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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 Home Services 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.
Cem Savas
CEO & Co-Founder of Plentific
Cem Savas is the chief executive officer & co-founder of Plentific.
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About Plentific: Plentific is a SaaS platform that provides smart property management solutions for landlords and property managers.
Emre Kazan
CTO & Co-Founder of Plentific
Emre Kazan is the co-Founder of Plentific.
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About Plentific: Plentific is a SaaS platform that provides smart property management solutions for landlords and property managers.
Avin Rabheru
Founder & CEO of Housekeep
Avin Rabheru joined Smedvig Capital in 2008 and is a Senior Associate. He joined from Roland Berger Strategy Consultants where he worked with senior management teams on corporate strategy projects, operational improvement initiatives and commercial due diligence across a range of sectors in Europe, North America and Asia. Prior to that, Avin worked in M&A at Citigroup and Rothschild. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at University College, Oxford. He is currently a board advisor to The Smart Cube, myhomemove, PPC and Exchange Group, and previously worked with the teams at Streetcar and Clearvision.
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About Housekeep: Housework that works – brilliant local cleaners & tradespeople
Alexander Gosling
President and Co-Founder of Strike
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About Strike: Strike (formerly known as HouseSimple) is an online estate agent agency.
Siddhi Mittal
Co-Founder of yhangry
Siddhi Mittal is the Co-Founder of Yhangry.
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About yhangry: yhangry is a private chef platform where users can book a professional chef to come cook for them at home
Adam Edgell-Bush
Co-Founder & CEO of Homyze
Adam Edgell-Bush is Co-Founder & CEO at Homyze.
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About Homyze: Homyze is a marketplace and develops a mobile app for home service professionals such as electricians and plumbers.
Deyan Dimitrov
Founder & CEO of Laundryheap
Deyan Dimitrov is the Founder and CEO at Laundryheap.
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About Laundryheap: Laundryheap is an on-demand dry cleaning and laundry service available in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands and the UAE.
Sebastian Os
Co-Founder, Chief Commercial Officer, and Board Member of Laundryheap
Sebastian Os is the Co-Founder, Chief Commercial Officer, and Board Member at Laundryheap.
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About Laundryheap: Laundryheap is an on-demand dry cleaning and laundry service available in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands and the UAE.
Nigel Smart
Co-Founder of Unbound Security
Nigel Smart work on the interface of public key cryptography and cryptographic protocols. I am interested mainly in looking at how to turn theoretical constructions into practical reality, and how these can then be leveraged to solve real world problems. In the last five years my work has focused around methods to compute on encrypted data; in particular Multi-Party Computation and Fully Homomorphic Encryption. Previously I have worked on key agreement protocols, pairing based cryptography and elliptic curve based cryptography.
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About International Association for Cryptologic Research, Unbound Security: Unbound Security providing protection for cryptographic keys and credentials, even in the presence of a network and server breach.
Mick Silver
Founder & CEO of Moovshack
Entrepreneur with a diverse background ranging from C-level within large corporates to founder of SME’s & start-ups. Experienced in IT hardware & software, mobile, wearable tech, Augmented Reality, VR, Smart Cities & Real Estate
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About Moovshack: The first fully interactive, mobile-first property platform that doubles as a free-to-list portal & a brandable estate agent app
Simon Phelan
Co-Founder and CEO of Hometree
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About Hometree: Hometree exists to make home ownership simple & sustainable
Matthew Connelly
Founder & CEO of ihateironing.com
Mr. Matthew Connelly, also known as Matt, serves as Managing Director of ihateironing.com Ltd.
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About ihateironing.com: ihateironing.com is a company that provides dry cleaning and laundry services on delivery.
Jean-Michel Chalayer
Co-Founder & CEO of LeSalon Beauty
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About LeSalon Beauty: LeSalon is delivering a branded, consistent and high-quality at-home beauty service.
Natasha Pilbrow
Co-Founder & COO of LeSalon Beauty
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About LeSalon Beauty: LeSalon is delivering a branded, consistent and high-quality at-home beauty service.
Russ Morgan
Co-Founder of Bidvine
Russ Morgan is a strategy and marketing professional with experience working with a number of great organizations. Through his years of experience, spanning over 10 countries world-wide, he brings a unique perspective to any business that he works with. With an MBA, and previous experience managing teams, Russ takes pride in helping collaborative teams understand and deliver on strategic initiatives. In addition to his professional life, Russ also works diligently with Building Walls of Wisdom to help eradicate poverty through education.
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About Bidvine: Bidvine make hiring local, trusted service professionals ridiculously simple – and help people use the time saved to pursue their passions.
Kevin Robinson
Founder of Home Fixed
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About Home Fixed: Home Fixed delivers a wide range of home repair projects.
William Makant
Co-Founder and CEO of Plumis
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About Plumis: Intelligence in the fabric of every building
Yusuf Muhammad
Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer (CDO) of Plumis
Yusuf is a co-inventor of Automist. He has an Honours Masters degree in Engineering and a double Masters in Innovation Design Engineering. He has won numerous design awards for a host of innovations across a number of industries including the James Dyson Award, the Toyota IQ Design Challenge & Transport Design of the Year by the Design Museum to name a few. He also starred in the BBC 2 Show ‘The Big Life Fix’.
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About Plumis: Intelligence in the fabric of every building
Akhlaq Choudhury
Founder of GO GET ME IT
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About GO GET ME IT: GOGETMEIT (GGM) is an on demand service which provides consumers the quickest route to get a job from open to done in three easy steps.
Graeme Lee
Founder & CEO of Springfield Healthcare
Graeme Lee is a Founder & CEO at Springfield Healthcare.
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About Springfield Healthcare: Springfield Healthcare delivers personal and domestic care for people who need it in their own homes.
Dean Shepherd
Co-Founder and Head of Product of Evo
Dean Shepherd is the Co-founder and Head of Product at Evo.
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About Evo: A fusion of property professionals, skilled trades and simple technology that makes rental property maintenance hassle free.
Mark Iandoli
Co-Founder and Head of Service of Evo
Mark Iandoli is the Co-Founder and Head of Service at Evo.
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About Evo: A fusion of property professionals, skilled trades and simple technology that makes rental property maintenance hassle free.
