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 Natural Language Processing 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.
Tugce Bulut
Founder and CEO of Streetbees
Tugce is passionate about the power of data and the positive change it can bring to the world. She is a published author and Master’s graduate from Cambridge, specialising in poverty alleviation and global living standards. Before founding Streetbees, she spent 6 years as a strategy consultant advising technology and consumer companies to accelerate growth in international markets.
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About Streetbees: Streetbees is a human intelligence platform that collects and analyzes offline consumer behavior.
Oliver May
Co-Founder and CCO of Streetbees
Oliver May is a mathematics and data geek who’s found his true calling in the vitality of the mobile tech world. After 5 years at Morgan Stanley as a trader, Oli co-founded and bootstrapped Fairshare, an elegant app designed to transform the shared living experience. He’s passionate about data and geolocation tech, and making the world more accessible with Streetbees. He also hits a mean forehand at table tennis.
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About Streetbees: Streetbees is a human intelligence platform that collects and analyzes offline consumer behavior.
Jonathan Feuer
Co-Founder and Chairman of Eigen Technologies
Jonathan Feuer is the Co-Founder and Chairman at Eigen Technologies.
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About Eigen Technologies: Eigen is a research-driven AI company specializing in NLP for businesses in finance, law, and professional services.
Lewis Z. Liu
Co-Founder & CEO of Eigen Technologies
Lewis Z. Liu is the Co-Founder & CEO at Eigen Technologies.
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About Eigen Technologies: Eigen is a research-driven AI company specializing in NLP for businesses in finance, law, and professional services.
Lyric Jain
Founder & CEO of Logically
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About Logically: Logically develops the latest in AI technologies to combat information overload, misinformation, fake news & other types of harmful content.
Jack Hampson
Co-Founder & CEO of Deeper Insights
CEO and Founder at Deeper Insights.
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About audiosplitter, Coconut, Deeper Insights, Heights: Deeper Insights solve the toughest human problems through the transformative power of AI.
Paul McWilliams
Co-Founder & CTO of Yedup Limited
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About Yedup Limited: Yedup develops real-time, continually adaptive AI technology for high value, ultra-low latency capital markets applications.
Dr. Martin Spollen
Co-Founder & Director of Yedup Limited
Martin M. Spollen joined Yedup AI Labs as Co-Founder & Director in 2015.
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About Strategic Investment Board, Yedup Limited: Yedup develops real-time, continually adaptive AI technology for high value, ultra-low latency capital markets applications.
Mohamed Elmasry
CEO & Co-Founder of Tactful
Mohamed Elmasry is a person with “think, plan, act & accomplish” mentality who has a proven experience in motivating people to work towards challenging goals. I have been in the business world for several years running and growing businesses. I excelled in the fields of project management, business development, engineering management, and building strategic business relationships. My passion goes to distributive innovation, managing products development, defining processes and methodologies, also sustaining engineering and business activities.
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About Arm Holdings, Tactful: Unified Cognitive Customer Experience Platform
David Edoja
Founder and CTO of Analytics Intelligence
David Edoja is the founder of Analytics Intelligence. He is a web analyst and entrepreneur, based in London. Previously, he worked at British Telecom and Omniture.
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About Analytics Intelligence: Palantir of Africa
Adetunji Adegbesan
Founder/CEO of Gidi Mobile
Dr Adetunji Adegbesan is the Founder & CEO of Gidi Mobile, creators of gidimo, Africa’s leading curriculum mastery & learning-as-a-service platform. Tunji has a First Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering, and a PhD in Strategic Management from the IESE Business School. He is globally respected as one of Africa’s top scholars of competitive strategy, as well as one of her leading experts on the mobile telecommunications industry. A recipient of multiple awards, he has been invited to speak at knowledge events in more than 20 countries across four continents. Immediately prior to founding Gidi Mobile, he was Director of the Centre for Competitiveness & Strategy at the Lagos Business School (LBS), where he led sessions on Competitive Strategy, as well as on issues arising out of the intersection of Strategy, Technology, and Innovation. During his 14 years at LBS, his consulting experience spanned the software, telecommunications, banking, oil and gas, publishing, logistics, identity management and electronic payments sectors; while prior to LBS, his work experience spanned software development, consulting, information systems management, and electrical engineering, in both manufacturing and service sectors. Tunji is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Academy of Management Review, the world’s leading conceptual journal in the field of strategic management. He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Businessday Newspapers (West Africa’s premier business periodical), and a peer reviewer for several of the world’s top strategy research journals. He is a past member of the Executive Committee of the Strategy Division of the global Academy of Management, as well as a past Global Representative for Africa of the Division. He has also been a Representative-at-Large for the Competitive Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society, and a member of the Research and Strategic Planning Committee of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria. He is a past Visiting Scholar & Associate Researcher at the Center for Globalisation and Strategy at the IESE Business School in Barcelona. An amateur historian, philosopher, and student of culture and geo-political affairs, Tunji has native fluency in English and Spanish, and basic literacy in French, Yoruba and Catalan.
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About Gidi Mobile: Gidi Mobile is the creator of gidimo, the developing world’s leading personal mastery & learning-for-opportunity platform
Mikhail Dubov
Founder & CEO of Chattermill
Mikhail Dubov is the Co-Founder and CEO of Chattermill.
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About Chattermill: Chattermill applies cutting edge deep learning to help organizations make sense of their customer experience.
Dmitry Isupov
Co-Founder of Chattermill
Dmitry Isupov is the Co-Founder of Chattermill.
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About Chattermill: Chattermill applies cutting edge deep learning to help organizations make sense of their customer experience.
Cristian Parrino
CEO and Co-Founder of Greengame
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About Greengame, OpenUK: Working with organisations to incentivise sustainable behaviour using automated activity detection, gamification and behavioural economics
James Bryce
Founder and CEO of gweek
Entrepreneur in speech pathology and technology.
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About gweek: gweek is the category leader of Speech Intelligence. We help job candidates speak and communicate with natural agility.
Marius Cobzarenco
Co-Founder and CTO of re:infer
I believe artificial intelligence will improve most aspects of our lives in the next decade. AI is already “eating the world” today. In particular, I am interested in how emerging technologies such as deep learning can be used to build frictionless natural language interfaces. To this end I co-founded re:infer. I’m an old-fashioned hacker with strong understanding of machine learning and its proxy fields such as probability theory, statistical modelling, linear algebra and multivariate calculus. Academically, my interests are in probabilistic generative models of language.
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About re:infer: Re:infer is the Conversational Data Intelligence platform for the enterprise. Mine, monitor and automate service conversations.
Tom Griffin
Director and Co-Founder of Ripjar
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About Ripjar: Ripjar is a data intelligence company that transforms global institutions ability to manage strategic risks.
Arshia Gratiot
Founder and CEO of Third Space Auto
I am an innovator, strategist, product marketer, intrapreneur and advertising professional with 15+ years of multidisciplinary experience in design strategy, digital experience planning, product marketing, marketing communications and advertising in the FMCG and telecoms industry. With a career that’s spanned 5 countries, I’ve had the opportunity to work across markets and on a myriad number of products and brands. My passion lies in technology and the power it has to transform businesses and people’s lives. This is where I’ve focused the last 8 years of my professional life. I’ve launched products and services across the globe, provided strategic support for future focused innovation projects and acted as a change agent in demonstrating a more user-centered and collaborative way of working in heavily matrixed organisations. My focus has been on evangelising the customer inside the corporate environment. In the last 4 years I’ve had the opportunity to work with one of the best design teams in the technology space. I’ve gained a strong understanding of design thinking as a discipline and its application in the creation of innovative products, user experiences and value propositions. On a personal level I am passionate about developments in the digital world because it has the power to improve the quality of the physical world and help create a greener planet for our children. I started Third Space Auto because I can see the parallels between the mobile industry when the iphone dropped in 2007 and sent shock waves all around. Today next to none of the behemoths of that time have survived. The same will happen to the auto industry if there isn’t a mindset change. I want to help create it and help them navigate it too.
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About Drone Space AI., Third Space Auto: Head-quartered in London, UK with development teams in Finland and India.
Victoria Peppiatt
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Phrasee
Victoria is a person who gets things done. Vibrant, enthusiastic and often loud, Victoria plans and executes all of the things, be they small or large, that make an exciting, growing business run. Previously, she founded and ran an innovative creative & branding agency, and is an expert in design, usability and Prosecco. As COO, she is responsible for customer success – and also for making sure the entire team is on task. She’s an eternal optimist, and the possessor of the biggest smile in SW London. She holds a BMus in Music & Technology and is the proud mum to Max and Marni.
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About Phrasee: Phrasee is AI that specializes in language generation for email marketing, push, and Facebook copy.
Charis Sfyrakis
CEO and Founder of Algomo
Charis Sfyrakis is the CEO and Founder at Algomo.
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About Algomo: Customer Service Automation in 100+ languages
Matko Bosnjak
Founder of Bloomsbury AI
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About Bloomsbury AI: Bloomsbury AI enables everyone to easily create their own question-answering system.
Rafal Kwasny
Founder and CTO of Evolution AI
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About Evolution AI: Evolution AI works with enterprises to uncover value in data and develop a natural language processing application.
Ben Kaminsky
Founder & CEO of EVA.AI
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About EVA.AI: HR Tech Automation Platform
Daniel Mitchell
Co-Founder, CEO of Hivemind
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About Hivemind: Data science and technology company specialising in the application of human and machine intelligence to complex unstructured data problems
Riaz Karim
Co-Founder of Hivemind
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About Hivemind: Data science and technology company specialising in the application of human and machine intelligence to complex unstructured data problems
Jimi Ayoku
Founder of Globr messenger
Founder at Globr
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About Globr messenger: Chat freely with friends and family in any language.
Alex Schumacher
Co-Founder & Head of Data Science of Claira
Alex Schumacher is the Co-Founder and Head of Data Science at Claira.
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About Claira: Claira provides a financial contract and lifecycle management SaaS solution that uses AI to understand data trapped in legal agreements.
Shahid Maqbool
Founder of MangoB2B.com
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About MangoB2B.com: The B2B marketplace you can trust
Nicolas Fekos
Founder and Director of Fortuitapps
Nicolas Fekos is the founder and director of Fortuitapps.
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About Fortuitapps: Extensive use of Artificial Intelligence in order to produce truly innovative software products that solve real-world problems.
Tommy Hassan
Founder of Curatern
Founder of Curatern.
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About Curatern, Roomlify: Artificial Intelligence Social Media Intern
