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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 Shipping 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.
Saravana Sivasankaran
Co-Founder of MARLO
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About MARLO: MARLO is the world’s first lending platform for the $100 Billion+ ocean freight industry.
Saul Greenberg
Co-Founder of MARLO
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About MARLO: MARLO is the world’s first lending platform for the $100 Billion+ ocean freight industry.
Adi Ben-Ari
Founder and CEO of Applied Blockchain
Adi has over 20 years of enterprise experience, working as a solution architect for blue chip companies and leading major deliveries of blockchain solutions is widely recognised in the industry. Adi is a noted speaker at major industry conferences, experienced in educating the C-suite on blockchain, and acts as an advisor for a number of early blockchain startups. His work has also been noted by the UK Government, where he was invited to represent the industry at the Blockchain Round Table at the House of Lords. Additionally, Adi has co-invented and designed a number of patents within the blockchain and mobile payments space. Adi holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA.
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About APPII, Applied Blockchain, Nuggets: Applied Blockchain builds private and secure business applications
Andrius Balkunas
CEO & Founder of ParcelABC
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About ParcelABC: ParcelABC is a logistics company that unites thousands of local and international delivery companies.
David Grimes
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sorted Group
David Grimes is the founder and CEO of Sorted Group, formerly My Parcel Delivery Group.
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About MPD Group, myParcelDelivery, Sorted Group: Sorted Group is a global SaaS company that provides data-driven software for checkouts, warehouses, and shipping.
Charles Lee
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Kontainers
Charles Lee is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Kontainers.
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About Kontainers: Kontainers is as Enterprise SAAS Provider providing e-commerce capabilities to Freight Forwarders and Shipping Lines
Pierfrancesco Ronzi
Co-Founder and CEO of Weengs
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About Weengs: Weengs provides all the logistics services people need to build and grow their e-commerce businesses.
Alex Christodoulou
Co-Founder and CTO of Weengs
Alex Christodoulou is the Co-founder & CTO at [Weengs](http://www.weengs.co.uk), where he leads the tech team while taking care of how the vision of the company is reflected on the product. Serial entrepreneur with a background in software engineering, algorithms and long experience in web/mobile developing. His major academic research was a study on hybrid Artificial Intelligence systems, merging neural networks with heuristic rules in decision making systems. Also founder of [Locish](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/locish), a real-time Q&A app operating in NYC and SF.
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About Weengs: Weengs provides all the logistics services people need to build and grow their e-commerce businesses.
Greg Zontanos
Co-Founder and CPO of Weengs
Co-Founder at Weengs, Locish
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About Weengs: Weengs provides all the logistics services people need to build and grow their e-commerce businesses.
Leroy Lawrence
Founder of Pigee
Leroy Lawrence is the Founder of Pigee Inc.
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About Pigee: Pigee is a Mobile App that allows tourists to post home purchases directly from the shops and street markets they visit.
William Pryor
Co-Founder of Bookbarn International
William Pryor is founder and CEO of Eclector, the white-label bookshop company.
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About Bookbarn International, Oriental Rugs of Bath: Bookbarn International is one of the largest used bookshops in England.
Daud Nur
Founder & CEO of Fastvan
Founder & CEO @ FastVan
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About Fastvan, Fastvan: Fastvan is a supply Chain Managament Platform for small to large 3PLs, Shippers, Brokers, Forwarders, Manufacturers, Retailers.
Ramesh Darbha
Co Founder, MD of e-CARGOWARE Ltd
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About e-CARGOWARE Ltd: e-Cargoware is a cargo logistics applications on cloud for cargo airlines, ground handlers, cargo GSAs and freight forwarders
Arun Singh
Co Founder, Director of e-CARGOWARE Ltd
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About e-CARGOWARE Ltd: e-Cargoware is a cargo logistics applications on cloud for cargo airlines, ground handlers, cargo GSAs and freight forwarders
Fabian Blaicher
CTO & Co-Founder of Shipamax
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About Shipamax: Shipamax provides seamless fleet and deals management for operators and brokers.
Jenna Brown
CEO & Co-Founder of Shipamax
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About Shipamax: Shipamax provides seamless fleet and deals management for operators and brokers.
Rory O’Connor
Founder & CEO of Scurri
Rory O’ Connor, is the founder and CEO of Scurri. Since launch Rory has focused on building and leading an impressive team of highly experienced technologists and advisors. Rory has won significant investment for the software business, raising over €7 million investment from private individuals, business angel investors and Enterprise Ireland. Prior to founding Scurri in 2010, he worked in various roles in Waterford Wedgwood, in sales, marketing and strategic project roles including being part of the team that delivered a €10m SAP implementation. Rory subsequently worked as a change management consultant with clients such as Heineken, Intel, Ogilvy and Siemens and as a project manager with AOL broadband. Rory has a number of business qualification including holding an MBA from Henley Management College.
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About QuantumID Technologies, Scurri: Scurri is a simple, effective and adaptable API and dashboard built to optimise your ordering, shipping and delivery
Dennis Sandmark
CTO and Co-Founder of CargoMate Technologies
Dennis has six years experience as a full-stack software engineer working for global companies such as Spotify, Sky and McKinsey.
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About CargoMate Technologies: CargoMate Technologies saves millions in fuel costs by helping container ships leave port early.
Chris Jones
CEO and Co-Founder of CargoMate Technologies
Chris co-founded CargoMate with Dennis to solve the inefficiencies experienced during his 12 years of working on container ships. He spent the last five years of his seagoing career operating icebreaking container ships in the North Atlantic for OOCL.
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About CargoMate Technologies: CargoMate Technologies saves millions in fuel costs by helping container ships leave port early.
Azhar Hussain
CEO & Founder of Hanhaa
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About Hanhaa: A full service MNO supplying private 4G/5G connectivity globally / A leader in supply chain analytics with our ParceLive platform.
Ben Treleaven
Co-Founder & Managing Director of ISO Spaces
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About ISO Spaces: ISO Spaces are modular space specialists with a full in house design and engineering team.
Gregg Curtis
Co Founder and Director of ISO Spaces
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About ISO Spaces: ISO Spaces are modular space specialists with a full in house design and engineering team.
James Middleton
Founder and CEO of Street Stream
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About Street Stream: Street Stream is a scalable marketplace platform for businesses to facilitate same day & last mile delivery
John Squire
Founder & CEO of Locus Software
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About Locus Software: Locus Software Limited is an Information Technology Solution and Service Provider with a specific focus on the Shipping industry.
Leonardo Zangrando
Founder of Startup Wharf Ltd
Designed a hands-on training methodology for startups to learn-by-doing the startup development process, and developed blended learning material currently used by major Italian Bank Intesa Sanpaolo in their startup incubator Officine Formative. Redesigned and project managed the overall conversion of a logistics facility involving £20m investment, change of technology and processes, with operations running 24/7. Achieved 90% increase in capacity and 50% increase in turnaround time.
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About Startup Wharf Ltd: the independent, virtual, global Maritime Startup Ecosystem
