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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 Food Delivery 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.
Vladimir Kholiaznikov
Founder of Jiffy Grocery
Vladimir Kholiaznikov is the co-founder of Jiffy Grocery.
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About Jiffy Grocery: Jiffy is an online supermarket with an on-demand delivery service that offers fresh produce, meals, and household essentials.
Anton Soulier
Founder & CEO of Taster
Anton Soulier is the Founder of Taster. He is a former Business Development, Business Operations Manager, Regional Manager, and Deputy General Manager France at Deliveroo. Mr. Soulier received a master’s degree in Finance at NEOMA Business School.
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About Taster: Taster is a food delivery company that operates dozens of restaurants that only exist on food delivery platforms.
Riya Grover
Co-Founder and CEO of Feedr
Riya Grover is the founder and CEO of Feedr, a scalable technology platform empowering healthy and artisan food vendors to produce and supply meals for the workplace.
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About Feedr: Feedr is an enterprise food technology platform that gives corporate customers software to support healthier daily eating in workplaces
Elizabeth Swanton
Co-Founder and COO of Feedr
Elizabeth Swanton is the founder and COO of Feedr, a scalable technology platform empowering healthy and artisan food vendors to produce and supply meals for the workplace.
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About Feedr: Feedr is an enterprise food technology platform that gives corporate customers software to support healthier daily eating in workplaces
Jonathan Petrides
Founder and CEO of AllPlants
Jonathan Petrides is Co-Founder of Allplants.
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About AllPlants: AllPlants is a VC-backed B-Corp on a mission to become Earth’s most forward-thinking food company.
Alex Petrides Petrides
Founder of AllPlants
Alex loves to launch and run projects that spread positivity, openness and compassion. He kickstarted his career as employee #1 at Propercorn, building the brand from scratch to serving over 3 million colourful packs of popcorn each month across Europe. He left the world of popcorn late last year to launch allplants with his brother, JP. Allplants prepare and deliver delicious, plant-powered eats to your home, fresh frozen, ready to go. From a spicy Jerk Jackfruit Curry to a Creamy Cashew Mac, they’ve delivered over 60,000 meals this year and are primed to hit 2018 with a bang.
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About AllPlants: AllPlants is a VC-backed B-Corp on a mission to become Earth’s most forward-thinking food company.
Janus Friis
Co-Founder of Starship Technologies
Janus co-founded Joost, Skype, Kazaa and Joltid, among other high-profile technology companies, with his long-time business partner Niklas Zennström. Janus is the recipient of a series of industry awards and was also recognized by Time Magazine as one of its 100 Most Influential People in 2006.
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About Joost, Starship Technologies: Starship Technologies is a robotics company building fleets of self-driving delivery robots designed to deliver goods.
Steven Novick
CEO & Founder of Farmstand
Previously built 2 billion-dollar businesses and climbed the 7 Summits including Everest. Beating cancer made him passionate about health + the environment and growing up working class has made him appreciate affordability + convenience.
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About Farmstand: Farmstand is the Earth’s first meal delivery service focused on the Future of Work. We feed your team in the office and at home.
Timo Boldt
Founder and CEO of Gousto
Timo is the co-founder and CEO of Gousto, which he started in 2012 as an easier way for families to cook and share good food together.A few years – and a LOT of recipe boxes – later, and it’s pretty clear that he was onto something… Timo’s interests include gender equality, sustainability, technology and food (of course!).
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About Gousto: Gousto is an online meal-kit manufacturer and retailer, using AI and automation to provide extensive choice and personalisation.
Kristof Van Beveren
Co-Founder & CEO of Weezy
Kristof Van Beveren is a Co-Founder and CEO at Weezy. Prior to founding Weezy, he is part of Showpad as the Vice President of Marketing and Sales Development.
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About Weezy: Weezy is an online supermarket platform designed for on-demand grocery shopping.
Kelu Liu
Founder & CEO of HungryPanda
Kelu Liu is the Founder & CEO at HungryPanda.
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About HungryPanda: HungryPanda is a Chinese food and grocery delivery company with extensive market coverage.
Peter Georgiou
Founder and CEO of Supper
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About Supper: Delivering London exceptional food.
Mohammad Khodadadi
Founder / CEO of SATIS.AI
Mohammad Khodadadi is a Director/Chief of data, Technologist, Entrepreneur. Mo is an accomplished technologist and entrepreneur with over 15 years of industry experience that includes building and managing large teams, designing complex AI oriented data architectures, and leading high-growth intelligence-driven businesses. His interests include applying artificial intelligence and machine learning concepts to health and biotech and developing cognitive ecosystems capable of contextual deduction from data for actionable suggestions. Prior to joining Babylon, he founded and ran um.ai, a food advisor that tracks/suggest what you eat. He was also CTO at Klappo, a semantic platform for food ingredients, enabling the development of applications that help people to make educated choices about what they consume. He completed his PhD in Computer Science, speciality in formal methods, and his MSC in Bioinformatic at The University of Manchester. He is also one of the first of 100 tech exceptional talent visa holders in the UK and the winner of sirius enterprenurship competition by UK Trade and Investment ministry.
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About SATIS.AI: Food that makes sense | Delicious, Nutritious and affordable, while green and fair
Alessandro Savelli
Founder, MD and CEO of Pasta Evangelists
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About Pasta Evangelists: Pasta Evangelists is freshly made by Italian hands every day.
Chris Rennoldson
COO, Co-Founder, Head of Operations and Finance of Pasta Evangelists
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About Pasta Evangelists: Pasta Evangelists is freshly made by Italian hands every day.
Finn Lagun
Co-Founder & CMO of Pasta Evangelists
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About Pasta Evangelists: Pasta Evangelists is freshly made by Italian hands every day.
Giles Humphries
Founder, CMO of Mindful Chef
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About Mindful Chef: Mindful Chef delivers all the fresh ingredients you need to create delicious, heathy meals.
Robert Grieg-Gran
Founder of Mindful Chef
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About Mindful Chef: Mindful Chef delivers all the fresh ingredients you need to create delicious, heathy meals.
Myles Hopper
Founder, Director of Mindful Chef
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About Mindful Chef: Mindful Chef delivers all the fresh ingredients you need to create delicious, heathy meals.
Ben Pugh
Co-Founder of Farmdrop
Spent 10 years working in finance and loves thinking about new economic models. Previously sailed boats for a living and is a keen surfer. Dreams of supplying FarmDrop as an organic grower one day
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About Farmdrop: Farmdrop: the online supermarket that delivers fresher, fairer food & home essentials directly to your door.
Jeremy Hibbert-Garibaldi
Founder & CEO of Collectiv Food
Founder and CEO at Collectiv Food .
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About Collectiv Food: Collectiv Food is an automated and sustainable food supply chain that provides businesses with transparency and lower costs of ingredients
Jack Latus
Co-Founder of Whey Box
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About LATUS Health, LATUS Training, Whey Box: Whey Box is a food and beverages company that specializes in providing protein powder.
Robert Martineau
Co-Founder of TRIBE
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About TRIBE: Tribe Pack // Monday delivery of five nutrient-rich snacks and inspiration for runners. Run Tribe // Running community.
Guy Hacking
Co-Founder of TRIBE
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About TRIBE: Tribe Pack // Monday delivery of five nutrient-rich snacks and inspiration for runners. Run Tribe // Running community.
Tim Waldron
Co-Founder and Trustee of TRIBE
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About Fimatix, OBR Ventures Ltd, TRIBE: Tribe Pack // Monday delivery of five nutrient-rich snacks and inspiration for runners. Run Tribe // Running community.
Tom Stancliffe
Co-Founder of TRIBE
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About TRIBE: Tribe Pack // Monday delivery of five nutrient-rich snacks and inspiration for runners. Run Tribe // Running community.
Nadine Hellmann
Founder of Little Tummy
After becoming godmother to her best friend’s baby, Nadine realised that there are no fresh, truly nutritious and convenient baby food options available for parents to feed their little ones when life gets hectic. Believing that there should be a more nutritious alternative to the ready-made baby foods on the shelves, Nadine founded Little Tummy
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About Little Tummy: Little Tummy is a meal plan delivery programme that provides parents with fresh, nutrient-dense and balanced baby food made from organic.
Sophie Niedermaier-Patramani
In-house Paediatrician and Co-Founder of Little Tummy
Having trained at University Hospitals in Munich, Harvard and Bern, Sophie has spent the last 3 years working in the NHS and at a private paediatric practice. Having helped lots of families on their weaning journey, she felt there should be more help and support on hand for these parents. Knowing what an immense impact first foods have on her little patients’ development, she became the Co-Founder of Little Tummy.
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About Little Tummy: Little Tummy is a meal plan delivery programme that provides parents with fresh, nutrient-dense and balanced baby food made from organic.
Gordon MacAulay
Founder & Non Executive Director of Parsley Box
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About Parsley Box: Parsley Box is the great new way to enjoy wholesome tasty meals at home.
Justin Gilchrist
Founder & Head of Growth of WellBox
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About Flyte, WellBox: WellBox helps companies spread the love to their work-from-homers with personalized gift boxes delivered straight to their door.
Abul Rob
Founder & CEO of HalalEat
Abul Rob is the Founder and CEO of halaleat.com, a marketplace platform listing local halal verified restaurants and takeaways. He has worked for both of the UK’s leading takeaway food platforms and his career has always been at a Sales and Management level. Being a Muslim himself and having witnessed the lack of verified Halal choice for the growing Muslim population in the UK, he is now aiming to be the first Muslim entrepreneur to ignite the Halal revolution and pioneer the development of the Halal Eco-System beyond food that will touch and benefit the lives of every Muslim. His startup, HalalEat is now a finalist of MassChallenge (UK), the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet.Through MassChallenge resource pool, Abul and his team are mapping out the blueprint to conquer the Halal Economy.
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About HalalEat: HalalEat is an on demand marketplace platform allowing consumers to order Halal verified takeaway food from local restaurant and takeaways.
Morten Toft Bech
Founder of The Meatless Farm
Morten Toft Bech is the Founder of The Meatless Farm Co. He attended SDA Bocconi.
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About The Meatless Farm: The Meatless Farm is a producers of delicious plant-based mince,burgers & sausages.
Mark Murphy
Founder of Foodomnia
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About Foodomnia: Foodomnia builds delivery-only, digitally native food concepts for the takeaway marketplace.
Duncan Scott
Founder & CEO of Supper
Before starting Supper, Duncan worked in Wealth Management in Mayfair, London. Over the previous 6 years Duncan had worked his way up from starting in financial sales, to Heading up sales and marketing and later being in charge of corporate strategy and business performance. Duncan has a degree in Economics and a Masters in Finance and Wealth Management as well as qualifications in tax and accounting.
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About Supper: Supper is an online marketplace for home-cooked food, bringing cookery enthusiasts and hungry Londoners together in a takeaway service
Andrew Laurillard
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Giggling Squid
Andrew Laurillard is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Giggling Squid.
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About Giggling Squid: Giggling Squid is a Thai food sensation
Andrew Keeble
Founder of Heck Food
Andrew Keeble is a Founder at Heck Food.
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About Heck Food: Heck Food is a british company that produces and markets sausages.
Luke Johnstone
Founder of PACK’D
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About PACK’D, The Prince’s Trust: PACK’D is a food and beverage company.
Alex Stewart
Co-Founder of PACK’D
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About PACK’D: PACK’D is a food and beverage company.
John Burke
Co-Founder and Commercial Director of Craft Clubs
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About Craft Clubs: Craft Clubs offers quality food and drink brands a powerful new way to reach consumers, both in their homes and online.
Jon Hulme
Co-Founder and CEO of Craft Clubs
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About Craft Clubs: Craft Clubs offers quality food and drink brands a powerful new way to reach consumers, both in their homes and online.
Robin Harris
Co-Founder and Advisor of Hydro Guard
Robin Harris is the co-founder and advisor at HydroGuard.
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About Hydro Guard, Scubacraft: HydroGuard is a new innovative gadget to stop flooding in the future.
Lucy Mackenzie
Founder of Lucy’s Dressings
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About Lucy’s Dressings: Award winning dressings inspired in Lucy’s family kitchen in Suffolk, using her own unique recipes.
Marco Sargiani
Founder of Gourmio
During more than 20 years of business experience I have had the opportunity to explore many areas of feed/food business that permit me to have a wide vision about markets of raw material, production processes, supply chain, customer service, marketing and rules. I am open to approach new experience by providing dynamicity, moral integrity and leadership that characterize my personality suited to create relationships in the team. Specializzazioni: •Change Management, Purchasing Strategy, Purchase Management, Quality Management, Quality Assurance, Operations Management, Operational Excellence, Supply Chain Management, English, Customer Relations, Public Relations, Team Leadership, Organizing, Problem Solving, Strategic Planning, Logistics, Contract Negotiation, Business Intelligence, Business Management, Business Planning https://uk.linkedin.com/in/marcosargiani
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About Gourmio: Cook the food of Italy. Italian recipes and authentic ingredients delivered to your home.
Adre King
Head Chef and Founder of Adre’s Kitchen
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About Adre’s Kitchen: Adre’s Kitchen is engaged in wholesome and 100% Additive Free Ready Made Meal Delivery.
Dave Thompson
Founder & CEO of Magictab
Dave Thompson is Founder & CEO at Magictab.
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About Magictab: MagicTab is a visual, interactive tabletop menu that makes food look beautiful.
David Jonas
Founder of Vegetarian Express
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About Vegetarian Express: Vegetarian Express is the UK’s distributor of vegetarian and vegan products within the foodservice sector.
Stephen Boyes
Founder and COO of Kurve Kiosks
As a devout technical engineer within IT businesses, I was thrown into the hospitality IT sector in 2000 when I acquired what later become known as, “EPoS Group”, growing it to become a thriving and well-known national player delivering solutions to household names including Chester Zoo, Parkdean Resorts, and Crussh. Following my successful sale and exit of EPoS Group (now re-branded Cunnighams Epos Group) in 2015, I’m now back in the hot seat as COO for Kurve, our vibrant self-serve and kiosk software solutions business which is shaping the UK’s adoption of self-serve across kiosk, online and mobile in the restaurant and hospitality sector.
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About Kurve Kiosks: Bringing the best-in-class self-serve solutions for quick service restaurants & the hospitality sector.
Zahars Zelenskis
Founder and CEO of Waiz.ai
Entrepreneur, sport-minded, and judo addicted. Exited about sustainability.
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About Waiz.ai: Waiz.ai offers smart food waste management for consumers.
James Mansfield
Founder of field&flower
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About field&flower: A UK-based company that delivers grass fed, free range meat boxes.
Raissa de Haas
Co-Founder of Double Dutch Drinks
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About Double Dutch Drinks: Double Dutch offers a range of two premium soft drink mixers that are specifically developed to enhance the flavours of gins and vodkas.
James Grant
Co-Founder of Deliverd
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About Deliverd: Deliverd delivers healthy meals to busy people at lunch
Roberto Lucci
Founder of The Extra Dish
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About The Extra Dish: The Extra Dish is the online marketplace for talented home cooks.
Kate Wolfenden
Founder of The Extra Dish
Founder at The Extra Dish
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About The Extra Dish: The Extra Dish is the online marketplace for talented home cooks.
Sian Allen
Co-Founder of Fungry
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About Fungry: Fungry delivers takeaway food made by local independent restaurants.
Robert Strathern
Founder of Fairfields Farm
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About Fairfields Farm: Colchester-based potato farm and hand-cooked crisp producer
Robert Strathern
Founder of Fairfields Farm
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About Fairfields Farm: Colchester-based potato farm and hand-cooked crisp producer
