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 3D Printing 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.
Sam Al-Mukhtar
Co-Founder & CEO of Geomiq
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About Geomiq: Geomiq is an intelligent platform that provides Instant quotes and Instant ordering of custom manufactured parts.
Mathijs Eefting
CEO & Co-founder of Moteefe
Print-on-demand and retail expert. Co-founder and CEO of Moteefe. INSEAD MBA 2014
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About Moteefe: Moteefe is an e-commerce platform that allows anyone to sell customized merchandise through social media.
Melissa Snover
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Board Member of Nourished
Melissa Snover CEO and founder of Nourished.
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About Goody Good Stuff, Nourished: Nourished provides a customized nutrition product that uses patented 3D printing technology to create bespoke gummy vitamins on demand.
Jeremy Ben-David
Group CEO of Waterlogic
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About Angel Springs, Waterlogic: Waterlogic is a water utility company that manufactures, supplies, and distributes of water dispensers.
Oluwaseyi Sosanya
Co Founder and CEO of Gravity Sketch
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About Gravity Sketch: Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.
Joel Gibbard
CEO of Open Bionics
Joel Gibbard is the founder of Open Bionics and the inventor of the world’s first and most advanced 3D printed robotic hand prosthetic. Joel has won multiple awards for engineering, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Joel was recently named ‘Britain’s Design Engineer of the Year,’ and awarded the Limbless Association’s ‘Prosthetic Innovation of the Year’ award. The roboticist is based inside of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and is committed to keeping his robotic hands open source.
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About Open Bionics: Open Bionics is a robotics company creating affordable 3D-printed bionic hands for amputees, researchers and makers.
Hal Watts
CEO & Co-founder of UNMADE
Hal Watts currently works as a freelance designer and engineer for several companies. He also works as a speaker talking about his work, environmental issues and innovation more generally. Hal spends the rest of his the time working on commissions and his own projects such as Esource. In 2013 he founded a design and engineering studio with Ben Alun-Jones called Searu which led to a second company, Knyttan. Founded with Ben and Kirsty Emery Knyttan is a technology startup pioneering the use of digital manufacturing technics to revolutionise knitwear production. This is now his main focus.
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About UNMADE: Unmade provides customizable design through industrial manufacturing.
Ingvar Helgason
Co-founder and CEO of VitroLabs
Ingvar Helgason is Co-founder and CEO at VitroLabs Inc.
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About VitroLabs: We work with nature to create real leather from cells, that’s slaughter-free and better for the environment.
Gerard Rubio
CEO & Founder of Kniterate
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About Kniterate: Kniterate is an affordable and compact digital knitting machine for your workshop.
Daghan Cam
Co-founder and CEO of Ai Build
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About Ai Build: Developing Artificial Intelligence to make Manufacturing easy, smart, sustainable and affordable.
Karl McGee
CEO of WCM
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About WCM: WCM combines engineering and manufacturing to produce automotive solutions for leading global brands.
Chris Emslie
Chief Executive Officer of Fibercore
A mechanical engineer by training, Chris joined the University of Southampton Optical Fiber Group in 1983, following an engineering internship at the Corning Glassworks optical fiber fabrication pilot facility. At Southampton, he studied under professors Alec Gambling and Sir David Payne. His Ph.D. subject was the fabrication of low-loss polymer optical fibers and he successfully developed an integrated purification, polymerisation and extrusion apparatus. His invited review paper of this technology published in the Journal of Material Science in 1988, is still considered to be a seminal work in the area. In 1987 he joined early spin-out company York VSOP in a commercial capacity, developing markets primarily for the ‘Bow-Tie’ geometry polarisation maintaining fibers and erbium doped fibers. From this time onwards he has been the hands-on driving force, translating customer needs into fiber specifications that remain manufacturable, whilst delivering at least the desired levels of performance. He is also credited as co-inventor of the manufacturing technique used to produce the all-silica, dual-clad, rare-earth doped fiber that has probably been used in more of the world’s high power fiber amplifiers than any other design.
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About Fibercore: Fibercore designs and manufactures fiber.
Revannth N Murugesan
CEO of Antonym
A visionary mobility entrepreneur, investor, speaker, engineer, former motorsport racer, and an ardent environmentalist. Currently heading an award-winning automotive tech company that is developing electric self-driving vehicles.
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About Antonym: Award-winning electric autonomous transportation addressing the £1.8 trillion road freight market.
Christina Zheng
Chief Executive Officer of Choc Edge
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About Choc Edge: Chocedge is the world leader in 3d chcolate printing design and manufacture.
Jonathan Lloyd
Co-founder & CEO of CGHero
My mission and passion for the past decade has been to help talented CG artists market and sell their amazing work to companies around the world.
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About CGHero: Outsource 3D Modelling, Concept Art, Textures, VFX & More
Tamar Giloh
CEO and Founder of TamiCare
Tamar Giloh is the CEO and Founder of Tamicare.
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About TamiCare: Tamicare is an R&D, innovation and engineering company specializing in the field of textile and nonwoven materials.
Mark Raban
Chief Executive Officer of Lookers
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About Lookers: The Lookers Group offer new and used cars from leading manufacturers, as well as extensive aftersales services.
Joseph Crabtree
Founder and CEO of Additive Manufacturing Technologies
Joseph Crabtree is the Founder and CEO of Additive Manufacturing Technologies.
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About Additive Manufacturing Technologies: 3D Printing technology company dedicated to unlocking 3D printing as a viable alternative to traditional manufacturing.
Ian Falconer
CEO and Founder of Fishy Filaments
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About Fishy Filaments: Takes used fishing nets and transforms them into 3D printer filament.
Graeme Bond
CEO (Technical Director) of FDM Digital Solutions
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About FDM Digital Solutions: FDM Digital Solutions manufactures thermoplastic functional parts for modeling, prototyping, manufacturing tools, and end-use parts.
Christopher Thorpe
Founder and CEO of I Can Make
Christopher Thorpe is the founder and CEO of I Can Make and is responsible for the technology in the company. He is also the founder of jaggeree, a small full-service digital consultancy company.
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About I Can Make: I Can Make Ltd. designs and provides online entertaining and educational three dimensional printable kits.
