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 Real Estate 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.
James Turford
Co-Founder & COO of Nested
James originally trained as an architect at Aedas before moving to McKinsey & Co and then private equity firm PEP.
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About Nested: Nested operates as a data-driven estate agency enabling customers to be chain-free buyers.
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Phil Cowans
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer and Director of Nested
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About Nested: Nested operates as a data-driven estate agency enabling customers to be chain-free buyers.
Tom Allason
Founder and CEO of Residently
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About eBay, Residently, Residently: We’re building the world’s home brand with a digital experience that combines the freedom of renting with the rewards of owning.
Sam Phillips
Co-Founder & CTO of Residently
Previously Senior Engineering Manager at eBay, Head of Engineering at Shutl (acquired eBay 2013) and developer #1 at On The Beach Travel (IPO 2015).
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About Residently: We’re building the world’s home brand with a digital experience that combines the freedom of renting with the rewards of owning.
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.
Corrado Agusta
Founder and CEO of Agusta Investments.
Corrado Agusta is a Founder and CEO of Agusta Investments.
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About Agusta Investments.: Agusta Investments is a single-family office with an investment focus in direct real estate and technology ventures
George Spencer
Founder and CEO of Rentify
George Spencer is founder and CEO at Rentify, a software platform which helps landlords market, manage, and make money from their properties. Prior to Rentify George enjoyed a brief but eventful career encompassing web development, brand marketing, and advertising; where he was notable only for being unsuccessful in persuading the British public to eat more of a certain wheat-based breakfast cereal. Since then, George has been working on Rentify and helping to make landlords’ lives easier across the United Kingdom.
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About Rentify: Rentify is an online platform that helps individuals market and manage their properties.
Daniel Attia
Founder & CEO of YOPA
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About YOPA, YOPA: YOPA provides real estate agency services that assist clients in selling their properties.
Andrew Barclay
Founder of YOPA
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About YOPA: YOPA provides real estate agency services that assist clients in selling their properties.
Christian Angermayer
Founder & CEO of Apeiron Investment Group
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About Apeiron Investment Group, ATAI Life Sciences, Presight Capital: Focus is on Financial Services (especially fintech), Internet and Technology. Life Sciences, Media, Real Estate and Natural Resources.
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
Richard Grogan
Founder & Executive Chairman of Zenaura
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About Zenaura: Zenaura is a IoT controlled home fragrance with aspirational design.
Simon Sassoon
Founder of Zenaura
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About Zenaura: Zenaura is a IoT controlled home fragrance with aspirational design.
Arnaud Vinciguerra
Founder/CEO of Domos FS
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About Domos FS, Memnon Archiving Services: Domos FS offers a suite of apps for alternative investment funds including private equity, real estate, debt, and infrastructure.
Jeff Zie
Founder of The Virtual Team
Jeff brings nearly 30 years of experience in media – holding creative, strategic and senior management positions within Grey Advertising (HK), WPP, EMAP, Microsoft, BSkyB and Liberty Media. Within the last 16 years, Jeff has successfully built, managed and grown teams within large corporate and start-up environments, as well as being responsible for multi-million dollar P&Ls. Career highlights include: – Establishing and building EMAP’s consumer online business – First Creative Directorship of MSN UK, and establishing the first iteration of MSN’s online production environment, Atlantis – Launching Sky Interactive, the UK’s leading and most successful interactive/enhanced TV service, including Sky Sports Interactive – Building/consolidating BSkyB’s combined interactive service division – Launching PlayJam, the world’s most successful independent interactive TV games channel – Launching EA’s online casual games business, Pogo, in the UK, France and Germany.
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About The Virtual Team: The Virtual Team are experts and investors with experience in launching, building and operating successful businesses.
Tom Mundy
Co-Founder and COO of Goodlord
Tom co-founded Goodlord as a renter in 2014 after becoming frustrated with the inefficiencies in the tenancy process and discovering letting agents were fed up with it, too. Now Goodlord is a leading player in the UK Proptech community and with over £18m of funding they are on mission to make renting simple and transparent for all.
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About Goodlord: Goodlord offers a cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords, and tenants manage the rental process.
Richard White
Co-Founder and President of Goodlord
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About Goodlord, Pickles: Goodlord offers a cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords, and tenants manage the rental process.
Sanjay Choudhary
Founder & CEO of Incuspaze
Sanjay Choudhary founded Incuspaze; he is UK based entrepreneur, startup enthusiast, and a startup growth consultant. He has vast experience across Enterprises, SMEs, and Startups in UK and India.
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About CrowdInvest, Incuspaze: Incuspaze is on a mission to bridge the gap that exists within Indian startup ecosystem.
David Shepherd
Founder & Product Director of PurpleBricks
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About PurpleBricks: PurpleBricks is an online real estate agent that helps its clients to sell, buy, and let their properties.
Kenny Bruce
Co-Founder & Sales Director of PurpleBricks
Kenny Bruce is a Founder & Sales Director at PurpleBricks.
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About PurpleBricks: PurpleBricks is an online real estate agent that helps its clients to sell, buy, and let their properties.
Tushar Agarwal
Co-Founder & CEO of Hubble
Tushar is the Co-Founder of Spacious.
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About Hubble: A platform to search, set up, and manage your hybrid workplace
Anj Latif
Co-Founder and CTO of British Pearl
Anj Latif is one of the founders of British Pearl and is the Chief Technical Officer. He is responsible for the design, implementation and administration of the entire IT infrastructure, including information security. Anj is a highly motivated and ambitious professional with extensive experience in IT management and networking and two decades’ experience in the SME sector. He has worked with companies in retail, legal, manufacturing, finance and health using technologies from Cisco, WatchGuard, Citrix, VMware and Microsoft. He has a BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering from Oxford Brookes University.
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About British Pearl: British Pearl is an online property investment platform facilitating share and loan-based investment in UK property.
Ali Celiker
Founder and CEO of British Pearl
Ali Celiker is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of British Pearl. He is an experienced financial professional and entrepreneur and has spent the last 19 years in financial services. He thrives on building innovative businesses with inspirational people and is principally interested in the alternative finance market , with a focus on equity and debt based collective investment platforms. Prior to establishing British Pearl Ali worked within the global capital markets as a trader and sales person. This included Vice President, Head European Financing Trader at Paloma Securities London Limited and Associate Director, Interest rates sales trader at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc. He has also worked for BNP Paribas, J.P.Morgan and Martins Brokers (UK) PLC. He holds a BA (Hons) in Economics and Econometrics from Kent University and other banking related professional qualifications.
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About British Pearl: British Pearl is an online property investment platform facilitating share and loan-based investment in UK property.
Wouter Van Der Gaag
Founder of IMMO Capital
Wouter Van Der Gaag is the Founder & Advisor To The Board at IMMO Investment Technologies.
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About IMMO Capital: Next-gen residential real estate portfolios. Powered by machines, managed by experts.
Hans-Christian Zappel
Founder & CEO of IMMO Capital
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About IMMO Capital: Next-gen residential real estate portfolios. Powered by machines, managed by experts.
James Jenkins-Yates
Founder & CEO of Houst
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About Houst: Houst (prev. Airsorted) is a short-let management service that increases yields and handles everything including cleaning, laundry and keys.
Tom Jones
Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer of Houst
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About Houst: Houst (prev. Airsorted) is a short-let management service that increases yields and handles everything including cleaning, laundry and keys.
Andy Hill
Founder & CEO of Hill Group UK
Hill’s founder and chief executive, Andy is a Chartered Builder by profession with more than 40 years’ experience in the construction and house building sector. He is well respected throughout London and the south east for the collaborative and partnership culture he has encouraged in the company since it was established 16 years ago. Andy has also served as a board member of three other companies – a director at 28, managing director at 30 and a main board director by the age of 33. Andy was responsible for running a £120m housing division of a £250m group and is currently part of the Cambridge Ahead team that focuses on addressing the shortage of supply of housing in the Cambridge region in the short and medium term. Andy has a lifelong love of sport and Hill now proudly sponsors Histon Football Club, Cambridge Rugby Club and many youth teams across the region
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About Hill Group UK: One of the leading developers in London and the south east of England delivering both private sale and affordable homes.
Manoj Nair
Founder Chairman & CEO of RedGirraffe
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About RedGirraffe: RedGirraffe is a financial cum real estate technology company.
Kally Sheth
Co-Founder of RedGirraffe
Kally is an experienced Board level advisor having held senior management positions across the professional advisory, commercial and public sectors in UK. Having developed the market strategy for a FTSE 100 company, Kally understands customer needs and ensures products and services are highly competitive. She identifies effective solutions to align corporate strategy, market strategy and culture for competitive success. Kally trained as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen, where she was also trained in change management. Kally has advised on acquisitions and undertaken due diligence for businesses in multiple sectors. She has also led priority financial and change management projects for large corporates and the UK Government – project values ranging from $2m to $7.5billion. Kally has an MBA from Warwick Business School and is also a Harvard Business School alumna. She is a committed professional with entrepreneurial spirit and is an avid marathon runner.
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About RedGirraffe: RedGirraffe is a financial cum real estate technology company.
Carsten Sørensen
Co-Founder of RedGirraffe
Carsten Sørensen is Reader (Associate Professor) in Digital Innovation within Department of Management at The London School of Economics and Political Science (carstensorensen.com). He also holds visiting professorships at University West and Halmstad University in Sweden and is 2015/16 a recipient of an Otto Mønsted Visiting Professorship at Copenhagen Business School. Carsten holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Aalborg University, Denmark. He has since the 1980s researched digital innovation, for example innovating the digital enterprise through mobile technology (enterprisemobilitybook.com), and the innovation dynamics of mobile infrastructures and -platforms (digitalinfrastructures.org). Carsten has published widely within Information Systems since 1989 (scholar.carstensorensen.com), for example in MIS Quarterly, ISR, ISJ, JIT, Information & Organization, The Information Society, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, and Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. He is presently Senior Editor for The Information Systems Journal. Carsten also has extensive experience as a Principal Investigator on a number of national, EU, and industry research grants in the UK and Sweden with a total budget of over £3million. He is a member of the Board of Directors of LSE Enterprise (www.lse.ac.uk/enterprise) and special advisor to the Customer Contact Association. Carsten as for a number of years been engaged in assisting and assessing digital startups and has for 25 years been actively engaged in academic consultancy and executive education with a broad range of organisations – IMF, Microsoft, Google, PA Consulting, Orange, Vodafone, Intel, GEMS, to name just a few.
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About RedGirraffe: RedGirraffe is a financial cum real estate technology company.
Carsten Sørensen
Co-Founder of RedGirraffe
Carsten Sørensen is Reader (Associate Professor) in Digital Innovation within Department of Management at The London School of Economics and Political Science (carstensorensen.com). He also holds visiting professorships at University West and Halmstad University in Sweden and is 2015/16 a recipient of an Otto Mønsted Visiting Professorship at Copenhagen Business School. Carsten holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Aalborg University, Denmark. He has since the 1980s researched digital innovation, for example innovating the digital enterprise through mobile technology (enterprisemobilitybook.com), and the innovation dynamics of mobile infrastructures and -platforms (digitalinfrastructures.org). Carsten has published widely within Information Systems since 1989 (scholar.carstensorensen.com), for example in MIS Quarterly, ISR, ISJ, JIT, Information & Organization, The Information Society, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, and Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. He is presently Senior Editor for The Information Systems Journal. Carsten also has extensive experience as a Principal Investigator on a number of national, EU, and industry research grants in the UK and Sweden with a total budget of over £3million. He is a member of the Board of Directors of LSE Enterprise (www.lse.ac.uk/enterprise) and special advisor to the Customer Contact Association. Carsten as for a number of years been engaged in assisting and assessing digital startups and has for 25 years been actively engaged in academic consultancy and executive education with a broad range of organisations – IMF, Microsoft, Google, PA Consulting, Orange, Vodafone, Intel, GEMS, to name just a few.
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About RedGirraffe: RedGirraffe is a financial cum real estate technology company.
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.
Guy Westlake
Founder of Lavanda
Guy is an entrepreneur and investor who’s experienced online/technology businesses at pretty much every level – from 1-man startup to global multinational. He is Co-founder & CEO at Lavanda in London. Guy knows what it means to roll your sleeves up and get your hands dirty, whilst understanding the need to establish scalable processes that can support rapid growth. He is passionate about culture and working with exceptional people to build innovative businesses that create meaningful value. He speaks Spanish, French and Italian. Studied at the ESCP Europe and University of Bristol. His interests are UX, e-commerce, web 2.0, social media, cloud computing, analytics, ECM, Business process management, web content management, software, business solutions, strategic marketing, consultancy, innovations, cinema, music, literature, current affairs, entrepreneurship, start-ups.
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About Lavanda: Lavanda is an award-winning next generation SaaS platform powering the convergence of residential real estate, hospitality and travel.
Graham Edwards
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Telereal Trillium
Graham Graham Edwards is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Telereal Trillium. He initiated the transaction which resulted in 6,700 properties being transferred from BT to Telereal in a £2.4bn property outsourcing deal. In January 2009, Graham led the negotiations which resulted in the acquisition of Trillium from Land Securities Group Plc. This transaction firmly established Telereal Trillium as the market leader in property outsourcing and investment, creating a combined business with annual revenues in excess of £1 billion. Prior to Telereal Trillium, Graham was chief investment officer of Talisman Global Asset Management, having established it as the Pears FSA registered asset management arm – today having AUM in excess of £1bn. Before joining Talisman, Graham held positions as a fund manager at Merrill Lynch Investment Management and head of finance for the BT Group Plc’s property department. He read economics at Cambridge University and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ACA), the Association of Corporate Treasurers (AMCT), the UK Society of Investment Professionals (ASIP) and is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS).
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About Drest, Telereal Trillium: Telereal Trillium provides real estate management services in the United Kingdom.
Alexander Gosling
President and Co-Founder of Strike
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About Strike: Strike (formerly known as HouseSimple) is an online estate agent agency.
Michael Bickford
Founder & CEO of Round Hill Ventures
Michael is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Round Hill. He established Round Hill in 2002, a vertically integrated real estate investment and asset management firm, which creates targeted regional and sector focused platforms in real estate. Round Hill has a global management team with over 130 dedicated professionals in 11 offices. Since inception, Michael has been responsible for the firm’s investment activities, which have resulted in the acquisition and management of over $6.5 billion of real estate investments. Michael was previously an acquisition professional for Morgan Stanley, primarily working for the international division of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds.
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About Round Hill Ventures: Round Hill Ventures is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of venture capital and technology investment.
Ricardo Brizido
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Stake
Ricardo Brizido is the Co-Founder and CTO at Stake.
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About Stake: Stake Properties is a digital real estate investment platform.
Robin Boehringer
Founder and Partner of BBox Capital
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About BBox Capital: BBox Capital focuses on innovative and valuable real estate business models that specialize in investment management.
Stefan Boronea
CTO & Co-Founder of Proportunity
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About Proportunity: Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
Vadim Toader
CEO & Co-Founder of Proportunity
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About Proportunity: Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
David Mullett
Founder & Chief Design Officer of Pupil
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About Pupil: Pupil is changing the world of data capture, creating immersive 3D experiences through revolutionary technology.
Oliver Breach
Founder & COO of Pupil
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About MBM Capital Partners, Pupil: Pupil is changing the world of data capture, creating immersive 3D experiences through revolutionary technology.
James D. Marshall
Founder and CEO of Pupil
James D Marshall is the founder and CEO at Pupil.
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About MBM Capital Partners, Pupil: Pupil is changing the world of data capture, creating immersive 3D experiences through revolutionary technology.
Kevin Taylor
Chairman & Founder of McLaren Construction Group
Kevin Taylor is the Executive Chairman and Founder of the McLaren Group, which he established in 2001.
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About McLaren Construction Group: McLaren Construction Group operates companies in the construction and property industry.
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.
Nitin Aggarwal
CEO, Founder of Property Deals Insight
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About NY Cloud Solutions, Property Deals Insight: A Proptech company that empowers users to make Smart hassle free property investment decisions with a click of a button
Paul Bennett
Co-Founder & CEO of PerchPeek
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About PerchPeek: PerchPeek uses AI to guide people through every stage of their relocation from search to settling in.
Oliver Markham
Co-Founder of PerchPeek
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About PerchPeek: PerchPeek uses AI to guide people through every stage of their relocation from search to settling in.
Marc Trup
Founder, CEO of Arthur Online
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About Arthur Online: Arthur simplifies property management, anywhere , anytime.
Rochelle Trup
Founder, CFO of Arthur Online
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About Arthur Online: Arthur simplifies property management, anywhere , anytime.
Christian Samuel
Founder of Resooma
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About Personalised Co, Resooma: We’re building an end-to-end rental marketplace with simplified payment solutions that serves both tenants and property owners.
Jack Jenkins
Founder and CEO of Resooma
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About Resooma: We’re building an end-to-end rental marketplace with simplified payment solutions that serves both tenants and property owners.
Daniel Jefferys
Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Resooma
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About Resooma: We’re building an end-to-end rental marketplace with simplified payment solutions that serves both tenants and property owners.
Darius Bradbury
Co-Founder of OpenRent
Darius Bradbury is a Founder at OpenRent.
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About OpenRent: OpenRent turns renting a property into a streamlined, online process offering drastically lower costs.
Adam Hyslop
Co-Founder of OpenRent
Adam Hyslop is a Founder at OpenRent.
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About OpenRent: OpenRent turns renting a property into a streamlined, online process offering drastically lower costs.
Zoe Duong Vu
Co-Founder and Shareholder of Pass the Keys
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About Pass the Keys: Pass the Keys is an airbnb management company offers an expert Airbnb and short let management service.
Alexander Lyakhotskiy
Founder & CEO of Pass the Keys
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About Pass the Keys: Pass the Keys is an airbnb management company offers an expert Airbnb and short let management service.
Benas Baltramiejunas
Co-Founder of Halo
Ben Baltramiejūnas is a Co-Founder and CBDO at Halo.
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About : Halo.rent makes renting and letting homes an effortless process you can handle on one platform.
Justus Brown
Founder and CEO of Acre
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About Acre: Vertically integrating the mortgage stack
Founder & CEO of Home Made
Asaf Navot is the Founder and CEO of Home Made. He has extensive experience in strategy and operations, having previously advised multi-billion corporations as a strategy consultant with Bain & Company and Wilson Perumal. Asaf holds an MBA from INSEAD.
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About Home Made: Home Made is a London-based property tech rental agency, focusing on mid to high end rentals. It is London’s largest hybrid agency.
Orla Shields
CEO & Co-Founder of Kamma
Orla left behind her homeland and background in accountancy at the Irish Central Bank to manage a £650m logistics budget for the London 2012 Olympics. After then moving into the digital agency world for a number of years, she left to found GetRentr.
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About Kamma: Kamma provides data-driven technology solutions to simplify the complexity of Property Licensing in the Private Rented Sector
Richard Lainchbury
Tech Architect and Co-Founder of Kamma
Richard spent most of his career as freelance LAMP developer with experience across many internet related technologies. Having known Alex since childhood, they teamed up to build the tech behind GetRentr’s first product and launch it into the market.
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About Kamma: Kamma provides data-driven technology solutions to simplify the complexity of Property Licensing in the Private Rented Sector
Luke Townsend
Founder & CEO of Zorin Finance
Luke’s career began working for several media giants, including: Clear Channel, Dow Jones, GWR and latterly AOL UK. Having received numerous industry accolades, Luke went on to establish and back a number of tech related start-ups whilst simultaneously developing prime real estate in London. His frustration with the service he received from banks during this time led him to establish Zorin Finance. Luke continues to head the company as CEO and principal shareholder.
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About Zorin Finance: Zorin Finance is a Real estate company.
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.
James Dearsley
Co-Founder of Unissu
James is a recognised as one of the foremost commentators in global PropTech. His influential weekly newsletter reaches over 2000 key decision makers in the PropTech and property industries. Having spent 11 years working directly in the property sector, initially for Foxtons, James went on to re-engineer the digital strategy for an overseas property company across 13 different countries. His clients include international banks and big-6 energy companies. However, it is his passion for PropTech, that sends him around the world speaking at conferences and working with businesses, discussing how PropTech is influencing their wider digital transformation. James is the also the founder of TDMB, an agency focused on all aspects of marketing for the now and next, specialising in the tech sector.
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About Unissu: Unissu provides proptech data, content and research services.
Eddie Holmes
Co Founder of Unissu
Eddie has a wealth of experience as an entrepreneur in the property and PropTech sectors, bringing together business, property services and technology expertise in one skill set. Having brought unrivalled levels of transparency to the conveyancing industry using technology he then joined Spire Ventures, where he acted as Investment Director. In this role, Eddie was instrumental in the investment in HubbleHQ and a key part of the creation of PiLabs, Europe’s first property focused accelerator. As an independent consultant, Eddie has advised a range of listed and private property companies on digital transformation. Through these experiences and in his role as Chairman of the UK PropTech Association, Eddie has an unparalleled perspective of the challenges and opportunities facing property and PropTech businesses.
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About Unissu: Unissu provides proptech data, content and research services.
Nigel Purves
Co-Founder & CEO of Wayhome
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About Let Engine, Wayhome: Start owning a home today from just 5% deposit
Gemma Young
Founder of Settled
Gemma is passionate about technology’s potential to radically improve people’s lives. She’s on a mission to erase the anxieties that overshadow the joy of buying and selling a home. For well over a decade, Gemma’s been immersed in the online world, with experience that includes one of the UK’s first digital agencies and – back in its early days – Google. During her time at Google, Gemma worked across Silicon Valley, Europe and Africa. With her experience both on the front line of digital, and previously as an estate agent, she’s leveraged some the most innovative technological advances in her drive to reshape the home buying and selling experience, creating Settled.
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About Settled: A technology platform digitising the residential home purchase and sales process
Bilal Khan
CTO and Co-Founder of Skwire
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About Apply.Property, Skwire: Skwire provides an online tool to manage and acquire real estate investment.
Calum Brannan
CEO & Founder of Howsy
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About Howsy: Howsy is a real estate management platform that provides repairs management and renewal services for landlords and tenants.
Francesca Carlesi
Co-Founder and CEO of Molo
Francesca Carlesi is Co-founder and CEO at MoloFinance. Francesca is a senior executive with more than 15 years of experience in the financial sector across various domains (strategy,/business development, finance, M&A, regulation) and sectors (private equity, retail and commercial banking, investment banking, asset and wealth management).
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About Molo: Molo is a digital mortgage lending platform that uses technology and AI to make home financing faster, better, and cheaper.
Maxime Leufroy-Murat
City Relay Founder and CEO of City Relay
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About City Relay, FG Properties, Outswitch: London’s premier short let management company. Short lets, but smarter.
Nick Rijniers
Founder & CEO of Hubnexa
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor
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About Hubnexa: SaaS, ReloTech, PropTech
Robert Imonikhe
Co-Founder of Ideal Flatmate
Rob has worked in publishing and has had stints at a number of media outlets. A positive bundle of energy, he is the ideas man and provides some philosophical insights to the team, having completed a BA in philosophy.
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About Ideal Flatmate: Ideal Flatmate is the first UK website dedicated to helping its users find the right flatmates.
Thomas Gatzen
Co-Founder of Ideal Flatmate
Tom has spent time working in politics and financial PR and loves getting things done. He enjoys travelling and is a sports nut, playing cricket for Middlesex Youth, and being found most weekends following Watford FC.
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About Ideal Flatmate: Ideal Flatmate is the first UK website dedicated to helping its users find the right flatmates.
Mikus Opelts
CEO & Founder of Giraffe360
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About Giraffe Visual, Giraffe360: Get high-quality property photography in one cost-efficient streamlined process
Gabriela Hersham
Founder & CEO of Huckletree
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About Huckletree: The brave home of innovation.
Andrew Lynch
Co-Founder & COO of Huckletree
Co-Founder & COO at Huckletree, a coworking community of creators, innovators, entrepreneurs and VC-backed startups.
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About Huckletree: The brave home of innovation.
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.
Zain Dhareeja
Co-Founder of Spacemize
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About Spacemize: Spacemize offers a nationwide network of drop-in spaces from which to work and hold informal meetings for £14.99/month.
Saleem Arif
Co-Founder of Spacemize
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About Spacemize: Spacemize offers a nationwide network of drop-in spaces from which to work and hold informal meetings for £14.99/month.
Tom Scarborough
Founder of MoveWise
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About MoveWise: MoveWise is a UK-based proptech company that uses deep technology to help property sellers efficiently sell their homes.
Mick Silver
Founder & CEO of Moovshack
Entrepreneur with a diverse background ranging from C-level within large corporates to founder of SME’s & start-ups. Experienced in IT hardware & software, mobile, wearable tech, Augmented Reality, VR, Smart Cities & Real Estate
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About Moovshack: The first fully interactive, mobile-first property platform that doubles as a free-to-list portal & a brandable estate agent app
Rupert Hunt
Founder of SpareRoom
Rupert Hunt is the founder of SpareRoom, the UK’s busiest flatshare site / app (and hot on the heels of Craigslist in NY too), which He launched in 2004 and grew into a multi-million pound business with zero investment and lots of hard work. Rupert Hunt is also a house sharer by choice. Through his own experiences (and over 10 years of hearing those of others) He passionately believe that living with the right people beats living alone. Rupert Hunt is on a mission to spread the word.
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About SpareRoom: SpareRoom is a flat and house share site with over 9 million registered users.
Jonathan Galore
Founder of Trussle
Jonathan Galore is an operating executive at [Silver Lake Partners](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/silver-lake-partners#/entity), a private investment firm focused solely on making large-scale investments in leading technology companies. He also founded and heads Trussle. Previously, he was the chief technology officer of Wonga. Galore also worked as the VP of product at Wealthfront. Galore holds an MBA from Stanford University.
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About Silver Lake: Trussle is a free online mortgage broker that works with much-needed transparency.
Lukasz Kisiel
Founder and Managing Director of Kisiel Ltd.
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About Kisiel Ltd.: A privately owned construction company specializing in residential refurbishment, renovation, extensions and new build construction.
John Goodall
Co-Founder and CEO of LANDBAY
Prior to co-founding Landbay in 2013, John worked for an equity brokerage in the City of London. Before this, he co-founded and managed a leading financial services executive search consultancy. John has also spent some time teaching Economics, has an MBA from Imperial College, London, and a degree in Economics from Durham University.
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About LANDBAY: Landbay is a specialist Buy to Let mortgage lender using peer-to-peer technology to fund its loans.
Shravane Balabasqer
Founder | CEO of Carbon Analytics
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About Carbon Analytics: A granular asset focused carbon intelligence & offsetting platform for active industrial decarbonisation across the value chain.
Branislav Dikov
Co-Founder & COO of Dulo Properties
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About Dulo Properties: Dulo Properties is a UK-based real estate company.
Mark Croston
Founder & Managing Director of Propeasy
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About Propeasy: Propeasy provides assistance to people interested in property investments.
Charles Paumelle
Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Microshare
Currently heading Global Alliances and International operations for Point.io (www.Point.io), a leading Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform and application programming interface (API) – designed to help enterprises access and share even their most sensitive information with absolute security. You can reach me at cpaumelle@point.io I also head up the International expansion for Savana, a FIS partner with CRM solutions for banks. With experience both on the corporate and vendor side in selling and implementing Enterprise innovation in the European market for the last two decades I founded EroundIT in 2013. EroundIT is a European distributor for emerging technology such as Point.io and Savana. Prior to that, I started the European arm of Knowledge Rules Inc., a boutique consulting practice specialised on BPMS leader Pegasystems. We established a presence in the UK, France, Spain and Bulgaria. Knowledge Rules was acquired by Accenture in Nov 2010. Specialties: European Business Development, Entreprise Content Management, Marketing Technology products, Financial Services industry, Oil & Gas industry, Computer Hardware industry, Business Process Management (BPM), Pegasystems PRPC
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About Microshare: Microshare® provides Smart Facilities data solutions at scale that bring safety, cost savings and sustainability to the Built World.
Arnor Davidsson
Co-Founder and chief technology officer of Insurami
Experienced technologist with strengths in entrepreneurship, software development, product management and user experience. Gained by working with a mixture of established tech companies and early stage startups.
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About Insurami: Insurami offers a deposit guarantee platform for commercial real estate
Gabor Futo
Founder and Co-owner of Futureal Group
At the heart of our success is our team of over 500 top professionals, many of whom have been with us for over a decade and have worked together to develop themselves, Futureal and our projects. We have been through normal times, mad times and bad times, always staying together as a strong team, always living up to our values and our reputation. We are looking forward to expanding our team with the best people and the best professionals.
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About Futureal Group: Futureal are into development and investment in real estate.
John Young
Founder of Funded City
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About Funded City: Invest in UK property for as little as £500 and earn 8-12% annually
Anthony Sinclair
Founder of Funded City
Founder at Funded City
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About Funded City: Invest in UK property for as little as £500 and earn 8-12% annually
Anthony Sinclair
Founder of Funded City
Founder at Funded City
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About Funded City: Invest in UK property for as little as £500 and earn 8-12% annually
John Young
Founder of Funded City
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About Funded City: Invest in UK property for as little as £500 and earn 8-12% annually
