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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 CTO’ operating in the Venture Capital space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Arno Robbertse
Chief Technology Officer of C5 Capital
Arno has over a decade of experience in managing and delivering cyber security engagements for global organisations. He routinely briefs boards on strategic cyber threats and has led information leak and hacking investigations globally for publicly-listed and large multinational companies. He also regularly advises private client and family offices on matters of cyber security and privacy. Arno also leads the Cyber Advisory consulting practice at ITC Secure, a C5 portfolio company. He is a Certified Chief Information Security Officer (CCISO), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and is Certified in Risk & Information Systems Control (CRISC).
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About C5 Capital: C5 is a specialist technology investment firm that invests in cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, data analytics, energy and space.
Anthony Drogon
Founder & CTO of SeedLegals
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About SeedLegals: The simple way for companies to complete the legals needed to raise investment and distribute equity
Leonidas Tsementzis
CTO of Forward Partners
Software architect, technical advisor, entrepreneur and angel investor. Working closely with early-stage startups to discover and validate product-market fit, create and retain passionate engineering teams and build products that grow into valuable businesses. Passionate about hands-on product development, engineering best practices, data engineering and analytics, scalable web infrastructures, the open web and all things web performance. I have spoken on tech conferences about scaling engineering teams, web infrastructures, mobile applications architecture, and iterative product development.
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About Forward Partners: Forward gives founders their best shot at success.
Andy Richardson
Chief Technology Officer of Public
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About Public: Public is a venture capital firm that supports technology startups aiming to work more deeply with the UK’s public services.
Tuomas Hietanen
Co-Founder and CTO of Fund Ourselves
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About Fund Ourselves: Short-term credit from the people to the people.
Adrian King
CTO of Pollen Street Capital
Adrian is a CTO with over 15 years’ experience in the Financial Services sector. Prior to joining the Pollen Street team Adrian worked for a number of organisations to develop their technology and operations functions, and most recently with 118 118 on their entry to the UK Consumer Lending market. Adrian holds a degree in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge and went on to complete a masters’ degree in computational chemistry.
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About Pollen Street Capital: Pollen Street Capital is an independent alternative investment manager, focused on investing in the financial and business services sectors
Ben Smith
Co Founder, Partner & CTO of InReach Ventures
Ben Smith is a Co-Founder and Technology Partner at InReach Ventures. He is a former UK Engineering Director at Yammer / Microsoft. Prior to that, Ben Smith served as the Head of Technology at Top10 and Chief Technology Officer at MetaBroadcast. He is building a technology platform to transform traditional Venture Capital.
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About InReach Ventures: The AI powered VC focused on early-stage European startups
Paolo Ursino
CTO of VentureFounders
Paolo joined VentureFounders as CTO in 2018 and is in charge of all the technical aspects as well as the nFiniti platform. He is passionate about technology and its potential to transform their lives through disciplines such as IoT, AI, Cloud systems, analytics and Big Data. Paolo has more than 20 years experience in a wide range of technologies, including robotics, cellular communication, IoT and B2B and B2C cloud platforms, and has worked for large corporates, such as Samsung and Broadcom, as well as having been co-founder of two startups.
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About VentureFounders: VentureFounders is an investment platform providing HNW client base with access to highly-curated and structured investment opportunities.
