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 Diabetes 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.
Julian Shapley
Chief Scientific Officer and Founder of CellNovo
Dr. Shapley has a cross-functional engineering and scientific background, specialising in Microsystems for drug discovery. Dr Shapley worked with the International Space School at NASA in Houston, Texas. He is also the inventor of Cellnovo’s unique pump technology which serves as the cornerstone of the Cellnovo Mobile Diabetes Management System.
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About CellNovo: CellNovo is a medical device company developing a wireless therapeutic system for diabetic patients.
Harry Destecroix
Founder and CEO of Ziylo
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About Ziylo: Ziylo has developed Biomimetic Glucose Binding Molecules (GBM) for Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGM) & Glucose Responsive Insulins (GRI)
Andrew Crockett
Founder & CEO of KalVista Pharmaceuticals
Andrew Crockett is a Founder & CEO at KalVista Pharmaceuticals.
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About KalVista Pharmaceuticals, Vantia Therapeutics: KalVista Pharmaceuticals is an ophthalmology company focused on developing drugs for the treatment of diabetic macular edema (DME).
Stan Karpenko
Co-Founder & CTO of GiveVision
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About GiveVision: GiveVision is a high tech low vision aids enhancing the remaining sight of partially sighted people.
Rafael Michaeli
CoFounder of SAVA
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About SAVA: The first effortless continuous molecular tracker unlocking human perfomance
