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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 Founder operating in the EdTech 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.
Bernhard Niesner
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of busuu
Bernhard Niesner is the CEO and Co-Founder of busuu – the world´s largest social network for language learning with more than 35m users. busuu provides language courses in 12 different languages combined with direct interaction with native speakers from the community. The London-based start-up received several awards and was named “Best Education Start-Up in 2011” by TechCrunch. busuu is backed by renown business angels like Martin Varsavsky and received investment from PRO-Founders Capital. Before founding busuu, Bernhard worked at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. In addition to busuu, he is Associated Professor at IE Business School in the area of online marketing. Bernhard graduated summa cum laude in International Business from the University of Vienna and holds an MBA (with honors) from IE Business School. In 2009 he was awarded “Entrepreneur of the year” in Austria.
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About busuu: busuu is a mobile app for language learning with the goal of breaking down language barriers.
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Priya Lakhani
Founder & CEO of CENTURY Tech
Former libel barrister, Priya founded FMCG business Masala Masala in 2008 successfully launching its products into nationwide supermarket chains and independent retailers. The company’s charitable arm has provided over 1 million meals and 35,000 vaccinations to the underprivileged in India and Africa. In 2014 Priya founded CENTURY Tech, which is set to disrupt the education sector by utilising big data and data mining techniques to improve students’ learning outcomes. Priya has been a member of the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills’ Entrepreneurs’ Forum, an advisory board member to several educational/skills organisations, including a founding entrepreneur of Gazelle Group Colleges. Priya was awarded Business Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009 and Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2014.
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About CENTURY Tech: CENTURY is the award-winning artificial intelligence teaching and learning platform for schools, colleges and universities.
Jonathan Seaton
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Twinkl
Jonathan Seaton is the co-founder and chief executive officer at Twinkl.
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About Twinkl: Twinkl is a provider of teacher-created lesson planning, teaching, and assessment materials.
Jack Bekhor
Co-Founder of Uptime App
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About Uptime App, WorkAngel: Uptime App: Thousands of 5-minute Knowledge Hacks from the world’s best books, courses and documentaries, for free.
Jamie True
Founder of Uptime App
Jamie is the CEO and driving force behind LifeWorks. Combining energy and positivity, he is deeply passionate about technology and how it can be used to create positive change in our world today. With a proven track record of growing technology companies from the ground up, Jamie set up his first business at the age of 17 which merged with its largest competitor in June 1997. He co-founded and invented Interclubnet PLC, creating an online trading platform that most major football clubs worldwide used to buy and sell players akin to a Bloomberg terminal “X-tranet”. In August 2000 the company floated on AIM with a market capitalisation of £30 million. Turnover in Year 1 totaled £8.1Million. In January 2004, Jamie launched a 9 patented service called ONSPEED which became the largest Internet accelerator in Europe. The group subsequently floated under a holding company called Z Group PLC in June 2005 for £25 million on AIM. In Jan 2010, Jamie started Grapple mobile, a patented mobile application platform. Grapple won the most Innovative Mobile Agency of 2012 and 2013 and was successfully acquired by Monitse PLC (MONI) AIM for up to £39million in Sep 2013. Jamie founded WorkAngel in 2013, the powerbrand that drives employee engagement, retention and satisfaction for some of the largest companies in the World. WorkAngel merged with Ceridian LifeWorks in 2016 with Jamie serving as the CEO of LifeWorks.
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About Doughlicious, Uptime App: Uptime App: Thousands of 5-minute Knowledge Hacks from the world’s best books, courses and documentaries, for free.
Patrick Joseph Walker
Co-Founder of Uptime App
After 20 years building and launching some of the world’s most innovative digital video services, Patrick committed himself to the future of learning as the Co-Founder of Uptime, alongside seasoned entrepreneurs Jamie True and Jack Bekhor. Uptime’s mission is to inspire people everywhere to learn, grow and contribute to a better world. Before founding Uptime, Patrick was Director of Media Partnerships at Facebook and Instagram, leading content partnerships with media companies and public figures in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Patrick began his career in international media and technology as a TV producer for Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK. While living in Tokyo, he produced and directed award-winning educational and documentary TV programs and participated in the launch of the world’s first HDTV channel. He later joined the BBC as a Senior Broadcast Journalist in Japan and South East Asia where he used new technologies to tell stories from often extremely hostile environments. Patrick moved to London in 2000 to launch early stage digital video services, and became YouTube’s first international employee. He went on to spend eight years with Google and YouTube as the senior director of content partnerships, where he was responsible for launching and managing YouTube across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Patrick was also a founding investor and Chief Content Officer of Europe’s largest multi-channel network, Base79, and served as the CEO of Rightster, a leading content and audience development partner of YouTube and Facebook. Patrick holds a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Southern California and an M.Ed in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He currently lives in London with his family and regular escapes to the Scottish Highlands to connect with nature and digitally detox.
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About Uptime App: Uptime App: Thousands of 5-minute Knowledge Hacks from the world’s best books, courses and documentaries, for free.
Vassili Philippov
Founder & CEO of MEL Science
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About MEL Science: MEL Science develops up to date chemistry kit subscription and VR software for learning chemistry
Jamie Brooker
Founder & Strategic Advisor of Kahoot!
Jamie Brooker is the Founder & Strategic Advisor at Kahoot!
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About Apps for Good, Kahoot!, The Nordic Web Ventures, We Are Human: Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share, and play fun learning games and trivia quizzes.
Euan Blair
Founder & CEO of Multiverse
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About Multiverse: Multiverse is a tech startup that matches talent who have not graduated from college with apprenticeship opportunities.
Sofia Fenichell
Chief Creative Officer & Founder of Mrs Wordsmith
Sofia Fenichell is the Founder & CEO of Rockpack & he attended Northwestern University in 1986.
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About Mrs Wordsmith, WONDER PLACE LTD.: Mrs Wordsmith is on a mission to illustrate the English language, so kids fall in love with words and with learning.
Marko Vučić
Founder & CEO of Teorem
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About Teorem: An online tutoring platform focused on making high quality education available to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Joshua Wohle
CEO & Co-Founder of Mindstone
Joshua Wohle is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mindstone. In 2013, when Joshua co-founded SuperAwesome — a digital media ecosystem designed for children.
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About Emerge Education, Mindstone: Organise, share and take notes on web pages, PDFs, videos & podcasts so you can learn faster, remember more and get things done.
Patrick Cootes
Chief Learning Officer and Founder of Mindstone
Patrick Cootes is the Chief Learning Officer and Founder of Mindstone learning. As a secondary school teacher and Head of Sixth Form, Patrick has seen first-hand how the current education system leaves people feeling like failures when it’s the system itself that is broken.
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About Mindstone: Organise, share and take notes on web pages, PDFs, videos & podcasts so you can learn faster, remember more and get things done.
Stefan Keranov
Co-Founder & Engineering of Mindstone
Stefan Keranov is the Co-Founder and responsible for the Engineering activities of Mindstone. He is a web developer who’s worked on various content and membership platforms including SuperAwesome, Kaluza, and Very Connect.
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About Mindstone: Organise, share and take notes on web pages, PDFs, videos & podcasts so you can learn faster, remember more and get things done.
David Bainbridge
Founder & CEO of boclips
David has deep experience in marketing and sales within corporates and bringing new media products to market. Prior to Knowledgemotion, David was the CEO of Elvis Communications, the Launch CMO for Intel’s IPTV offering in the US and was responsible for bringing the BBC iPlayer to market in the UK. He has sat on the Executive Boards of Freeview and Digital UK and was part of the original Channel 5 launch team. Knowledgemotion is his second start-up after successfully launching and exiting an interactive TV business in 2005. David has a BA in American Studies from Manchester University.
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About boclips: boclips is an online platform that enables its users to find, watch, and learn through educational video clips.
Diego Fanara
Co-Founder and CEO of Unibuddy
Diego Fanara is the co-founder and CEO of Unibuddy.
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About Unibuddy: Unibuddy helping universities and students to attract, engage and convert prospects through peer interactions.
Kimeshan Naidoo
Co-Founder and CTO of Unibuddy
Kimeshan Naidoo is CTO & Co-Founder at Unibuddy.
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About Unibuddy: Unibuddy helping universities and students to attract, engage and convert prospects through peer interactions.
Peter Kelly
Co-Founder & CEO of Imployable
Peter Kelly is a Former Royal Marines Commando and the CEO and co-founder of Imployable. In 2018 Peter won the regional and national NatWest Great British Entrepreneur of The Year Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit
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About Imployable: Mobile first technology that allows people to identify, map and track their way to a new career
Rajeeb Dey
Founder & CEO of Learnerbly
Rajeeb Dey joined Learnerbly as Founder & CEO in 2016.
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About Learnerbly: Learnerbly is a Learning Development Platform.
Akif Yaldir
Founder, CEO of Case Future
I have strong experience in developing successful products and managing effective teams. My core strengths are fast-learning and following an output-oriented approach mainly for mobile products.
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About Case Future: Work on what you love! Find what you can learn easily with better efficiency, learn on mobile and grow your future.
Riaz moola
Founder & CEO of CoGrammar
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About CoGrammar, HyperionDev: CoGrammar scales human mentorship and code review 10 times more affordably.
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.
Riya Pabari
Co-Founder of Framework
Riya Pabari currently serves Founders Academy as co-founder and CEO. Riya also serves founders Pledge as pledger. Prior to this, Riya has worked with Founders Intelligence as innovation manager for two years. She attended Cambridge University in 2005.
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About Framework: Framework is the world’s first on-demand business school especially made for startupland
Asha Haji
Co-Founder of Framework
Asha Haji is the Co-Founder of Framework. She attended Harvard Business School in 2011.
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About Framework: Framework is the world’s first on-demand business school especially made for startupland
Justin Hsu
CEO / Founder of MarcoPolo Learning
Justin Hsu is one of the founders of Marco Polo Learning.
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About MarcoPolo Learning: MarcoPolo Learning is an award-winning digital curriculum developer for early learners.
Scott Woodley
Co-Founder of Tutorful
Scott is a qualified teacher, with a Masters in Law and a BA History degree. An idealist to the core, Scott always seeks to ‘make things better’ and perfect our service: hence our manic workload! He is a keen cyclist, runner and, generally, an avid sports enthusiast.
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About Tutorful: Tutorful is an online education company.
Mark Hughes
Co-Founder & CEO of Tutorful
Mark has a Masters and degree in Engineering from Cambridge University and has since worked as a Technology Analyst for one of the largest investment companies in the country. He brings the business mind and technological know-how to our organisation, and, as the creative genius of our team, has an ardent passion for ensuring that Tutorful provides a smooth, slick platform for everyone. Mark loves climbing and can normally be found hanging off mountains in the Peak District.
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About Tutorful: Tutorful is an online education company.
Jesse Lozano
Co-Founder & CEO of Pi-Top
Jesse Lozano is CEO and co-founder of pi-top. Since launching in 2014, with Ryan Dunwoody, pi-top has grown into a world leading maker platform built for students and teachers across the world. pi-top has now released their 3rd generation device and is used by over 2,000 schools and Code Clubs world wide. pi-top’s purpose is to give every learner the opportunity to be inspired by STEAM education.
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About Pi-Top: Pi-Top is a creative learning company and their mission is to inspire a generation of makers, fixers & problem solvers.
Ryan Dunwoody
Co-Founder & CTO of Pi-Top
Ryan Dunwoody is a Co-Founder & CTO at Pi-Top.
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About Pi-Top: Pi-Top is a creative learning company and their mission is to inspire a generation of makers, fixers & problem solvers.
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.
Adetunji Adegbesan
Founder/CEO of Gidi Mobile
Dr Adetunji Adegbesan is the Founder & CEO of Gidi Mobile, creators of gidimo, Africa’s leading curriculum mastery & learning-as-a-service platform. Tunji has a First Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering, and a PhD in Strategic Management from the IESE Business School. He is globally respected as one of Africa’s top scholars of competitive strategy, as well as one of her leading experts on the mobile telecommunications industry. A recipient of multiple awards, he has been invited to speak at knowledge events in more than 20 countries across four continents. Immediately prior to founding Gidi Mobile, he was Director of the Centre for Competitiveness & Strategy at the Lagos Business School (LBS), where he led sessions on Competitive Strategy, as well as on issues arising out of the intersection of Strategy, Technology, and Innovation. During his 14 years at LBS, his consulting experience spanned the software, telecommunications, banking, oil and gas, publishing, logistics, identity management and electronic payments sectors; while prior to LBS, his work experience spanned software development, consulting, information systems management, and electrical engineering, in both manufacturing and service sectors. Tunji is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Academy of Management Review, the world’s leading conceptual journal in the field of strategic management. He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Businessday Newspapers (West Africa’s premier business periodical), and a peer reviewer for several of the world’s top strategy research journals. He is a past member of the Executive Committee of the Strategy Division of the global Academy of Management, as well as a past Global Representative for Africa of the Division. He has also been a Representative-at-Large for the Competitive Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society, and a member of the Research and Strategic Planning Committee of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria. He is a past Visiting Scholar & Associate Researcher at the Center for Globalisation and Strategy at the IESE Business School in Barcelona. An amateur historian, philosopher, and student of culture and geo-political affairs, Tunji has native fluency in English and Spanish, and basic literacy in French, Yoruba and Catalan.
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About Gidi Mobile: Gidi Mobile is the creator of gidimo, the developing world’s leading personal mastery & learning-for-opportunity platform
Catharina Paukner
Co-Founder, Chief Scientist of Cambridge Nanosystems
As co-founder and Chief Scientist of Cambridge Nanosystems Ltd., Catharina Paukner is responsible for both the research strategy of the company and its technology roadmap. She leads her team in the production and development of high quality graphene flakes derived from hydrocarbon gases in a unique and industry leading atmospheric pressure plasma cracking process. Currently her industry research covers a broad range of application developments for both graphene flakes and carbon nanotubes in areas such as inks and polymer composites. With a background and Master’s degree in chemistry, her PhD research in Materials Science at the University of Cambridge focussed on the development of a completely new system for the controlled continuous synthesis of carbon nanotubes. She has recently been awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in recognition of her role in the design of new nanomaterial manufacturing systems.
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About Cambridge Nanosystems: Cambridge Nanosystems is a UK-based start-up born out of Cambridge University that specialises in advanced materials.
Sophia Matveeva
Host & Founder of Tech for Non-Techies
Sophia is the CEO & Co-Founder of Style Counsel – Your personal stylist, wherever and whenever you need her. Style Counsel is an app where you can get feedback on your outfits from fashion bloggers & a friendly community. Available on the Apple App Store. Style Counsel’s tech analog is Houzz, which connects retailers, users and experts, and is valued at $2.3bn. Style Counsel was launched at Chicago Booth and coached in the Global New Venture Challenge, the accelerator which gave rise to Grubhub and Braintree. Before founding Style Counsel with the world’s best team, she worked at user generated news site Blasting News and studied for her MBA at Chicago Booth at the same time. She started my career in PR and has worked in London and Delhi. Originally from Moscow, she speaks Russian and French.
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About Enty, Tech for Non-Techies: Tech for Non-Techies is an online learning and training company helping non-technical professionals understand the field of technology.
Lee Carlin
Co-Founder and Head of Talent & Experience of The Intern Group
International Education Entrepreneur. Passionate about accessibility & inclusion. I am a customer-focused individual who has experience in bootstrapping an international education start-up to £10m+ revenue, helping to create life-changing experiences for over 10,000 global students to date. I am based between London & Latin America.
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About The Intern Group: The Intern Group is an EdTech company that connects global talent with opportunity
David Lloyd
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Office of The Intern Group
A British national, David studied at University College London and the London School of Economics. He previously lived in Argentina where he completed an internship at Rolex, perfected his Spanish and fell in love with the continent. Before setting up The Intern Group he was a fixed income salesman on the Iberian desk for Merrill Lynch in London. He left Merrill to pursue his true dream – to promote international opportunities and give others fantastic experiences like he had along with advantages that last.
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About Magma Partners, The Intern Group: The Intern Group is an EdTech company that connects global talent with opportunity
Oliver Fisher
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Springpod
Oliver Fisher is the Co-Founder and Chief Product 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.
Jamie Clarke
Founder of My Study Life
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About My Study Life: A cross-platform planner for anyone in education.
Tim Perkins
Co-Founder & Director of Nudge Global
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About Nudge Global: Brighter financial futures for everyone, everywhere
Jeremy Beament
Co-Founder & Director of Nudge Global
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About Nudge Global: Brighter financial futures for everyone, everywhere
Brett Shanley
CEO & Founder of Knoma
Brett is the Founder and CEO of Knoma, the Knowledge Market, offering a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning. He passionate about equipping people for the future of work and providing sound financial options.
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About Knoma: Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.
Clare Stewart Munn
Chief Executive Office, Founder of Box Media
Media Executive and entrepreneur passionate about communication, Ai and equal pay. Focused on disrupting how information is digested and expressed in the workforce. In 94 Munn’s script and animation treatment to entertain and educate children about Africa and the environment was licensed by Paramount/Simon & Schuster Interactive . In parallel she co-founded Penga Partners with a vision to disrupt communication and training in the workplace. This became Employment Law Training Inc. owned by Littler Mendleson. ELT-Inc.com became the first multidimensional, online site for compliance story based training. Instrumental in raising $15 million from Lazard and selling for multiple X 10 years later. After ELT, Munn became EVP of Global BD & Partnerships instrumental in raising Series B $22 million for Playback Media, a $28M venture back software and media company founded in 1998 in Silicon Valley to deliver cutting edge e- Learning videos to Global 50 companies. Even though both companies had successes, Munn realized broadband was not quite there to create her vision of streaming mixed media short format engaging episodic videos in the workplace and after founding an award winning boutique agency, The Communication Group, Munn concentrated on creating brand and digital strategies for Fortune 100 clients including Hitachi, Maxtor, Cisco, McKesson, AMD, ebay, Danskin, Eddie Bauer etc. This became the 1st 50 Green Certified agency in SF. Coined and trademarked CQ: Communication Quotient: Expressive & Receptive Intelligence, and H2H, Human 2 Human. And soon after being an Executive Producer of The Square – a 3 Emmy, Oscar Nominated film with Netflix, Munn knew it was finally time to realize her vision of 20 years ago and Boxspring Entertainment was founded in 2016. Boxspring was the 1st 100 to sign the Equal Pay Pledge.
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About Box Media, Unreasonable: Reinventing Learning. An EdTech company producing short form media and technology tools focused on the Future of Work
Noam Tamir
Founder and Director of Healthcare Learning
Noam Tamir serves as Founder and Director of The Healthcare Learning Company Limited. Mr. Tamir has extensive experience in computer services, management, and marketing as applied to different market niches. He is also the Founder of Isys Plc and has been its Managing Director. He is a Member of the Worshipful Company of IT and has been a Contributing member of the IT Training & Education Panel. He was the youngest officer at the ‘Entebbe Raid’. Mr. Tamir graduated in Computing and Industrial Management Engineering at the Technion in Haifa, Israel.
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About Healthcare Learning: HLC is an integrated learning provider offering cutting-edge learning solutions predominantly in the dental market.
Steve Dineen
Founder, Chief Storyteller & CEO of Fuse Universal
Founder and President of Fuse Universal.
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About Fuse Universal: The Fuse learning platform connects people with the knowledge and expertise they need to improve their skills and perform.
James Bryce
Founder and CEO of gweek
Entrepreneur in speech pathology and technology.
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About gweek: gweek is the category leader of Speech Intelligence. We help job candidates speak and communicate with natural agility.
Naimish Gohil
CEO & Founder of Team Satchel
Naimish Gohil is Founder & CEO at Show my Homework.
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About Team Satchel: Team Satchel develops a range of school software focusing on homework, behavior, classroom management, and teaching resources.
Jermaine Hagan
Founder & Product Visionary of Revision App
Jermaine Hagan is the Founder and Product Visionary at Revision App.
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About Revision App: Revision App offers revision content for GCSE, 11 PLUS, and KS2 students.
Dean Jacobs
CEO & Founder of Wibbu
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About University of East London, Wibbu: Wibbu is an award-winning education-entertainment studio specialising in engaging language-learning tools for the classroom.
Charles Brook Shanahan
Sales & Co-Founder of GoSay
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About GoSay: GoSay creates digital products for the online education sector
Tom Osborne
Founder @Rouse and CMO @KidED of KidED
Founder at KidED.
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About KidED, KidED: We’re bringing a solution to a globally growing issue of kids rather playing than learning.
Krishan Meetoo
Co Founder & Chief Design Officer of Construct
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About Construct: Construct helps organizations with learners, like schools and employers, create beautiful, cutting edge digital learning experiences.
Carl Dawson
Founder of Construct
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About Construct: Construct helps organizations with learners, like schools and employers, create beautiful, cutting edge digital learning experiences.
Bethany Koby
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Technology Will Save Us
Bethany is a mom, CEO, designer, educator and art director interested in creating brands, businesses and experiences that help imagining a more positive and collaborative future. Bethany has been selected as one of the Designer’s that Matter by Wired Magazine, one of the Top 50 Creative Leaders by Creative Review and has spoken at TED Kids, Resonate and Maker Faire, to name a few.
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About Technology Will Save Us: Technology Will Save Us is a technology startup that offers DIY gadget kits, activities, and online resources for children.
Daniel Hirschmann
Founder of Technology Will Save Us
Daniel is a dad, artist, educator and entrepreneur who uses technology as a vehicle for delivering human centred learning experiences.
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About Hirsch & Mann, Technology Will Save Us: Technology Will Save Us is a technology startup that offers DIY gadget kits, activities, and online resources for children.
Damien Ducourty
Founder & Managing Director of B9lab
#B9lab is the independent provider of quality education, advice and research about blockchain technology and decentralised applications. Our clients are leading global institutions as well as talented individual developers around the world. I’m an experienced entrepreneur and executive with a track record of bringing disruptive software solutions to market in technology and finance. I like working with groups of talented people to provide tangible and valuable solutions. I always engage ethically and believe that sustainability and accountability can fuel growth. I want to be proud of what I do everyday! Attributes: Hands on, conscientious, strategic, persistent but not stubborn, creative, curious and highly personable, love Win Win, try hard everyday to change the world and resist my biases.
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About B9lab: Upskilling gifted developers for high paying, bleeding-edge jobs whatever their background
Will Paterson
Founder and Director of EdPlace
Will Paterson led the acquisition of EdPlace in 2011 and its subsequent re-launch in 2012. His working life started in corporate finance in the City of London. He left his finance career 7 years ago and started working online. In 2007 he co-founded and ran Plebble for four years before moving on to EdPlace. The extra support I got from those around him was invaluable through his school and university years. With EdPlace he hope to foster that same support for parents and children alike.
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About EdPlace: EdPlace is dedicated to empowering parents in their child’s education.
Christophe Mallet
CEO & Co-Founder of Bodyswaps
Innovation Strategist with 10 years experience across social media, digital and immersive technologies (VR/AR). Chris got his Masters from HEC and started his career as Employee #1 (Head of Strategy) of social consultancy Carve that later got sold to a large advertising group. After co-founding Immersive Tech agency Somewhere Else with Julien and running it for over 3 years, Christophe co-founded BODYSWAPS with one mission: unlock human potential in the workplace with the help of immersive technologies. Christophe is an industry thought leader, international speaker and regular podcaster on VR and learning. He has recently delivered talks for the International Labor Organisation, the European Training Foundation and the European Immersive Computing Summit.
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About Bodyswaps: Bodyswaps is a B2B immersive learning platform (VR SaaS) designed to deliver effective and scalable soft skills training.
Lucy Cranwell-Ward
Co-Founder of Upskill Me
Lucy Cranwell-Ward is the Co-Founder at Upskill Me.
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About Upskill Me: Upskill Me is an e-learning platform that helps students to grow their skills.
Abhishek Nakhate
Founder & CEO of Zoom Abroad
Abhishek is a serial entrepreneur with a problem-solving attitude, challenging the status quo. With over 13 years of the international student recruitment industry, Abhishek has experience working as a Director in International University, as an agent, as a service provider and have fist hand experience of being an international student. Determined to address and solve some burning problems in the student recruitment industry. With passion & compassion towards a student’s career, Abhishek also expertise in Career advisory and mentoring. Likes public speaking, motivational stories, Table tennis and ofcourse family.
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About Zoom Abroad: A free AI platform which connects students to the best-fit universities globally, saving them TIME and MONEY.
Susan Burton
Founder & CEO of Classlist.com
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About Classlist.com: Classlist enables parents at the same school to make trusted, secure connections; making their life easier and school communities stronger.
Clare Wright
Co-Founder, Community of Classlist.com
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About Classlist.com: Classlist enables parents at the same school to make trusted, secure connections; making their life easier and school communities stronger.
Rose Luckin
Founder and CEO of EDUCATE Ventures Research
Rose is Professor of Learner Centred Design at UCL Knowledge Lab. Rose’s research involves the design and evaluation of educational technology using theories from the learning sciences and techniques from artificial intelligence. She works closely with the education technology industry, in particular Start-ups and SMEs, to enable them to integrate research evidence and methods into their products. Rose has advised research councils in various countries and has written widely about educational technologies. She has taught in schools, FE and HE, and she is a Governor and Trustee at St Paul’s school in London and the Self Managed Learning College in Brighton.
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About EDUCATE Ventures Research, UCL Institute of Education: Educate serves as a catalyst for the development of EdTech products and services that are supported by facts.
Elizaveta Vratskikh
Founder of Kidkin
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About Kidkin: Kidkin is a SaaS-enabled marketplace for kids activities.
Ben Schogler
Co-Founder of SKOOG Inc.
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About SKOOG Inc.: SKOOG is a Children’s Early Learning Interactive platform that delivers a metaverse of insanely interactive content experiences.
David Skulina
Co-Founder of SKOOG Inc.
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About SKOOG Inc.: SKOOG is a Children’s Early Learning Interactive platform that delivers a metaverse of insanely interactive content experiences.
David Skulina
Co-Founder of SKOOG Inc.
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About SKOOG Inc.: SKOOG is a Children’s Early Learning Interactive platform that delivers a metaverse of insanely interactive content experiences.
Lucy Stonehill
Co-Founder and CEO of BridgeU
Lucy grew up in the UK and the USA, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Dartmouth College, where she studied Literature and Psychology. Upon graduation, Lucy worked for the law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, before leaving to launch her first business, an educational consulting firm tailored to the unique needs of international students and schools. In 2013, Lucy founded BridgeU to focus on the next challenge – fixing the broken transition between secondary and higher education. Lucy has been labelled an ‘Entrepreneur Role Model’ by the European Commission, and won Techpreneur of the Year in a 2015 at a ceremony hosted at the House of Commons celebrating leading female entrepreneurs. In 2016, Lucy was selected by Forbes as a ‘Top 30 under 30” European technology innovator.
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About BridgeU: BridgeU provides a market leading guidance platform that connects universities with international schools in 130 countries.
Douglas Lloyd
CEO & 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.
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.
Mehool Sanghrajka
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Learning Possibilities
Mehool H. Sanghrajka founded Enterprise MPC, which he served as its managing director from 2004 to 2007, in 1989 that became Learning Possibilities in 2007, since which he has been serving as its chief executive officer since May 2007. Mehool has been working at the leading edge of the global education and educational IT markets for over two decades. Dr. Sanghrajka serves as a Director of Learning Possibilities Limited. Mehoo is a Member of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer. In addition, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, and the Institute of Directors. He graduated from City University Business School in London.
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About Cloud Possibilities, Learning Possibilities: Learning Possibilities develops and provides a cloud based school learning platform for education and government customers.
Simon Hay
Co Founder & CEO of Firefly Learning
Simon Hay is the Co-founder and CEO at Firefly.
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About Firefly Learning: Firefly Learning is an edtech company that develops a SaaS learning and teaching support platform for schools.
Joe Mathewson
Co-Founder & COO of Firefly Learning
Joe Mathewson is the Founder and COO at Firefly Learning.
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About Firefly Learning: Firefly Learning is an edtech company that develops a SaaS learning and teaching support platform for schools.
Michael Hung
Co-Founder of FluentUp
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About FluentUp: FluentUp is the social marketplace enabling accredited language schools to create and sell live online courses.
James Gupta
Founder & CEO of Synap
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About Synap: Synap is online education platform using AI to revolutionise learning.
Omair Vaiyani
Founder & CTO of Synap
Omair is a medical student and experienced web developer. He founded Synap and Livelocum and has worked on several health and education technology projects around Europe.
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About Synap: Synap is online education platform using AI to revolutionise learning.
Malachy Guinness
Co-Founder of TutorCruncher
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About Bright Young Things Tuition, TutorCruncher: TutorCruncher is a tutoring management software offering CRM, online payments, invoicing and timesheets, and more related features.
Gerard McBreen
CEO and Founder of Komodo Learning
Gerard McBreen is the CEO and founder at Komodo Learning.
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About Komodo Learning: Komodo Learning is an online mathematics home learning app for children.
Mark McCourt
Founder & CEO of La Salle Education
Mark McCourt has been at the centre of mathematics education improvement for over a decade. He founded La Salle as a company completely focussed on helping maths teachers to continue to improve.
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About La Salle Education: La Salle Education is a UK based company dedicated to improving mathematics education.
Fraser Williams
CEO & Co-Founder of Sourcely
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About Sourcely: Sourcely is the “Spotify” for eTextbooks and Academic Journals. Allowing students to rent content for short periods of time.
Mike Reardon
Co-Founder of Nexus Education
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About Nexus Education: Nexus Education operates an online platform that connects educators and education professionals with each other.
Khaled Ouafi Zimermann
Founder of HeraldsonPost
Khaled Ouafi Zimermann is founder of HeraldsonPost.
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About HeraldsonPost: Data Engineering and Corporate Business
Jill Hodges
Founder of Fire Tech
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About Fire Tech, Unreasonable: Fire Tech is the UK’s leading provider of extra-curricular learning experiences focused on tech and 21st century skills.
Hrishi Mittal
Founder of Learnetto
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About Learnetto: A community where people learn professional skills from each other
Sarra Achouri
Co-Founder | Chief Delivery Officer of OBRIZUM Group Ltd.
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About OBRIZUM Group Ltd.: Changing the future of eLearning with OBRIZUM, using Ai to create Automated, Adaptive, and Analytic eLearning.
Fadoua Saadi
Founder and CEO of PrivateTuitionOnline.Com
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About PrivateTuitionOnline.Com: PrivateTuitionOnline.Com offers tutoring subscription service that live tutoring affordable and productive through our internet classrooms.
David Hopper
Founder & Head of Product of ShowHows
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About ShowHows: ShowHows is the developer of an online platform for the creation and sharing of how-to guides.
Daniel Todd
Founder of Timetoast
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About Timetoast: Timetoast lets people create and share timelines.
Zara Ransley
Director and Co-Founder of MyPocketSkill Ltd
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About MyPocketSkill Ltd: Creating a financially empowered Gen Z
Chandrima Singh
Founder of EDBucket
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About Crowd Fund Magic, EDBucket: EDBucket is an ed-tech startup that builds conversational AI bot to guide international students to enroll in UK Universities.
Ben Caulfield
CEO and Co-Founder of Eedi
Ben Caulfield is the CEO and Co-Founder of Eedi.
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About Eedi: Eedi develops digital and physical products that ensure that every learner has access to great teaching and learning.
Tracey Blake
CEO and Founder of Swotties
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About Swotties: Swotties is an online learning platform that caters to students from elementary school through teenage, covering a wide range of subjects.
Simon Taylor
Founder of SupplyNow
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About : Disrupting the education supply staffing market in the UK – Offering candidates and schools a fair deal using an innovative tech platform
Adrian Binzaru
Co-Founder of Cademy
Adrian is the co-founder of Cademy.io – an SaaS enabled marketplace for local courses and workshops.
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About Cademy: Cademy is a SaaS enabled marketplace for local education services such as workshops, courses, CPDs, certification programs and degrees.
Artur Binzaru
Co-Founder of Cademy
Enterpreneur
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About Cademy: Cademy is a SaaS enabled marketplace for local education services such as workshops, courses, CPDs, certification programs and degrees.
Artur Binzaru
Co-Founder of Cademy
Enterpreneur
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About Cademy: Cademy is a SaaS enabled marketplace for local education services such as workshops, courses, CPDs, certification programs and degrees.
Georgios Papadakis
Founder and CEO of Filisia
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About Filisia: Filisia is an edtech company that builds accessible IoT devices, iPad applications and machine learning tools for learning and therapy.
Alex Hendry
Founder of Quality Dissertation
Founder at Quality Dissertation
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About Quality Dissertation: UK’s Best Dissertation, Assignment, Essay & Coursework Writing Help Service provider company
David Evans
Founder of Hootloot Limited
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About Hootloot Limited: Personal financial management for families
