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 Accounting 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.
Sarj Radia
Founder of The Access Group
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About The Access Group: The Access Group is a software consultancy and developer company that provides fully integrated business management software.
Anand Verma
Founder & CEO of Expect. (trading name of Exponential Climate Technologies Ltd.)
Anand Verma @anandverma Anand is the Founder and CEO of climate tech startup Expect. A London-based company committed to decarbonising greening companies, profitably. Prior to my recent ventures, I was the Owner, Founder and CEO of Brilliant Basics (acquired by Infosys), an award winning Global Digital and Innovation company headquartered in London with studios all over the world. Successfully acquired by Infosys in 2017 to accelerate Design and Innovation for Infosys and its clients globally. I also led Infosys’ digital capabilities in EMEA and was a part of the Infosys leadership team. I am also deeply involved with leading design school and university partnerships for Infosys. I am a digital visionary, innovator and successful entrepreneur who understands new products and services, revenue growth, operations and people. I have over 20 years’ experience in management consulting, digital and tech businesses. I have built a successful career by consistently delivering value through digital and customer-centricity. I love creating value by reducing complexity in the digital world at both speed x scale. Prior to founding Brilliant Basics, I was one of the youngest Presidents and CEO’s at Interpublic Group (IPG) leading IPG Mediabrands Ventures in EMEA, a global advertising and media conglomerate where I led digital Operations, Innovative Products and Services and M&A. And previous to that I held leadership roles at Sapient (now a part of Publicis), AKQA (now a part of WPP) and Modem Media (now a part of Publicis). I am an active investor, adviser, non exec board director, academia, podcast host and speaker. Related Information: – Anand was a co-founder of atp.io in 2012, a Marketing Tech Platform. – Anand was a cofounder of Everpress, a product incubator. – Anand was a co-founder of haberdash app, a digital textile printing startup. – Anand was a co-founder of Weekly, a media startup. – Anand was a co-founder of Mesmerise, a VR and AR Tech Platform. – Anand was the Founder and CEO of Brilliant Basics (acquired by Infosys) – Anand was INED for HML Holdings Plc, next generation Property Management company. Exited to Harwood Capital PE. – Anand was a Senior Leader at Infosys, Sapient, Publicis.Sapient, Interpublic Group IPG, AKQA…
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About Expect. (trading name of Exponential Climate Technologies Ltd.): Expect. is the decarbonisation management platform for large enterprises and heavy industries.
Dan Karger
Co-Founder of TaxScouts
Co-Founder at TaxScouts.
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About TaxScouts: TaxScouts is a tax preparation platform that makes tax planning easier.
Vaibhav Khullar
Founder of Bx
Former investment banker. Passionate Engineer. Angel Investor. Cryptography enthusiast and prolific Bitcoin miner. Founder of OSREC Financial (https://osrec.co.uk), Bx (https://usebx.com).
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About Bx, OSREC Financial, PersonalRx: Bx is a fully-featured business management SaaS, covering invoicing, payments, expenses, and more.
Paul Surtees
Founder and CEO of Capitalise.com
Paul is the CEO and Co-founder of Capitalise and has more than 13 years of banking experience. He previously worked as an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs, leading their sales teams. As an investor and mentor to SMEs, Paul recognized the challenges advisors had in sourcing finance for their clients and founded Capitalise.
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About Capitalise.com, sixleaps: Capitalise uses a little funding magic to identify the best financing options available for your business.
Ollie Maitland
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Capitalise.com
Ollie Maitland is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Capitalise.com. He was the Innovation Practice Director of Inviqa.
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About Capitalise.com: Capitalise uses a little funding magic to identify the best financing options available for your business.
Caroline Plumb
Founder and CEO of Fluidly
Caroline Plumb is Founder and CEO of cashflow management software business Fluidly. Caroline previously co-founded and led FreshMinds, an innovation consultancy, and FreshMinds Talent, a recruiting business. The businesses have won a number of Best Agency awards and have regularly been listed in the Sunday Times’ 100 Best Small Companies to Work For. Caroline is one of the Prime Minister’s Business Ambassadors, representing the Professional & Business Services sector. She has a First Class degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford University, is on the industrial advisory board of the Engineering department and was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s 90th Birthday Honours List in 2016.
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About Fluidly, FreshMinds: Fluidly is fundamentally rethinking the way businesses plan and manage cashflow, using data science, accounting domain expertise.
Johnnie Ball
Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist of Fluidly
Johnnie brings significant experience in the application of quantitative methods and AI to finance. Formerly a trader at a major investment bank he has also spent time as a quantitative advisor at an SME credit hedge fund; built the credit rating system for an energy supplier and is an alumni of the prestigious deep-tech accelerator Entrepreneur First. He holds the Certificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF), an MSc in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning with Distinction from UCL and is a member of the European AI Alliance. Johnnie is applying deep expertise in applied AI and finance to deliver a world-class machine learning product.
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About European Commission, Fluidly, Forget Me Knot: Fluidly is fundamentally rethinking the way businesses plan and manage cashflow, using data science, accounting domain expertise.
J.D. Rainey
Founder and CEO of Finmo
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About Finmo: Finmo is a financial management tool for self employed workers with a focus on improving financial health and filing taxes.
Aynsley Damery
CEO and Founder of Clarity HQ
Aynsley is the CEO of business advisory platform, Clarity. He was also the CEO and founder of Tayabali Tomlin, a multi-award-winning advisory led practice based in Cheltenham, UK. Aynsley is a chartered accountant, accoladed entrepreneur and international keynote speaker. He has advised thousands of businesses around the world and sits as an advisory board member on a number of companies and charities. Aynsley is considered one of the most influential accountants in the UK and has co-authored an international best seller.
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About Clarity HQ: A global business advisory platform that empowers accountants, bookkeepers and advisers to help small business owners achieve success.
Tim Fouracre
Founder & CEO of Countingup
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About Countingup: The one that does your books. Countingup is the UK’s #1 banking & accounting app. Dead easy. Super fast. Self sorting.
Mike Moate
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Countingup
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About Countingup: The one that does your books. Countingup is the UK’s #1 banking & accounting app. Dead easy. Super fast. Self sorting.
Daniel Hogan
CFO & Co-Founder of Ember
A Deloitte-trained, fully qualified Chartered Accountant, Daniel has been working in the finance systems space for the last 3 years where he has become increasingly frustrated with the industry’s lack of synergy, automation and ease of use.
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About Ember: Ember is a software platform to automate the accounting process for SMEs.
Aaron Shaw
CEO & Co-Founder of Ember
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About Ember: Ember is a software platform to automate the accounting process for SMEs.
Adam Maurice
Co-Founder and Director of Fusion Consulting
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About Fusion Consulting: Fusion is a multi-disciplinary consulting firm that offers end-to-end solutions for private individuals and fast growth businesses.
Colin Hewitt
Co-Founder & CEO of Float
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About Float: Float is a SaaS based real-time financial intelligence solution for small businesses to forecast short and long-term cash flow.
Debbie Ashton
Founder; SVP, Strategic Customer Experience of FinancialForce
With more than 16 years of experience in enterprise software development, customer experience management and product management, Debbie leads product strategy, R&D, and customer advocacy as the Vice President of Product at FinancialForce.com. Under Debbie’s leadership, the company’s Accounting and PSA products have been honored with accolades such as British Accountancy Awards’ Software of the Year and 2012 CRM WatchList’s Broad Brush Winner while customer satisfaction reliably exceeds industry average. Debbie and Jeremy Roche, while at CODA Group, realized a market gap in cloud applications for financial management and collaborated in the founding of FinancialForce.com with the backing of UNIT4. Prior to creating FinancialForce.com, Debbie served as the Head of Product Management for CODA Group and held senior research & development and product management responsibilities for CODA. Earlier in her career, Debbie held positions in client management, consultancy and presales for Science Systems and was part of the team who acquired CODA in the year 2000. Following the acquisition of CODA, Debbie led the team that designed and delivered CODA’s award-winning financial applications and was a core member of the team that conceived CODA’s SaaS accounting concept. Debbie began her career in microbiology and has a degree in Applied Biology from Sheffield Hallam University. Outside of work, Debbie is a proud mother of two boys and enjoys spending time with family and participating in triathlons.
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About FinancialForce: FinancialForce develops cloud back-office applications for salesforce CRM.
Ross Webster
Founder & Director of BrightPay – Payroll Software
Ross is a highly competent software architect, programmer, graphic designer and user experience specialist. With a passion for innovation, Ross excels at creating software applications that solve real-world problems, simplify the complex, and delight customers.
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About BrightPay – Payroll Software, Thesaurus Software: BrightPay offers a payroll software package for payroll managements.
Wesley Rashid
CEO and Co Founder of Accountancy Cloud
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About Accountancy Cloud: Accountancy Cloud provides the best full finance stack for startups.
Adam McCann
Founder & CEO of Claimer
Adam McCann is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Claimer. Before founding Claimer, he founded Pro-G Media in 2004 and co-founded Candy Banana in 2015.
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About Claimer: Quick and simple R&D tax relief claims for UK startups
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.
Steve Richardson
Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer of Rimilia
Steve has been around blue chip organisations for over 20 years, leading large teams through process change and efficiency. Always looking at new initiatives that add value and helping teams to achieve more with less. Working at Rimilia he is proud of our solutions, our team, our values and our customers. Away from work Steve enjoys the finer things in life, such as tasting real ales, eating good food, shopping and listening to obscure AOR music. He is a supporter of Sunderland Football Club (or Mansfield Town depending who is losing!). Steve likes to spend as much time as possible with his family and 4 children and he looks forward to retiring in California one day.
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About Rimilia: Rimilia creates software finance people love by enabling tight integration between the front and back office.
Johnny Vowles
CEO (Founder) of Expend
Founder and CEO of Expend. Tech and product guy. Innovating in the FinTech sector.
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About Expend: Expend is the expense management and company spending platform.
Rudolph Graan
Founder & CTO of Expend
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About Expend: Expend is the expense management and company spending platform.
Susan Rahman
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of onkho
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About KWSR & Co, onkho: onkho helps accountants delight their clients and grow their business
Emanur Rahman
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer of onkho
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About onkho: onkho helps accountants delight their clients and grow their business
Dave Jangid
Founder of Capium Ltd
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About : Empowering businesses and accountants, through one platform
Sanjay Bhiraju
Co-Founder of Capium Ltd
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About : Empowering businesses and accountants, through one platform
Tushir Patel
Co-Founder of Capium Ltd
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About : Empowering businesses and accountants, through one platform
Ettore Colella
Founder and CEO of AE Morgan
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About AE Morgan: Multidisciplinary consulting firm specialized in international tax planning. Proud member of the Italian Chamber of Commerce for the UK
Joe Gallard
Co-Founder, CEO of Reducer
Joe is CEO of Reducer. Prior to this he worked at Deloitte, Gousto and carwow.
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About Reducer: Reducer empowers businesses by giving them the information needed to make smart buying decisions.
Stuart Kemp
Co-Founder and CTO of Reducer
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About Reducer: Reducer empowers businesses by giving them the information needed to make smart buying decisions.
Randa Bennett
Founder & CEO of vHelp
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About vHelp: Vhelp is an expenses application for charities and voluntary groups.
Patricia Salume
Co-Founder and COO of vHelp
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About vHelp: Vhelp is an expenses application for charities and voluntary groups.
Hugh Scantlebury
Founder & Director of Aqilla
From roots firmly established in the IT revolution of the 1980s working for Kewill Systems plc, Hugh Scantlebury went on to join Systems Union in 1992. As EMEA Channel Sales Director he led a team managing a £30 million market which generated in excess of £11 million pounds worth of net revenue from channels selling integrated financial and business solutions in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. At Sage, working as General Manager for the Corporate and European Division, he launched two new business initiatives focusing on OLAP and e-Business development services. In 2002 Hugh took up the role of managing director for a 3i-backed business, Foundation Systems, which specialised in the supply, implementation and support of integrated financial and business management. This business became a wholly owned subsidiary of Systems Union Group in December 2003, which in turn was subsequently acquired by Infor, a US$2.1 billion corporation backed by Golden Gate Capital in 2006.
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About Aqilla: Aqilla is the developer of web-based accounting solutions designed for medium-sized businesses and organisations.
Craig Redmond
Founder & CEO of Zipier Payroll
Before founding Zipier in 2013, Craig worked as a developer for Microsoft. Craig tries to make life more interesting by travelling to exotic countries, and likes to think he speaks fluent Mandarin.
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About Zipier Payroll: Free cloud payroll, HR, and attendance for your business. All 50 states. Paystubs. Paychecks. Tax forms. Legal templates. All for FREE!
Phil Murphy
CTO & Founder of Senta
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About Senta: Senta is a cloud platform that’s powering up accountants and bookkeepers around the world.
Vivien Johnson
Founder of CreditForce
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About CreditForce: CreditForce’s mission is to provide the finest credit and collections management systems and contract-to-cash solutions.
Sam Patchitt
CEO, Founder of Finstant
Entrepreneur, Founder, CEO
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About Finstant: Finstant is a cash flow forecasting software platform that builds accurate cash flow forecasts by turning business decisions into numbers.
Uwe Dreissigacker
Founder & CEO of InvoiceBerry
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About InvoiceBerry: InvoiceBerry is a simple and fast online invoicing software. Try it yourself or contact us to learn more!
Howard Jackson
Head of Education & Founder of HCSS Education of HCSS Education
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About HCSS Education: HCSS Education, part of the Access Group, provides practical and effective solutions to the business of education.
