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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 Parenting 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.
Michelle Kennedy
Co-Founder & CEO of Peanut
Michelle joined Badoo originally as lead counsel over 4 years ago. Prior to joining Badoo she was a successful corporate lawyer at leading international law firm, Mishcon de Reya, before being poached by the firm’s successful biotech client, Quotient Bioscience to head up their legal team. During her time at Badoo, she built the legal, compliance, HR and talent teams before moving into a more operationally focused role, including a position on the board. Today, Michelle is responsible for most key areas of the business, and works closely with founder and CEO Andrey Andreev, on the existing product, and exciting ‘special projects’ coming soon….
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About Peanut: Peanut is an online platform that provides a safe space for women to connect across fertility and motherhood.
Akin Onal
Founder & CEO of MORI
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About MORI: MORI (babymori.com) is an innovative and sustainable babywear brand. D2C
Tushar Srivastava
Founder & CEO of Nurturey
Tushar Srivastava is a Founder & CEO at Nurturey. He has a professional background in Finance, Management Consulting and Technology.
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About Nurturey: Nurturey is the smartest Personal Assistant for parents
Tom Evans
Founder & CEO of BleepBleeps – Smart Family
Tom Evans is the Founder of BleepBleeps.
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About BleepBleeps – Smart Family, Central Research Laboratory, D&AD, SapientNitro: Cute, connected gadgets that make parenting magic.
Ari Last
Founder & CEO of bubble app
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About bubble app: Bubble, an on-demand mobile app, connects parents with babysitters that their friends already know and trust.
Adrian Murdock
Co-Founder of bubble app
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About bubble app: Bubble, an on-demand mobile app, connects parents with babysitters that their friends already know and trust.
Faisal Laljee
Co-Founder and CEO of KidSitter
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About Blow, KidSitter: Online marketplace for finding trusted, reliable and thoroughly vetted childcare
George Chan
Co-Founder and COO of KidSitter
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About KidSitter: Online marketplace for finding trusted, reliable and thoroughly vetted childcare
Anthony von Christierson
COO & Co-Founder of Baby Bundle
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About Baby Bundle: BabyBundle develops a parenting application and tools to support parents, nannies, and care givers.
Geraint Barton
Founder and CEO of Kinderly
As a father of two young boys, Geraint founded NurseryBook based on his first-hand experience and his personal desire to be fully engaged in his child’s early years learning and development journey. Prior to NurseryBook, Geraint spent 11 years as big biological data analyst & software developer at Imperial College and established LabBook the world’s first e-labBook on Android.
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About Kinderly: Kinderly develops software for early years’ education to help childcare professionals comply with government regulation and more.
Neel Patel
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ZiO Health
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About ZiO Health: ZiO Health has developed proprietary pocket-sized technology, bringing lab testing to the point of use.
Susan Burton
Founder & CEO of Classlist.com
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About Classlist.com: Classlist enables parents at the same school to make trusted, secure connections; making their life easier and school communities stronger.
Clare Wright
Co-Founder, Community of Classlist.com
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About Classlist.com: Classlist enables parents at the same school to make trusted, secure connections; making their life easier and school communities stronger.
Elizaveta Vratskikh
Founder of Kidkin
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About Kidkin: Kidkin is a SaaS-enabled marketplace for kids activities.
Ana Cláudia Huzenlaub
Founder & CEO of ChicBaby.com
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About ChicBaby.com: ChicBaby is an online platform that offers fashion and apparel products for babies.
Hina Zaman
Founder of WellVine
Founder of WellVine.
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About WellVine: WellVine is an on-demand children’s healthcare platform for parents to connect with experienced pediatricians via online video calls.
Andrew Purcell
CEO, Founder of Child Angel
Andrew has run a Wealth Management company for 25 years and is the Founder of Child Angel. He is at the forefront of the company and strives to achieve his heart’s desire of having an Angel look over your Child.
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About Child Angel: Child Angel™ is one of the smallest and most advanced child tracking devices available in the world today.
Katie Massie-Taylor
Founder of Mush
Katie Massie-Taylor is the Founder of Mush.
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About Mush: Mush is an online social platform that enables mothers to meet other mothers with kids the same age.
Claire Skerrett
CEO / Founder of Picniq
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About Picniq: Picniq is a site for all parents on the hunt for fun things to do with the kids!
Hussein Yehia
Co-Founder of CairoSitters
Hussein Yehia is the founder of Cairositters.
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About CairoSitters: CairoSitters is Egypt’s first babysitting and tutoring agency.
Sue Black
Founder of Techmums
Listed as one of the ‘Ten women in tech you need to meet’ by The Guardian, Dr Sue Black is an award-winning computer scientist and radical thinker. A senior research associate in the Department of Computer Science at University College London, in 2011 Black set up The ‹goto› Foundation, a non-profit that aims to make computer science more meaningful to the public, and help build a tech-savvy workforce. Black is also a long-time champion for women in computing and recently launched Savvify, a social enterprise that aims to empower people through technology. Savvify is currently running #techmums, a programme to help mums become tech savvy. Black is currently writing a book about saving Bletchley Park. She campaigned from 2008 to 2011 to save Bletchley Park and was instrumental in the campaign to secure the Turing papers for the UK. This campaign, how it worked, and what it has achieved are the subject of the book. Black also won the PepsiCo Women’s Inspiration Network award.
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About Savvify, Techmums, University College London (UCL): Techmums gives mothers the chance to take part in the digital revolution.
