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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 Secondary Education 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.
Ben Dunford
Founder & CEO of EPraise
Ben Dunford, 29, from Exeter, Devon has been a teacher since 2007. Prior to becoming a teacher, he studied for a BSc in Computer Science at the University of Exeter and a PGCE with South West Teacher Training. Ben came up with the idea for epraise in 2009 after noticing that his school’s reward system was not having much of a positive effect on the students, and was wasting a lot of administration time. In 2010 epraise launched in three local schools, and in 2012 epraise attended their first BETT show, which was a huge success. In 2013 Ben won the Express and Echo Young Entrepreneur of the Year award and began to cut back on teaching to focus more on epraise. Ben has continued to add new functionality and refinements to epraise almost every week. epraise has now developed way beyond just a rewards system and now incorporates many behaviour, learning, assessment and tracking tools which teachers use on a daily basis. The popularity of epraise has seen it grown beyond the UK into markets such as the USA and UAE. It’s still early days for epraise, but it’s certainly going very well indeed – in 2014 epraise more than doubled their takings.
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About EPraise: Praise and rewards system for schools
James Bryce
Founder and CEO of gweek
Entrepreneur in speech pathology and technology.
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About gweek: gweek is the category leader of Speech Intelligence. We help job candidates speak and communicate with natural agility.
Joachim Horn
Founder & CEO of SAM Labs
Joachim Horn is a Founder at Sam Labs.
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About SAM Labs: SAM Labs is an edtech company that empowers teachers with the most engaging STEAM solution.
Aaron Leary
Founder of Bedrock Learning
Aaron Leary is the Founder at Bedrock Learning.
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About Bedrock Learning: Bedrock Vocabulary exposes pupils to challenging vocabulary and makes them think deeply about what words mean.
Ben Caulfield
CEO and Co-Founder of Eedi
Ben Caulfield is the CEO and Co-Founder of Eedi.
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About Eedi: Eedi develops digital and physical products that ensure that every learner has access to great teaching and learning.
Howard Jackson
Head of Education & Founder of HCSS Education of HCSS Education
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About HCSS Education: HCSS Education, part of the Access Group, provides practical and effective solutions to the business of education.
