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 Hardware 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.
Alexander Asseily
Co-Founder of Elvie
Alex is an entrepreneur and investor with more than 20 years of experience in consumer products and wearable technology. Among other things, Alex co-founded Jawbone, where he led the team to release its most iconic consumer products. Alex advises a number of companies and charities in the US and Europe, including Nectarine Health, Lilium and Atomico.
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About Elvie, State.it: Elvie is a British femtech company developing smart technology for women.
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Tania Boler
Founder and CEO of Elvie
Tania is an internationally recognized women’s health expert and has held leadership positions for various global NGOs and the United Nations. Passionate about challenging taboo women’s issues, Tania founded Elvie in 2013, partnering with Alexander Asseily to create a global hub of connected health and lifestyle products for women.
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About Elvie: Elvie is a British femtech company developing smart technology for women.
Roland Lamb
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ROLI
After leaving school in the UK, Roland moved to Japan to practise Zen Buddhism. He then moved on to Harvard University, and a degree in Classical Chinese and Sanskrit Philosophy. This – naturally – led to an interest in technology and industrial design, so he won a scholarship to pursue an MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art. While at RCA, he invented an award-winning new approach to building pressure-sensing interfaces and ROLI was born. Roland is joined on ROLI’s board of Directors by Salahdin Imam, Sarah Chalfant and Tahmima Anam.
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About ROLI: ROLI is a London-based music technology company that produces musical instruments and software products.
Michael Raven
Founder of Blazon Agency
Michael Raven is Founder & Managing Director of Blazon Agency. Michael has had Two Startup exits, and has ran 70 Agency Campaigns across Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and direct launches, actively participating in the raising of over $115M+ for his extensive list of clients.
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About Blazon Agency: The Brand Launch Agency
Alex Klein
Co-Founder and CEO of Kano
Alex Kleinis Co-Founder and CEO at Kano Computing.
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About Kano: Kano provides a system of kits and coding platform that enables users to develop apps, games, and music.
Greg Mesch
Founder & CEO of CityFibre
With over 25 years of telecom, internet and technology-based experience behind him and five companies successfully built from start-up phase, Greg is an expert when it comes to business plan development, management team building and the capital formation of high growth, fibre optic based telecom companies. Greg had extensive involvement in the founding of Esat Telecom, assisting them in raising all their early stage capital, their core product positioning and network implementation. Esat was later sold to BT for over €1 billion. He went on to make the founding investment in Versatel Telecom NV. Versatel operated in Holland, Belgium and Germany building one of the largest fibre based infrastructures in those markets. He was instrumental in the development of its business plan, recruiting the core management teams and raising over €1.5 billion in capital. Versatel was sold for over €2 billion to Tele2.
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About CityFibre: CityFibre Infrastructure Holdings plc is the UK’s largest independent provider of fibre infrastructure in secondary cities
Paul Walton
Founder/CTO of Boundary
Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary.
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About Boundary, Oodls, Prodsight, Seed Haus: Boundary is an IoT Home Security company providing a smart burglar alarm system that can be controlled over mobile devices.
Robin Knox
Founder and CEO of Boundary
Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.
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About Boundary, Intelligent Point of Sale, Intelligent Point of Sale, iZettle, Seed Haus: Boundary is an IoT Home Security company providing a smart burglar alarm system that can be controlled over mobile devices.
Dimitri Mikhalchuk
Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Teslasuit
Dimitri Mikhalchuk is the founder and co-founder of several tech companies and start-ups. He is also in charge of the London based digital marketing agency. Previously he worked with some of the world’s leading chip and electronics manufacturers. Dimitri is an expert in electronics, haptics, wearables, robotics and software development. He’s at the top of the most influential people in the field of VR \ AR (according to Evening Standard, UK), keynote speaker, business consultant and an investor.
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About MKSTAR, Teslasuit, TravoLab: Teslasuit is a team of talented developers and designers, creating innovative products for XR and MedTech.
Andrey Chuprin
Co-Founder, Investor of Teslasuit
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About ITI Capital, Mainprimus, Teslasuit: Teslasuit is a team of talented developers and designers, creating innovative products for XR and MedTech.
Simon Galbraith
Founder & CEO of Redgate Software
Simon is the joint founder and CEO of Redgate Software. Over the past 15 years, Simon has been part of Redgate’s growth from a 2 person firm operating out of a spare room to today’s 300 person outfit with hundreds of thousands of users. Although Simon’s responsibilities are primarily strategic, his background is technical with qualifications including a PhD in physics from Cambridge University and former employment with Shell and ThornEMI.
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About Redgate Software: Redgate is the leading provider of software for professionals working on the Microsoft data platform.
Hammad Kayani
CEO, Founder of BitFutr
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About BitFutr: BitFutr is the home of your Crypto. The BitFutr app helps you spend your crypto, get up to 8% in saving and invest your crypto 24/7.
Daniel Ivesha
President and Founder of hereO
President and Founder at hereO
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About Beyon3D, hereO: HereO is a developer creating GPS watches for children as young as three.
Jan Medvesek
Co-Founder of Emotech LTD
Jan Medvesek is a technical co-founder of Emotech. Before joining Emotech, Jan got the PhD in Computer Science from UCL. Before joining Emotech, Jan worked on industrial Computer Vision projects across Europe and collaborated with Microsoft, MathWorks and BBC.
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About Emotech LTD: Emotech is an AI startup aiming to redefine the relationship between humans and technology.
Chelsea Chen
Co-Founder of Emotech LTD
Chelsea is a technologist and creativist with diverse and international experience: from consumer strategy planning, marketing and brands. She previously leads the OgilvyOne’s team for clients such as Diageo, VW, Nestle and P&G to name a few.
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About Emotech LTD: Emotech is an AI startup aiming to redefine the relationship between humans and technology.
Hongbin Zhuang
Co-Founder and CEO of Emotech LTD
Hongbin was the product director of Renren.com and assisted it to become one of the largest SNS in China with over 35 million monthly login users, which went to NYSE IPO in 2011. He graduated from UCL with a distinction in the degree of MSc HCI & Ergonomics and strongly believes that the revolution of human computer interaction will make a better world.
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About Emotech LTD: Emotech is an AI startup aiming to redefine the relationship between humans and technology.
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.
Philip Ellis
Co-Founder ,CEO & COO of Beryl
Phil is here to make sure that it happens. Phil approaches cycling with the same ripped down simplicity he does most outdoor pursuits, look good and go fast. In his case one or the other is usually achieved but rarely both. With a law degree, accountancy qualifications and consulting experience, Phil brings a triple threat of legal, financial and operational experience to Blaze.
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About Beryl: The UK’s leading micromobility company
Emily Brooke
Founder of Beryl
Emily is the Founder of Beryl, the UK’s leading micromobility company. Beryl sell their micromobilty operating system to leading transport operators (Eg. London’s Santander Cycles) and operate their own bike, e-bike and e-scooter systems. Currently in 6 UK cities, with an exclusive contract for New York, they typically operate under exclusive, funded and long-term contracts. Beryl designed and built their micromobility system in-house (on-bike IoT, proprietary backend operating technology stack, on-street operations etc) which allows them to tailor their offering to a city’s needs and become their fully-integrated, long-term, micromobility partner, as well as partnering with other technology operators to sell their technology and platform in markets they are not yet in. Beryl began as Emily’s final year university project in 2011, she founded the business a year later with the sole purpose; ‘to build a better world by getting more people in cities on bikes.’ Beryl started with a range of consumer cycling products and were first known for their Laserlight safety innovation; a front bike light with a green laser projecting the symbol of a cyclist ahead of the bike. This was later adopted by all of the 12,000 Santander Cycles in London, and Beryl then went on to provide the London Bike Share Scheme with all on-bike technology and supporting asset tracking software. Beryl are the only micromobility company that is a certified BCorp. Emily has won numerous awards, including the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman New Gen Award and the Everywoman Woman of the Year, Bloomberg Innovator and in 2017 she was awarded an MBE from the Queen for her contributions to Transport and the Economy.
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About Beryl: The UK’s leading micromobility company
Damien Coyle
CEO & Founder of NeuroCONCISE
Damian Coyle, an Ulster University professor, has spent 15 years developing mind-controlled communications in a bid to help people who have become “locked in” – paralysed and trapped in their own bodies, unable to communicate.
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About NeuroCONCISE, Smart Nano NI, Ulster University: NeuroCONCISE offers a wearable neurotechnology which includes hardware and software that non-invasively measures.
Eliza Becton
Co-Founder | Head of Product of Bevi
Eliza Becton is our CEO and product lead.Her background is in user-experience design at various startups,with end-to-end experiences from ideation to market research to prototyping. Eliza graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a Masters in Industrial Design, and from Yale University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering.
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About Bevi: Bevi is a smart water dispenser that customizes flavored and sparkling beverages on demand.
Sean Grundy
Co-Founder, CEO of Bevi
Redesigning the beverage supply chain @Bevi. Previously, 3 years experience managing environmental projects.MIT Sloan MBA, Princeton undergrad.
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About Bevi, Hydration Labs: Bevi is a smart water dispenser that customizes flavored and sparkling beverages on demand.
Ming Kong
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TG0
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About TG0: TG0 is an R&D start-up creating novel 3D controls.
Ben Drury
Co-Founder and CEO of Yoto
Ben began his career in 1996 as a founder of dotmusic.com, an internal venture at United News and Media which attracted over 1.8m unique users per month (in 1999). In 2000 Ben was recruited by BT Group to head up the broadband music efforts at their ISP BT Openworld where he successfully launched a major music channel. Following the partnership between BT and Yahoo! to form BT Yahoo! in 2003, Ben engineered the sale of dotmusic to Yahoo! for approx. £3.3m. Ben then founded 7digital with James Kane in 2004 with the vision of creating a digital media marketplace. 7digital operates services that bring together suppliers and consumers of digital media. In September 2008 7digital.com was the first company in Europe to launch DRM-free MP3 downloads with all four major record labels. In September 2009 HMV Group acquired a 50% equity stake in 7digital with an investment of £7.7m. Ben was named by Growing Business magazine as a Young Gun 2006 – the award for leading entrepreneurs under 35. In 2007, 7digital was awarded the prestigious Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award as one of the most promising technology companies in Europe.
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About Pimoroni, Yoto: Yoto – The screen-free audio platform for kids.
Mark Papworth
Co-Founder, Director and Chief Executive Officer of Proxisense
Mark H. Papworth served as the Group Chief Executive Officer of Chemring Group plc from November 5, 2012 to June 24, 2014. Mark Papworth served as the Chief Executive Officer of Woods Group Gas Turbine Services and Group Director of Woods Group Gas Turbine Services at John Wood Group Plc and served as its Chief Executive of the Gas Turbines Division since December 2005. He joined Wood Group a year ago from Rolls-Royce Energy. His career has covered high technology, service and manufacturing companies serving aerospace, energy and infrastructure markets. During his tenure at Wood Group, Mark Papworth implemented and delivered a strategic review which resulted in a successful turnaround, improved manufacturing capabilities and substantial improvements in profitability. Prior to his time at Wood Group plc, he spent two years as an Executive Vice President of Rolls-Royce Energy based in the United States of America, and thirteen years with Alstom Power in various roles, finally as Managing Director of the Industrial Gas Turbines division. He served as a Director of Chemring Group plc from November 5, 2012 to June 24, 2014. Mark Papworth served as a Director of John Wood Group Plc since January 16, 2006 until June 29, 2012.
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About CCP, Proxisense, Reach South Academy Trust, Reliance Precision: Proxisense has developed extreme environment proximity sensors and fluid contamination systems.
Paul Vickery
Founder of Proxisense
Paul Vickery is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors at Silicon Microgravity since September 2014. Paul is an experienced Board Director with a background in private equity / venture capital and as an entrepreneur. Paul is the Founder of four university spin outs from Oxford University, Cambridge University, Imperial College and Surrey University; acting as Chairman in three companies and raising a total of £25m over multiple investment rounds. Paul has invested in the oil and gas sector and has extensive experience of serving as a Director in early stage, energy-related companies. As an Investor Paul was a Member of the Board of Directors of 3i plc and led 3i’s activities in Japan as Senior Managing Director. Paul has a B.Sc. in Production Engineering from University of Strathclyde and a Diploma in Japanese Business Studies.
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About Proxisense, Silicon MicroGravity: Proxisense has developed extreme environment proximity sensors and fluid contamination systems.
Douglas Gilmour
Founder & Managing Director of Mobius Networks
Douglas Gilmour Founder and Managing Director 30 years in the high tech industry and formed Mobius in 2003. The driver of Mobius strategy and all of innovative processes that have contributed to Mobius’s reputation as the most reliable and innovative mobile comms supplier in the sector. A TSA Board member.
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About Mobius Networks: Mobius is the UKs first integrated data airtime provider.
David Mitchell
Founder & CEO of XYZ Reality
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About XYZ Reality: XYZ Reality is disrupting the Construction Industry with a unique Augmented Reality solution able to reduce project costs by up to 20%
Umar Ahmed
Co-Founder and COO of XYZ Reality
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About XYZ Reality: XYZ Reality is disrupting the Construction Industry with a unique Augmented Reality solution able to reduce project costs by up to 20%
Tom Evans
Founder & CEO of BleepBleeps – Smart Family
Tom Evans is the Founder of BleepBleeps.
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About BleepBleeps – Smart Family, Central Research Laboratory, D&AD, SapientNitro: Cute, connected gadgets that make parenting magic.
Eve Tamraz Najjar
Co Founder and Chief Scientist of Sensio Air
Graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris where she wrote a thesis on the neuronal interactions during the development of the cranial circuits, Eve also has a scientific background in Toxicology, Health and Environment. Her interest in cutting edge technology led her to specialize in Synthetic Biology, an emerging research area at the convergence of advances in chemistry, biology, computer science, and engineering. She is now an Allergy UK ambassador and focuses all of her time on bringing high-end laboratory equipment to the end users in order to simplify allergy and asthma prevention.
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About Sensio Air: Sensio Air is a healthcare analytics company that helps people with asthma and allergy predict prevent and manage their symptoms.
Samantha Payne
Co Founder & COO of Open Bionics
Samantha Payne is the co founder of Open Bionics; a robotics company developing assistive devices that enhance the human body. The company has won multiple awards for Engineering and Innovation including two British Engineering Excellence Awards and the James Dyson award for innovative design. Open Bionics works with companies like Disney to children with limb differences into bionic superheroes. They were the first company to bring affordable multi-grip bionic hands to the National Health Service in the UK.
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About Open Bionics: Open Bionics is a robotics company creating affordable 3D-printed bionic hands for amputees, researchers and makers.
Eliott Wertheimer
Founder of FuroSystems
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About FuroSystems: We are the direct to consumer brand for elegant, practical and high performance electric vehicles.
Albert Nassar
Founder of FuroSystems
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About FuroSystems: We are the direct to consumer brand for elegant, practical and high performance electric vehicles.
John Rudin
Founder, CTO, and COO of Folium Optics
John studied Engineering at Durham University, and Optics at Reading University. After working as a product design engineer he joined Hewlett Packard and helped found their UK based displays research group. In 2013 he and Steve Kitson set up Folium Optics to further the commercialisation of colourful, low power plastic displays.
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About Folium Optics: Folium Optics was founded in November 2013 by Steve Kitson and John Rudin.
Shahram Mossayebi
Founder & CEO of Crypto Quantique
Shahram founded Crypto Quantique in 2016. His goal is to solve real world cybersecurity problems around the IoT by combining quantum technologies and modern cryptography. Shahram holds a PhD in Post-Quantum Cryptography
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About Crypto Quantique: Crypto Quantique offers hardware based cyber-security solution for authentication and encryption in a wired local network.
Josh Thomas
Co-Founder, Head of Innovation of Karakoram
I’m Josh Thomas, an engineer, designer and innovation specialist with a career devoted to discovering and exploiting opportunities that arise when emerging technologies or business changes create new consumer and user needs. I build and lead cross-disciplinary teams of designers, engineers, developers, strategists, stand-up comics, and experiential artists who focus on new approaches to creating digital and physical products, platforms and organizational design.
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About BuyLevel, Glorious Labs, Karakoram: Karakoram is an award-winning innovation consultancy that creates breakthrough solutions for the world’s toughest humanitarian challenges.
Ray McConnell
Founder/CTO of Blu Wireless
Ray brings over 25 years of experience with high performance, low power parallel processor technology. Starting his career with INMOS, he went on to found his first in a series of startups, Division plc, 20 years ago. At his second startup, Ray architected a multi-threaded graphics GP-GPU processor and has developed low-power, scaled heterogeneous maths accelerator SoCs and large imaging supercomputers. He has extensive knowledge of heterogeneous acceleration, compilers and software architectures and their applicability to the ‘difficult’ processing challenges in gigabit signal processing. He brings a broad range entrepreneurial startup experience, taking Division, PixelFusion and Clearspeed to IPO. Ray has 26 US and UK patents granted or filed and holds a computer science and cybernetics degree from the University of Kent.
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About Blu Wireless: Blu Wireless Technology is a silicon IP company developing wireless technology with a faster transmission rate.
Dugald Macdonald
Co-Founder & CEO of Sportable
Dugald Macdonald is a Co-Founder and serves as a Chief Executive Officer at Sportable. Prior to founding Sportable, he serves as an Investment Associate at GEM Investments for over a year.
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About Sportable: Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences.
Peter Husemeyer
Co-Founder & CTO of Sportable
Peter Husemeyer is a Co-Founder and serves as a Chief Technology Officer at Sportable.
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About Sportable: Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences.
Gerard Rubio
CEO & Founder of Kniterate
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About Kniterate: Kniterate is an affordable and compact digital knitting machine for your workshop.
Josh Baah
Co-Founder of Joos
Josh Baah is the Co-Founder at Joos.
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About Joos: Rent a power bank, charge your device on the move, and return anywhere in our multi-sector network; all through our app.
Hann Zhao Liu
Co-Founder of Joos
Serial angel investor/entrepreneur in a wide variety of sectors, including: hospitality, retail, technology, real estate.
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About Joos: Rent a power bank, charge your device on the move, and return anywhere in our multi-sector network; all through our app.
Tony Fish
Co-Founder of Fab Lab London
Tony is a seasoned executive director with over 25 years of experience in investment, innovation and high growth. He brings digital and transformation skills to any board. His professional life has cut across a diverse range of sectors including venture capital, health, finance, digital fabrication, media, mobile, sport and education. His attention is currently focused on AI, voice, ethics, DLT and cryptocurrency Tony has founded, co-founded, sold and listed many businesses but remains passionate about highly disruptive technology which has the capability of scaling fast and is at an early stage. He brings professional working knowledge and experience of raising funding as a founder and adviser, funding growth companies as a partner and general partner of funds and representing corporates in M&A transactions. Whilst his style is based on deep involvement, clear decision making, robust financials, fast iteration, trust, transparency and strong open governance controls; he brings innovation, entrepreneurship, energy, enthusiasm and transformation skills. In addition to speaking at over 200 events and conferences on innovation, entrepreneurship, digital trends and early stage growth, he has authored and published three books. He is a visiting Fellow at Henley Business School for entrepreneurship and innovation, Teaches at LBS and LSE and an EC expert for Big Data.
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About Fab Lab London, iNeed: Rapid Prototyping and hardware acceleration in the City of London
Leo Scott Smith
Founder & CEO of Tended
Leo Scott Smith is Tended’s CEO and founder, having started the business in 2017 to create transformative tech solutions that can put an end to occupational fatalities. He was named as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 2021, the Midlands Startup Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2019 Great British Entrepreneur Awards, and sits as the Lead Digital Advisor and Vice Chair for Lincoln City’s £20m economic regeneration plan. As a serial entrepreneur with eight years’ experience in AI and IoT, Leo has grown Tended into an award-winning safety technology company that has raised over £4.5m of private investment to date.
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About Tended: Tended combines wearable technology with behavioural psychology to transform safety in high-risk working environments. With five years’ 5 years’ experience developing safety wearables, Tended has deployed over 10,000 wearables in safety-critical environments. The company counts industry-leading organisations, including Network Rail, Siemens, and Unilever, as its clients, helping them solve complex safety challenges.
The company develops its solutions alongside behavioural science and psychology experts and has developed a first-of-its kind safety culture change solution, which is now part of HS2’s main safety strategy.
Gregor Hoefter
Founder of GridDuck
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About GridDuck: GridDuck is a cloud-based hardware, dashboard & API enabling control of your clients’ energy
Richard Wardle
Founder and Director of Vantix Diagnostics
Richard Wardle is the Founder of vantix® DIAGNOSTICS. Starting back in 1996 Richard led a team that identified and evaluated innovations from Russia. After identifying the biosensor opportunity he built a team around it to initiate the development process. Richard has been the driving force behind vantix® DIAGNOSTICS from its inception to the present time. Richard has been the Managing Director of a number of technology companies initially specializing in Eastern European technologies. Earlier in his career Richard was the Managing Director of a Construction/Engineering company specializing in contract construction of service stations on behalf of Shell U.K., major sports complexes and large scale residential developments while providing employment for up to 200 people. Prior to that he was the Managing Director of Aqua-Salve a dredging company specializing in ship recovery.
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About Vantix Diagnostics: Vantix Diagnostics, Inc. operates Vantix, a biosensor platform for use in medical, veterinary, and environmental sectors. Its Vantix
Nick New
Founder and CEO of Optalysys
Nick founded Optalysys Ltd and is the driving force behind the technology. He previously co-founded Cambridge Correlators the forerunner to Optalysys. Nick graduated from Cambridge University with a doctorate in Optical Pattern Recognition, following his Engineering degree at Liverpool University and has been instrumental in raising investment and establishing links with several international academic and commercial institutions, including NASA, MBDA and British Aerospace.
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About Optalysys: Optalysys solves the fundamental limitations of conventional computing.
Neil Tocher
Co-Founder, CEO, CTO of NCTech
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About NCTech: NCTech is a big data and analytics provider. Pioneering edge-to-cloud big data capture & provision with ML/AI for Google, government & AEC
Vassilis Seferidis
Co-Founder & CEO of Zeetta Networks
Vassilis has more than 25 years of experience in the Telecom and Consumer Electronics (CE) industries mainly in Strategic Business Planning and Development roles. Before co-founding Zeetta Networks, Vassilis was VP of European Business Development for Samsung Electronics responsible for driving revenue growth and strategic development of the company’s Consumer Electronics business in Europe. Prior to Samsung, he held senior management positions with British Telecom, Toshiba Information Systems, Philips Electronics, and British Standards Institute. During 2006-2009 he was the CTO of QIO Systems Inc., a pioneer in wearable electronics based in New York City. Vassilis holds a BSc and MSc from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a PhD in Electronic Systems Engineering from Essex University and an MBA from Cass Business School, University of London. In 2011 he was included in Euro50, a list of Europe’s 50 most influential people in Broadband &Telecoms industries.
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About Zeetta Networks: Zeetta Networks simplifies the monitoring, management and automation of complex ICT networks
Reza Nejabati
Co Founder, Director of Zeetta Networks
Reza is currently a Senior Lecturer in Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, UK. Prior to moving into academia he worked in project management and network architecture roles with leading telecom vendors. Reza has over fifteen years of experience in the field of telecommunication and computer science and has been actively involved in SDN and Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) standardisation. He has made important and pioneering contributions to the research fields of Optical Networking, Software Defined Networking, Network & Data Centre Infrastructure Virtualization, Grid Networking and Large Scale Future Internet Experimentation. He has co-/authored over 150 peer reviewed papers and three SDN standardisation documents.
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About University of Bristol, Zeetta Networks: Zeetta Networks simplifies the monitoring, management and automation of complex ICT networks
Andrew Nowell
Founder & CEO of PitPat
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About PitPat: PitPat is dedicated to improving animal health and wellbeing through the application of wearables, technology & data.
Matko Bosnjak
Founder of Bloomsbury AI
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About Bloomsbury AI: Bloomsbury AI enables everyone to easily create their own question-answering system.
Pedro Nuñez Porras
Founder and CEO of Eskesso
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About Eskesso: Eskesso is smart sous vide cooking appliance and cloud platform.
Malcolm Turnbull
Founder of Loadbalancer.org
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About Loadbalancer.org: Loadbalancer.org – Scalable application delivery from the load balancer experts
Mark Preston
CSO & Co-Founder of StreetDrone
Mark Preston is a Formula E Team Principal and founder of Street Drone, not to mention all the years he has worked in Formula 1 with McLaren and Arrows. His vast experience makes Mark uniquely positioned to deliver business planning and execution advice including technical due diligence, operations and management.
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About StreetDrone: StreetDrone is a full-stack autonomous technology developer
Fred de Haro
CEO & Co-Founder of Pycom
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About Pycom: The world’s most integrated IoT Platform
Bettina Rubek Slater
COO & Co-Founder of Pycom
Strategist Marketeer Tech and innovation seeker Telco, consumer electronics and IoT specialist
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About Pycom: The world’s most integrated IoT Platform
Paul Moorhead
CTO and Founder of Kraydel
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About Kraydel: Kraydel addresses social isolation and maintains independence through TV-video calling and an IoT platform for sensors.
Roger Wilson
Chairman and Founder of Adept Technology Group Plc
Roger has worked in telecommunications since 1993. In addition to being the first Managing Director for Telewest’s residential consumer business in the UK he spent 3 years in Poland successfully building a business for American investors. He was Managing Director of the European Competitive Telecommunications Association until January 2006.
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About Adept Technology Group Plc: Adept Technology Group is one of COMMS Integrators offering best-in-class breed solutions from any UK network, customized to your needs.
Mark Jenner
Co-Founder of Beeline
Mark Jenner is a Co-Founder at BeeLine.
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About Beeline: Smart navigation, made simple. For a global community of adventurers
Tom Putnam
Co Founder of Beeline
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About Beeline: Smart navigation, made simple. For a global community of adventurers
Zsolt Pardi
Co-Founder & CEO of ZoVolt Ltd
Zsolt Pardi is Co-Founder & CEO at ZoVolt Ltd.
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About ZoVolt Ltd: ZoVolt is a wireless sensor manufacturer specializes in zigBee based wireless sensors that communicate with users.
Dan Simmons
Founder and Director of Quensus
Dr Dan Simmons has a Masters + PhD in Electrical Engineering, and is an expert in water sustainability, software development and wireless technologies. Based on this skill set, he founded Quensus in 2015, which shaped a step-change in the water-saving industry.
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About Quensus: Water management system to monitor and control water infrastructure
Rishi Chowdhury
Co Founder of Incube
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About Incube, Momentum London, Your Hidden Potential: Incube specializes in the fields of commercial real estate, proptech, and smart buildings.
Charles Burton
Co-Founder – Sales Operations and Marketing Director of Omni-ID
With over 30 years’ experience in a range of technical and management positions Charles has always been involved in engineering and technology where his organisational skills have been used in a range of operational roles. Initially working in the field of gas turbine research Charles was involved in full scale jet engine tests and eventually turbine blade cooling R&D. From there, Charles moved into system development and program management running multi-discipline teams and major projects for a number of software companies. Prior to the start-up of Omni-ID Charles was operations manager for QinetiQ’s metal-printing technology managing the group’s print facilities and project portfolio, from which Omni-ID was ultimately spawned. As a co-founder of Omni-ID, Charles was instrumental in developing Omni-ID’s early production capability and establishing company processes. Charles now runs Omni-ID’s operations group responsible for global order fulfilment. Charles has a Bachelors and a Master of Philosophy degree in engineering from Imperial College London and is a Chartered IT professional.
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About Omni-ID: Omni-ID is engaged in developing passive ultra-high radio frequency identification technology-related products.
Graham Kershberg
Co-Founder of i-Bell
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About i-Bell, Kershberg & Company: I-Bell is is a device that enables app that enables users see real-time footage of visitors at their doorstep.
Harry Middleton
Co-Founder & Research Chemist of Ultromex
Harry Middleton has over 30 years’ experience in various technical and management roles in the chemicals and metals industry. Harry started his career at Permutit Ltd as a Research and Development Chemist, followed by a position at International Nickel. Harry spent 30 years at the global chemicals specialist, Johnson Matthey, as a Research Chemist, Development Chemist, Production Manager and Technical Sales Manager. During this time he invented the first cyanide gold plating electrolyte and the first ruthenium and iridium plating electrolyte. He worked on electrodesposition of platinum from fused cyanide for superalloy production for jet engines and electrowinning precious metals from very dilute waste streams. As Production Manager he was in charge of recovering all PGM losses from all aspects of production and improving cost saving in refining of all precious metals at the foundry and refiner within the company. He set up the infrastructure for the recovery of precious metals from industrial plants that used precious metal catalysts. During his time as Technical Sales Manager Harry looked after all aspects, worldwide, of selling the service of precious metals recovery from industrial chemical plants and managing all technical aspects of the service. Based in the UK, Harry is responsible for R&D and process development.
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About Ultromex: Ultromex develops processes for the recovery of high-value metals from electronic and industrial waste products.
Douglas Higgins
Founder & Director of Mujo Mechanics
Douglas Higgins is the Founder & Director at Mujo Mechanics.
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About Mujo Mechanics: Mujo Mechanics provides smart devices and intelligent cloud platform for a data-driven approach to musculoskeletal health.
Martin Fuggle
Founder & President of Adaxa
Martin’s career has spanned more than forty years in the Information & Communications Technology industry. He has held board and senior management positions with major ICT service providers in the United Kingdom and Australia. He spent seven years as a board member of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Information Industries Association, focusing on the development of ICT policy for small to medium business.
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About Adaxa: Adaxa is an Open Source ERP Software.
Klaus McDonald-Maier
Chief Scientist & Co-Founder of UltraSoC Technologies
Klaus leads the technical development program at UltraSoC. He is internationally recognised as an expert in embedded systems and Systems-on Chip technology. He is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex and has held academic positions at the University of Kent and the University of Jena. Previously at Infineon Technologies AG he was responsible for the architecture specification of advanced SoC processor cores, and modules. Klaus McDonald-Maier has authored over 150 papers and holds 12 patents granted and pending worldwide. He is a Fellow of the IET and a senior member of IEEE.
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About Metrarc, UltraSoC Technologies, University of Essex: UltraSoC Technologies provides SoC infrastructure to enable rapid development of embedded systems.
Joanna Montgomery
Founder & Director of Little Riot
Joanna Montgomery started her own company, Little Riot, to develop a product called Pillow Talk. In the last few years, the company has grown from strength to strength, securing vast amounts of funding and winning several awards.
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About Little Riot: Little Riot mission is to alleviate loneliness and empower people to use technology to communicate without staring at a screen.
Paul Thomas
Co-Founder & Development Director of Cupris Health
Paul Thomas is the Co Founder & Development Director at Cupris Health.
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About Cupris Health, PD HIVE: Cupris Health develope communication software and smartphone-connected medical devices.
Mark Rendle
Founder & CTO of oort Inc
Mark is the founder and CTO of Oort Corporation, a new company building cloud-based software for people who build cloud-based software. Oort’s first product, Zudio, a Windows Azure Storage toolkit, is currently in public preview and will be fully launching in April 2013. Mark has been a Windows Azure Development MVP for three years. In his spare time, Mark work’s on the Simple.Data not-an-ORM and Simple.Web projects, and wanders the world speaking at conferences and user groups. Or he just geeks out learning new programming languages and frameworks; in 2013 he’s working a lot with TypeScript and AngularJS.
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About oort Inc: OORT designs and manufactures hardware and software solutions which enable customers to turn their home or office into a smart one.
Howard Baker
Co-Founder and Non-Executive Director of Powerphotonic
Howard Baker received B.Sc.in Physics and Ph.D. in Laser Physics from Manchester University. Postdoctoral research at Manchester was on pulsed iodine photo-dissociation lasers. In 1980, he became a Lecturer in Applied Physics at Hull University, with research on mercury halide and TEA CO2 lasers and magnetic switching circuits for electrical pulse generation. In 1987, he became Senior Lecturer in Physics at Heriot-Watt University allowing research specialisation in both laser physics and laser engineering. He played a leading role in development of scalable lasers with RF discharge excitation, and CO2 planar waveguide and array lasers were pioneered. The work aided the establishment of a currently successful laser manufacturer in the UK. This expertise in the new CO2 laser technology led to applications research on laser drilling of circuit boards, machining of unfired LTCC ceramic laminations and precision micro-machining and polishing of silica optics. His main interest has been in high power diode lasers, used directly or as pump units for solid-state lasers. A novel diode pumping scheme led to world-leading performance from planar waveguide solid-state lasers. He devised a new technique for fabricating optics to correct the poor beam quality of diode laser bars, combining a novel wavefront measurement technique with custom laser micro-machining. He co-founded PowerPhotonic Ltd, aimed at commercialising this process. Current research continues on the use of laser direct-writing techniques in optics manufacture, and application of laser-cut optics in the general area of high average power industrial diode lasers. A new area is ceramic technology research on vacuum sintered, transparent laser materials for solid-state laser amplifiers and laser-machined LTTC ceramic substrate technology for diode laser packaging.
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About Heriot-Watt University, Powerphotonic: Powerphotonic designs and fabricates freeform refractive micro-optics for laser beam correction and beamforming.
Jim McCoy
Founder/CEO of Q-Branch Labs
Jim McCoy joined Q-Branch Labs as Founder/CEO in 2016.
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About Q-Branch Labs: Cybersecurity protection for remote and work from home employees
Pauline Issard
CEO & Co-Founder of Trackener
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About Trackener: Trackener is revolutionising the equine care with data and technology.
Jeremie Charlet
CTO & Co-Founder of Trackener
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About Trackener: Trackener is revolutionising the equine care with data and technology.
Maria Karam
Founder, President of Tactile Audio Displays Inc.
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About Tactile Audio Displays Inc.: R&D Leaders in Sound Systems for the body
Alastair Donaldson
Co-Founder of GraphicsFuzz
Alastair Donaldson is a co-founder of GraphicsFuzz.
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About GraphicsFuzz, GraphicsFuzz: GraphicsFuzz offers automated reliability testing of GPU drivers.
Paul Thomson
Co-Founder of GraphicsFuzz
Paul Thomson is a co-founder of GraphicsFuzz.
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About GraphicsFuzz: GraphicsFuzz offers automated reliability testing of GPU drivers.
James Gourlay
Founder & Technical Director of Design LED Products
James Gourlay is a Founder & Technical Director at Design LED Products.
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About Design LED Products: Design LED Products specializes in the design of thin printed lightguide products.
Simon Riley
Founder, CEO of MakerClub
Part inventor, part wizard. With a degree in computer science and a penchant for a love ballad, do not get stuck in a lift with him.
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About MakerClub: 3D Printed Robotics for the Maker Generation
Julian Williams
Founder of Wizdish
Julian is an experienced control system developer, technical lead and architect for television broadcasting with 30 years’ experience with the BBC in the UK and USA. Computer games have interested Julian since the late 70’s and the Wizdish ROVR concept grew out of this interest. • Senior Control System Engineer & technical lead • 30 yrs at BBC in UK and USA • Avid gamer and Wizdish Inventor & Founder
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About Wizdish: Wizdish is the original virtual reality motion platform.
David Bridgland
Founder of Wizdish
David Bridgland studied Engineering at Cambridge and is a chartered accountant. David has over 18 years of business experience from privately owned and venture capital backed companies through to blue chip PLCs. Concentrating on early-stage businesses with innovative technologies, he has helped raise funding, grown businesses organically and through acquisition,and achieved successful trade sale exits for investors.
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About Geothermal Engineering, Wizdish: Wizdish is the original virtual reality motion platform.
Dave Bannister
Founder & CEO of AccurIC
Dave comes from a Physics and Electrical Engineering background. He worked for 20 years for QinetiQ (then Europe’s largest high-technology research and development organisation) specialising in the design and commercialisation of Microwave and Millimetre-wave circuits and sub-systems. Dave has taken circuit design techniques deployed at GHz frequencies – where performance accuracy in the face of component tolerance and varying temperature are a must -and applied them to the design of high accuracy, low temperature coefficient current regulators. Dave developed the basic Intellectual Property around which AccurIC was formed.
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About AccurIC: AccurIC is a manufacturer of LED drivers with ultra-high current-setting accuracy and ultra-low temperature coefficient.
Roger Gross
Founder & head of engineering of Silicon:SAFE
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About Silicon:SAFE: Silicon:SAFE develops impenetrable network storage solutions in hardware that prevent bulk theft of sensitive data.
Jonathan Huntley
Co-Founder & Technical Director of Phase Vision
Jonathan Huntley is Co-Founder & Technical Director at Phase Vision.
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About Phase Vision: Phase Vision provides dimensional metrology equipment for the automotive, aerospace, and precision engineering industries.
Jonathan Huntley
Co-Founder & Technical Director of Phase Vision
Jonathan Huntley is Co-Founder & Technical Director at Phase Vision.
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About Phase Vision: Phase Vision provides dimensional metrology equipment for the automotive, aerospace, and precision engineering industries.
Will Burrard-Lucas
Founder of Camtraptions Ltd
Wildlife photographer and founder of Camtraptions, WildlifePhoto.com and RAW Exposure.
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About Camtraptions Ltd: Remote and camera trap photography
Will Burrard-Lucas
Founder of Camtraptions Ltd
Wildlife photographer and founder of Camtraptions, WildlifePhoto.com and RAW Exposure.
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About Camtraptions Ltd: Remote and camera trap photography
