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 Productivity Tools 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.
Dan Rogers
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Peakon
Dan Rogers is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Peakon.
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About Peakon: Peakon is an employee success platform that improves employee engagement, inclusion, and growth.
Nuno Job
Co-Founder of Decipad
Nuno Job is the co-founder of Decipad.
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About Decipad: Decipad is an interactive notebook to gather information, build models in minute and bring your ideas to life. No coding required.
Fraser Robinson
Co-Founder & CEO of Beacon
Fraser Robinson is Non Executive Director at Taggstar
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About Beacon, Taggstar: Beacon is a digital supply chain and freight platform developed to optimize supply chains with insights and visibility.
Nick Timms
Co-Founder of Drag
Nick Timms is the Co-Founder @ DragApp. He is also the Founder of Whoisvisiting.com, BEAF.com, ReplyUp.com.
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About Drag, Whoisvisiting: The Everything Inbox for teams. One single place to support customers, manage tasks and close deals, from the place teams love – Email.
Michael Ouliel
Founder and CEO of BlackSwan Technologies
Michael Ouliel is the founder and CEO of BlackSwan Technologies.
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About BlackSwan Technologies: BlackSwan Technologies makes an enterprise AI operating system used for risk management, compliance, lead generation, and other functions.
Jeremy King
CEO & Co-Founder of Attest
Jeremy King is the CEO & Founder at Attest
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About Attest: Attest is a consumer research platform that delivers consumer data that drive predictable and repeatable growth to businesses.
Tony Hunter
Co-Founder of Attest
Tony Hunter is the COO & Co-Founder at Attest
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About Attest: Attest is a consumer research platform that delivers consumer data that drive predictable and repeatable growth to businesses.
Tariq Rauf
Founder & CEO of Qatalog
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About Qatalog: The work hub for modern teams and knowledge workers.
Nikita Korotaev
Co-Founder & CTO of RELAYTO Document Experience Platform
Nikita Korotaev joined RELAYTO/ Document Experience as Co-Founder & CTO in 2017.
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About Glocal Partners, RELAYTO Document Experience Platform: RELAYTO helps B2B marketers generate more leads & sales by turning static documents into interactive presentations & webpages
Peter Sweetbaum
CEO & Founder of Content+Cloud
Peter Sweetbaum is the CEO & Founder of Content+Cloud & he attended London Business School in 1995.
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About Content+Cloud: Content+Cloud provides secure technology solutions, services, and support with a focus on Microsoft 365, Azure, and Dynamics 365.
Ankur Modi
Founder and CEO of StatusToday
Ankur Modi is the former CEO and Co-Founder of StatusToday, one of the UK’s top AI Startups. He is an expert in big data with a unique specialization in Psychology. Prior to StatusToday, Ankur worked at Microsoft, driving international efforts behind MS Office, Office 365 and Dynamics. In 2017 he was featured by Forbes’ as 30 Under 30 in Technology and Immigration while also being invited as a guest advisor to Westminster Parliament to present evidence on AI.
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About StatusToday: StatusToday is an AI that gives people analytics to drive organizational change.
Mircea Danila Dumitrescu
Founder and CTO of StatusToday
Before StatusToday, Mircea established himself as a highly technical enterprise architect and adviser. He lead innovations focused on system security and IT scale such as at Just-Eat and Kurt Geiger for millions of users. Mircea is an established technical leader in large scale cloud infrastructure.
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About StatusToday: StatusToday is an AI that gives people analytics to drive organizational change.
Tushar Srivastava
Founder & CEO of Nurturey
Tushar Srivastava is a Founder & CEO at Nurturey. He has a professional background in Finance, Management Consulting and Technology.
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About Nurturey: Nurturey is the smartest Personal Assistant for parents
Matei Beremski
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of 7bridges
Before co-founding 7bridges, Matei worked in big data analysis and product management at BNP Paribas and IBM, specialising in supply chain analytics and sports analytics for television. MSci (Maths) Oxford University.
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About 7bridges: 7bridges is a smart logistics platform that delivers visibility and control over logistics processes.
Philip Ashton
Co-Founder & CEO of 7bridges
From a background in analysis and development in management consultancy (Oliver Wyman) and specialist logistics provision (World Courier), Philip co-founded 7bridges to apply customised AI to logistics operations. MSci Cambridge University.
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About 7bridges: 7bridges is a smart logistics platform that delivers visibility and control over logistics processes.
James Doyle
Co-Founder and COO of Orka Technology Group
James Doyle is the Co-Founder and COO at Orka Technology Group.
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About Orka Technology Group: Orka Technology Group develops solutions that help hourly workers with sourcing, on-boarding, and getting paid for work.
Tom Pickersgill
Co-Founder and CEO of Orka Technology Group
Tom Pickersgill is the Co-Founder and CEO at Orka Technology Group.
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About Orka Technology Group: Orka Technology Group develops solutions that help hourly workers with sourcing, on-boarding, and getting paid for work.
Nick Groves
Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer of Orka Technology Group
Nick Groves is the Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer at Orka Technology Group.
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About Orka Technology Group: Orka Technology Group develops solutions that help hourly workers with sourcing, on-boarding, and getting paid for work.
Jennifer Johansson
Founder & CEO of Placed App
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About Placed App: Placed is a mobile-first recruitment platform helping the high labour churn, service industries access permanent staff.
Paul Green
Co-Founder, Director and Chief Science Officer of IOTICS
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About IOTICS: Enabling ecosystems of secure data interactions with digital twins
Hubert Trinkunas
Co-Founder & Head of Community of Wishu
Wishu – The market network to book curated freelancers in film, music, design, and fashion, for your jaw-breaking projects.
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About Wishu: We are a creative community powered by a marketplace.
Adam Greenberg
Founder of SageCity
Adam Greenberg is the founder of SageCity.
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About SageCity: SageCity develops tools that are needed to run business operations easily, efficiently, and at as low a cost as possible.
Thomas Sichel
Co-Founder of SageCity
Thomas Sichel is the co-founder of SageCity.
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About SageCity: SageCity develops tools that are needed to run business operations easily, efficiently, and at as low a cost as possible.
Vito Peleg
Founder of Atarim
I’ve built my first website on “Geocities” almost 20 years ago – Featuring my friends’ skateboarding crew when I was 14 yo. Since then I’ve built more than 250 websites. Some for me but most for small-medium businesses, fashion brands and startups. As a former touring musician, I looked for ways to allow me to work while I was touring the world playing my RNR to thousands of people and the web was, once again, there for me. I started to build websites for clients from the back of the van (and sometimes the odd broom closet) and my passion for the field grew with each project. When the band finally broke up I moved from the van to a tiny room at home, then to a larger room with one employee sitting right next to me all the way to having my own agency with 12 guys on my team. And I’m just getting started 😉 Even though I’ve had my share of experimentation between different platforms and building methods (I even gave Wix a shot for half a website), I fell in love with the WordPress ecosystem and the community around it. These days, my team and I are focused on Atarim.io – A revolutionary visual collaboration platfrom helping web agencies and freelancers get content, approve designs and provide support directly on their clients’ websites, visually.
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About Atarim: Allowing Web Creators to Manage Projects and Collaborate, Visually, Within a Website. Making Working With Clients, Easy & Extremely Fast
Moody Boles
Founder & CEO of Imaginators
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About Imaginators: Imaginators is an online platform that helps people to showcase their work professionally and interactively.
Paul Donnelly
Founder and CEO of Teknov8
Paul Donnelly is the founder and CEO of Teknov8.
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About Teknov8: Teknov8 provides managed IT services to help businesses accelerate business activity and boost efficiency.
Benjamin Morris
Founder of Simul Documents
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About Simul Documents: Version Control for Microsoft Word documents
Mark Stewart
Founder of sizzlepig
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About sizzlepig: Patented cloud process, templated based mass custom images.
