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 Wireless 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.
Romain Afflelou
Co-Founder of Cosmo Connected
Romain spearheaded the digital strategy of Alain Afflelou Group before becoming an investor in numerous start-ups. He uses his fine-tuned analysis skills to support and invest in innovative start-ups. In addition to being a major shareholder and Co founder of Cosmo Connected a French start-up specialized in connected objects related to security and mobility. Romain is Director and Board member of Multiwave Technologies /develops breakthrough metamaterial technologies to improve people’s lives. Serial investor in +50Tech companies 6over6 (Acquired by 1-800 contacts) Cityscoot Clay Inc VR Cowboy Bike Epicery Everoad (Ex Convargo) Fithouse Fré Skincare Fokoya Guillotine Vodka Klassroom Laminate Technologies MeetFabric Molotov TV Multiwave Technologies Nestor Octopus Officeriders Onoff telecom Pledg Quiqup Universal Standard Shapr Spendesk Zipdrug…(Acquire by Anthem Pharmacy)
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About Cosmo Connected: The Leader in Connected Safety in Urban Mobility.
Nigel Chadwick
Founder and CEO of Stream Technologies
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About Stream Technologies: Stream Technologies is a pioneer in machine-to-machine communications and the Internet of Things.
Mark Parry
Founder, CEO of Wifinity
Mark is a highly competent and motivated entrepreneurial technologist with a strong Business and IT eduction from Kingston University London. With over 10 years of successful industry experience. During this time mark gained valuable experience and outstanding leadership skills, with a proved track record of leading teams to sliver technology and commercial milestones. Mark has demonstrated the ability to combine commercial aptitude with a strong technology background to identify new opportunities, enhance commercial models and develop products that are commercially and technically suited to the business landscape.
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About Billforward, Wifinity: Wifinity is on a mission to make Wi-Fi great!
Oliver Tucker
Co-Founder & CEO of Wireless Logic
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About CVC Capital Partners, Wireless Logic: Wireless Logic is an M2M & IoT managed services provider delivering multiple bearer connectivity and value-added services.
Douglas Gilmour
Founder & Managing Director of Mobius Networks
Douglas Gilmour Founder and Managing Director 30 years in the high tech industry and formed Mobius in 2003. The driver of Mobius strategy and all of innovative processes that have contributed to Mobius’s reputation as the most reliable and innovative mobile comms supplier in the sector. A TSA Board member.
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About Mobius Networks: Mobius is the UKs first integrated data airtime provider.
Mostafa Afgani
Co-Founder and CTO of pureLiFi
Mostafa is a respected hardware and firmware engineer. A chief architect of VLC hardware platforms over the past three years, Mostafa holds three patents and has filed for two more in the VLC field. Prior to co-founding pureLiFi he developed sensitive signal anomaly detection hardware for Agilent and held a research position at DoCoMo labs, Munich, Germany. Mostafa has BSc and MSc degrees in electronics from Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany and a PhD in communications and signal processing from the University of Edinburgh.
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About pureLiFi: pureLiFi develops technology for communication networks that integrates data and lighting utility infrastructures.
Brendan Gill
CEO & Co-Founder of Opensignal
Prior to co-founding OpenSignal in 2010, Brendan spent over 10 years building solutions to help people understand and improve mobile service and experience. In 2007, he was part of the team that launched RepeaterStore, which provides signal boosting solutions to improve wireless cell and data reception in buildings, homes and vehicles. Brendan was named in the Telecoms Business Power100 in 2017. He holds a Physics degree from Oxford University.
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About Opensignal, PlentyWays, Waveform: Opensignal is a mobile analytics company.
Sam Westwood
Co-Founder of Opensignal
Sam has over 10 years of experience working within telecoms, including co-founding RepeaterStore, a mobile signal solutions provider improving signal in homes and offices. At OpenSignal, Sam has lead the creation of the company’s suite of enterprise products and built an innovative high-concurrency architecture, capable of handling large quantities of data. Sam is an OpenSignal co-founder and holds a Physics degree from Oxford University.
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About Opensignal, PlentyWays: Opensignal is a mobile analytics company.
Nakul Haridas
Co-Founder & MEMS Technology Manager of Sofant Technologies
Nakul Haridas is responsible for the research of Sofant future technologies in accordance with market needs. Nakul brings with him experience in the MEMS technology and antenna design. Nakul is a co-founder of Sofant and co-inventor on Sofant’s patents. He has industry experience having worked for Micro World Software, Phoenix Telecom Pvt. Ltd, National Panasonic India, Terna EDA Centre.
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About Sofant Technologies: Sofant Technologies offers Smart Antenna and tunable RF solutions for next generation mobile and wearable devices.
Chenghuan Zhong
CTO & Founder of Inductosense
Bamboo is leading the technical development of the embedded sensor technology which he developed over the course of his PhD and post-doctoral research.
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About Inductosense: Inductosense is developing wireless, battery-free, sensors that can be permanently fixed.
Vassilis Seferidis
Co-Founder & CEO of Zeetta Networks
Vassilis has more than 25 years of experience in the Telecom and Consumer Electronics (CE) industries mainly in Strategic Business Planning and Development roles. Before co-founding Zeetta Networks, Vassilis was VP of European Business Development for Samsung Electronics responsible for driving revenue growth and strategic development of the company’s Consumer Electronics business in Europe. Prior to Samsung, he held senior management positions with British Telecom, Toshiba Information Systems, Philips Electronics, and British Standards Institute. During 2006-2009 he was the CTO of QIO Systems Inc., a pioneer in wearable electronics based in New York City. Vassilis holds a BSc and MSc from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a PhD in Electronic Systems Engineering from Essex University and an MBA from Cass Business School, University of London. In 2011 he was included in Euro50, a list of Europe’s 50 most influential people in Broadband &Telecoms industries.
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About Zeetta Networks: Zeetta Networks simplifies the monitoring, management and automation of complex ICT networks
Reza Nejabati
Co Founder, Director of Zeetta Networks
Reza is currently a Senior Lecturer in Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, UK. Prior to moving into academia he worked in project management and network architecture roles with leading telecom vendors. Reza has over fifteen years of experience in the field of telecommunication and computer science and has been actively involved in SDN and Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) standardisation. He has made important and pioneering contributions to the research fields of Optical Networking, Software Defined Networking, Network & Data Centre Infrastructure Virtualization, Grid Networking and Large Scale Future Internet Experimentation. He has co-/authored over 150 peer reviewed papers and three SDN standardisation documents.
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About University of Bristol, Zeetta Networks: Zeetta Networks simplifies the monitoring, management and automation of complex ICT networks
Paul Brown
Co-Founder & CEO of DisplayNote Technologies
Paul Brown is the Co-Founder & CEO at DisplayNote Technologies.
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About DisplayNote Technologies: DisplayNote transforms presentations for presenters and participants. Use it to present wirelessly with an iPad or Android.
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.
Zsolt Pardi
Co-Founder & CEO of ZoVolt Ltd
Zsolt Pardi is Co-Founder & CEO at ZoVolt Ltd.
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About ZoVolt Ltd: ZoVolt is a wireless sensor manufacturer specializes in zigBee based wireless sensors that communicate with users.
Oliver Leisten
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Helix Technologies
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About Helix Technologies, Sarantel: Helix Technologies is developing a range of compact, high-performance, dielectric-loaded ceramic antennas.
David Greenberg
CEO & Founder of Eave
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About Eave: Eave (formerly EarTex) is a startup developing the next generation of hearing protection and communication technology.
William Jones
Founder & CEO of IPWireless
William Jones is Founder & CEO at IPWireless.
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About IPWireless: IPWireless develops wireless solutions including silicon, software and network infrastructure.
Steve Wright
Founder & CEO of Captini
Steve Wright is the Founder & CEO at Captini.
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About Captini: Captini transforms Guest WiFi networks into an automated marketing service that increases customer return rates.
Joe Ryan
CEO and Founder of VRGO
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About VRGO: VRGO is a connected chair that provides hands free movement within VR.
Peter Cox
Founder and CEO of UM Labs
Peter Cox is the CEO and Founder of UM Labs, a UK company specialising in security for Internet based VoIP and UC services. Peter Cox has 30 years of experience in networking and cyber security. Prior to founding UM Labs, Peter was the co-founder of a successful IP security developer who achieved the first event Common Criteria EAL4 certifications for a general purpose firewall and an email security system.
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About UM Labs: UM-Labs R&D provides Real-Time Communications Cyber Security UOS (Unicus) – protects all Data in Transit and Motion, running on any cloud.
Barry Gillibrand
Chairman/Founder of Low Power Radio Solutions
Barry founded LPRS in 1985 having worked in electronic component distribution for many years. Barry brings with him a wealth of knowledge of electronics and wireless communications.
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About Low Power Radio Solutions: LPRS is a global leader in low power RF solutions for OEMs.
Sion Buckler
Founder of Wave
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About Wave: Wave offers software designed to transform single-board computers into smart home hubs which can make internet and energy freer.
Dominic Thorpe
Founder and Managing Director- Acting CEO and in charge of fundraising, strategy, and development of Wireless Fitness
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About Wireless Fitness: The Wireless Fitness is an app that portable exercise studio in your phone
Alan Jones
Founder and Director of Prif Priferential Accessories
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About Prif Priferential Accessories: Prif is a UK’s first specialist store for gaming accessories.
Peter Parkanyi
Founder of Ruuta
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About Ruuta: Your private cloud with a fast, reliable & secure Wi-Fi. Take control of your internet!
