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 Founder operating in the PaaS 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 โ Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth โ Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management โ Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact โ Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data โ 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.
Alexandros Marinos
Founder & CEO of Balena
Alexandros Marinos is the Founder & CEO at resin.io
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About Balena: Balena is a complete set of tools for building, deploying, and managing fleets of connected IoT devices.
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Janosch Amstutz
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Beem
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About Beem: Beem is a software platform that enables live and on-demand communication using real humans in the Metaverse.
Richard H Harris
Group CEO, Founder of Ensygnia
Richard is known as a hands-on, technology entrepreneur with a track record of building and transforming early-stage technology companies such as Ensygnia, Swivel Secure, Mobix, SAVortex, Clearswift and Tumbleweed. As Chief Executive and a founder of Ensygnia, Richard conceptualised and patented a visual alternative to NFC called Onescan. Ensygniaโs Onescan platform enables a consumer to go from looking to buying in under 10s from first contact โ including new customers! At the Mobile World Congress over 1500 industry leaders voted Onescan as one of top 3 the innovations most likely to have the greatest impact on the mobile industry over the next ten years! Ensygnia beat tough competition from AirWatch, CloudX, Metrical and SpatialBuzz to win the Mobile Industry Awards 2014: Best Use of Software. In his spare time, he enjoys Ceroc & Scuba, is a campaigner for the rights of vulnerable adults and mental health issues when possible working with Zacchaeus 2000 Trust and Mental Health Research UK as well as mentoring Nicholas Fearn a young man with Aspergerโs. Also enjoys mucking around with molten glass, composing music, painting and digital art.
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About Ensygnia: Ensygnia delivers integration Platform as a Service for large payment companies and corporations deploying omnichannel solutions
Ben Stoneham
Founder and CTO of Autologyx
Ben Stoneham is the Founder and CTO of Autologyx.
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About Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
David Scott Turner
Co-Founder and CTO of Imburse
Davidโs long background in and strong passion for disruptive technology makes him the right person to lead our technical development and vision as CTO of IMburse. David deploys his extensive startup and advisory experience, coupled with his strong leadership, innovative thinking and strong technical background into the role; all essential to lead the technical development off IMburse. It is no surprise that with someone like David in your corner the product will be amazing.
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About Imburse: Imburse is a cloud-based payments integration platform.
Beau Lotto
Founder of Traces
Beau Lotto is the Founder and CEO of Lab of Misfits, the worldโs first neuro-design studio. Uncertainty and the brainโs need to resolve it is essential for thinking about not only branding and business, but design, leadership and innovation. Misfits is a team of scientists, designers and producers who discover the essential questions about the nature of uncertainty. Their work provides a deeper, scientific basis for an organisations DNA & Strategy, creates content that expands PR & marketing potential, and strengthens its internal and external relationships. By focusing on how the perceptual brain resolves the fundamental challenge of uncertainty, The Lab of Misfits gives audiences and clients the opportunity to create โฆ and more than this โฆ to embody innovation. Their results inform and transform. They have worked with the Edelman Group and TJ Max, Golin and LโOreal, and are currently working Cirque du Soleil. Beau is one of the few speakers to have given two TED talks, which have amassed over 6 million views combined. He has also spoken at Googleโs Zeitgest Minds, Wired, G8 and made significant programme contributions to BBCโs Horizon, National Geographic Channel and PBS in the US. In 2017, Beau published a new major popular science book, Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently. He draws on over two decades of pioneering research to explain that our brain didnโt evolve to see the world accurately. It canโt! Visually stunning, with entertaining illustrations and optical illusions throughout, and with clear and comprehensive explanations of the science behind how our perceptions operate, Deviate will revolutionise the way you see yourself, others and the world. With this new understanding of how the brain functions, we can apply these insights to every aspect of life, love and work. Deviate is not just an illuminating account of the neuroscience of thought, behaviour and creativity: it is a call to action, enlisting readers in their own journey of self-discovery.
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About City University London, Goldsmiths, University of London, Lab of Misfits, New York University, Ripple, Traces: Traces lets you share digital messages anywhere in the world. To get messages, you have to be in the right place at the right time.
Ran Aroussi
Founder & CEO of Tradologics
Ran Aroussi is entrepreneur, software developer, and the founder of Tradologics โ a cloud platform for trading.
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About Tradologics: Cloud platform for programmatic trading
Axel Coustere
Co-Founder of HUBX
Axel Coustere is the Co-Founder at HUBX.
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About HUBX: The premier capital raising and private placement solution for professionals.
Stephen Ong
Co-Founder of HUBX
Stephen Ong is the Co-Founder at HUBX.
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About HUBX: The premier capital raising and private placement solution for professionals.
Alex Heneveld
Co-Founder & CTO of Cloudsoft Corporation
Alex brings twenty years experience designing software solutions in the enterprise, start-up, and academic sectors. Alex was with Enigmatec Corporation where he led the development of what is now the Montereyยฎ Middleware Platformโข. He founded PocketWatch Systems, commercialising results from his doctoral research. Alex holds a PhD (Informatics) and an MSc (Cognitive Science) from the University of Edinburgh and an AB (Mathematics) from Princeton University.
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About Cloudsoft Corporation: Cloudsoft develop powerful automation software, enabling customers in industries like banking, finance, energy and defence to orchestrate and govern services across complex hybrid IT environments.
Robert Westmacott
Founder, Head of Sales of Scribestar
Rob is the Founder of Scribestar and up until 2015, he was CEO. He now heads up our Sales and Marketing. As CEO, he led the development and evolution of Scribestar while helping to raise funding to grow the business. Previously, he held senior sales and business development roles in fast-growing technology and print-related businesses, serving the Capital Markets sector. He is an EC Council certified Blockchain Professional, and he is also on the board of a โPrivacy Techโ start-up, called Guardum.
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About Scribestar: Scribestar is a cloud-based platform that improves efficiency and project management for complex capital markets.
Adam Shaw
Founder / Exec Chairman of Scribestar
Adam Shaw is the Founder and Exec Chairman at Scribestar.
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About Scribestar: Scribestar is a cloud-based platform that improves efficiency and project management for complex capital markets.
Osvaldo Spadano
CEO & Founder of Akoova
Osvaldo Spadano is Founder and CEO of Elastera (www.elastera.com), the high performing retailersโ best kept secret, for brands like like Boohoo, Graze, Byredo, Time Out and Piazza Italia. He is a Technology Executive with over two decades of Internet Industry experience and on his 4th startup. Previously CTO of AlexandAlexa, YOOX, and Co-founder and CTO of Venda, the pioneer SaaS commerce acquired by NetSuite.
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About Akoova, Akoova: Akoova provides the ultimate Magento cloud environment on the AWS for Merchants like Boohoo, Graze, TimeOut, Byredo & Piazza Italia.โ
Martin Papik
Co-Founder and CEO of LXC.Cloud
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About LXC.Cloud: Contifier is platform for running software containers and containerized applications accross many cloud providers.
Darren Hill
Founder & CEO of Inzite
Founder & CEO, Inzite (inzite.com)
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About Inzite: Smart discovery tools and streamlined scheduling help your customers hold meetings with the right people, at the right time.
Mark Hay
Founder, CEO, and CTO of Melrose Labs
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About Melrose Labs: Communication services inception, development and operation. Enabling and optimising communications. #CPaaS #SaaS #UCaaS #APIs
Karl Swanepoel
Founder and CEO of Revolancer
Karl Swanepoel is the Founder and CEO at Revolancer.
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About Revolancer: Freelance marketplace connecting ambitious businesses with skilled freelancers.
Samuel Jones
Co-Founder and Software Development Consultant of Codevate
Samuel Jones is the co-founder and software development consultant at Codevate Limited.
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About Codevate: Weโre an exceptional team of UK-based custom software and app developers
Giles Thomas
Founder of PythonAnywhere
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About PythonAnywhere: PythonAnywhere is a popular and growing platform-as-a-service that makes it easy for programmers to create, store and run their software in
