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 Developer APIs 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.
Peter Lord
CEO and Co-Founder of Codat
Peter Lord is the co-founder and CEO of Codat with a technical background and previous experience in fintech. After graduating from Southampton University with a degree in Computer Science, Peter joined Credit Suisse as a software engineer but quickly became frustrated with the speed of development. Wanting to experience working in a start-up, he joined MarketInvoice and was tasked with building an integration to accounting software Xero, experience that would later spark the idea for Codat. Through his personal experiences as software engineer, and later as a product owner, Peter is passionate that Codat’s focus is on creating a simple API that powers clients’ solutions to real problems faced by small businesses.
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About Codat: Codat is an API platform that provides real-time connectivity to the financial software used by small businesses.
Damien Tanner
Co-Founder of Pusher
Damien Tanner is a Founder at Konf and Rebase Ventures.
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About Konf, Pusher, Rebase Ventures, thoughtbot: Pusher Ltd. provides a hosted API service for adding real-time bi-directional.
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.
Ben Stephenson
CEO and Founder of Impala
Founder at Impala
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About Impala: Impala’s API connects room sellers and hotels, instantly. We empower you to build, innovate and sell.
Raam Thakrar
Founder of TouchNote
Raam is a co-founder of Touchnote, an m-commerce start-up selling personalised greeting cards on both the web and mobile. Previous varied experience in consulting – strategy consulting in London, rural and small businesses in London, Washington DC and Central America. I was also a published journalist in Mexico. Next stop, pizza chef.
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About TouchNote: TouchNote helps you send thoughtful cards and prints to loved ones, right from your mobile, tablet or desktop.
Dev Subrata
Founder & CEO of FIDEL API
Dev is the founder of Fidel. Prior to Fidel, Dev has been active in a variety of start-ups ranging from e-commerce to social networking. Fidel is an API platform for Card-Linking. It makes it easy for developers to build applications that receives real-time payment events directly from transactions made by payment cards, both online and offline.
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About FIDEL API: Fidel API is a global financial infrastructure platform, providing tools to build powerful, real-time products on top of payment cards.
Andre Elias
Co-Founder & CTO of FIDEL API
Design, Engineering & AI.
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About FIDEL API: Fidel API is a global financial infrastructure platform, providing tools to build powerful, real-time products on top of payment cards.
Thomas Bossee
Co-Founder / Art Director of FIDEL API
Thomas Bossee is the Co-Founder and Art Director at Fidel.
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About FIDEL API: Fidel API is a global financial infrastructure platform, providing tools to build powerful, real-time products on top of payment cards.
George Dunning
CTO & Co Founder of Bud
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About Bud: Bud is a financial network combining APIs & data to create a new species of connected experiences.
Clive Mitchell
Growth & Co-Founder at Railsbank of Railsbank
Clive Mitchell is Co-Founder of Railsbank Technologies and has been its Chief Operating Officer.
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About Railsbank: Railsbank, the global Embedded Finance Experience Platform.
Baran Korkmaz
Founder, CEO of ARWAY
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About ARWAY: ARWAY is a spatial mapping platform critical to building the Metaverse.
Leo Anthias
Co-Founder and CEO of Datapane
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About Datapane: Datapane is a Python framework for developing data science documents for companies, clients, or communities.
Mandeep Gill
Co-Founder and CTO of Datapane
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About Datapane: Datapane is a Python framework for developing data science documents for companies, clients, or communities.
Tomasz Kajetan Stanczak
Founder of Nethermind
Tomasz Kajetan Stanczak is the Founder at Nethermind.
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About Nethermind: API marketplace with blockchain payments for pay as you go for API usage, Ethereum clients, infrastructure and consulting.
Martin Buhr
CEO and Founder of Tyk
I’m the CEO and Founder of Tyk Technologies, A popular open source API Management platform that powers some of the worlds largest brands including USA Today, AXA Insurance and United Health Group. I’m a digital hippie, maker, gopher and a passionate advocate of open source.
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About Tyk: Tyk is an open source API gateway and management platform that provides on-premises, cloud/multi-cloud, and enterprise.
Jose Haro Peralta
Co-Founder of microapis.io
Full stack consultant with focus on Python, JavaScript, DevOps, and automation. I’ve worked on a variety of industries, including IoT, finance, and retail. I’m the author of “Developing Microservice APIs with Python” (Manning, http://mng.bz/nz48), editor of The Python Geek https://medium.com/python-geek, and creator of microapis.io.
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About Algorizm, microapis.io: We build tools and frameworks that help developers deliver API integrations that work.
Paul McGuire
Co-Founder & CEO of tru.ID
Paul McGuire is the Co-founder & CEO at tru.ID. Serial Entrepreneur – previously founded two leading international transaction platform businesses. Now at JustInvesting, building the online transaction platform for the next-generation of Angel investing – moving venture investing online, to the benefit of Investors, Entrepreneurs and the whole economy. Prior to JustInvesting Paul co-founded Paymo, later acquired by BOKU, and led the company to become one of the leading mobile payments platforms, available in over 50 countries. Prior to Paymo, Paul co-founded mBlox, the world’s leading mobile transaction network, where he led the company’s sales and marketing organizations, guided the company’s expansion into the European market, and led M&A efforts to acquire six companies. Before founding several start-ups in the telecommunications sector, Paul began his career in management consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton.
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About tru.ID: tru.ID is reinventing mobile authentication for today’s world through a modern developer platform.
Adam Bird
CEO and Co-Founder of Cronofy
Founder, CEO of Cronofy.
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About Cronofy: Scheduling APIs and UI elements with real-time calendar sync. Embed scheduling into your SaaS application.
Nishal Desai
Founder of Imin
Founder at imin
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About Imin, London Sport: Imin is a technology firm that makes physical activity searchable & bookable by using open data in the health and fitness sector.
Dominic Fennell
Founder of Imin
Founder at imin
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About Imin: Imin is a technology firm that makes physical activity searchable & bookable by using open data in the health and fitness sector.
Nik Wakelin
Founder of Gelato.io
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About Gelato.io: Developer Docs & Portal as a Service
Daniel Abrouk
Co-Founder and Head of EMEA and Business Strategy of InfoTrie
Daniel Abrouk has close to 10 years of experience in the Financial Industry.
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About InfoTrie: InfoTrie offers cutting edge technology to analyze the humongous flow of information produced by the financial industry.
Marco Iannone
Founder of Retechnica
Founder at Retechnica
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About Retechnica: What it is Ingenia is a text analytics API + web app that tags your content automatically.
Paul Wickers
Founder of Huggg
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About Huggg: Impactful gifts for your people, sorted in seconds
Mark Hay
Founder, CEO, and CTO of Melrose Labs
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About Melrose Labs: Communication services inception, development and operation. Enabling and optimising communications. #CPaaS #SaaS #UCaaS #APIs
Tom Akehurst
Founder of MockLab
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About MockLab: Super-fast hosted API mocking (Service Virtualization), with a QA-friendly UI
