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 CTO’ operating in the Digital Entertainment 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.
Nick Wilson
CTO of WME
Nick Wilson is CTO of Break Media, the Internet’s largest entertainment destination for men 18-35.
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About BrandAds, WME, WME: William Morris Endeavor (WME) is primarily a talent agency representing artists across every entertainment sector.
Patrick Mead
CTO of Dubit
Patrick Mead is the CTO at Dubit.
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About Dubit: Dubit is a game studio that specializes in games for the metaverse.
Darren Lee
Chief Technology Officer & Coder of AI Bots as a Service – a Conversational AI engine by AI BaaS
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About AI Bots as a Service – a Conversational AI engine by AI BaaS, Atos: A world-leading Conversational AI engine. Voice assistants powered by AI BaaS.
Ian Trayler
CTO of Mind Candy
Ian is charged with building an amazing engineering team, scalable infrastructure and DevOps culture that embraces change, growth, rapid iteration, experimentation and collaboration at scale. For over 20 years, he has worked in system operations in the online media industries, helping those businesses come up with solutions to all their tech challenges and needs.
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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.
Toby Doig
CTO of Captify
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About Captify: Captify offers a search retargeting service that enables advertisers to focus on users to match their desired audience with inventory.
Phong Vu
Co-Founder & CTO of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
Stephen Carl
CTO of Sliide
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About Emu Analytics, Sliide: Mobile technology company that work with MNO, MVNO and OEM partners globally to increase engagement, drive revenue, and decrease churn.
Klaas Ardinois
CTO of Macademia
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About Macademia: Macademia is an award-winning global EdTech company providing educational programming and games for children.
Jose Maria Peña
CTO & Co-Founder of Lurtis Rules
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About Lurtis Rules: A cloud service that produces complete 3D scenarios out of user constraints
