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 Platform 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.
Lee Carus
Art Director and Co Founder of FireSprite
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About FireSprite: FireSprite is a video game development studio.
Andy Davidson
Founder & Commercial Director of Lucid Games
Andy Davidson is a serial tech entrepreneur having co-founded more than 100 tech businesses either directly or through Nova throughout his career. Andy started as a software engineer before his entrepreneurial career where he has spent the past 12 years creating and managing growth-focused EIS & SEIS investment portfolios.
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About Lucid Games, Nova Growth Capital, We Are Nova: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Mark Craig
Founder & Programming Director of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games, Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Pete Wallace
Founder & Studio Head of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Chris Davie
Founder of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Craig Howard
Founder and Creative Director of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Chad Wright
Founder & Technical Director of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Nick Davies
Founder & Production of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Pete O’Brien
Founder & Production Design of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Pete O’Brien
Founder & Production Design of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Baran Korkmaz
Founder, CEO of ARWAY
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About ARWAY: ARWAY is a spatial mapping platform critical to building the Metaverse.
Ran Aroussi
Founder & CEO of Tradologics
Ran Aroussi is entrepreneur, software developer, and the founder of Tradologics – a cloud platform for trading.
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About Tradologics: Cloud platform for programmatic trading
Sven Al Hamad
Co-Founder and CEO of Webiny
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About Webiny: Easiest way to adopt serverless.
Daniel Gill
Founder and CEO of Augnet
With wide industry knowledge and insight, both as an Angel investor and as a Telco industry insider, Daniel Gill started Augnet with an ambitious plan to disrupt and revolutionise the SMS sector. Since founding the company, he has raised investment from a range of seasoned investors, including lead investor the venture capital firm Triple Point. His leadership of Augnet follows a decade with Skype and Microsoft, where he led a high-performance team and spearheaded a number of ground-breaking business development initiatives in the telecoms space. With his leadership Augnet is on track to revolutionise the way things are done in the SMS space.
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About Augnet: Augnet is a London-based technology start-up set to revolutionise the SMS and messaging space.
Nabil Meralli
Founder of FunPuntos
Nabil Meralli is Founder at FunPuntos.
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About FunPuntos: FunPuntos.com is a mobile customer loyalty platform. Developed start-up from concept to launch, leading product development, software
Daliso Zuze
Founder of FunPuntos
Daliso Zuze is Founder at FunPuntos.
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About FunPuntos: FunPuntos.com is a mobile customer loyalty platform. Developed start-up from concept to launch, leading product development, software
Ben Jensen
Founder and CTO of Surrey NanoSystems
Ben’s background is in the development of novel reactors used in Nanomaterials growth. Prior to founding SNS he was responsible for developing new technologies used in the hard disk drive industry and in sputter processing. He leads technical development of Vantablack coatings, and is involved with commercial engagement in new technology sectors from defence to luxury goods. Personally, I’m an explorer, creative thinker and solver of problems at the nano and commercial scale. Someone with serious commercial sense and a great ability to develop new business and close deals, especially in a start-up environment where competition and gaining traction are tough.
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About Surrey NanoSystems: Surrey NanoSystems manufactures nanoscale materials for use in engineering and product applications.
Adam Jennings
Co-Founder, CTO of AppSecTest
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About AppSecTest: AppSecTest has developed the ASAnalyzer technology
Fred de Haro
CEO & Co-Founder of Pycom
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About Pycom: The world’s most integrated IoT Platform
Bettina Rubek Slater
COO & Co-Founder of Pycom
Strategist Marketeer Tech and innovation seeker Telco, consumer electronics and IoT specialist
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About Pycom: The world’s most integrated IoT Platform
Kaustav Mitra
Co-Founder of Paradime.io
Kaustav Mitra is a co-founder of Paradime.io.
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About Paradime.io: paradime.io builds a next-generation collaboration platform for distributed analytics teams.
Fabio di Leta
Co-Founder of Paradime.io
Fabio di Leta is a co-founder of Paradime.io.
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About Paradime.io: paradime.io builds a next-generation collaboration platform for distributed analytics teams.
Alexander Mark Lemon
President,Co-Founder & Executive Director of Mkango Resources
Mr Lemon is a graduate of the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London (MSc Mineral Exploration) and Oxford Brookes University (BSc Geological Sciences) He has 21 years experience in mineral exploration and business development and from 1994 to 2001 was the Managing Director of a Gold Mining company, which owned and operated a producing gold mine in Central Asia, where he gained extensive operating experience in emerging markets including government negotiations and project management. From 2001 to 2005, he worked for a family office Allied Commercial as an investment advisor. Mr Lemon is a founding Director and President of Mkango Resources Limited which listed on the TSX.V in January 2011 and is a founding director of its major shareholder Leo Mining and Exploration Limited. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society and a Member of the Southern African Institute of Mining & Metallurgy.
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About Mkango Resources: Mkango Resources Ltd. is a mineral exploration and development company.
Duncan Pauly
Co-Founder and CTO of Edge Intelligence Software
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About Edge Intelligence Software: Edge Intelligence has developed a distributed analytics platform built for edge computing and hybrid cloud environments.
Paul McCafferty
Co-Founder and SVP R&D of Edge Intelligence Software
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About Edge Intelligence Software: Edge Intelligence has developed a distributed analytics platform built for edge computing and hybrid cloud environments.
Sefton Hill
Game Director, Co-Owner & Co-Founder of Rocksteady Studios
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About Rocksteady Studios: Rocksteady Studios is a multi-award winning videogame developer based in London, England. Located in a spacious, purpose built converted.
Chris Garrett
Founder of Hyperlaunch
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About C8VA, Decimal, Hyperlaunch: Hyperlaunch is a dev-ops platform that offers continuous integration and deployment, infrastructure-as-code and team collaboration services.
Darren Mills
Co-Founder and Studio Director of Sumo Digital
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About Sumo Digital: Sumo Digital Ltd is an independent game development studio.
Nik Wakelin
Founder of Gelato.io
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About Gelato.io: Developer Docs & Portal as a Service
Matthew McGrory
CEO & Co-Founder of Assimity
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About Assimity: Assimity develops software and online tools using artificial intelligence.
Sagit Weiss
Founder and CEO of Crowdacure
Sagit Weiss is the founder and CEO of Crowdacure. She used to be a clinical fellow at National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery. She earned her degree at Free University of Brussels.
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About Crowdacure: Crowdacure is a donation-based crowdfunding platform for life-saving.
