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 Database 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 – 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.
Oliver Oram
Founder & CEO of Chainvine
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
John C. Drake
Director & Co-Founder of iLOOKABOUT
John C. Drake is the President and co-founder of Drake Goodwin Corporation, a London, Ontario investment firm with diverse interests in financial services, real estate development and manufacturing. Mr. Drake is the Chair of the Board of Critical Outcome Technologies Inc., a TSXV company whose business is focused on the identification, profiling and optimization of targeted small molecules potentially effective in the treatment of human diseases through a proprietary computational platform technology. Mr. Drake is also the Vice Chairman of Children’s Choice Learning Centers, a leading provider of corporate childcare in the United States. Mr. Drake was the Chairman of DGM Bank and Trust Inc., a privately-owned offshore bank located in Barbados, from 2002 to 2008, and a director of Discovery Air Inc., an aviation services company whose shares are listed on the TSX, from 2006 until 2008. Mr. Drake is the co-owner of Redtail Golf Course, an exclusive private golf course located outside of Port Stanley, Ontario. Mr. Drake was appointed an Honorary Colonel of the 1st Hussars of the Royal Canadian Armored Corps. in 1999. Mr. Drake obtained his B.A. and LL.B degrees from the University of Western Ontario and was a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada from 1973 to 2012.
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About iLOOKABOUT: iLOOKABOUT is a data analytics and visual intelligence company that produces and delivers geo-coded images to businesses and governments.
Jon Coleman
Co Founder of Wonde
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About Wonde: Wonde provides third party applications access to secure school data.
Patrick Hable
Managing Partner, Founder of 2iQ Research
Patrick is a founding member and Managing Director of 2iQ Research. He is responsible for sales and business development. Prior to his work with 2iQ, Patrick Hable spent four years working in the portfolio management division of DWS, Germany’s leading fund management company, and was responsible for the portfolio management of various European equity funds.
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About 2iQ Research: 2iQ is the leading Insider Transaction data provider with a global coverage of 60,000+ stocks.
Simon Riggs
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of 2ndQuadrant
Simon Riggs is the Founder and CEO of 2ndQuadrant. Simon has worked with enterprise-class database applications and uses his operational experience to contribute to many features of PostgreSQL’s internal design and usability. He is also co-author of the “PostgreSQL Administration Cookbook” series.
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About 2ndQuadrant: 2ndQuadrant provides solutions for mission critical PostgreSQL databases, ensuring high availability, backup & disaster recovery, & more.
Leo Anthias
Co-Founder and CEO of Datapane
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About Datapane: Datapane is a Python framework for developing data science documents for companies, clients, or communities.
Mandeep Gill
Co-Founder and CTO of Datapane
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About Datapane: Datapane is a Python framework for developing data science documents for companies, clients, or communities.
Dominik Tomicevic
Co-Founder and CEO of Memgraph
Dominik Tomicevic serves as the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Memgraph.
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About Memgraph: Memgraph makes creating real-time streaming graph applications accessible to every developer.
Simon Deeny
Director & Co-Founder of Conjura
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About Conjura, Eagle Point Partners: Conjura is a company that draws on expertise in consultancy, software engineering, data science and analytics.
Steve Marsh
Founder and CEO of GeoSpock
Steven Marsh is a Co-Founder of GeoSpock Limited and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Steven Marsh is also the lead architect of the Collide platform and co-lead architect of GeoSpock DB. He has experience of building real-time and highly-scalable systems he has overseen the creation of GeoSpock’s state-of-the-art geo-location and social networking mobile development platform. Steven Marsh is a computer scientist. As part of his research, Steve is part of a team building a customisable FPGA-based super-computer designed to carry out real-time simulation of extreme-scale neural networks such as the brain. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
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About GeoSpock: GeoSpock builds GeoSpock DB, the unique space-time analytics database that delivers rapid insights at a fraction of the cost.
Alex Chircop
Founder, CEO and CTO of Ondat
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About : Ondat supports your freedom with industry-leading levels of data performance, resilience, security, and scale.
Simon Croome
Founder & VP of Engineering of Ondat
Simon Croome is the Founder & VP Engineering at StorageOS.
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About Ondat: Ondat supports your freedom with industry-leading levels of data performance, resilience, security, and scale.
Jolyon Ralph
Founder of Mindat.org
Jolyon is the founder of mindat.org. He started mindat as a personal mineral information database in 1993, which was later launched as a web site in October 2000. He also runs the gemdat.org website with his wife Katya. They have a young son, Roman, born in 2014.
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About Mindat.org: Mindat.org is a mineralogy database and mineralogical reference website on the internet.
Marko Djukic
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Ingenii
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About : Ingenii is a data engineering platform that provides access to a growing library of data engineering tools and templates.
John Letey
Founder and CTO of KYVE
John Letey is the founder and CTO of KYVE.
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About KYVE: KYVE can store any data stream, with built-in validation by leveraging Arweave, we can permanently and immutably store this data.
Nick Tsinonis
Co-Founder of Scamalytics
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About Scamalytics: Scamalytics maintain the largest shared anti-fraud database dedicated to the online dating industry.
Andrew Levitt
Co-Founder and Director of Bridges Outcomes Partnerships
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About Bridges Fund Management, Bridges Outcomes Partnerships: Bridges Outcomes Partnerships focuses on policy, program delivery, data analysis, and impact measurement.
Ben Antcliff
Managing Director & Founder of Omnis Data
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About Omnis Data, YourBlock: Omnis Data provides its clients with detailed and relevant insight on the lifestyle & life-stage of UK consumers using its Data services.
Jeremy Coupland
Managing Director & Founder of Rebirth Analytics
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About Rebirth Analytics: Rebirth Analytics develops a proprietary algorithm that provides transformative and equitable data solutions.
Russell McAthy
CEO and Co-Founder of Ringside Data
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About Deliver Insight, Ringside Data: Ringside Data is a marketing data platform that offers cutting-edge marketing analytics solutions to help businesses.
Jon Mead
CEO/ Co-Founder of Rittman Mead
CEO/ Co-Founder at Rittman Mead
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About Rittman Mead: Rittman Mead is a data and analytics consulting firm.
