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 Video 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.
Mun Wai Kong
CTO of Grabyo
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About Grabyo: Grabyo is the premium video editing and publishing platform built for live, social and mobile.
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Francesco Petruzzelli
Chief Technology Officer of Bidstack
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About Bidstack, WhaleSlide: Bidstack empowers brands to place advertising into spaces that sit naturally within video games.
Mark Christie
Chief Technology Officer & Founder of Piksel
As Chief Technology Officer, Mark Christie is responsible for Piksel Group’s client solutions including product strategy, innovation, and management, solution deployment, research and development, and global network infrastructure. Mark joined Piksel Group in April 2011, after the acquisition of IP video solutions provider ioko, where he was CEO and co-founder, growing the company over fifteen years from a UK-based business with two employees to an international business with 350 staff and operations worldwide. In addition to leading ioko’s management team and overseeing its client accounts, business development, and operational support organization, Mark built the managed service infrastructure to support tier-one customers like ITV, Channel 4, the BBC, and AT&T. He holds a Masters degree in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of York.
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About Piksel: Piksel designs, builds, develops and manages successful video solutions.
Sylvain Cornillon
CTO of Bossa Studios
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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.
Kostas Melas
CTO of FanCircles
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About FanCircles: Reach followers and fans through your own fan club platform built for music artists, YouTubers, television shows and celebrities
Justin Wong
Founder & CTO of Battlefy
Justin has been fiddling around with computers since the age of 7 – dialling up to the Internet to adventure in his favourite MUD or to hack away on his websites with PHP 2.0. Justin graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Cognitive Systems degree. Because he’s a big gamer and sports fan, he worked at Electronic Arts helping to create the sports video games that he loves to play himself. Now, combining his passion for gaming and web development, he’s looking forward to revolutionizing the eSports competitive gaming genre as the founder and CTO of Battlefy.
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About Battlefy: Battlefy is the simplest way to find and manage esports competitions.
Mac Dziedziela
CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Screenable
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About Delta Heed, Screenable: Screenable is a smart video interview platform designed for recruiters to streamline applicant screenings.
Jonny Brankin
CTO of Smartzer
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About Smartzer: Smartzer makes videos and live streams interactive & shoppable on e-commerce, video ads and social.
Jon Milsom
Co-founder & CTO of Pitchero
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About Pitchero: Pitchero is software for club managers to use to enhance and track aspects of their business.
Simon Hamilton
CTO of Rotor
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About Rotor: Make high quality music videos in minutes
Philippe Levieux
CTO of Traces
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About infltr – for infinite filters, Traces: Traces lets you share digital messages anywhere in the world. To get messages, you have to be in the right place at the right time.
Marco Marchesi
CTO of The Fabricant
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About The Fabricant: The Fabricant is a Digital Fashion House creating the digital-only fashion industry as a force of innovation and sustainability
Jiameng Gao
CTO and Co-founder of Papercup
Jiameng Gao is CTO and Co-founder at Papercup.ai. Jiameng has an MPhil in Machine Learning, Speech and Language Processing and an MEng in Information Engineering from the University of Cambridge. He was previously the first employee at Calipsa.
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About Papercup: Papercup translates videos using AI by generating voices that sound like the original speaker
James Meier
CTO of Synervoz Communications
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About 01system, Switchboard, Synervoz Communications: Synervoz is building the world’s most flexible communications platform.
Dorian Logan
Co-Founder & CTO of BrightTALK
has been the chief architect of BrightTALK™s technology since joining the company in 2004. Mr. Logan brings more than 20 years experience developing enterprise applications to his position as chief technology officer, working previously for IBM Global Services in the Interactive Media Center and Scient. He graduated from Nottingham Trent University (U.K.) with a bachelor™s degree in Computer Systems.
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About BrightTALK: BrightTALK provides videos and webinars for professionals and their communities.
Ramiz Khan
CTO of Plumm
Ramiz brings over almost 17+ yrs. of experience working in software industry, including a wide range of cloud-based software engineering services encompassing infrastructure, security, storage, quality analysis and overall management and maintenance of a web application. He has extensive expertise working on cloud computing architectures. He believes in learning constantly and is strongly committed to excellence in the way technological growth will impact our daily life. He is the Co-Founder of Futuristic5 IT Solutions based in Pune, India.
Currently, He is working as the Chief Technology Officer at Plumm based in London, UK.
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About Futuristic5 IT Solutions, Plumm: Plumm offers 1:1 online therapy sessions and courses with certified and experienced mental health therapists globally.
Steffan Donal
CTO of LIV
Steffan Donal is the CTO at LIV.
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About LIV: LIV creates technology to share Virtual Reality experiences.
Andrew Barraclough
CTO & Co-Founder of Voxpopme
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About Voxpopme: Voxpopme is the world’s #1 video insight solution. We build great brands, products, and experiences with agile video feedback.
Roderick Hodgson
CTO of Simon Says
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About Simon Says: ‘Figma for video editing’ — collaborative, browser-based video editing for video pros, enabled by AI
Robin Iddon
CTO of Edesix
Robin Iddon is Founder & CTO at Edesix.
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About Edesix: Edesix provides professional body worn video camera solutions.
Michael Jervis
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of FourNet
Michael Jervis is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of FourNet.
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About FourNet: FourNet is a cloud and managed communications service company providing cloud, collaboration, and contact center solutions.
Sam Davies
CTO of Razeware
Sam is the CTO of Razeware, the company behind the popular training site raywenderlich.com. He spends his time building the site, creating tutorial videos and doing battle with the internet.
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About Razeware: Razeware is an independent application development studio that publishes games.
Kartik Venkatesh
Chief Technology Officer of Trunomi
Kartik is a multi-stack architect, and is well-versed in both open stack and Microsoft stack. He has been architecting and building web scale, secure, distributed systems and data solutions for 9+ years. Before Trunomi, Kartik was the Chief Architect for DLA, leading development of a Netflix competitor OTT solution for Latin America, featuring advanced machine learning and big data techniques. Prior to that Kartik led development and technology for several large scale products spanning multiple industries, including Gates Foundation, Starbucks, RedBull, Fox, AT&T and Sony. Kartik started his career at Microsoft straight out of high school, after being discovered for his programming aptitude. Microsoft sponsored his education at University of Washington, where he completed a B.S. in Computer Sciences.
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About Trunomi: Enterprise Privacy Platform allowing companies to meet all regulatory requirements for global Data Privacy Regulations
Iftikhar Khan
Chief Technology Officer of Alchemiya Media Limited
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About Alchemiya Media Limited: Alchemiya Media is a subscription based Video on Demand service, offering video content about Islam and Muslims.
Alexandru Todorut
CTO of ScreenHits TV
Alex is a graduate of Kingston University where he received a Masters in Software Engineering. His course work exposed him to different coding environments which he employs at ScreenHits. Alex oversees the entire programming and coding team at ScreenHits, as well as the development of all aspects of the site for the consumer and business portals and works with our third party technology partners.
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About ScreenHits TV: ScreenHits TV app integrates all your TV and film streaming apps, Live TV and VOD channels into one place.
Klaas Ardinois
CTO of Macademia
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About Macademia: Macademia is an award-winning global EdTech company providing educational programming and games for children.
Shane Morgan
CTO / Director of Developing Experts
Shane has extensive experience as a web and application developer and is the Founding Director of CD2, a web and software company specialising in bespoke platform builds.
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About Developing Experts: Bridging the gap between education and industry through our online curriculum.
Rachel Gawley
CTO & Co-Founder of AppAttic Ltd
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About AppAttic Ltd, AppAttic Ltd: AppAttic’s games engage users for positive behaviour change and provide data for research, potentially saving the health economy billions.
Danny Goodayle
CTO of Just a Pixel
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About Just a Pixel: Just a Pixel is a Video game development company based in Brighton, UK. Own-IP development, collaborative works and work-for-hire.
Rupert Jabelman
CTO & Founder of Col8
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About Col8: Unlocking the potential in every video by allowing you to search and use it more intuitively
Jose Maria Peña
CTO & Co-Founder of Lurtis Rules
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About Lurtis Rules: A cloud service that produces complete 3D scenarios out of user constraints
Richard Davis
CTO of Colony
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About Colony: Colony is global video streaming platform connecting content owners to engaged audiences.
David Eves
CTO of amBX
David Eves is a CTO at amBX.
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About amBX: amBX is a software company engaged in the development of lighting control technologies.
Gary Leach
CTO of 22cans
Gary Leach is the CTO at 22cans.
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About 22cans: 22cans is a game development company focused on the development of multi-platform and mobile video games.
Stephan Meier
CTO of Screenburn
Stephan is the CTO of Screenburn, and together with a team of developers works on making our product great.
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About Screenburn: Screenburn is a Facebook VoD platform enabling the sale of film and TV from a Facebook page.
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.
