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 Marketplace 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.
Christian Faes
Exec Chair & Co-Founder of LendInvest
Christian Faes is the co-founder and Exec Chair of LendInvest, which is marketplace platform for property finance, and one of the leading Fintech businesses in the UK. The business has raised well over £1 billion in debt and equity, from institutions such as Atomico, the European Investment Fund, Citibank, HSBC, and the National Australia Bank. Christian comes from a legal background having practised as a real estate lawyer in Australia (Allens Arthur Robinson), and then in the UK with Clifford Chance and Deutsche Bank. In 2008, Christian co-founded the business with Ian Thomas, initially seeing an opportunity in the short term mortgage market. Christian is a keen advocate for the Fintech sector, and sits on the Government’s Fintech Delivery Panel; and founded and chairs the Digital Finance Forum. He is an active supporter and early investor in several startups, including Seedrs, Crowdcube and Onfido.
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About Faes & Co, LendInvest: LendInvest is the leading marketplace platform for property finance.
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Ian Thomas
Co Founder of LendInvest
A qualified chartered surveyor, Ian has many years’ experience of property valuation, mixed-use development and investment acquisitions in both the UK and abroad, previously holding senior positions at Ballymore and SEGRO. In 2013, Ian co-founded LendInvest with Christian, spinning it out of their previous business, Montello.Ian oversees all investment strategy and decision-making at LendInvest. He is a regular speaker at property industry events, a member of the MIPIM ProTech Advisory Committee and an active investor in several PropTech startups.
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About LendInvest: LendInvest is the leading marketplace platform for property finance.
Clive Jackson
Founder & Chairman of Victor
Clive Jackson is the founder and Chairman of Victor.
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About Victor: Victor is a London, UK-based private jet charter marketplace.
Owen Turner-Major
Co-Founder & CTO of Fat Llama
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About Fat Llama: Fat Llama is a peer-to-peer rental marketplace which allows people to rent spare items to others nearby, fully insured.
Rosie Dallas
Co-Founder & COO of Fat Llama
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About Fat Llama: Fat Llama is a peer-to-peer rental marketplace which allows people to rent spare items to others nearby, fully insured.
Chaz Englander
Co-Founder & CEO of Fat Llama
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About Fat Llama: Fat Llama is a peer-to-peer rental marketplace which allows people to rent spare items to others nearby, fully insured.
Nejc Kodric
Co-Founder & CEO of Bitstamp
Nejc Kodric Since starting out in 2011 with little more than some basic computer equipment, €1,000 and a love of technology, Nejc has been instrumental in developing Bitstamp into one of the most trusted and highest volume bitcoin exchanges in the world. With offices in Luxembourg, London and New York, Bitstamp continues to grow from strength to strength, serving its customers’ bitcoin trading requirements. Among his many achievements as chief executive officer, Nejc spearheaded the approach to become the first fully licensed virtual currency exchange in EU, which was granted in 2016, setting the benchmark for the Bitcoin industry’s continued consolidation and strength. With a keen interest in promoting economic empowerment and technology, Nejc has spoken at several conferences including Techcrunch, Bitcoin Foundation, MoneyConf, Deloitte Conference: Future Challenges, ICT Spring Europe and FundForum International, and was awarded Best Virtual Currency Start-up at The Europas in June 2014. Nejc was born in Slovenia, where he studied Organization and Management of Information Systems and Economics, and currently splits his time between his home country and Luxembourg. Specialities: Bitcoin, blockchain, trading, virtual currencies, economic empowerment, education, science and technology
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About Bitstamp: Bitstamp allows companies and individuals from all around the world to buy and sell bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum, ripple, and bitcoin cash.
Cem Savas
CEO & Co-Founder of Plentific
Cem Savas is the chief executive officer & co-founder of Plentific.
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About Plentific: Plentific is a SaaS platform that provides smart property management solutions for landlords and property managers.
Emre Kazan
CTO & Co-Founder of Plentific
Emre Kazan is the co-Founder of Plentific.
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About Plentific: Plentific is a SaaS platform that provides smart property management solutions for landlords and property managers.
Mandeep Singh
Co-Founder of Trouva
Mandeep was previously an investor at BC Partners, one of Europe’s largest Private Equity funds, who owned a number of technology and retail businesses, such as Intelsat, Foxtons (where Mandeep was on the board), Phones4U and Petsmart. Prior to that Mandeep was a retail strategy consultant at OC&C and advised Arcadia/TopShop and DFS amongst others, which was where he first saw the impact that online was having on offline retail. During this time Mandeep was seconded to Asda Wal-Mart, helped launch their first small stores. Although he’d say Trouva was his first “start-up”, Mandeep set up his first business, a web development agency, from his bedroom when he was 15. Mandeep studied Physics at Cambridge University and has been interviewed about the future of retail by media such as BBC One (BBC Breakfast News) and The Sunday Times. In his spare time Mandeep is a judge for the Techpreneurs Entrepreneur of the Year awards and an Ambassador for Bright Mentors, which encourages entrepreneurs to mentor secondary school children.
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About Trouva: Trouva, the online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world
Alex Loizou
Co-Founder, CEO of Trouva
Alex co-founded StreetHub after graduating from the 2012 Cohort of Entrepreneur First. He is an experienced iOS, Javascript and PHP developer, and studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Cologne.
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About Trouva: Trouva, the online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world
Glen Walker
Co-Founder & Director of Trouva
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About Trouva: Trouva, the online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world
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.
Alex Buttle
Co-Founder, Marketing Director of Motorway
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About Motorway: Motorway is an online used-car marketplace for professional car dealers that sells their cars using their smartphones.
Harry Jones
Co-Founder & CPO of Motorway
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About Motorway: Motorway is an online used-car marketplace for professional car dealers that sells their cars using their smartphones.
Tom Leathes
Co-Founder & CEO of Motorway
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About Motorway: Motorway is an online used-car marketplace for professional car dealers that sells their cars using their smartphones.
Amit Gudka
Founder of Field Nation
Amit Gudka is the Founder of Field.
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About Field Nation: Field Nation is an online marketplace that enables businesses to find and manage their contingent workforce.
Jonas Huckestein
Co-Founder of Monzo
Jonas Huckestein creates great products from scratch. After moving to the US from Germany in 2010 he was the first engineer at Campfire Labs (acquired by Groupon), founding CTO of Ark.com, and is a Director at the StartupBus. He got a Mathematics degree at 18, Computer Science at 21 and is on leave from technology management grad school. Before moving here he worked in management consulting.
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About HipDial, Monzo: Monzo is a digital-only bank platform and marketplace that allows customers to access a range of products and services.
Callum Negus-Fancey
CEO & Founder of Pollen
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About Pollen: Pollen builds, curates, and delivers the best travel experiences.
Liam Negus-Fancey
Founder & President of Pollen
Pollen is a members-only community that curates and shares experiences for you and your friends to discover. As a marketplace of the best experiences in the world, our mission is to elevate lives by bringing people closer to the people and the things they love. From festivals, events, dining experiences, island escapes, and beyond, we want to help create unforgettable memories shared between friends old and new by allowing members to unlock a range of experiential rewards.
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About Pollen: Pollen builds, curates, and delivers the best travel experiences.
James Hind
Founder & CEO of Carwow
James is the big boss of carwow, so it’s hardly a surprise that cars are one of his biggest passions.He studied Finance but was put off a city career after just 2 months of trying one. He’s very competitive, especially when it comes to ping pong at the office. He invented the rule that if anyone loses a game 11-0 they have to buy donuts for the entire team!
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About Carwow: Carwow is a company that helps efficiently connect car buyers to car dealers.
Alexandra Margolis
Co-Founder/Creative Director of Carwow
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About Carwow: Carwow is a company that helps efficiently connect car buyers to car dealers.
David Santoro
CTO / Co-Founder of Carwow
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About Carwow: Carwow is a company that helps efficiently connect car buyers to car dealers.
Babek Ismayil
Founder & CEO of OneDome
Babek has over 10 years of experience working as credit derivatives, high yield and distressed debt trader at JP Morgan and 7 years as an angel investor and entrepreneur. He is an experienced investor and has been actively involved in investing in high growth companies, high yielding debt and restructuring distressed companies. Babek has a BSc and MSc in Financial Engineering and MSc in Management from the University of Paris Dauphine. Babek also studied Economics and Finance in the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and London School of Economics.
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About Bi Capital, OneDome: OneDome is the World’s First HomeBuying Platform
Chris Gibbons
CEO & Founder of Laced
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About Laced: Laced is a marketplace for the buying and selling of authentic sneakers, connecting thousands of buyers and sellers worldwide.
Sam Browne
CEO & Co-Founder of Let’s Do This
Sam Browne mainly work on hiring and developing relationships with distributors. If you’re a Javascript engineer I will definitely buy you dinner! I love races in the wild from ultras to adventure races and I used to be a race director at an expedition race series.
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About Let’s Do This: Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet.
Cherry Freeman
Founder of LoveCrafts
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About LoveCrafts: LoveCrafts is a start-up that builds social marketplaces for the crafts sector.
Edward Griffith
Founder and CEO of LoveCrafts
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About LoveCrafts: LoveCrafts is a start-up that builds social marketplaces for the crafts sector.
Nigel Whiteoak
Founder of LoveCrafts
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About Broadmargins, LoveCrafts: LoveCrafts is a start-up that builds social marketplaces for the crafts sector.
Jean-Christophe Chopin
Founder and CEO of BORN
A creator and innovator by nature, JC is an entrepreneur who has had a strong presence in online financial services, digital insurance and stock brokerage. He has a wealth of international experience with expertise in the US as well as vast European digital and brand management knowledge. JC pioneered E*Trade Europe and Verisign in the early days of the Internet, and later went on to invest in real estate, time pieces and luxury fashion. His passion for skiing and extreme sports also led him to launch the ‘Carre Neige’ ski insurance within the Savoie region. Most recently, he has married his online finance expertise with his experience in design and luxury brands to create BORN, a B2B global market-network that connects design-led brands with retailers.
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About BORN: BORN is the world’s first private B2B platform that connects a global network of design-led lifestyle brands and retail buyers.
Thibault Launay
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Exclusible
Thibault Launay is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder at Exclusible.
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About Exclusible: Exclusible is creating an NFT marketplace for luxury brands.
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.
David Toplas
Founder and Director of Vesta Property
David has a long track record of innovation in investments which balance social and commercial returns. He has created, built and invested in businesses and run institutional funds as well as established a charity and social enterprise. David enjoys his work, cars and playing hockey.
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About Mill Group, Vesta Property: Vesta (www.vestaproperty.com) is a data-driven marketplace for buying and selling residential investment property.
Justin Floyd
Founder and CEO of RedCloud Technologies
Justin Floyd Recognised as a leading Entrepreneur for almost 3 decades Justin Floyd has founded and invested in a number of innovative businesses. Since 1987 he has been involved in companies that have included Vecta Software Corporation, a leading Cloud Business Intelligence company and the world’s first leasing exchange that generated over $2 billion in transactions over two years. Mr. Floyd is a trusted adviser to a number of Entrepreneurs who’s products and services are changing markets. He is the Founding Partner of RedCloud VC, an investment company that backs entrepreneurs in emerging and developing markets focusing on mobile, cloud and disruptive technologies.
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About RedCloud Technologies: RedCloud believe technology will universally change the way in which services are distributed & accessed by people in new digital economy.
Zack Sabban
Co-Founder and CEO of Festicket
While he was a student and later a banker in NYC and London, Zacharie traveled the world to fulfill his passion for live music. He attended countless festivals and concerts around the world where he realized the need for better access to information. His creativity, social network, and his amazing experience of music festivals are a competitive advantage for the growth of Festicket. Zacharie supervises all the operations and development of the company.
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About Festicket: Festicket is a marketplace to discover and book music festival tickets, accommodation, transfers and extras.
Nadeem Siam
CEO & Founder of Fund Ourselves
Nadeem Siam is the Founder & CEO of Fund Ourselves. The first fully automated short-term credit marketplace. Nadeem graduated from Canfield University in the UK and Lulea University in Sweden with two masters of science degrees in Astronautics and Space Engineering and Space Technology; respectively.
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About Fund Ourselves, PTP Funding: Short-term credit from the people to the people.
Tuomas Hietanen
Co-Founder and CTO of Fund Ourselves
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About Fund Ourselves: Short-term credit from the people to the people.
Askar Bulegenov
Founder & CEO of Grocemania
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About Grocemania: On-demand grocery delivery platform. Find and shop from any local grocery store and get your order in minutes!
Adam Edgell-Bush
Co-Founder & CEO of Homyze
Adam Edgell-Bush is Co-Founder & CEO at Homyze.
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About Homyze: Homyze is a marketplace and develops a mobile app for home service professionals such as electricians and plumbers.
Xavier Collins
Co-Founder & Business Development Manager of Nexus Notes
Xavier Collins is a Co-Founder and Business Development Manager at Nexus Notes.
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About Nexus Notes, Turo: Nexus Notes operates as an online marketplace for university students to buy and sell their course notes.
Paroma Indilo
Co-Founder and CEO of Datacy
Paroma Indilo is the Co-Founder and CEO at Datacy.
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About Datacy: datacy is an online marketplace for collecting and exchanging datasets directly to businesses.
Rushd Averroes
CEO, Founder of BABB
Rushd is founder and CEO of BABB, leading a diverse team of industry veterans to make his vision a reality. He is a financial inclusion specialist and has an MA from University of Greenwich in Microfinance and Financial Inclusion. Before that, he attended the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne and was awarded an IT Science Degree in 2006. Rushd has managed a highly successful Authorised Payment Institution (API) in the UK – Wowpaymobi.
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About BABB: BABB is a world bank for the micro-economy: a global marketplace for human innovation, financial autonomy and wealth creation.
Philipp Mintchin
Co-Founder & CEO of Splyt
CEO & Founder of Splyt
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About Splyt: Splyt is a B2B mobility marketplace that connects institutional supply and demand for ground-based transport.
Yulia Dankova
Co-Founder of Splyt
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About Splyt: Splyt is a B2B mobility marketplace that connects institutional supply and demand for ground-based transport.
Stephen Mason
Co-Founder & CTO of Splyt
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About Splyt: Splyt is a B2B mobility marketplace that connects institutional supply and demand for ground-based transport.
Andrius Skerla
Co-Founder & Technical Director of Splyt
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About Splyt: Splyt is a B2B mobility marketplace that connects institutional supply and demand for ground-based transport.
Alexander Eid
Founder and CEO of homie.rent
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About homie.rent, Yela: Homie is a tech startup that helps Londoners find great homes to rent.
Sami Eid
COO & Co Founder of homie.rent
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About homie.rent: Homie is a tech startup that helps Londoners find great homes to rent.
Louis Eid
Co-Founder and Sales Manager of homie.rent
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About homie.rent: Homie is a tech startup that helps Londoners find great homes to rent.
Tejen Barbezat
Founder & CEO of Gignify
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About FIT.live, Gignify: Gignify aims to become the largest centralised talent marketplace in the world
Henri Winand
Co-Founder and CEO of AkinovA
Shorter bio: Entrepreneur, insurtech/fintech, new energy, angel investors Dr Henri Winand Co-founder & CEO AkinovA Short biography • Grew technology firm globally from 40 people to USD 1bn IPO • USD 200m+ capital raised • Intelligent Energy, CEO • Rolls-Royce plc, Vice President New Ventures (M&A) • PhD Materals Science (Cantab), MBA Full biography I am a growth and change oriented CEO with a passion for scaling up a broad set of technologies globally using different business models and team-based delivery. I now serve as CEO for AKINOVA Ltd. AKINOVA is an insurance technology company I co-founded with a specialist ILS (insurance linked securities and related insurance products) London based City fund manager. Prior to this, I served as CEO of a British tech company listed on the London Stock Exchange Main Market (Intelligent Energy, a $1bn tech IPO) with in excess of $250m raised from a broad range of sources, leading to strong top line growth, largely from internationally-based customers. I served on several Boards in the UK, Singapore, India, Japan and the US in the energy, software services, film contents publishing and automotive sectors. I also served on the Board of an EU funded €1bn+ public private tech partnership (PPP). I served on several advisory bodies to Ministers, Secretaries of State and Officials in the new energy, automotive and materials science sectors in the UK as well as on the Alumni Advisory Board of the Warwick Business School and of the University of Cambridge. I have more than a dozen patents granted and pending. I have several papers published in well-known, peer reviewed, scientific journals, topics including composite materials, neutron diffraction and processes to improve industrial product development cycles. I am regularly invited to speak at international conferences and spoke in the US Senate and French Sénat. I provide advice to selected major global institutional, venture capital and private equity funds. In addition to meeting several Heads of State including that of France, India and the UK over the last few years, I have made several appearances on live and recorded TV and Radio programmes (e.g. Live CNBC TV, Live Bloomberg TV, Live BBC Radio 4 “The Today Programme”, recorded BBC and other programmes, provided thought leadership and quoted articles in broadsheets, e-newspapers and The Huffington Post). I am married to Anne and we have one child, Alexander.
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About AkinovA: AkinovA: an electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of (re)insurance risks.
Jean-Michel Paul
Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Advisor of AkinovA
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About AkinovA: AkinovA: an electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of (re)insurance risks.
Simon Hill
CEO & Founder of Wazoku
Simon Hill is the CEO of Wazoku.
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About InnoCentive, INSEAD, The Future Shaping Media Company Limited, Wazoku: An Enterprise Innovation Platform comprising: Idea Management, Open Innovation Marketplace, Innovation Consulting, Portfolio Management
Abhinandan Balasubramanian “Abhi”
Founder of ChefHost
Founder at ChefHost
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About altflo, ChefHost, LIQUITY: ChefHost is an on-demand chef marketplace and social media platform for the culinary world.
Rebecca Kelly
Founder & CEO of VenueScanner
Combined experience across economics (1st class MA Edinburgh), investment management (CFA level 1), digital marketing (M&S, Naked Wines, Majestic Wines). Passionate about using data and analytics to drive business growth, obsessed with customer insight, understanding big problems and trying to solve them. Launched VenueScanner in 2016 after experiencing so many problems in trying to book event spaces for team offsites, parties, meetings etc at M&S. Now relentlessly trying to address the problem of matching under-utilised supply to demand in the venue and events industry. In the spare time that I used to have before I launched a company I loved travelling adventures (Richshaw Run…), micro-finance projects (Grameen Bank) and outdoor sports (mainly extreme or including at least a mild risk of life!)
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About VenueScanner: VenueScanner is a self-serve marketplace platform for event organisers to discover and book venues online.
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.
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.
Paul Warshaw
Founder and CEO of Greenrush
Founder at GreenRush Group.
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About Greenrush: Greenrush facilitates an online marketplace that enables consumers to connect with cannabis dispensary retailers.
Lana Elie
Founder and CEO of Floom
Lana Elie is the Founder & CEO of Floom.
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About Floom: Floom is a tech-enabled marketplace for florists to sell their creations direct to customers.
Sebastian Mineev
Co-Founder, CAO and Hype Weaver of Clouder
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About Clouder: Clouder is a marketplace, subscription service and hyperlocal delivery.
Co-Founder and CTO of Clouder
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About Clouder: Clouder is a marketplace, subscription service and hyperlocal delivery.
Marwan Field
Co Founder of Skrap
Marwan Field is the co-founder of Skrap.
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About Byoot, Skrap, Skraps: Construction hire, made simple. Order waste services, bulky materials, and plant hire – anytime, anywhere.
Hussain Hilli
Founder & COO of Skrap
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About Byoot, Skrap: Construction hire, made simple. Order waste services, bulky materials, and plant hire – anytime, anywhere.
Ahmed Rao
Founder of Skrap
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About Skrap: Construction hire, made simple. Order waste services, bulky materials, and plant hire – anytime, anywhere.
Mark Elwig
Co-Founder and Commercial Director of Staff Heroes
Proven Commercial leader with a track record of driving growth through technology sales with Enterprise customers across multiple sectors including Hospitality, Retail, Travel and Entertainment. Experienced go-to market strategist and sales leader. Deal brokering at a global level. International experience within EMEA and US. Focus, drive and great people skills having lead several sales, business development and client account teams for both Fortune 500 and start-up organisations. Experience in setting up and building out sales and marketing teams from scratch and most recently co-founding and running the commercial arm of an innovative staffing marketplace start-up, operating within the Hospitality sector in the UK. Specialties: Business development, Sales, business strategy, account management, client services, licensing, white label, B2B partnerships, European & Global sales, SaaS software sales, launching a start-up.
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About eBay Advertising, mydeco, Staff Heroes: Staff Heroes is an on demand & AI technology marketplace reinventing the world of work, connecting businesses and workers more efficiently.
Andrew Needham
CEO & Founder of HeadBox
n the last 20 years Andrew Needham has successfully set up and managed companies across the fields of publishing, consumer research and social technology working as both an entrepreneur and a corporate leader within blue chip business environments. He is currently the CEO and Founder of HeadBox (www.headbox.com), the UK’s first on-line marketplace for inspiring, creative and off-site spaces allowing guests to search, book and pay for amazing spaces, all in one place. With over 1,500 venues on the platform already, HeadBox has one of the largest collection of venues in London, unlocking value from their under-utilised space as well as providing many spaces with an extra revenue stream. His mission is “to bring people and spaces together to make brilliant things happen” not just in the UK but all over the world and to do for under-utilised business space what Airbnb and Uber have done to other parts of the collaborative and sharing economy. In December 2015 HeadBox was one of Startups.co.uk’s 12 new businesses to watch in 2016.
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About HeadBox: HeadBox is an online marketplace for inspiring meeting, offsite and event spaces.
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.
David Reymondet
Founder of A R T C U B E
Founder of ArtCube.
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About A R T C U B E: Online social marketplace for art
Björn Lindvall
CEO / Founder of CreditSquare
Björn founded CreditSquare in 2013. The inspiration came from his experience working closely with entrepreneurs and family offices in running their investment portfolios. Björn has 8 years of investment experience from the Private Banking arms of Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley. He left Morgan Stanley in 2013 to start CreditSquare.
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About CreditSquare: CreditSquare is an advisory- and marketplace lending platform focused on providing SMEs with credit solutions.
Brett Shanley
CEO & Founder of Knoma
Brett is the Founder and CEO of Knoma, the Knowledge Market, offering a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning. He passionate about equipping people for the future of work and providing sound financial options.
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About Knoma: Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.
Daniel van Binsbergen
CEO and Co-Founder of Lexoo
Daniel van Binsbergen Before founding Lexoo, Daniel worked for over 5 years as a lawyer at an international law firm (De Brauw), first in Amsterdam, then in London. He’s always up for a game of squash, and is easily excited.
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About Lexoo: Lexoo is a lawyer comparison marketplace that helps businesses choose a lawyer with confidence.
Chris O’Sullivan
Co-Founder and CTO of Lexoo
Chris has been developing websites and apps for more than 10 years – with companies such as Forward Partners, Aegis Media, and the BBC. He loves playing board games and drinking cocktails – ideally at the same time.
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About HitMeUp, Lexoo, What I want for Xmas: Lexoo is a lawyer comparison marketplace that helps businesses choose a lawyer with confidence.
Alexandre Fitussi
Co-Founder and CEO of Beanstock
Alexandre Fitussi is the Co-founder and CEO at Beanstock.
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About Beanstock: Beanstock is an online real estate marketplace for buying, managing and selling rental investment properties in Europe.
Sanchit Saraf
Co-Founder and CEO of Bidsvilla
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About Bidsvilla: Bidsvilla operates in the field of online auctions for art and collectibles. Working on trading algorithms and auction/trading engine.
Xenios Thrasyvoulou
Founder & CEO of PeoplePerHour
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About PeoplePerHour: PeoplePerHour is a marketplace connecting small businesses and freelancers.
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
Jean Z. Poh
Founder & CEO of Swoonery
Founder, CEO at Swoonery.
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About Rapaport Group, Swoonery: Recommendation-driven e-commerce marketplace for fine jewelry.
Kayleigh Bottomley
VP And Founder of Storm4
Kayleigh Bottomley is the Founder and VP at Storm4.
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About Storm4: Storm4 is a specialist GreenTech recruitment marketplace, connecting organizations with the senior talent to drive their mission.
Wendy Snowdon
Founder of TheFoodMarket
Wendy Snowdon joined TheFoodMarket.com as Founder in 2014.
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About TheFoodMarket: TheFoodMarket.com has a rigorous selection process; products must taste incredible, contain no unnecessary additives
Nick Lukic
CEO & Co-Founder of Digital Vega
Nick has 20+ years in FX, derivatives, ecommerce, technology and consulting. Nick was a founding member of Atriax, the first FX ECN where he was responsible for product development and bank relationships. He went on to form worldflow, an e-commerce specialist software and consulting firm where he worked on setting up new ecommerce businesses for banks including several FX and retail CFD businesses. Nick was global head of FX and Interest Rate Derivatives technology at Chemical/Chase Manhattan Bank where he ran the quant analytics and risk management teams. He was also global head of FX and FX options IT at Citibank where he helped start the Citi FX e-commerce business.
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About Digital Vega: Digital Vega is a privately held company operating the Medusa FX Option trading platform.
Mark Suter
Executive Chairman & Co-Founder of Digital Vega
Mark has 30+ years of front office experience in the Global FX market. Mark has managed cash and derivative businesses for Chase Manhattan, Royal Bank of Scotland, Banque Paribas and Standard Bank. In 2000, Mark joined Dresdner Bank to help build and roll out the Piranha and Click and Trade online platforms. With a strong mix of experience in Option trading and development of online trading systems. Mark was approached by FXall to develop a multi-bank FX options trading platform; as the shareholding and business focus changed, the option project was shelved in 2007. Mark’s view was that an opportunity clearly existed, backed by increasing demand from a range of clients, partnering with worldflow, an e-commerce development specialist. He went on to co-found Digital Vega.
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About Digital Vega: Digital Vega is a privately held company operating the Medusa FX Option trading platform.
Nick Taylor
CFO and Co-Founder of Envestors
Educated at Uppingham School, Nick then took Articles and qualified with Price Waterhouse Cooper in London. He has held senior positions with private and public companies, including manufacturer Astell Scientific (Holdings) and listed City based property agent Baker Harris Saunders Plc. He co-founded the Sportscard Credit Card Company which was listed on AIM and later sold to the online bookmaker UK Betting plc, also an established private restaurant group and The London Distillery Company. Nick was a co-founder of Envestors in 2004. In his spare time, he enjoys food and drink, golf, and watching cricket/rugby.
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About Envestors: Envestors digital platform connects entrepreneurs and investors
Faisal Laljee
Co-Founder and CEO of KidSitter
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About Blow, KidSitter: Online marketplace for finding trusted, reliable and thoroughly vetted childcare
George Chan
Co-Founder and COO of KidSitter
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About KidSitter: Online marketplace for finding trusted, reliable and thoroughly vetted childcare
Béla Hanratty
Investment Director & Co-Founder of Align17
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About Align17: Align17 is a private marketplace connecting private wealth vetted institutional impact investment opportunities.
Tommy Williams
Co-Founder & CEO of All Shades Covered
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About All Shades Covered: A health and beauty marketplace for Afro-Caribbean consumers.
Sanmi Ogunmola
Co-Founder & COO of All Shades Covered
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About All Shades Covered: A health and beauty marketplace for Afro-Caribbean consumers.
Greg Griffiths
Founder of UCROWDME
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About UCROWDME: Global ideas marketplace leveraging blockchain, AI and best-of-breed technology.
Gregory Asmolov
Co-Founder of PitchMe
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About King’s College London, PitchMe: PitchMe is a skills-based talent marketplace introducing multilayered profiling of skills and innovative matching algorithms.
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.
Bouchra Ezzahraoui
Founder & Co-CEO of AURATE
Bouchra Ezzahraoui is the Founder and Co-CEO of AUrate New York.
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About AURATE: AUrate is an online marketplace that offers its clients a variety of jewelries through direct selling and online.
Manuela Seve
CEO & Founder of Alpha’a
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About Alpha’a: B2B Marketplace, connecting companies to the visual arts, we license artwork and dropship limited edition prints
Anthony Paine
Co-Founder and CEO of Stashbee
Anthony Paine is the co-founder and CEO of Stashbee. Prior to co-founding Stashbee, Anthony also served as a manager at Elixirr. He also worked at Career Journey International, Accenture, and Diageo Portugal.
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About Stashbee: Stashbee helps people looking for extra space by connecting them with trusted local people who have it to spare.
David Mantle
Co-Founder of Stashbee
David Mantle is the co-founder of Stashbee.
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About Stashbee: Stashbee helps people looking for extra space by connecting them with trusted local people who have it to spare.
Michael Pan
CEO and Founder of China Ventures
CEO and Founder, a China Specialist, has been working extensively in public/private placement, private equity, technology, and energy sectors, etc. Michael’s project experience includes supporting clients on strategy development (corporate, growth, market entry), alliance development, full potential transformation program, as well as acquisition evaluation and integration. Michael holds a Master degree in Global Business Strategy from London Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom.
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About China Ventures: China’s global deal marketplace and a leading China-centric investment community on the globe.
Richard Woolley
Founder & CEO of Paperclip
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About Paperclip: Changing the way people think about the things that they own.
Tony Xu
Founder and Managing Director of Perfocal
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About Perfocal: Perfocal is the easiest way to hire an awesome photographer, on-demand.
