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 Real Time 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.
Matthew O’Riordan
CEO & Co-founder of Ably Realtime
A serial entrepreneur and seasoned developer with over 15 years of hands-on development experience. Matthew co-founded Econsultancy (http://econsultancy.com), a global digital marketing publishing, training and research business, with Ashley Friedlein and exited via a £25m trade sale to Centaur Media plc in 2012. Matthew was Co-founder and Technical Director of Aqueduct (http://aqueduct.co.uk), a leading digital agency in London and Founder of easyBacklog (http://easybacklog.com), a SaaS agile backlog management tool. Matthew was also founder of Lemon Studios http://lemonstudioslondon.com/ in 2016, a serviced office for digital marketing and technology companies in London.
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About Ably Realtime, easyBacklog, Open API Initiative: Ably is the platform to power synchronized digital experiences in realtime.
Max Williams
Co-Founder & CEO of Pusher
Max has spent the past 5 years running the London-based Ruby on Rails development shop New Bamboo, with his co-founder [Damien Tanner](http://crunchbase.com/person/damien-tanner). Their latest company is a realtime messaging service called Pusher (http://pusherapp.com), which was incubated inside New Bamboo. Max is passionate about realtime technology, and has the goal of making it more readily available for everyone.
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About Pusher: Pusher Ltd. provides a hosted API service for adding real-time bi-directional.
Guy Warren
Chief Executive Officer of ITRS Group
Guy joined ITRS in July 2014 as CEO and brings more than 25 years’ experience in financial services and technology businesses. Guy had previously been a customer of ITRS, using Geneos to improve the availability of the real-time systems when he was COO of FTSE Group. He has also managed a financial services product business as the EVP & General Manager of Misys Banking, a leader in the core banking solutions market. Guy has a strong background in large blue chip organisations and more recently working with private equity backed companies. Earlier in his career, he was the CEO of Logica UK, a large professional services company.
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About ITRS Group: ITRS Group is the leading provider of risk mitigation solutions to global financial institutions.
Dugald Macdonald
Co-Founder & CEO of Sportable
Dugald Macdonald is a Co-Founder and serves as a Chief Executive Officer at Sportable. Prior to founding Sportable, he serves as an Investment Associate at GEM Investments for over a year.
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About Sportable: Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences.
James Cobb
Founder and CEO of Crowd Connected
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About Crowd Connected: Pioneering a new generation of big data location intelligence
Paul Watmough
Founder and CEO of MDX Technology
Paul is a successful business developer of technology companies serving the Capital Markets, Energy and Commodities sectors. He has founded and built a number of technology companies to market leading positions attracting investors and buyers. He is an energetic sales manager, having led global sales and marketing teams, with a proven track record. He is an innovative marketer widely connected and respected. Paul co-founded MDX Technology in 2010 where he currently serves as CEO.
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About MDX Technology: MDX Technology Ltd focuses on real-time market data connectivity solutions for Traders, Developers and Market Data Professionals.
Patrick Short
CEO & Co-Founder of Sano Genetics
Co-Founder and CEO of Heterogeneous, a genetic data sharing platform dedicated to providing researchers with access to high-quality and dynamic genetic and medical data while empowering users to own and control their own data. https://www.heterogeneous.co.uk/
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About Sano Genetics: Sano Genetics is a personalised medicine research platform with data privacy and transparency at its core.
Jenna Brown
CEO & Co-Founder of Shipamax
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About Shipamax: Shipamax provides seamless fleet and deals management for operators and brokers.
Steve Klin
CEO of BlueVenn
As Chief Executive Officer Steve has over 20 years’ experience in the Database, Analytics and Digital marketplace. This includes Co founding eWare Interactive (Personalisation & Analytics eventually purchased by GB Group), Sales Director of Alterian Plc. (Analytics & Campaign Management) and most recently European Managing Director of smartFOCUS Plc (Analytics, Campaign Management & Digital) where revenues grew 7 fold before being acquired by Emailvision.
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About BlueVenn: BlueVenn’s software provides real-time analysis of customer data that create highly personalized and relevant marketing campaigns.
Jo Eckersley
CEO & Founder of Bubbl Ltd
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About Bubbl Ltd: Cutting-edge mobile app plug-in that allows companies to hyper-focus their marketing efforts with geo-triggered customer engagement tools.
Abhishek Sen
CEO / Co-Founder of NumberEight
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About NumberEight: On-device AI software to predict user context using mobile sensors
James Gill
Founder and CEO of GoSquared
James Gill is a Founder and CEO at GoSquared.
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About GoSquared: GoSquared is a platform where businesses can communicate with their customers through analytics, CRM, live chat, and marketing automation.
Alex Smeets
CEO, Cambridge Funding Solutions of Pintrack Ltd
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About : Pintrack Ltd is a tech company focused on software development.
Mike Austin
CEO of Fresh Relevance
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About Fresh Relevance: The Personalization Platform to Boost ROI. Built to Help Marketers Get Their Jobs Done..
Richard Du
Founder and CEO of Agorafy
Richard founded Dumann Associates in 2004, where his focus on real estate advisory and investment services include profit-oriented management, leasing, acquisition/sales, and marketing programs for commercial properties owned by investor groups and clients. He transforms non-traditional real estate opportunities into high performing assets, unlocking the worth of undervalued properties. He’s also the reigning office ping pong champ.
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About Agorafy: Agorafy is an open platform for organizing and sharing real estate listings and information in the U.S.
Mark Gorski
Co-Founder & CEO of Sports Data Labs, Inc.
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About Sports Data Labs, Inc.: Unlock the Value of Human Data®
Daniel Titterton
Co-Founder, CEO of Intelligent Positioning
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About Intelligent Positioning: Intelligent Positioning is the leading provider of global real-time SEO technology, empowering brands, corporations, marketers, big, small.
Alex Cowan
CEO of RazorSecure
Alex Cowan founded RazorSecure in 2015 following a career in the gaming industry where he was frustrated with gamers hacking both the games and the systems. Alex has developed a new approach to cyber for transport making it ideal for rail. His objective was to develop a system that did not require a permanent data connection, could protect itself and produced very low false positives. His gaming background means the RazorSecure solution is always one step ahead of the hackers. Alex has been highly successful in building the team, raising significant investment and positioning RazorSecure as the EU cyber solution for rail.
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About RazorSecure: RazorSecure is a cyber security software that provides continuous threat monitoring & active defence strategy for trains, buses, cars & etc.
Henry Dowding
CEO/Founder of Hang
Henry Dowding is the 18-year-old Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hang.
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About Hang: Hang is real-time meeting space booking platform that’s redefining how people meet.
Martin Luke
CEO of Vox Markets
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About Vox Markets: Online network connecting traders and investors to a dynamic network of information, people, companies and ideas.
Jacqui McLaughlin
CEO of Reactec
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About Reactec: Reactec is the market leader in monitoring and management support solutions for hand and arm vibration syndrome
Matthew Hodgson
Founder & CEO of Mosaic Smart Data
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About Mosaic Smart Data: Mosaic Smart Data, the fintech which provides real-time data for fixed income, currencies and commodities.
Roderick Kennedy
CEO of Simul
Entrepreneur, technical founder of Simul, inventor of SimulCaster. DPhil in Plasma Physics (University of Oxford).
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About Simul: Simul is dedicated to applying the principles of physics to the virtual world.
