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 iOS 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.
Kirill Chliaifchtein
Founder & CEO of SwiftGift
Founder & CEO at SwiftGift
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About SwiftGift: SwiftGift is the world’s first Instant Gift Messenger App which allows you to send real gifts to anyone in your phone’s contact book.
Paul Croft
Co-Founder & Chief Games Officer of Mediatonic Games
Paul Croft is a Co-Founder & Chief Games Officer at Mediatonic Games.
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About Mediatonic Games, Tonic Games Group: Mediatonic develops and publishes games for digital platforms such as smartphones, PCs and consoles.
Luke Heron
Co-Founder of TestCard Ltd
Luke Heron co-founded TestCard.com, a UK domiciled startup revolutionising the direct to consumer healthcare diagnostics market.
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About TestCard Ltd: TestCard is the medical technology company behind the eponymous at-home test kit. A partnering mobile app delivers immediate results.
Dr Andrew Botham
Co-Founder and CSO of TestCard Ltd
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About TestCard Ltd: TestCard is the medical technology company behind the eponymous at-home test kit. A partnering mobile app delivers immediate results.
Ben Medlock
Co-Founder of SwiftKey
Ben Medlock is a director, co-founder and CTO of SwiftKey, the London-based technology start-up behind the Android keyboard of the same name. Ben drives technical innovation at SwiftKey, where artificial intelligence and machine learning are used to enhance text entry on handheld devices. Ben developed his expertise in natural language processing and machine learning during eight years of computer science research, which culminated in a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has reviewed for a number of prominent academic journals, and his own work is published in ACL, the leading conference for research into computational linguistics, and also in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Ben currently lives in London, and on the rare occasion that he’s not working, he enjoys playing sport, music and reading theology.
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About SwiftKey: SwiftKey is a technology company that aims to enhance interaction between keyboards and people.
Baris Ozaydinli
Founder & CEO of Scooch
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About Fitwell, Founders Factory, Founders Factory, Scooch: Scooch is a mobile application that encourages individuals to reach a medically recommended level of movement.
Ian Hooper
CEO & Founder of Scooch
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About Scooch: Scooch is a mobile application that encourages individuals to reach a medically recommended level of movement.
Raam Thakrar
Founder of TouchNote
Raam is a co-founder of Touchnote, an m-commerce start-up selling personalised greeting cards on both the web and mobile. Previous varied experience in consulting – strategy consulting in London, rural and small businesses in London, Washington DC and Central America. I was also a published journalist in Mexico. Next stop, pizza chef.
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About TouchNote: TouchNote helps you send thoughtful cards and prints to loved ones, right from your mobile, tablet or desktop.
Daneh Westropp
Founder & CEO of Pickle
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About Pickle: Find different friends for different things!
Adam Korbl
Founder & CEO of Crowded Road
Adam is a seasoned entrepreneur and mobile app guru. He co-founded Glide, the world’s first instant video messaging platform and serves as the Chief Product & Marketing Office. Founded Crowded Road (http://crowdedroad.com), a mobile app consulting outfit that has consulted for a range of global brands such as Billabong, Inc. and has produced 30+ profitable apps, including the popular iFax suite (http://ifaxapp.com) that is currently the highest grossing fax app on both the iOS and Android app markets. Adam has been featured by the NY Times, WSJ, USA Today, Mashable and TechCrunch for his previous initiatives and holds an MBA, from the Fordham Graduate School of Business.
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About Crowded Road: Crowded Road is a mobile app consulting outfit that has produced over 40 mobile apps, including the popular iOS/Android business app iFax.
Dimo Trifonov
Founder of Feeld
Dimo Trifonov is the Founder of Feeld
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About Feeld: Meet kinky, curious and openminded people.
James Day
Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder of Mous
James Day is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Mous.
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About Mous: Mous is a fashion tech brand that designs and manufactures protective accessories.
Mac Dziedziela
CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Screenable
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About Delta Heed, Screenable: Screenable is a smart video interview platform designed for recruiters to streamline applicant screenings.
Robert Tezescu
CEO & Founder of Antares Code Studio
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About Antares Code Studio, Xtraordinary Ltd: Custom software services, including web and mobile application development.
Richard Fulton
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Raylo
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About Raylo: Raylo is on a mission to shake up the UK mobile sector.
Jinden Badesha
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Raylo
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About Raylo: Raylo is on a mission to shake up the UK mobile sector.
Phil Neale
Founder of Snoozle
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About Snoozle: Snoozle is a mobile app that seeks to change the way the world wakes up.
Branko Milutinovic
Co-Founder & CEO of Nordeus
Branko Milutinovic is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of one of the fastest growing European gaming company Nordeus. Over the previous 4 years bootstrapped Nordeus have grown from 3 to 150 people, pioneering the cross-platform game development & publishing and becoming one of the most successful social and mobile gaming companies world wide. Engineer by education, gamer in heart, Branko grew up playing sports, enjoying video games and coding. Not much has changed since. Nordeus is best known for Top Eleven, one of the most popular sports video games in the world with more than 5 million players on a daily basis and legendary Jose Mourinho as the official face of the game. Branko earned his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Belgrade (2002-2008).
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About Nordeus: Nordeus develops mobile and browser-based social network games for web, Android and iOS devices.
Alex Siljanovski
Founder & CEO of BaseStone
Alex is a Chartered engineer with extensive civil industry experience. Specialising in rail, transportation, water, ports, mechanical & electrical systems, energy and building services sectors – all enhanced by multidisciplinary project management experience.
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About BaseStone: BaseStone is a mobile and web application built for construction teams to access, capture and communicate information.
Yohann Merran
Founder, CEO, Lead Dev of Meet My Friends
Founder, CEO, Lead Dev at Meet My Friends
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About Meet My Friends: MMF is a hybrid app between a social network and a city guide, to spontaneously discover events you’ll love exploring with your friends.
Jonathan Wanono
Co-Founder of Meet My Friends
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About Meet My Friends: MMF is a hybrid app between a social network and a city guide, to spontaneously discover events you’ll love exploring with your friends.
Vinita Rathi
CEO & Co-Founder of Systango
Vinita, Ex Vice President Goldman Sachs, London and now founder of IT agency Systango.com which helps and hand holds founders, especially, with no technology background to build their product and get it out of the door just like an in-house team would do. She has successfully put together a team, handpicked her members that work in sprints, agile and work shoulder to shoulder. When the time is right Systango then helps start up build local team and transition seamlessly. Vinita recently helped a founder who was struggling in building his product despite of having a fantastic idea. The company now has a working product, team of two in-house developers and Vinita jumps in as and when deadlines are more aggressive than what their in-house team can handle. In her community time, Vinita is Director of WomenWhoCode.com London Chapter. She is also founder of WomenHackForNonProfits.com – an initiative to increase women developer’s footprint in open source & non profit projects. It has more than 200 women developer volunteers and about 5 non profits registered to work with. In her spare time she also runs CodePunt.Today – a daily challenge website in alpha to keep developer’s developer by heart. When she is not doing one of the projects above, she is probably playing with her 4 year old son!
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About Systango: Systango is a software company provides custom web, mobile application, game, ecommerce development services.
Indy Sangha
Founder & CEO of Tailster
Indy Sangha is a Founder & CEO at Tailster.
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About Tailster: Tailster is an application that matches pet owners with people who are willing to care for your pet.
Andrew Gore
CEO and Founder of Soccer Manager
Over 17 years’ experience in the games industry, working on numerous successful football titles such as FIFA before co-founding Soccer Manager with his brothers in 2004.
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About Soccer Manager: Soccer Manager, a Preston, UK-based developer of an online football game. Soccer Manager allows players to manage their favourite team.
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.
Ian Naylor
Founder & CEO of AppInstitute
Ian Naylor is Founder & CEO at AppInstitute.
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About AppInstitute: AppInstitute is a software developer of a digital framework for small businesses to create their own mobile applications.
Charlie Lucas
Co-Founder of Apex Rides
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About Apex Rides: The Apex bike is the ultimate in-home workout
Simon Cook
Co-Founder of Apex Rides
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About Apex Rides: The Apex bike is the ultimate in-home workout
Eddie Vassallo
Founder and CEO of Entropy
Founder at Entropy
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About Entropy: Content & Apps Management for a Mobile & Wearable World
Horace Ho
Founder of Nextlayer
Horace is well versed with the vigorous thinking of engineers and the more organic and creative process of designers, serving as a bridge across disciplines in team situations. Horace, a star-student at CSM, spent the year following his graduation in Shanghai developing a community-experience-based tenant recruiting strategy for a 100,000m² mixed-use building that was much better suited to the needs of residents living nearby than a more traditional retail lead strategy. A formative and formidable task to begin one’s approach to user-centred design! Since joining the tech-startup scene in London, he has helped various companies to i) find strategic points where they can significantly improve the experience of their clients; ii) efficiently occupy these strategic points by optimal use of existing resources and infrastructure. Horace founded Nextlayer to help users better organise, comprehend and utilise the content they consume from day to day. He passionately applies the same user centred approach to Nextlayer’s creative processes and hopes to build an experience that is enjoyable, intuitive and meaningful for our users.
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About Nextlayer: Mobile App
Anton Gu
Founder of Hitch
Founder at Hitch
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About Hitch: Hitch is a mobile messaging application
Andrew Kuzmych
Co-Founder and CTO of TechMagic
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About TechMagic: Top JavaScript and Serverless developers
Fabian Blaicher
CTO & Co-Founder of Shipamax
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About Shipamax: Shipamax provides seamless fleet and deals management for operators and brokers.
Jenna Brown
CEO & Co-Founder of Shipamax
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About Shipamax: Shipamax provides seamless fleet and deals management for operators and brokers.
Philipp Muellauer
Founder of London App Brewery
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About London App Brewery: The London App Brewery provides in-person and online classes in app development, design and marketing.
Angela Yu
Founder of London App Brewery
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About London App Brewery: The London App Brewery provides in-person and online classes in app development, design and marketing.
James Bentley
Founder of Bikeslice
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About Bikeslice: Bikeslice is a social community application for cycling and cyclist.
George Kazarian
Founder of Fabo.
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About Fabo.: Fabo is a media company focusing on mobile and social photo printing and digital in-store advertising.
Justin Wenczka
Founder of Pubguard
A mobile advertising expert who specialises in performance marketing and insights. Founder of Pubguard which identifies and helps eradicate ad fraud for the largest publishers and networks in the ad industry.
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About Pubguard: Ad verification and malware detection for in-app, m-web and desktop publishers.
Stefan Richter
Founder of muchosmedia
Stefan is the founder and managing director of muchosmedia ltd (founded in early 2008), a UK based software company which specialises in real-time enabled web applications, with Scribblar.com being one of the examples. Over the past few years Stefan has established himself as a sought after industry expert and consultant for Flex and Flash Media Server, and his personal blog FlashComGuru.com is one of the largest resources covering Flash Video and related technologies on the web. Stefan is the co-author of ‘Hands-on Guide to Flash Video’ published by Elsevier in 2007 and he continues to speak at many industry events including Adobe MAX and Streaming Media Europe.
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About Membermeister, muchosmedia: Muchosmedia develops software solutions, focusing on video integration and real-time collaboration through websites.
Mark Rock
Founder of Best Before Media
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About Best Before Media: Best Before Media develops audio and video toolsets that enable the creation of content for mobile, web, and television broadcasting.
Ross Beale
Co-Founder of UniApp
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About Airbyte, UniApp: Graduate built – UniApp enhances student experience with email, timetable, attendance, lecture feedback and more built-in to a mobile app.
Ugur Akdemir
Founder & Creative Director of Lemonat
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About Lemonat: Lemonat is a digital product design agency that focuses on user-friendly web and mobile application design.
Jo Eckersley
CEO & Founder of Bubbl Ltd
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About Bubbl Ltd: Cutting-edge mobile app plug-in that allows companies to hyper-focus their marketing efforts with geo-triggered customer engagement tools.
Luca Manara
Co-Founder & CEO of AppQuality
Luca Manara is a co-founder and CEO at App Quality.
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About AppQuality: UNGUESS is the tech platform to bring collective wisdom in your decision making processes, fast and at any time needed
Craig Gidley
Founder of Viper
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About : UK-based award-winning nightlife app that allows users to browse and book tables or booths, drinks packages and queue jump in bars and clubs
Stephen Powell
Founder of Viper
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About : UK-based award-winning nightlife app that allows users to browse and book tables or booths, drinks packages and queue jump in bars and clubs
Craig Davies
Founder of Viper
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About : UK-based award-winning nightlife app that allows users to browse and book tables or booths, drinks packages and queue jump in bars and clubs
Craig Davies
Founder of Viper
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About : UK-based award-winning nightlife app that allows users to browse and book tables or booths, drinks packages and queue jump in bars and clubs
Daniel Counsell
Director/Founder of Realmac Software
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About Realmac Software, Realmac Software: Realmac is a software platform that develops applications for Mac and iOS operating systems.
Aleksandr Pasevin
Co-Founder of Hype App
Aleksandr Pasevin is Co-Founder @ Hype App.
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About Hype App: Hype App is a smartphone application that enables users to find out what events and places are placed in and around their locality.
Gintare Zitkeviciute
Founder and CEO of Hype App
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About Hype App, Hype Experiences: Hype App is a smartphone application that enables users to find out what events and places are placed in and around their locality.
Alex Seewald
Founder, Managing Director of Openshadow Ltd
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About Openshadow Ltd: Mobile software development. Research and Development. Project Management.
Mujavid Bukhari
Founder of Scoodle
Mujavid Bukhari is a Founder at Scoodle.
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About Scoodle: Scoodle is connects students with teachers.
Ismail Jeilani
Founder of Scoodle
Ismail Jeilani is the Founder at Scoodle.
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About Scoodle: Scoodle is connects students with teachers.
Nina Tumanishvili
Founder & CEO of HelloHub
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About HelloHub, Odin, TubeChat: Enhancing human connection through technology.
Calum Yuill
Founder of POPBOX
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About Picton Street Media, POPBOX: Let’s compete together
Hans Manku
Founder of Arrive
founder at Arrive.
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About Arrive: The only Taxi app where you can choose your driver… D’you want the cheapest, quickest or highest-rated driver?
Andrew Moffatt
Founder of Dugout FC
Founder at DugoutFC Ltd
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About Dugout FC: Dugout FC is the ultimate fantasy football experience.
Daniel Burnside
Founder of Dugout FC
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About Dugout FC: Dugout FC is the ultimate fantasy football experience.
Richard Stobart
CEO & Founder of Unboxed
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About Unboxed: The largest Ruby on Rails development agency in London and Cape Town
Amnon Kruvi
Founder of Kruvi Solutions
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About Kruvi Solutions: Time Management and Workforce Management Solutions
Joao Pescada
Founder & Technology Director of Suprasumo
Independent Technologist & Consultant for web apps
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About Suprasumo, Yummelier: Suprasumo is a friendly bunch of problem-solvers specialised in delivering interactive products such as, websites,mobile apps.
Danny Turley
Co-Founder & CEO of Performa Sports
Danny Turley is Founder & CEO at Performa Sports
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About Performa Sports: Performa Sports is a real-time sports performance analysis application for analysts, coaches, and players.
Scott Simpkin
Co-Founder of Buzzer Feedback
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About Waggle-It: Buzzer is a customer feedback company which provides restaurant management with a high volume of private, specific and verified feedback
Dom O’Neill
Co-Founder and CTO of Buzzer Feedback
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About Buzzer Feedback: Buzzer is a customer feedback company which provides restaurant management with a high volume of private, specific and verified feedback
Michael Venn
Founder & CEO of Tagstr
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About Tagstr: Tagstr is a social media platform where people discover, share and collaborate with anyone in the world based on their interests & passions.
Abhishek Mishra
Founder of Tring : Augmented Reality Messaging
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About Tring : Augmented Reality Messaging: Tring is a mobile app that allows users to send Augmented Reality messages to each other
Liane Katz
Co-Founder & CEO of Mama.codes
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About Mama.codes: Mama.codes fun, creative creative coding projects for kids age 3+ in school, at code clubs and at home.
Emmanuel Duran Campana
Co-Founder & CEO of Tunsy
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About Tunsy: The ultimate shopping app
Stuart Grant
Founder·Director of Go-do-World
Stuart Grant is an entrepreneur, DJ, voice-over artist, author, musician, and multiple business owner. Stuart Grant runs a successful Mobile app and website creation company (GO DO WORLD) which also provides social media training. Stuart also runs The Digital Authors Toolkit, Pet Milestones, The Video Store, and recently launched Furrydays.com. Stuart Grant as a DJ was part of the Stuart Grant Radio Breakfast show on Kiss fm for 10 years and then worked in London for Global radio running two radio stations as Managing editor and Senior Producer including Capital Xtra. Feel free to email Stuart Grant with any questions. Stu@godoworld.com
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About Go-do-World: The company works to build mobile phone applications, websites and social media optimization for businesses.
Richard Blackwell
Co-Founder & CEO of Quinn Blackwell Media Ltd
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About Quinn Blackwell Media Ltd: A New Audiovisual Platform for Audiobooks & eBooks
Gav Richards
CTO / Co-Founder of Aiir
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About Aiir: The complete platform for audio content creators.
Francesco Mancusi
Founder of GoWar
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About FeedStock Ltd, GoWar: GoWar is a location-based social strategy game for iOS and Android operating systems.
Athar Majeed
Founder of Savah App
Founder of Tyrocircle Empowering social learning in Higher Education.
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About Savah App, Tyrocircle: Design Collaboration and Prototyping Made Simple. Join the responsive revolution, Get your creative design team and clients together.
Olly Tagg
Founder & Director of Corporate Mobile Recycling
Olly Tagg is Founder & Director at Corporate Mobile Recycling.
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About Corporate Mobile Recycling: CMR Ltd is a mobile phone recycling company trading for over 10 years reselling and recycling 70,000 mobile phones and electrical devices
Richard Wheatcroft
Co-Founder of Yappback
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About Yappback: Yappback is an app that allows reaction based video messaging.
Pavan Mukhi
Founder of Brapp
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About Brapp: Brapp is a free and powerful platform enabling people to create and discover exciting musical collaborations from all over the world.
Raad Haider
Founder of Brapp
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About Brapp: Brapp is a free and powerful platform enabling people to create and discover exciting musical collaborations from all over the world.
Christopher Hockley
Co-Founder and CTO of Cocoasoft
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About Cocoasoft, Wave Marketing: Cocoasoft is a software development firm that has developed and maintains a third party email application for the iPhone.
Steve Kevin
Founder of Fortune Infotech
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About Fortune Infotech: Fortune Infotech is a tech company offering web hosting solutions.
Mo Tabraze
Founder of IP Ventures Ltd
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About IP Ventures Ltd: Software development
Derrick Gaines
Founder of Ditto Inc.
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About Ditto Inc.: Ditto is an live social multinational cross-platform app
