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 Product operating in the Real Estate space. If you think a Product 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.
Brian Carroll
Member & Head of Retail and Consumer Products – Europe of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Brian Carroll (London) is a Member of KKR. He joined the firm in 1995 and currently heads the Consumer and Retail teams in Europe. He is also a member of the European Investment Committee. Since joining the firm, he has played a significant role in many investments including Laureate Education, Sealy Corporation, Borden, Merit Behavioral Care, Randall’s Food Markets, Rockwood/Dynamit Nobel, Harman International, Wild Flavors, Wincor Nixdorf, Pets at Home, Northgate Information Solutions, SMCP Group, Cognita Schools and Afriflora. He is currently a member of the board of directors of Laureate Education, Pets at Home, Northgate Information Solutions, Cognita, SMCP and Afriflora. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Carroll was with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette where he worked on a broad range of high yield financing, corporate finance and merchant banking transactions. He has a B.S. and B.A.S. from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Tom Blessley
Head of Product of Rentify
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About Rentify: Rentify is an online platform that helps individuals market and manage their properties.
David Shepherd
Founder & Product Director of PurpleBricks
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About PurpleBricks: PurpleBricks is an online real estate agent that helps its clients to sell, buy, and let their properties.
David Larpent
Chief Product Officer of Lavanda
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About Lavanda: Lavanda is an award-winning next generation SaaS platform powering the convergence of residential real estate, hospitality and travel.
Jose Gomes
Head of Digital Product of Proportunity
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About Proportunity: Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
Janan Rejeevikaran
Head of Product of homie.rent
Janan is a Head of Product at homie.rent. He is also a biomedical engineer and serial entrepreneur with over a decade of software development and technical team building experience. Janan’s previous work includes developing a medical imaging device for a research hospital, building iPhone apps for established brands, and founding two consumer web companies. Janan has expertise in over 20 development languages and frameworks. Janan has a B. Eng in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Business from McMaster University.
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About homie.rent: Homie is a tech startup that helps Londoners find great homes to rent.
Nadav Millenbach
Head of Product of Home Made
Nadav brings many years of experience of creating and building software products, having worked as a product manager with HP. Prior to that, Nadav designed enterprise solutions around the world, and has lived in Israel, the UK, and the United States. Nadav holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Ben Gurion University, and an MBA from INSEAD. In his spare time, Nadav loves building gadgets, photography and skydiving.
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About Home Made: Home Made is a London-based property tech rental agency, focusing on mid to high end rentals. It is London’s largest hybrid agency.
Michael Marciano
Product Director | Radius, Propertylink, News, Legal & Jobs of EG
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About EG: EG provides data and intelligence in the commercial real estate industry.
Amy Bensted
Head of Hedge Fund Products of Preqin
Amy is responsible for all of Preqin’s hedge fund products and solutions. This involves defining Preqin’s strategic direction in the hedge fund industry, both through innovations to our award winning products as well as through our research and communications strategy in this space.
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About Preqin: Preqin provides financial data and information on the alternative assets market.
Charles Paumelle
Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Microshare
Currently heading Global Alliances and International operations for Point.io (www.Point.io), a leading Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform and application programming interface (API) – designed to help enterprises access and share even their most sensitive information with absolute security. You can reach me at cpaumelle@point.io I also head up the International expansion for Savana, a FIS partner with CRM solutions for banks. With experience both on the corporate and vendor side in selling and implementing Enterprise innovation in the European market for the last two decades I founded EroundIT in 2013. EroundIT is a European distributor for emerging technology such as Point.io and Savana. Prior to that, I started the European arm of Knowledge Rules Inc., a boutique consulting practice specialised on BPMS leader Pegasystems. We established a presence in the UK, France, Spain and Bulgaria. Knowledge Rules was acquired by Accenture in Nov 2010. Specialties: European Business Development, Entreprise Content Management, Marketing Technology products, Financial Services industry, Oil & Gas industry, Computer Hardware industry, Business Process Management (BPM), Pegasystems PRPC
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About Microshare: Microshare® provides Smart Facilities data solutions at scale that bring safety, cost savings and sustainability to the Built World.
Shawn Zvinis
Co-Founder/Head of Product, CEO of Area Technologies Limited
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About Area Technologies Limited: Area is the easiest way to modernise your estate agency!
Jo Wickremasinghe
Product Director of Zoopla
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About Zoopla: Zoopla is a property website in the U.K. that combines property listings with market data, local information, and community tools.
Richard Widgery
Virtual Production and Technology Director of Take4D
Richard is an industry leader, and pioneer in the development of virtual production technologies, pipelines, and studio facilities. With over 26 years’ experience he is has been instrumental in creating some of the most complex in-camera cinematography. His career began at Jim Henson’s Creature Shop – UK, in control systems engineering, and he quickly became one of the founding team members of their ground breaking computer graphics department. Recording the world’s first human and animal optical motion capture data for feature films and commercial video games, he developed many of the techniques that are still in use today. From robotic engineering for Babe, The Adventures of Pinocchio, Loch Ness, through to breathing life into the horses for Red Dead Redemption video game, Richard has continued to push the creative boundaries of what is technically achievable. He helped create the Universal Studios’ WIZARDING WORLD OF POTTER Theme Park utilizing his own virtual camera and motion control technologies, as well as enabling otherwise unshootable camera-work for projects including Hansel & Gretel, Wolfman, Angels & Demons, and more. Richard also consults on government level projects including developing ground breaking tools for Forensic Analysis and is a key-note speaker in AR and VR at conferences worldwide.
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About Take4D: Take4D is a Real Time Augmented and Virtual Production solution for the manufacturing, construction, entertainment, and medical industries.
Joe Pairman
Senior Product Manager, Tridion Docs of RWS Group
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About RWS Group: RWS is Europe’s leading provider of intellectual property support services.
David Hyde
Head of Product of Keepsite
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About Keepsite: Running a project-based business is complicated. Keepsite makes it simple. We help teams deliver great projects and love construction again.
David Hyde
Head of Product of Keepsite
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About Keepsite: Running a project-based business is complicated. Keepsite makes it simple. We help teams deliver great projects and love construction again.
