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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 CTO’ operating in the Internet of Things space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Rajiv Mathur
CTO of Chainvine
Dr Rajiv Mathur is the co-founder chief technologist at Chainvine – Blockchain/DLT technology company headquartered in the UK. Dr Mathur has 20 years of extensive industry and academic research experience with numerous years in technology leadership roles both in the UK and internationally with some of the best known companies in the world such as Vodafone, Telefonica, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, Nationwide Building Society etc. His experience in the industry has been in technology architecture, fraud detection and security of payments, digital transformation and agile delivery. In addition to his work in the industry, Dr Mathur also comes from an academic research background with his last academic position at Distributed Systems Engineering Research Group within the Computer Science Department at Imperial College London. Dr Mathur has a PhD in Mobile Communications Architecture from University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK.
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
Paddy Byers
CTO & Co-founder of Ably Realtime
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About Ably Realtime: Ably is the platform to power synchronized digital experiences in realtime.
Dan Selman
Co-founder and CTO of Clause
Dan Selman is the co-founder and CTO at Clause.
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About Clause: Clause is a digital contracting platform connecting agreements to trusted systems, verifying data, and accelerating actions.
Paul Walton
Founder/CTO of Boundary
Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary.
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About Boundary, Oodls, Prodsight, Seed Haus: Boundary is an IoT Home Security company providing a smart burglar alarm system that can be controlled over mobile devices.
John Fogelin
CTO & Security Officer of AppyWay
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Dominique Guinard
Co-Founder & CTO of EVRYTHNG
Dominique Guinard is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of EVRYTHNG, the Internet of Things Smart Products Platform that connects any consumer product to the Web, and manages real-time data to drive applications. He is also a co-founder of WebofThings.org. Prior to that, he worked at MIT Auto-ID Labs, SAP, Auto-ID Labs Zurich, and Sun Microsystems. Guinard holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science. Later on, he obtained a PhD from ETH Zurich. He was listed 5th amongst the top 100 IoT thinkers by Postscapes. Early in 2012, his PhD research was granted the ETH Medal.
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About Blockchain Research Institute, EVRYTHNG, Webofthings.org: EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
Oliver Norton
Chief Technology Officer of WRLD
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About WRLD: A 3D cloud-based platform of real-world environments to create digital twins.
Gary Chandler
Chief Technology Officer of QiO Technologies
Gary joined QiO from Rolls-Royce, having spent 25 years developing real-time safety-critical control systems for aero-engines. As a keen strategist and innovator, Gary was a key leader in the adoption of ‘Lean Product Development’ and the ‘Internet of Things’ within Rolls-Royce, deeply engaging with the associated culture change. From both a Chief Engineer and a Functional Head perspective, Gary has loved working in teams that are delivering customer value with exciting technology products.
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About QiO Technologies: Advanced analytics and artificial intelligence software that enables increased operational efficiency, productivity, safety and new revenues
Patrick Gleeson
CTO of Groupladder
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About Groupladder: Groupladder is a provide a unique mortgage product.
John Marsden
Chief Technology Officer of Nixplay
Chief Technology Officer at Nixplay.
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About Nixplay: Nixplay is the no.1 selling Smart Photo Frame. Nixplay Signage is a complete Enterprise Digital Signage Solution.
Vlad Ilyushchenko
Co-founder / CTO of QuestDB
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About QuestDB: QuestDB is an open-source SQL database designed to process time-series data, faster.
Sachin Deshpande
Chief Technology Officer of Made by Fire
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About Made by Fire: We create digital products for our ambitious clients with a team of over 100 specialists.
Daniel Jones
Chief Technology Officer of Chirp
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About Chirp: Chirp uses existing speakers and microphones to enable frictionless M2M communication to seamlessly and securely transfer data via sound.
Phong Vu
Co-Founder & CTO of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
Jacobo Koenig
Chief Technology Officer of Decology
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About Decology: Decology is an interior design platform that helps anyone design & furnish their perfect home.
Jonathon Valentine
Founder and CTO of ThingCo
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About ThingCo: Telematics, Cars, IoT, SaaS, Insurance, ADAS, Intelligent voice,Automotive
Yang Lu
Co-founder and CTO of Vivacity Labs
Yang is responsible for the technical choices Vivacity makes, and for the team that builds our products. Following his role as Technical Director of Cambridge’s solar car team, Yang spent time at a leading technology consultancy, working on technical solutions from in-ear monitoring using the internet-of-things to high-speed genetic sequencing. As a technology polyglot, with a 1st and Distinction from Cambridge in Engineering, Yang leads Vivacity’s technology development, driving technical excellence across the business.
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About Vivacity Labs: Vivacity Labs makes intelligent cameras to gather transport data, using the latest machine learning & computer vision techniques.
Andrew Kuzmych
Co-Founder and CTO of TechMagic
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About TechMagic: Top JavaScript and Serverless developers
Imran Shafqat
Co-Founder & CTO of ThingTrax
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About ThingTrax: ThingTrax helps manufacturers reduce downtime and increase operational efficiency with their devices capturing data from machines.
Tristan Cool
Chief Technology Officer of Aura Innovation
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About Aura Innovation: Aura Innovation is a Augmented Reality Head-Up Display for commercial vehicles and the autonomous future.
Tim Panton
Founder and CTO of pipe
Tim believes that experiments are the key to successful innovation. His recent work includes Artworks, Lego dogs and various Internet of Everything (IoE) devices, trying to figure out how people actually relate to their smart objects and what security features they expect from them. Last year in Berlin he co-founded |pipe| to add a secure, direct authenticated data transport layer between connected devices and their owners, having tested the practicality of these solutions in a video calling app for pets, called YoPet. Previous projects have included a training simulation for oil platforms, a time management app for a space telescope, a mobile phone network on a remote Pacific Island, and a solar-powered interactive art exhibit at the Burning Man festival.
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About pipe: | pipe | offers a security toolkit for developers which is a simple, secure, and private way to connect to the Internet of Things.
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.
Matthew Travers
CTO of Hanhaa
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About Hanhaa: A full service MNO supplying private 4G/5G connectivity globally / A leader in supply chain analytics with our ParceLive platform.
Ian Budden
Chief Technology Officer of Elucidat
I create great software, that people love to use. Recently I have been bootstrapping Elucidat, which is an amazing new software startup that is solving the challenges e-learning authoring teams are experiencing – particularly around how to increase productivity and how to create learning content that works on any device. (laptop, tablet, mobile). Elucidat was born out of the frustrations that ambitious e-learning agencies experience when using desktop-based authoring software built for individuals. At Elucidat I look after product development, making sure that Elucidat is as good as it can be, and that we are helping users to get the most out of it. Before starting up Elucidat, I ran an award winning digital agency in London for 12 years – creating the first mobile handheld interactive tours of Tate Modern (that won a BAFTA for technical innovation), the Louvre, the Pompidou centre and the British Museum, guiding visitors around the collections and giving a deeper understanding of the works. I believe in creating ambitious software that above all is enjoyable and intuitive to use, and becomes a critical and empowering tool for the user. I’m very excited about Elucidat and seeing what the future holds. If you think your team might benefit – do let me know.
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About Elucidat: Elucidat is better way to author online and mobile learning. Reduce your production costs and delight your learners
Damon Hart-Davis
CTO & Co-Founder of Vestemi
Damon has a Masters in Computer Science with a focus on AI and 20 years of experience designing and optimising systems in the City. Previous start-ups included one of the UK’s first ISPs and a virtual credit company. He has also worked with DECC advising on energy efficiency from 2009.
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About Vestemi: Vestemi is a new technology product company with a social purpose.
Baris Ozdemir
Co-Founder & CTO of Trio Mobil
Baris Ozdemir is the Co-Founder and CTO at Trio Mobil.
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About Trio Mobil: Trio Mobil is a fast growing company specialize in Industrial IoT solutions targeting manufacturing, retail and services industries.
Andy Ward FREng
CTO & Founder of Ubisense
Andy Ward FREng is the Chief Technology Officer and Founder at Ubisense.
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About Ubisense: Ubisense is a developer of real-time location systems that provide enterprise business automation services.
Mark Rendle
Founder & CTO of oort Inc
Mark is the founder and CTO of Oort Corporation, a new company building cloud-based software for people who build cloud-based software. Oort’s first product, Zudio, a Windows Azure Storage toolkit, is currently in public preview and will be fully launching in April 2013. Mark has been a Windows Azure Development MVP for three years. In his spare time, Mark work’s on the Simple.Data not-an-ORM and Simple.Web projects, and wanders the world speaking at conferences and user groups. Or he just geeks out learning new programming languages and frameworks; in 2013 he’s working a lot with TypeScript and AngularJS.
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About oort Inc: OORT designs and manufactures hardware and software solutions which enable customers to turn their home or office into a smart one.
Jeremie Charlet
CTO & Co-Founder of Trackener
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About Trackener: Trackener is revolutionising the equine care with data and technology.
Chris Wright
Co-founder and CTO of Moixa Energy Holdings
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About Moixa Energy Holdings: Pioneer of energy storage, DC micro-grid power and aggregate electricity grid services in the UK
Stuart Brown
CTO of Child Safe VPN
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About Child Safe VPN: Child Safe VPN Service – all a child needs for the safest online experience. Designed for children under 13 using NSPCC guidelines
Stuart Brown
CTO of Child Safe VPN
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About Child Safe VPN: Child Safe VPN Service – all a child needs for the safest online experience. Designed for children under 13 using NSPCC guidelines
Richie Holland
CTO and Founder of vidmeup
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About smartvideo, vidmeup: Vidmeup is an online video platform that gives users the ability to create their own video website for free.
