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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 Delivery Service 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.
Janus Friis
Co-Founder of Starship Technologies
Janus co-founded Joost, Skype, Kazaa and Joltid, among other high-profile technology companies, with his long-time business partner Niklas Zennström. Janus is the recipient of a series of industry awards and was also recognized by Time Magazine as one of its 100 Most Influential People in 2006.
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About Joost, Starship Technologies: Starship Technologies is a robotics company building fleets of self-driving delivery robots designed to deliver goods.
Joe Falter
Co-Founder of Zapp
Joe Falter is the founder of Zapp.
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About Zapp: Zapp is a grocery-delivery startup that provides on-demand delivery services 24/7.
Mariam Jimoh
Founder & CEO of Oja
Building the next solution transforming access to cultural groceries and world foods! Mariam Jimoh is Founder and CEO of Oja. Recently honoured in the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 Technology list, her mission is to unlock game-changing value in underrepresented groups through technology and community. Whilst studying an undergraduate degree she founded WCAN, a marketplace & network for the professional development of black women in the UK. Mariam’s work has trained and mentored thousands of black women and fast-tracked them to prestigious firms from Blackrock, Clifford Chance, and Goldman Sachs. In 2014, she was selected by McKinsey & Company as a Next Generation Women Leader. Since graduating from UCL, Mariam has gained experience as an M&A investment banker at Rothschild & Co. Combining her strategic insight with her business acumen, she founded Oja, the app transforming access to cultural groceries for households across the UK. She is building the UK’s first venture-backed digital supermarket for cultural communities.
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About Oja: Oja is an online supermarket for cultural groceries and world foods. Our mission is to revolutionise access to cultural and ethnic produce.
Spyro Korsanos
Founder & Managing Partner of Fuse Venture Partners
An award-winning corporate advisor, investor and dealmaker, Spyro Korsanos is the founder and Managing Partner of Global Venture Partners. Global Venture Partners invests in the consumer internet sector and provides strategic advice and corporate finance for technology ventures. Since 2014, Spyro has led over 40 e-commerce transactions, valued at $2bn, which have created more than €1bn in capital gain. As a global development advisor, Spyro has been instrumental in the impressive growth of Delivery Hero, foodpanda and various Rocket Internet-backed businesses. Global Venture Partners has recently invested in Kurly, the Korean online grocer, and pet tech platform Felcana, based in the UK. Spyro was awarded TMT Rising Star in 2017. Previously, he held corporate strategy and investment roles with Sky, Liberty Global and Cable & Wireless. Spyro started his career as a corporate lawyer at Gilbert & Tobin and holds an MBA from INSEAD.
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About Fuse Venture Partners: FUSE VENTURE PARTNERS Investors in, and advisors to, investors and ventures in the high-growth internet space
Simon Mellin
Founder & CEO of Modern Milkman
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About Modern Milkman: The Modern Milkman, a return & reuse grocery delivery service on a mission to reduce waste
Becky Hilton
Founder of Modern Milkman
Becky Hilton is the Founder at The Modern Milkman.
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About Modern Milkman, Modern Milkman: The Modern Milkman, a return & reuse grocery delivery service on a mission to reduce waste
Shane Lake
Co-Founder and Managing Director of hungryhouse
Shane Lake is co-founder and managing director at Hungryhouse.
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About hungryhouse: hungryhouse is a U.K.-based online platform for takeaway and food delivery that provides a wide range of cuisines and dishes.
Lorenzo Franzi
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Zipjet
Lorenzo is Co-Founder & Managing Director of ZipJet. ZipJet is an urban pick-up & delivery service for laundry & dry cleaning in London and Berlin. Previously, Lorenzo worked with McKinsey & Company as a consultant. Prior to McKinsey, he worked with Voice.ee a micro polling start up. Lorenzo started-off his professional career at JP Morgan in London. Lorenzo holds an MBA from INSEAD and Msc in Finance from the University of Maastricht.
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About Zipjet: Zipjet is an online laundry and dry cleaning service that enables its users to order laundry and dry cleaning pickup and delivery services.
Bassel El Koussa
CEO & Co-Founder of Quiqup
Bassel El Koussa is the Co-Founder and CEO of Quiqup.
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About Quiqup: Quiqup is a provider of on-demand, same-day, and scheduled delivery solutions to retailers and restaurants.
Tim Linssen
Co-Founder & Director of Product of Quiqup
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About Quiqup: Quiqup is a provider of on-demand, same-day, and scheduled delivery solutions to retailers and restaurants.
Federico Ferraro
Co-Founder & Designer of Quiqup
Federico Ferraro is the Co-Founder and Designer of Quiqup.
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About Quiqup: Quiqup is a provider of on-demand, same-day, and scheduled delivery solutions to retailers and restaurants.
Danny Hawkins
CTO & Co-Founder of Quiqup
Danny Hawkins is the CTO and Co-Founder of Quiqup.
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About Quiqup: Quiqup is a provider of on-demand, same-day, and scheduled delivery solutions to retailers and restaurants.
Fuad Fatullaev
CEO and Founder of Bringit
Key Expertise: Strategy, Business Development, Logistics&Operations, Team Building
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About Bringit: The very latest and most advanced on-demand food and groceries delivery service in London, UK
Des McManus
Co-Founder – Director of Operations of Friction Free Shaving
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About Friction Free Shaving: UK razor delivery service designed exclusively for women.
Aidan Burley
Co-Founder & former CEO of Friction Free Shaving
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About Friction Free Shaving: UK razor delivery service designed exclusively for women.
Anna Szanto
Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Goodness Project
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About The Goodness Project: The Goodness Project is a highly regarded e-commerce platform offering quality free from gifts, subscription boxes.
Seb Robert
CEO & Founder of Gophr
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About Gophr: We build technology for the same-day courier community that creates industry-leading delivery experiences
Krzysztof Worsa
CTO & Co-Founder of Gophr
Co-Founder, CTO, Board Member at Gophr.
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About Gophr: We build technology for the same-day courier community that creates industry-leading delivery experiences
Sebastian Steinhauser
CEO & Founder of Parcelly
CEO & Founder at Parcelly. Most recently building an international last- and first-mile logistics tech platform. Prior to that, Sebastian spent 7+ years in London’s City with some of Europe’s leading financial institutions.
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About Parcelly: The tech platform that enables retailers and carriers to resolve last-mile delivery and first-mile fulfilment challenges
Marco Nardone
Founder & CEO of Wineapp
Marco Nardone is the Founder and CEO of Wineapp – UK’s largest app for on-demand wine delivery. www.wineapp.com / Available on iOS and Android. Wineapp is VC-backed by Rocket Internet and Speedinvest.
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About Wineapp: Mobile App – On-demand Fine Wine Delivery
Serge Lubensky
Founder | Executive Managing Director of ReTool Ventures
Serge is a geek who enjoys finding pragmatic solutions to difficult problems. Along the way, he managed to become a successful entrepreneur with a track record of starting, growing and selling technology companies. Serge grew up in a family of scientists and artists. Not smart enough to become a scientist and not creative enough to be an artist, Serge chose to pursue a computer engineering degree in his hometown of Minsk strictly to avoid being drafted into the Russian Army during the Soviets’ invasion of Afghanistan. Serge’s first successful exit, from a failing 70-year old startup called the USSR, occurred in 1988. Fresh off the boat, Serge joined a computer company in Queens, NY, developing software for service contractors. Architecting and supporting a system that businesses relied on allowed Serge to learn the intricacies of the commercial repair and maintenance trades and ways to apply technology to solve real-life challenges for business owners and their field technicians. In the process, Serge and the company’s founder, Steven Gottfried, became friends and business partners and started to formulate plans for their next business venture. In 1999, Steven and Serge founded a cloud-based facilities management platform, ServiceChannel, with the goal of transforming the highly inefficient multi-billion dollar commercial repair and maintenance industry. As with their previous company, which was successfully sold, Steven was the idea generator and a master salesman, while Serge worked behind the scenes as CTO to help ServiceChannel achieve a dominant position in the global facilities management marketplace. In 2016, Serge moved to London to accelerate ServiceChannel’s expansion in Europe. In the summer of 2017, Accel, an elite technology VC firm, invested $54M in ServiceChannel continuing to fuel its growth and allowing Steven and Serge to realize a highly successful exit. Now Steven and Serge run ReTool Ventures, a technology investment firm.
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About Equip ID, ReTool Ventures: ReTool Ventures is a new technology investment firm that seeks to retool the facilities management industry by curating a “digital toolbox”
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
Andrew Cargill
Founder of Zapiet
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About Zapiet: We make outstanding apps for the world’s most power ecommerce platforms
Nadeem Abbas
CEO & Founder of Love2Laundry
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About Love2Laundry: Founded in 2014, Love2Laundry is a digital laundry and dry-cleaning delivery service.
Simon Tutton
Founder & Director of TheFullWorks
Simon Tutton, founder of ecommerce platform Thefullworks.
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About TheFullWorks: Thefullworks is a subscription based end-to-end eCommerce services solution, providing webshops, storage, and distribution.
Oliver Bridge
Founder & CEO of Cornerstone
Oliver Bridge is a Founder at Cornerstone.
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About Cornerstone: Cornerstone is a subscription service for men’s toiletries.
Lanre Akinlagun
Founder and CEO of Drinks.ng
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About Drinks.ng: Drinks.ng is a technology based company transforming the way beverages are shopped, sold and shipped online in Nigeria
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
