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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 Parenting 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.
Michelle Kennedy
Co-Founder & CEO of Peanut
Michelle joined Badoo originally as lead counsel over 4 years ago. Prior to joining Badoo she was a successful corporate lawyer at leading international law firm, Mishcon de Reya, before being poached by the firm’s successful biotech client, Quotient Bioscience to head up their legal team. During her time at Badoo, she built the legal, compliance, HR and talent teams before moving into a more operationally focused role, including a position on the board. Today, Michelle is responsible for most key areas of the business, and works closely with founder and CEO Andrey Andreev, on the existing product, and exciting ‘special projects’ coming soon….
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About Peanut: Peanut is an online platform that provides a safe space for women to connect across fertility and motherhood.
Mark Newton-Jones
CEO and Director of Mothercare
Mark Newton-Jones is the CEO and Director at Mothercare.
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About Mothercare: Mothercare Catalogue of baby equipment, clothing and toys with special offers and shopping cart.
Akin Onal
Founder & CEO of MORI
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About MORI: MORI (babymori.com) is an innovative and sustainable babywear brand. D2C
Tushar Srivastava
Founder & CEO of Nurturey
Tushar Srivastava is a Founder & CEO at Nurturey. He has a professional background in Finance, Management Consulting and Technology.
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About Nurturey: Nurturey is the smartest Personal Assistant for parents
Tom Evans
Founder & CEO of BleepBleeps – Smart Family
Tom Evans is the Founder of BleepBleeps.
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About BleepBleeps – Smart Family, Central Research Laboratory, D&AD, SapientNitro: Cute, connected gadgets that make parenting magic.
Ari Last
Founder & CEO of bubble app
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About bubble app: Bubble, an on-demand mobile app, connects parents with babysitters that their friends already know and trust.
Faisal Laljee
Co-Founder and CEO of KidSitter
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About Blow, KidSitter: Online marketplace for finding trusted, reliable and thoroughly vetted childcare
Geraint Barton
Founder and CEO of Kinderly
As a father of two young boys, Geraint founded NurseryBook based on his first-hand experience and his personal desire to be fully engaged in his child’s early years learning and development journey. Prior to NurseryBook, Geraint spent 11 years as big biological data analyst & software developer at Imperial College and established LabBook the world’s first e-labBook on Android.
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About Kinderly: Kinderly develops software for early years’ education to help childcare professionals comply with government regulation and more.
Neel Patel
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ZiO Health
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About ZiO Health: ZiO Health has developed proprietary pocket-sized technology, bringing lab testing to the point of use.
Susan Burton
Founder & CEO of Classlist.com
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About Classlist.com: Classlist enables parents at the same school to make trusted, secure connections; making their life easier and school communities stronger.
Ana Cláudia Huzenlaub
Founder & CEO of ChicBaby.com
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About ChicBaby.com: ChicBaby is an online platform that offers fashion and apparel products for babies.
Andrew Purcell
CEO, Founder of Child Angel
Andrew has run a Wealth Management company for 25 years and is the Founder of Child Angel. He is at the forefront of the company and strives to achieve his heart’s desire of having an Angel look over your Child.
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About Child Angel: Child Angel™ is one of the smallest and most advanced child tracking devices available in the world today.
Claire Skerrett
CEO / Founder of Picniq
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About Picniq: Picniq is a site for all parents on the hunt for fun things to do with the kids!
