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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 Autonomous Vehicles 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.
Alex Kendall
Co-Founder & CEO of Wayve
Alex Kendall is the co-founder & CEO at Wayve.
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About Wayve: Wayve uses end-to-end deep learning to develop artificial intelligence capable of complex driving.
Ingmar Posner
Co-Founder of Oxbotica
Ingmar Posner is co-founder at Oxbotica and leads the perception and planning work within the Mobile Robotics Group. He is also an associate professor in Information Engineering at University of Oxford. He has advanced research with contributions to premier international conferences and journals. His track record includes award winning work on semantic mapping, active perception and 3D reconstruction. Following an invitation as a visiting researcher to MIT, the work he led there on active perception was awarded a Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). Two of his recent publications have been invited to the Best Paper track at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Posner has served twice as area chair of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), the premier international robotics conference, as Associate Editor for the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS). He convened and organised the 2013 Oxford International Summit on Robotics. Prof. Ingmar obtained an M.Eng in Electronic Systems Engineering from Aston University in 2001 and then he took a D.Phil. in Engineering at the University of Oxford.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Oxbotica, University of Oxford: Oxbotica powers the navigation, perception, user interface, fleet management, and other features needed to run self-driving vehicles.
Dan Hubert
CEO & Founder of AppyWay
Dan initially founded AppyParking after experiencing first-hand the pain of parking caused by a fragmented and broken market when trying to park near the Royal Albert Hall for a concert. From this was born the AppyParking mobile app, but more questions quickly arose… What if we could digitise parking spaces? And not just spaces – but all of the UK’s kerbs? What opportunities would that unlock? How could a digitised, dynamic kerb not only meet the ever-growing demands of urban transport today – but shape that of tomorrow? From that lightbulb moment onwards, Dan was hooked and with AppyWay, he’s leading the charge to help cities thrive, from the kerb up.
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Cassandra Harris
Founder of Venturespring
Founder at Venturespring
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About Venturespring: A digital transformation firm and early growth venture capital fund that match makes corporates with game changing startups.
Pasi William Sachiti
Founder & CEO of Academy of Robotics
William Sachiti is a UK based serial entrepreneur best known for creating a UK driverless car manufacture company competing with multinational incumbents such as Google, Uber and Tesla. The company designs and builds the autonomous vehicles in their UK warehouse. William has started and exited three previous tech start-ups in row, the latest MyCityVenue, an A.I. driven experiences platform serving 1.6 million users was acquired in 2015 by Secret Escapes. Before MyCityVenue, William was the the BBC Investment program Dragons Den, where he pitched a start-up, digital outdoor advertising on bins. The Dragons famously said he needs to be wheeled out of the bin. The company he pitched subsequently was licensed in several countries before being acquired. One of William’s first start-ups he started at 19, was called 123-registration. This company was also acquired for an undisclosed amount.
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About Academy of Robotics: The Academy of Robotics is a technology institute with an extraordinary technical team of engineers, scientists, and researchers.
Denis Sverdlov
Founder & CEO of Arrival
Denis Sverdlov is the Founder at Kinetik and Arrival.
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About Arrival, Arrival Communications, Kinetik, Roborace: Arrival is a developer and manufacturer of zero-emission, public transportation vehicles.
Antton Peña
Founder and CPO of Flock Ltd.
Antton Pena is the Founder of Flock, a London-based drone insurtech company which has partnered with Allianz to pioneer the future of Big-Data driven insurance.
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About Flock Ltd.: London-based insurtech building the world’s first fully digital insurance company for connected and autonomous commercial vehicles
Ian Griffiths
Co-Founder of Who Can Fix My Car
Ian is at the rudder of Who Can Fix My Car. A car fanatic and self confessed “petrol-head” since birth, Ian headed back to the North East after 8 years in London and set up the business in early 2011.
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About Gliff.ai, Handbag Clinic, Who Can Fix My Car: Who Can Fix My Car is an online car repair and servicing marketplace enabling users to obtain quotations from garages.
Alistair Preston
Co-Founder of Who Can Fix My Car
Alistair Preston is Co-Founder at Who Can Fix My Car.
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About Who Can Fix My Car: Who Can Fix My Car is an online car repair and servicing marketplace enabling users to obtain quotations from garages.
Ben Peters
Co-Founder and VP of Product of FiveAI
Ben Peters is a Co-Founder and VP of product at FiveAI.
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About FiveAI: FiveAI provides a software platform designed for providing a solution in urban mobility in public transport to complex urban environments.
Simon Walker
Co-Founder VP Engineering of FiveAI
Simon Walker is a Co-Founder and VP of Engineering at FiveAI.
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About FiveAI: FiveAI provides a software platform designed for providing a solution in urban mobility in public transport to complex urban environments.
Raunaq Bose
CTO, Co-Founder of Humanising Autonomy
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About Humanising Autonomy: Humanising Autonomy is building the global standard for human machine interactions.
Maya Pindeus
Co-Founder, CEO of Humanising Autonomy
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About Humanising Autonomy: Humanising Autonomy is building the global standard for human machine interactions.
Leslie Nooteboom
Chief Product Officer, Co-Founder of Humanising Autonomy
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About Humanising Autonomy: Humanising Autonomy is building the global standard for human machine interactions.
Matt Celuszak
Co-Founder & CEO of CrowdEmotion
Matt leads award winning company CrowdEmotion that is collecting and curating the world’s emotions to further human understanding. He works closely with academia and industry to bring the latest in data engineering and psychology to non-verbal expressions captured by our smart devices to better understand what it means to be human.
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About CrowdEmotion: Artificial Intelligence with HEART.
Thomas Delgado
CEO & Founder of Pollution Solution
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About Pollution Solution: Pollution Solution provides patented ground-breaking technology to eliminate road-based pollution in towns and cities.
Daniela Menzky
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Angoka
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About Angoka, Auto Clubs International, CyNation, CyNation: ANGOKA is an IoT security company focused on protecting machine-to-machine communications for Smart Cities and Mobility.
Shadi Razak
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Angoka
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About Angoka, CyNation: ANGOKA is an IoT security company focused on protecting machine-to-machine communications for Smart Cities and Mobility.
Guillem Singla Buxarrais
Co-Founder and CEO of Neurofenix
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About MedTech Innovator, Neurofenix: Neurofenix is aiming to make rehabilitation more autonomous, enjoyable and accessible to stroke victims.
Dimitris Athanasiou
Co-Founder and CTO of Neurofenix
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About Neurofenix: Neurofenix is aiming to make rehabilitation more autonomous, enjoyable and accessible to stroke victims.
Neil Tocher
Co-Founder, CEO, CTO of NCTech
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About NCTech: NCTech is a big data and analytics provider. Pioneering edge-to-cloud big data capture & provision with ML/AI for Google, government & AEC
Tim Lukins
Co-Founder & CTO of Machines With Vision
A software professional with a background in AI and computer vision focused on combining engineering and research excellence to create amazing technology.
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About Machines With Vision: Transforming the maintenance of linear infrastructure using millimetre-accurate mapping.
Mark Preston
CSO & Co-Founder of StreetDrone
Mark Preston is a Formula E Team Principal and founder of Street Drone, not to mention all the years he has worked in Formula 1 with McLaren and Arrows. His vast experience makes Mark uniquely positioned to deliver business planning and execution advice including technical due diligence, operations and management.
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About StreetDrone: StreetDrone is a full-stack autonomous technology developer
Mark Truman
Founder and CEO of ArcVehicle
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About ArcVehicle: ArcVehicle an electric motorcycle startup.
Andreas Zachariah
Co-Founder & CEO of TravelAi
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About TravelAi: We offer B2C & B2B SaaS to capture public & private mobility habits of people using our automatic multimodal detection software
John Bowers
Founder & CEO of JCC Bowers
Changing the future of transportation as CEO of JCC Bowers. Soon all cars will be connected. Our innovative device, Cobalt Auta, makes your vehicle smarter than a Tesla. Launching 2017, Cobalt Auta turns any vehicle into an artificially intelligent, WiFi-enabled, theft-resistant vehicle capable of driving itself. Entrepreneur. Emerging technology specialist. Corporate economist. Expert strategist. Unapologetic about breaking the status quo. Tattooed dad who skipped uni to go straight into business. Let’s envision a better world together. Better yet, let’s build it.
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About JCC Bowers: Cobalt Auta delivers the future of transportation.
Adrian Negoita
CTO and Co-Founder of BotsAndUs
Adrian Negoita is a CTO and Co-Founder at BotsAndUs. He is an experienced software test engineer who is motivated by building high-quality products and sharing his knowledge to support the wider adoption of robotics.
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About BotsAndUs: BotsAndUs is a data-driven robotics and AI company that provides full-stack robot systems for dynamic spaces.
Robin North
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Lead Technologist of Immense
Building tools to support fleets and mobility. Development, implementation, field test and evaluation of complex transport systems across multiple modes. Environmental monitoring and modelling methodologies for the appraisal of transport systems and projects. Identification and development of innovation opportunities for multiple stakeholders.
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About Immense: A global decision-support platform for new mobility
Dídac Busquets i Font
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Immense
I am a Computer Scientist (BSc 1999, PhD 2003) specialised in Artificial Intelligence, and more concretely on agent-based simulation, task and resource allocation and self-organisation. I have worked in a wide range of domains, from robotics, to economics and justice, to transportation and logistics. I am co-founder and Chief Scientist of Immense Simulations, a software company that develops city-scale, predictive simulations to provide enhanced decision making capabilities in the mobility ecosystem. I have 15+ years of experience in research in Computer Science, specialized in Artificial Intelligence, and my main goal is to design and develop intelligent systems and infrastructures to allow people to use their resources more efficiently and in a sustainable way. I’m also interested in incorporating concepts of justice and fairness in ICT systems and infrastructures. I like to think outside the box and provide creative solutions to challenging problems. In the recent years I’ve been working on Smart Grids and Intelligent Transportation Systems, and how ICT can help people interact with them. I also co-founded Newronia (2011-present), a spinoff from Universitat de Girona, that develops software for intelligently and efficiently manage logistics resources. I’m currently acting as a board member and scientific advisor. Broadly, my main research areas are: – Intelligent Transportation Systems – Multi-agent systems – Self-adaptive and self-organising systems – Resource allocation – Computational justice – Market-mechanisms (auctions) – Robotics
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About Immense: A global decision-support platform for new mobility
Carl Goves
Co-Founder and Chief Engineer of Immense
I am Chief Engineer, so I’m responsible for our engineering team. This basically means I keep watch over our product’s technical development and progress our product roadmap, whilst making sure we are designing the right products to meet commercial demands. That’s my primary role… I’ve got about 50 other roles as well!
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About Immense: A global decision-support platform for new mobility
Nancy Tilbury
Founder of XO
Founder at Studio XO
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About XO: XO is an app connected fashion brand for Gen-Z.
Benjamin Males
Co-Founder of XO
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About XO: XO is an app connected fashion brand for Gen-Z.
