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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Founder operating in the Cycling 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.
Eric Min
Co-Founder and CEO of Zwift
Zwift Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zwift. He was the Vice President at JP Morgan before co-founding and working as Chief Executive Officer at Sakonnet Technology, a commodities trading and risk management platform.
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About Zwift: Zwift operates an online fitness platform used to transform monotonous solo indoor cycling into dynamic and social adventures.
Henry Furniss
Co-Founder of WyndyMilla
Henry ran London’s top mobile personal training company ‘The Firm’ from 2001 – 2008. Henry remains amongst London’s most respected Health & Fitness experts, over the last decade he has gained a vast wealth of knowledge in his role as a PT and has worked with many of the UK’s top business brains, celebrities & fashion icons. Henry has featured & written regularly in the national press whilst also making appearances on C4’s ‘Fit Farm’, GMTV and BBC London News. Henry graduated in business & finance at Durham in ’1997, and then later studied personal training, sports therapy & nutrition. He competed in the Triathlon World Championships, before winning the first road race he entered a bit late in the day aged 29. Less than a year later he was an Elite cyclist and has been in and out of the UK’s top 100 riders ever since. Aside from his role in the evolution of the ‘WyndyMilla Empire’, Henry has been a consultant for Maxifuel since 2006.
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About WyndyMilla: WyndyMilla offering tailored bike training and equipment advice to personal training clients and friends.
Nasima Siddiqui
Co-Founder of WyndyMilla
Nasima studied Applied Biology at The University of Bath. Using these studies together with her background as a personal trainer, cycling coach and racing cyclist, Nasima is now highly focused on the best bicycle centric training and nutritional protocols for cyclists at every level. She’s a firm believer that riding a bike should be a fun and stress free experience for everyone.
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About WyndyMilla: WyndyMilla offering tailored bike training and equipment advice to personal training clients and friends.
Nick Larsen
Founder, Director of Charge Bikes
Nick Larsen is the Founder and Creative Director at Charge Bikes.
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About Charge Bikes: Charge Bikes design and produce a range of simple and unique bicycles, and components.
Caoimhe Bamber
Founder of Digme Fitness
Caoimhe Bamber is the founder of Digme Fitness.
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About Digme Fitness: Digme is a boutique fitness studio fitness operator that offers pay-as-you-go indoor cycling, HIIT, and yoga classes.
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.
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.
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
Philip Bingham
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Velo Vixen
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About Velo Vixen: The UK’s Leading Specialist in Women’s Cycling Kit
Luca Amaduzzi
Founder and CEO of CYCL
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About CYCL: CYCL provides solutions to increasing cycling safety on busy roads and junctions.
Scott Cain
Founder and CEO of RunFriendly
Scott Cain is the Founder and CEO of RunFriendly. Akin to “Airbnb for showers”, RunFriendly matches demand among cyclists, runners and those on-the-go in cities with under-used showers. With a simple subscription model, RunFriendly helps more people to move actively whatever the weather looks like. Scott has a passion for active mobility, and how we design cities for more healthy people and places. His work centres on how we can blend people-centric urban design with innovations in governance, finance, novel technologies and business models in ways that enable inclusive and equitable access to services, ahead of ownership, in cities.
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About RunFriendly: RunFriendly is run and cycle in cities more easily & more often.
