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 Test and Measurement 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.
Paul Farnell
Co-Founder & Board Member of Litmus
Paul Farnell is the CEO & Co-Founder of Litmus. After moving the company across the pond, Paul has come to love Boston and driving on the right side of the road. He can often be found anyplace with a good charcuterie plate.
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About Any One Thing, Litmus: Litmus is a testing and QA service for email marketers.
David Smalley
Co-Founder of Litmus
David Smalley is the Co-Founder at Litmus, a testing and QA service for email marketers. A Ruby developer by trade, he spends his free time with his growing family and vows one day to master the drums.
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About Litmus: Litmus is a testing and QA service for email marketers.
Paul Race
Director and Co-Founder of Zentraxa
Paul is Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry at the University of Bristol. From 2014-17 he served as Co-Director of the >£14M Bristol Centre for Synthetic Biology Research (BrisSynBio), was a founding Director of the Bristol BioDesign Institute (BBI) and is academic lead for the >£2.7M EPSRC funded ‘Manufacturing Immortality’ project. His research focuses on the exploitation and manipulation of biological complexes, pathways and networks, en-route to the development of new tools, technologies and products for biotechnology.
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About Zentraxa: Zentraxa has specialise in the design, production and testing of complex novel peptides.
Steven Burston
Co-Founder of Zentraxa
Steve completed his PhD in physical biochemistry at the University of Bristol before being awarded a Prize Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust to work at Yale University and the University of London. He then returned to the University of Bristol where he is a Principal Investigator in the School of Biochemistry.
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About Zentraxa: Zentraxa has specialise in the design, production and testing of complex novel peptides.
Martin Challand
CTO and Co-Founder of Zentraxa
Leads technology and product research and development. Martin has a master’s degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Chemical Biology, both from the University of Southampton and over 9 years R&D experience across academia and industry working at the interface of chemistry and biology. In 2015 he took up a post-doctoral research position in Synthetic Biology at the University of Bristol to lead the development of the Zentide technology and subsequently co-founded Zentraxa in 2017.
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About Zentraxa: Zentraxa has specialise in the design, production and testing of complex novel peptides.
Ronald Cummings-John
Co-Founder of Global App Testing
Ronald Cummings-John is Co-Founder at Global App Testing.
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About Global App Testing: Global App Testing helps companies scale QA testing using a crowd of professional testers.
Maximilian Osborne
Co-Founder of ThisThat
Co-Founder, Co-CEO
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About ThisThat: Elevating influencer marketing through insight
Dominic Ivison
Co-Founder of ThisThat
Co-Founder, Co-CEO
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About ThisThat: Elevating influencer marketing through insight
Anthony Kinson
Co-Founder & Chief Software Architect of Gamesight
Anthony Kinson is Co-Founder & Chief Software Architect at Innervate, Inc.
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About Gamesight: Marketing Super Powers for Game Publishers and Studios. A data-driven utility belt for doing it all, better.
Henry Dimbleby
Co-Founder of LEON
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About LEON: Leon belives that food should taste good and do you good.
Allegra McEvedy
Founder of LEON
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About LEON: Leon belives that food should taste good and do you good.
John Vincent
CEO and Co-Founder of LEON
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About LEON: Leon belives that food should taste good and do you good.
Alastair Donaldson
Co-Founder of GraphicsFuzz
Alastair Donaldson is a co-founder of GraphicsFuzz.
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About GraphicsFuzz, GraphicsFuzz: GraphicsFuzz offers automated reliability testing of GPU drivers.
Paul Thomson
Co-Founder of GraphicsFuzz
Paul Thomson is a co-founder of GraphicsFuzz.
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About GraphicsFuzz: GraphicsFuzz offers automated reliability testing of GPU drivers.
Brigette Bard
CEO & Founder of BioSURE
Founder and CEO of BioSure, Brigette has carved a successful, entrepreneurial career in the FMCG sector. Based on her experience with pregnancy testing, she is passionate about the role self testing has to play in allowing people to make informed choices and assume responsibility for their own healthcare. She is actively and dynamically involved in normalising the conversation around HIV, breaking down stigma and nurturing understanding around confident sex and sexual health. She leads her team by example, with drive and energy, and demands only the very best – ensuring that all of our customers, partners and stakeholders receive innovative, world class products delivered with unparalleled insight and professionalism.
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About BioSURE: BioSURE develop, manufacture, source and distribute world class point of care rapid tests.
Paul Gerrard
Founder & Principal of Gerrard Consulting
Paul Gerrard is a Founder and Principal at Gerrard Consulting Limited since September 2006. Paul is a consultant, teacher, author, webmaster, programmer, tester, conference speaker, rowing coach and publisher. Paul has conducted consulting assignments in all aspects of software testing and quality assurance, specialising in test assurance. Paul has presented keynote talks and tutorials at testing conferences across Europe, the USA, Australia, South Africa and occasionally won awards for them. Paul was the founding Chair of the British Computer Society Information Systems Examination Board (BCS ISEB) of the Software Testing certification board. Paul is also the host of the UK Test Management Forum. Paul earned his M.Sc. degree in Concrete Structures from Imperial College London and M.A. in Engineering Science from Pembroke College. Paul wrote “Risk-Based E-Business Testing” with Neil Thompson in 2002 and the “Business Story Pocketbook” with Susan Windsor in 2012. He wrote “The Tester’s Pocketbook” in 2009. Paul won the EuroSTAR European Testing Excellence award in 2011 and The European Software Testing Awards (TESTA) award for Lifetime Achievement in 2013. Paul is the Programme Chair for the EuroSTAR 214 conference in Dublin.
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About Gerrard Consulting: Gerrard Consulting has been delivering testing services since 1992.
