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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 Online Games 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.
Sam Mathews
Founder & CEO of Fnatic
Sam Mathews is an entrepreneur most known for his exploits in the gaming community. Best known for founding Fnatic, the worlds number 1 professional gaming team, managing over 25 professional video gamers with big name sponsors such as title sponsor MSI. He founded UGAME in 2008, a focused social network providing a complete gamer profile, as well as linking niche gaming content sites together through one user base and offering a platform to share user content around gaming.
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About Fnatic: Leading esports performance.
Florian Stronk
Co-Founder & CEO of Magmatic Games
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About Koyoki, Magmatic Games: Magmatic Games provides expertise in developing online games for entertainment.
Thomas Fairey
Founder & CEO of Stakester
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About Stakester: Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.
Leander Hambley
Co-Founder & Lead Developer of Stakester
Leander Hambley is the Co-Founder and Lead Developer at Stakester.
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About Stakester: Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.
Andy Charlton
Co-Founder & Head of Product of Stakester
Andy Charlton is the Co-Founder and Head of Product at Stakester.
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About Stakester: Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.
Ross Nicol
Co-Founder & Chief of Staff of Stakester
Ross Nicol is the Co-Founder and Chief of Staff at Stakester.
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About Stakester: Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.
Imre Jele
Co-Founder, Creator-In-Chief of Bossa Studios
Lifetime gamer and game-maker. Throughout his colorful career, Imre has covered a wide range of genres and platforms and is most known for his work on RuneScape and at Blitz Games Studios.He is co-founder of Bossa Studios, winner of Best New Studio Develop Award, creator of Surgeon Simulator 2013, BAFTA winner MonsterMind and BAFTA nominee for Merlin.
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About Bossa Studios, British Academy of Film and Television Arts: Bossa Studios is a games developer and publisher, creators of BAFTA-winning Monstermind, Surgeon Simulator and Worlds Adrift.
Roberta Lucca
Co-Founder, Chief Marketing Officer / Brand Chief, Board Director of Bossa Studios
Unconventional Entrepreneur. BAFTA winner.Obsessive Learner. Founder and Chief Brand Officer at Bossa Studios.Previously founded WonderLuk and BOLDR. Created and launched over 20 products and brands in the last 15 years across multiple industries — Tech, Games, TV Broadcasting, Luxury and Mobile. I love challenging myself and others to be bolder every day and do things differently. BBC, Sky News, The Guardian, Evening Standard, Huffington Post, TechCrunch, Management Today, Financial Times, Disney Channel, Venture Beat, Telegraph and Wired are some of the publications my companies, products and I have been featured. Top 35 women under 35 by Management Today. Top 30 Women in Games. Everywoman’s Entrepreneur of the Year finalist.
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About BOLDR Effect, Bossa Studios: Bossa Studios is a games developer and publisher, creators of BAFTA-winning Monstermind, Surgeon Simulator and Worlds Adrift.
Henrique Olifiers
Co-Founder, Gamer-In-Chief (CEO) of Bossa Studios
Henrique Olifiers Co-founded and leads Bossa Studios, a multiple award-winning games company in London, makers of the BAFTA-winning Monstermind, Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread, amongst several other titles across all digital platforms. Bossa is also a leading Virtual Reality studio in Europe, hosting VR Meetups for the past three years. As a hobbyist, Henrique is a Maker passionate about 3D printing materials, robotics and human-machine interfaces.
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About Bossa Studios: Bossa Studios is a games developer and publisher, creators of BAFTA-winning Monstermind, Surgeon Simulator and Worlds Adrift.
Andrew Gore
CEO and Founder of Soccer Manager
Over 17 years’ experience in the games industry, working on numerous successful football titles such as FIFA before co-founding Soccer Manager with his brothers in 2004.
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About Soccer Manager: Soccer Manager, a Preston, UK-based developer of an online football game. Soccer Manager allows players to manage their favourite team.
Matthew Wiggins
Founder & CEO of Mojiworks
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About Mojiworks: Mojiworks is a video game developer for mobile social platforms
Alan James Harding
Founder & CTO of Mojiworks
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About Mojiworks: Mojiworks is a video game developer for mobile social platforms
David Bailey
Co-Founder of Tonic Games Group
David Bailey is a Co-Founder & CEO at Mediatonic Games.
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About Mediatonic Games, Tonic Games Group: Tonic Games Group is a developer of video games that offer immersive entertainment alternatives.
Mitchell Smallman
Co-Founder & CEO of Pocket Burger Games
Mitchell Smallman is the Co-Founder and CEO at Pocket Burger Games.
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About Pocket Burger Games: Pocket Burger is dedicated to discovering, creating and building new genres in the mobile games space.
Adam Sullivan
Co-Founder of Pocket Burger Games
Adam Sullivan is a Co-Founder at Pocket Burger Games.
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About Pocket Burger Games: Pocket Burger is dedicated to discovering, creating and building new genres in the mobile games space.
Matt Down
Technical Director & Co-Founder of Pocket Burger Games
Matt Down is a Technical Director and Co-Founder at Pocket Burger Games.
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About Pocket Burger Games: Pocket Burger is dedicated to discovering, creating and building new genres in the mobile games space.
Silja Litvin
Founder & CEO of PsycApps
I am a London based Psychologist, CEO and Founder of the Mental Health platform PsycApps. The mental health platform is also part of my PhD thesis in clinical psychology at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich with help of Oxford University College. • In 2013 I finished my Masters in Psychology from LMU majoring in Family and Clinical Psychology. • As aforementioned I am currently completing my postgraduate education as a PhD student of the LMU with help of University College, Oxford. To help raise awareness for both mental well-being in general and our products, I speak at conferences and mental health panels. Being half German, half American, I speak fluent English and German. My French is decent and I understand Italian quite well. Because of my modelling career I am well-traveled, culturally diverse and I am by nature an extroverted people person. Media (1)This position has 1 media
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About PsycApps, PsycApps, UCL, Wonder Women Tech: Digital Mental Health Games
Terry Cavanagh
Founder of Super Hexagon
Terry Cavanagh is independent game developer from Monaghan, Ireland. He develops applications for the Android and iPhone users. He is the developer of the minimal action game app called Super hexagon. He has also developed games such as VVVVVV, At a Distance, and Don’t Look Back. Terry Cavanagh used to run a freeware website called FreeIndieGam.es. He is currently updating the blog known as distractionware: devlog. Terry Cavanagh currently resides in London.
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About Super Hexagon: Super Hexagon is a minimal action game with the goal to control a small triangle which circles around a central hexagon .
Anders Ström
Founder of Kwiff
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About Kwiff: Kwiff is a native mobile sports betting app available in the United Kingdom on both iOS and Android.
Reede Bob Brewster
Founder of Kyber networks roleplay community
I’m a gamer from the UK who has autism also founder of Kyber networks roleplay community
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About Kyber networks roleplay community: Kyber networks roleplay community is a community on the steam game Garry’s mod Founded in 2019 by Reede Bob Brewster and Bucks
Alan Yeats
Technical Director and Co-Founder of Pocket Sized Hands
Experienced VR/AR and games developer. Co-Founding Pocked Sized Hands in 2017 where I work as the Chief Technical Officer leading our development team alongside working on business development and client outreach. With Pocket Sized Hands we have gone on to win the student award at Herald Digital Business Awards 2017 and reaching the world finals of the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2017 while also nominated for a game design award at the DC Thompson Game Design awards 2017.
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About Pocket Sized Hands: We specialise in creating bespoke applications and games using the latest XR technologies.
Calum Yuill
Founder of POPBOX
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About Picton Street Media, POPBOX: Let’s compete together
Mal Duffin
Co-Founder of Out Of Tune Games
A software engineer, again with over 20 years experience in 3D coding, has worked globally in the games, education and marketing sectors.
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About Out Of Tune Games: Out Of Tune Games creates and develops interactive online games.
Jack Francis
Founder of Pogo.com
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About Pogo Studio, Pogo.com: Welcome to Pogo.com, a great place to play free online games, including puzzle games, word games, card games, and board games
Brandon Wu
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Markd
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About Markd: Markd is a gaming industry that focuses on providing competitive games.
Chris Martin
Business Development Manager and Co-Founder of LootBear
Chris Martin is the Business Development Manager and Co-Founder at LootBear.
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About LootBear: LootBear is an All-In-One skin marketplace where the users can buy, rent, and convert skins to gaming gear.
Adam Whiteside
Co-Founder of Whitepot Studios
Co-Founder of Whitepot Studios, where I do a load of start up stuff and lead Game Design and Development. Unity, Phaser and much more!
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About Whitepot Studios: A kickass games studio founded in 2016, creating Android, iOS, & PC games, for clients & bespoke use cases, using both HTML5 & Unity
Victoria Potts
Co-Founder, Production & Dev of Whitepot Studios
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About Whitepot Studios: A kickass games studio founded in 2016, creating Android, iOS, & PC games, for clients & bespoke use cases, using both HTML5 & Unity
Frederik Wagner
Co-Founder & Developer of Drafthound
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About Drafthound: Drafthound is an online platform for fantasy football gaming activities.
Daniel Rocha
Co-Founder and Studio Head of Jaw Drop Games
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About Jaw Drop Games: Jaw Drop Games is a game development studio working on GUN JAM, a rhythm FPS.
Jonathan Holmes
Managing Director & Founder of Milky Tea
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About Milky Tea: A digital game and animation development studio based in the north west region of the United Kingdom.
Jonathan Holmes
Managing Director & Founder of Milky Tea
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About Milky Tea: A digital game and animation development studio based in the north west region of the United Kingdom.
