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 Electric Vehicle 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.
Alex Kendall
Co-Founder & CEO of Wayve
Alex Kendall is the co-founder & CEO at Wayve.
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About Wayve: Wayve uses end-to-end deep learning to develop artificial intelligence capable of complex driving.
Henri Moissinac
Co-Founder & CEO of dott
Henri Moissinac runs Consumer Partnerships at Uber EMEA,in London.Previously, he led Mobile Partnerships at Facebook, based in California. Before that, he led eBay mobile.
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About dott: Dott offers dock-less, shared electrical scooters and bikes as alternatives for short-distance travel.
Matthew Lumsden
Chief Executive Officer/Founder of Connected Energy
With 20 years experience in the low carbon energy and transport sectors, Matthew founded Connected Energy to commercialise a range of energy storage and control systems developed by parent company Future Transport Systems.
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About Connected Energy, Future Transport, Unreasonable: A pioneer of 2nd life electric vehicle battery based energy storage systems.
Erik Fairbairn
Founder & CEO of Pod Point
Erik founded POD Point in 2009, in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. he saw the potential of electric vehicles as the next major mode of transportation and set himself the goal of wiring up the UK with charge points to facilitate the switch to EV from internal combustion engines. Fairbairn is also a member of the UK Automotive Council Technology Group and YPO (Young President’s Organisation) and featured on the 35th episode of their podcast.
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About Pod Point: We’re building the infrastructure needed for the mass adoption of electric vehicles in the UK & Europe.
Alex Buttle
Co-Founder, Marketing Director of Motorway
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About Motorway: Motorway is an online used-car marketplace for professional car dealers that sells their cars using their smartphones.
Harry Jones
Co-Founder & CPO of Motorway
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About Motorway: Motorway is an online used-car marketplace for professional car dealers that sells their cars using their smartphones.
Tom Leathes
Co-Founder & CEO of Motorway
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About Motorway: Motorway is an online used-car marketplace for professional car dealers that sells their cars using their smartphones.
Pep Gomez
Founder of Reby
Pep Gomez is a 25-year-old 3x tech entrepreneur and investor. He is General Partner (Head of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital) at Mobile World Capital (€8M). He is also board advisor for PRISA and ASICS Corporation. Previously, he founded Fever (www.feverup.com), the leading event discovery platform in the world. He has raised over $75M from Accel Partners, Fidelity and 14W Ventures. He started his first company at the age of 14. Later on, he will become one of the organizers of Campus Party, the largest tech festival in Europe and Latin America. At the age of 16 he moved to Silicon Valley to work in the venture capital industry as an Investment Partner for Solon Ventures. He also co-founded Jóvenes con Futuro, a program backed by Fundación Rafael del Pino and Fundación Banco Sabadell that encourages young engineers to work for startups.
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About Reby: Leading Southern Europe investment bank for mobility infrastructure
Anthony Eskinazi
Founder & CEO of JustPark
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About JustPark: JustPark is a parking app reinventing parking for the digital era.
Erik Nygard
Founder and CEO of Kofa
Erik is the Founder and CEO at Kofa.
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About Kofa: Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology.
Pasi William Sachiti
Founder & CEO of Academy of Robotics
William Sachiti is a UK based serial entrepreneur best known for creating a UK driverless car manufacture company competing with multinational incumbents such as Google, Uber and Tesla. The company designs and builds the autonomous vehicles in their UK warehouse. William has started and exited three previous tech start-ups in row, the latest MyCityVenue, an A.I. driven experiences platform serving 1.6 million users was acquired in 2015 by Secret Escapes. Before MyCityVenue, William was the the BBC Investment program Dragons Den, where he pitched a start-up, digital outdoor advertising on bins. The Dragons famously said he needs to be wheeled out of the bin. The company he pitched subsequently was licensed in several countries before being acquired. One of William’s first start-ups he started at 19, was called 123-registration. This company was also acquired for an undisclosed amount.
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About Academy of Robotics: The Academy of Robotics is a technology institute with an extraordinary technical team of engineers, scientists, and researchers.
Denis Sverdlov
Founder & CEO of Arrival
Denis Sverdlov is the Founder at Kinetik and Arrival.
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About Arrival, Arrival Communications, Kinetik, Roborace: Arrival is a developer and manufacturer of zero-emission, public transportation vehicles.
Mauro Pasta
Co-Founder of Cuberg
Co-Founder of Cuberg.
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About University of Oxford: Cuberg is a company delivering lithium metal cells produced on existing lithium-ion manufacturing lines for electromobility solutions.
Henry Furniss
Co-Founder of WyndyMilla
Henry ran London’s top mobile personal training company ‘The Firm’ from 2001 – 2008. Henry remains amongst London’s most respected Health & Fitness experts, over the last decade he has gained a vast wealth of knowledge in his role as a PT and has worked with many of the UK’s top business brains, celebrities & fashion icons. Henry has featured & written regularly in the national press whilst also making appearances on C4’s ‘Fit Farm’, GMTV and BBC London News. Henry graduated in business & finance at Durham in ’1997, and then later studied personal training, sports therapy & nutrition. He competed in the Triathlon World Championships, before winning the first road race he entered a bit late in the day aged 29. Less than a year later he was an Elite cyclist and has been in and out of the UK’s top 100 riders ever since. Aside from his role in the evolution of the ‘WyndyMilla Empire’, Henry has been a consultant for Maxifuel since 2006.
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About WyndyMilla: WyndyMilla offering tailored bike training and equipment advice to personal training clients and friends.
Nasima Siddiqui
Co-Founder of WyndyMilla
Nasima studied Applied Biology at The University of Bath. Using these studies together with her background as a personal trainer, cycling coach and racing cyclist, Nasima is now highly focused on the best bicycle centric training and nutritional protocols for cyclists at every level. She’s a firm believer that riding a bike should be a fun and stress free experience for everyone.
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About WyndyMilla: WyndyMilla offering tailored bike training and equipment advice to personal training clients and friends.
Hayley Bishop
Founder & Technical Director of Swytch
Hayley came onto this project right at the beginning – practically for the first heartbeat of the product after joining the team during the Shanghai Bike Fair in 2016. With 12 years’ experience in Software Development and Design she is responsible for the management and delivery of all of our online content, branding, and marketing material. She has worked on a number of large high profile internal software development projects whilst running her own Design and Development company for the past 5 years which makes project managing such an exciting project, a necessary skill for us to take full advantage of. In almost exactly the same way as our customers, business aquaintences, friends and family members, Hayley reacted to electric bikes and in particular the Swytch bike; she wanted to be part of this movement and to get her hands on a Swytch bike as soon as possible. And what better way to do that then join the team!
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About Swytch: Instantly convert any bike into an eBike (electric bike)
Simon Dixon
Founder of Rockar
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About Rockar: Rockar’s digital stores use innovative digital content to provide customers with information
Leigh Nigel Purnell
Founder of Petalite
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About Petalite: Revolutionary Electric Vehicle Charging Platform
Arnaud Didey
Founder & CEO of Neoptera Aero
Arnaud Dide is the Founder and CEO at Neoptera Aero.
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About Didey Consulting Ltd, Neoptera Aero: Neoptera Aero is developing a patented winged eVTOL aircraft aimed at Public Services, Military Applications and Future Urban Air Mobility
Alistair Clarke
Founder and CEO of EV Technology Limited
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About EV Technology Limited: EV Technology is an electric vehicle consulting and technology provider to the industry.
Robin North
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Lead Technologist of Immense
Building tools to support fleets and mobility. Development, implementation, field test and evaluation of complex transport systems across multiple modes. Environmental monitoring and modelling methodologies for the appraisal of transport systems and projects. Identification and development of innovation opportunities for multiple stakeholders.
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About Immense: A global decision-support platform for new mobility
Dídac Busquets i Font
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Immense
I am a Computer Scientist (BSc 1999, PhD 2003) specialised in Artificial Intelligence, and more concretely on agent-based simulation, task and resource allocation and self-organisation. I have worked in a wide range of domains, from robotics, to economics and justice, to transportation and logistics. I am co-founder and Chief Scientist of Immense Simulations, a software company that develops city-scale, predictive simulations to provide enhanced decision making capabilities in the mobility ecosystem. I have 15+ years of experience in research in Computer Science, specialized in Artificial Intelligence, and my main goal is to design and develop intelligent systems and infrastructures to allow people to use their resources more efficiently and in a sustainable way. I’m also interested in incorporating concepts of justice and fairness in ICT systems and infrastructures. I like to think outside the box and provide creative solutions to challenging problems. In the recent years I’ve been working on Smart Grids and Intelligent Transportation Systems, and how ICT can help people interact with them. I also co-founded Newronia (2011-present), a spinoff from Universitat de Girona, that develops software for intelligently and efficiently manage logistics resources. I’m currently acting as a board member and scientific advisor. Broadly, my main research areas are: – Intelligent Transportation Systems – Multi-agent systems – Self-adaptive and self-organising systems – Resource allocation – Computational justice – Market-mechanisms (auctions) – Robotics
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About Immense: A global decision-support platform for new mobility
Carl Goves
Co-Founder and Chief Engineer of Immense
I am Chief Engineer, so I’m responsible for our engineering team. This basically means I keep watch over our product’s technical development and progress our product roadmap, whilst making sure we are designing the right products to meet commercial demands. That’s my primary role… I’ve got about 50 other roles as well!
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About Immense: A global decision-support platform for new mobility
Andrew Phillips
Founder of Gliide
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About Gliide: 100% Electric – Intelligent Chauffeur Driven Car Service
