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 Business Information Systems 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.
Vaibhav Khullar
Founder of Bx
Former investment banker. Passionate Engineer. Angel Investor. Cryptography enthusiast and prolific Bitcoin miner. Founder of OSREC Financial (https://osrec.co.uk), Bx (https://usebx.com).
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About Bx, OSREC Financial, PersonalRx: Bx is a fully-featured business management SaaS, covering invoicing, payments, expenses, and more.
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Jonathan Feuer
Co-Founder and Chairman of Eigen Technologies
Jonathan Feuer is the Co-Founder and Chairman at Eigen Technologies.
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About Eigen Technologies: Eigen is a research-driven AI company specializing in NLP for businesses in finance, law, and professional services.
Lewis Z. Liu
Co-Founder & CEO of Eigen Technologies
Lewis Z. Liu is the Co-Founder & CEO at Eigen Technologies.
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About Eigen Technologies: Eigen is a research-driven AI company specializing in NLP for businesses in finance, law, and professional services.
Colin Cooper
Sage People Vice President & Founder of Sage Group
Colin Cooper serves as sage people vice president and founder at The Sage Group.
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About Sage Group: Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
Caroline Plumb
Founder and CEO of Fluidly
Caroline Plumb is Founder and CEO of cashflow management software business Fluidly. Caroline previously co-founded and led FreshMinds, an innovation consultancy, and FreshMinds Talent, a recruiting business. The businesses have won a number of Best Agency awards and have regularly been listed in the Sunday Times’ 100 Best Small Companies to Work For. Caroline is one of the Prime Minister’s Business Ambassadors, representing the Professional & Business Services sector. She has a First Class degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford University, is on the industrial advisory board of the Engineering department and was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s 90th Birthday Honours List in 2016.
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About Fluidly, FreshMinds: Fluidly is fundamentally rethinking the way businesses plan and manage cashflow, using data science, accounting domain expertise.
Johnnie Ball
Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist of Fluidly
Johnnie brings significant experience in the application of quantitative methods and AI to finance. Formerly a trader at a major investment bank he has also spent time as a quantitative advisor at an SME credit hedge fund; built the credit rating system for an energy supplier and is an alumni of the prestigious deep-tech accelerator Entrepreneur First. He holds the Certificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF), an MSc in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning with Distinction from UCL and is a member of the European AI Alliance. Johnnie is applying deep expertise in applied AI and finance to deliver a world-class machine learning product.
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About European Commission, Fluidly, Forget Me Knot: Fluidly is fundamentally rethinking the way businesses plan and manage cashflow, using data science, accounting domain expertise.
Pravina Pindoria
COO & Co-Founder of Tallyfy
Pravina Pindoria is the Co-founder & COO at Tallyfy
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About Tallyfy: Tallyfy is beautiful workflow software that lets you document, track and improve all your repeatable processes
Matt Poll
CEO & Co Founder of Neos
Matt is an experienced business leader with a passion for innovation. He has recently founded Neos (neos.co.uk), which is an InsureTech business that is focused on delivering smart home protection products and services Prior to this, he spent fifteen years in the Insurance industry working in the UK and US with AXA and RSA. His most recent corporate role was the Commercial Director for More Than (part of the RSA Group) which is one of the largest retail insurance brands in the UK. Whilst at More Than he also created and funded an Innovation Lab focused on combining emerging technology trends (including IoT) with more traditional insurance products to create and deliver customer centric solutions. Matt also has a strong affinity with social enterprise. He is a mentor for the School of Social Entrepreneurs and is an Advisory Board Member for the charity Seechangefilms (seechangefilms.org). Living just outside London, Matt is married with three young children and is heavily involved in sport in his spare time.
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About Neos: Neos is an insurance company that provides smart home technology and home insurance.
Matt Little
Founder and CEO of Blue Ocean Insight
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About Blue Ocean Insight, Inquisitive Systems: Blue Ocean Insight helps companies scale up together with a full understanding of their product, team, and technology risks.
Craig Redmond
Founder & CEO of Zipier Payroll
Before founding Zipier in 2013, Craig worked as a developer for Microsoft. Craig tries to make life more interesting by travelling to exotic countries, and likes to think he speaks fluent Mandarin.
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About Zipier Payroll: Free cloud payroll, HR, and attendance for your business. All 50 states. Paystubs. Paychecks. Tax forms. Legal templates. All for FREE!
Brian Oleen
Founder, CEO of Samso Group
Leadership expert that has seen the best leaders in the world in action firsthand and studied what it meant to be a “good leader”. Was this only a trait that executives held? Were people just born leaders? Did their status give them leadership advantages? Brian has twenty years of leadership experience in the US Army and developed speaking, mentoring and coaching skills in hundreds of Soldiers around the world. Brian understands that leadership is a trait that we all possess and it is not about titles or status, leadership is an important tool for all of us to be successful. Brian has served as a senior NCO in the military for the past 9 years. He is a certified project manager and business continuity practitioner.
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About Samso Group: Samso Group was established 2014.
David Bushnell
Founder of enable.services
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About enable.services: enable.services architect, build and deliver prosperous digital solutions for your company collaboratively.
Brad Burton
Managing Director & Founder of 4Networking
Brad can give you the sharpest advice you’ll find on how to get your business moving. Author, inspirational speaker, media pundit, tireless 4Networker.
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About 4Networking: The UK’s only joined-up business network.
