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 CTO’ operating in the EdTech space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Joe Simms
Chief Technology Officer of Uptime App
Joe Simms is the Chief Technology Officer at Uptime App.
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About Uptime App: Uptime App: Thousands of 5-minute Knowledge Hacks from the world’s best books, courses and documentaries, for free.
Kimeshan Naidoo
Co-Founder and CTO of Unibuddy
Kimeshan Naidoo is CTO & Co-Founder at Unibuddy.
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About Unibuddy: Unibuddy helping universities and students to attract, engage and convert prospects through peer interactions.
Tomos Evans
Chief Technology Officer of Framework
Tomos Evans is the founding CTO of Framework. He attended University of Oxford in 2003.
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About Edplus, Framework: Framework is the world’s first on-demand business school especially made for startupland
Dave Porter
Chief Technology Officer of Tutorful
Dave Porter is the Chief Technology Officer at Tutorful.
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About Tutorful: Tutorful is an online education company.
Daniel Zohar
CTO of Memrise
Daniel Zohar serves as Chief Technology Officer of Memrise.Daniel Zohar helps ensure Memrise works flawlessly on all platforms, and coordinates all of technical efforts. Aside from a glittering career founding and growing startups, he is a keen heavy metal guitarist and an expert at moving large objects at or near the earth’s surface.
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About Memrise: Memrise is a language learning platform available in iOS, android, and web.
Ryan Dunwoody
Co-Founder & CTO of Pi-Top
Ryan Dunwoody is a Co-Founder & CTO at Pi-Top.
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About Pi-Top: Pi-Top is a creative learning company and their mission is to inspire a generation of makers, fixers & problem solvers.
Manuel Apilongo
CTO of Springpod
Manuel Apilongo currently works as Chief Technology Officer at Springpod.
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About Springpod: Springpod is an early careers attraction, engagement and recruitment technology that helps young people discover their futures.
Muammar Al-Shedivat
CTO of UvU
Ex CTO of Celly.AI, current CTO of UvU
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About UvU: UvU is a ride-sharing platform which provides safe kids delivery service with best-fit size vehicles
Joe Barbour
Chief Technology Officer of Knoma
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About Knoma: Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.
Maksim Kraev
CTO of Codio
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About Codio: The evidence-based learning platform for Computer Science & tech skills education.
Stuart Cochran
CTO of BridgeU
Stuart is Chief Technology Officer at Huddle and is responsible for overall product design and direction, technology and infrastructure strategy, and technical operations. He has over 20 years’ experience in both start-up and large, public enterprise software companies. Stuart has a BSc (Hons) in Theoretical Physics and a MSc in Computing and Computer Modelling of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems.
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About BridgeU: BridgeU provides a market leading guidance platform that connects universities with international schools in 130 countries.
Klaas Ardinois
CTO of Macademia
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About Macademia: Macademia is an award-winning global EdTech company providing educational programming and games for children.
Omair Vaiyani
Founder & CTO of Synap
Omair is a medical student and experienced web developer. He founded Synap and Livelocum and has worked on several health and education technology projects around Europe.
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About Synap: Synap is online education platform using AI to revolutionise learning.
Samuel Colvin
CTO of TutorCruncher
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About TutorCruncher: TutorCruncher is a tutoring management software offering CRM, online payments, invoicing and timesheets, and more related features.
Dylan Beattie
CTO of Skills Matter
Dylan wrote his first web page in 1992 and never looked back. He’s been building data-driven web applications since the late 1990s, and has worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s the CTO at Skills Matter in London, he’s a Microsoft MVP, and he’s a regular speaker at conferences and user groups, where he’s spoken about topics from continuous delivery and Conway’s Law to the history of the web, federated authentication and hypermedia APIs. When he’s not wrangling code, Dylan plays guitar and writes songs.
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About Skills Matter: Skills Matter is a global community of 100,000+ members from 126 countries interacting, sharing knowledge, inspiring & improving each other.
