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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 Dating 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.
Shahzad Younas
Founder & CEO of Muzz
Shahzad Younas is the founder and CEO of Muzz.
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About Muzz: Muzz is the worlds biggest dating app for Muslims looking for their life partner. Backed by Y Combinator S17.
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Robyn Exton
Founder and CEO of Her
Robyn is the CEO & Founder of HER the world’s largest brand for LGBTQ womxn & queer people. HER builds products and experiences that connect womxn in the way that works best for them. Their app is home to 4 million people across the world, with dating and community connections, and their events run in 15 cities, hosting 50,000 people per year. With content, events and communities, HER is opening up opportunities for LGBTQ womxn that never existed before.
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About Her: Her is a dating application for lesbians, bisexual and bi-curious women, allowing users to connect with each other and their community.
Max Cheremkhin
Co-Founder of Chappy
In 2006 Max co-founded dating app Badoo. It is now the world’s biggest dating app with 370m users, globally. Max is considered a pioneer in the digital dating sphere having been the first to launch freemium models, instant messaging and profile swiping functionality. Max is well versed in the mobile app dating space and is now applying his genius to the gay dating world. Max is largely responsible for Chappy’s design and product strategy.
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About Chappy: Chappy is an online dating app dedicated for gay men.
Denis Bolotov
Co-Founder of Lemur
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About Lemur: Lemur helps to find a friend for your pet and also find pet-lovers all around the world.
Andrey Andreev
Founder/ CEO of Badoo
Andrey focuses the majority of his time and energy on product development, strategy and new projects to continually innovate Badoo across web and mobile platforms. In addition to Badoo, he founded several other highly successful internet businesses: SpyLog, Begun and Mamba.ru. His entrepreneurial spirit continues to inspire everyone on the team and today Badoo is the largest Social Network for Meeting New People in the World with over 135 million registered users, generating over $150 million USD’s per year and operating in 180+ countries. Andrey is the serial entrepreneur and founder behind Badoo, the 4th successful company he has built in the last 10 years. His successes include Begun, a company focused on selling contextual advertising by auctioning keywords – often described as an earlier version of Google AdWords. He also created Mamba.ru, which has evolved into Russia’s largest online dating site, with over 10 million monthly active users.
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About Badoo, Bumble, Chappy, Lumen, MagicLab: Badoo is a dating-focused social network, allowing users to chat, make friends and share interests.
Emma Clark
Founder of The Sauce
Emma Clark is the Co-Founder at The Sauce.
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About The Sauce: The Sauce has a vision for bringing the next generation back together in real life using the power of social video profiles.
Sachin Karia
Co-Founder and CEO of The Sauce
Sachin Karia is the founder and CEO at The Sauce.
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About The Sauce: The Sauce has a vision for bringing the next generation back together in real life using the power of social video profiles.
Max Adamski
Co-Founder and CPO of Jigsaw
Max Adamski is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Jigsaw.
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About Jigsaw: Jigsaw develops a dating app that covers the user’s face in a jigsaw puzzle.
Alex Durrant
Co-Founder and CEO of Jigsaw
Alex Durrant is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jigsaw.
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About Jigsaw: Jigsaw develops a dating app that covers the user’s face in a jigsaw puzzle.
Nick Tsinonis
Co-Founder of Scamalytics
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About Scamalytics: Scamalytics maintain the largest shared anti-fraud database dedicated to the online dating industry.
yaniv barak
CEO & Founder of Vacationship
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About Vacationship: The only travel meeting app that connects locals and tourists for exciting vacation experiences.
yaniv barak
CEO & Founder of Vacationship
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About Vacationship: The only travel meeting app that connects locals and tourists for exciting vacation experiences.
Eashan Maheshwari
Founder & CEO of Zappel
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About Anime Monk, Draper University, Zappel: Zappel is a mobile app that spontaneously connects the humans via hyperlocal informal events (known as Zappels).
Matt Wilson
Co-Founder of Datemakers
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About Datemakers: Datemakers is an online booking platform that aims to make dates less boring.
Joe Murley
Co-Founder of Datemakers
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About Datemakers: Datemakers is an online booking platform that aims to make dates less boring.
Michelle Cafferty
Founder of Did I See U
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About Did I See U: Did I See U is a free dating app offering users a real time dating platform. Opportunity to connect with new people.
Michelle Cafferty
Founder of Did I See U
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About Did I See U: Did I See U is a free dating app offering users a real time dating platform. Opportunity to connect with new people.
