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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 Printing 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.
Andrew Pearce
Co-Founder & CEO of thortful
Co-Founder and CEO at thortful.
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About thortful: thortful is an online greeting card marketplace.
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George Chen
Co-Founder of Metalysis
George Chen is the Co-founder of Metalysis.
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About Metalysis: Metalysis, a manufacturer of metals and alloys, offers both economic and environmental benefits over traditional metal production methods.
Sam Al-Mukhtar
Co-Founder & CEO of Geomiq
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About Geomiq: Geomiq is an intelligent platform that provides Instant quotes and Instant ordering of custom manufactured parts.
Raam Thakrar
Founder of TouchNote
Raam is a co-founder of Touchnote, an m-commerce start-up selling personalised greeting cards on both the web and mobile. Previous varied experience in consulting – strategy consulting in London, rural and small businesses in London, Washington DC and Central America. I was also a published journalist in Mexico. Next stop, pizza chef.
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About TouchNote: TouchNote helps you send thoughtful cards and prints to loved ones, right from your mobile, tablet or desktop.
James Washer
Founder of Super Snaps
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About Super Snaps: Super easy photo printing and gifting.
Melissa Snover
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Board Member of Nourished
Melissa Snover CEO and founder of Nourished.
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About Goody Good Stuff, Nourished: Nourished provides a customized nutrition product that uses patented 3D printing technology to create bespoke gummy vitamins on demand.
Oluwaseyi Sosanya
Co Founder and CEO of Gravity Sketch
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About Gravity Sketch: Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.
Daniel Thomas
Co-Founder & CTO of Gravity Sketch
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About Gravity Sketch: Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.
Daniela Paredes
Co-Founder and Director of Gravity Sketch
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About Gravity Sketch: Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.
Tom Cohen
CTO & Co-Founder of Popsa
Tom Cohen joined Popsa as Co-Founder & CTO in 2016.
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About Popsa: Popsa is a machine learning startup that automatically designs, makes, and delivers personalized physical products.
Liam Houghton
CEO & Co-Founder of Popsa
Liam Houghton joined Popsa as CEO & Founder in 2016.
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About Popsa: Popsa is a machine learning startup that automatically designs, makes, and delivers personalized physical products.
Samantha Payne
Co Founder & COO of Open Bionics
Samantha Payne is the co founder of Open Bionics; a robotics company developing assistive devices that enhance the human body. The company has won multiple awards for Engineering and Innovation including two British Engineering Excellence Awards and the James Dyson award for innovative design. Open Bionics works with companies like Disney to children with limb differences into bionic superheroes. They were the first company to bring affordable multi-grip bionic hands to the National Health Service in the UK.
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About Open Bionics: Open Bionics is a robotics company creating affordable 3D-printed bionic hands for amputees, researchers and makers.
Ben Alun-Jones
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of UNMADE
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About UNMADE: Unmade provides customizable design through industrial manufacturing.
Kirsty Emery
Co-Founder & Chief Customer Success Officer of UNMADE
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About UNMADE: Unmade provides customizable design through industrial manufacturing.
Gerard Rubio
CEO & Founder of Kniterate
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About Kniterate: Kniterate is an affordable and compact digital knitting machine for your workshop.
Kerry Hogarth
Co-Founder & Managing Director of 3D Printshow
Kerry Hogarth is Co-Founder & Managing Director at 3D Printshow.
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About 3D Printshow: 3D Printshow brings together key players from the entire 3D printing ecosystem.
Tony Fish
Co-Founder of Fab Lab London
Tony is a seasoned executive director with over 25 years of experience in investment, innovation and high growth. He brings digital and transformation skills to any board. His professional life has cut across a diverse range of sectors including venture capital, health, finance, digital fabrication, media, mobile, sport and education. His attention is currently focused on AI, voice, ethics, DLT and cryptocurrency Tony has founded, co-founded, sold and listed many businesses but remains passionate about highly disruptive technology which has the capability of scaling fast and is at an early stage. He brings professional working knowledge and experience of raising funding as a founder and adviser, funding growth companies as a partner and general partner of funds and representing corporates in M&A transactions. Whilst his style is based on deep involvement, clear decision making, robust financials, fast iteration, trust, transparency and strong open governance controls; he brings innovation, entrepreneurship, energy, enthusiasm and transformation skills. In addition to speaking at over 200 events and conferences on innovation, entrepreneurship, digital trends and early stage growth, he has authored and published three books. He is a visiting Fellow at Henley Business School for entrepreneurship and innovation, Teaches at LBS and LSE and an EC expert for Big Data.
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About Fab Lab London, iNeed: Rapid Prototyping and hardware acceleration in the City of London
Chris Hunt
CTO & Founder of Pireta
Chris worked at the National Physical Laboratory where he headed up a multidisciplinary team of scientists looking at material problems in electronics interconnects. Much of this work has been done in collaboration with industry and he is chair of the UK IMAPS committee. In the role of advancing metrology, he has developed test methods and standards. He currently chairs the relevant IEC committee and travels the world giving invited international papers. He identified an interconnect solution for textiles and is one of the two inventors for a patent pending technology for making textiles conductive, as well as the founder of Pireta. Chris is a Chartered Physicist, and has a BSc from the Institute of Physics, and a PhD from Surrey University.
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About GEN3, Pireta: Pireta technology enables the integration of Smart Textiles into wide range of sectors.
David Crudden
Co-Founder and Senior Alloy Design Engineer of OxMet Technologies
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About OxMet Technologies: OxMet Technologies develops, licenses, and manufactures proprietary alloys, alloy powders and alloy components.
Fauzan Adziman
Founder and Director of OxMet Technologies
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About OxMet Technologies: OxMet Technologies develops, licenses, and manufactures proprietary alloys, alloy powders and alloy components.
Enrique Alabort Martinez
Co-Founder and Programme Director of OxMet Technologies
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About OxMet Technologies: OxMet Technologies develops, licenses, and manufactures proprietary alloys, alloy powders and alloy components.
Vaiva Kalnikaitė
Designing human-machine interactions and Founder of Dovetailed
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About Dovetailed: Dovetailed is a design studio and innovation lab that develops physical and digital experiences.
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Founder of Red Med Technologies
Founder at Red Med Technologies
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About Red Med Technologies: Efficiently-designed medical devices for fast-growing medical sectors
Philip Balkanski
Founder of Printt App
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About Printt App: Printt is a mobile application that connects people to a network of printing facilities across the UK
Marat Khazarchiev
Founder of Printt App
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About Printt App: Printt is a mobile application that connects people to a network of printing facilities across the UK
Ruslan Khazarchiev
Founder of Printt App
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About Printt App: Printt is a mobile application that connects people to a network of printing facilities across the UK
Ruslan Khazarchiev
Founder of Printt App
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About Printt App: Printt is a mobile application that connects people to a network of printing facilities across the UK
Phill Adamson
Managing Director & Co-Founder of Paragon Rapid Technologies Ltd
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About Paragon Rapid Technologies Ltd: A leading product development and production support company, offering prototyping, manufacturing and supply chain management solutions.
Jim Cunliffe
Founder, Director of Face Media Group
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About Face Media Group: Brighton based print broker specialising in business and promotional print delivering across the country.
Laurel London
Co-Founder of Laurel London
Co-Founder of Laurel London.
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About Laurel London: LAUREL LONDON LTD is a Computer Networking company located in Dale Rd N, Darley Dale, England, United Kingdom.
Tim Dickinson
Founder of Descrier
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About Descrier: Independent news and culture magazine
Parth Desai
Founder & CEO of Pelican
Parth Desai graduated from Georgia Tech with a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence and was quickly hired to work with one of the most celebrated global pioneers of Artificial Intelligence , Roger Schank. Parth rapidly built a deep expertise in AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) that has driven his own ability to innovate over the past two decades. During that time, Parth built a global team and nurtured their collective AI expertise. Working collaboratively within the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance domain for Banks and Corporates, Parth has built a thorough understanding of the Payments, Securities, Anti Money Laundering and Risk Management from both the business and technology viewpoints. As Founder &CEO, Parth works closely with his global team to deliver consistent innovation and client value that continues to underpin their long-term client relationships.
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About Pelican: Pelican provides banks and corporates with solutions that enhance, streamline and secure the payments life-cycle.
Liang Hao
Founder and Director of Choc Edge
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About Choc Edge: Chocedge is the world leader in 3d chcolate printing design and manufacture.
Chris Lawrence
Co-Founder & COO of CGHero
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About CGHero: Outsource 3D Modelling, Concept Art, Textures, VFX & More
Tamar Giloh
CEO and Founder of TamiCare
Tamar Giloh is the CEO and Founder of Tamicare.
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About TamiCare: Tamicare is an R&D, innovation and engineering company specializing in the field of textile and nonwoven materials.
Daniel Crawford
Founder of Axial3D
Daniel Crawford is Founder at axial3D.
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About Axial3D: Axial3D is 3D printing anatomical models for the healthcare industry.
Alexander Enoch
Founder of Robotical
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About Robotical: Robotical makes a low cost walking robot that’s more than a toy! The perfect robot for learning about robotics
Joseph Crabtree
Founder and CEO of Additive Manufacturing Technologies
Joseph Crabtree is the Founder and CEO of Additive Manufacturing Technologies.
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About Additive Manufacturing Technologies: 3D Printing technology company dedicated to unlocking 3D printing as a viable alternative to traditional manufacturing.
Rebecca Yates
Founder of Rebecca Yates London
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About Rebecca Yates London: Rebecca Yates London is an online store for personalized notebooks, journals, typography, colorful prints, and many more.
Ian Falconer
CEO and Founder of Fishy Filaments
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About Fishy Filaments: Takes used fishing nets and transforms them into 3D printer filament.
Simon kuhnel
Founder & Director of Kuhnel Graphics
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About Kuhnel Graphics: Kuhnel Graphics have 40 years print industry experience and a reputation for providing quality print solutions at affordable prices.
Tim Plunkett
Founder and Director of Plunkett Associates
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About Plunkett Associates: Plunkett Associates providing knowledgeable resource through which companies could order prototype & low volume production parts.
Richard Flanagan
Founder of Tshirtify
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About Tshirtify: Tshirtify is an on-demand t-shirt printing start-up built to support influencers & creatives seeking new opportunities for their brand.
Richard Flanagan
Founder of Tshirtify
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About Tshirtify: Tshirtify is an on-demand t-shirt printing start-up built to support influencers & creatives seeking new opportunities for their brand.
Christopher Thorpe
Founder and CEO of I Can Make
Christopher Thorpe is the founder and CEO of I Can Make and is responsible for the technology in the company. He is also the founder of jaggeree, a small full-service digital consultancy company.
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About I Can Make: I Can Make Ltd. designs and provides online entertaining and educational three dimensional printable kits.
