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 CTO’ operating in the Music space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Joe Lyske
Chief Technology Officer of Triller
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About Triller: Triller is an AI-powered music video app that enables anyone to make professional videos, effortlessly.
Mat Clayton
Co-Founder and CTO of Mixcloud
Mat Clayton is a specialist in social media and web 2.0 development projects. He has developed a range of successful Facebook applications, including Sponsor Me, and the Sony commisioned Become Rambo, which was awarded best Viral Application by the Facebook Developer Garage London, in association with Sun Microsystems. Mat is now a co-founder of Mixcloud and heads up the technical development of the site. Mat has a Masters in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, specialising in Electrical and Information Sciences. He was sponsored throughout his BA by Qinetiq and by the Institute of Engineering and Technology, of which he is still a member. Mat has worked on a variety of systems and control projects, ranging from biometric monitoring for Electronic Arts to Zigbee based wireless data capture systems for the oil industry. In his spare time, Mat enjoys playing squash and rock climbing.
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About Mixcloud, Wakari: Mixcloud is an online long-form audio platform providing content such as radio shows, podcasts and DJ mixes.
Rian Liebenberg
CTO of Kobalt
CTO Kobalt Music.
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About Kobalt: Kobalt is a music services company that offers alternative to traditional music business models.
Richard Thompson
CTO of Kobalt
Richard Thompson is the chief technology officer of [Kobalt](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kobalt-music-group), a technology company that offers an alternative to the traditional music business model. He participates in various industry initiatives and forums, and is a DDEX board member. Before Kobalt, Thompson worked for Oracle in their consulting, development, and media divisions. From 1996 to 1999, he attended The University of Manchester for higher educational purposes.
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About Kobalt: Kobalt is a music services company that offers alternative to traditional music business models.
Nick Wilson
CTO of WME
Nick Wilson is CTO of Break Media, the Internet’s largest entertainment destination for men 18-35.
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About BrandAds, WME, WME: William Morris Endeavor (WME) is primarily a talent agency representing artists across every entertainment sector.
Jake Lazarus
Founder & CTO of Keakie
Jake Lazarus is the Head of Growth at Keakie.
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About Keakie: Keakie is a new streaming platform for mixes, podcasts and radio shows.
Kostas Melas
CTO of FanCircles
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About FanCircles: Reach followers and fans through your own fan club platform built for music artists, YouTubers, television shows and celebrities
Simon Hamilton
CTO of Rotor
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About Rotor: Make high quality music videos in minutes
James King
Co-Founder & CTO of Encore Technologies
An avid pianist and our CTO, James is rarely seen away from a keyboard of some kind.
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About Encore Technologies: Encore is an online network of musicians that enables them to access many performance opportunities in the music community around them.
James Meier
CTO of Synervoz Communications
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About 01system, Switchboard, Synervoz Communications: Synervoz is building the world’s most flexible communications platform.
Danny Shisler
CTO of Crowdmix
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About Crowdmix: Connecting the world through music. The app where bands, fans and brands collide.
Brian Carroll
CTO of MusicGurus
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About MusicGurus: MusicGurus is an online learning company that helps anyone learn music from the world’s top artists.
George Asampong
Co-Founder and CTO of DooWapp
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About DooWapp: An API and App to add playable lyrics to any part of your message to express yourself with music you love
Petros Lafazanidis
Co-founder and CTO of Lirica
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About Lirica: Lirica harnesses the power of music to make learning both memorable and fun.
Stein Fletcher
CTO of Musitude
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About Musitude: A web & app music learning/playing solution for non-musicians
David Eves
CTO of amBX
David Eves is a CTO at amBX.
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About amBX: amBX is a software company engaged in the development of lighting control technologies.
Alex Jefferies
CTO of Gigbloc
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About Gigbloc: Local live music discovery apps, building a platform to reinvent how live music events are organised
Stephan Meier
CTO of Screenburn
Stephan is the CTO of Screenburn, and together with a team of developers works on making our product great.
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About Screenburn: Screenburn is a Facebook VoD platform enabling the sale of film and TV from a Facebook page.
Richie Holland
CTO and Founder of vidmeup
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About smartvideo, vidmeup: Vidmeup is an online video platform that gives users the ability to create their own video website for free.
