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 CTO’ operating in the Real Estate 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.
Phil Cowans
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer and Director of Nested
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About Nested: Nested operates as a data-driven estate agency enabling customers to be chain-free buyers.
Stephen Nundy
Partner & Chief Technology Officer of Lakestar
An experienced Technologist and Engineer with a passion for setting strategy and building commercial solutions for complex and ambitious businesses. Collected over 20 years of global experience, leading new technology innovation, building distributed, high-performance teams, driving significant client engagement, within dynamic and highly competitive businesses. Passionate focus on investing and building companies, and their teams, with hyper-growth solutions and technologies to match.
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About Lakestar: Lakestar is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs.
Sam Phillips
Co-Founder & CTO of Residently
Previously Senior Engineering Manager at eBay, Head of Engineering at Shutl (acquired eBay 2013) and developer #1 at On The Beach Travel (IPO 2015).
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About Residently: We’re building the world’s home brand with a digital experience that combines the freedom of renting with the rewards of owning.
Emre Kazan
CTO & Co-Founder of Plentific
Emre Kazan is the co-Founder of Plentific.
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About Plentific: Plentific is a SaaS platform that provides smart property management solutions for landlords and property managers.
Ryan Harkins
Co-Chief Technology Officer of Rentify
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About Rentify: Rentify is an online platform that helps individuals market and manage their properties.
Donovan Frew
Chief Technology Officer of Goodlord
Donavan brings to Goodlord over 20 years’ experience of building software and technology teams and has most recently occupied a similar role for six successful years at Secret Escapes. When he’s not busy improving the Goodlord platform, you can find him strutting his stuff on the dancefloor or watching one of his (many) favourite football teams.
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About Goodlord: Goodlord offers a cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords, and tenants manage the rental process.
Anj Latif
Co-Founder and CTO of British Pearl
Anj Latif is one of the founders of British Pearl and is the Chief Technical Officer. He is responsible for the design, implementation and administration of the entire IT infrastructure, including information security. Anj is a highly motivated and ambitious professional with extensive experience in IT management and networking and two decades’ experience in the SME sector. He has worked with companies in retail, legal, manufacturing, finance and health using technologies from Cisco, WatchGuard, Citrix, VMware and Microsoft. He has a BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering from Oxford Brookes University.
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About British Pearl: British Pearl is an online property investment platform facilitating share and loan-based investment in UK property.
Adam Byrtek
CTO of Houst
CTO at Airsorted.
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About Houst: Houst (prev. Airsorted) is a short-let management service that increases yields and handles everything including cleaning, laundry and keys.
Patrick Gleeson
CTO of Groupladder
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About Groupladder: Groupladder is a provide a unique mortgage product.
Hector Wilkerson
Chief Technology Officer of LATOKEN
Hector Wilkerson is the Chief Technology Officer at LATOKEN.
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About LATOKEN: LATOKEN is the leading platform for multi-asset tokenization and cryptocurrency exchange.
Ricardo Brizido
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Stake
Ricardo Brizido is the Co-Founder and CTO at Stake.
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About Stake: Stake Properties is a digital real estate investment platform.
Stefan Boronea
CTO & Co-Founder of Proportunity
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About Proportunity: Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
Bilal Khan
CTO and Co-Founder of Skwire
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About Apply.Property, Skwire: Skwire provides an online tool to manage and acquire real estate investment.
Ralph King
CTO of REalyse
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About REalyse, REalyse: REalyse is a technology company that helps UK residential property professionals understand the market.
Pavel Sich
CTO of Moovshack
As software architect, Pavel is responsible for the technical direction and full software development lifecycle at Sequent, Moovshack and IOSBITS.
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About Moovshack: The first fully interactive, mobile-first property platform that doubles as a free-to-list portal & a brandable estate agent app
Andrew Thompson
CTO of Orbital Witness
Andrew Thompson is the CTO at Orbital Witness.
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About Orbital Witness, Seedcamp: A LegalTech-meets-PropTech startup replacing legacy legal due diligence in property transactions with a legal risk rating.
Bartosz Alksnin
CTO, Co-Founder of flatfair
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About flatfair: Secure your rental with flatfair’s flexible solutions
Erol Ziya
CTO of Area Technologies Limited
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About Area Technologies Limited: Area is the easiest way to modernise your estate agency!
David Munday
Co-Founder – CTO of RentProfile
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About RentProfile: Powering trust for the rental market
Joe Grimes
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Spacehop
Co-Founder of Spacehop
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About Spacehop: An online platform for people to list and book cheap, flexible office space at the days and hours of their choosing in London and the UK.
Vijay Vashistha
COO, CTO and Co-founder of 99home
Vijay, an MBA (IT) with over 17 years experience in Cloud Technology, Software Development, QA, IT Infrastructure and Support. Vijay has worked in telecommunication, media and service industries. Vijay has a passion for property market and his dedication to building better experiences for property sellers, buyers, landlord and tenants grew and by founding 99Home he has combined these passions with his early experiences in the property
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About 99home: 99home is a hybrid agency that provides a one-stop shop service for clients.
Duncan Careless
CTO & Tech Co-founder of Fixflo
Co-founder and architect of the Fixflo range of products, Duncan has an extensive background in technology with roles including CTO at Friends Reunited and BrightSolid. He is only rarely photographed, and you are more likely to find him on the hockey pitch, where he captains his local team.
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About Fixflo: Fixflo is a repair reporting and maintenance management software system.
Mike Lehan
Chief Technology Officer of StuRents.com
Engineering my life! Into tech & local community, a young entrepreneur, & Christian. Love new music, tea, ale, & motorbiking.
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About StuRents.com: StuRents.com is a student property portal offering a database of student accommodation advertised by landlords and letting agents.
Dan Makin
CTO of Yourkeys
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About Yourkeys: ‘Yourkeys is a real-time transactional and data platform for house builders and estate agents selling properties.
Paul Ford
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of DadShed
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About DadShed: DadShed is enabling the data within buildings to be ‘easily’ accessible for marketplace opportunities.
Jeffrey Li
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Agorafy
Jeffrey heads software development as the lead architect of Agorafy. Prior to joining Agorafy, Jeffrey was a web developer for Right Media, and then for Yahoo! where he developed applications targeted at helping networks, advertisers and publishers manage advertising campaigns and inventory. He’s the proud owner of an impressive lot of penguin collectibles, but hopes to adopt a family of penguins one day.
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About Agorafy: Agorafy is an open platform for organizing and sharing real estate listings and information in the U.S.
Rafael Nunes
CTO of Keypla
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About Keypla: Keypla is automating human valuations using Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Richard Wilson
CTO of Sorbet
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About Sorbet: Property maintenance without the hassle
Ross Cooney
Chief Technology Officer of IAM Sold
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About IAM Sold: IAM Sold are an auction management provider offering bespoke white label auction services to Estate Agents across the UK and Ireland.
Carl Owens
CTO of Fruitful Homes™
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About Fruitful Homes™: Fruitful combines real estate crowdfunding with modular home developments to make beautiful, affordable homes
Amer Siddiqui
CTO of Muqawiloon.com
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About Muqawiloon.com: Muqawiloon.com is an online tendering and procurement platform to solve the dilemma facing both homeowners and construction managers.
Pascal Gessati
Chief Technology Officer of Relendex
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About Relendex: Relendex is a peer-to-peer marketplace that brings together lenders for loans secured on professionally valued properties.
Nicholas Graham
CTO of Kykloud
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About Kykloud: SaaS property and real estate asset management – capture the condition of your estate and plan future maintenance spend.
Davide Coppola
CTO of padpeep
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About padpeep: Browse through homes in your neighbourhood.
