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 CEO’ operating in the Online Portals space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Peter Jackson
Group CEO of Flutter Entertainment
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About Flutter Entertainment, Paddy Power Betfair: Flutter Entertainment is the world’s leading online sports betting and gaming operator.
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Simon Heawood
CEO of Bricklane.com
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About Bricklane.com: Bricklane harnesses technology to unlock investment in residential property at scale.
Kai Feller
Founder & CEO of Bark.com
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About Bark.com: A new better way to buy services online
Andrew Michael
CEO, Director & Founder of Bark.com
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About Bark.com: A new better way to buy services online
Richard Moross
Founder, President & CEO of MOO.COM
Richard is the founder and CEO of moo.com, one of the world’s fastest-growing print businesses. Launched in late 2006, MOO is focussed on disrupting the trillion dollar print industry, with its unique approach to design, technology and operations. This has allowed it to sustain industry-leading NPS, gross margin and top-line growth for a business of its size. To date, MOO has served millions of customers in nearly 200 countries and employs over 400 people across 6 locations in the UK and USA. Before founding MOO, Richard worked for the design company Imagination, other past companies also include sorted.com and the BBC. Richard served on the board of Seedcamp and was a non-Executive Director of Ladbrokes PLC between 2012 and 2016. In October 2016 Richard joined N Brown PLC as a Non-Executive Director. Richard has been featured in the ‘Wired 100’ and ‘Media Guardian 100’ lists, was named amongst the Telegraph Newspaper’s ‘1,000 Most Powerful People in British Business’, and was ranked in the Guardian Newspaper’s top 10 most influential people in digital media. Richard is also an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and the Young Presidents Organisation.
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About MOO.COM: MOO.COM is an online print and design company.
Dana Dunne
CEO of eDreams ODIGEO
Dana Dunne is the CEO of eDreams ODIEGO. Prior to eDreams, Dana Dunne served as CCO at EasyJet Plc., and was in charge of sales (especially online sales), marketing, productivity management and of the customer service center. Before that, he was the CEO of AOl Europe Sarl, a division of AOC LLC. He has a deep experience in high-profile international telecommunication companies, as he has been the president of the main business units at Belgacom and US West, two of the most outstanding telecommunication companies in Europe and in the US.Dana holds an MBA from Wharton Business School and a degree in Economics from Weslevan University. He has a double nationality: American and British. On March 31st 2017, Dunne owned 713. 112 shares in eDreams ODIEGO. Dana Dunne was appointed CEO of eDreams during a shareholder meeting held on the 22nd of July 2015.
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About eDreams ODIGEO: eDreams ODIGEO is one of the world’s largest online travel companies and one of the largest European e-commerce businesses.
Russell Gould
CEO & Co-founder of Vesta Property
Russell has held leadership, director, operating board, advisory and senior level positions across the FinTech, digital, technology, travel retail, holiday tour operating and cruise, financial services, insurance and banking sectors. He also started and ran two new ventures in consulting and digital business finance (selling one of them). He has extensive experience across the full e-commerce model including – new product development, omni-channel marketing and branding, including customer acquisition, retention (CRM & eCM), customer conversion (look to book / user experience) and performance optimisation (decision science / analytics). He has managed large online businesses (+£500m sales), built start-ups and worked in major FTSE companies, built large high performance teams, lead the redesign and launch of many websites including the full rebuild and implementation of over seven completely new e-commerce platforms (including a full multi-million pound ATG implementation). Russell has over 30 caps representing England and achieved a Bronze Medal at the 2015 Touch World Cup in Coffs Harbour, Australia, a Gold Medal at the 2013 Touch Home Nations in Dublin, a Gold Medal at the European Touch Championships 2012 in Italy, a Bronze Medal at the 2011 Touch World Cup in Edinburgh and a Silver Medal in the 2010 European Touch Championships in Bristol. For more information visit http://www.englandtouch.org.uk/
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About Vesta Property: Vesta (www.vestaproperty.com) is a data-driven marketplace for buying and selling residential investment property.
Avin Rabheru
Founder & CEO of Housekeep
Avin Rabheru joined Smedvig Capital in 2008 and is a Senior Associate. He joined from Roland Berger Strategy Consultants where he worked with senior management teams on corporate strategy projects, operational improvement initiatives and commercial due diligence across a range of sectors in Europe, North America and Asia. Prior to that, Avin worked in M&A at Citigroup and Rothschild. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at University College, Oxford. He is currently a board advisor to The Smart Cube, myhomemove, PPC and Exchange Group, and previously worked with the teams at Streetcar and Clearvision.
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About Housekeep: Housework that works – brilliant local cleaners & tradespeople
Mike Sotirakos
CEO of HistoryMakr
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About HistoryMakr: HistoryMakr creates a space where traditional art lovers and digital collecting communities can come together under one roof.
Lex Deak
Co-founder and CEO of Basket
Lex Deak is the Co-founder and CEO at Basket.
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About Basket: Basket aims to revolutionize the online shopping experience by informing customers of price drops or any discounts available on their items.
Alexander Eid
Founder and CEO of homie.rent
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About homie.rent, Yela: Homie is a tech startup that helps Londoners find great homes to rent.
Paul Bennett
Co-Founder & CEO of PerchPeek
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About PerchPeek: PerchPeek uses AI to guide people through every stage of their relocation from search to settling in.
Steve Oliver
Co-founder & CEO of musicMagpie
Group CEO and co-Founder of Entertainment Magpie Limited, the recommerce company
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About musicMagpie: musicMagpie buys and sells consumer technology, CDs, DVDs, books, video games & Lego
Anna Rasmussen
CEO & Founder of Open Blend
Anna Rasmussen is the CEO & Founder at OpenBlend.
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About Open Blend: The People Platform for People Managers. Our software facilitates coaching led one-to-ones to support an individual’s development journey
Patryk Pawlikowski
Founder and CEO of Shoplo
Patryk Pawlikowski is VP e-commerce at SumUp.
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About Shoplo, SumUp: Shoplo is an e-commerce platform that helps small businesses sell throughout the globe.
Dylan Bourguignon
CEO of SO-SURE
Dylan Bourguignon Investor turned entrepreneur, Dylan was in strategy consulting and private equity before he left his job to rethink insurance for the consumers’ benefit. Frustrated by the insurance sector’s focus on profits rather than consumer needs, Dylan launched so-sure to disrupt the stagnant insurance industry. so-sure’s model provides its customers better and up to 80% cheaper insurance. Dylan has an MBA from Harvard, MEng from Bristol and a Diplome d’Ingenieur from ENSAM (France).
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About SO-SURE: SO-SURE provides insurance that delivers consumers with faster claims and also money back services.
Julian Bourne
CEO & Co-Founder of Sellar
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About Sellar, Waffle: Sellar is the new trade ordering experience for breweries selling beer directly to trade customers.
Paul Warshaw
Founder and CEO of Greenrush
Founder at GreenRush Group.
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About Greenrush: Greenrush facilitates an online marketplace that enables consumers to connect with cannabis dispensary retailers.
Duncan Cheatle
Founder/CEO of Learn Amp
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About Founders Pledge, Learn Amp, Rise To, Supper Club: Learn Amp is an online learning and performance management platform.
Mohammad Munim
CEO of ChefOnline
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About : Order Takeaway Food Online or make reservation at your nearest Restaurant via ChefOnline.
Lindsay Willott
CEO of Customer Thermometer
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About Customer Thermometer: Customer Thermometer is a survey platform focused on real-time, actionable feedback from customers and employees.
Emilie Vanpoperinghe
Co-founder and CEO of Oddbox
Emilie Vanpoperinghe is the Co-Founder & CEO at Oddbox.
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About Oddbox: Oddbox is a provider of fruit and veg box delivery service intended to reduce food waste.
Alex Paterson
CEO of WhatJobs
CEO of www.whatjobs.com the global job search engine
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About WhatJobs: WHATJOBS? is a market-leading, independently-run job search engine with offices in London, Dublin and Bangalore.
Yiorgos Nikoletakis
CEO & Founder of 100mentors
Yiorgos enjoys surrounding himself with his role models: educators & entrepreneurs. After having worked in 4 US states, Spain, Greece & China, “arguing like I am right, listening like I am wrong” is his favorite motto.
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About 100mentors: We empower today’s youth to consciously take their once in a lifetime decisions & prepare them for the workplace of the future.
Pip Jamieson
Founder & CEO of The Dots
Pip Jamieson is the Founder & CEO of The Dots (https://the-dots.com), a professional network for people that don’t wear suits to work -‘dubbed “The next LinkedIn?’ by Forbes. Delightfully Dyslexic with a distinctive marmite laugh (you either love it or you hate it) Pip was named by The Sunday Times as one of the Top 100 Disruptive Entrepreneurs innovating in their respective fields & as one of the trailblazing leaders having a positive impact on the world. Being a dyslexic sole female tech founder, Pip has put promoting social responsibility and helping business build diverse teams at the heart of everything they do! 68% + of The Dots community is female, 31% + BAME & 16% + LGBT+. The Dots also do a lot of work around socioeconomic diversity and neurodiversity to fuel a more balanced industry of the future.
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About The Dots: The professional network for people who don’t wear suits to work.
Andrew Hall
CEO of Sumdog
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About Sumdog: Online site making learning fun for k-12 students while allowing teachers and parents to track progress and create activities.
Neven Murugan
Co-founder & CEO of Fanmode
Neven Murugan is co-founder & CEO of Fanmode.
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About Fanmode: Fanmode is a real-time fan engagement services platform.
Daniel Williams
Owner, Founder, and CEO of WIT Fitness
Daniel Williams is the Owner, Founder, and CEO at WIT Fitness Ltd
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About WIT Fitness: Itself as a unique, multi-brand fitness concept store.
Sandeep Saujani
CEO of bobsguide
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About bobsguide: Connecting buyers and sellers of financial technology globally
Thierry Clarke
Founder & CEO of InvestorConnected
Thierry Clarke is the founder and CEO of InvestorConnected. He is also the lead consultant of EBRD. He earned his degree at Queen Mary University of London.
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About InvestorConnected: InvestorConnected is an online community where entrepreneurs and investors combine their resources to build successful businesses together.
Robin Weil
Founder & CEO of Wedding Planner
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About Music Students for hire, Wedding Planner: Wedding Planner has helped over 275,000 brides to realise their dreams – they would love to help you to plan your BIG day.
Zaid Daba’een
CEO of DeveloperHub.io
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About DeveloperHub.io, Kadence: Create beautiful powerful developer hubs, hassle-free.
Jon Smith
Co-Founder & CEO of Pobble
Jon Smith is a Co-Founder & CEO at LendMeYourLiteracy.
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About Pobble: Pobble is the platform to find the best teaching resources, give pupils a global audience for their work, and to assess writing.
Henry Dowding
CEO/Founder of Hang
Henry Dowding is the 18-year-old Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hang.
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About Hang: Hang is real-time meeting space booking platform that’s redefining how people meet.
Biju Menon
CEO of FairHire
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About FairHire: FairHire is a blind hiring platform for employers to remove prejudice from the recruitment process.
David Kovats
Founder & CEO of Collectorism
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About Collectorism: Collectorism is a global network providing a platform for collectors to showcase and exchange their items.
Richard Sadd
Founder & CEO of MindSauce
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About MindSauce: MindSauce is disrupting the consulting industry by offering world-class expertise on demand
Paul Phillips
CEO of FlixMedia
Paul Phillips is CEO at Flixmedia.
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About FlixMedia: We are proud to be a trusted partner for many Billion dollar brands and retailers to help them sell more.
Paul Andrews
CEO of JobsInKent.Com
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About JobsInKent.Com, JobsInKent.Com: JobsInKent.Com is a staffing and recruitment website that lists new jobs with local businesses in and around Kent.
Alan Moore
Founder & CEO of Taxworld
Alan Moore is a Founder & CEO at Taxworld.
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About Taxworld: Taxworld Ltd. is a highly innovative publishing company that is a leading supplier of tax legislation and commentary.
Ernie Liang
CEO of Classroom24-7
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About Classroom24-7: Classroom24-7 is a leading provider of online education technologies and services.
Lee Chadwick
Chief Executive Officer of Spotler
Lee Chadwick is the Chief Executive Officer of Spotler Group.
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About Spotler: Spotler is a provider of online email marketing and marketing automation software and associated knowledge and services.
Elspeth Briscoe
CEO & Founder of Learning with experts
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About Learning with experts: Learningwithexperts.com provides a structured virtual learning environment delivering vocational and hobby courses.
Elspeth Briscoe
CEO & Founder of Learning with experts
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About Learning with experts: Learningwithexperts.com provides a structured virtual learning environment delivering vocational and hobby courses.
