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 Mapping Services 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.
Misha Gopaul
Founder of FATMAP
Misha is a serial entrepreneur with nearly two decades of experience founding and running successful technology companies. He started his first business, Fabric Technologies, building computers in his bedroom which grew to a team of over 120 people before a merger with a publicly listed competitor in 2011. He plays an active role in the European tech eco-system as an advisor, angel investor and mentor and currently serves on the Board at NEX Abide Financial and Workplace Fabric. In 2013, a chance meeting with adventurer and self-professed mapping geek, David Cowell sparked the beginning of his most ambitious project to date, combining his passion for mountains and technology – to build FATMAP, the world’s leading adventure platform and the most precise and detailed 3D map of the outdoors – a 1:1 map in virtual reality. Competing with established mapping giants has called for an innovative approach to business models and partnerships. Using gaming technology and disruptive models from the tech and music industry FATMAP is on a mission to map the world in human scale detail and build the highest resolution computational map of our planet.
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About CME Group Regulatory Reporting, FATMAP: FATMAP is an outdoor adventure platform for web & mobile.
Chris Sheldrick
Co-Founder & CEO of what3words
Chris worked in the music business for 10 years, booking bands and managing production for events around the globe. He was constantly frustrated with suppliers not finding site entrances, and bands not finding their way from the hotel to their gigs. Chris tried distributing addresses and GPS coordinates for years but both failed him on numerous occasions. He was certain there was a better way: what3words was born.
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About TED Conferences, The World Economic Forum, what3words: what3words is a mapping technology startup that creates a proprietary geocode system for logistics firms.
Jack Waley-Cohen
Co-Founder / COO of what3words
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About what3words: what3words is a mapping technology startup that creates a proprietary geocode system for logistics firms.
Ian Hetherington
Co-Founder of WRLD
Ian has been involved in the video game industry since 1982. He founded and was Managing Director of Psygnosis Limited, which became one of the most successful UK based publishers. Psygnosis was sold to Sony in 1993 and Ian was retained as the Managing Director of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe from 1994-1997 where he was instrumental in the design and implementation of the hardware and software for Sony’s new Playstation console, and oversaw the development of the European launch catalogue (80% market share at launch).
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About Midoki, Realtime Worlds, WRLD: A 3D cloud-based platform of real-world environments to create digital twins.
Baran Korkmaz
Founder, CEO of ARWAY
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About ARWAY: ARWAY is a spatial mapping platform critical to building the Metaverse.
Tuhin Chakraborty
Co-Founder & CEO of Mimica Automation
Tuhin Chakraborty is Co-Founder & CEO at Mimica.ai. Tuhin led software engineering teams at companies like Pandora and LinkedIn while building and selling enterprise software in his spare time.
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About Mimica Automation: Mimica watches you work and learns to automate your most repetitive tasks.
Raphael Holca-Lamarre
Co-Founder & CTO of Mimica Automation
Raphael Holca-Lamarre is Co-Founder & CTO at Mimica.ai. Raphael completed a PhD at the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning, developing brain-inspired learning algorithms for deep neural networks.
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About Mimica Automation: Mimica watches you work and learns to automate your most repetitive tasks.
Gabi Campos
Co-Founder of Shortcut.city
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About Shortcut.city: Shortcut.city offers SatNav for passengers that put the user on the fastest route to any destination.
Ege Akpinar
Founder and CEO of Pointr
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About Pointr: Pointr is an indoor positioning and navigation company with analytics and messaging features.
Tom Nield
Co-Founder of Landmrk
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About Landmrk: Landmrk is a flexible white-label platform that enables you to deliver digital content to your audience at specific physical locations.
Melanie Amini
Founder and Chief Coffee Inspector of Discovering Coffee
Founder at Discovering Coffee
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About Discovering Coffee, Gossip Media: Discovering Coffee helps in locating all the artisan and third wave coffee spots near you.
