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 Journalism 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.
Nathaniel Barling
Co-Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Knowhere
Nathaniel Barling joined Knowhere as Co-Founder, CEO in 2015.
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About Knowhere: Information technology company using machine learning to deliver factual, community-first, and critical news information at scale.
Morgan Sowden
Co-Founder & CTO of paydesk
Currently a product-focused CTO at Lendinvest, a VC backed fin-tech disruptor in the mortgage-lending space. Formerly the CTO at the Octopus Group, where I co-founded and built octopuslabs.com, octopuschoice.com and octopuscash.com; built the Octopus digital design team from scratch, as well as their product and (distributed) engineering teams; and initiated the group transformation from waterfall to agile. I am also co-founder and CTO of paydesk.co, a B2B media platform with 6000+ journalists in 165+ countries. Prior to Paydesk, I was interim CEO and CTO of birthdayalarm.com, a very profitable online greeting card site with 55+ million active members. I’ve also been: Entrepreneur in Residence at Monkey Inferno, a San Francisco based startup accelerator; a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded (and sold) two other web businesses, including an early social network (2003); and a board member / NED. Mostly though, I am DJ and love Techno. Search for me on Mixcloud.
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About Facebook AI, paydesk: On-demand workforce platform disrupting the recruitment industry one sector at a time. Starting with media and doing it with payments
Adam Penny
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of The Beautiful Truth
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About The Beautiful Truth: The Beautiful Truth is a magazine that honors people and businesses who live their lives with purpose.
Turi Munthe
Founder of Parlia
Turi manages a significant proportion of NBM’s dealflow, with a particular focus on EMEA. He sits on the boards of NBM portfolio companies in the US, Europe, the Middle East and India. Before joining NBM, Turi advised multiple early and later stage media and media tech companies. In 2012, Turi exited his company Demotix to Bill Gates’ Corbis Images. Demotix, which he founded in 2007, had become the world’s largest network of photojournalists.
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About North Base Media, Parlia: The Encyclopedia of Opinion
Andrea Manfredi
Founder & CEO of Blasting News
After graduating from Bocconi University in 2005, Andrea earned an MBA at INSEAD, studying in Paris and Singapore. He spent several years working as a manager in top strategic consulting firms mainly in the UK and Italy. Working as a journalist since 1998, Andrea is the Founder & CEO and the Editor-in-Chief of Blasting News.
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About Blasting News: Blasting News is the leading social news publisher. Where every voice counts.
John Haynes
Co-Founder of Pressglue
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About Pressglue: Pressglue offers news management tools and mobile news casting applications to report, share, and monetize news stories.
John Thornhill
Founder of Sifted
John is also the Innovation editor of the Financial Times, where he writes a regular, award-winning column on the impact of technology, hosts the weekly Tech Tonic podcast, and is the founder and editorial lead for the FT125 forum for senior business executives. In a 30-year career at the FT, John has been deputy editor, news editor, European edition editor, and bureau chief in both Paris and Moscow.
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About Sifted: Sifted is a media site for Europe’s innovators and entrepreneurs.
Abeer Almadawy
Founder,Owner, CEO of Castle Journal
Abeer Almadawy President of castle journal Company … she founded CJ as its only owner and CEO Abeer Almadawy is known famous novelist and writer…. While She is also founder and president of Makany Foundation for Social and Skills development (MSSD)
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About : Castle Journal British Company for global unified journalism production of specialised international newspapers & magazines
Tim Dickinson
Founder of Descrier
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About Descrier: Independent news and culture magazine
Sven Herold
CEO & Founder of LiveTube
Sven is a Media Executive with more than 15 years’ experience in Television, Communications and Reputation Management. He is an award-winning broadcast journalist who worked as a Senior Investigative Correspondent, Feature Writer and News & Entertainment Correspondent at major broadcasters across Europe and the U.S. Most recently, he was a global VP and member of the Communication & Marketing leadership team at Shell International. He built and led both Shell’s and SAP’s global Television divisions. In 2015, Sven founded LiveTube, a global media-house specialising in original live content-creation and distribution via mobile devices.
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About LiveTube: The world’s first Curated Live Video Platform.
Mitzi Laszlo
Founder of Map That
Mitzi Laszlo is a communications manager at Inrupt.
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About Map That: A data-pedia to democratise real time data visualisation.
Pradeep Singh
Founder of Nepali Blogger
Pradeep Kumar Singh is a blogger, Social media enthusiast and an Internet entrepreneur. A Social Media enthusiast, he manages and writes for multiple blogs.
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About Nepali Blogger, Sociler, WPism: Blogger, Social Media enthusiast and an Internet Entrepreneur.
Derin Cag
Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Richtopia
Derin Cag is the founder of Richtopia, a leading publisher of contributions from prominent academics and professionals discussing unique insights on leadership, technology, marketing, and sustainability. As a universal information movement, Richtopia pursues a more sustainable and prosperous world in which all 7.8+ billion people are rich; including their access to knowledge, resources, and opportunities. The Richtopian mission above gets achieved through quality information, by inspiring those who make it happen, and with alliances centring around the people, planet, and profits. Past readers and interactors of Richtopia include Paulo Coelho (Author of The Alchemist); Kristalina Georgieva (Managing Director of the IMF); Paul Polman (CEO of Unilever); Helen Clark (Former Prime Minister of New Zealand); Mohamed A. El-Erian (Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz); and Richard Branson (Founder at Virgin Group), to name a few. Richtopia has got mentioned across various media outlets including the BBC, Forbes, Fortune, CNBC, Harvard Business Review (HBR) and Business Insider, to name a few. Derin also finds global trends and transformative technologies that make the world a better place of particular interest. You can contact Derin via e-mail on derin@richtopia.com
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About Richtopia: A universal information movement to build a world where all eight billion people are rich.
Jeff Houston-McMillan
Founder of YPN
Founder at YPN.
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About YPN: Instant, On ground, personal insight opinions and reports on news worldwide. News before the news Citizen led news Social media Journalism.
