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 Mobile Apps 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.
Ilias Kiourktsidis
CTO of Zebra Fuel
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About Zebra Fuel: Zebra Fuel is a mobile fuel delivery service that delivers fuel into a vehicle directly at a preferred delivery time.
Alex Harin
Chief Technology Officer of Wrisk
With an MSc in Applied Mathematics from Moscow University and a PhD in Maths from the University of Natal, it’s safe to say that Alex knows how to wrangle large data sets with ease…which is particularly handy if your business is all about turning tables of data points into personal insights (but is extremely handy in a pub quiz too).
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About Wrisk: Wrisk offers a customizable platform that enables businesses to create mobile-first insurance experiences for their customers.
Natalia Mila
Chief Technology Officer of Upstream
Natalia joined Upstream in 2008 as a senior software engineer. She has worked in several roles within the company, as a team leader and later on as chief architect and head of engineering, leading the design and implementation of Upstream’s mobile commerce platform. She is now the company CTO, responsible for its technical product, engineering and infrastructure functions. She has more than 17 years of work experience in enterprise software, in companies such as Intracom and Intralot S.A. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and a Master’s degree in Distributed and Multimedia Information Systems, from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
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About Upstream: Upstream is leading the mobile internet revolution in high growth markets.
Onoufrios Malikkides
Chief Technology Officer of Labstep
Onoufrios Malikkides is the Chief Technology Officer 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.
Sachin Deshpande
Chief Technology Officer of Made by Fire
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About Made by Fire: We create digital products for our ambitious clients with a team of over 100 specialists.
Cristian Dan
Co-Founder and CTO of YAYZY
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About YAYZY: Yayzy is an application for carbon footprint calculator.
Antonio Marino
Co-Founder & CTO of Emma
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About Emma: Emma is a financial app advocate that helps users avoid overdrafts, find wasteful subscriptions, and allows users control of their finances.
Julien Deray
Co-Founder & CTO of Mespo
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About Mespo: Mespo is an independent platform that manages money across all of the accounts.
Jack Pordi
Cofounder and CTO of Realm
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About Realm, TheCLUB.tv: Realm is an app for finding and hosting house parties with the aim of making socializing cheaper and more meaningful.
Pearl Arbenser-Simmonds
CTO of Agily
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About Agily: Agily is a collaborative and team goal management app improving organisational alignment, business agility and competitiveness.
Daniel Howard
CTO of SimbaPay
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About SimbaPay: SimbaPay is a B2B SaaS for banks in Africa that enables their customers to send money abroad using mobile money or e-banking.
Justin Ashurst
Co-Founder, CTO & COO of AppInstitute
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About AppInstitute, Peckish: AppInstitute is a software developer of a digital framework for small businesses to create their own mobile applications.
James Eggleston
Chief Technology Officer of appScatter
James is responsible for the delivery of appScatter’s flagship technology – the distribution, performance, tracking and intelligence platform. Prior to appScatter James worked in the mobile gaming industry delivering global technology solutions for international brands.
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About Airnow, appScatter: AppScatter is a B2B SaaS platform that distributes, manages, and monitors mobile apps across multiple app stores worldwide.
Stephen Carl
CTO of Sliide
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About Emu Analytics, Sliide: Mobile technology company that work with MNO, MVNO and OEM partners globally to increase engagement, drive revenue, and decrease churn.
Franck Ndame
CTO of XPO
CTO @ XPO
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About XPO: We pay creator invoices, crazy fast.
Connell Gauld
Co-Founder and CTO of Zappar
As Zappar’s CTO, Connell oversees the ZapWorks team (Zappar’s AR/VR/MR creation software) as well as being responsible for all the cloud infrastructure and the core functionality of the Zappar app (which can also be embedded into third-party apps). Connell met Zappar Co-Founder Dr Simon Taylor whilst they were both studying engineering at the University of Cambridge. They founded Zappar, along with Caspar Thykier, 8 years ago and have seen it grow into one of the leading AR platforms with $3.75M in funding, 50 staff, and four offices around the world.
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About Zappar: Zappar is a clever little app that can see and recognise images and objects in the world around us.
Duncan Cowan
Co-Founder & CTO of Howbout
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About Howbout: The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple.
Andrew Kuzmych
Co-Founder and CTO of TechMagic
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About TechMagic: Top JavaScript and Serverless developers
Richard Hamnett
Co-Founder and CTO of ResponseTap
Richard Hamnett is the co-founder and CTO of ResponseTap.
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About ResponseTap: ResponseTap Call Intelligence takes call tracking to another level, amplifying the depth of data across the end-to-end customer journey.
Robertas Sadovskis
Chief Technology Officer of Barbora Polska
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About Barbora Polska: Barbora Polska is a company that provides online shopping for fresh food and household chemicals to be delivered at good quality
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.
Tim Whiting
CTO of Waggle-It
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About Waggle-It: Waggle-It is an anonymous location based social polling app that allows users to crowdsource everyday dilemmas
Tim Whiting
CTO of Waggle-It
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About Waggle-It: Waggle-It is an anonymous location based social polling app that allows users to crowdsource everyday dilemmas
Nabil Freeman
Co-founder and CTO of LeSalon Beauty
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About LeSalon Beauty: LeSalon is delivering a branded, consistent and high-quality at-home beauty service.
Toby Green
CTO of Yoller
Toby is an accomplished full stack developer specialising in cross-platform mobile applications. Having previously founded his own tech startup, he is hugely experienced in building exceptional teams. Toby is a massive foodie!
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About Yoller: Yoller gets people to meet in real life, really quickly – even if your friends don’t have the app.
Alexander Browne
CTO of SKOOT
Past experience includes Senior IT Leadership, Business & IT Strategy, leading large scale architectural initiatives, and driving innovation programmes. Conducted & consulted on all aspects of technology strategy & implementation; direction, leading global architectural change, multi-vendor programme management, organisational design & implementation, business case generation, business impact assessments, roadmap creation, high-level design, detailed designs, audits, development & operations.
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About SKOOT: SKOOT is a platform for Climate Change helping businesses, communities and individuals to IDENTIFY, OFFSET & AVOID their CO2 footprints.
Michael Groves
Chief Technology Officer of Mucho
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About Mucho: Mucho is a platform that brings together brands, retailers and content providers that share this passion.
Michael Groves
Chief Technology Officer of Mucho
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About Mucho: Mucho is a platform that brings together brands, retailers and content providers that share this passion.
Mike Wharton
Founder & CTO of Waracle
Mike founded Waracle and has unrivalled experience helping large customers architect, resource and develop their complex digital strategies. Mike also happens to be our head geek and overall tech enthusiast, if you’ve a spare few hours he’d love nothing more than to discuss in detail emerging car technology, especially electric vehicles, , sustainable energy, smart assisted homes and IoT.
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About Waracle: Waracle define, design & deliver mobile, web and emerging tech applications that make customers and patients lives better.
Imdad Ahad
Co-founder & CTO of Scoodle
Imdad Ahad is a Co-founder & CTO at Scoodle.
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About Scoodle: Scoodle is connects students with teachers.
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.
Simon Lee
Chief Technology Officer of goEvo
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About goEvo: goEvo helps users lose excess weight and keep it off without dieting, by changing the way we think and feel about food and our bodies.
Mario Menti
CTO & Co-founder of Ally Chatbot
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About Ally Chatbot: Ally Chatbot is a civic and social organization that features a software platform that utilizes artificial intelligence.
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.
Dan Williams
Co-Founder and CTO of Workshop
Dan Williams is the co-founder and CTO of Workshop Technology. Prior to co-founding Workshop, Dan served as an analyst at Metapraxis. Before that, he held positions for various companies including Intro, Team Bath Racing electric, Oxalis Group, and Sagentia.
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About Workshop: Workshop is a technology-driven company that creates tools for learning and teaching in partnership in educators and brands.
Alexey Gusev
Co-founder & CTO of GreenRide Sharing Limited
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About GreenRide Sharing Limited: GreenRide is a UK based startup developing a ride sharing mobile application within the sharing economy.
Alexey Gusev
Co-founder & CTO of GreenRide Sharing Limited
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About GreenRide Sharing Limited: GreenRide is a UK based startup developing a ride sharing mobile application within the sharing economy.
George Matau
CTO of Opinsta
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About Opinsta: Opinsta is a single platform to manage defect reporting (QA), health and safety checks, Inspections, 3rd party maintenance and more.
Jason Malaure
Chief Technology Officer of All In Media
Jason has 19 years’ experience in software development, with a focus on broadcast technologies. He developed and launched interactive applications on Sky Digital, Freeview, Virgin Media, and IPTV platforms. Jason is the CTO at AIM, and heads up our Australian office, with a local knowledge of Australia and the SE Asian markets.
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About All In Media: All In Media is a supplier of smartphone apps and broadcast systems for the radio industry.
Martin Chamrad
Cofounder & CTO of Tribe Sports App
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About Tribe Sports App: Tribe Sports App is a Sports App that allows users to monitor their real-time scores, schedules, tables and commentary.
Alex Jefferies
CTO of Gigbloc
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About Gigbloc: Local live music discovery apps, building a platform to reinvent how live music events are organised
Gabriel Archer
CTO of App4grabs Limited
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About App4grabs Limited: We offer you 2 base apps, one for Android and one for iPhone, for £999 or bespoke apps because every business deserves a mobile presence.
