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 CEO’ operating in the Rental Property space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Chaz Englander
Co-Founder & CEO of Fat Llama
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About Fat Llama: Fat Llama is a peer-to-peer rental marketplace which allows people to rent spare items to others nearby, fully insured.
Mark Hirschfield
CEO & Director of A.H.Field Properties
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About A.H.Field Properties, Conscious 2, Copypress, Orbital Witness, Techstars, Techtopia, Techtopia: A.H.Field Properties is a real estate company that specializes in property management, selling, renting of houses and apartments.
Tom Allason
Founder and CEO of Residently
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About eBay, Residently, Residently: We’re building the world’s home brand with a digital experience that combines the freedom of renting with the rewards of owning.
Alexander Limpert
Co-Founder and CEO of GuestReady
Before launching GuestReady, Alex was a Country Managing Director in Taiwan and Philippines at Rocket Internet owned foodpanda, a global food delivery company. Prior to this, he was a management consultant at Oliver Wyman in London, where he advised leading companies across a variety of industries including travel and hospitality. He holds an MSc with Distinction from London School of Economics (LSE) and a BA in Business Administration from University of St.Gallen (HSG). Alex has travelled to more than 50 countries for business and leisure, and therefore understands the needs of the modern business traveller and how any property can be turned into a guest-ready Airbnb home.
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About GuestReady: GuestReady is a platform for real estate management with a focus on short-term rentals.
Russell Gould
CEO & Co-founder of Vesta Property
Russell has held leadership, director, operating board, advisory and senior level positions across the FinTech, digital, technology, travel retail, holiday tour operating and cruise, financial services, insurance and banking sectors. He also started and ran two new ventures in consulting and digital business finance (selling one of them). He has extensive experience across the full e-commerce model including – new product development, omni-channel marketing and branding, including customer acquisition, retention (CRM & eCM), customer conversion (look to book / user experience) and performance optimisation (decision science / analytics). He has managed large online businesses (+£500m sales), built start-ups and worked in major FTSE companies, built large high performance teams, lead the redesign and launch of many websites including the full rebuild and implementation of over seven completely new e-commerce platforms (including a full multi-million pound ATG implementation). Russell has over 30 caps representing England and achieved a Bronze Medal at the 2015 Touch World Cup in Coffs Harbour, Australia, a Gold Medal at the 2013 Touch Home Nations in Dublin, a Gold Medal at the European Touch Championships 2012 in Italy, a Bronze Medal at the 2011 Touch World Cup in Edinburgh and a Silver Medal in the 2010 European Touch Championships in Bristol. For more information visit http://www.englandtouch.org.uk/
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About Vesta Property: Vesta (www.vestaproperty.com) is a data-driven marketplace for buying and selling residential investment property.
Paul Bennett
Co-Founder & CEO of PerchPeek
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About PerchPeek: PerchPeek uses AI to guide people through every stage of their relocation from search to settling in.
Stepan Dobrovolskiy
CEO and Co-Founder of Mashroom
Stepan Dobrovolskiy is the CEO and Co-Founder at Mashroom.
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About Mashroom: Mashroom is a proptech startup that provides end-to-end property letting services to landlords and tenants.
Founder & CEO of Home Made
Asaf Navot is the Founder and CEO of Home Made. He has extensive experience in strategy and operations, having previously advised multi-billion corporations as a strategy consultant with Bain & Company and Wilson Perumal. Asaf holds an MBA from INSEAD.
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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.
Rebecca Kelly
Founder & CEO of VenueScanner
Combined experience across economics (1st class MA Edinburgh), investment management (CFA level 1), digital marketing (M&S, Naked Wines, Majestic Wines). Passionate about using data and analytics to drive business growth, obsessed with customer insight, understanding big problems and trying to solve them. Launched VenueScanner in 2016 after experiencing so many problems in trying to book event spaces for team offsites, parties, meetings etc at M&S. Now relentlessly trying to address the problem of matching under-utilised supply to demand in the venue and events industry. In the spare time that I used to have before I launched a company I loved travelling adventures (Richshaw Run…), micro-finance projects (Grameen Bank) and outdoor sports (mainly extreme or including at least a mild risk of life!)
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About VenueScanner: VenueScanner is a self-serve marketplace platform for event organisers to discover and book venues online.
Doug Stephenson
Founder and CEO of TravelNest
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About TravelNest: TravelNest is an advertising optimisation platform for holiday rental owners.
Calum Brannan
CEO & Founder of Howsy
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About Howsy: Howsy is a real estate management platform that provides repairs management and renewal services for landlords and tenants.
Franz Dörr
Founder & CEO of flatfair
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About flatfair: Secure your rental with flatfair’s flexible solutions
Camran Khan
Founder & CEO of brightLET
My passion for technology has featured me among the top 10 best CTO’s in the Country, with awards and recognition from Barclays, NatWest, and KPMG to name a few. In 2017, I was scouted by the University of Cambridge as one of the top 20 disruptive CEO’s in the UK to join Judge Business School (JBS). I have a very strong interest in Machine Learning (ML), AI solutions, Blockchain, and clever automation to reduce huge operational overheads. I have successfully worked closely with brands such as; Microsoft, Intel, EA Games, Coca-Cola, Virgin Media, Mo Farah, Microsoft, Intel, Dabs.com, and Amazon.
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About brightLET: brightLET is a UK based multi-award winning automated property rental technology for landlords, tenants, and tradesmen!
Sebastien Goldenberg
CEO and Co-Founder of TheHouseShop.com
Seb is co-founder and CEO at TheHouseShop.com, UK’s largest property marketplace. It offers free property advertising for private landlords, private sellers and estate agents. TheHouseShop is disrupting the whole property ecosystem, using technology to make rental transactions fully-digitized, safe, secure and cost-effective. TheHouseShop is also the only fully secure property website, where every private advertiser is verified. Seb is the also chair of the start-up and SME club at the French Chamber of Commerce in the UK.
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About TheHouseShop.com: The House Shop is the UK’s number 1 place for property, working with homeowners, landlords, estate agents.
Gray Stern
Founder & CEO of Dot Residential
A New Zealand native with a banking background, Stern founded Dot in 2018. Frustrated with the innate inefficiencies of the property market, Dot’s mission is to decouple housing from bureaucracy using intelligent processes. Gray previously co-founded Landbay, a fast-growing marketplace lender that provides mortgage finance to the UK’s private rented sector.
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About Dot Residential, LANDBAY: Turnkey investment properties optimised for short-term rentals
Henry Bennett
Co-Founder / CEO of YourWelcome
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About YourWelcome: YourWelcome is a SaaS platform enabling short term rental managers to add a service layer to their business.
Ben Grech
Chief Executive Officer of Reposit
Ben Grech is a Co-Founder and Non-Executive Chairman at Uniplaces. He is also the CEO of Reposit.
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About Reposit, Uniplaces: The tenancy deposit alternative. A new way of renting without the hassle of a deposit
Will Handley
Founding Partner & CEO of HomeRenter
Our CEO Will has over twenty years experience in advertising and marketing roles across service and content businesses. He’s been a private landlord since 2008.
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About Explovia, HomeRenter: HomeRenter is a marketplace for private rentals, connecting tenants and private landlords.
David Bulley
CEO of DBpixelhouse
David Bulley is the CEO at DBpixelhouse.
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About DBpixelhouse: DBpixelhouse is a supplier of audiovisual and IT rental services for customers on promotional activities.
