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 eSports 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.
Sam Mathews
Founder & CEO of Fnatic
Sam Mathews is an entrepreneur most known for his exploits in the gaming community. Best known for founding Fnatic, the worlds number 1 professional gaming team, managing over 25 professional video gamers with big name sponsors such as title sponsor MSI. He founded UGAME in 2008, a focused social network providing a complete gamer profile, as well as linking niche gaming content sites together through one user base and offering a platform to share user content around gaming.
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About Fnatic: Leading esports performance.
Nicolas Gonzalez Keller
Co-Founder of Banger Games
Nicolas Gonzalez Keller is the Co-Founder of Banger Games. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marketing at University of Westminster.
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About Banger Games: Banger is a blockchain-powered gaming platform that provides its users with an array of earning possibilities.
Justin Wong
Founder & CTO of Battlefy
Justin has been fiddling around with computers since the age of 7 – dialling up to the Internet to adventure in his favourite MUD or to hack away on his websites with PHP 2.0. Justin graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Cognitive Systems degree. Because he’s a big gamer and sports fan, he worked at Electronic Arts helping to create the sports video games that he loves to play himself. Now, combining his passion for gaming and web development, he’s looking forward to revolutionizing the eSports competitive gaming genre as the founder and CTO of Battlefy.
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About Battlefy: Battlefy is the simplest way to find and manage esports competitions.
Chris Worsey
Co-Founder of SportsIcon
Chris Worsey is the Co-Founder of SportsIcon.
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About SportsIcon: SportsIcon lets users connect with sportspeople through NFT’s and masterclasses.
Alexi Yovanoff
Co-Founder & COO of SportsIcon
Alexi Yovanoff is the Co-Founder & COO of SportsIcon.
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About SportsIcon: SportsIcon lets users connect with sportspeople through NFT’s and masterclasses.
Joshua Nino De Guzman
CEO, Co-Founder & Director of Dexerto
Joshua Nino De Guzman is the CEO & Co-Founder at Dexerto
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About Dexerto: Dexerto is the world’s largest digital esports and gaming lifestyle platform news platform.
Chris Marsh
Co-Founder & Director of Dexerto
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About Dexerto: Dexerto is the world’s largest digital esports and gaming lifestyle platform news platform.
Mike Kent
Co-Founder & Director of Dexerto
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About Dexerto: Dexerto is the world’s largest digital esports and gaming lifestyle platform news platform.
Sam Cooke
Managing Director and Co-Founder of Esports Insider
Sam Cooke heads up Esports Insider, an esports business news platform and events company based in London. Esports Insider is a part of SBC Global and runs B2B events including the ESI Forum Series, the ESI Super Forum and the Betting on Esports Conference
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About Esports Insider: Esports Insider is a platform which covers all news that is of interest to the industry.
Mark Hain
Founder and CEO of DingIt.tv
Mark Hain is the founder and CEO of DingIt.tv.
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About DingIt.tv: DingIt is a leading destination for premium eSports and Gaming content
Matthew Woods
Co-Founder of AFK Creators
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About AFK Creators: Influencer Management and Marketing Agency, Gaming and Esports
Cesar Ortega
Co-Founder & CFO of SKARA The Blade Remins
Cesar Ortega is Co-Founder & CFO at SKARA The Blade Remins.
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About SKARA The Blade Remins: SKARA is the next generation of eSports with versus fighting mechanics and RPG elements.
Callum Martin
Founder of Playerbase
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About Playerbase: Playerbase is a community driven platform for gamers that delivers solutions to improve overall gaming experience.
Alex Deacon
Founder of Boxing Manager
Developer and publisher of World Title Boxing Manager. Formerly, various Director level roles at Betfair 2005-16 Launch editor of Racing Post online betting Part of Sports Interactive/Championship Manager team 1996-99
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About Boxing Manager: Publisher and developers of the highly acclaimed and top-ranked Boxing Manager game series.
Jack Ng
Founder & CEO of Sansible Wearables
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About Sansible Wearables: Sansible Wearables creates wearable technology for rugby players called LiveSkin, for better sports performance.
