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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 Residential 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.
Ben Dixon
Co-Founder & CTO of Sona
Ben is a senior developer focused on web application development. He primarily creates Ruby on Rails and Android applications. He also has experience in front-end development in both Backbone and Angular JS as well as infrastructure management with Chef and Docker. He’s the author of Reliably Deploying Rails Applications (http://www.deployingrailsbook.com/) which covers how to deploy medium-sized Rails Applications in an easy, scalable fashion, and spoke at Railsconf 2014 on this topic. He also spoke at Railsconf 2015 on how Docker can be tightly integrated with Rails to do far more interesting things than just deployment. He is currently CTO of Sona, the unified frontend for the frontline workforce.
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About Sona: Sona is the employee app for tomorrow’s workforce.
Oli Johnson
Co-Founder of Sona
Oli Johnson is a Co-founder of Sona.
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About Sona: Sona is the employee app for tomorrow’s workforce.
David Toplas
Founder and Director of Vesta Property
David has a long track record of innovation in investments which balance social and commercial returns. He has created, built and invested in businesses and run institutional funds as well as established a charity and social enterprise. David enjoys his work, cars and playing hockey.
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About Mill Group, Vesta Property: Vesta (www.vestaproperty.com) is a data-driven marketplace for buying and selling residential investment property.
Amit Bansal
Founder of HouzeCheck
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About HouzeCheck: HouzeCheck is a digital-first surveying tech business leveraging cloud, digital, and AI technologies.
Ricardo Brizido
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Stake
Ricardo Brizido is the Co-Founder and CTO at Stake.
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About Stake: Stake Properties is a digital real estate investment platform.
Nitin Aggarwal
CEO, Founder of Property Deals Insight
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About NY Cloud Solutions, Property Deals Insight: A Proptech company that empowers users to make Smart hassle free property investment decisions with a click of a button
Silvano Geranio
Founder Director of Prestige
Silvano Geranio joined Prestige Homeseeker Park & Leisure Homes as Founder Director in 2007.
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About Prestige: Prestige is a UK-based manufacturers of high quality park homes and lodges for the residential and leisure market.
Charles Armitage
Co-Founder, CEO of Florence
Charles Armitage is a co-founder and CEO at Florence.
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About Florence: Florence is an online marketplace that connects vacant care home shifts to local nurses and carers looking for extra work
Dan Blake
Co-Founder, COO & CPO of Florence
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About Florence: Florence is an online marketplace that connects vacant care home shifts to local nurses and carers looking for extra work
Sebastien Goldenberg
CEO and Co-Founder of TheHouseShop.com
Seb is co-founder and CEO at TheHouseShop.com, UK’s largest property marketplace. It offers free property advertising for private landlords, private sellers and estate agents. TheHouseShop is disrupting the whole property ecosystem, using technology to make rental transactions fully-digitized, safe, secure and cost-effective. TheHouseShop is also the only fully secure property website, where every private advertiser is verified. Seb is the also chair of the start-up and SME club at the French Chamber of Commerce in the UK.
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About TheHouseShop.com: The House Shop is the UK’s number 1 place for property, working with homeowners, landlords, estate agents.
Nick Marr
Co Founder of TheHouseShop.com
Nick Marr is an Entrepreneur, Digital Marketing Expert, Managment executive for several disruptive digital start-ups, leadership coach and founder of several real estate businesses. Nick primary role and passion is that of Chief Marketing Officer at the disruptive property marketing platform TheHouseShop.com a UK based property website that assists homeowners and agents with real estate marketing. He has helped introduce Online property marketing to the UK’s by owing the first ‘for sale by owner’ platform. International real estate marketing as founder of an overseas property platform Content marketing to UK publishers as European Sales Director at MGID Europe Video personalisation as Vice President of International Sales of disruptive platform IRIS.TV Claims to fame – Key advisor to the British government representing the newly emerging online property sector. The government subsequently introduced new legislation allowing for new online real estate business models to operate see Business Owner Nick is behind the following real estate sector websites: Overseas property portal at HomesGoFast.Com Europe’s No.1 European real estate portal at EuropeanProperty.com Business Consultant Advisor and business consultant for start-ups, digital businesses and investment funds understand the complexities of the UK online property sector. Coach Leadership coach at the Leadership Academy for Senior Officers and Detectives for The Metropolitan Police London and for commercial Senior Management Teams
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About TheHouseShop.com: The House Shop is the UK’s number 1 place for property, working with homeowners, landlords, estate agents.
Sarah Bellamy
Founder of Poppy & Jacks
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About Poppy & Jacks: Poppy & Jacks raising the standard for exceptional quality childcare.
Matt Pullen
Co-Founder of CuroCarers
Matt Pullen is the co-founder of Curo Carers.
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About CuroCarers: CuroCarers is an employee wellness platform that enables caregivers to control their own well-being and flourish at work.
Hannah Lavender-Jones
Co-Founder of CuroCarers
Hannah Lavender-Jones is a co-founder of Curo Carers.
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About CuroCarers: CuroCarers is an employee wellness platform that enables caregivers to control their own well-being and flourish at work.
Eric Tomaszewski
Founder / Managing Director of Itoma Lux
Eric Tomaszewski is the Founder & Managing Director of Itoma Lux. He founded Itoma Lux in 2017 after 10 years of corporate experience with companies like Ocado, Magna Exteriors and Magna Interiors, Ishida Europe Ltd, and Kimberly-Clark.
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About Itoma Lux: We enable PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT with FINANCE and then de-risk it and increase chances of commercial success with MARKETING & SALES solutions.
Mark Bates
Founder and Managing Director of Banana Moon Day Nursery Limited
Mark is the Managing Director and founder of Banana Moon Day Nursery. After becoming frustrated with the shortage of good, high quality nurseries into which he would have been happy to place his own children, he decided to take matters into his own hands and build his own! Mark’s approach has always been from the point-of-view of a concerned parent and it is this approach which has led to Banana Moon developing such a unique and distinctive model. Whilst every nursery is clearly governed by current legislation, the Banana Moon system adds a whole new layer of experience on top of this and it is this approach which has resulted in the success that Banana Moon now enjoys.
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About Banana Moon Day Nursery Limited: Banana Moon Day Nursery is the leading franchise in UK for best day care services which build up with quality environment of child care.
Karan Batth
Co-Founder of nu:move
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About nu:move: Nu:Move inline estate agents specialise in selling, letting and auctioning of residential properties.
Pam Batth
Co-Founder, CEO of nu:move
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About nu:move: Nu:Move inline estate agents specialise in selling, letting and auctioning of residential properties.
Sally Holdway
Co-Founder of Teal Legal
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About Teal Legal: Teal Legal is a UK PropTech company focussing on developing new products to improve the post-offer conveyancing process.
Sally Holdway
Co-Founder of Teal Legal
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About Teal Legal: Teal Legal is a UK PropTech company focussing on developing new products to improve the post-offer conveyancing process.
Amy Bell
Co-Founder of Teal Legal
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About Teal Legal: Teal Legal is a UK PropTech company focussing on developing new products to improve the post-offer conveyancing process.
Toby Cockcroft
Owner and Founder of Croft Residential
Toby Cockcroft is the Owner and Founder of Croft Residential. Prior to Croft Residential, He is a former Partner at DHP Croft and Carter Jonas.
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About Croft Residential: Croft Residential is a real estate and property agency dealing and specializing in marketing exclusive properties.
