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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 Gaming 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.
Rob Whitehead
CPO & Co-Founder of Improbable
Robert Whitehead is the Co-Founder & CTO at Improbable. He worked as Cohort Member at Entrepreneur First. He served as Technical Consultant at McKinsey & Company. He was the Founder of TyroTech Software. He also served as Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg LP.
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About Improbable, Improbable: Improbable is a UK-based games technology company that is dedicated to building powerful technology designed to help problems.
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Herman Narula
CEO and Co-Founder of Improbable
Herman Narula is the cofounder and CEO of Improbable, a London-based technology startup born out of Cambridge University. Improbable is creating SpatialOS, a distributed, cloud-based platform for game development that integrates with and augments existing workflows, engines, and tools. SpatialOS empowers developers to build, run and operate previously impossible online games, with unprecedented levels of scale, complexity and persistence. Improbable has investment from some of the world’s most admired venture capitalists. Improbable currently has a team of over 200 people in offices in London and San Francisco, including top software engineering talent from world-renowned academic institutions and companies such as Google, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Microsoft. Founded in 2012, Improbable received $20m in Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz in March 2015, with a $30m follow-on led by Horizons Ventures in July 2015. In May 2017 Improbable announced a $502m Series B funding round, led by SoftBank and including Andreessen Horowitz and Horizons Ventures. Herman holds a computer science degree from Cambridge, and is interested in the potential impact that powerful, virtual worlds will have on how they think, play and make decisions.
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About Improbable: Improbable is a UK-based games technology company that is dedicated to building powerful technology designed to help problems.
Dan Houser
Co-Founder and Vice President of Rockstar Games
Co-Founder and Vice President at Rockstar Games.
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About Rockstar Games: Rockstar Games is a multinational video game development and publishing company.
Tamara Slanova
Co-Founder, CFO of DMarket
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About DMarket: DMarket is a marketplace for NFTs trading and technology for building metaverses.
Jamie Burke
CEO & Founder of Outlier Ventures
Jamie Burke is the chief executive officer of Outlier Ventures.
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About Outlier Ventures: The World’s Leading Open Metaverse Accelerator
Andrew Black
Founder of Flutter Entertainment
Andrew Black formed Betfair in 2000, together with Edward Wray. The company came about after Black had an idea for a fairer way for people to bet against each other rather than with a bookmaker. He turned his idea into a reality, and in doing so created one of the biggest gambling sites on the internet.
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About Flutter Entertainment, Imagine Fashion Window Shopper: Flutter Entertainment is the world’s leading online sports betting and gaming operator.
Niccolo Maisto
Co-Founder & CEO of FaceIT
Niccolo is the co-founder and CEO at FACEIT. He drives the company’s vision, strategy and growth as he assures that the future and the present of the product come together. Under Niccolo’s leadership, FACEIT has expanded to over 5,000,000 users and 12,000,000 game sessions per month on 7 different games, becoming the most active competitive gaming platform in the world. He has a NYU Stern MBA degree and worked in Investment Banking and Private Equity before co-founding FACEIT.
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About FaceIT: FaceIT is the gaming platform for professional competitions within online multiplayer video games.
Michele Attisani
Co-Founder & CBO of FaceIT
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About FaceIT: FaceIT is the gaming platform for professional competitions within online multiplayer video games.
Wil Stephens
Founder, CEO of Fusebox Games
Wil is a Welsh entrepreneur with extensive experience of building transformational businesses in media and interactive entertainment. Wil is currently CEO of Fusebox Games, an interactive entertainment company he co-founded in 2016 that develops and publishes mobile games based on hit TV shows. Wil founded his first business aged 23 and as CEO of Cube TV, led the company to win BAFTAs and Broadcast Digital Awards for their ground-breaking interactive and TV formats. After growing Cube TV to offices in Cardiff and London, he joined the leadership team at New York based video streaming company Boxee to build out their international business, later acquired by Samsung. Wil is an investor in the media and interactive entertainment industry through his holding company, Closs Holdings.
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About Cube Interactive, Fusebox Games: Live the stories you love with Fusebox Games.
Jamie Brooker
Founder & Strategic Advisor of Kahoot!
Jamie Brooker is the Founder & Strategic Advisor at Kahoot!
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About Apps for Good, Kahoot!, The Nordic Web Ventures, We Are Human: Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share, and play fun learning games and trivia quizzes.
Jeremy Longley
CTO & Co Founder of FunFair Technologies
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About FunFair Technologies: FunFair provides blockchain powered solutions to the online gaming industry.
Oliver Hopton
Co Founder & Developer of FunFair Technologies
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About EveryFan, FunFair Technologies: FunFair provides blockchain powered solutions to the online gaming industry.
Sekip Can Gokalp
CEO & Co-Founder of Coda Platform
Şekip Can Gökalp is the founding partner of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network. Gokalp’s previous experience includes his time as a regional business development manager of Netlog and a part-time interactive marketing lecturer. He also contributes regularly to publications related to his field.
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About Coda Platform: Coda Platform is a publishing platform to enable free-to-play and casual mobile games to go to market.
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.
Sameer Baroova
Co Founder & Chief Product Officer of FitXR
A lifelong fan of emerging technologies, Sameer found his flow in the video game industry working on mobile games from their onset, including titles such as Plants vs. Zombies and Bejewelled. Now Sameer uses his design, development, and management skills while building the best workout product on the market. At FitXR, Sameer loves combining immersive technology and AI to create unique personalised experiences that put the fun into fitness.
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About FitXR: FitXR, the leading developer of VR/AR fitness apps, is passionately dedicated to making fitness more fun and accessible for everyone.
Sam Cole
Co-Founder and CEO of FitXR
Sam draws on his experience from consulting and private equity to drive FitXR forward into the uncharted lands of fit tech. Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, Sam was always enchanted by the prospect of building a company. Meeting Sameer at business school kick-started that dream. A lover of all things fitness, Sam is excited to develop a product that will help people access professional workouts, and build healthier communities around the world.
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About FitXR: FitXR, the leading developer of VR/AR fitness apps, is passionately dedicated to making fitness more fun and accessible for everyone.
Matthew Warneford
Founder & CEO of Dubit
Matthew Warneford is the CEO and Founder of Dubit.
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About Dubit, WEARVR: Dubit is a game studio that specializes in games for the metaverse.
Nicolas Gonzalez Keller
Co-Founder of Banger Games
Nicolas Gonzalez Keller is the Co-Founder of Banger Games. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marketing at University of Westminster.
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About Banger Games: Banger is a blockchain-powered gaming platform that provides its users with an array of earning possibilities.
Reece Chowdhry
Founder & CEO of RLC Ventures
Reece is the Founder & CEO of RLC Ventures – an early-stage SEIS/EIS VC fund investing in technology companies primarily focused on Fintech, Enterprise and Gaming. He was awarded “Top 5 Asian Tech Investors” 2018 (KPMG & Diversity UK) and is the youngest-ever investor to profiled by The Sunday Times. Reece is a frequent keynote and panel speaker at prominent industry events such as StartupGrind Europe and Fintech Live. Reece holds a BA in International Business from Durham University and is a Chartered Management Consultant (ACMA, CGMA) having started his career as a Management Consultant at EY. Reece invests personally in all of RLC Ventures’ investments.
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About RLC Ventures: RLC Ventures is an award-winning VC which continues to back founders building global tech companies, from idea to exit.
Thomas Fairey
Founder & CEO of Stakester
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About Stakester: Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.
Leander Hambley
Co-Founder & Lead Developer of Stakester
Leander Hambley is the Co-Founder and Lead Developer at Stakester.
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About Stakester: Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.
Andy Charlton
Co-Founder & Head of Product of Stakester
Andy Charlton is the Co-Founder and Head of Product at Stakester.
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About Stakester: Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.
Ross Nicol
Co-Founder & Chief of Staff of Stakester
Ross Nicol is the Co-Founder and Chief of Staff at Stakester.
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About Stakester: Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.
Andy Davidson
Founder & Commercial Director of Lucid Games
Andy Davidson is a serial tech entrepreneur having co-founded more than 100 tech businesses either directly or through Nova throughout his career. Andy started as a software engineer before his entrepreneurial career where he has spent the past 12 years creating and managing growth-focused EIS & SEIS investment portfolios.
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About Lucid Games, Nova Growth Capital, We Are Nova: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Mark Craig
Founder & Programming Director of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games, Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Pete Wallace
Founder & Studio Head of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Chris Davie
Founder of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Craig Howard
Founder and Creative Director of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Chad Wright
Founder & Technical Director of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Nick Davies
Founder & Production of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Pete O’Brien
Founder & Production Design of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Pete O’Brien
Founder & Production Design of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Justin Wong
Founder & CTO of Battlefy
Justin has been fiddling around with computers since the age of 7 – dialling up to the Internet to adventure in his favourite MUD or to hack away on his websites with PHP 2.0. Justin graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Cognitive Systems degree. Because he’s a big gamer and sports fan, he worked at Electronic Arts helping to create the sports video games that he loves to play himself. Now, combining his passion for gaming and web development, he’s looking forward to revolutionizing the eSports competitive gaming genre as the founder and CTO of Battlefy.
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About Battlefy: Battlefy is the simplest way to find and manage esports competitions.
Tony Pearce
Co-Founder of Reality Gaming Group Limited
Coming from a 25 year background in senior management in the entertainment and gaming industry Tony has an excellent track record as a successful entrepreneur and CEO. Over the past 10 years Tony has raised over £15m in VC funding, started 5 companies and had 2 successful exits. Most recently Tony founded GamesGRABR an innovative platform (web, mobile and tablet) that marries the power and usability of a contemporary ‘pinboard-style’ interface allowing the user to curate their own collections, discover, engage, play and share them with other users with similar interests Previously Tony founded a games company called TeePee Games and developed a technology that allowed users to get recommendations on games across social networks such as Facebook. Tony was the CEO and Co-Founder of Player X and spearheaded the company from a two person start-up in 2004 and developed it into Europe’s largest mobile games distributor. The company was named by Library House as the fourth fastest growing VC backed company in the UK before it was acquired by Spanish mobile content company ZED in April 2009. Tony is also the co-founder of an executive networking event called the Centurions which is aimed at the digital entertainment industry and takes place every two months in London along with events in New York, Istanbul and Munich.
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About Centurions Networking Event, gamesGRABR, Reality Gaming Group Limited, TeePee Games: Reality Gaming Group develop games that connect to the blockchain utilizing digital collectables known as NFT’s (Non Fungible Tokens)
Fausto Zanetton
Co-Founder & CEO of Tifosy
Fausto Zanetton is an Italian raised in Belgium, has spent his career in the finance Industry, where he worked with many media, sports & internet companies globally, most recently at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. Seeing sports clubs struggle to get traditional funding, and the growing tech, social and crowdfunding revolution, sparked the idea of Tifosy in his mind. Fausto has an MBA from London Business School and is a qualified accountant (CPA). He is fluent in several European languages and is a huge fan of Inter Milan.
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About Tifosy: Tifosy helps sports clubs raise funds online by connecting them with a global fan and investor base
James Pollock
Co-Founder, CMO & Head of UK of Tifosy
A veteran of major blue-chip marketing companies, having begun his career at Procter & Gamble in London, then heading up European businesses in Geneva, before returning home to bring his strategic expertise to other FMCG companies at Kantar Retail, a WPP company. Prior to joining Tifosy, James headed up strategy for one of the four business units at Unilever (Ice Cream and Tea). A fan of Arsenal FC since his early years, James also follows rugby and tennis.
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About Tifosy: Tifosy helps sports clubs raise funds online by connecting them with a global fan and investor base
Ming Kong
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TG0
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About TG0: TG0 is an R&D start-up creating novel 3D controls.
Dmitri Lipnitsky
CEO & Co-Founder of Gismart
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About GeoZilla, Gismart, Intellectsoft, SE Ranking: A leading developer and publisher of entertainment-focused apps and games.
Noor Alkhadra
Founder & CEO of WeGeek
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About WeGeek: We are passionate geeks who take great pleasure in bringing gamers together by creating AWESOME gaming events.
Andrew Gore
CEO and Founder of Soccer Manager
Over 17 years’ experience in the games industry, working on numerous successful football titles such as FIFA before co-founding Soccer Manager with his brothers in 2004.
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About Soccer Manager: Soccer Manager, a Preston, UK-based developer of an online football game. Soccer Manager allows players to manage their favourite team.
Shaun Rutland
Co-Founder and CEO of Hutch
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About Hutch: Hutch develops games app for iPhones and ipad.
Jen Lexmond
Founder & CEO of Easy Peasy
Jen Lexmond the founder of EasyPeasy, an app that sends game ideas to parents of pre-school children, to help develop the skills that will prepare them for school, and beyond. She hatched EasyPeasy in 2014 through the Design Council’s Knee High Challenge to come up with ideas improve the health and wellbeing of children under 5.
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About Easy Peasy: EasyPeasy is an app that sends game ideas to parents of young children, to help develop the skills that will prepare children for school.
Simon Windsor
Founder, Joint Managing Director of Dimension
Simon has been at the forefront of immersive technologies since 2011, launching several successful companies in AR and VR, and bringing state-of-the-art immersive production facilities to the UK. He is joint-head at immersive media company, Hammerhead, and at Dimension, a pioneering volumetric video capture studio and first Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture studio partner, focused on creating next generation virtual humans. Simon is also a director at TimeSlice Films, one of the UK’s leading multi-cam and capture solutions specialists, and prior to this he was part of the management team that launched AR technology platform, String. An award winning AR and VR producer, Simon has inspired and lead projects for companies including Disney, Nike, Sky, Audi, HSBC, Magic Leap and many more, and produced original VR titles including ABE and Syren.
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About Dimension: Revolutionary volumetric production studios for the creation of next generation digital humans, XR content and virtual production.
Simon Hade
Founder & COO of Space Ape
Simon is Co-founder & COO of mobile game developer Space Ape Games in London ($11m VC funding over 3 rounds, $55.8m investment by Supercell in 2017). Angel investments include game developers Gumbug Games, and music content creator platform Voisey. Past jobs include early product roles at Skype and Playfish (acquired by EA).
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About Space Ape: Space Ape is a mobile gaming company dedicated to creating the highest quality games for players.
John Earner
Co-Founder & CEO of Space Ape
John Earner brings extensive expertise in online gaming to his role as vice president of product management at Playfish, where he oversees the daily service operation of the company’s growing portfolio of live popular social games. Prior to Playfish, John was with Sony Computer Entertainment America where he designed the micro-transaction business model for PlayStation Home, Sony’s free-to-play virtual community, which he also helped launch. John also was a project leader at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a leading strategy consulting firm, where his role focused on online gaming. Before BCG, John was an officer in the United States Navy. John earned a MBA from University of California at Berkeley and holds a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University.
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About Playfish, Space Ape: Space Ape is a mobile gaming company dedicated to creating the highest quality games for players.
Christopher Molozian
Co-Founder & CEO of Heroic Labs
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About Heroic Labs: Heroic Labs builds social infrastructure for games and apps.
Andrei Mihu
Co-Founder & CTO of Heroic Labs
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About Heroic Labs: Heroic Labs builds social infrastructure for games and apps.
Simon Holliday
Founder of H2 Gambling Capital
Simon Holliday is the Founder of H2 Gambling Capital.
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About H2 Gambling Capital: H2 Gambling Capital offers market intelligence and bespoke consultancy services on the gambling sector.
Sam Cooke
Managing Director and Co-Founder of Esports Insider
Sam Cooke heads up Esports Insider, an esports business news platform and events company based in London. Esports Insider is a part of SBC Global and runs B2B events including the ESI Forum Series, the ESI Super Forum and the Betting on Esports Conference
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About Esports Insider: Esports Insider is a platform which covers all news that is of interest to the industry.
Matthew Wiggins
Founder & CEO of Mojiworks
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About Mojiworks: Mojiworks is a video game developer for mobile social platforms
Alan James Harding
Founder & CTO of Mojiworks
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About Mojiworks: Mojiworks is a video game developer for mobile social platforms
David Bailey
Co-Founder of Tonic Games Group
David Bailey is a Co-Founder & CEO at Mediatonic Games.
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About Mediatonic Games, Tonic Games Group: Tonic Games Group is a developer of video games that offer immersive entertainment alternatives.
Barbara Lippe
Founder, Creative Director of entreZ VR
Barbara Lippe PhD is a unique combination of video-game-art-director-turned actor. Having designed characters for games companies in Tokyo including Nintendo, Sega, Sony and Namco Bandai and creating art for social games years before the rise of the genre and researching what works for a female target audience she has reached a turning point: it’s not enough to DRAW characters, one must BECOME characters. To that end, she has recently graduated from a renowned London acting school. With that new toolkit onboard she’s moving on from designing virtual worlds to creating drama-enriched content for the virtual reality. Bridging the two worlds, she marries the lessons learned on stage & screen with her knowledge of video games and innovates the principles of character development, status and staging for VR.
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About entreZ VR, Snafflz, Spree Interactive: entreZ VR is an experienced team of industry players passionate about storytelling on real and virtual stages.
Max Adamski
Co-Founder and CPO of Jigsaw
Max Adamski is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Jigsaw.
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About Jigsaw: Jigsaw develops a dating app that covers the user’s face in a jigsaw puzzle.
Alex Durrant
Co-Founder and CEO of Jigsaw
Alex Durrant is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jigsaw.
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About Jigsaw: Jigsaw develops a dating app that covers the user’s face in a jigsaw puzzle.
Debbie Bestwick
Commercial & Legal director and Co-Founder of Team17 Software
Debbie is an industry veteran with over 27 years in the games industry, and one of the founding members of Team17. Starting by heading up the Sales and Marketing department, she went on to become responsible for all of the Commercial and Legal aspects of the business – working globally with top tier games distributors, publishers, developers, and license partners. Team17 has released over 70 games across 30 platforms and won numerous industry publishing and developer awards, as well as being the owner of the legendary Worms franchise. Debbie has pioneered Team17’s leap into digital publishing working with a large number of Indie studios globally, and is the majority shareholder of the business.
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About Team17 Software: Team17 is one of the world’s fully independent video game developer and publisher.
Harvey Elliott
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of PlayStack
Harvey is an industry leader whose 20 year career spans EA, Acclaim Entertainment and Marmalade, where he led two successful capital raises. He recently finished his 4 year tenure as Chair of the BAFTA games committee. Now CEO and Founder at PlayStack, a new and exciting games publisher. Leveraging the team’s experience in games, entertainment and finance to redefine the way in which games are funded, developed, enjoyed and shared. The objective is to actively work with the team to select the games that can be published; tailoring the funding model to support each game and identifying the creative and technical innovations that will drive game adoption, build community and deliver success.
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About PlayStack: PlayStack is a company that helps developers in end-to-end funding, publishing expertise, and technology to develop the next big game.
Richard Hamnett
Co-Founder and CTO of ResponseTap
Richard Hamnett is the co-founder and CTO of ResponseTap.
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About ResponseTap: ResponseTap Call Intelligence takes call tracking to another level, amplifying the depth of data across the end-to-end customer journey.
Terry Cavanagh
Founder of Super Hexagon
Terry Cavanagh is independent game developer from Monaghan, Ireland. He develops applications for the Android and iPhone users. He is the developer of the minimal action game app called Super hexagon. He has also developed games such as VVVVVV, At a Distance, and Don’t Look Back. Terry Cavanagh used to run a freeware website called FreeIndieGam.es. He is currently updating the blog known as distractionware: devlog. Terry Cavanagh currently resides in London.
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About Super Hexagon: Super Hexagon is a minimal action game with the goal to control a small triangle which circles around a central hexagon .
Anders Ström
Founder of Kwiff
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About Kwiff: Kwiff is a native mobile sports betting app available in the United Kingdom on both iOS and Android.
John Harper
Founder & CEO of Rize
John Harper believes that there is an underlying need in our society for a greater understanding of our own mental well-being. John brings together all the best tools he’s found with support from mental health professionals and institutions. He has reached out to specialists in mental health, smartphone technology, and business development to provide an innovative tool like nothing else out there.
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About Rize: Rize is providing a gamified app that helps users to understand, track and improve their mental well being.
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
Caroline Marchal
Founder and Creative Director of Interior Night
Caroline is a narrative game designer with over 15 years of experience in the industry. She was lead Game Designer on Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls and has founded a narrative game studio called Interior Night, working on an unannounced new IP.
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About Interior Night: Interior Night is an independent game studio of Quantic Dream and Sony veterans based in London.
Shum Singh
Managing Director & Founder of Agnitio Capital
Shum Singh is the founder and managing director of Agnitio Capital Limited
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About Agnitio Capital: Agnitio Capital is a fully authorised and regulated investment bank focused on digital media and games.
Chris Watts
CTO / Co-Founder of NumberEight
Chris is the co-founder and CTO of NumberEight, a London-based AI company that detects user context from smartphone sensors and uses it to build audiences of behaviourally similar users. He is an ex-IBMer, where he researched air pollution sensors and has multiple patents to his name. He holds computer science degrees from Southampton and Cambridge and brings the know-how to achieve the theory of context detection in the real world.
Chris’ team has since produced patent-pending inventions, including efficient techniques for smartphones to process high-frequency data without significant battery impact, the ability to make personal devices work together to adapt to context and mood, and the process of defining groups of people with similar interests using anonymised sensor data.
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About NumberEight: NumberEight solves mobile addressability at scale by giving new life to untapped 1st party data. The company empowers app developers, ad partners, and advertisers to explore the power of mobex (mobile context) to connect with their users in a relevant, impactful, and most importantly, a private way. They do this through our best-in-class mobile AI software, which predicts the live context of a user (e.g. running, commuting) from sensors present in the device, and then packages them neatly into ID-less behavioural audiences (e.g. joggers, frequent shoppers). All computation happens on-device, thus producing a privacy-by-design solution that guarantees a higher regulatory immunity.
Abhishek Sen
CEO / Co-Founder of NumberEight
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About NumberEight: On-device AI software to predict user context using mobile sensors
Sefton Hill
Game Director, Co-Owner & Co-Founder of Rocksteady Studios
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About Rocksteady Studios: Rocksteady Studios is a multi-award winning videogame developer based in London, England. Located in a spacious, purpose built converted.
Sarah Marr
Founder & Lead Designer of Guildhack
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About Guildhack: Guildhack is a social network for video gamers, enabling them to connect through an engaging social platform built solely for gamers.
Matthew Woods
Co-Founder of AFK Creators
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About AFK Creators: Influencer Management and Marketing Agency, Gaming and Esports
Khaled Mardam-Bey
Founder and Developer of mIRC
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About mIRC: mIRC is an internet relay chat software that enables its users to communicate and share content with others.
Caroline Pires
Founder and CEO of Nerdeo
Caroline Pires has worked in the visual effects industry for seven years as both an artist and supervisor. After her studies at Escape Studios, she went on to work on major blockbuster titles and eventually became part of an Oscar-winning visual effects team for Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo 3D”. She has become a master of VFX for TV and advertising, having worked with Framestore, Saddington Baynes, Mainframe, Vine FX, Pixomondo, Nvizible and Cinesite to name just a few of the facilities listed on her CV. Now the founder of her own business Nerdeo, Caroline has applied her wealth of experience to create an online collaboration platform for professionals within the independent film, TV and gaming industries.
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About Nerdeo: An online platform for professionals within the independent film, TV, commercial and Gaming industry.
Lee Myall
Co-Founder of Jumptastic
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About Jumptastic: Jumptaastic Trampoline Park in South West England. Based in Gloucester, just off eastern Avenue.
Darren Mills
Co-Founder and Studio Director of Sumo Digital
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About Sumo Digital: Sumo Digital Ltd is an independent game development studio.
Stuart Logan
Founder & CEO of Twine
As the Big Boss, Stuart spends his days in a large leather armchair, staring out over the Manchester skyline while smoking a cigar and plotting world domination. (He doesn’t really). Originally from Salisbury, he studied computer science at Manchester University but was always keen to break into the exciting world of start-ups, and was involved in a number of ventures before finalising his plans for Clowdy. When not wearing his chief executive hat (metaphorically speaking) he enjoys harbouring unrealistic expectations for Manchester United’s future success and live music.
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About Twine: Twine connects companies to diverse creative and digital freelancers
Joe Moore
Co-Founder & Head of Education of UniX
Joe Moore is a Co-Founder and Head of Education at UniX.
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About UniX: UniX is a gaming platform.
Mal Duffin
Co-Founder of Out Of Tune Games
A software engineer, again with over 20 years experience in 3D coding, has worked globally in the games, education and marketing sectors.
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About Out Of Tune Games: Out Of Tune Games creates and develops interactive online games.
Rachel Gawley
CTO & Co-Founder of AppAttic Ltd
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About AppAttic Ltd, AppAttic Ltd: AppAttic’s games engage users for positive behaviour change and provide data for research, potentially saving the health economy billions.
Fivos Pantazis
Founder of Aphetor
Fivos Pantazis is the Founder at Aphetor.
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About Aphetor: Aphetor is the next generation, creator-based sports/entertainment property for the next generation of fans
Carsten Thode
Founder of Aphetor
Carsten Thode is the Founder at Aphetor.
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About Aphetor: Aphetor is the next generation, creator-based sports/entertainment property for the next generation of fans
Shivani Lamba
Founder of Brightlobe
Shivani leads a team of young scientists who specialize in creating innovative learning experiences in STEM — including forensic and crime science — for hundreds of schools, charities, and Museums. She has consulted on these subjects for the press including The Guardian, and recently NPR’s Serial.
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About Brightlobe: Brightlobe builds games to improve preschoolers’ long-term educational outcomes.
Jack Francis
Founder of Pogo.com
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About Pogo Studio, Pogo.com: Welcome to Pogo.com, a great place to play free online games, including puzzle games, word games, card games, and board games
Andrew Moffatt
Founder of Dugout FC
Founder at DugoutFC Ltd
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About Dugout FC: Dugout FC is the ultimate fantasy football experience.
Daniel Burnside
Founder of Dugout FC
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About Dugout FC: Dugout FC is the ultimate fantasy football experience.
Brandon Wu
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Markd
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About Markd: Markd is a gaming industry that focuses on providing competitive games.
Chris Martin
Business Development Manager and Co-Founder of LootBear
Chris Martin is the Business Development Manager and Co-Founder at LootBear.
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About LootBear: LootBear is an All-In-One skin marketplace where the users can buy, rent, and convert skins to gaming gear.
Ed Mason
Founder, CEO of GameFace Labs
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About GameFace Labs: Worlds First ‘All In One’ standalone virtual reality headset and DARPA software platform for the next generation of VR gaming.
Giacomo Eskenazi
Co-Founder of GameFace Labs
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About GameFace Labs: Worlds First ‘All In One’ standalone virtual reality headset and DARPA software platform for the next generation of VR gaming.
Adam Whiteside
Co-Founder of Whitepot Studios
Co-Founder of Whitepot Studios, where I do a load of start up stuff and lead Game Design and Development. Unity, Phaser and much more!
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About Whitepot Studios: A kickass games studio founded in 2016, creating Android, iOS, & PC games, for clients & bespoke use cases, using both HTML5 & Unity
Victoria Potts
Co-Founder, Production & Dev of Whitepot Studios
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About Whitepot Studios: A kickass games studio founded in 2016, creating Android, iOS, & PC games, for clients & bespoke use cases, using both HTML5 & Unity
Phil Stuart
Creative Director & Co-Founder of Preloaded
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About Preloaded: They make games that do more than just entertain.
Alex Cheney
Founder & CEO of Smarter Learn Limited
Alex Cheney is a Founder & CEO at Smarter Learn Limited.
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About Smarter Learn Limited: Smarter Learn is a publisher of educational games and digital content for smartphones, tablets, and laptops.
Frederik Wagner
Co-Founder & Developer of Drafthound
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About Drafthound: Drafthound is an online platform for fantasy football gaming activities.
Rick Turner
CEO and Founder of Ditto
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About Ditto: A company at the top of its game in harnessing intelligent systems and emerging technologies.
Cesar Ortega
Co-Founder & CFO of SKARA The Blade Remins
Cesar Ortega is Co-Founder & CFO at SKARA The Blade Remins.
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About SKARA The Blade Remins: SKARA is the next generation of eSports with versus fighting mechanics and RPG elements.
Callum Martin
Founder of Playerbase
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About Playerbase: Playerbase is a community driven platform for gamers that delivers solutions to improve overall gaming experience.
Alex Deacon
Founder of Boxing Manager
Developer and publisher of World Title Boxing Manager. Formerly, various Director level roles at Betfair 2005-16 Launch editor of Racing Post online betting Part of Sports Interactive/Championship Manager team 1996-99
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About Boxing Manager: Publisher and developers of the highly acclaimed and top-ranked Boxing Manager game series.
Jonathan Burroughs
Director & Co-Founder of Variable State
Game developer and co-director of Variable State, an independent video game studio based in London and Dublin.
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About Variable State: Variable State is an independent video game studio based in London and Dublin
Helen Walton
Founder. Chief Commercial Officer of Gamevy
Helen Walton is co-founder of Gamevy, a tech start-up bringing gameshows online and who recently launched their first game on Facebook – Blackjack Attack. As a company, they are employee-owned with no bosses and a democratic decision-making structure. She began her career working in marketing for Unilever before specialising in branding and copywriting for clients ranging from publishers to supermarkets. Helen has written 18 books for Value Flow Quality – the Agile Practitioner Course approved by the BCS. She has written numerous articles for different magazines and events, including InfoQ, but also on subjects as diverse as make-up in the Mail on Sunday and Henry Moore’s sculptures for Tate Britain. Helen is one of the organisers of the Spark the Change event which runs in London, 3-4 July. It aims to transform the whole business, not just a part – allowing us to build more successful businesses, become better leaders and create happy workplaces. Speakers include Tim Harford, Jurgen Appelo and Simon Baker, while companies involved include Unilever, change.org and PropellerNet.
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About Gamevy: Gamevy is a new start-up, owned by its employees and aiming to follow in the footsteps of pioneering companies who work differently.
Simon Fox
Founder & CEO of PlayLab
Simon Fox is a Founder & CEO at PlayLab.
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About PlayLab: PlayLab is a mobile video game studio that produces educational games.
Tobias Green
Co-Founder of PlayLab
Tobias Green is a Co-Founder at PlayLab.
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About PlayLab: PlayLab is a mobile video game studio that produces educational games.
Ben Cooper
Co-Founder & CEO of Gallantcloud Games
Ben Cooper is a Co-Founder & CEO at Gallantcloud Games.
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About Gallantcloud Games: Gallantcloud Games are striving to create new and interesting games and bring fun and reward to the masses.
