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 COO’ operating in the Apps space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Daniel Sagi
COO of Kape Technologies
COO at Crossrider
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About Kape Technologies: Kape Technologies is an online distribution and digital product hub.
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Lewis Tasker
Chief Operating Officer of JustPark
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About JustPark: JustPark is a parking app reinventing parking for the digital era.
Daisy Hill
Chief Operating Officer of Zzish
8 years in high-growth tech ventures after creating her own music education startup. Organises chaos at Zzish. History geek, wannabe boxer.
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About Zzish: Zzish is a valuable classroom digital teaching tool for teachers that provides real-time feedback on the progress of their students.
Lee Hudson
Chief Operating Officer of AppyWay
Lee has spent 20 years bringing cutting edge technology and services to consumers in retail, online and app sectors, leading operational strategy for turnaround and growth. At AppyWay, Lee is responsible for developing strategic IOT and Connected City partnerships and scaling operations for global expansion.
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Richard Evetts
COO of Bink
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About Bink: Bink develops a mobile application that links card payment to loyalty schemes.
Romain Saint Guilhem
Co-Founder and COO of Zebra Fuel
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About Altacasa, Zebra Fuel: Zebra Fuel is a mobile fuel delivery service that delivers fuel into a vehicle directly at a preferred delivery time.
Alison Conway
COO of MishiPay
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About MishiPay: Mishipay is an app allowing you to never have to stand in line to pay at a store again.
Saasha Celestial-One
Co-Founder & COO of OLIO
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About OLIO: OLIO is a global food sharing app connecting neighbors, volunteers, and businesses.
Archie Woodhead
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of InCrowd Sports
Archie Woodhead is a Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at InCrowd Sports.
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About InCrowd Sports: Incrowd builds sponsorship activation platforms to give fans an in-stadia experience.
Taras Polischuk
Co-Founder & COO of Dorm
Taras Polischuk is the Co-Founder and COO at Dorm.
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About Dorm, Forbes, PomaBrush: Dorm is an audio learning app that aggregates and curates the world’s podcasting content.
Srikant Chakravarti
Co-Founder & COO of Curio
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About Curio: Listen to the world’s best journalism on the go
Rich Keen
COO of Mind Candy
Rich started out in the music industry in London in the mid-90s, developing his experience over the last 20 years through businesses spanning the media, games and events industries. His most recent role was at Sony where he was UK Marketing Director for PlayStation, responsible for the marketing of PlayStation products such as PS4 and PSVR.
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About Mind Candy: Moshi provides a sleep and mindfulness app for kids featuring melodic stories created to help kids drift off to sleep quickly.
Per Lauritzson
Chief Operating Officer of Flexion
Per Lauritzson is a Co-Founder & COO at Flexion.
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About Flexion, Mobile Sensations Limited: Flexion is a monetization and distribution platform for developers and publishers.
Megan Neale
Co-Founder & COO of Limitless
Megan Neale is the Co-Founder and COO at Limitless.
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About Limitless, Semafone: The Limitless GigCX platform enables businesses to connect customers with qualified experts to solve customer service enquiries on-demand.
Matthew McNeill Love
Co-founder & COO of Thursday
Matthew McNeill Love is Co-founder & COO at Thursday.
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About Thursday: Thursday is a dating app that wants to solve problems created by, well, too much time spent using dating apps.
Adit Trivedi
Co Founder, COO of Lingumi
Co-founder & COO of Lingumi who are providing the world’s best teaching service to children all around the world through Technology.
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About Lingumi: Lingumi is an edtech startup that teaches English to kids aged 2 to 6 using an app and a range of physical products.
Rohit Makol
Founder & COO of HeyHub
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About HeyHub: The community experience and tenant engagement platform driving operational efficiency across your spaces.
Miranda Khamis
Co-Founder & COO of Food Drop
Miranda Khamis is the Co-Founder and COO at Food Drop.
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About Food Drop: A tech platform to connect stores with unsold food to local charities
Samuele Pinta
Founder and COO of Satispay
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About Satispay: Satispay is a fintech company that provides a bank account enabled mobile payment platform.
Hussain Hilli
Founder & COO of Skrap
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About Byoot, Skrap: Construction hire, made simple. Order waste services, bulky materials, and plant hire – anytime, anywhere.
Tom Hyams
COO of Springpod
Tom Hyams currently works as Chief Operating Officer at Springpod.
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About Springpod: Springpod is an early careers attraction, engagement and recruitment technology that helps young people discover their futures.
Deepti Atrish
CEO & Chief Operating Officer of PCL Health
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About PCL Health: B2B SaaS Connected care platform with IoTs, mobile Apps and Online Clinician Dashboard.
Clara Vaisse
Founder & COO of Pony
Clara Vaisse is the Founder and COO at Pony.
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About Pony, Sibberi: Pony is the first shared micro-mobility scheme to decentralise ownership of its vehicles.
Yannis Korgialos
Chief Operating Officer of Ticker
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About Ticker: Ticker develops a device that calculates and controls automobile insurance.
Anna Tsyupko
Chief Operating Officer of tomato pay
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About tomato pay: tomato pay is a QR-code based payments and invoice app used by businesses and sole traders.
Justin Ashurst
Co-Founder, CTO & COO of AppInstitute
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About AppInstitute, Peckish: AppInstitute is a software developer of a digital framework for small businesses to create their own mobile applications.
Azahara Egea
Co-Founder/COO of sync.
Co-Founder and COO at sync. A self-directed and a capable decision maker who manages and works with the team. I ensure that the business has the best working environment and processes needed for optimum operational efficiency by creating a performance culture with clear KPIs, employee reviews and pro-active improvements. I’m a primary director of event planning, recruitment and communication and I keep all departments coordinated and I’m heavily involved in determining the strategy and future goals of the company.
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About sync.: We provide bank account aggregation and personal financial management service.
Jekaterina Orlova
Chief Operating Officer of Augnet
Jekaterina Orlova is an authority in business development and strategy, in particular in setting up early-stage tech companies for success. Following ten years at Skype and Microsoft, where she was a Business Development Manager, Jekaterina worked as a Senior Technology Consultant at Deloitte, specialising in Cloud services, Connectivity and Digital workplace transformation within the financial services industry. Following this, she advised and scaled tech start-ups and SMEs. In 2018 Jekaterina joined Augnet, where her boundless energy and focus have moved the company at a fast pace towards its goals, and have enabled it to push past every milestone ahead of target.
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About Augnet: Augnet is a London-based technology start-up set to revolutionise the SMS and messaging space.
Frankie Kearney
Chief Operating Officer of Sliide
Frankie Kearney is the coo of sliide.
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About Sliide: Mobile technology company that work with MNO, MVNO and OEM partners globally to increase engagement, drive revenue, and decrease churn.
Chris Connell
Partner / Chief Operating Officer of Conjure
Chris Connell, is co-founder and CEO of Mixer. He is also a partner at Conjure a smartphone digital agency based in London, that specialise in native application development for high profile brands and clients.
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About Conjure, Mixer: Conjure is a London based digital experience company developing daring, original applications for emerging technology platforms.
Joanne Lacey
Chief Operating Officer of AdInMo
20 years’+ experience in marketing, commercial and operational roles in the mobile industry. COO at InGamePlay start-up AdInMo, Advisor at MEF and Chair of Trustees at the charity Make 2nds Count.
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About AdInMo: Immersive in-game brand experiences. Programmatic in-game advertising and monetization platform
Sasa Sarunic
Co-founder & COO of Bizzon
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About Bizzon: Bizzon allows you to charge cash, debit and credit cards, and billing with the help of a simple application.
Anthony von Christierson
COO & Co-Founder of Baby Bundle
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About Baby Bundle: BabyBundle develops a parenting application and tools to support parents, nannies, and care givers.
Parham Rakhshanfar
COO, Co-founder of Huzzle
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About Huzzle: Meet the Career Companion for Gen-Z. #huzzle, don’t hustle
Natasha Pilbrow
Co-Founder & COO of LeSalon Beauty
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About LeSalon Beauty: LeSalon is delivering a branded, consistent and high-quality at-home beauty service.
Robert Dunbar
Founder & COO of Covatic
Co-Founder & COO at Covatic.
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About Bladebug, Covatic: Covatic is the use of mobile based algorithms to bring smart personalisation to apps.
James Harringman
Co-Founder & COO of Ease
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About Ease: Ease is a mobile app that puts a personalised financial tool in the pockets of those who need it most.
Carolina Larramendy
COO of Nous
Carolina is a seasoned professional and entrepreneur with a wide range of international experience in expansion, legal & commercial matters, project management, operations, partnerships, and customer relationship management.
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About Nous: Nous designs and develops virtual trading platform for financial market.
Estelle Lloyd
COO & Co-Founder of Macademia
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About Macademia: Macademia is an award-winning global EdTech company providing educational programming and games for children.
Ciara Brennan
COO of TakeTen
Driven, resilient and highly motivated leader. Successful track record in business development, communications and marketing and in getting new initiatives off the ground. Experienced at trouble shooting and delivering solutions for business sustainability and growth. Social enterprise development specialist with spcefic interest in learning difficulty and autism. Selected as one of 30 entrepreneurs to participate in HRH Prince Andrew’s 2017 Pitch at the Palace with TakeTen. Lisburn Chamber of Commerce Committee Member.
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About TakeTen: Take Ten is a stress control training app that’s designed to give you a head start.
Patricia Salume
Co-Founder and COO of vHelp
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About vHelp: Vhelp is an expenses application for charities and voluntary groups.
Kate Ropotilova
COO of Taplend
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About Taplend, Taplend: Taplend is a financial help platform, giving an access to fast, safe and 100% online loans,provided by people or financial institutions.
Kate Ropotilova
COO of Taplend
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About Taplend, Taplend: Taplend is a financial help platform, giving an access to fast, safe and 100% online loans,provided by people or financial institutions.
Yuriy Gnatyuk
Co-Founder & COO of KindGeek
Yuriy Gnatyuk is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Operating Officer at KindGeek.
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About KindGeek: KindGeek is a software development company that helps entrepreneurs with product development and technical aspects of their projects.
Sakib Mirza
Chief Operating Officer of Vodworks
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About Vodworks: Vodworks is a specialist in providing web and app development for media companies.
Mira Abdullahi
COO of Dimble App Ltd
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About Dimble App Ltd: Straight-to-the-point shopping app
Kathryn Corrick
COO and Research Director of Represent
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About Represent: Building the tools for a better democracy.
Emma Stapleton
Chief Operating Officer of Copronet
Emma is the Co-founder of Copronet (formerly TenderSpace). Integral to shaping Copronet’s raison d’etre, Emma – like David – knew that the only way to bring construction together was to create a network that is as hard-working and goal-focused as the people who populate it. Having spent many years in Board-level positions within the industry, Emma knew that Copronet could also become a powerful force for growth, and she’s worked alongside David and the team to forge the tools that can make this happen.
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About Copronet: Corponet is the network & toolbox that’s just for construction and property.
Antony Dinning
Chief Operating Officer of hedgehog lab
Antony Dinning is the chief operating officer at hedgehog lab.
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About hedgehog lab: hedgehog lab is a consultancy firm that designs and builds business software.
Antony Dinning
Chief Operating Officer of hedgehog lab
Antony Dinning is the chief operating officer at hedgehog lab.
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About hedgehog lab: hedgehog lab is a consultancy firm that designs and builds business software.
Byron McCaughey
Co-founder and COO of TRACK
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About TRACK: TRACK is an app for homeowners giving you the clarity to know where you stand and the insight to make decisions.
Faith Forster
COO of Vonto
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About Vonto: Vonto is an app that provides bookkeeping, accounting, and marketing services.
Mike Gadd
Chief Operating Officer of Kindred
Mike Gadd is the Chief Operating Officer at Kindred.
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About Kindred: Kindred is an impact driven tech company that has developed the world’s first sustainable app monetization network.
Annabel Dickson
COO of Makerble
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About Makerble: Makerble enables charities to track, review and share their impact
Massimo Rossi
COO and Co-Founder of Shoppi
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About Shoppi: Shoppi is a marketplace to connect local companies with travelers by overcoming existing cultural barriers.
Stoyan Dobrev
COO and Founder of SpeediFly
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About SpeediFly: SpeediFly is for spontaneous travelers who want to get away last minute, but don’t know where they can go on a budget.
Philip Sanchez
Co-Founder/COO of Jeeeni
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About Jeeeni: Jeeeni is a multidimensional lifestyle service that connects users with businesses, services, and communities within one single app.
Lucas Garcia
COO of LetsPark
Lucas Garcia is a Co-Founder & CEO at LetsPark.
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About LetsPark: Letspark is a smartphone app that enables its users to find parking lots with information such as location, prices, and operating hours.
Martin Carfrae
Co Founder / COO of cheerapp
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About cheerapp: A realtime messaging app to facilitate contact, help, service and sales, anonymously, for smartphone users in close proximity.
Martin Carfrae
Co Founder / COO of cheerapp
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About cheerapp: A realtime messaging app to facilitate contact, help, service and sales, anonymously, for smartphone users in close proximity.
Taryl Law
Co Founder and COO of How Do I?
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About How Do I?: How Do I? teaches life and vocational skills through step-by-step videos linked to the learning environment using NFC technology.
Faye Armit
COO of App4grabs Limited
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About App4grabs Limited: We offer you 2 base apps, one for Android and one for iPhone, for £999 or bespoke apps because every business deserves a mobile presence.
