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 Local 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.
Max Jennings
Co-Founder of Hoop
My current obsession is Hoop – a new app designed to help families. Our mission at Hoop is to help families discover fun things to do, and to make it as easy as checking your email. Join the fun at www.hoop.co.uk Previously, co-founded VoucherCodes.co.uk, Europe’s largest coupon website (acquired by Retailmenot Inc.)
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About Hoop: Hoop is a platform for kids activities.
Anh Pham Vu
Co-Founder of UENI
Anh Pham Vu is the Co-founder at UENI.
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About Astorg, UENI: UENI is a London based tech company that’s empowering businesses to get online and find the tools they need to succeed.
Christine Telyan
Co-Founder of UENI
Christine Telyan is the Co-founder at UENI.
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About UENI: UENI is a London based tech company that’s empowering businesses to get online and find the tools they need to succeed.
Mark Elwig
Co-Founder and Commercial Director of Staff Heroes
Proven Commercial leader with a track record of driving growth through technology sales with Enterprise customers across multiple sectors including Hospitality, Retail, Travel and Entertainment. Experienced go-to market strategist and sales leader. Deal brokering at a global level. International experience within EMEA and US. Focus, drive and great people skills having lead several sales, business development and client account teams for both Fortune 500 and start-up organisations. Experience in setting up and building out sales and marketing teams from scratch and most recently co-founding and running the commercial arm of an innovative staffing marketplace start-up, operating within the Hospitality sector in the UK. Specialties: Business development, Sales, business strategy, account management, client services, licensing, white label, B2B partnerships, European & Global sales, SaaS software sales, launching a start-up.
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About eBay Advertising, mydeco, Staff Heroes: Staff Heroes is an on demand & AI technology marketplace reinventing the world of work, connecting businesses and workers more efficiently.
John Haynes
Co-Founder of Pressglue
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About Pressglue: Pressglue offers news management tools and mobile news casting applications to report, share, and monetize news stories.
Ricardo Varela
Founder of Localistico
Ricardo has worked in search and maps teams in Microsoft, Google and Yahoo.
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About Localistico: Localistico is a local marketing and analytics platform for brick-and-mortar retailers.
Stephen Byfield
Co-Founder & Director of Horizon Cremation
Stephen Byfield is the Co-Founder & Director of Horizon Cremation. Stephen is a planning expert who founded and ran his own consultancy business for 25 years before selling it in 2014. He has been a non-executive director of various businesses. At Horizon he finds new sites and is currently taking several through the planning process. stephen.byfield@horizoncremation.co.uk
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About Horizon Cremation: Horizon Cremation will develop and operate purpose built crematoria across the UK, able to provide greater local choice.
Jeremy Hamilton
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Horizon Cremation
Jeremy Hamilton is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Horizon Cremation. Jeremy is a Strathclyde School of Government graduate and comes from a family business background within the private and residential care sectors. He is experienced in the management of multi-site operations within regulated and sensitive business sectors. At Horizon, he oversees operation of the Clyde Coast facility and is taking other sites through the planning process.
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About Horizon Cremation: Horizon Cremation will develop and operate purpose built crematoria across the UK, able to provide greater local choice.
Joseph Munns
Co-Founder, Managing Director/CEO of Bakedin
Joe spent the majority of his career in various senior management positions at IBM UK, before moving to the food industry to lead Bakedin. He has previous experience in M&A, leading the integration of the Maidenhead based Butterfly Software into IBMs development organisation.
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About Bakedin: Bakedin, a Basingstoke-based baking subscription service, provides premium home baking products featuring exclusive recipes by Michel Roux.
Elaina Mickelburgh
Co-Founder of Bakedin
Elaina Mickelburgh is the co-founder of Bakedin.
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About Bakedin: Bakedin, a Basingstoke-based baking subscription service, provides premium home baking products featuring exclusive recipes by Michel Roux.
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.
Aleksandr Pasevin
Co-Founder of Hype App
Aleksandr Pasevin is Co-Founder @ Hype App.
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About Hype App: Hype App is a smartphone application that enables users to find out what events and places are placed in and around their locality.
Gintare Zitkeviciute
Founder and CEO of Hype App
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About Hype App, Hype Experiences: Hype App is a smartphone application that enables users to find out what events and places are placed in and around their locality.
Robin Weil
Founder & CEO of Wedding Planner
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About Music Students for hire, Wedding Planner: Wedding Planner has helped over 275,000 brides to realise their dreams – they would love to help you to plan your BIG day.
Peter Bruce
CEO & Founder of Entier
Peter Bruce is the CEO & Founder at Entier
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About Entier: A largest independent privately owned catering company.
Kathrin Burckhardt
Co-Founder of Cat in a Flat
Kathrin is a Co-founder of the Award Winning start-up CatinaFlat.com, UK’s fastest growing Cat Sitter Community that connects cat owners with insured, cat-loving sitters in their neighbourhood.
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About Cat in a Flat: Cat in a Flat The best way to find trusted cat sitters in your area.
Julie Barnes
Co-Founder of Cat in a Flat
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About Cat in a Flat: Cat in a Flat The best way to find trusted cat sitters in your area.
Boris Demeersseman
Founder / Chief Executive Officer of MYPA
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About MYPA: MYPA is a trusted virtual marketplace for people to discover local talents that can help them with on-demand needs.
Si Brown
Founder & CEO of skignz
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About skignz: skignz: A Precise Location AR platform providing an Enterprise API/SDK that is capable of placing digital content anywhere on the planet
Francesco Cavallone
Founder and Director of In Other Words
Founder and Director of In Other Words.
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About In Other Words: In Other Words is the translation agency guaranteeing high quality and accurate translation services in more than 150 combinations.
Melanie Amini
Founder and Chief Coffee Inspector of Discovering Coffee
Founder at Discovering Coffee
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About Discovering Coffee, Gossip Media: Discovering Coffee helps in locating all the artisan and third wave coffee spots near you.
Seb Lyall
CEO / Founder of Locappy
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About Locappy: Locappy helps small local businesses reach out to their local community.
Baljeet D.
Founder of Neighbrz.com
Founder at Neighbrz.com
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About Neighbrz.com: Facebook for local neighbourhood
