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 Transportation 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.
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.
Nicolas Brusson
Co-Founder and CEO of BlaBlaCar
Prior to becoming Chief Executive Officer in October 2016, Nicolas oversaw BlaBlaCar’s global operations and international growth as Chief Operating Officer since 2011. He led the company’s corporate development, overseeing eight acquisitions, expansion to twenty markets, and three successive rounds of fundraising. Nicolas is a strong advocate of agile structures that allow quick iterations in fast-growing environments. He is also a supporter of autonomous local teams and acqui-hires, a strategy he implemented to expand BlaBlaCar’s footprint on a global scale. Nicolas is a regular speaker at leading international conferences and in the media, where he comments on the European startup scene, innovative growth strategies, and mobility. Prior to joining BlaBlaCar, Nicolas worked for several startups in Silicon Valley during the dotcom boom, before moving on to executive and investor roles, including spending time as a Venture Capitalist at Amadeus Capital Partners in London. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, a Masters in Optics from Ecole Supérieure d’Optique and a Masters in Applied Physics from Paris XI University. Nicolas is also an active angel investor and tweets @nbrusson. Nicolas holds an MBA from INSEAD, an MSc in Optics from the Ecole Superieure d’Optique and an MSc in Applied Physics from Paris XI University.
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About BlaBlaCar, Deliveroo, Doctolib, SIDE Capital, Stripe, Zenaton: BlaBlaCar is a long distance carpooling platform that connects drivers with empty seats and passengers to share travel costs.
Henri Moissinac
Co-Founder & CEO of dott
Henri Moissinac runs Consumer Partnerships at Uber EMEA,in London.Previously, he led Mobile Partnerships at Facebook, based in California. Before that, he led eBay mobile.
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About dott: Dott offers dock-less, shared electrical scooters and bikes as alternatives for short-distance travel.
Anton Chirkunov
Founder & CEO of Wheely
Anton Chirkunov is the Founder and CEO at Wheely.
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About Wheely: Wheely is a luxury ride-hailing service, allowing customers to book chauffeur-driven journeys both on-demand and pre-booked through an app.
James Swanston
Founder & CEO of Voyage Control
James is the founder of Voyage Control, a technology business focused on making freight deliveries. James is an advisor to Lord Mawson OBE for the St Paul’s Way Transformation Project, one of the UK’s biggest regeneration projects based in East London, with a focus on encouraging students to look at science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and enterprise. James is the chair of the Transport Working Group of the Energy Managers Association, founded by Lord Redesdale to help major UK businesses to help address the challenges of energy scarcity and climate change. He was recently listed in the Tech City Almanac as one of the 100 key figures helping to redefine digital business in London. He is a director of Green and Tonic, a fast growing networking group for sustainability leaders in London and has previously assisted the Sustainable Development Commission on smart mobility and was awarded the Greenbang award for smart transport in 2011. James regularly speaks at events on sustainability and entrepreneurship topics. He has been granted the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers, one of the City of London’s oldest livery companies and has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. He has served as an officer in the Australian and British Armies, including tours of duty in Malaysia, East Timor, Iraq, Falkland Islands and Afghanistan; he currently commands the City of London Fusiliers Company of the London Regiment. He spent several years in Australian military intelligence, where he established a multi-discipline team working on the fusion of intelligence collection and analysis across different technical intelligence sources, for which he was awarded the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation’s Outstanding Service Award. He was awarded the United States Bronze Star Medal and the Australian Joint Operations Command Commendation for service in Iraq. James completed three bachelor degrees concurrently from Griffith University in Law, International Business and Modern Asian Studies, a Diploma in Export Management and a Masters in International Relations and Asian Politics (University of Queensland). James is a qualified Justice of the Peace.
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About Voyage Control: Voyage Control is a cutting-edge ‘Air Traffic Control’ for inbound logistics management. Powerful, efficient, and easy to use.
Janus Friis
Co-Founder of Starship Technologies
Janus co-founded Joost, Skype, Kazaa and Joltid, among other high-profile technology companies, with his long-time business partner Niklas Zennström. Janus is the recipient of a series of industry awards and was also recognized by Time Magazine as one of its 100 Most Influential People in 2006.
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About Joost, Starship Technologies: Starship Technologies is a robotics company building fleets of self-driving delivery robots designed to deliver goods.
Pep Gomez
Founder of Reby
Pep Gomez is a 25-year-old 3x tech entrepreneur and investor. He is General Partner (Head of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital) at Mobile World Capital (€8M). He is also board advisor for PRISA and ASICS Corporation. Previously, he founded Fever (www.feverup.com), the leading event discovery platform in the world. He has raised over $75M from Accel Partners, Fidelity and 14W Ventures. He started his first company at the age of 14. Later on, he will become one of the organizers of Campus Party, the largest tech festival in Europe and Latin America. At the age of 16 he moved to Silicon Valley to work in the venture capital industry as an Investment Partner for Solon Ventures. He also co-founded Jóvenes con Futuro, a program backed by Fundación Rafael del Pino and Fundación Banco Sabadell that encourages young engineers to work for startups.
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About Reby: Leading Southern Europe investment bank for mobility infrastructure
Bhanu Choudhrie
Founder of Alpha Aviation Group
Bhanu Choudhrie is a British-Indian entrepreneur, investor and business owner. He specializes in emerging Asian markets such as India and China. He founded C&C Alpha Group in London and serves as the firm’s executive director. Bhanu Choudhrie was born in Delhi, India, in June of 1978 and earned a degree in international business and marketing at the University of Boston. His father is Sudhir Choudhrie, a London-based businessman with interests in media, hospitality, aviation, health care, and retail development. An internship at JP Morgan followed his graduation, and Bhanu went to work at C&C Alpha Group in London after that. C&C Alpha Group is a private investment strategy company that he is a founder of. He became the executive director in 2001 and maintains that role today. At C&C Alpha Group, Bhanu Choudhrie works with his brother and the rest of the leadership team to provide advising and consulting services to venture capital investors. In addition to identifying and sourcing deals for new and emerging markets, Bhanu develops solutions and promotes client companies in the hospitality, aviation, health care, agriculture, and utility sectors. In 2016, Bhanu expanded his education by completing the Harvard Business School’s Owner and President Management program. Those skills helped him become the director of Megalith Financial Acquisition Corp. He accepted the position in 2018 after the company’s IPO. Bhanu Choudhrie serves on the board of directors for both Citizens Bank and Atlantic Coast Bank. He is also the director of a charitable organization called Path to Success. The organization was founded by Bhanu’s mother, and it exists to help disadvantaged people and especially women access quality education and disability accommodations. It is especially known for its role in helping women with disabilities reach their sports-related goals. At the 2008 Asian Voice Political and Public Life Awards event in the UK, Bhanu Choudhrie received the award of Entrepreneur of the Year. Two years later, he was recognized again for his outstanding achievements at the Public Life Awards. Bhanu’s passions are helping businesses in new markets, helping people reach their professional goals and spending time with his family. Bhanu Choudhrie currently resides in the Belgravia area of London, United Kingdom.
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About Alpha Aviation Group, C&C Alpha Group, Megalith Financial Acquisition Corp., Path to Success: A leading provider of aviation training solutions for the global airline industry
Alizay Saeed
Co-Founder and CFO of VavaCars
Alizay Saeed is the Co-Founder and CFO at VavaCars.
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About VavaCars: VavaCars is an online used car transaction platform
Irfon Watkins
Founder and CEO of DOVU
Irfon co-founded Coull in 2008 and has led its growth from a small office in Bristol, UK, to a global data-driven video advertising platform with offices in London, New York and San Francisco. Earlier in his career, Irfon worked as Sales Director at Dell, before moving to Florida, where he led the acquisition and running of six software companies across Africa and Europe. Following this stint Irfon decided to set up his own company. Realizing online video was the next great medium, and recognising its potential as a platform for brand engagement and publisher revenue, he founded Coull with Aden Forshaw, CTO. Coull’s platform, which processes 15bn+ video ad requests every month, dynamically validates inventory against brand safety, viewability and fraud metrics and enriches it with IAB-standard content categories. This inventory is made available to the programmatic video marketplace via a variety of ad formats across desktop, mobile and in-app environments, giving advertisers access to validated, highly-targetable audiences and enabling media partners to realize the full value of their inventory.
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About DOVU, Personal Privacy Solutions (Tapmydata): DOVU is a global rewards platform for smart travel, powered by cryptocurrency.
Krasina Mileva
COO, Legal Counsel & Founder of DOVU
Register European lawyer with over 11 years of experience in Contract and Commercial Law. Krasina has headed an international legal department in a law firm, having to deal with various civil and international matters. Then she became a sole-practitioner, focused mainly in Contract, Commercial and Company Law, whilst co-founding a construction business in Belgium. As Head of Legal at a million dollar ad-tech company she discovered her passion around Data protection, Privacy and Smart legal agreements. Being part of the Company Secretariat team in Associated British Ports gave her an additional layer of Corporate Governance expertise.
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About DOVU: DOVU is a global rewards platform for smart travel, powered by cryptocurrency.
Ron Zeghibe
Executive Chairman, Founder of FREE NOW
Ron Zeghibe is the Founder & Chairman of the Board of Directors at Hailo. Prior to this he has enjoyed a successful career in media and outdoor advertising.
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About FREE NOW, Xenomorph: FREE NOW is one of the biggest ride-hailing apps in Europe and currently available in 11 countries.
Caspar Woolley
Founder & Director of FREE NOW
Caspar Woolley is the founder and president of [Hailo](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hailo#/entity), an easy-to-use smartphone application that allows passengers to find taxis. Previously, he was the chief executive officer of eCourier.co.uk. Woolley holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering and economics from the University of Cambridge. He lives in London, United Kingdom.
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About FREE NOW, Sifted: FREE NOW is one of the biggest ride-hailing apps in Europe and currently available in 11 countries.
Jasper Smith
Co-Founder & Chairman of Arksen
Jasper Smith is the Co-Founder & Chairman of Vala Capital & he attended Henry Moore Studio in 1987.
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About Arksen, PlayJam, PlayStack, Vala Capital: Arksen is a developer of autonomous systems used to offer innovative explorer vessels.
Pasi William Sachiti
Founder & CEO of Academy of Robotics
William Sachiti is a UK based serial entrepreneur best known for creating a UK driverless car manufacture company competing with multinational incumbents such as Google, Uber and Tesla. The company designs and builds the autonomous vehicles in their UK warehouse. William has started and exited three previous tech start-ups in row, the latest MyCityVenue, an A.I. driven experiences platform serving 1.6 million users was acquired in 2015 by Secret Escapes. Before MyCityVenue, William was the the BBC Investment program Dragons Den, where he pitched a start-up, digital outdoor advertising on bins. The Dragons famously said he needs to be wheeled out of the bin. The company he pitched subsequently was licensed in several countries before being acquired. One of William’s first start-ups he started at 19, was called 123-registration. This company was also acquired for an undisclosed amount.
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About Academy of Robotics: The Academy of Robotics is a technology institute with an extraordinary technical team of engineers, scientists, and researchers.
Stefan Friederichs
Co-Founder & CTO of Leaf Logistics
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About Leaf Logistics: Leaf Logistics connects shippers, providers, and partners to bring financial market efficiency to the transportation marketplace.
Adi Ben-Ari
Founder and CEO of Applied Blockchain
Adi has over 20 years of enterprise experience, working as a solution architect for blue chip companies and leading major deliveries of blockchain solutions is widely recognised in the industry. Adi is a noted speaker at major industry conferences, experienced in educating the C-suite on blockchain, and acts as an advisor for a number of early blockchain startups. His work has also been noted by the UK Government, where he was invited to represent the industry at the Blockchain Round Table at the House of Lords. Additionally, Adi has co-invented and designed a number of patents within the blockchain and mobile payments space. Adi holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA.
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About APPII, Applied Blockchain, Nuggets: Applied Blockchain builds private and secure business applications
Aaron Gowell
Co-Founder and CEO of SilverRail Technologies
Aaron Gowell, Company Founder and CEO, SilverRail Technologies Prior to founding SilverRail in 2009, Aaron built one of the largest travel technology and distribution companies in the US: National Leisure Group (NLG), a $1 Billion ecommerce leader in vacations & cruise. NLG pioneered several early online travel technologies including the cruise industry’s first online booking platform and one of the first dynamic packaging systems. Previously, Aaron honed his survival skills in US Army’s 82nd Airborne and at global management consultancy Bain & Company. Aaron was also a founding member of General Catalyst Partners, a leading venture capital firm in Boston where he was most recently an Entrepreneur in Residence.
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About SilverRail Technologies: SilverRail offers best-in-class technical solutions that help railways and travel distributors easily connect with each other.
Will Phillipson
Co-Founder and COO of SilverRail Technologies
Will is the co-founder of SilverRail Technologies and driver behind SilverRail’s product. Will brings 15 years of travel technology and product experience in a number of successful companies. Prior to co-founding SilverRail, Will was the VP Product Strategy and technical lead for distribution platforms at ITA Software, which involved building a next-generation GDS platform for airline distribution, and advising on aspects of ITA’s forthcoming Airline Reservation, Inventory and re-accommodation Systems. Prior to the travel industry, Will started several companies focusing on document management, documents on demand and eventually digital rights management. Will has a computer engineering degree from McGill University and has served on various boards, including the Board of Governors of McGill University. Claim to fame: First solo airline trip to South Africa — at age 5. Since then he has circumnavigated this planet several times.
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About SilverRail Technologies: SilverRail offers best-in-class technical solutions that help railways and travel distributors easily connect with each other.
Mauro Pasta
Co-Founder of Cuberg
Co-Founder of Cuberg.
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About University of Oxford: Cuberg is a company delivering lithium metal cells produced on existing lithium-ion manufacturing lines for electromobility solutions.
Sam Ryan
Co-Founder & CEO of Zeelo
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About Zeelo: Zeelo is the smart bus platform for organizations, providing flexible turn-key, plug-in and SaaS transportation programs.
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.
Bola Adegbulu
Co-Founder and CEO of Predina Tech
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About Predina Tech: Building the Location Risk Intelligence platform for the future of Auto Insurance and Mobility
Azmat Yusuf
Founder / CEO of Citymapper
Mr. Azmat Yusuf is a Founder at Citymapper Limited.Yusuf previously worked at Google, as well as in the venture capital and equities fields for international banks. He started the app in 2011 as a guide for Londoners to navigate the city’s bus network. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in both Electrical Engineering and Economics and received his MBA from INSEAD in 2009.
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About Citymapper: Citymapper is a transport app for cities.
CEO & Co-Founder of Trafi
Martynas Gudonavičius is CEO and co-founder of Trafi. Joining the company at an early stage, Martynas has since then spearheaded global expansion and focused on the commercial side of the business. Before joining Trafi, Martynas was Head of Emerging Markets at InMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile ad network and tech platform. Previous to that, Martynas acted as Sales Director for Central and Eastern Europe for Adform.
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About Trafi: Trafi is a mobility-as-a-service platform for shared transportation solutions, helping cities and corporates to reach their goals.
Akin Arslan
Founder, CEO of TIRPORT
Akin Arslan is the founder and CEO of TIRPORT.
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About AB PLUS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, TIRPORT, TTT GLOBAL: End-To-To-End Logistics Operation Management, Digital PODs, Instant Vetted Truckers
Paul Martin
Co-Founder & Sales Manager of Abellio
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About Abellio: Abellio delivers rail and bus services to passengers in Scotland, England, and Germany.
Eliott Wertheimer
Founder of FuroSystems
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About FuroSystems: We are the direct to consumer brand for elegant, practical and high performance electric vehicles.
Albert Nassar
Founder of FuroSystems
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About FuroSystems: We are the direct to consumer brand for elegant, practical and high performance electric vehicles.
Joan Rodes
Co-Founder of Blue Bus Innovation
Joan Rodes is the co-founder and head of strategy at B.Bus.
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About Blue Bus Innovation: B.Bus is a transportation company that provides a private shuttle that connects hotels to airports in Luton and Stansted Area.
Clara Vaisse
Founder & COO of Pony
Clara Vaisse is the Founder and COO at Pony.
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About Pony, Sibberi: Pony is the first shared micro-mobility scheme to decentralise ownership of its vehicles.
Jamieson Christmas
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Envisics
Founder and CEO of Envisics, Jamieson Christmas has over 300 patents and was awarded the prestigious SID Ben Sturgeon Award in 2013 for his significant contribution to the field of displays. An inspirational and passionate leader with a wealth of experience managing and developing teams. His unique multidisciplinary background in science, engineering and design has enabled this world-leading expert in the field of holographic technologies to push forward the commercial realisation of cutting edge technology. In 2009, Dr. Christmas founded Two Trees Photonics where he further developed holographic technology for the automotive industry. In 2018, Dr. Christmas founded Envisics with the intent to completely transform the in-car experience with its holographic technology.
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About Envisics: Envisics develops a dynamic holography platform for cars, providing enhanced dashboards of information to drivers.
Ercylio Oliveira
Founder of Delivery Mates
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About Delivery Mates: Delivery Mates magic relies on connecting businesses and customers fulfilling their expectations of instant deliveries.
Richard Browning
Founder & Chief Test Pilot of Gravity
Richard Browning is the founder of human propulsion technology start up Gravity. Launched in March 2017, Gravity has invented, built and patented an ‘iron man like’ flight system. Richard’s dream was to reimagine an entirely new authentic form of human flight leaning on an elegant collaboration of mind and body augmented by leading-edge technology. Gravity has to date been experienced by over a billion people globally with video views alone running at more than 60m within 7 days of launch. Richard’s vision is to build Gravity into a world-class aeronautical engineering business, challenge perceived boundaries in human aviation, and inspire the future STEM generation to dare ask ‘what if’.
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About BP, Cass Business School London, Gravity, Gravity: Gravity is a British human propulsion technology company.
Eric Masaba
Founder, CEO of Texxi Global
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About Texxi Global: Largescale Dynamic Real-Time Ridesharing + Computational-CryptoCurrency + Predicitive Analytics (AI)
Sebastian Steinhauser
CEO & Founder of Parcelly
CEO & Founder at Parcelly. Most recently building an international last- and first-mile logistics tech platform. Prior to that, Sebastian spent 7+ years in London’s City with some of Europe’s leading financial institutions.
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About Parcelly: The tech platform that enables retailers and carriers to resolve last-mile delivery and first-mile fulfilment challenges
Mathew Hassell
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of CoachHire.com
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About CoachHire.com: CoachHire.com offers group transport to festivals, hen/stag events, weddings, corporate events, birthdays & sporting events.
Adam Durant
Founder & CEO of SATAVIA
Adam Durant is CEO and Founder of Satavia. Prior to founding SATAVIA, Dr. Durant worked as a professional scientist and held posts at the University of Cambridge and Norwegian Institute for Air Research. Dr. Durant has grown Satavia to achieve global recognition in the Tällt Ventures Disrupt 100 list in 2017 and was selected to participate in the 2017 SVC2UK CEO Summit held at Buckingham Palace. In addition, he has taken SATAVIA to the finals of Pitch@Palace 6.0; Mass Challenge 2016; and Copernicus Masters 2016. He has also won over £1.5m grant funding since 2015 from Innovate UK, Aerospace Technology Institute, and the European Space Agency for Satavia.
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About SATAVIA: SATAVIA simplifies decision-making for smarter, greener aviation
Mike Gascoyne
Founder & CEO of MGI Engineering
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About MGI Engineering: MGI Engineering provides technology and engineering solutions on improving various kinds of transportation.
Ahmad Bakhiet
Founder & CEO of Sellplex
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About Sellplex: Intelligent algorithms and automated rules to help sellers maximise profits across ecommerce platforms.
Leda Liakopoulou
Co-Founder Head of Design and Communication of Oseven Telematics
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About Oseven Telematics: Insurance telematics and driving behavioural analytics
Toni Hull
Founder of MomOnWheels
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About MomOnWheels, MomOnWheels: A ride booking app for busy parents enabling them to source on demand and scheduled rides for their children with security vetted drivers.
Jianguo Lin
Founder of Impression Technologies
Jianguo has been the driving force behind the development of the HFQ process and has developed significant know how in the processing of hot and warm formed aluminium & steel . He currently heads the mechanics of materials division at Imperial, and previously was at Birmingham University.
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About Imperial College London, Impression Technologies: Impression Technologies is leading the path towards lightweighting solutions in automotive, aerospace and consumer product sectors.
Trevor Dean
Founder of Impression Technologies
Trevor has had a long and distinguished academic career. he has been involved with HFQ since its inception. Both Professor Lin and Dr Foster worked with him.
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About Impression Technologies, University of Birmingham: Impression Technologies is leading the path towards lightweighting solutions in automotive, aerospace and consumer product sectors.
Trygve P. Munthe
Co-CEO & Founder of DHT Holdings
Trygve P. Munthe is the Founder & Co CEO of DHT Holdings Inc.
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About DHT Holdings: DHT operates as an independent crude oil tanker company.
Rory O’Connor
Founder & CEO of Scurri
Rory O’ Connor, is the founder and CEO of Scurri. Since launch Rory has focused on building and leading an impressive team of highly experienced technologists and advisors. Rory has won significant investment for the software business, raising over €7 million investment from private individuals, business angel investors and Enterprise Ireland. Prior to founding Scurri in 2010, he worked in various roles in Waterford Wedgwood, in sales, marketing and strategic project roles including being part of the team that delivered a €10m SAP implementation. Rory subsequently worked as a change management consultant with clients such as Heineken, Intel, Ogilvy and Siemens and as a project manager with AOL broadband. Rory has a number of business qualification including holding an MBA from Henley Management College.
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About QuantumID Technologies, Scurri: Scurri is a simple, effective and adaptable API and dashboard built to optimise your ordering, shipping and delivery
David Ovadia
Founder CEO, Chairman and Non Executive Director of IGS (International Geoscience Services) Ltd
David Ovadia is a successful Chief Executive and Chairman with a proven record of achievement in the public and private sectors. He was a Director of Blenheim Natural Resources plc, previously Coburg plc, London AIM-listed companies investing in the global natural resources sector, CEO of Avenco Ltd and Chairman of South East African Mining (SEAM) Ltd, both junior explorers for gold and other minerals in Africa. He served as a Director of Spectrum General Partner Ltd and was previously the Director of International at the British Geological Survey, from which he spun out and was the founder Managing Director, and later Chairman, of IGS (International Geoscience Services) Ltd.
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About IGS (International Geoscience Services) Ltd: IGS (International Geoscience Services) Ltd provides geoscientific and geodata services to the global mineral exploration sector.
Simeon Miighty
Co-Founder of Piing
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About Piing: The ethical cab app. Fair to drivers, fair to riders, safety-first.
George Lee
Co-Founder of Piing
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About Piing: The ethical cab app. Fair to drivers, fair to riders, safety-first.
Jacoby Thwaites
Founder & Chief Technologist of SPARKL
Jacoby is the CEO and founder of SPARKL, having previously managed insurance software company Michaelhouse until 2002. In 2006, he co-founded mashup pioneer Teqlo Inc in the US then joined core engineering at Google where he was responsible for Adsense Engineering in London until 2011. In 2012, Jacoby founded SPARKL in the UK to develop and market the Sequencing Engine technology.
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About SPARKL: SPARKL designs and develops the SPARKL Sequencing Engine, a powerful technology for managing the behavior of distributed systems.
Daniel White
CEO and Founder of Signol
Dan is a behavioral and environmental expert with extensive experience of devising and delivering successful innovations. Over the last 10 years, Dan has been at the forefront of applied behavioral science and has conducted several water and energy field experiments. Dan also lectures at University College London in applying field experiments to change energy consumption behavior.
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About Signol: Signol develops software which focuses on fuel efficiency by analysing operational data.
Robert Hahn
Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder of Signol
Bob is a visiting Professor and former Director of Economics at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He also has senior affiliations with Georgetown University and the Brookings Institution. Bob’s experimental research focuses on regulatory and economic issues in energy and transport. Previously, Bob worked for the US Council of Economic Advisers where he helped design an innovative market-based approach for reducing acid rain. Bob has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University and recently served as a member of the U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking.
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About Signol: Signol develops software which focuses on fuel efficiency by analysing operational data.
Paul Green
Co-Founder, Director and Chief Science Officer of IOTICS
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About IOTICS: Enabling ecosystems of secure data interactions with digital twins
Steve Gledden
Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of aiPod
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About aiPod, healthbox360: aiPod is a breakthrough, safe low-cost transportation system
Andreas Zachariah
Co-Founder & CEO of TravelAi
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About TravelAi: We offer B2C & B2B SaaS to capture public & private mobility habits of people using our automatic multimodal detection software
Mark Jenner
Co-Founder of Beeline
Mark Jenner is a Co-Founder at BeeLine.
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About Beeline: Smart navigation, made simple. For a global community of adventurers
Tom Putnam
Co Founder of Beeline
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About Beeline: Smart navigation, made simple. For a global community of adventurers
Jared Hawkins
CTO & CO – Founder of Circulation
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About Circulation, Harvard Medical School: Circulation is the pioneer in on-demand non-emergency healthcare transportation.
Douglas Rotberg
CEO and Co-Founder of Book My Garage
Douglas Rotberg is the Co-Founder and CEO of The Motorists Organisation.
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About Book My Garage, The Motorists Organisation: BookMyGarage.com is the UK’s only unbiased, real-time, car servicing comparison site, serving the needs of car owners and garages alike.
Dennis Sandmark
CTO and Co-Founder of CargoMate Technologies
Dennis has six years experience as a full-stack software engineer working for global companies such as Spotify, Sky and McKinsey.
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About CargoMate Technologies: CargoMate Technologies saves millions in fuel costs by helping container ships leave port early.
Chris Jones
CEO and Co-Founder of CargoMate Technologies
Chris co-founded CargoMate with Dennis to solve the inefficiencies experienced during his 12 years of working on container ships. He spent the last five years of his seagoing career operating icebreaking container ships in the North Atlantic for OOCL.
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About CargoMate Technologies: CargoMate Technologies saves millions in fuel costs by helping container ships leave port early.
Arnaud Didey
Founder & CEO of Neoptera Aero
Arnaud Dide is the Founder and CEO at Neoptera Aero.
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About Didey Consulting Ltd, Neoptera Aero: Neoptera Aero is developing a patented winged eVTOL aircraft aimed at Public Services, Military Applications and Future Urban Air Mobility
Ben Treleaven
Co-Founder & Managing Director of ISO Spaces
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About ISO Spaces: ISO Spaces are modular space specialists with a full in house design and engineering team.
Gregg Curtis
Co Founder and Director of ISO Spaces
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About ISO Spaces: ISO Spaces are modular space specialists with a full in house design and engineering team.
Robin North
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Lead Technologist of Immense
Building tools to support fleets and mobility. Development, implementation, field test and evaluation of complex transport systems across multiple modes. Environmental monitoring and modelling methodologies for the appraisal of transport systems and projects. Identification and development of innovation opportunities for multiple stakeholders.
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About Immense: A global decision-support platform for new mobility
Dídac Busquets i Font
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Immense
I am a Computer Scientist (BSc 1999, PhD 2003) specialised in Artificial Intelligence, and more concretely on agent-based simulation, task and resource allocation and self-organisation. I have worked in a wide range of domains, from robotics, to economics and justice, to transportation and logistics. I am co-founder and Chief Scientist of Immense Simulations, a software company that develops city-scale, predictive simulations to provide enhanced decision making capabilities in the mobility ecosystem. I have 15+ years of experience in research in Computer Science, specialized in Artificial Intelligence, and my main goal is to design and develop intelligent systems and infrastructures to allow people to use their resources more efficiently and in a sustainable way. I’m also interested in incorporating concepts of justice and fairness in ICT systems and infrastructures. I like to think outside the box and provide creative solutions to challenging problems. In the recent years I’ve been working on Smart Grids and Intelligent Transportation Systems, and how ICT can help people interact with them. I also co-founded Newronia (2011-present), a spinoff from Universitat de Girona, that develops software for intelligently and efficiently manage logistics resources. I’m currently acting as a board member and scientific advisor. Broadly, my main research areas are: – Intelligent Transportation Systems – Multi-agent systems – Self-adaptive and self-organising systems – Resource allocation – Computational justice – Market-mechanisms (auctions) – Robotics
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About Immense: A global decision-support platform for new mobility
Carl Goves
Co-Founder and Chief Engineer of Immense
I am Chief Engineer, so I’m responsible for our engineering team. This basically means I keep watch over our product’s technical development and progress our product roadmap, whilst making sure we are designing the right products to meet commercial demands. That’s my primary role… I’ve got about 50 other roles as well!
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About Immense: A global decision-support platform for new mobility
Hans Manku
Founder of Arrive
founder at Arrive.
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About Arrive: The only Taxi app where you can choose your driver… D’you want the cheapest, quickest or highest-rated driver?
Ashley Murdoch
Founder & CEO of Corethree
Ashley has extensive experience in technology sales & marketing and drives the business opportunity created from the integration of mobile and data. Before founding Corethree, he spent four years as European Marketing Manager at Sony Professional Europe and was later head-hunted to become Fortune Brands’ European General Manager for Digital, developing and launching digital technology solutions into Europe.
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About Corethree: Corethree is a fast-growing specialist data technology company, enabling businesses take advantage of the mobile-data intersection
Matthew Mears
Founder and Director of Temple Cycles
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About Temple Cycles: Temple Cycles design, produce and sell a range of bicycles from its Bristol-based workshop.
Gordon Murray
Founder of OX
Professor Gordon Murray is CEO and technical director at Gordon Murray Design. Gordon Murray was born in Durban, South Africa in 1946 and gained a Mechanical Engineering Diploma from Natal Technical College. In 1969, Gordon moved to the UK and joined Brabham Formula One team as technical director. Gordon joined McLaren Racing as technical director in 1988. Gordon move away from Formula One in 1990 to enable him to concentrate his efforts on establishing McLaren Cars Ltd. Gordon left McLaren in 2005 to set up his new company Gordon Murray Design Limited.
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About OX: We deliver clean, affordable transport in emerging markets, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of economic growth and social impact.
Torquil Norman
Founder of OX
Torquil Norman studied law and economics at Cambridge and Harvard. He went on to work as a banker from 1957-1967), at J.P. Morgan and Company in New York and at Philip Hill, Higginson Erlanger’s in London, followed by a further five years as general manager of industrial holding company Mineral Separation Ltd. with particular responsibility for their smaller companies. From 1973, he became the chief executive of toy manufacturing company, Berwick Timpo Ltd. and, between 1980 and 1996, was executive chairman of Bluebird Toys plc, which during the years from 1980 to 1995 grew from zero to sales of almost £100m. After retiring from Bluebird Toys plc in 1996, he bought the old railway engine shed in Camden, the Roundhouse, through the Norman Trust. Over the following 11 years, in addition to its own contribution of over £7million, the Trust raised over £30 million to buy the building and its adjacent car park and refurbish the entire complex as a centre for young people from all backgrounds to work in a wide range of the arts from music and theatre to all modern media, including radio, TV production, and other skills. The Roundhouse Studios have since worked with around 40,000 young people and the Roundhouse main space has become one of London’s most popular centers for entertainment and education. After retiring from the Roundhouse, he devoted two years to writing the book “Kick the Tyres Light the Fires” about the way Britain was being governed, and should be governed. Since then he has devoted his time to the OX project with Gordon Murray.
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About OX: We deliver clean, affordable transport in emerging markets, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of economic growth and social impact.
Maxwell Wilson
Founder of Spokesafe
Maxwell Wilson is the Founder of SPOKESAFE.
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About Spokesafe: Spokesafe is an urban mobility platform that gives cyclists access to a growing network of secure parking spaces at the click of a button.
Paul Fischer
Co_Founder of ImagineAir
Paul Fischer, M.D. A graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Dr. Fischer’s interest in small aircraft travel began over a decade ago when he realized its potential for dramatically simplifying business and leisure travel. As a cofounder, he brings years of business and entrepreneurial experience to ImagineAir, having been the CEO and founding partner for the Center for Primary Care, PC, Primary Care Properties, LLC, and several other successful companies during his career.
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About ImagineAir: ImagineAir offers personal air taxi services.
Daniel Coleman
Founder and CEO of FTE Innovation & Startup Hub
Daniel Coleman is the founder and CEO at Future Travel Experience.
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About FTE Innovation & Startup Hub: FTE Innovation & Startup Hub is an air transport innovation network that connects corporate innovators with air transport specific startups.
Adrian Twibill
Founder of JetXchange
Founder of JetXchange.
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About JetXchange: JetXchange offers the private jet industry with a technology model that enables its clients to access aircraft companies and aircrafts.
Justin Coelho
Chief Commercial Officer & Co-Founder of RocketRoute Ltd
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About RocketRoute Ltd: RocketRoute is an advanced online flight planning centre. Ideal for Airlines, Operators and IFR Pilots. Easy to use, fast and convenient.
Andy Walters
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Quartix
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About Quartix: Quartix provides vehicle tracking systems and devices for site and field services, transportation, security, and other industries.
John McArthur
Founder & CEO of Tracsis
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About Tracsis: The Tracsis Group is a leading international provider of software and services for the planning and management of mass transit operations.
monty alexander
Founder of Compare The Man And Van
Founder at Compare The Man And Van
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About Compare The Man And Van: The only dedicated live Man and van price comparison site
James alexander
Founder of Compare The Man And Van
Founder at Compare The Man And Van
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About Compare The Man And Van: The only dedicated live Man and van price comparison site
Chris Thompson
Co-Founder of HUDJO
Chris has spent the past 17 years leading and growing businesses in the travel and technology sectors. Prior to that he was a department head at one of the world’s largest travel and leisure PLCs. Chris focusses on building strategy, teams and processes that are efficient and create value.
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About : A community portal, for people to list convenient, secure locations for bicycle parking, so users can interact with their neighbourhoods
Dave Sayce
Co-Founder and Director of Compare My Move
Dave co-founded Compare My Move while running a removal company in Wales for over 5 years. Dave deals with the operational and online marketing needs of the business.
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About Compare My Move: Compare My Move is an online hub for all things moving home.
Marc Benger
Co-Founder and Director of Compare My Move
Marc is a co-founder of Compare My Move and has been working with the company since day one. Marc specialises in customer relations, data analysis and human resources.
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About Compare My Move: Compare My Move is an online hub for all things moving home.
Marc Benger
Co-Founder and Director of Compare My Move
Marc is a co-founder of Compare My Move and has been working with the company since day one. Marc specialises in customer relations, data analysis and human resources.
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About Compare My Move: Compare My Move is an online hub for all things moving home.
Rashide Carvalho
Founder and CEO of Whipgo
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About Whipgo: Whipgo.com is a platform where you can rent vehicles in seconds without the hassle of rental agreements and documents.
Howard Davies
Founder of Direct Ferries
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About Direct Ferries: Direct Ferries helps customers plan ferry routes and compare prices on different lines.
Marcin Piatkowski
Founder & CEO of JIVR
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About JIVR: JIVR is a hassle-free commuting bike, allowing you to enjoy the benefits of cycling, without any lifestyle compromises.
Pete Ferguson
Co-Founder CEO of Prospective
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About Prospective: Autonomous Networked Operations
Anuar Ustay
Founder of City Link
Founder at City Link
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About City Link: Smart, Safe & Affordable Transport for People
Andrew Phillips
Founder of Gliide
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About Gliide: 100% Electric – Intelligent Chauffeur Driven Car Service
Leonardo Zangrando
Founder of Startup Wharf Ltd
Designed a hands-on training methodology for startups to learn-by-doing the startup development process, and developed blended learning material currently used by major Italian Bank Intesa Sanpaolo in their startup incubator Officine Formative. Redesigned and project managed the overall conversion of a logistics facility involving £20m investment, change of technology and processes, with operations running 24/7. Achieved 90% increase in capacity and 50% increase in turnaround time.
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About Startup Wharf Ltd: the independent, virtual, global Maritime Startup Ecosystem
Christopher Bevan
Founder of E-LeatherGroup
Christopher Bevan is the Founder at E-LeatherGroup.
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About E-LeatherGroup: E-Leather is a revolutionary product that is designed and manufactured to provide an advanced upholstery and cladding material
Paul Andrews
Founder & CEO of Oaktec
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About Oaktec: OakTec is an engineering research specialist with a history of world-leading innovation in low carbon vehicle powertrain technologies.
Paul Andrews
Founder & CEO of Oaktec
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About Oaktec: OakTec is an engineering research specialist with a history of world-leading innovation in low carbon vehicle powertrain technologies.
Manash Mukherjee
Founder & CEO of Stunited
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About Stunited: STUNITED is the comprehensive social networking platform for the students, educational organisations, professionals and related businesses.
Manash Mukherjee
Founder & CEO of Stunited
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About Stunited: STUNITED is the comprehensive social networking platform for the students, educational organisations, professionals and related businesses.
Payin Attafuah
Founder of Polis Assist
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About Polis Assist: Mobile app to help user find Free parking and safeguard their park from unlawful tickets
