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 Android 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.
Paul Croft
Co-Founder & Chief Games Officer of Mediatonic Games
Paul Croft is a Co-Founder & Chief Games Officer at Mediatonic Games.
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About Mediatonic Games, Tonic Games Group: Mediatonic develops and publishes games for digital platforms such as smartphones, PCs and consoles.
Ben Medlock
Co-Founder of SwiftKey
Ben Medlock is a director, co-founder and CTO of SwiftKey, the London-based technology start-up behind the Android keyboard of the same name. Ben drives technical innovation at SwiftKey, where artificial intelligence and machine learning are used to enhance text entry on handheld devices. Ben developed his expertise in natural language processing and machine learning during eight years of computer science research, which culminated in a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has reviewed for a number of prominent academic journals, and his own work is published in ACL, the leading conference for research into computational linguistics, and also in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Ben currently lives in London, and on the rare occasion that he’s not working, he enjoys playing sport, music and reading theology.
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About SwiftKey: SwiftKey is a technology company that aims to enhance interaction between keyboards and people.
Adam Korbl
Founder & CEO of Crowded Road
Adam is a seasoned entrepreneur and mobile app guru. He co-founded Glide, the world’s first instant video messaging platform and serves as the Chief Product & Marketing Office. Founded Crowded Road (http://crowdedroad.com), a mobile app consulting outfit that has consulted for a range of global brands such as Billabong, Inc. and has produced 30+ profitable apps, including the popular iFax suite (http://ifaxapp.com) that is currently the highest grossing fax app on both the iOS and Android app markets. Adam has been featured by the NY Times, WSJ, USA Today, Mashable and TechCrunch for his previous initiatives and holds an MBA, from the Fordham Graduate School of Business.
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About Crowded Road: Crowded Road is a mobile app consulting outfit that has produced over 40 mobile apps, including the popular iOS/Android business app iFax.
Julian Smith
Co-Founder of Undo
Julian and Greg together developed the technology that would become Live Recorder; the two of them then teamed up to found Undo. Julian worked side-by-side with Greg as the company grew from just the two of them, based in Greg’s garden shed, to over 40 people across the UK and US. At the end of 2018, Julian stepped down to pursue his next (ad)venture. Julian holds a Physics degree from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Edinburgh. He is a keen cyclist (highlights being two solo trips across the Himalayas into Ladakh on his Moulton) and an accomplished violin, viola and baroque violin player.
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About Undo: Undo allows some of the biggest software companies to improve the quality of their products and fix customer issues quickly.
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.
Branko Milutinovic
Co-Founder & CEO of Nordeus
Branko Milutinovic is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of one of the fastest growing European gaming company Nordeus. Over the previous 4 years bootstrapped Nordeus have grown from 3 to 150 people, pioneering the cross-platform game development & publishing and becoming one of the most successful social and mobile gaming companies world wide. Engineer by education, gamer in heart, Branko grew up playing sports, enjoying video games and coding. Not much has changed since. Nordeus is best known for Top Eleven, one of the most popular sports video games in the world with more than 5 million players on a daily basis and legendary Jose Mourinho as the official face of the game. Branko earned his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Belgrade (2002-2008).
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About Nordeus: Nordeus develops mobile and browser-based social network games for web, Android and iOS devices.
Sheenu Chawla
CEO and Co-Founder of Sush Labs
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About Sush Labs: Sush Labs is in designing, developing mobile and webs cloud-backed digital solutions.
Vinita Rathi
CEO & Co-Founder of Systango
Vinita, Ex Vice President Goldman Sachs, London and now founder of IT agency Systango.com which helps and hand holds founders, especially, with no technology background to build their product and get it out of the door just like an in-house team would do. She has successfully put together a team, handpicked her members that work in sprints, agile and work shoulder to shoulder. When the time is right Systango then helps start up build local team and transition seamlessly. Vinita recently helped a founder who was struggling in building his product despite of having a fantastic idea. The company now has a working product, team of two in-house developers and Vinita jumps in as and when deadlines are more aggressive than what their in-house team can handle. In her community time, Vinita is Director of WomenWhoCode.com London Chapter. She is also founder of WomenHackForNonProfits.com – an initiative to increase women developer’s footprint in open source & non profit projects. It has more than 200 women developer volunteers and about 5 non profits registered to work with. In her spare time she also runs CodePunt.Today – a daily challenge website in alpha to keep developer’s developer by heart. When she is not doing one of the projects above, she is probably playing with her 4 year old son!
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About Systango: Systango is a software company provides custom web, mobile application, game, ecommerce development services.
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.
Simon Hade
Founder & COO of Space Ape
Simon is Co-founder & COO of mobile game developer Space Ape Games in London ($11m VC funding over 3 rounds, $55.8m investment by Supercell in 2017). Angel investments include game developers Gumbug Games, and music content creator platform Voisey. Past jobs include early product roles at Skype and Playfish (acquired by EA).
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About Space Ape: Space Ape is a mobile gaming company dedicated to creating the highest quality games for players.
John Earner
Co-Founder & CEO of Space Ape
John Earner brings extensive expertise in online gaming to his role as vice president of product management at Playfish, where he oversees the daily service operation of the company’s growing portfolio of live popular social games. Prior to Playfish, John was with Sony Computer Entertainment America where he designed the micro-transaction business model for PlayStation Home, Sony’s free-to-play virtual community, which he also helped launch. John also was a project leader at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a leading strategy consulting firm, where his role focused on online gaming. Before BCG, John was an officer in the United States Navy. John earned a MBA from University of California at Berkeley and holds a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University.
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About Playfish, Space Ape: Space Ape is a mobile gaming company dedicated to creating the highest quality games for players.
Eddie Vassallo
Founder and CEO of Entropy
Founder at Entropy
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About Entropy: Content & Apps Management for a Mobile & Wearable World
Tom Osborne
Founder @Rouse and CMO @KidED of KidED
Founder at KidED.
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About KidED, KidED: We’re bringing a solution to a globally growing issue of kids rather playing than learning.
Andrew Kuzmych
Co-Founder and CTO of TechMagic
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About TechMagic: Top JavaScript and Serverless developers
Philipp Muellauer
Founder of London App Brewery
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About London App Brewery: The London App Brewery provides in-person and online classes in app development, design and marketing.
Angela Yu
Founder of London App Brewery
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About London App Brewery: The London App Brewery provides in-person and online classes in app development, design and marketing.
James Bentley
Founder of Bikeslice
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About Bikeslice: Bikeslice is a social community application for cycling and cyclist.
Paul Moorhead
CTO and Founder of Kraydel
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About Kraydel: Kraydel addresses social isolation and maintains independence through TV-video calling and an IoT platform for sensors.
Jo Eckersley
CEO & Founder of Bubbl Ltd
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About Bubbl Ltd: Cutting-edge mobile app plug-in that allows companies to hyper-focus their marketing efforts with geo-triggered customer engagement tools.
Craig Gidley
Founder of Viper
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About : UK-based award-winning nightlife app that allows users to browse and book tables or booths, drinks packages and queue jump in bars and clubs
Stephen Powell
Founder of Viper
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About : UK-based award-winning nightlife app that allows users to browse and book tables or booths, drinks packages and queue jump in bars and clubs
Craig Davies
Founder of Viper
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About : UK-based award-winning nightlife app that allows users to browse and book tables or booths, drinks packages and queue jump in bars and clubs
Craig Davies
Founder of Viper
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About : UK-based award-winning nightlife app that allows users to browse and book tables or booths, drinks packages and queue jump in bars and clubs
Aleksandr Pasevin
Co-Founder of Hype App
Aleksandr Pasevin is Co-Founder @ Hype App.
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About Hype App: Hype App is a smartphone application that enables users to find out what events and places are placed in and around their locality.
Gintare Zitkeviciute
Founder and CEO of Hype App
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About Hype App, Hype Experiences: Hype App is a smartphone application that enables users to find out what events and places are placed in and around their locality.
Calum Yuill
Founder of POPBOX
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About Picton Street Media, POPBOX: Let’s compete together
Hans Manku
Founder of Arrive
founder at Arrive.
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About Arrive: The only Taxi app where you can choose your driver… D’you want the cheapest, quickest or highest-rated driver?
Amnon Kruvi
Founder of Kruvi Solutions
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About Kruvi Solutions: Time Management and Workforce Management Solutions
Ed Mason
Founder, CEO of GameFace Labs
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About GameFace Labs: Worlds First ‘All In One’ standalone virtual reality headset and DARPA software platform for the next generation of VR gaming.
Giacomo Eskenazi
Co-Founder of GameFace Labs
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About GameFace Labs: Worlds First ‘All In One’ standalone virtual reality headset and DARPA software platform for the next generation of VR gaming.
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.
Abhishek Mishra
Founder of Tring : Augmented Reality Messaging
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About Tring : Augmented Reality Messaging: Tring is a mobile app that allows users to send Augmented Reality messages to each other
Paul Byrom
Founder of TechCity Media
A technology enthusiast currently doing business development for TechCity Media which is a mobile first digital agency I founded in 2013.
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About TechCity Media: Mobile First Digital Agency in London
Julie Grieve
Founder & CEO of Information Apps Ltd
Julie Grieve joined Criton as Founder & CEO in 2015.
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About Information Apps Ltd: Guest engagement platform, helping independent hotels compete with the chains
Richard Blackwell
Co-Founder & CEO of Quinn Blackwell Media Ltd
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About Quinn Blackwell Media Ltd: A New Audiovisual Platform for Audiobooks & eBooks
Gav Richards
CTO / Co-Founder of Aiir
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About Aiir: The complete platform for audio content creators.
Emile Bennett
Founder of Collections
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About Collections: Collections is a visual bookmarks app, designed to organize your ideas, inspirations, and adventures using your camera.
Francesco Mancusi
Founder of GoWar
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About FeedStock Ltd, GoWar: GoWar is a location-based social strategy game for iOS and Android operating systems.
Steve Kevin
Founder of Fortune Infotech
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About Fortune Infotech: Fortune Infotech is a tech company offering web hosting solutions.
Jeff Tawney
Co-Founder and CEO of The Great Unwashed
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About The Great Unwashed: An experienced games development team specialising in “High Impact” comedy games.
