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 Real Time 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.
Paddy Byers
CTO & Co-founder of Ably Realtime
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About Ably Realtime: Ably is the platform to power synchronized digital experiences in realtime.
Dan Selman
Co-founder and CTO of Clause
Dan Selman is the co-founder and CTO at Clause.
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About Clause: Clause is a digital contracting platform connecting agreements to trusted systems, verifying data, and accelerating actions.
Paul McWilliams
Co-Founder & CTO of Yedup Limited
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About Yedup Limited: Yedup develops real-time, continually adaptive AI technology for high value, ultra-low latency capital markets applications.
Simon Morley
Chief Technology Officer of Vaultoro
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About Vaultoro: Vaultoro is a financial technology company specialized in digital assets and commodities trading.
Peter Husemeyer
Co-Founder & CTO of Sportable
Peter Husemeyer is a Co-Founder and serves as a Chief Technology Officer at Sportable.
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About Sportable: Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences.
Richard Gissing
Founder and CTO of MDX Technology
Richard was the founding partner at Gissing Consulting in 1991 (which became Gissing Software), which supplied market data software solutions to the financial markets. Richard has over 20 years’ experience of technology for the financial markets, with particular emphasis on market data and trading gateways. His experience, knowledge and understanding of both the business and technology of the financial markets allow him to interpret business requirements and translate these into a technical solution. In addition to providing product and strategic technology direction, one of Richard’s key strengths is in technical support of the sales process. Gissing Software was sold to Reuters in 2008. Richard co-founded MDX Technology in 2010.
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About MDX Technology: MDX Technology Ltd focuses on real-time market data connectivity solutions for Traders, Developers and Market Data Professionals.
Neil Skilling
Chief Technology Officer of Kitewheel
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About Kitewheel: Kitewheel is the world’s only cloud-based Customer Journey Hub built to support Journey Orchestration, Mapping, & Analytics.
William Jones
CTO & Co-Founder of Sano Genetics
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About Sano Genetics: Sano Genetics is a personalised medicine research platform with data privacy and transparency at its core.
Fabian Blaicher
CTO & Co-Founder of Shipamax
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About Shipamax: Shipamax provides seamless fleet and deals management for operators and brokers.
Chris Watts
CTO / Co-Founder of NumberEight
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About NumberEight: On-device AI software to predict user context using mobile sensors
Michael Arnaldi
CTO and Founder of CreditSCRIPT
Michael Arnaldi is CTO of CreditSCRIPT. He has been active in the fin-tech industry for the past 5 years and has a strong background on full-stack development in the field of scalable and highly available financial applications. His personal goal is to improve the financial industry and he is also co-founder and CTO of MyMonexEx a London-based Blockchain-focused platform. Michael is enrolled in Computer Science faculty, University of Pisa.
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About CreditSCRIPT, MATECHS: CreditSCRIPT is an alternative credit investment platform that helps professional investors assess loans and portfolios.
Christopher Wright
Chief Technology Officer of DeltaDNA
Chris Wright is a Co-Founder & CTO at DeltaDNA.
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About AdInMo, DeltaDNA: DeltaDNA provides real-time player relationship management solutions for the deep-dive data analysis of player data.
David Henderson
CTO of Fresh Relevance
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About Fresh Relevance: The Personalization Platform to Boost ROI. Built to Help Marketers Get Their Jobs Done..
Jeffrey Li
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Agorafy
Jeffrey heads software development as the lead architect of Agorafy. Prior to joining Agorafy, Jeffrey was a web developer for Right Media, and then for Yahoo! where he developed applications targeted at helping networks, advertisers and publishers manage advertising campaigns and inventory. He’s the proud owner of an impressive lot of penguin collectibles, but hopes to adopt a family of penguins one day.
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About Agorafy: Agorafy is an open platform for organizing and sharing real estate listings and information in the U.S.
Lewis Oaten
Chief Technology Officer of RazorSecure
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About RazorSecure: RazorSecure is a cyber security software that provides continuous threat monitoring & active defence strategy for trains, buses, cars & etc.
Andy Ward FREng
CTO & Founder of Ubisense
Andy Ward FREng is the Chief Technology Officer and Founder at Ubisense.
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About Ubisense: Ubisense is a developer of real-time location systems that provide enterprise business automation services.
Andrew Willmott
CTO – Applications Performance and Security of Communication Stem
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About Communication Stem: Communication Stem is a globally recognised reputation for helping businesses with their delivery of productivity & recreational assurance.
Anton Stoyanov
CTO of Shuttle
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About Shuttle, Top Forma: Secure document exchange platform with workflow and tools for the financial services industry
Anton Stoyanov
CTO of Shuttle
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About Shuttle, Top Forma: Secure document exchange platform with workflow and tools for the financial services industry
