Co-Founder & CEO play a crucial role in any startup. It takes an extraordinary person to fulfil the Co-Founder & CEO role. We have selected these Co-Founder & CEO’s for this list as they are inspiring for a variety of reasons – whether that’s pushing boundaries, creating groundbreaking products, or doing their bit to save the world.
Our analysts did their best to select be best, and most innovative Co-Founder & CEO’s. The list is in no particular order!
Demis Hassabis
Co-Founder & CEO @ DeepMind
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DeepMind is a neuroscience-inspired AI company, bought by Google in Jan 2014 in their largest European acquisition to date. Demis is now Vice President of Engineering at Google DeepMind and leads Google’s general AI efforts, including the development of AlphaGo, the first program to ever beat a professional player at the game of Go. Demis is a former child chess prodigy, who finished his A-levels two years early before coding the multi-million selling simulation game Theme Park aged 17. Following graduation from Cambridge University with a Double First in Computer Science he founded the pioneering videogames company Elixir Studios producing award-winning games for global publishers such as Vivendi Universal. After a decade of experience leading successful technology startups, Demis returned to academia to complete a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at UCL, followed by postdocs at MIT and Harvard, before founding DeepMind.
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Ivan Mazour
Co-Founder & CEO @ Ometria
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Ivan Mazour is a Russian-born, London-based serial entrepreneur, investor and author. He is the CEO and Founder of Ometria – a predictive analytics and marketing platform built specifically for retailers, letting them use data to increase revenues and provide an improved customer experience. Ometria is his seventh company, in a career spanning various industries from property to education – http://www.ometria.com Alongside this main role, he is also the Founding Partner of Innova Kapital – an early stage VC firm investing in UK-based technology startups, including companies like YPlan and organisations like Entrepreneur First – http://www.innovakapital.com As well as holding multiple degrees in Mathematics from Cambridge University, and in Economics from the Open University, Ivan Mazour is the author of a number of books including “Russian Convoys – Memories of the Heart”. His translations of Russian literature have been staged professionally in various cities, and he has been presented with a UNESCO medal for his literary achievements. He regularly speaks at conferences around the world on topics of ecommerce, technology, and investment, and also writes a popular blog called “A Young Entrepreneur in London” – http://www.ivanmazour.com
Learn more about Ivan Mazour on Crunchbase…Ometria is a customer data and marketing platform that helps retailers increase CRM revenue by sending personalized marketing messages. Read more aboutOmetria on Crunchbase…
Niccolo Maisto
Co-Founder & CEO @ FaceIT
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Niccolo is the co-founder and CEO at FACEIT. He drives the company’s vision, strategy and growth as he assures that the future and the present of the product come together. Under Niccolo’s leadership, FACEIT has expanded to over 5,000,000 users and 12,000,000 game sessions per month on 7 different games, becoming the most active competitive gaming platform in the world. He has a NYU Stern MBA degree and worked in Investment Banking and Private Equity before co-founding FACEIT.
Learn more about Niccolo Maisto on Crunchbase…FaceIT is the gaming platform for professional competitions within online multiplayer video games. Read more aboutFaceIT on Crunchbase…
Chris Morton
Co-Founder & CEO @ Lyst
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Chris Morton is the CEO and cofounder of Lyst (www.lyst.com), a social curation platform for online fashion. Prior to founding Lyst, Chris was an investor at Balderton Capital and Benchmark Capital, focussing on consumer internet; specifically ecommerce, music and games. Chris was also Business Development Manager of the Energy and Materials division at QinetiQ, one of Europe’s leading technology R&D organisations. Chris earned his M.A. in Natural Sciences (Physics and Philosophy) from Cambridge University, 2003, and he is a DERA Scholar.
Learn more about Chris Morton on Crunchbase…Lyst is a global fashion search platform that allows users to browse through thousands of online fashion stores. Read more aboutLyst on Crunchbase…
Marcus Swanepoel
Co-founder & CEO @ Luno
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Marcus previously worked for Standard Chartered in Singapore and before that 3i and Morgan Stanley in London.He holds an MBA from INSEAD, is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a CFA charterholder. He is a South African citizen and a Singapore Permanent Resident.
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Dan Vahdat
Co-founder & CEO @ Huma Therapeutics
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Dan Vahdat is Co-founder & CEO of Medopad, a British healthcare technology company enabling connected care, headquartered in London, UK. Dan is an award winning innovator in the fields of science and technology. His professional career spans from IT to medical technology including several years at Johns Hopkins in the US. Dan studied Engineering and Mathematics, after which he pursued his PhD in at Johns Hopkins including 2 years of abroad study at Oxford University. Before finishing his degree, he left to focus on his business.
Learn more about Dan Vahdat on Crunchbase…Huma provides a digital health platform used for predictive care and research. Read more aboutHuma Therapeutics on Crunchbase…
Hiroki Takeuchi
Co-founder & CEO @ GoCardless
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Hiroki is co-founder and CEO of GoCardless. Founded in 2011, GoCardless is a global leader in recurring payments. The business is on a mission to take the pain out of getting paid for recurring revenue businesses. More than 40,000 businesses around the world, from multinational corporations to SMBs, transact through GoCardless each month, and the business processes $10bn of payments a year. Before starting GoCardless, Hiroki studied Mathematics at Oxford University and worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co.
Learn more about Hiroki Takeuchi on Crunchbase…GoCardless is a payment company that makes collecting payments by direct debit easy for everyone. Read more aboutGoCardless on Crunchbase…
Jack Tang
Co-Founder & CEO @ Urban
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A startup entrepreneur and angel investor. Currently Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Urban Massage – a B2C and B2B technology marketplace connecting wellness professionals with buyers in their local neighborhood. Prior to founding Urban Massage, he founded a social network and app-based job board TheStudentJob.com
Learn more about Jack Tang on Crunchbase…Urban is an online wellness appointment platform for booking in-person and online treatments. Read more aboutUrban on Crunchbase…
Itamar Lesuisse
Co-founder & CEO @ Argent
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Itamar is the co-founder and CEO of Argent. Prior to Argent, Itamar founded and led Peak, the top ranked mobile cognitive training service with over 50,000,000 users and 500,000 subscribers. Itamar led Peak to a profitable 8 digit per year business. He successfully sold it to Lagardere SCA in 2016. Before Peak, Itamar worked at Boston Consulting Group, Amazon and VISA. He holds a Masters in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering.
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Tom Leathes
Co-Founder & CEO @ Motorway
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Motorway is an online used-car marketplace for professional car dealers that sells their cars using their smartphones. Read more aboutMotorway on Crunchbase…
Nigel Toon
Co-founder & CEO @ Graphcore
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Graphcore (graphcore.ai) is a new silicon and systems company based in Bristol, UK and Palo Alto, USA that has developed a new type of processor, the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), to accelerate machine learning and AI applications. Since its founding in 2016, Nigel has secured over $300m in funding and support for the company from some of the world’s leading venture capital firms including Sequoia Capital, Foundation Capital and Atomico, from major corporations including BMW, Bosch, Dell, Microsoft and Samsung and from eminent Artificial Intelligence innovators. Nigel has a background as a technology business leader, entrepreneur and engineer having been CEO at two successful VC-backed processor companies XMOS and Picochip (sold to Nasdaq:MSPD, now Intel), a founder at Icera (sold to Nasdaq: NVDA) and VP/GM at Altera (Nasdaq: ALTR, sold to Intel for $17Bn) where he spent over 13 years and was responsible for establishing and building the European business unit that he grew to over $400m in annual revenues. Nigel was a non-executive director at Imagination Technologies PLC until itsacquisition in 2017 and is the author on 3 patents.
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Alex Saint
Co-founder & CEO @ Secret Escapes
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Alex Saint is the Co-founder & CEO of Secret Escapes. Prior to this, he worked as Chief Executive at DMC Digital Ltd. He was the Consultant of Teletext Holidays. He served as Publisher at ThisisTravel –Associated Newspapers. Before that, he worked as Publisher at Associated New Media. He also worked as Sales Marketing Management at Unilever.
Learn more about Alex Saint on Crunchbase…Secret Escapes is a members-only travel club offering discounted rates on luxury hotels and holidays in the UK. Read more aboutSecret Escapes on Crunchbase…
Robin Tombs
Co-Founder & CEO @ Yoti
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Robin Tombs is Founder of Yoti, a digital identity system which helps you prove who you are and confirm who other people are, online and face to face. Robin was Co-founder at Gamesys, one of the world’s leading online gaming operators with annual revenues over £200m, 950 staff and offices in 8 countries. He worked at PWC as a Chartered Accountant from 1993 to 1997 in the UK before co-founding IDM, a web game business which was sold in 1999. Robin is also an investor in a handful of early stage for profit and social UK businesses, including Infinitesima, Trumin, Luxdeco, Working Knowledge and the National College for Digital Skills. Robin is passionate about creating opportunities for young people to achieve their potential in life and to bring scalable web and mobile technologies to the not-for-profit sector. As such Robin set up ZING in 2009. He is a Trustee at Future First, a charity which is designed to help state schools build and manage an alumni community. He holds a degree in Economics and Politics from Bristol University. He is a keen sports enthusiast mostly watching either his 3 children play or great teams on the TV.
Learn more about Robin Tombs on Crunchbase…Yoti is a digital identity platform that provides a simple and secure way of proving identities, online and in person. Read more aboutYoti on Crunchbase…
Chris Sheldrick
Co-Founder & CEO @ what3words
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Chris worked in the music business for 10 years, booking bands and managing production for events around the globe. He was constantly frustrated with suppliers not finding site entrances, and bands not finding their way from the hotel to their gigs. Chris tried distributing addresses and GPS coordinates for years but both failed him on numerous occasions. He was certain there was a better way: what3words was born.
Learn more about Chris Sheldrick on Crunchbase…what3words is a mapping technology startup that creates a proprietary geocode system for logistics firms. Read more aboutwhat3words on Crunchbase…
Eldar Tuvey
Co-Founder & CEO @ Wandera
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Eldar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wandera where is responsible for driving the company’s strategic direction and growth. Prior to co-founding Wandera, Eldar co-founded and served as CEO of ScanSafe. Eldar started his career at Goldman Sachs and completed his MBA at INSEAD.
Learn more about Eldar Tuvey on Crunchbase…Wandera provides a unified cloud security solution to protect the modern workplace Read more aboutWandera on Crunchbase…
Rami Zeidan
Co-Founder & CEO @ Life House
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Irra Ariella Khi
Co-Founder & CEO @ Zamna
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Irra Ariella Khi is a serial entrepreneur based in London, who is obsessed with cyber security and data privacy. She is the co-founder and CEO of VChain, a deep tech company that is developing and patenting a blockchain solution for Digital DNA, to identify each person online and reinvent verification, privacy and trust. Irra speaks 9 languages, and graduated from Oxford University with 1st Class Honours. She is a speaker and mentor at General Assembly, StartUpBootcamp and Oxford
Learn more about Irra Ariella Khi on Crunchbase…Award-winning blockchain-powered data verification platform improving airport security while delivering a seamless passenger experience Read more aboutZamna on Crunchbase…
Alexandros Christodoulakis
Co-founder & CEO @ Wealthyhood
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Alexandros Christodoulakis is the Co-founder & CEO of Wealthyhood. Previously, Alex worked as a Fixed Income Trading Strategist at Morgan Stanley and has coded multiple optimisation models and algorithms for portfolio allocation. He holds an MSc in Investment & Wealth Management from Imperial, an MSc in Health Economics from LSE and a Diploma in Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens.
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Alex Kendall
Co-Founder & CEO @ Wayve
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Wayve uses end-to-end deep learning to develop artificial intelligence capable of complex driving. Read more aboutWayve on Crunchbase…
Gary Bracey
Co-Founder & CEO @ Terra Virtua
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Terra Virtua is the first fully immersive, blockchain-driven VR entertainment Platform. Read more aboutTerra Virtua on Crunchbase…
Chaz Englander
Co-Founder & CEO @ Fat Llama
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Fat Llama is a peer-to-peer rental marketplace which allows people to rent spare items to others nearby, fully insured. Read more aboutFat Llama on Crunchbase…
Karim Beguir
Co-Founder & CEO @ InstaDeep Ltd
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Co-Founder & CEO of InstaDeep and Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning, Karim helps companies get a grip on the latest AI advances and deploy them in practice. A graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique and former Program Fellow at NYU’s Courant Institute, Karim has a passion for teaching and using applied mathematics. This encouraged him to launch InstaDeep, nominated at MWC17 in the top 20 global startup list by PCMAG. He is on a mission to democratize AI and make it accessible to a wider audience.
Learn more about Karim Beguir on Crunchbase…InstaDeep delivers AI-powered decision-making systems for the Enterprise, to solve some of the world’s most complex industrial problems. Read more aboutInstaDeep Ltd on Crunchbase…
Henri Moissinac
Co-Founder & CEO @ dott
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Kristof Van Beveren
Co-Founder & CEO @ Weezy
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Weezy is an online supermarket platform designed for on-demand grocery shopping. Read more aboutWeezy on Crunchbase…
Adnan Ebrahim
Co-founder & CEO @ MindLabs
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MindLabs is the world’s first live mental health platform. Read more aboutMindLabs on Crunchbase…
Tim Sadler
Co-Founder & CEO @ Tessian
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Tim is the CEO and co-founder of CheckRecipient, a next generation email security platform which uses machine learning to predict when emails are being sent to the wrong people. Some of the world’s largest organisations across the financial and legal sectors are using CheckRecipient and in the past 6 months the company has been crowned “Best Security Startup” by WIRED, “Best Machine Intelligence Startup” by Legal Geek and “Best Startup – Gold Category” by Info Security Products Guide. Tim was recently listed as one of Forbes “30 Under 30” in European Technology for 2017.
Learn more about Tim Sadler on Crunchbase…Tessian creates a Human Layer Security that helps people work without security disruptions getting in the way. Read more aboutTessian on Crunchbase…
Peter Hames
Co-Founder & CEO @ Big Health
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Peter Hames is CEO of Big Health, a digital medicine company he co-founded with clinical psychologist Prof Colin Espie (University of Oxford). Big Health creates automated behavioral medicine programs fuelled by tracked data, and was inspired by Peter’s difficulty in getting access to evidence-based non-drug solutions to his own insomnia. Big Health’s first product, Sleepio, is a digital sleep improvement program featuring personalized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques, delivered by virtual animated sleep expert The Prof and his narcoleptic dog Pavlov. In the world’s first placebo-controlled randomised trial for an intervention of its kind, Sleepio was shown to be comparable in effectiveness to face-to-face therapy.
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Bosun Tijani
Co-Founder & CEO @ Co-Creation Hub Nigeria
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Bosun Tijani is an innovation expert and researcher with a keen interest in knowledge application for economic and enterprise competitiveness. He is the co-founder and CEO of Co-Creation Hub; Nigeria’s foremost social innovation centre dedicated to accelerating the application of social capital and technology for economic prosperity. In pursuit of an active lifestyle, he also founded and serves as the CEO and Founder of Truppr, an emerging fitness brand in Africa that connects users to fitness events across the world. In addition, he is the Partner at Growth Capital, Nigeria’s first social innovation fund for high potential, early-stage businesses. He has over 15 years experience across public and private corporations including Pera Innovation Network (UK), Hewlett Packard (EMEA) and International Trade Centre (UNCTAD/WTO) both in Geneva, Switzerland. ‘Bosun holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics, a Masters’ degree in Information System and Management from Warwick Business School, UK and is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Leicester. He is a fellow of the Centre on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. He is also a Desmond Tutu Fellow and a member of the Presidential Advisory Group on Technology and Creativity.
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Nejc Kodric
Co-Founder & CEO @ Bitstamp
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Nejc Kodric Since starting out in 2011 with little more than some basic computer equipment, €1,000 and a love of technology, Nejc has been instrumental in developing Bitstamp into one of the most trusted and highest volume bitcoin exchanges in the world. With offices in Luxembourg, London and New York, Bitstamp continues to grow from strength to strength, serving its customers’ bitcoin trading requirements. Among his many achievements as chief executive officer, Nejc spearheaded the approach to become the first fully licensed virtual currency exchange in EU, which was granted in 2016, setting the benchmark for the Bitcoin industry’s continued consolidation and strength. With a keen interest in promoting economic empowerment and technology, Nejc has spoken at several conferences including Techcrunch, Bitcoin Foundation, MoneyConf, Deloitte Conference: Future Challenges, ICT Spring Europe and FundForum International, and was awarded Best Virtual Currency Start-up at The Europas in June 2014. Nejc was born in Slovenia, where he studied Organization and Management of Information Systems and Economics, and currently splits his time between his home country and Luxembourg. Specialities: Bitcoin, blockchain, trading, virtual currencies, economic empowerment, education, science and technology
Learn more about Nejc Kodric on Crunchbase…Bitstamp allows companies and individuals from all around the world to buy and sell bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum, ripple, and bitcoin cash. Read more aboutBitstamp on Crunchbase…
Samir Desai
Co-Founder & CEO @ Funding Circle
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Samir is responsible for driving the company strategy, overseeing the company’s finances and managing the day to day operations at Funding Circle, the leading marketplace for business loans. Samir has worked extensively in the financial services sector. Before founding Funding Circle he was an executive at Olivant and a management consultant at BCG, advising a number of major UK and global banks and insurers on strategy, new product initiatives and operational efficiency. Investors at Funding Circle have now lent over $800 million to 8,000 small businesses in the UK and US. In the UK, investors include 37,000 individuals, the British Business Bank, local councils, universities and financial institutions.
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Jack Beaman
Co-Founder & CEO @ Syft
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Syft is the UK’s market leading flexible staffing platform. Read more aboutSyft on Crunchbase…
Branko Milutinovic
Co-Founder & CEO @ Nordeus
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Branko Milutinovic is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of one of the fastest growing European gaming company Nordeus. Over the previous 4 years bootstrapped Nordeus have grown from 3 to 150 people, pioneering the cross-platform game development & publishing and becoming one of the most successful social and mobile gaming companies world wide. Engineer by education, gamer in heart, Branko grew up playing sports, enjoying video games and coding. Not much has changed since. Nordeus is best known for Top Eleven, one of the most popular sports video games in the world with more than 5 million players on a daily basis and legendary Jose Mourinho as the official face of the game. Branko earned his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Belgrade (2002-2008).
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Ali Alauoubiy
Co-founder & CEO @ ProdX.ai
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Ali shapes the strategies that harness big data to solve daily problems. His focus is firmly on technology, platform capabilities and business growth. He has 18 years of experience in leading technology, delivery functions and business transformation across a range of sectors including financial service, travel, private equity and professional service. Ali has a Bachelor’s degree with Honors in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Birmingham. And is currently completing the General Management Program (GMP) at Harvard Business School. A transformational leader experienced in managing large scale transformation initiatives, emerging technologies, complexity reduction/simplification, globally distributed diverse teams, strategic business growth, turnaround, restructuring, and operation management. With a broad International career experience across the Middle East, Asia Pacific, Africa and North America. – Cross-functional leadership, management and coaching multi-cultural, and distributed (including remote) teams, including setting clear and measurable goals aligned to strategy and fostering collaboration across diverse teams – Leading complex enterprise and digital transformations (including Agile Delivery and DevOps, Change Management, Culture Change, AI and Machine Learning and Cloud Migration). – Delivering multi-million-dollar budget software integration and transformation projects in a broad range of sectors (Private Equity, eTrading, wealth & asset management, aviation and, professional services). – Effective internal and external stakeholder management experience across business units. – Previous work experience at Dresdner Kleinwort (2004-2008), financial.com (2008-2010), Mubasher Financial Group (2010-2012), National Net Ventures (2012-2014), Credit Suisse (2014-2015), Emirates Airline (2015-2017) and ESW Capital (2017-2019).
Learn more about Ali Alauoubiy on Crunchbase…Bring transparency and objectivity to the workplace by empowering individuals to achieve more, powered by A.I. insights and coaching. Read more aboutProdX.ai on Crunchbase…
Rudy Benfredj
Co-Founder & CEO @ Mendelian
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Mendelian is helping doctors diagnose rare genetic diseases faster. Read more aboutMendelian on Crunchbase…
Emil Hewage
Co-Founder & CEO @ BIOS
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Emil’s academic background is as a PhD researcher in computational neuroscience and machine learning. He brings knowledge of neural signalling and signal processing with over 7 year’s industrial & academic R&D experience. He has previously developed medical devices with Siemens Healthcare and Sphere Medical as well as having held roles in finance and medical and cleantech startups.
Learn more about Emil Hewage on Crunchbase…A full-stack neural interface platform, that uses AI to decode and encode the signals from to the body, to treat chronic health conditions. Read more aboutBIOS on Crunchbase…
George Pallis
Co-Founder & CEO @ Manual
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Manual provides diagnostic tools and testing to help patients make health-related decisions. Read more aboutManual on Crunchbase…
Vishal Chatrath
Co-Founder & CEO @ Secondmind
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Vishal is a serial entrepreneur and global manager whose work experience spans fundamental research, manufacturing, operations, R&D, product management, corporate strategy and business development. He has lived in 18 cities in 6 countries ranging from the equator to the arctic. He is a keen barefoot runner and avid reader with a love for the oddball. He seems to have a special attraction to mud and stormy weather.
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Dave Sherwood
Co-Founder & CEO @ BibliU
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Dave Sherwood co-founder and CEO of Bibliotech, a core etextbooks platform that provides academic libraries and students with unlimited access. He is the co-founder and Chairman of Teach Learn Grow Inc. Dave earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Western Straya, coming to Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship shortly afterwards. Dave dropped out to found Bibliotech.
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Joe Taylor
Co-founder & CEO @ Nemo
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CEO and co-founder of Nemo. I’ve been building sync/async collaboration tools for distributed teams since 2013, with particular focus on audio/video. I’ve managed remote teams across multiple timezones and countries. Formerly manager of Cisco’s collaboration innovation labs in San Francisco and New York. Before that, head of UX and Mobile at Assemblage Inc in London/Copenhagen (acquired by Cisco in June 2014).
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Max Parmentier
Co-Founder & CEO @ Birdie
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Birdie is a digital caretech company focused on elderly care at home. Read more aboutBirdie on Crunchbase…
Sam Al-Mukhtar
Co-Founder & CEO @ Geomiq
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Geomiq is an intelligent platform that provides Instant quotes and Instant ordering of custom manufactured parts. Read more aboutGeomiq on Crunchbase…
Marc Blinder
Co-Founder & CEO @ Aikon
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Ditlev Bredahl
Co-Founder & CEO @ OnApp
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Ditlev has over a decade’s experience in the web hosting industry and has led the development of many acclaimed web hosting brands. As CEO of OnApp, Ditlev’s commercial and technical leadership saw the company expand from its July 2010 launch to 500+ clients and 80+ people in just 12 months. Ditlev moved into the rapidly-growing Internet sector in the mid-1990s, after a number of roles working for the European Parliament. He quickly developed a reputation as an entrepreneur and a specialist in start-up and turnaround scenarios. He has led UK2Group’s hosting companies as MD and CEO since February 2006, and played a key role in the group’s transformation. Ditlev is a Danish national and an incurable technophile. He lives in the UK but travels frequently to see clients and speak at events across the globe.
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George Urdea
Co-founder & CEO @ Nobly POS – Point of Sale
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Nobly is the point-of-sale, inventory management and CRM app for the iPad. A system that is beautiful designed, quick and easy to use. Read more aboutNobly POS – Point of Sale on Crunchbase…
Martin Higginson
Co-founder & CEO @ Immotion Group plc
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Martin is recognised as a seasoned Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) entrepreneur, and was awarded North West Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002. He has started, sold, and listed numerous businesses. His first business was sold to IPC Magazines in 1982. Following three years with IPC he left to set up his own publishing and telecoms business, this was subsequently sold to Scottish Power plc. During his time with Scottish Power he joined their subsidiary Scottish Telecom, as Managing Director of their Internet and Interactive division, including Internet ISP Demon Internet. Following the flotation of Thus plc (formerly Scottish Telecom) he left to start Monstermob, a company he went on to list on AIM in 2003; growing it to a Top 50 AIM listed business. Monstermob Group plc was sold to Zed Worldwide in 2006. Martin has subsequently founded Cityblock plc, a luxury student accommodation business, and NetPlayTV plc, an interactive TV gaming business where he formed exclusive partnerships with Virgin Media, Channel Five, and ITV. Martin has held Non-Executive Director positions with Legend plc, Cupid plc and CMG Media. Martin is the Founding Partner at M Capital Investment Partners. Formed in 2010, M Capital Investment Partners manages multiple real estate investments across the UK, with a focus on delivering above average returns for investment cash with minimal risk. He also holds the position of Non Executive Director at Digitalbox Group – which was listed in The Sunday Times HISCOX Tech Track 100 in 2015 and 2016, placing it amongst Britain’s top 100 fastest growing private tech companies, and is Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer at Immotion Group Plc – an award-winning animation and multi-directional motion platforms to deliver mind-blowing immersive VR experiences.
Learn more about Martin Higginson on Crunchbase…Immotion combine award-winning content & multi-directional motion platforms to deliver immersive VR solutions for high-traffic destinations. Read more aboutImmotion Group plc on Crunchbase…
Paul Black
Co-Founder & CEO @ Sales-i
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At sales-i though, Paul Black sets the company’s technical direction and spearheads business and sales partnerships. Paul is heavily involved in defining the company’s marketing strategy and technical delivery of sales-i. To top that all off, Paul is a complete adrenaline junkie and he’s really in his element burning rubber around a racetrack. Paul competes regularly on the international racing stage and yes, we all get to go and cheer him on!
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Denzyl Feigelson
Co-Founder & CEO @ Platoon
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Denzyl is the co-founder and CEO of Platoon, a platform for exceptional, independent artists. Denzyl has been a special advisor to Apple Inc and iTunes since being recruited by Steve Jobs in 2001. He has had a hand in landmark developments such as iTunes Global, Apple Music, the launch of iTunes in over 17 countries and the establishment and curation of the hugely successful Apple Music festival. Previously, Denzyl was the founder and CEO of Artists Without a Label (AWAL), a pure-play digital music label representing over 20,000 artists and Buzzdeck. An accomplished musician and trained music therapist, Denzyl was originally helped manage Paul Simon’s album “Graceland” and produced the first grand-scale multi-racial “Concert in the Park” in New York City in 1982.
Learn more about Denzyl Feigelson on Crunchbase…Platoon discovers emerging talent and provide them with the platform to create, distribute, and commercialise exceptional creative work. Read more aboutPlatoon on Crunchbase…
Florian Stronk
Co-Founder & CEO @ Magmatic Games
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Peter Kelly
Co-Founder & CEO @ Imployable
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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
Learn more about Peter Kelly on Crunchbase…Mobile first technology that allows people to identify, map and track their way to a new career Read more aboutImployable on Crunchbase…
Tuhin Chakraborty
Co-Founder & CEO @ Mimica Automation
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Tuhin Chakraborty is Co-Founder & CEO at Mimica.ai. Tuhin led software engineering teams at companies like Pandora and LinkedIn while building and selling enterprise software in his spare time.
Learn more about Tuhin Chakraborty on Crunchbase…Mimica watches you work and learns to automate your most repetitive tasks. Read more aboutMimica Automation on Crunchbase…
Fraser Robinson
Co-Founder & CEO @ Beacon
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Beacon is a digital supply chain and freight platform developed to optimize supply chains with insights and visibility. Read more aboutBeacon on Crunchbase…
Tess Cosad
Co-Founder & CEO @ Bea Fertility
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Bea Fertility is a monthly subscription program that provides users with at-home fertility treatment and ovulation tracking. Read more aboutBea Fertility on Crunchbase…
Philipp Mintchin
Co-Founder & CEO @ Splyt
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Splyt is a B2B mobility marketplace that connects institutional supply and demand for ground-based transport. Read more aboutSplyt on Crunchbase…
Priti Padhy
Co-founder & CEO at Cognino AI @ Cognino AI
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Cognino empowers Contextual decisions with Explainable AI. It transforms data at a cloud-scale into intelligence with speed and accuracy Read more aboutCognino AI on Crunchbase…
Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie
Co-Founder & CEO @ BCB Group
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Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie has led a highly technical career in finance technology, forming a robust platform for solutions architecture and fintech innovation. He has helped Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Barclays Investment Bank (2004-15) and Lloyds Commercial Bank bring a number of strategic and tactical projects to fruition as a hands-on SME in derivative instruments, regulations and technology. After nearly 20 years in investment banking Oliver founded BCB Group where his mission is to accelerate global adoption of digital assets as money, as ownership and as a commodity of value.
Learn more about Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie on Crunchbase…Europe’s leading provider of business accounts and trading services for the digital asset economy Read more aboutBCB Group on Crunchbase…
Tushar Agarwal
Co-Founder & CEO @ Hubble
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A platform to search, set up, and manage your hybrid workplace Read more aboutHubble on Crunchbase…
Alan Carson
Co-Founder & CEO @ Cloudsmith
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Cloudsmith is a cloud-native DevOps warehouse built on Package Management, that secures, controls and accelerates software delivery. Read more aboutCloudsmith on Crunchbase…
Philipp Man
Co-Founder & CEO @ CHRONEXT
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Philipp Man holds a Master of Philosophy in Innovation, Strategy & Organisation from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School as well as a Bachelor of Science in Management from King’s College London, majoring in corporate finance, venture capital and market sociology. Besides his work at the Boston Consulting Group, Germany and Switzerland, he also gained experience at GlencoreXstrata in London. During his studies he worked for various watch dealers and focused his dissertations on luxury watch market dynamics.
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Paul Bennett
Co-Founder & CEO @ PerchPeek
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PerchPeek uses AI to guide people through every stage of their relocation from search to settling in. Read more aboutPerchPeek on Crunchbase…
Dmitry Gunyashov
Co-Founder & CEO @ Cryptopay
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Dmitry is a long-term bitcoin supporter and has been involved with the bitcoin community for more than 3 years. Moreover, he has an extensive experience in e-commerce and payment systems.
Learn more about Dmitry Gunyashov on Crunchbase…Cryptopay is a digital currency firms, offering crypto-wallets, debit cards, B2B payments, & investments. Read more aboutCryptopay on Crunchbase…
Adam Edgell-Bush
Co-Founder & CEO @ Homyze
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Homyze is a marketplace and develops a mobile app for home service professionals such as electricians and plumbers. Read more aboutHomyze on Crunchbase…
Adam Ewart
Co-Founder & CEO @ Send My Bag
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Send My Bag provides affordable & convenient, domestic & international, door to door luggage delivery. Read more aboutSend My Bag on Crunchbase…
Govind Balakrishnan
Co-Founder & CEO @ Curio
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Gabriele Muse
Co-founder & CEO @ Coinrule
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Coinrule is a cryptocurrency trading platform that sends automated trading instructions to exchanges. Read more aboutCoinrule on Crunchbase…
John Yeo
Co-Founder & CEO @ Codebashing
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Christer Holloman
Co-Founder & CEO @ Divido
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Christer Holloman is the CEO and co-founder of Divido (http://www.divido.com), a platform for retailers, lenders and payment providers that want to offer customers to pay anything in monthly instalments. Divido works with 500+ partners such as BMW, BNP and Mastercard. Prior to launching Divido, Christer set up Glassdoor.com in EMEA, now a billion-dollar Google-backed startup. Holloman holds an MBA from the University of Oxford.
Learn more about Christer Holloman on Crunchbase…Divido is a global white label consumer lending platform for financial institutions and multinational retailers. Read more aboutDivido on Crunchbase…
Muhammad Omar Khan
Co-Founder & CEO @ SIRP
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If there’s ever an issue, Omar is the man to fix it. Here at SIRP, he’s known as the master of solutions. Where others may grow frustrated in the face of a problem, Omar gets excited. He’s passionate about working through the complexities of any system, deciphering codes, identifying causes and effects, and pinpointing where things go wrong. After that, he uses his extreme technical skills to formulate ingenious solutions, ones that don’t merely patch things up, but provide ongoing, full-scale protection. Omar’s passion and skill has been cultivated for the past decade. He is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) certification. Omar previously worked for for Cyber Internet Services (Pvt.) Ltd, as one of their brightest System Security Engineers. He works closely with Faiz on the Honeynet Project and PAKCON. He specializes in information security management and best practices, intrusion detection systems, firewalls, honeynets, vulnerability assessment and penetration testing. His programming experience is quite extensive, in C, C++, PHP, and C#. Omar is prized for his ability to direct diverse cyber security initiatives, provide in depth analysis of systems, and implement comprehensive solutions that meet the unique needs and goals of every business SIRP serve.
Learn more about Muhammad Omar Khan on Crunchbase…Risk-Based Security Orchestration, Automation & Response (SOAR) Platform Read more aboutSIRP on Crunchbase…
Aaron Simpson
Co-Founder & CEO of Quintessentially Group @ Quintessentially
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Quintessentially is a U.K.-based company that provides private and corporate concierge services worldwide. Read more aboutQuintessentially on Crunchbase…
Jerome de Lafargue
Co-founder & CEO @ Zeroheight
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Zeroheight is a DevOps platform that allows design teams to create up-to-date style guides and document their design system resources. Read more aboutZeroheight on Crunchbase…
Aniruddha Sharma
Co-founder & CEO @ Carbon Clean Solutions
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Aniruddha Sharma is responsible for all day-to-day operations and leads the company’s product and customer development strategy. While pursuing his Masters Degree in Statistics at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, Aniruddha co-founded Carbon Clean Solutions in the year 2009. Selected as one of the Top 50 Brightest Young Climate Leaders, he was a part of the youth delegation to COP15 and COP/MOP5 (Kyoto Protocol), held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in the fall of 2009 (December 7th to 18th). He has also been selected as one of the top 27 entrepreneurs working on accelerated commercialization of Technology & Innovation by Accelerator India. Currently working towards tying partnerships for ‘Carbon capture and reuse/sequestration’, he was invited to the esteemed World Economic Forum’s India summit in 2011. Aniruddha works closely on all policy issues related to CCS and also looks into hiring talent for the company.
Learn more about Aniruddha Sharma on Crunchbase…Carbon Clean Solutions develops CO2 separation technology designed for industrial and gas treating applications. Read more aboutCarbon Clean Solutions on Crunchbase…
Harry Howe
Co-Founder & CEO @ Dronestream
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Dronestream is a platform that allows drone pilots to collaborate with their organisation remotely, from anywhere in the world. Read more aboutDronestream on Crunchbase…
Franz-Josef Schrepf
Co-Founder & CEO @ Tick. Done.
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Co-founder & CEO of Tick. Done. Experienced entrepreneur, growth hacker, and TEDx speaker on a mission to empower a billion people with a million new skills. Awarded Tech London Advocates 25 under 25 for his contribution to the London Tech Community. After dark, he is a talk show host, public speaker, and stand up comedian.
Learn more about Franz-Josef Schrepf on Crunchbase…Tick. Done. is a micro-video platform for instant knowledge sharing on a mission to empower a billion people with a million new skills. Read more aboutTick. Done. on Crunchbase…
Jack Hampson
Co-Founder & CEO @ Deeper Insights
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Deeper Insights lead to bolder business decisions through applied data science using more of your data. Read more aboutDeeper Insights on Crunchbase…
Suhail Rizvi
Co-Founder & CEO @ PixelPoint Group
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Lewis Z. Liu
Co-Founder & CEO @ Eigen Technologies
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Diana Paredes
Co-Founder & CEO @ Suade
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Suade’s is bridging the financial regulatory gap through modern technology, designed to prevent the next financial crisis. Read more aboutSuade on Crunchbase…
Sylvester Lewis
Co-Founder & CEO @ SUPPA Networking
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Build your social and professional network by making meaningful in-person connections at some of the best restaurants and bars in London. Read more aboutSUPPA Networking on Crunchbase…
Nader Alaghband
Co-Founder & CEO @ Ampersand Health
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Ampersand creates innovative digital medicines for complex long term conditions, using behavioural and data-science. Read more aboutAmpersand Health on Crunchbase…
Yusuf Sherwani
Co-Founder & CEO @ Quit Genius
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Yusuf is the Co-Founder and CEO of Quit Genius. He is a Y Combinator alumni and was featured by Fast Company’s as one of their Most Creative People of 2019 as well as Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List of 2018.
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Patrick Samy
Co-founder & CEO @ Span
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Through our families, we have experienced the anxiety of being diagnosed and living with cancer, diabetes, disabling genetic conditions. As curious scientists and engineers, we’ve always been passionate about medicine and biology and it led us to work hard to make health self-management simple and accessible.
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Ahmed Wadi
Co-Founder & CEO @ MoneyFellows
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Martin Adams
Co-Founder & CEO @ Codec
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Martin is an international keynote speaker on innovation, artificial intelligence and disruptive technologies, and the Founder and CEO of Codec.ai. Codec.ai has raised millions & uses artificial intelligence to identify new target audiences and understand what content and products they want to consume, all before brands have to guess. Codec won ‘the Best Artificial Intelligence Product in Marketing’ award at CognitionX and has been named one of the ‘Hottest AI Businesses in Europe’ by TechCrunch. Martin has been recognised as one of the UK’s Top 100 Entrepreneurs by Maserati and as an innovation advisor he has worked with some of the most high-profile individuals and organisations in the world on how to use technology to be more innovative and connect more deeply with real people- including companies like Pfizer and Red Bull and governmental organisations like the Royal Marines. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and the Co-Founder of the Social Media Unit @ UCL and the Digital Leadership Council.
Learn more about Martin Adams on Crunchbase…We help brands to discover and tap in to the pockets of culture that drive growth. Powered by award-winning AI. Read more aboutCodec on Crunchbase…
Sam Ryan
Co-Founder & CEO @ Zeelo
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Zeelo is the smart bus platform for organizations, providing flexible turn-key, plug-in and SaaS transportation programs. Read more aboutZeelo on Crunchbase…
Eduard Panteleev
Co-Founder & CEO @ ANNA : Absolutely No Nonsense Admin
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Business Banking and Admin service Read more aboutANNA : Absolutely No Nonsense Admin on Crunchbase…
Asi Sharabi
Co-Founder & CEO @ Wonderbly
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Founded in 2014, Wonderbly is a unique, award winning startup that lives on the intersection of storytelling, engineering, digital and print. We are building a new class of global publishing business that brings millions of people into our superbly high quality products – as co-creators and audiences – and in doing so empower them to build connections with each other. We’re calling it Personal Publishing and we believe it’s going to be massive. Backed by top VCs (inc Google Ventures) Our company is based in the UK but with a global footprint. We are a ‘full stack publisher’, handling every aspect of the process of creating our books and serving our customers through our zero inventory, direct to consumer model. While we keep growing and nurturing our core business – creating stunning, uncompromisingly high quality and technically ambitious personalised books for kids – we have recently launched Wonderbly Studios: our strategic partnerships & joint ventures platform. Wonderbly Studios offers access to our world-leading personalisation expertise across design, tech and POD manufacturing.
Learn more about Asi Sharabi on Crunchbase…Wonderbly is a full stack publishing company from London. Read more aboutWonderbly on Crunchbase…
Anders la Cour
Co-Founder & CEO @ Banking Circle
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Oren Yogev
Co-Founder & CEO @ Replay Technologies
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Xavier Louis
Co-founder & CEO @ Peak
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Xavier is a former social gaming specialist (Playfish / Electronic Arts) turned into mobile product entrepreneur. Xavier recently started brainbow, building the #1 social mobile knowledge games – helping people to get smarter through games.
Learn more about Xavier Louis on Crunchbase…Peak’s mission is to help the world spend their time better using tools and technique borrowed from education, neuroscience and gaming. Read more aboutPeak on Crunchbase…
Nigel Purves
Co-Founder & CEO @ Wayhome
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Start owning a home today from just 5% deposit Read more aboutWayhome on Crunchbase…
Alex Caccia
Co-Founder & CEO @ Animal Dynamics
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An entrepreneur with start-up experience in, media, technology, manufacturing and a background in finance and investment banking. After a career in the City as a fund manager, and subsequently in investment banking, Alex founded a successful sports equipment business called WaterRower Ltd. In 1999 Alex joined Sportal, a European dotcom start-up, where he was head of advanced technology development. In 2003 Alex was involved in forming The Cloud (WiFi Aggregator, sold to Sky in 2010). From 2005-2010 Alex was CEO of Marmalade Technology Ltd, a leading mobile applications cross platform software SDK. In 2012, Alex founded an exercise technology business called Muoverti Ltd.
Learn more about Alex Caccia on Crunchbase…Animal Dynamics is a spinout company from the Department of Zoology at University of Oxford Read more aboutAnimal Dynamics on Crunchbase…
Marcus Greenwood
Co-founder & CEO @ Ubio
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Ubio provide direct booking capabilities for travel metasearch websites and apps. Read more aboutUbio on Crunchbase…
Jesse Lozano
Co-Founder & CEO @ Pi-Top
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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.
Learn more about Jesse Lozano on Crunchbase…Pi-Top is a creative learning company and their mission is to inspire a generation of makers, fixers & problem solvers. Read more aboutPi-Top on Crunchbase…
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