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 3D Technology 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.
Misha Gopaul
Founder of FATMAP
Misha is a serial entrepreneur with nearly two decades of experience founding and running successful technology companies. He started his first business, Fabric Technologies, building computers in his bedroom which grew to a team of over 120 people before a merger with a publicly listed competitor in 2011. He plays an active role in the European tech eco-system as an advisor, angel investor and mentor and currently serves on the Board at NEX Abide Financial and Workplace Fabric. In 2013, a chance meeting with adventurer and self-professed mapping geek, David Cowell sparked the beginning of his most ambitious project to date, combining his passion for mountains and technology – to build FATMAP, the world’s leading adventure platform and the most precise and detailed 3D map of the outdoors – a 1:1 map in virtual reality. Competing with established mapping giants has called for an innovative approach to business models and partnerships. Using gaming technology and disruptive models from the tech and music industry FATMAP is on a mission to map the world in human scale detail and build the highest resolution computational map of our planet.
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About CME Group Regulatory Reporting, FATMAP: FATMAP is an outdoor adventure platform for web & mobile.
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Ian Hetherington
Co-Founder of WRLD
Ian has been involved in the video game industry since 1982. He founded and was Managing Director of Psygnosis Limited, which became one of the most successful UK based publishers. Psygnosis was sold to Sony in 1993 and Ian was retained as the Managing Director of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe from 1994-1997 where he was instrumental in the design and implementation of the hardware and software for Sony’s new Playstation console, and oversaw the development of the European launch catalogue (80% market share at launch).
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About Midoki, Realtime Worlds, WRLD: A 3D cloud-based platform of real-world environments to create digital twins.
Oren Yogev
Co-Founder & CEO of Replay Technologies
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About Blink Technologies, Replay Technologies: Replay Technologies Inc. develops video 3D reconstruction technologies.
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.
David Mullett
Founder & Chief Design Officer of Pupil
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About Pupil: Pupil is changing the world of data capture, creating immersive 3D experiences through revolutionary technology.
Oliver Breach
Founder & COO of Pupil
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About MBM Capital Partners, Pupil: Pupil is changing the world of data capture, creating immersive 3D experiences through revolutionary technology.
James D. Marshall
Founder and CEO of Pupil
James D Marshall is the founder and CEO at Pupil.
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About MBM Capital Partners, Pupil: Pupil is changing the world of data capture, creating immersive 3D experiences through revolutionary technology.
Craig Johnston
CTO & Co-Founder of ENOUGH
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About ENOUGH, Swedish Biomimetics 3000: ENOUGH is a foodtech startup producing protein through fermenting fungi using renewable feedstocks.
Will Jackson
Founder & Director of Engineered Arts
Will Jackson is the Director of Engineered Arts Ltd, based in Cornwall UK and is the creator of RoboThespian, a full sized humanoid acting robot. Will formed Engineered Arts Ltd in 2004 and employed the talents of many local artists and engineers to produce a number of bespoke commissions for UK science centres and museums. Their accomplishments including major installations for The Eden Project in Cornwall, Glasgow Science Centre, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and Centrum Kopernik in Warsaw.
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About Engineered Arts: RoboThespian, a life-size humanoid acting robot designed by Engineered Arts Ltd. info@robothespian.co.uk
Tobin Ireland
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of MetaGravity
Tobin Ireland is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of MetaGravity.
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About MetaGravity, Mobile Value Partners: MetaGravity is a deep-tech startup that is pushing the boundaries of blockchain and the Metaverse.
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.
Aleksandra Pedraszewska
Co-Founder and COO of VividQ
Aleksandra M. Pedraszewska is a Co-Founder and COO at VividQ. She received a bachelor of arts in Land Economy (Law, Economics, Environment) at the University of Cambridge and earned a master of philosophy in Technology Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School.
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About VividQ: VividQ powers the revolution in digital display with Computer-Generated Holography.
Darran Milne
Co-Founder & CEO of VividQ
Dr Darran Milne – Chief Executive Officer, PhD (University of St Andrews & Max Plank Institute) Mathematician and Theoretical Physicist by training, with a PhD in quantum information theory from the University of St Andrews and the Max Plank Institute in Erlangen. Having started his career as a quantitative analyst at a large financial software house, he soon began to direct product development initiatives, and manage client implementation projects as a Scrum Master. As one of the co-founders of VividQ and its CTO, he directed the original research and development efforts of the team that evolved into the currently offered products. In his role as a CEO, he has been responsible for leading and execution of the company’s technology and commercial strategies.
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About VividQ: VividQ powers the revolution in digital display with Computer-Generated Holography.
Roman Pechhacker
Co-Founder and Head of Internal Development of VividQ
Roman Pechhacker is the Co-Founder and Head of Internal Development at VividQ.
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About VividQ: VividQ powers the revolution in digital display with Computer-Generated Holography.
Chris Howard
Founder of The Rattle
Chris is a serial technology entrepreneur from MIT specialising in creating companies that blend deep tech with phsychology. Formerly an entrepreneur in residence for Techstars, UCL, and the Digital Catapult, Chris is currently the founding CEO of The Rattle – a tech enabled incubator for the music industry.
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About The Rattle, University College London (UCL): The Rattle is a venture studio and incubator for provocative artists, hackers, inventors, and startups.
Jon Eades
Director and Co-Founder of The Rattle
Jon heads up Abbey Road’s new technology and innovation department, Abbey Road Red, managing the music tech start-up incubation program and partnering with researchers to investigate emerging technologies for music.
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About Abbey Road Red, Abbey Road Studios, The Rattle: The Rattle is a venture studio and incubator for provocative artists, hackers, inventors, and startups.
Bobby Bloomfield
Founder of The Rattle
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About The Rattle: The Rattle is a venture studio and incubator for provocative artists, hackers, inventors, and startups.
Ash Nehru
Founder & Chief Innovation Officer of Disguise
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About Disguise: Disguise is a global provider of live event visualization solutions.
Alexandra Hussenot
Founder & CEO of Immersionn
Alexandra is the founder of Immersionn, the world’s first VR Discovery Engine and she is also the UK lead for ‘Women in Immersive Technologies’, a community of 1000 members that aims to empower European women working in XR. She is also 1 in 10 members of the UK5G Creative Industries working group reporting the department in charge of Digital, Medias, Culture and Sport (DCMS). Prior to this, Alexandra pursued an international business career at insurance firm, Allianz, managing an £80M global business. She has also worked all over Europe during her 11 years at Sony Ericsson (now Sony Mobile) and has solid experience designing and launching software and service products, particularly covering user experience design and continuous improvements. She also lead large scale operations for mobile phone repairs and remanufacturing.
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About Immersionn: Immersionn is a content discovery company. We allow people to discover VR content they would never find
Darren Jobling
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Board Member of ZeroLight
With over 25 years as a leader in the technology industry, Darren has built two pioneering organisations directly from the North East of England, establishing ZeroLight in 2014. The company has secured landmark deals with Audi, Pagani, JLR and Toyota, providing premium visualisation solutions both in dealership and online. Rated as one of the region’s Most Influential People for 5 years running, Darren is a committed entrepreneur, innovator and curator of technological talent.
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About ZeroLight: ZeroLight is a creator of the world’s most advanced car configurator solution.
Adam Billyard
Co-Founder & CTO of Polystream
Having been in the industry since the dawn of time (well at least 1981) Adam has a wealth of experience and expertise in realtime graphics development that has led to the creation of some of the most successful game franchises seen in the last 20 years. As a Co-Founder of Criterion, in 1992 Adam oversaw the development of Renderware; one of the most successful 3D rendering engines subsequently instrumental to some of the largest game franchises of the last few years. Following Criterion’s acquisition by EA, Adam became VP and CTO at EATech until leaving in 2008 to pursue new challenges. Having founded Lightup software, Adam delivered the highly successful LightUp Analytics for energy efficient building design. With all this it shouldn’t be a surprise that Adam is a named inventor on 10 patents and counting.
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About Elektraglide, Polystream: Building the 3D internet // Powering a new era of instantly scalable, cloud native, metaverse experiences
Bruce Grove
Co-Founder & CEO of Polystream
Bruce has 25 years experience across video game platforms, enterprise, telecoms, and avionics. Bruce came to Polystream following senior leadership roles at OnLive including engineering, business and corporate development, and overseeing the company’s launch and growth in Europe. Having spent more than ten years in the US in roles including engineering leadership at Sun Microsystems, Tellme Networks, and Dell XPS, Bruce then joined the first wave of the cloud gaming revolution as head of engineering at OnLive. Instrumental in delivering the world’s first direct-to-consumer cloud gaming solution, he moved back to the UK in 2011 to build OnLive’s European business; apparently he missed the pubs and curries, and rain. Having started his career building Harrier Jump Jets, Bruce figured that video games just seemed like a natural progression, and a little less expensive when you get it wrong.
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About Polystream: Building the 3D internet // Powering a new era of instantly scalable, cloud native, metaverse experiences
Raphaëlle Mura
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Change of Paradigm
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About Change of Paradigm, MIXIMALISTE.COM: Change of Paradigm is a 3D virtualization, content and experiences creator for the fashion industry.
Philip Delamore
Co-Founder & CIO of Change of Paradigm
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About Change of Paradigm, MIXIMALISTE.COM: Change of Paradigm is a 3D virtualization, content and experiences creator for the fashion industry.
Neil Tocher
Co-Founder, CEO, CTO of NCTech
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About NCTech: NCTech is a big data and analytics provider. Pioneering edge-to-cloud big data capture & provision with ML/AI for Google, government & AEC
Lucie Marchelot Shukla
Co-Founder – Managing Director of Straight Teeth Direct
Lucie Marchelot Shukla is a Co-Founder – Managing Director at Straight Teeth Direct.
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About Straight Teeth Direct: Straight TeethDirect to consumer teledentistry platform that connects users to online dentists globally enabling low cost.
Aalok Y Shukla
Co-Founder & CEO of Straight Teeth Direct
Aalok Y Shukla is the CEO and Co-Founder of Straight Teeth Direct.
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About Straight Teeth Direct: Straight TeethDirect to consumer teledentistry platform that connects users to online dentists globally enabling low cost.
Dr Javid Khan
Founder of Holoxica
Founder of Holoxica Ltd, a high tech startup working on holographic 3D visualisation including digital holograms and holographic displays. Javid Khan founded Holoxica in 2008 to commercialise the results of his research in Photonics Engineering on Holographic 3D displays at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Holoxica’s R&D activities focus on naturally viewable (glassess-free) dynamic 3D displays. Holoxica also offers custom 3D digital hologram design and production services for professionals markets including medical imaging, scientific visualisation and engineering design. Over 23 years’ experience in microelectronics, photonics and displays. Javid holds a EngD (Engineering Doctorate) in Photonics plus MEng and MSc degrees in Microelectronics and Telecoms Engineering.
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About Holoxica: Holoxica is an award-winning high-tech company specializing in holographic 3D visualization technologies.
Rob Eastham
Founder and CEO of Reality Zero One
Rob Eastham serves as Chief Executive Officer and Founder at Reality Zero One.
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About Reality Zero One: Reality Zero One’s mission is to design and create a world class end-to-end reality capture and digital reality delivery platform.
Adrian Karl
CTO & Co-Founder of Inspection2
Adrian has over 20 years’ experience working within the mobile telecommunications and Internet industry. Adrian joined Sky-Futures in 2014 to lead the delivery of a technology roadmap for Expanse® that aims to maximise the value and impact of the data captured by drones. Adrian has been involved in both the design and delivery of a wide range of high tech and business applications that have technology at the core. He now applies this experience and expertise to ensure Inspection² stay at the leading edge of AI technology with our software and sensor solutions.
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About Inspection2: Automate industrial asset management & inspection with Inspection2 an AI-powered asset management, data analytics and reporting software
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.
Andrew Roberts
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Simworx
Andrew Roberts is a Co-Founder at Simworx.
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About Simworx: Simworx is acknowledged as one of the world leaders in the supply of 4D Effects Cinema’s and Motion Simulation Attractions, for the
Terry Monkton
Co-Founder, CEO & Managing Director of Simworx
Terry Monkton is a Co-Founder & Managing Director at Simworx.
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About Simworx: Simworx is acknowledged as one of the world leaders in the supply of 4D Effects Cinema’s and Motion Simulation Attractions, for the
John Keefe
Co Founder & Director of Draw and Code
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About Draw and Code, SwapBots: Draw and Code is a software company that is engaged in a variety of technology based projects.
Jose Maria Peña
CTO & Co-Founder of Lurtis Rules
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About Lurtis Rules: A cloud service that produces complete 3D scenarios out of user constraints
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.
Fr Ro
Founder & CEO of Promeasure
Inventor, Founder and CEO of Promeasure.
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About MisterChef: Technological innovation for the construction industry
Paul Fotheringham
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of 3D LifePrints
Paul Fotheringham is Founder & Chief Technology Officer of 3D LifePrints UK Ltd.
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About 3D LifePrints: 3D LifePrints is the leading provider of Medical 3D Printing products and services with a unique in-hospital embedded model
Henry Pinchbeck
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of 3D LifePrints
Henry Pinchbeck is Co-Founder Chief Executive Officer of 3D LifePrints.
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About 3D LifePrints: 3D LifePrints is the leading provider of Medical 3D Printing products and services with a unique in-hospital embedded model
James Pulver
Founder of Housahedron
Founder at Housahedron
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About Housahedron, Spacesweets: Housahedron creates live visualizations of indoor climates and energy performances of buildings.
John Donovan
Founder of Housahedron
Founder at Housahedron
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About Housahedron: Housahedron creates live visualizations of indoor climates and energy performances of buildings.
Martin Brennan
Co-Founder of VIEWPOP3D
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About VIEWPOP3D: VIEWPOP3D is an independent art and technology business designed to change the way we capture and share content.
Martin Brennan
Co-Founder of VIEWPOP3D
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About VIEWPOP3D: VIEWPOP3D is an independent art and technology business designed to change the way we capture and share content.
Dan Weaver
Co-Founder/Creative Director of Fudge Animation Studios
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About Fudge Animation Studios: Fudge Animation Studios are a full service agency who astonish, inspire and motivate target audiences with exceptional character animation.
Matthew Clark
Co-Founder & Creative Director of United Visual Artists
Matthew Clark is Co-Founder & Creative Director at United Visual Artists.
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About United Visual Artists: UVA is a London based art practice that combines a wide range of disciplines: sculpture, installation, live performance, and architecture.
Fredi Nonyelu
Founder of Briteyellow
Founder of Briteyellow.
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About Briteyellow: Briteyellow provides 3D and virtual reality indoor location and navigation applications for wayfinding and discovery.
Fredi Nonyelu
Founder of Briteyellow
Founder of Briteyellow.
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About Briteyellow: Briteyellow provides 3D and virtual reality indoor location and navigation applications for wayfinding and discovery.
Tim Lloyd Yeates
Founder & Director of Alive
Tim founded and directs Alive! a charity dedicated to improving the quality of life of older people in care. He is passionate about empowering older people, especially those now living in residential care and is campaigning for care home residents to have access to their interests. He is also the acknowledged innovator of using iPads with people with dementia and co-founded the Memory Apps for Dementia partnership in 2010.
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About Alive: Alive is a pioneer Augmented Reality Platform from Times Internet Ltd the internet and mobile venture of India’s largest media house.
Tim Lloyd Yeates
Founder & Director of Alive
Tim founded and directs Alive! a charity dedicated to improving the quality of life of older people in care. He is passionate about empowering older people, especially those now living in residential care and is campaigning for care home residents to have access to their interests. He is also the acknowledged innovator of using iPads with people with dementia and co-founded the Memory Apps for Dementia partnership in 2010.
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About Alive: Alive is a pioneer Augmented Reality Platform from Times Internet Ltd the internet and mobile venture of India’s largest media house.
Steven Herd
Founder of Zoetrope
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About Zoetrope: Zoetrope is an interactive 3D photography service for online retail.
