encore Technologies
An avid pianist and our CTO, James is rarely seen away from a keyboard of some kind.
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About Encore Technologies: Encore is an online network of musicians that enables them to access many performance opportunities in the music community around them.
Andy Hobsbawm
Co-Founder of Do The Green Thing
Andy established the first international Internet agency in 1994 which merged with pioneering digital services firm Agency.com in 1997 where he was European MD then Chairman until 2009. Andy co-founded the award-winning online community Do The Green Thing in 2007. He has been listed among the 100 top digital influencers by Wired UK and was recently named among the 20 inaugural inductees of the British Interactive Multimedia Association’s Digital Hall of Fame, alongside Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Jonathan Ive and Dr. Mike Lynch. He has been a weekly columnist about the new economy for the Financial Times, a member of GartnerG2’s first advisory board on online advertising and spoken at numerous conferences including TED. He has yet to receive any royalties from obscure pop songs released by a minor independent record label in Europe.
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About Bethnal Green Ventures, Do The Green Thing, EVRYTHNG: Do The Green Thing is a company that uses creativity to reach people about climate change.
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.
Michael Rose
Co-Founder of Tahora
Michael Rose is the Co-Founder at Tahora.
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About Tahora: Tahora is a workplace connectedness technology that transforms people’s favorite things into real-world connections.
Amit Pate
Founder & CEO of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
Olly Paulovich
Co-Founder & VP Marketing & Sales of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
Phong Vu
Co-Founder & CTO of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
Jorge Armanet
CEO & Co Founder of HealthUnlocked
Technology and Media Entrepreneur In 2000 he founded Plataforma Publico, an open source media lab that promotes cultural creativity and ideas; in 2002 he founded the popular network and magazine Hecho en Chile – a Chilean ‘Big Issue’ and support network for low-income students; in 2007 he founded DO TANK, a technology lab building functional prototypes for the private sector to test and scale new web business models; and in 2009 he co-founded HealthUnlocked, the social health platform. He holds degrees in Engineering, Economics, Arts and Business from the Catholic University of Chile, Goldsmiths College, and Cambridge University. He held academic scholarships from the British Chevening, the Shell Centenary Fund, the Cambridge Overseas Trust and the Jesus College Foundation. Based in London, UK, he is now full time and permanently dedicated to HealthUnlocked.
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About HealthUnlocked: HealthUnlocked is a social network for health.
Gabriela Hersham
Founder & CEO of Huckletree
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About Huckletree: The brave home of innovation.
Andrew Lynch
Co-Founder & COO of Huckletree
Co-Founder & COO at Huckletree, a coworking community of creators, innovators, entrepreneurs and VC-backed startups.
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About Huckletree: The brave home of innovation.
Gavin Eddy
Founder & CEO of We Are Coherent
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About Forward Space, We Are Coherent: Coherent is a web application specifically designed to manage coworking or shared workspaces and connect their communities
Mike Thompson
Director and Co-Founder, London of Impact Hub
Mike is Director of Goodbrand and has been with them since it began. Mike is responsible for the stewardship of the Goodbrand community and its resources. He is also chairman of AddVenture, a Romanian social enterprise and another GoodBrand Idea and co-founder of Good Leaders Online (www.glo-china.com). Mike is currently based at the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai, from where he writes, travels and speaks on sustainable enterprise and responsible leadership. Mike’s passions are adventuring and the poetry and song of the Welsh landscape.
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About Impact Hub: Impact Hub provides a workspace that connects entrepreneurs for environmental and sustainability initiatives.
Wahida Samie
Founder of Studentbase
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About Studentbase: Creating the Global Student Network
Kristian Tapaninaho
Founder & CEO of Ooni
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About Ooni: Ooni is the number one pizza oven brand in the world.
Yiorgos Nikoletakis
CEO & Founder of 100mentors
Yiorgos enjoys surrounding himself with his role models: educators & entrepreneurs. After having worked in 4 US states, Spain, Greece & China, “arguing like I am right, listening like I am wrong” is his favorite motto.
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About 100mentors: We empower today’s youth to consciously take their once in a lifetime decisions & prepare them for the workplace of the future.
Kaan Akın
Founder, CEO of Hackquarters
Tech investor, startup mentor and founder of Hackquarters Startup Accelerator. He is involved with corporate accelerator programs.
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About Hackquarters: Hackquarters accelerated 150+ startups and helped 40+ corporates to innovate with startup collaboration
Emily Forbes
Founder and CEO of Seenit
Emily Forbes is the Founder and CEO of Seenit.
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About Seenit: Industry-leading video crowdsourcing solution
Wahab Ahmad
CEO and Founder of TimeAway
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About PenAndWeb, TimeAway: Enriching family holidays, tried and tested by like minded mums
Faye Woodcock
Co-Founder and Head of Product of TimeAway
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About TimeAway: Enriching family holidays, tried and tested by like minded mums
Jeanette Carlsson
Founder & CEO of Tech Nordic Advocates
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About newmedia2.0, Tech Nordic Advocates: Tech Nordic Advocates is Northern Europe’s largest and only pan-Nordic/Baltic tech/startup community.
Roddy Campbell
Founder of Vrumi
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About Vrumi: Vrumi frees microbusinesses, startups & independent outfits of all sorts from the burden of inflexible and costly conventional office rents.
William Sieghart
Founder of Vrumi
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About Vrumi: Vrumi frees microbusinesses, startups & independent outfits of all sorts from the burden of inflexible and costly conventional office rents.
Jolyon Ralph
Founder of Mindat.org
Jolyon is the founder of mindat.org. He started mindat as a personal mineral information database in 1993, which was later launched as a web site in October 2000. He also runs the gemdat.org website with his wife Katya. They have a young son, Roman, born in 2014.
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About Mindat.org: Mindat.org is a mineralogy database and mineralogical reference website on the internet.
Alan Yau
Founder & CEO of Softchow
Alan Yau (OBE) is a seasoned entrepreneur who has created ventures such as Wagamama (2018 valuation $800 Million), Hakkasan (2018 valuation $1.1 Bn & Michelin Star 2002, Exited in 2008), Busaba Eathai (Exited in 2008), Yauatcha (Michelin Star 2005).
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About Softchow, Wagamama: Softchow is a qualitative taste aggregation and discovery marketplace that is community driven.
Pip Jamieson
Founder & CEO of The Dots
Pip Jamieson is the Founder & CEO of The Dots (https://the-dots.com), a professional network for people that don’t wear suits to work -‘dubbed “The next LinkedIn?’ by Forbes. Delightfully Dyslexic with a distinctive marmite laugh (you either love it or you hate it) Pip was named by The Sunday Times as one of the Top 100 Disruptive Entrepreneurs innovating in their respective fields & as one of the trailblazing leaders having a positive impact on the world. Being a dyslexic sole female tech founder, Pip has put promoting social responsibility and helping business build diverse teams at the heart of everything they do! 68% + of The Dots community is female, 31% + BAME & 16% + LGBT+. The Dots also do a lot of work around socioeconomic diversity and neurodiversity to fuel a more balanced industry of the future.
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About The Dots: The professional network for people who don’t wear suits to work.
Germán Bencci
Founder & CEO of CodeYourFuture
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About CodeYourFuture: CodeYourFuture is a non-profit organisation supporting refugees with the dream of becoming developers.
Benji Vaughan
Founder / CEO of Disciple Media
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About Disciple Media: Disciple helps you host, engage and monetise your community on your terms. Create your own community app and gather your customers.
Mat Hunter
Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Plus X
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About Plus X: Plus X creates workspaces that unlock potential, business growth and innovation, community collaboration, and positive social impact.
Lu Li
Founder, CEO of Blooming Founders
Lu Li is the founder of Blooming Founders, a business incubation platform designed for early stage female entrepreneurs and diverse teams. Blooming Founders runs popular events and an award-winning co-working space in Shoreditch that give our members a competitive edge in building and growing their businesses. We offer fundraising support for selected startups. We also offer event and marketing services to corporates and government entities who want to leverage our diverse network. Lu has also published the book Dear Female Founder which contains 66 personal letters of advice written by female entrepreneurs from 20 countries. It is globally available on Amazon and Kindle. In her previous corporate career, Lu has launched FMCG products for Procter & Gamble across Western Europe and has worked on several consulting projects for McKinsey, BMW and T-Mobile.
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About Blooming Founders: Blooming Founders is a business incubation platform designed for early stage female entrepreneurs and diverse teams.
Gurnek Bains
Founder and CEO of Global Future
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About Global Future: Global Future educates, informs, and helps people understand the benefits of globalization.
Charles Michel
Co-Founder of Crossmodalism
Charles is a French/Colombian artist and chef. He conducts research on sensory and food aesthetics in Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. He has published over a dozen papers in scientific journals on the role of the senses perception, and multisensory experience design. At the intersection of science, art and entrepreneurship, Charles aims to inspire solutions for important challenges in the human/food relationship. He is currently part of the Crossmodalism movement in London.
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About Crossmodalism: Crossmodalism is an art, Science and Innovation platform exploring the limits of human creation.
Solitaire Townsend
Co-Founder & Chief Solutionist of Futerra
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About Futerra: To make sustainable development so desirable it becomes normal.
Rishi Sareen
Co-Founder & CEO of Startifi
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About Startifi: The social network for everything startup! A global platform for startups, entrepreneurs and investors!
Ivo Gormley
Founder of Good Gym
Ivo Gormley is the founder and Chief Executive of GoodGym – a social enterprise that combines exercise with social good. Previously Ivo led projects increasing public participation for Local Authorities and NHS Trusts. He has advised on user participation for technology startups in UK and the US. In 2008 he directed the film “Us Now”, a documentary about participatory culture which was broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK, translated into 24 languages and his film The Runners was watched by millions online. He has presented his work to governments worldwide including the French National Assembly, The Hague, the European Union, The Houses of Parliament (UK) and Washington DC. Ivo is a Fellow of the Clore Social Leadership Programme and was a founding Trustee of the Charity Art Against Knives.
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About Good Gym: GoodGym helps you get fit by doing good.
Reede Bob Brewster
Founder of Kyber networks roleplay community
I’m a gamer from the UK who has autism also founder of Kyber networks roleplay community
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About Kyber networks roleplay community: Kyber networks roleplay community is a community on the steam game Garry’s mod Founded in 2019 by Reede Bob Brewster and Bucks
Joslyn Ma
Co-Founder of World Law Forum
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About : An independent, non-partisan, international community of change-makers committed to transform the world through law.
Phil Van Tenac
Founder of RTX – Routetrader
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About Ciptex, First Notification, RTX – Routetrader: RTX is the global voice, call centre and SMS exchange hub for 1000’s of telecom operators around the globe.
Richard Millington
Founder & Managing Director of FeverBee
Richard Millington has spent the past decade helping 250+ companies develop some of the world’s largest online communities. Richard is the founder of FeverBee, an international community consultancy, and the author of Buzzing Communities. Richard’s clients have included Google, Facebook, Oracle, Wikipedia, EMC, Greenpeace, and many more. Prior to FeverBee, Richard interned with Seth Godin in New York.
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About FeverBee: FeverBee provides consultancy, training, and technology to help you build your community.
Simon Maylott
CEO & Co-Founder of Indie Media Labs
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About Indie Media Labs: SaaS digital publishing and distribution service for book publishers and direct to consumer whitelabel all-in-one publishing platform
Matt Bradbeer
COO & Co-Founder of Indie Media Labs
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About Indie Media Labs: SaaS digital publishing and distribution service for book publishers and direct to consumer whitelabel all-in-one publishing platform
Matt Bradbeer
COO & Co-Founder of Indie Media Labs
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About Indie Media Labs: SaaS digital publishing and distribution service for book publishers and direct to consumer whitelabel all-in-one publishing platform
Andy Heald
Co Founder of Gen Community
Andy has 12 years private wealth-management experience – FSA registered. In 2009 he set up Cornwall Renewables, Energy and Management (CREAM) installing and advising on wind and solar PV projects for private and commercial clients. Andy holds an MSc Energy, Environmental Technology & Economics (Merit) from City University, London, a Securities Diploma and a BA Hons Political Theory & Economics (1993). He teaches kite – surfing and organises a monthly beach clean on Fistral beach, Cornwall.
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About Gen Community: Gen Community invest in green ethical low carbon projects with positive social impact, and fair returns for investors.
Claude Borna
Founder and Chief Evangelist of TUIM – The Universe Is Mine
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About TUIM – The Universe Is Mine: We’re a thriving global community matchmaking creative and tech talent to build the future of fashion.
Simon Hills
Co-Founder of Helpfulpeeps
Co-founder of HelpfulPeeps
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About BibShot, Helpfulpeeps: Helpfulpeeps is a social marketplace for local help
Saf Nazeer
Co-Founder and CEO of Helpfulpeeps
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About Helpfulpeeps: Helpfulpeeps is a social marketplace for local help
Susan Burton
Founder & CEO of Classlist.com
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About Classlist.com: Classlist enables parents at the same school to make trusted, secure connections; making their life easier and school communities stronger.
Clare Wright
Co-Founder, Community of Classlist.com
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About Classlist.com: Classlist enables parents at the same school to make trusted, secure connections; making their life easier and school communities stronger.
Dr. Constantina Katsari-Muston
CoFounder and CEO of Startdoms
Tech Entrepreneur, Agile and Lean products, currently running Startdoms, a virtual accelerator for startups
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About Keyping, Startdoms: A community of startups, mentors, business advisors, investors and enthusiasts who support entrepreneurs in their new ventures.
Allan Lloyds
Founder & MD of Product Forge
Founder & Managing Director, Insight Arcade Ltd
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About Product Forge: Product Forge bring together developers, creatives and entrepreneurs to build new products that solve real world problems.
Daniel Ospina
Co-Founder and CEO of Conductal
Daniel is an Organization Designer. Through his company, Conductal, Daniel uses Social System Design to create incentives and processes that spark creativity and enable business agility at scale in startups and established organisations. Beyond Conductal, Daniel is a visiting lecturer on System Design at Oxford University, a Co-founder of Crossmodalism, an Associate Fellow of London University, and a Fellow of the RSA.
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About Conductal: Conductal help smaller organizations to scale and larger ones to manage communities and innovate.
Bridget Greenwood
Founder of The Bigger Pie
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About The Bigger Pie: The Bigger Pie supports women in blockchain and emerging technology.
Anne Bertreau
Co-Founder of Tango Space
Anne Bertreau is the co-founder of Tango Space.
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About Tango Space: Tango Space is an Argentine Tango School
Raphael Mazet
Co-Founder of Alice SI
Multilingual public relations and public affairs consultant specialised in running international corporate communication campaigns. Expertise includes media relations, government relations, M&A communications and digital communications. Currently based in Brazil, advising on corporate communications in Latin America. Specialties:Corporate communications, public relations, public affairs, financial communications, M&A, digital communications
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About Alice SI, CliqStart: Alice SI is using the approach to provide donors
Alice Weightman
Founder & CEO of The Work Crowd
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About The Work Crowd: The Work Crowd is changing the way talented people choose to work and how work finds talented people!
Meir Moalem
Founder and CEO of Sky and Space Global
Meir has a B.Sc. in Physics and Computer Sciences (with honours) and an M.A. from the Diplomacy and National Security executive program (with honours). Currently he is working on his PhD in national security and space programs in Tel Aviv University, Israel. Meir has also received the Israel National Defence award in 2009.
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About MultiModis, Sky and Space Global: Sky and Space Global provides affordable voice, data and instant messaging services to Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime.
Luca Comunian
CMO and Co-Founder of PeopleTrip
Equity Derivatives Marketer @ BNP Paribas – MSc Graduate @Bocconi University
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About PeopleTrip: Peopletrip helps travellers simplify their lives, by accessing a targeted community
Hardy Giesler
Founder & Director of CFPro Ventures
Hardy is an experienced executive with a track record in delivering accelerated growth and performance transformation. Results have been achieved across a broad base of sectors and industries, having worked in public and private sectors, manufacturing and service industries. He has over 25 years of experience gained in more than 30 countries, particularly in EMEA, North America, Far East and the FSU.
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About CFPro Ventures: CFPro Ventures bridges the gap between businesses seeking growth opportunities, and the investment community.
Mel Bound
Founder and CEO of This Mum Runs
Mel is an innovator and a disruptor, full of ideas and hugely passionate about inspiring women who don’t believe exercise could be for them. A Mum of two, sports science graduate and qualified coach, she’s been running since she was 10 and especially loves very muddy trail running.
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About This Mum Runs: This Mum Runs is a fast growing, profitable women’s running brand.
Dan Ebanks
Co-Founder and CEO of Firesouls
Dan Ebanks is a cofounder and CEO and leads on concept design, business development and investment
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About Firesouls: Firesouls is online exchange that brings together government suppliers and local civic projects to create social value.
Anne Jenkin
Founder & Co-Chairwoman of Women2Win
Baroness Jenkin became a peer in 2011 is recognition of her charity work. She is the chairwoman of both the Conservative Friends of International Development and the Sustainable Resource APPG. She is founder and co-chairwoman of Women2Win, an organisation which aims to encourage more women to become Conservative MPs. Baroness Jenkin has worked for the Prince’s Trust in the past and represents the Albert Hall on certain matters. As a member of the Lords, she has asked questions recently on AIDS and HIV, Millennium Development Goals, and development both related to health and poverty. In May 2011, she took part in the ‘Live below the line’ campaign, living on £1 per day for a week. She was elected to the Board of Trustees in February 2013.
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About Women2Win: Women2Win is an organization that works to bring equality to parliament by mentoring conservative women for a variety of public offices.
Hans Wiberg
Founder & boardmember of Be My Eyes
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About Be My Eyes: Be My Eyes is a free app that connects blind and low-vision people with sighted volunteers and companies.
Maria Baibakova
Founder & Director of Baibakov Art Projects
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About Baibakov Art Projects: Baibakov Art Projects is a contemporary art organization with a mission of supporting Russian artists globally.
Louise Campbell
Founder of Foodnation
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About Craft Nation, Foodnation: Discover your food community
Louise Harris
Co-Founder and Director of Tramshed Tech
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About Tramshed Tech: A space designed to promote collaboration between some of the finest creative businesses in Wales.
Thierry Clarke
Founder & CEO of InvestorConnected
Thierry Clarke is the founder and CEO of InvestorConnected. He is also the lead consultant of EBRD. He earned his degree at Queen Mary University of London.
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About InvestorConnected: InvestorConnected is an online community where entrepreneurs and investors combine their resources to build successful businesses together.
Russ Shaw
Founder of Tech London Advocates
Russ Shaw is the founder of Tech London Advocates and Global Tech Advocates. He originally founded Tech London Advocates in 2013 to give the private sector in tech an independent voice. Since then he has been championing London as a global tech hub and campaigning to address some of the biggest challenges facing tech companies in the UK – diversity, digital skills, immigration, infrastructure and access to funding. Key achievements for Tech London Advocates (TLA) include successfully campaigning for the introduction of a Chief Digital Officer for London and placing digital jobs on the Shortage Occupation List for the first time. Russ is a founding partner of London Tech Week, a London Tech Ambassador for the Mayor of London and Advisory Board member for Founders4Schools and the Government’s Digital Skills Partnership. He is a Trustee for Modern Muse Charity, which supports young women and girls who want to study STEM subjects. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the success of London’s tech ecosystem and has been invited to tech hubs around the world to share his experience. In 2016, Russ created Global Tech Advocates, which now licenses the TLA operating model to countries around the world, including Scandinavia, Belfast, the Bay Area, the North of England, Singapore, Shanghai, Spain and Bogotá. Russ was previously the Chairman of The Marketing Group of Great Britain following senior positions at Skype, Telefónica, O2 and CEO of a later stage startup called Mobileway. In his role as Marketing Director for O2, Russ brokered the relationship with The O2, the most successful indoor venue in the world. He is an angel and venture investor and has been non-executive director of a number of high growth businesses, including Dialog Semiconductor and Unwire. He has a BS from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Tech London Advocates: Supporting technology start-ups in finding new investment, new talent and achieving high growth.
Kathrin Burckhardt
Co-Founder of Cat in a Flat
Kathrin is a Co-founder of the Award Winning start-up CatinaFlat.com, UK’s fastest growing Cat Sitter Community that connects cat owners with insured, cat-loving sitters in their neighbourhood.
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About Cat in a Flat: Cat in a Flat The best way to find trusted cat sitters in your area.
Julie Barnes
Co-Founder of Cat in a Flat
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About Cat in a Flat: Cat in a Flat The best way to find trusted cat sitters in your area.
Katie Massie-Taylor
Founder of Mush
Katie Massie-Taylor is the Founder of Mush.
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About Mush: Mush is an online social platform that enables mothers to meet other mothers with kids the same age.
Michael Ballard
Founder of Genie
Founder of Genie.
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About Genie: Genie is a social search application that allows the user to get personalized recommendations or give answers based on their experience.
