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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Founder operating in the Food and Beverage 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.
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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Anton Soulier
Founder & CEO of Taster
Anton Soulier is the Founder of Taster. He is a former Business Development, Business Operations Manager, Regional Manager, and Deputy General Manager France at Deliveroo. Mr. Soulier received a master’s degree in Finance at NEOMA Business School.
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About Taster: Taster is a food delivery company that operates dozens of restaurants that only exist on food delivery platforms.
Anthony Pile
Founder and Chairman of Blue Skies Holdings
Anthony Pile is the Founder and Chairman of Blue Skies, a leading manufacturer of fresh-cut fruit, freshly squeezed juice, and dairy-free ice-cream, with eleven operations in seven countries, including Ghana, Egypt, South Africa, Ivory Coast and Senegal. Blue Skies supplies leading retailers around the world, including Waitrose and Sainsbury’s in the UK, Albert Heijn in the Netherlands and Carrefour in France. The company is built on the principle of value-adding at source. This means that Blue Skies aims to make the finished product in the countries where the fruit grows, rather than exporting only the raw material and processing it elsewhere. By doing this it believes that 75% of the value of the finished product remains in the country of origin, as opposed to only 15% if processed overseas. This approach also enables the business to deliver a better quality fruit that is delivered ‘fresh from harvest, from farm to store within as little as 36 hours. Anthony was a soldier in the British Army for 13 years and saw active service in the Middle East, Northern Ireland and Cyprus. He has been a magistrate, attended the post graduate Sloan Fellowship Programme at the London Business School and was the Managing Director of Orchard House Foods from 1989 to 1996. In 1997 he founded Blue Skies in Ghana and has grown the company over the last 20 years into a company employing over 6,000 people with a turnover of £100m.
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About Blue Skies Holdings: Blue Skies Holdings produces, prepares, and markets fresh-cut fruit and fruit juices to retailers and supermarkets worldwide.
Jason Torres
Co-Founder & CTO of Slerp
Jason Torres is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Slerp.
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About Slerp: Slerp is an e-commerce platform for the hospitality industry.
Bashar Aboudaoud
Co-Founder and CSO of Brinc
Bashar is an entrepreneur that has established several businesses in Hong Kong, Guangzhou and London. From 2002-2009 he co-founded Ecico Group’s Hong Kong procurement business and established major clients in Europe and the Middle East. In 2005 he founded Cicero Capital that invested in prime real estate in Guangzhou and London. Cicero Capital built up an investment portfolio of high end residential and commercial properties in Guangzhou that caters to foreign multinationals and local state owned enterprises requirements. Bashar also entered the F&B business in 2008 and opened his first restaurant in Guangzhou.
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About Brinc, Brinc Accelerator of Accelerators: Brinc is a leader in global venture acceleration, operating 18 multidisciplinary accelerator programs in 7 countries.
Nick Holzherr
Founder & CEO of Whisk
Whisk helps turn food inspiration into meals on the table, through software that makes the process seamless for users. Nick now leads Whisk at Samsung NEXT, Samsung’s software and innovation division. Before Whisk was acquired by Samsung in March 2019, Whisk had grown from a team of 2 to 32, integrating the world’s largest food ecosystem players in the US, UK, Australia and Germany. As a serial entrepreneur, Nick raised over $2m in VC funding to first found Whisk after pitching Whisk.com to Lord Sugar in the final of the BBC Apprentice 2012, where he achieved the series’ best task-win record. In 2017 Nick was awarded an honorary doctorate from Aston University. Nick and his businesses have been featured in leading publications including Newsweek, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The BBC and The Next Web.
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About Air, Samsung NEXT, Whisk: Whisk powers the creation, discovery, personalization, and monetization of food content online, in-store, and at home.
Benjamina Bollag
Founder & CEO of HigherSteaks
Benjamina is the CEO of London-based food tech start-up Higher Steaks, which she founded in 2017. Previously, Benjamina co-founded a London-based B2B electronics company selling to FTSE500 companies. Benjamina has also worked at Israeli 3D printing company, Stratasys, at the digital marketing division of PepsiCo’s joint venture with Strauss and was the lead developer an ed-tech startup. Benjamina holds a Master of Chemical Engineering from the Imperial College, where she completed a project focusing on the design of a peptide plant, conducting a lab-based research on synthesis and liquid exfoliation of graphitic carbon nitride
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About HigherSteaks, Zestful: HigherSteaks is about providing with that juicy, tender, and delicious meat they love but without harming their health, planet, and animals.
Jonathan Petrides
Founder and CEO of AllPlants
Jonathan Petrides is Co-Founder of Allplants.
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About AllPlants: AllPlants is a VC-backed B-Corp on a mission to become Earth’s most forward-thinking food company.
Alex Petrides Petrides
Founder of AllPlants
Alex loves to launch and run projects that spread positivity, openness and compassion. He kickstarted his career as employee #1 at Propercorn, building the brand from scratch to serving over 3 million colourful packs of popcorn each month across Europe. He left the world of popcorn late last year to launch allplants with his brother, JP. Allplants prepare and deliver delicious, plant-powered eats to your home, fresh frozen, ready to go. From a spicy Jerk Jackfruit Curry to a Creamy Cashew Mac, they’ve delivered over 60,000 meals this year and are primed to hit 2018 with a bang.
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About AllPlants: AllPlants is a VC-backed B-Corp on a mission to become Earth’s most forward-thinking food company.
John M. Foraker
Co- Founder & CEO of Once Upon a Farm
John Foraker is the Co- Founder & CEO at Once Upon a Farm .
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About Once Upon a Farm: Once Upon a Farm creates quality, eco-friendly, and nutritious food products for children.
James Watt
Co-Founder of BrewDog
James Bruce Watt co-founded BrewDog PLC in 2006 and serves as its Managing Director. James Watt has been Executive Director of BrewDog PLC since November 7, 2006.
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About BrewDog: BrewDog is a craft beer brewery that produces bottled and canned beers in a variety of styles.
Martin Dickie
Co-Founder of BrewDog
Martin Dickie is the co-founder of the rebellious craft beer and bar company BrewDog along with his business partner James Watt. Dickie is fully qualified master brewer, who is the driving force behind the company’s beer range. He frequently collaborates with other breweries such as Three Floyds, Stone and Mikkeller.
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About BrewDog: BrewDog is a craft beer brewery that produces bottled and canned beers in a variety of styles.
Julian Hearn
Founder of Huel
Julian Hearn is an internet entrepreneur, marketer, and dad from Aylesbury, England. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a BA (Hons) in 1996 and then went on to work in online marketing for 11 years for the likes of Tesco.com, Starbucks and Waitrose. He started his first internet business in 2008 with an initial £1500 investment, and within 18 months it attracted over 1 million monthly visits and was successfully sold within 3 years. Always passionate about sport and fitness Julian’s next startup was Bodyhack, a health and fitness website. He acted as a human guinea pig for Bodyhack, obeyed a strict diet plan and exercised no more than three hours/week for 3 months. This experience led to the realisation that fitness was 80% diet and 20% exercise. But he found eating healthily time consuming and felt bad about all the animal protein he was consuming. So he looked for a better way. Huel was born out of this research. Julian is now the Founder of Huel, a nutritionally complete food.
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About Huel, Mycouponcodes.com, Mycouponcodes.com, Promotionalcodes.org.uk: Huel provides nutritionally-complete food products.
James Collier
Co-Founder & Head of Nutrition of Huel
James Collier is the co-founder and head of nutrition at Huel.
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About Huel: Huel provides nutritionally-complete food products.
Asad Khan
Founder & Owner Snowflake Luxury Gelato of Snowflake Luxury Gelato
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About Snowflake Luxury Gelato: UK producer, wholesaler and retailer of luxury gelato.
Ross Mendham
Founder & Managing Director of Bare Naked Foods
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About Bare Naked Foods: Bare Naked Foods sells low carbohydrate, low fat, low calories, gluten free and sugar free products.
Timo Boldt
Founder and CEO of Gousto
Timo is the co-founder and CEO of Gousto, which he started in 2012 as an easier way for families to cook and share good food together.A few years – and a LOT of recipe boxes – later, and it’s pretty clear that he was onto something… Timo’s interests include gender equality, sustainability, technology and food (of course!).
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About Gousto: Gousto is an online meal-kit manufacturer and retailer, using AI and automation to provide extensive choice and personalisation.
Tom Simmons
Founder & CEO of Supplant
Tom has over 10 years of experience in carbohydrate biochemistry. He formerly held fellowships at the University of Cambridge and at the World Economic Forum and has advocated sugar reduction initiatives through Sky News and Channel 4 television appearances.
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About Cambridge Judge Business School, Supplant: Supplant is a biotechnology platform that makes sugar substitutes.
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.
Kelu Liu
Founder & CEO of HungryPanda
Kelu Liu is the Founder & CEO at HungryPanda.
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About HungryPanda: HungryPanda is a Chinese food and grocery delivery company with extensive market coverage.
Ross Mackay
CEO & Co-Founder of Daring Foods
Ross Mackay is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Daring Foods.
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About Daring Foods: Daring Foods provides plant-based chicken products as a food alternative.
David Abrahamovitch
Founder & CEO of Grind
The first of the Grinds, Shoreditch Grind was born when David turned a stand-alone perfectly circular building perched on the edge of Old Street Roundabout, into an Espresso Bar. A UCL Economics graduate, David has extensive business experience in previous roles.
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About Grind: Founded in Shoreditch in 2011, Grind & Co. has since opened espresso bars, cocktail bars, restaurants and recording studios across London.
Jonathan Relph
Founder & CEO of VITL
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About VITL: On a mission to make healthy living more achievable, providing beautifully designed, expertly researched nutritional products and content.
Mohammad Khodadadi
Founder / CEO of SATIS.AI
Mohammad Khodadadi is a Director/Chief of data, Technologist, Entrepreneur. Mo is an accomplished technologist and entrepreneur with over 15 years of industry experience that includes building and managing large teams, designing complex AI oriented data architectures, and leading high-growth intelligence-driven businesses. His interests include applying artificial intelligence and machine learning concepts to health and biotech and developing cognitive ecosystems capable of contextual deduction from data for actionable suggestions. Prior to joining Babylon, he founded and ran um.ai, a food advisor that tracks/suggest what you eat. He was also CTO at Klappo, a semantic platform for food ingredients, enabling the development of applications that help people to make educated choices about what they consume. He completed his PhD in Computer Science, speciality in formal methods, and his MSC in Bioinformatic at The University of Manchester. He is also one of the first of 100 tech exceptional talent visa holders in the UK and the winner of sirius enterprenurship competition by UK Trade and Investment ministry.
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About SATIS.AI: Food that makes sense | Delicious, Nutritious and affordable, while green and fair
Amir Ofer
Founder & President of mySupermarket
Amir Ofer is Founder & President at mySupermarket.
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About mySupermarket: mySupermarket designs a supermarket shopping and comparison website that helps users to compare prices across different stores.
Jamie Crummie
Co-Founder and Director of Too Good To Go
Jamie Crummie is the Co-founder and Director of Too Good To Go.
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About Too Good To Go, Too Good To Go: Too Good To Go develops an app for fighting food waste and saving delicious food.
Ben Patten
Founder & CEO of Good Club
Founded a number of businesses. Main skills are articulating a vision, finding the necessary resources and creating the foundations for growth. Recently studied the product management process to understand how to improve the success rate of creating a digital product. Worked closely with a number of different funding sources. Creating a business that brings sustainability to a mainstream audience. Loves swimming outdoors
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About Good Club: Good Club is a Zero Waste supermarket that offers different brands and sells groceries in reusable packaging.
Danny Blackman
Co-Founder & CPO of Good Club
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About Good Club: Good Club is a Zero Waste supermarket that offers different brands and sells groceries in reusable packaging.
Gerry Ford
Founder & CEO of Caffè Nero
Gerry Ford is an American businessman, founder, and Chief Executive of Caffè Nero. It is the UK’s third-largest coffee chain.
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About Caffè Nero: Caffè Nero is a European coffee house brand specialising in the creation of high quality Italian coffee.
Annika Monari
Founder & CEO of Coral
MSci Physics, Imperial College London. Thesis in particle detection using artificial intelligence at CMS, CERN and the High Energy Physics Group, Imperial.
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About Coral: Coral is an unique wholesale tool that allows shops to carry the newest and most delicious items without taking any risks.
Mark Roberts
Founder & Director of Beer Hawk
Mark Roberts, co-founder of Beer Hawk, the UK’s leading craft beer retailer, is a rare breed of entrepreneur who masters uniting board-level B2C marketing experience with e-commerce and digital innovation. Before embarking on his own entrepreneurial journey, Mark built his commercial and innovation skills at a number of global and blue-chip companies including Direct Wines, Lloyds Banking Group, HBOS and Procter & Gamble. He has led Beer Hawk on a consistent fast-track growth trajectory over the past 7 years from nothing to a turnover of £20million this year. In 2016 Beer Hawk became part of ZX Ventures.
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About Beer Hawk, ZX Ventures: Beer Hawk is a specialist online retailer of bottled beer.
Alessandro Savelli
Founder, MD and CEO of Pasta Evangelists
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About Pasta Evangelists: Pasta Evangelists is freshly made by Italian hands every day.
Chris Rennoldson
COO, Co-Founder, Head of Operations and Finance of Pasta Evangelists
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About Pasta Evangelists: Pasta Evangelists is freshly made by Italian hands every day.
Finn Lagun
Co-Founder & CMO of Pasta Evangelists
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About Pasta Evangelists: Pasta Evangelists is freshly made by Italian hands every day.
Stephen Finch
Founder and Managing Director of Vagabond Wines
Stephen Finch is the Founder and Director of VAGABOND and BOXCAR
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About BOXCAR, Vagabond Wines: Vagabond Wines is owns and operates wine bars and shops in the United Kingdom.
Siddhi Mittal
Co-Founder of yhangry
Siddhi Mittal is the Co-Founder of Yhangry.
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About yhangry: yhangry is a private chef platform where users can book a professional chef to come cook for them at home
Giles Humphries
Founder, CMO of Mindful Chef
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About Mindful Chef: Mindful Chef delivers all the fresh ingredients you need to create delicious, heathy meals.
Robert Grieg-Gran
Founder of Mindful Chef
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About Mindful Chef: Mindful Chef delivers all the fresh ingredients you need to create delicious, heathy meals.
Myles Hopper
Founder, Director of Mindful Chef
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About Mindful Chef: Mindful Chef delivers all the fresh ingredients you need to create delicious, heathy meals.
Thorsten Hagemann
Co-Founder of AliveBiome Ltd
Thorsten Hagemann is an accomplished medical professional and entrepreneur with over 17 years of experience within the healthcare industry. An innovative, investigative forward thinker, Hagemann is passionate about identifying and creating new opportunities that aim to improve general health and prevent illnesses. Hagemann is the Founder of MedAdvise Ltd., a consultancy company focused on the education of the general public and prevention of illness through functional medicine. With an understanding that very few of doctors contribute to preventative medicine, Hagemann was motivated to learn more about the prevention of illness and use this information to educate others so they can live more prosperous lives. Through a deep understanding of the microbiome, Thorsten Hagemann has become a leading research expert and advocate for the health of this community of bacteria living inside our bodies. Not only does he find the subject fascinating, Thorsten understands the importance of treating it just like any other major medical area of study as it has an enormous impact on the health of our bodies. Thorsten is also an advocate for education when it comes to the microbiome, having a passion for showing people how keeping your microbiome healthy can increase overall health and wellness. Through his research, Thorsten Hagemann has found that having an unbalanced microbiome can lead to insomnia, anxiety, depression, loss of focus, obesity, diabetes, and even cancer. With preventive care and a balanced microbiome, the human body can experience better digestion, a drop in mood swings, and a healthier immune system. Hagemann hopes to teach as many people as possible about the benefits of a balanced microbiome through his work and research. Thorsten Hagemann was also recently given the opportunity to co-found another company surrounding microbiome research, called AliveBiome. This company’s focus is to give people direct access to nutrients and supplements that can improve the health of their microbiome. By taking care of the microbiome and supplementing it with the proper diet and exercise, AliveBiome and Thorsten Hagemann believe that one’s health can dramatically improve and even prevent further disease and illness. Thorsten Hagemann is also an avid cyclist. Seeing the happiness that the sport brought to other members of his family, Thorsten began biking himself. He has trained for several major cycling events, including the Paris-Roubaix in Northern France; one of the world’s oldest cycling races. The combination of a full body work-out, the joy of riding, and the chance to see the world has kept Thorsten attached to the sport.
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About AliveBiome Ltd, MedAdvise Ltd.: Food as Medicine
Brian Crowther
Co-Founder of AliveBiome Ltd
Brian Crowther is the Co-Founder at AliveBiome Ltd.
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About AliveBiome Ltd: Food as Medicine
Josh White
Co-Founder & Marketing Director of CanO Water
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About CanO Water: A resealable can of natural spring water offered as still or sparkling, created as a highly recyclable alternative to plastic water bottles
Ariel Booker
Co-Founder & Sales & Distribution of CanO Water
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About CanO Water: A resealable can of natural spring water offered as still or sparkling, created as a highly recyclable alternative to plastic water bottles
Perry Alexander Fielding
Co-Founder of CanO Water
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About CanO Water: A resealable can of natural spring water offered as still or sparkling, created as a highly recyclable alternative to plastic water bottles
Daniel Khoury
Co-Founder of TRIP
Daniel Khoury is the Co-Founder at TRIP.
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About TRIP: TRIP is a CBD drinks and oils brand with products that brings an amazing flavor for a more productive and less stressed feeling.
Olivia Ferdi
Co-Founder of TRIP
Olivia Ferdi is the Co-Founder at TRIP.
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About TRIP: TRIP is a CBD drinks and oils brand with products that brings an amazing flavor for a more productive and less stressed feeling.
Amelia Harvey
Co-Founder and Director of The Collective Dairy
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About The Collective Dairy: The Collective Dairy Their quest was simple… create an extraordinary yoghurt with an unbeatable taste!.
Matthew Cockerill
Creative Director and Head of Studio of Swift Creatives
Matthew is a well-established designer who has been creating world-leading products and experiences for over 20 years. Working internationally across multiple sectors to help brands increase their business value through innovation and the design of physical and digital products and experiences. His work includes consumer electronics, healthcare, domestic appliances, alcoholic beverages, endurance sports, transportation and environments. He created the world’s first ethical and modular smartphone for Fairphone which won a Cannes Lion award in 2017, imagined future lifestyles and product categories for Samsung Electronics, created luxurious whisky experiences for Diageo, retail activations for Gatorade, award experiences for Google and helped define the passenger experience at Heathrow T5. Matthew regularly brings his innovative thinking to the wider world through speaking at conferences, panel talks, commentating in the press, university lecturing and judging industry events, including the steering group for the 2017/18 Cannes Lion Award. Before joining Swift Creatives, Matthew was a board director at Seymourpowell for 10 years and has worked in-house in Seoul, South Korea for Samsung Electronics.
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About Swift Creatives: Swift Creatives is an international design studio, helping brands create innovative designs and meaningful experiences
Craig Johnston
CTO & Co-Founder of ENOUGH
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About ENOUGH, Swedish Biomimetics 3000: ENOUGH is a foodtech startup producing protein through fermenting fungi using renewable feedstocks.
Simon Beckerman
Founder and CEO of Delli
Simon Beckerman is the founder of Depop, a peer-to-peer social shopping app based in London.
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About Delli, Depop: Delli offers a variety of food and beverages.
Jeremy Hibbert-Garibaldi
Founder & CEO of Collectiv Food
Founder and CEO at Collectiv Food .
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About Collectiv Food: Collectiv Food is an automated and sustainable food supply chain that provides businesses with transparency and lower costs of ingredients
Eliza Becton
Co-Founder | Head of Product of Bevi
Eliza Becton is our CEO and product lead.Her background is in user-experience design at various startups,with end-to-end experiences from ideation to market research to prototyping. Eliza graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a Masters in Industrial Design, and from Yale University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering.
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About Bevi: Bevi is a smart water dispenser that customizes flavored and sparkling beverages on demand.
Sean Grundy
Co-Founder, CEO of Bevi
Redesigning the beverage supply chain @Bevi. Previously, 3 years experience managing environmental projects.MIT Sloan MBA, Princeton undergrad.
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About Bevi, Hydration Labs: Bevi is a smart water dispenser that customizes flavored and sparkling beverages on demand.
Everest Troost-Ekong
Co-Founder & CEO of Food Drop
Everest Troost-Ekong is the Co-Founder and CEO at Food Drop.
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About Food Drop: A tech platform to connect stores with unsold food to local charities
Miranda Khamis
Co-Founder & COO of Food Drop
Miranda Khamis is the Co-Founder and COO at Food Drop.
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About Food Drop: A tech platform to connect stores with unsold food to local charities
James Davidson
Co-Founder and CEO of Tails.com
James Davidson is Co-Founder & CEO at Tails.com.
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About Tails.com: Tails.com is an online pet nutrition service that provides tailor-made food designed to deliver perfectly optimised nutrition for dogs.
Steve Webster
Co-Founder & Director of Technology of Tails.com
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About Tails.com: Tails.com is an online pet nutrition service that provides tailor-made food designed to deliver perfectly optimised nutrition for dogs.
Joel Watt
Co-Founder of Rooser
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About Rooser: Rooser connects seafood buyers and suppliers across Europe, providing them with the tools they need to trade efficiently.
Jamie McCloskey
Founder of Love Brands, Inc.
Jamie McCloskey is the founder at LOVE CORN LIMITED.
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About Love Brands, Inc.: Love Brands manufactures packaged roasted corn products.
James Browm
Founder & CEO of Beer52
James Browm is a CEO & Founder of Beer52.com.
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About Beer52: Beer52 is the UK’s most popular craft beer club.
Fraser Doherty
Co-Founder of Beer52
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About Beer52, SuperJam: Beer52 is the UK’s most popular craft beer club.
Hugo Campbell
Co-Founder of Feast It
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About Feast It: Feast It is an online marketplace that allows its customers to book independent caterers for their work or social events.
Digby Vollrath
CEO & Co-Founder of Feast It
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About Feast It, Lick, Sellar, Smithsonian Institution: Feast It is an online marketplace that allows its customers to book independent caterers for their work or social events.
Neil Potts
Founder of The Vurger Co.
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About The Vurger Co.: The Vurger Co. is one of the UK’s fastest-growing vegan food brands.
Rachel Hugh
Co-Founder of The Vurger Co.
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About The Vurger Co.: The Vurger Co. is one of the UK’s fastest-growing vegan food brands.
Maximilian Mayer
Co-Founder & MD of Redi
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About Global Founders Capital, Redi: Mobile click & collect for food
Lucy Cardwell
Founder of Lucky Cloud Skincare
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About Lucky Cloud Skincare: Lucky Cloud Skincare is a natural, vegan friendly skin care company based in Edinburgh.
Mark Gavhure
Co-Founder of chicken2me
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About chicken2me: Chicken2Me is the world’s first chicken shop app.
Tsewang Wangkang
Co-Founder of Embargo
Tsewang is the visionary. Tibetan by origin, born in India and raised in Switzerland, his background is multi-faceted. He studied finance at the University of Zurich and went onto work in London, Hong Kong and Switzerland for several, multi-national bulge, bracket banks. He has spent over nine years in Investment Banking at JP Morgan and UBS, where he led a number of major mergers and acquisitions as well as capital market transactions. Tsewang also established the regional franchise and promoted strategic equity solutions in Europe. As co-founder of Embargo, one of his key strengths is knowing how to lead the business, identify its needs, as well as find solutions. Since launching the business, Tsewang implements his high-level expertise to continuously drive innovation across all elements of the company.
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About Embargo: Beacon powered loyalty app and SaaS/CRM system for hospitality businesses and customers
Kizito Okelue
CEO & Founder of KODGAV
Kizito is the Founder of KODGAV. Before structuring KODGAV as limited liability company in October 2019, he worked as a sole proprietor developing business strategies. Beyond being an Entrepreneur he’s a fitness avid and creative.
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About KODGAV, KODGAV UK: Agtech platform creating new data driven food systems by integrating African smallholder farmers into a global supply chain.
Max Dubiel
Director and Founder of Redemption Roasters
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About Redemption Roasters: Redemption Roasters is a specialty coffee company.
Ted Rosner
Founder of Redemption Roasters
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About Redemption Roasters: Redemption Roasters is a specialty coffee company.
Dave Ruddy
Founder of Biochemica Water
Ruddy has over 16 years experience in the water treatment industry, having started his early career as a chemist. Specialising in boiler and cooling water treatment, Dave is heavily involved in the development of Biochemica’s industry innovations and led the company’s award-winning Bio Pack Clean development project from concept to delivery, as well as other product and technology ventures. Ruddy has particular expertise in the treatment of industrial cooling water applications and specifically, High Pressure boiler water treatment for which he is one of only a small amount of specialists in the UK. An extremely driven and passionate individual, Ruddy excels at problem-solving which enables him to identify the cause of an issue and the best method of system optimisation through chemical applications. As the water industry evolves, Ruddy is eager to progress diversification within Biochemica Water, such as by replacing traditional chemicals with environmental concepts, and taking a focused approach to sustainability. As well as heading up Biochemica alongside business partner Dr Tim Robinson, Ruddy sits on the Leadership Team for the North East Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC). This strategic thrust team aims to provide industry leadership to define and prioritise the requirements of sustaining and attracting new process industries to the North East of England.
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About Biochemica Water: Biochemica Water is the largest independently owned water treatment company,
Tim Robinson
Founder of Biochemica Water
Robinson has a PhD in Environmental Biotechnology and over 13 years solid experience in water treatment. With over 20 published research articles and book chapters from his time in academia, he has specific experience in the chemistry, microbiology and process technology of industrial wastewater treatment systems. Starting his career in academia, Robinson initially developed novel methods and technologies for the treatment of industrial textile dye effluents before expanding his skill base into other areas of water treatment and beyond. Robinson is an internationally published and peer reviewed author in subjects ranging from fermentation technology, membrane bioreactors (MBRs), odour treatments, enzymatic and molecular microbiology, remediation and process technologies. He was also part of Cranfield University’s prestigious MBR and Odour research groups during his tenure as post-doctoral researcher. During his time working in the industrial sector, Robinson developed his skills in speciality chemicals and their application, as well as sales and commercial acumen. From this grew supply chain development, business strategy and company start-up skills which ultimately led to the formation of Biochemica Water Ltd with Ruddy. Robinson has a wealth of experience within the field of wastewater treatment and has a keen interest in tackling issues relating to anaerobic digestion. More recently, he spearheaded Biochemica’s environmentally-friendly division, Ecochemica. Together, Ruddy and Robinson have grown Biochemica from a fledgling business to an award-winning and nationwide operation, with interests and experience in a host of industries from food and beverage, municipal, aggregates, power generation, chemical, pharmaceutical, paper, manufacturing and more.
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About Biochemica Water: Biochemica Water is the largest independently owned water treatment company,
Oliver Pugh
Founder of YETiCO
Oliver Pugh is the founder of YETiCO.
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About YETiCO: We build software for card machines that solves real world problems.
Sakiko Reuterskiold
Founder of Nomosu
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About Nomosu, tripd.in: Nomosu is manufacturer of rusks and biscuits.
B. Nick Popovici
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Vita Mojo
B. Nick Popovici is the Co Founder and Managing Director of Vita Mojo.
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About Founders Pledge, Vita Mojo: Vita Mojo’s menu allows anyone to eat for anyones’ individualized needs.
Stefan Catoiu
Co-Founder & COO of Vita Mojo
Stefan Catoiu is the Co-Founder and COO of Vita Mojo.
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About Vita Mojo: Vita Mojo’s menu allows anyone to eat for anyones’ individualized needs.
Fuad Fatullaev
CEO and Founder of Bringit
Key Expertise: Strategy, Business Development, Logistics&Operations, Team Building
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About Bringit: The very latest and most advanced on-demand food and groceries delivery service in London, UK
Jack Latus
Co-Founder of Whey Box
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About LATUS Health, LATUS Training, Whey Box: Whey Box is a food and beverages company that specializes in providing protein powder.
Robert Martineau
Co-Founder of TRIBE
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About TRIBE: Tribe Pack // Monday delivery of five nutrient-rich snacks and inspiration for runners. Run Tribe // Running community.
Guy Hacking
Co-Founder of TRIBE
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About TRIBE: Tribe Pack // Monday delivery of five nutrient-rich snacks and inspiration for runners. Run Tribe // Running community.
Tim Waldron
Co-Founder and Trustee of TRIBE
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About Fimatix, OBR Ventures Ltd, TRIBE: Tribe Pack // Monday delivery of five nutrient-rich snacks and inspiration for runners. Run Tribe // Running community.
Tom Stancliffe
Co-Founder of TRIBE
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About TRIBE: Tribe Pack // Monday delivery of five nutrient-rich snacks and inspiration for runners. Run Tribe // Running community.
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Director and Co-Founder of Change Please
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About Change Please: Change Please is empowering the homeless community by training them as baristas and giving them jobs.
Cemal Ezel
Founder of Change Please
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About Change Please: Change Please is empowering the homeless community by training them as baristas and giving them jobs.
Ben Scott-Robinson
Co-Founder and CEO of The Small Robot Company
Ben is the founder of The Small Robot Company. We have a mission to help farmers feed the world while regenerating the planet. We call this the Fourth Agricultural Revolution. Our service of robots, are called Tom Dick and Harry, and the brains of the operation, Wilma. Previously he ran Ordnance Survey’s internal agency creating beautiful products and campaigns with the world’s best maps. Before that, Ben started many startups, and worked as Creative and Experience Director at Top 10 digital agencies such as Digitas and Sapient.
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About The Small Robot Company: The Small Robot Company is delivering per plant farming for the world’s largest crops.
Sam Watson Jones
Co-Founder and President of The Small Robot Company
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About The Small Robot Company: The Small Robot Company is delivering per plant farming for the world’s largest crops.
Graeme Hossie
Founder & Co-CEO of Mr Lee’s Pure Foods Co
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About Mr Lee’s Pure Foods Co: Mr Lee’s Pure Foods Co is a real game changer for premium food-on-the-go.
Damien Lee
Founder & CEO of Mr Lee’s Pure Foods Co
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About Mr Lee’s Pure Foods Co, SoluBlue: Mr Lee’s Pure Foods Co is a real game changer for premium food-on-the-go.
Alexandra Chappatte
Founder of Savannah Brands
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About Savannah Brands: Savannah Brands is a food & beverage company.
Joe Zender
Founder & CEO of Nez
Joe Zender is the Head of Growth at Zilch.
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About Nez, Zilch: Nez is a local marketing channel for the eating and drinking out of home sector
Darcey Croft
CEO & Co-Founder of Barenaturals
Co-Founder & CEO of Barenaturals on a mission to impact the world through conscious consumerism & replace lost habitats by planting trees. Lots of trees. Digital Evangelist and social marketing expert.
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About Barenaturals, SocialMushroom: Barenaturals is a world friendly and candle company. They make natural candles & organic skincare balms with nature’s greatest ingredients.
David Bryans
Founder and Products Developer of Barenaturals
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About Barenaturals: Barenaturals is a world friendly and candle company. They make natural candles & organic skincare balms with nature’s greatest ingredients.
Julian Melchiorri
Founder and CEO of Arborea
Julian Melchiorri is an inventor, engineer, and entrepreneur recognized by Forbes as a leading EU social entrepreneur under 30 years of age. Julian is the Founder and CEO of Arborea, a food-tech start-up that applies break-through proprietary biological and chemical engineering technology platforms to produce healthy food ingredients at low-cost and massive scale to help food producers build a food system where everyone eats well. Earlier in his career, Melchiorri designed and engineered both products and manufacturing processes for major Italian lighting production company and for the London high-tech collective ‘’Random International’’, making technology-driven interactive experiments and large scale installations, utilizing a multitude of technologies such as robotic, sensing and hydraulic technologies.
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About Arborea: Arborea is industrialising photosynthesis to expand the world’s food supply
Kishan Vasani
Co-Founder & CEO of Spoonshot
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About Spoonshot: Spoonshot is a developer of a personal discovery platform used to replicate human cognition in the food domain.
Nadine Hellmann
Founder of Little Tummy
After becoming godmother to her best friend’s baby, Nadine realised that there are no fresh, truly nutritious and convenient baby food options available for parents to feed their little ones when life gets hectic. Believing that there should be a more nutritious alternative to the ready-made baby foods on the shelves, Nadine founded Little Tummy
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About Little Tummy: Little Tummy is a meal plan delivery programme that provides parents with fresh, nutrient-dense and balanced baby food made from organic.
Sophie Niedermaier-Patramani
In-house Paediatrician and Co-Founder of Little Tummy
Having trained at University Hospitals in Munich, Harvard and Bern, Sophie has spent the last 3 years working in the NHS and at a private paediatric practice. Having helped lots of families on their weaning journey, she felt there should be more help and support on hand for these parents. Knowing what an immense impact first foods have on her little patients’ development, she became the Co-Founder of Little Tummy.
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About Little Tummy: Little Tummy is a meal plan delivery programme that provides parents with fresh, nutrient-dense and balanced baby food made from organic.
Giacomo Alpago
Co-Founder of EatsReady
Giacomo Alpago is the Co-Founder of EatsReady. Prior to joining EatsReady, He was the Market Analyst at Keyline S.p.A. and Founder & CEO – Product at Betfect. Mr. Alpago graduated from European Business School (EBS) – London with a bachelor’s degree in International Business and received a master’s degree in International Business at Hult International Business School.
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About EatsReady: EatsReady is the marketplace for mobile ordering. Discover the best restaurants, browse menus, pay & collect using our fast-track technology
Fabio Manola
Co-Founder of EatsReady
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About EatsReady: EatsReady is the marketplace for mobile ordering. Discover the best restaurants, browse menus, pay & collect using our fast-track technology
