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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 Cooking 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.
Siddhi Mittal
Co-Founder of yhangry
Siddhi Mittal is the Co-Founder of Yhangry.
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About yhangry: yhangry is a private chef platform where users can book a professional chef to come cook for them at home
Giles Humphries
Founder, CMO of Mindful Chef
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About Mindful Chef: Mindful Chef delivers all the fresh ingredients you need to create delicious, heathy meals.
Robert Grieg-Gran
Founder of Mindful Chef
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About Mindful Chef: Mindful Chef delivers all the fresh ingredients you need to create delicious, heathy meals.
Myles Hopper
Founder, Director of Mindful Chef
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About Mindful Chef: Mindful Chef delivers all the fresh ingredients you need to create delicious, heathy meals.
Oli Ashness
Founder of SimplyCook
Oli Ashness is the Founder at SimplyCook.
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About SimplyCook: SimplyCook offers home recipe kits with easy step-by-step guides to cook restaurant-quality food in less than 20 minutes.
Sam Tierney
Co-Founder & Managing Director of SimplyCook
Sam Tierney is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at SimplyCook.
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About SimplyCook: SimplyCook offers home recipe kits with easy step-by-step guides to cook restaurant-quality food in less than 20 minutes.
Matthew Cockerill
Founder of ckbk
Matt is the founder of ckbk, a digital subscription service offering access to the full content of hundreds of the world’s best cookbooks. ckbk is often described as “Spotify for Recipes”. He studied Natural Sciences at Clare College, Cambridge, followed by PhD research on the cell cycle in the lab of Nobel prize-winning biochemist Tim Hunt. His began his digital publishing career with BioMedNet, an early community website for scientific researchers which was sold in 1997 to Elsevier. In 1999 together with entrepreneur Vitek Tracz, he co-founded BioMed Central, a new publisher which pioneered the then revolutionary Open Access publishing model. BioMed Central was acquired by Springer Science+Business Media in 2008, and Matt ran BioMed Central as an independent unit within Springer from 2008-2013 and served on Springer’s management board. Matt’s spare time activities include cooking and endurance sport. He qualified for and competed in the 2016 Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii, but is now more focused on improving his 2:53 marathon PB.
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About ckbk, Portland Press, Techstars: ckbk is the ultimate digital subscription service for cooks.
Kristian Tapaninaho
Founder & CEO of Ooni
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About Ooni: Ooni is the number one pizza oven brand in the world.
Pedro Nuñez Porras
Founder and CEO of Eskesso
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About Eskesso: Eskesso is smart sous vide cooking appliance and cloud platform.
Duncan Scott
Founder & CEO of Supper
Before starting Supper, Duncan worked in Wealth Management in Mayfair, London. Over the previous 6 years Duncan had worked his way up from starting in financial sales, to Heading up sales and marketing and later being in charge of corporate strategy and business performance. Duncan has a degree in Economics and a Masters in Finance and Wealth Management as well as qualifications in tax and accounting.
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About Supper: Supper is an online marketplace for home-cooked food, bringing cookery enthusiasts and hungry Londoners together in a takeaway service
Hilary Masin
Director And Co-Founder of Sgaia’s Vegan Meats
Hilary Masin is a bilingual (Italian and English) and bicultural media, art and design graduate, interested in visual communication and creative writing. Fascinated by European cultural heritage, bookmaking and expanded photography, loves to research and write about things and to work with creative people in stimulating environments, to learn and improve both as a practitioner and as an individual. Passionate about purpose-led communication, specifically in regards to social, environmental and health-related topics and equally interested in food culture. Enthusiastic about nutrition, health and learning about the cultural significance of food in relation to current social systems and environments.
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About Sgaia’s Vegan Meats: Sgaia Foods is at the heart of a new, innovative approach to plant based living and dining.
Damien Kennedy
Founder of Wheyhey
Damien Kennedy is the Founder of Wheyhey.
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About Wheyhey: Wheyhey is a London based health food brand.
Jinny Chivers
Founder of Cooking With Jinny
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About Cooking With Jinny, Lunar Aerial Imaging: Cooking With Jinny holds online cooking and baking classes for families and colleagues.
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.
Jai Aenugu
Founder of HomeMeals4u
Founder of HomeMeals4u.
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About HomeMeals4u: Delivering Fresh and Authentic home cooked meals
Tom Lock
Founder of The London Crisp Co.
Mr. Thomas Lock is Founder and Managing Director at The London Crisp Co.
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About The London Crisp Co.: The London Crisp Co. is A new and exciting brand of delicious crisps. Made in London, for London.
