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 Founder operating in the Collaboration 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.
Rusty Johnson
Co-Founder & CTO of SharpCloud Software
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About SharpCloud Software: Data visualization software that transforms business data into engaging visual stories, helping you make smarter strategic decisions.
Alex Rea
Founder of Colony
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About Colony : Colony provides a social collaboration platform that makes it easy for people all over the world to build companies together online.
Ajay Patel
Founder & CEO of HighQ
Ajay Patel As Founder of HighQ, Ajay continues to deliver on his vision of enabling a new, modern, highly efficient and ‘best in class’ secure platform of collaborative engagement and transaction for security, compliance and regulatory minded enterprises. As Chief Executive Officer, he leads the company growth strategy, product direction and senior management team. Ajay graduated with a first-class degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Manchester University and later completed a Master’s degree in Information Systems at LSE. He qualified as a chartered accountant at PwC in London and later occupied roles in leading investment banks Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. After spending several years in the City, he realised the corporate environment didn’t fulfil his creative, professional or personal ambitions and subsequently started HighQ.The idea was simple: to create a dynamic, fun and successful company that puts its employees and clients at the centre of everything it does.
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About HighQ: HighQ empowers leading law firms and corporate legal teams to transform the way they work and deliver legal services.
Tariq Rauf
Founder & CEO of Qatalog
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About Qatalog: The work hub for modern teams and knowledge workers.
Emanuel Lainas
Tech Co-Founder & CTO of F6S
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About F6S: F6S is the world’s largest platform for founders.
Tom Dawes
Co-Founder & CEO of Valuechain.com
After completing an Honours degree in manufacturing engineering at the University of Liverpool, he undertook a Government funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership to improve production planning and supply chain management at an aerospace precision machining SME whilst studying for a PhD in supply chain collaboration systems. Tom worked on projects with Airbus UK and Westland Helicopters to prototype proof of concept supply chain collaboration platforms. Tom established an aerospace supply chain management company in 2003 and acquired an aerospace surface treatment company in 2005. After trebling the businesses in the first two years Tom established companies in Poland and India to offer surface treatments to the emerging aerospace supply chain in Eastern Europe and Asia. Tom won UK Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006 and won the UK Chambers of Commerce Best New Business in 2007.
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About Valuechain.com: Valuechain.com enables global manufacturing customers, suppliers and partners to connect, collaborate and increase competitiveness.
Jake Schofield
Founder and CEO of Labstep
Jake Schofield is the CEO and Founder at Labstep.
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About Labstep: Labstep captures real time scientific process data to provide an internally shareable timeline of a lab’s activity.
Elizabeth Tweedale
Founder and CEO of Cypher Coders
Elizabeth Tweedale is the CEO and founder of Cypher Coders
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About Cypher Coders: Cypher inspires children to learn the language of the future through hands-on creative coding camps and courses.
Mark Perera
Founder & CEO of Vizibl
CEO of Old St Labs / Founder of Procurement Leaders
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About Procurement Leaders, Sigaria, Vizibl: Vizibl is a global cloud platform that enables enterprise companies to manage their innovation lifecycle.
Alex Short
Founder of Vizibl
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About Vizibl: Vizibl is a global cloud platform that enables enterprise companies to manage their innovation lifecycle.
Sean Nolan
Founder & CEO of Blink
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About Blink: We make remote working less remote. Welcome to the Frontline of the Future.
Annil Chandel
CEO & Co-Founder of Wurkr
Annil Chandel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wurkr.
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About KnownFour, Wurkr: Wurkr is a video platform that allows teams to collaborate from anywhere within an immersive virtual workspace.
Charles Sekwalor
Founder of Movemeback
Charles Sekwalor is Founder at MoveMeBack. Entrepreneur, mentor, advisor and investor focused on building startups that drive change and positively influence people’s lives.
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About COS Vetures, Mindsmeet, Movemeback: Movemeback is the community that connecting talented professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs.
Oyin Solebo
Founder of Movemeback
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About Mindsmeet, Movemeback: Movemeback is the community that connecting talented professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs.
Mat Hunter
Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Plus X
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About Plus X: Plus X creates workspaces that unlock potential, business growth and innovation, community collaboration, and positive social impact.
Daniel Allen
CEO & Founder of Sipcom
With a proven entrepreneurial track record, Daniel is an acknowledged business leader and innovator in the Communications and Collaboration services market. An experienced board level executive for over 18 years, Daniel was Sales Director for a Sunday Times Fast Track 100 company in 2005 & 2006 and was a finalist in the NatWest sponsored Entrepreneur of the Year and Fastest Growing Company in 2010. Daniel held senior positions with a number of leading technology providers before forming Sipcom in 2006. In 2018, Daniel was also recognized as one of the Top 40 under 40 Jewish Entrepreneurs in New York by the Young Jewish Professionals Organisation. In 2020, Daniel also led Sipcom to its inclusion in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 – the list for Britain’s fastest growing technology companies.
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About Sipcom: Communications and collaboration on any scale.
Dhrupad Karwa
Co-Founder & CEO of HaikuJAM
Dhrupad Karwa is the Co-Founder and CEO at HaikuJAM
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About HaikuJAM, Inspo: Collaborative Poetry & Artistic Expression App
Stefan Richter
Founder of muchosmedia
Stefan is the founder and managing director of muchosmedia ltd (founded in early 2008), a UK based software company which specialises in real-time enabled web applications, with Scribblar.com being one of the examples. Over the past few years Stefan has established himself as a sought after industry expert and consultant for Flex and Flash Media Server, and his personal blog FlashComGuru.com is one of the largest resources covering Flash Video and related technologies on the web. Stefan is the co-author of ‘Hands-on Guide to Flash Video’ published by Elsevier in 2007 and he continues to speak at many industry events including Adobe MAX and Streaming Media Europe.
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About Membermeister, muchosmedia: Muchosmedia develops software solutions, focusing on video integration and real-time collaboration through websites.
Simon Maylott
CEO & Co-Founder of Indie Media Labs
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About Indie Media Labs: SaaS digital publishing and distribution service for book publishers and direct to consumer whitelabel all-in-one publishing platform
Matt Bradbeer
COO & Co-Founder of Indie Media Labs
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About Indie Media Labs: SaaS digital publishing and distribution service for book publishers and direct to consumer whitelabel all-in-one publishing platform
Matt Bradbeer
COO & Co-Founder of Indie Media Labs
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About Indie Media Labs: SaaS digital publishing and distribution service for book publishers and direct to consumer whitelabel all-in-one publishing platform
Damian Jeal
Co-Founder & VP of Sales of Hubshare
Damian Jeal is a Co-Founder and VP of Sales at Hubshare. He is also the Managing Director of Nikec Solutions.
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About Hubshare: Hubshare is a collaborative and secure file sharing platform that allows professionals to collaborate more effectively and efficiently.
Sumit Pasupalak
CEO & Founder of Ubiq
Sumit Pasupalak is CEO at Ubiq.
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About Inovia Capital, Ubiq: Ubiq enables individuals and organizations to give wireless presentations.
Kaustav Mitra
Co-Founder of Paradime.io
Kaustav Mitra is a co-founder of Paradime.io.
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About Paradime.io: paradime.io builds a next-generation collaboration platform for distributed analytics teams.
Fabio di Leta
Co-Founder of Paradime.io
Fabio di Leta is a co-founder of Paradime.io.
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About Paradime.io: paradime.io builds a next-generation collaboration platform for distributed analytics teams.
Ian Johnson
Founder of TechForge Media Ltd.
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About TechForge Media Ltd.: TechForge Media is an established, independent publishing company based in the center of Bristol, UK.
Mark Richer
CEO and Founder of StarLeaf
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About StarLeaf: StarLeaf is the cleanest business tool for teams to effortlessly connect using messaging, meeting and calling.
Vito Peleg
Founder of Atarim
I’ve built my first website on “Geocities” almost 20 years ago – Featuring my friends’ skateboarding crew when I was 14 yo. Since then I’ve built more than 250 websites. Some for me but most for small-medium businesses, fashion brands and startups. As a former touring musician, I looked for ways to allow me to work while I was touring the world playing my RNR to thousands of people and the web was, once again, there for me. I started to build websites for clients from the back of the van (and sometimes the odd broom closet) and my passion for the field grew with each project. When the band finally broke up I moved from the van to a tiny room at home, then to a larger room with one employee sitting right next to me all the way to having my own agency with 12 guys on my team. And I’m just getting started 😉 Even though I’ve had my share of experimentation between different platforms and building methods (I even gave Wix a shot for half a website), I fell in love with the WordPress ecosystem and the community around it. These days, my team and I are focused on Atarim.io – A revolutionary visual collaboration platfrom helping web agencies and freelancers get content, approve designs and provide support directly on their clients’ websites, visually.
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About Atarim: Allowing Web Creators to Manage Projects and Collaborate, Visually, Within a Website. Making Working With Clients, Easy & Extremely Fast
Ryan Wolfe
Co-Founder & Advisor of Vianza
Ryan Wolfe is Co-Founder & Advisor at Vianza.
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About ShopFulfill, Vianza: Vianza is a Collaboration + Commerce Platform for Retailers & Brands.
Matthew Edge-Wilkins
Founder and Director of Intalent Solutions
After an early career in financial services, working with large blue-chip organisations – Barclays, Zurich Insurance and PricewaterhouseCoopers; Matthew’s recruitment career started in 2003 as the result of a chance meeting in a bar in Sydney, Australia whilst in the middle of a 12 month round-the-world adventure. That meeting led to Matthew joining Freespirit Consulting who provide support and talent management services to contractors, obtaining a four-year sponsorship in the process. 12 months later, Matthew joined the International Student Placement Centre (ISPC), which has since been bought out by Sydney University.
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About Intalent Solutions: Intalent is a leading provider of recruitment process outsourcing solutions to companies in the property sector.
Jasmin Ward
Co-Founder of Cribber
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About Cribber: Cribber is a communication platform.
Nathan Yates
Founder of Nerve
Founder at Nerve
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About Nerve: Powerfully Simple Project Management
Nick Pyett
Co-Founder & CEO of Sixth Domain
Nick Pyett is Co-Founder & CEO at Sixth Domain.
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About Sixth Domain: Sixth Domain offers an online reward management system for primary and secondary schools.
James Wheare
Founder of IRCCloud
Founder at IRCCloud
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About IRCCloud: IRCCloud is a modern, always-connected IRC client that works on mobile and the web
James Wheare
Founder of IRCCloud
Founder at IRCCloud
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About IRCCloud: IRCCloud is a modern, always-connected IRC client that works on mobile and the web
Matty Lawrence
Founder of Happy Spaces
Matty Lawrence is the founder of Happy Spaces.
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About Happy Spaces: Happy Spaces is a network of local work spaces for community connection, belonging, and wellbeing.
