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 CEO’ operating in the Impact Investing space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Benoit Durteste
Chief Investment Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Intermediate Capital Group
Benoît Durteste is Chief Investment Officer and Chief Executive Officer of ICG. He is also a member of the Board of ICG Plc and the Chairman of the BVCA Alternative Lending Working Group. Benoit joined ICG in 2002 from Swiss Re where he was a Managing Director in the Structured Finance division in London. Prior to Swiss Re, Benoit worked in the Leveraged Finance division of BNP Paribas and in GE Capital’s Telecom and Media Private Equity team in London. Benoit is a graduate of the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris.
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About Intermediate Capital Group: ICG is a specialist asset manager in private debt, credit and equity.
Simon Heawood
CEO of Bricklane.com
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About Bricklane.com: Bricklane harnesses technology to unlock investment in residential property at scale.
Antoine Argouges
Founder & CEO of tulipshare
Antoine Argouges is the Founder and CEO at Tulipshare.
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About tulipshare: Tulipshare is the first activist investment platform, with a focus on impactful project to make this planet better.
Duncan Grierson
CEO and Founder of Clim8 Invest
Duncan Grierson is a Entrepreneur with VC experience in Paris, London, Silicon Valley & Chicago. He is a Founder CEO of 2 ventures backed by over £50m from likes of Goldman Sachs, Fidelity et al.
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About Clim8 Invest, Lirica, Moixa Energy Holdings: Clim8 Invest provides an app that allows individuals to invest in industries that work towards fighting climate change.
Tim Nicolle
Chief Executive Officer of PrimaDollar
Tim is the founder of PrimaDollar, which provides a low cost, transactional trade finance product on a global basis. Tim has been a senior investment banker (Managing Director at Deutsche Bank and Unicredit Bank) and has also been a partner in a big-four global accounting firm (PwC). He has also founded two business previously: Demica (1998-2002) and Risk Limited (1989-1998). Demica is now a major global force in supply chain finance.
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About PrimaDollar: PrimaDollar is an ESGTech and Fintech for international supply chains.(real-time ESG data and Trade Finance)
Ola Abdul
CEO of Fundment
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About Fundment: Fundment is powering adviser platforms with investment management and account management automation
Khing Oei
Founder & CEO of AlphaSwap
Khing is an investor and entrepreneur. Prior to founding AlphaSwap, Khing founded and ran Eyck Capital, a hedge fund with peak AUM of $200mm. Khing started his career at Goldman Sachs in M&A and subsequently worked as an investor/portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs’ Special Situations Investing Group and multi-billion dollar hedge funds Fortress and Halcyon. Khing holds a Master of Science in Econometrics and an Associate’s Degree in Business Mathematics & Computer Science from VU University in Amsterdam.
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About AlphaSwap, Privium Fund Management: AlphaSwap is an investment technology platform, bundling its analyst community’s best stock ideas into Data-as-a-Service
Seth Ward
CEO & Founder of Pynk
Online since the ’80s, I grew up eating my cereals off of arcade game machines which led to my first thriving business aged 8 – running a lunchtime arcade sanctuary for my school buddies in my garage (in true Silicon Valley style). Serial tech entrepreneur and incubator since the ’90s. A hands-on, can-do leader, I’ve: – Raised investment (and delivered ROI) – Coded prototypes, alphas and betas – Set up data-driven analytics that enabled rapid growth – Recruited and led globally disperse tech teams – Built a business from $500 to eight figures in 4 years with zero investment – Pioneered digital download and mobile video streaming platforms for AOL, Vodafone, Orange and Universal Music – Co-founded a business which transformed professional soccer scouting before selling to an industry leader And I… – love to immerse myself in the most positively disruptive technology (from those arcade games and pre-WWW internet in the ’90s, web in the 90s, mobile in the 00s and now blockchain and AI in the 10s – learn to teach, and teach to learn; I feel most alive when I’m learning and applying new thinking – realise that as a society we need to actively shape our use of technology to help us reach our human potential rather than allowing it to rule our lives and diminish our connection to each other I first started mining Bitcoin in 2011. I’m currently focused on the blockchain space, dedicated to helping everyday investors and startups. I love blockchain, and I kinda love capitalism – both are broken right now, but could fix each other. Let’s make things better!
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About Pynk: Pynk is where everyday people invest better together.
Ozgur Tuncer
CEO & Executive Director of Stablepharma Ltd
Ozgur Tuncer CEO & Executive Director – two decades of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry including working for blue chip companies such as Pfizer, IQVIA and Pharmacia. Most recently, he was Global Vice President in IQVIA, and strategic adviser to life sciences investors. In addition to his role in Stablepharma, Özgür is an Investment Partner with Ascension Ventures.
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About Stablepharma Ltd: An innovative Biotech, developing a wide range of reformulated thermostable and fridge free StablevaX vaccines
Marc Buchner
CEO of Envercapital
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About Envercapital: Envercapital is a global investment firm focused on growing sustainable and impactful businesses.
Chris Webb
CEO & Founder of GreenGrowth
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About GreenGrowth: GreenGrowth is a sustainable retail investments platform, bringing transparency and personalisation to retail investing
Jude Cook
CEO, Co-Founder, Investment Based Crowdfunding Platforms of ShareIn
Jude has been hooked on crowdfunding since 2011. She’s a chartered accountant who loves hearing about exciting new companies and passionate about fuelling their growth.
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About ShareIn: ShareIn help our clients deliver market leading direct investment channels.
