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100. Martha, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho

Lane Fox launched online travel site
Lastminute.com in 1998 during the dotcom

bubble. It was one of the few businesses to

survive the crash, going on to be purchased
for 577 million in 2005. She entered the
House of Lords in 2013, becoming its
youngest female member.
Lane Fox continues to campaign for a better

technology industry. She launched an
initiative called Dot Everyone in April 2015
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that aims to bring about a fairer and more
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equal internet for all. Lane Fox has also
joined the Government Digital Service
advisory board and signed a letter urging Prime Minister David Cameron not to clamp down
on immigration in case it hurts the technology sector.
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99. Rodolfo Rosini of Weave.ai

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experience using artificial intelligence (AI), Get the latest Market Views from the experts

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information and services from the other

apps on a phone.
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CEO Rodolfo Rosini previously cofounded AI company Storybricks, which used AI in video America
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games. He was also the CEO of security company Cellcrypt.
Total amount raised: $118,000 (80,000)
Headcount: 5 Featured
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98. Former Google Ventures general partner Eze Vidra new business off the ground
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One of Googles most high-profile executives
in the UK, Vidra was part of Google
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tech scene. He's also behind the Tech Bikers
charity effort, started in 2012, where startup
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London to raise money for charity.
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Vidra quit Google Ventures on Christmas

Day, weeks after it was announced that the
separate fund for European startups would be closed.
Twitter:@ediggs
97. Tech City UK CEO Gerard Grech

Gerard Grech is the CEO of government

quango Tech City UK, which was unveiled by
Prime Minister David Cameron in 2010.
The organisation was set up initially to

support the thriving startup scene in East
London but today it is tasked with
supporting startups in tech clusters across
the UK, from Edinburgh and Brighton to
Manchester and Cambridge.
Over the last year Grech has launched a

number of initiatives at Tech City UK, Tech City UK
including Upscale a six-month pilot

programme designed to accelerate the growth of 25 early stage high-growth digital businesses.
Headcount: 45
Twitter:@gerardgrech
96. Nick Beighton of ASOS

Nick Beighton took over as the CEO of online
fashion retailer ASOS last September,
having previously been the companys chief
operating officer.
The online fashion retailer stocks a wide

variety of youth-focused fashion labels and
is popular with 20-somethings on a budget.
Beighton has a financial background and was

an accountant at KPMG before joining
ASOS.
Headcount: 1,580 ASOS

95. Seedcamp cofounder Reshma Sohoni

Reshma Sohoni is cofounder and partner at
Seedcamp, a fund launched in 2007 by a
group of European investors, including Saul
Klein.
In December 2015, Sohoni joined up with
Taavet Hinrikus, one of the cofounders of
TransferWise, to back a new online
payments startup called Curve. Details on
Curve are scarce as the company is running
in stealth mode and yet to publicly disclose
what its platform actually does.
Seedcamp
Seedcamp focuses on investing in pre-seed

and seed stage startups, backing ambitious founders in the process. In addition to funding,
Seedcamp gives startups access to venture capitalists and mentors.
Total amount raised: $39.9 million (27.5 million)
Headcount: 187
Twitter:@rsohoni
94. Jay Radia of Yieldify

Jay Radia is CEO of London-based Yieldify,
an ecommerce software aims to help online
retailers convince people to buy products
online.

The marketing tech startup attracted

investment from Google Ventures in June
when it raised an $11.5 million (8 million)
funding round.
Yieldify's software tracks user actions online

and sends personalised offers in pop ups if
they go to leave the site and in emails if they Yieldify
do leave. The idea is to get people to think

again about buying something they decided not to purchase.
The London startup also has offices in New York, as well as sites in Berlin, Porto, and Sydney.
Total amount raised: $11.5 million (8 million)
Headcount: 162
Twitter:@J_RadiaYieldify
93. Sagi Shorrer of Peak

Former Googler Sagi Shorrer is chief
operating officer and cofounder of Peak, a
London-based company with a popular
brain training app.
In April 2015, the company raised a $7

million (4.8 million) series A round and
there are rumours circulating that another
big round could be on the horizon.
Over the last three-and-a-half years, Peaks

app, which is underpinned by neuroscience
from Cambridge University scientists, has Peak
been downloaded over seven million times.
Total amount raised: $10 million (6.9 million)
Headcount: 31
Twitter:@Shorrer
92. Legacy Russell of Artsy

Legacy Russell works for Artsy, which is an
online platform that aims to provide a way
for people to discover art theyll like,
featuring work from leading galleries,
museums, and private collections around
the world.
Russell who bases herself in Rohan Silvas

trendy London startup hub, Second Home
is the UK gallery relations lead at Artsy. Her
job involves building Artsy's presence and
driving new Artsy initiatives within the UK.
Christelle deCastro
In March 2015, the New York headquartered

company raised $25 million (17 million) from a cohort of investors, including IDG Capital
partners, Sandy Cass, Catterton Partners, and Thrive Capital.
Total amount raised:$50 million (35 million)
Headcount: 161
Twitter:@LegacyRussell
91. Former hacker Mustafa Al-Bassam

21-year-old Mustafa Al-Bassammade
headlines for all the wrong reasons three
years ago when he was named as one of
the individuals involved in the notorious
hacking group LulzSec.
LulzSec hit everything from Fox to the NHS,

and for his part, Al-Bassam was handed
down a 20-month suspended sentence by
the UK courts.
Hes now studying computer science at

Kings College in London (after a two-year REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
internet ban), and is rising in prominence in

the UK tech scene Forbes recently named him one of its 30 Under 30 to watch in
European tech.
Twitter:@musalbas
90. Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Sajid Javid
Sajid Javid wields considerable power over
the UK tech scene: Hes the Secretary of

State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
The Conservative Party politician is MP for

Bromsgrove, and was appointed in the
position a little under a year ago, in May
2015.
While some politicians like Conservative

Party London Mayoral candidate Zac
Goldsmith have been critical of ride-
hailing app Ubers presence in the city, Javid Gov.uk
is more positive about the tech, warning

about heavy handed crackdowns on the service.
Though he only entered Parliament for the first time in 2010, hes being tipped by some as a
potential contender for the Conservative Party leadership when David Cameron stands down.
Twitter:@sajidjavid
89. Gadgette editor Holly Brockwell

Holly Brockwell founded technology news
site Gadgette in May. Its a gadget and
technology news site thats focused on
women, an audience that many tech sites
struggle to write for.
Brockwell has been outspoken about the

abuse she has received online by internet
trolls. Trolls targeted her after she criticised
an iPhone game called Stolen that let
people buy and sell Twitter users.
Read Business Insider UKs interview with Twitter/Holly Brockwell

Holly Brockwell about Twitter trolls and

online abuse
Headcount: 4
Twitter:@holly
88. Gett MD for Western Europe Remo Gerber

Remo Gerber is the managing director of
Western Europe for taxi app Gett, which was
founded in New York in 2010 by Shahar
Waiser and Roi More.
Gett has raised $220 million (152 million)

in venture capital funding, with the most
recent round taking place in April 2015
when the company raised $20 million
(13.8 million).
Over the course of the last year Gerber has

launched new UK services within the Gett Gett
app, including on-demand champagne

delivery and an on-demand courier service.
Read Business Insider UKs full interviewwith Remo Gerber
Total amount raised:$220 million (152 million)
Headcount: 317
87. Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge

To most people, emojis are little more than a
curiosity a way to inject levity, or
flirtation, into otherwise dry text messages.

But for Jeremy Burge, theyre quite literally
his livelihood.
The 31-year-Australian is on a mission to

catalogue and categorise the pictograms.
Over the last three years, he has built a 140-
million-pageviews-a-year-business around
them almost singlehandedly: Emojipedia, an
online encyclopedia of emojis.
Jeremy Burge
Emojipedia began as a side-project, but after

interest exploded, Burge went full-time in 2015. He works out of Google Campus in London,
and the site also has a developer working for it nearly full-time, as well as a designer who
comes on when required.
Entirely self-funded, Emojipedia had six-figure revenues in 2015 and thats set to double this
year.
Read Business Insider UKs full profile of Jeremy Burge
Total amount raised: Self-funded, undisclosed
Headcount:2
Twitter:@jeremyburge
86. ROLI CEO Roland Lamb

Roland Lambs startup ROLI wants to
revolutionise the piano.
Its behind the Seaboard a new kind of

musical instrument that looks superficially
similar to an electric keyboard, but with far
more control and customisability.
The former philosophy students company

launched its third instrument the Rise 49
in January 2016, and it has bagged $20
million (14 million) in VC money, with
backers including Index Ventures and ROLI
Balderton Capital.
ROLI has multiple design awards under its belt most recently the Best of Innovation award
at CES in Las Vegas this year.
Total amount raised: $20 million (14 million)
Headcount: 81
Twitter:@RolandLamb
85. Alex Depledge

Alex Depledge is the cofounder of on-demand cleaning startup 85. Alex Depledge
Hassle, which was acquired by German rival Helpling
acquired last July for a reported 32 million (25 million).
In February 2015, Depledge became the chair of The Coalition

for a Digital Economy (Coadec), a policy advisory group
started by Mike Butcher, editor of tech news website
TechCrunch, and Jeff Lynn, chief executive of equity
crowdfunding Seedrs, in 2010.
The following month she became a board member of Sharing Twitter/Alex Depledge
Economy UK (SEUK), which represents the sharing economy
community, and lobbies for changes to protect consumers and

sharing economy businesses.
Headcount: 47
Twitter:@adepledge
84. Dan Cobley of Bright Bridge Ventures

Dan Cobley is the former managing director
of Google UK and the founder of CEO of
Bright Bridge Ventures, a fintech-focused
venture fund.
Through Bright Bridge Ventures, which is

based in Londons Hammersmith
neighbourhood, Cobley backed Onfido in the
companys $4.5 million (3.1 million)
funding round last February.
Cobley chose fintech because of his expertise

in both technology and finance before Dan Cobley/Brightbridge Ventures
Google he ran European marketing for

credit card company CapitalOne.
Twitter:@dcobley
83. Alex Hern of The Guardian

Alex Hern is a technology reporter at The
Guardian.

Hern, alongside fellow Guardian writer

Elena Cresci, launched a weekly tech
podcast called Updog last year that covers
the latest internet memes and viral videos.
He was named as one of the 30 to Watch in

2015 by MHP Communications.
Twitter:@alexhern
Alex Hern
82. Yavli CEO Tom Yeomans

Yeomans is CEO of London startup Yavli,
which first started its life as a software
company that served sponsored content to
millennial audiences. Around two years ago,
the company pivoted in response to the huge
rise in consumers using ad blocking
software.
Yavlis software allows publishers to

specifically target their ad blocker audiences
with sponsored content. Last year, the
company claimed to have more than 100
Tom Yeomans
publishers on board.
Headcount: 8
Twitter:@tyeo86

81. BT Consumer CEO John Petter

John Petter is the CEO of BTs consumer
business, meaning he presides over the
companys internet and telecoms products.
Hes worked at the company since 2004,
previously working as BTs COO.
It was announced in January that BTs deal
to acquire rival telecoms company EE had
received regulatory approval. The 12.5
billion deal took over two years to finalise.
BT also has a growing TV business and in

February, its BT Sport division paid out BT
960 million to air 42 Premier League

football matches per season over three years more than half of those in the lucrative
Saturday early evening slot. Next season will also see BT Sport exclusively air the Champions
League.
Headcount: 45,545
80. Hiroki Takeuchi of GoCardless

Oxford grad Hiroki Takeuchi was so
convinced of the idea for GoCardless that he
and cofounder Matt Robinson decamped to
Silicon Valleys legendary accelerator Y
Combinator to get it off the ground. The
startup uses smart technology to make it
much easier for businesses to accept and
process direct debits.
GoCardlesss clients include TripAdvisor,

The Guardian, The Financial Times, and

Box. Thecompany is currently in the
GoCardless
process of raising a big new round of
funding, as well as expanding across Europe.
Headcount: 69
Twitter:@hirokitakeuchi
79. Tim Steiner of Ocado

Ocado is a British supermarket without a
single store.
The 16-year-old publicly-listed British

company delivers groceries ordered online,
and is led by CEO Tim Steiner, who founded
the company.
Earlier this year, rumours swirled that

Amazon a key rival is interested in a
takeover bid, although Steiner claimed to
reporters in February 2016 that this is not
the case. Ocado

The company has now hit 1 billion in

annual revenue.
Headcount:1750
78. Jason Trost of Smarkets

Former equities trader Jason Trost founded
Smarkets in 2008. The site is a peer-to-peer
online betting exchange that lets traders
agree odds on everything from sports to
politics.
Smarkets charges a base rate of 2% on

transactions, which Trost says is 60%
cheaper than competitor Betfair's base rate.
The Sunday Times reports that Smarkets
attracted over 200 million in trades in
2013.
Smarkets
Trost told Business Insiderthat his site

did10 million in revenue in 2015, and is processing around 140 million per month through
the site.
Read Business Insider UKs full interview with Jason Trost
Headcount:55
Twitter:@jasontrost
77. Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley OBE

Jason Kingsley is an unconventional CEO.
For starters, hes a knight. And not just the

run-of-the-mill, honoured-by-the-Queen-
for-services-to-industry knight. Kingsley is a
real knight. Hes a keen jouster, breeds
warhorses, and spends tens of thousands on
custom suits of armour.
When hes not on horseback, hes running

Rebellion, an Oxford-based gaming
company he cofounded with his brother in
1992. Kasumi
Its main focus is video games, creating titles

for a variety of platforms, but also has smaller operations in other areas, including book
publishing and comic books. It owns 2000AD, the comic anthology responsible for the famous
dystopian Judge Dredd series.
Kingsley is also on the board of TIGA, a games industry body, and Rebellion plans to launch its
first virtual reality game this year a remake of classic arcade tank-shooter Battlezone.
Read Business Insider UKs full profile of Jason Kingsley and Rebellion Games
Headcount: 214
Twitter:@RebellionJason
76. Dominic Smales of Gleam Futures

Dominic Smales is the founder and
managing director of Gleam Futures.
The company manages big-name social

influencers including Zoella, Jim Chapman,
and Tanya Burr. The new breed of
celebrities that Smales manages have made
their names on digital platforms like
Snapchat, YouTube, Instagram, and Vine.
Smales said in October the talent on Gleams

roster will probably drive around 4 billion
views this year on YouTube alone Dominic Smales/Instagram
Before Gleam Futures, Smales spent 15 years

in media and production at USP and Chrysalis Group.
Headcount: 28
Twitter:@domsmales
75. David Jones of You & Mr Jones

David Jones, the British former CEO of
French advertising agency holding group
Havas and a former advisor to Prime
Minister David Cameron, founded You & Mr
Jones last summer.
Described as the worlds first brand tech

group, the firm has raised $350 million
(242 million) in funding.
You & Mr Jones has invested in tech

companies including viral news site
Mashable, crowd-sourcing company Mofilm, You & Mr Jones
data company Fifty-Five, ad tech company

Beeswax, GIF platform Gfycat, and content marketing platform Pixlee.
Read Business Insider UKs interview with David Jones from July, when he explained why he
thinks the traditional advertising agency network model could be dead in 10 years
Headcount: 6
Twitter:@davidjonesOYW
74. Jim Killock of the Open Rights Group

Open Rights Group (ORG) is the British
equivalent of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation a famous American advocacy
group that protects civil liberties in the
digital age.
At the helm is Jim Killock, who has served at

its executive director since 2009. ORG is
now celebrating its tenth birthday, and with
the ongoing controversy around the
proposed Snoopers Charter and global
debate on encryption, its work is more
Flickr/Jim Killock
important than ever.
Headcount: 23
Twitter:@jimkillock
73. Steve O'Hear of TechCrunch

Steve OHear is a writer for TechCrunch,
covering European technology companies.
Hes broken news on subjects like

promotions at Balderton Capital, and the

closure of meal delivery startup Dine In.
OHear is also working on a tech project of

his own, the music discovery site Weekly.fm
that shares music through the format of
weekly emails. He was previously the CEO
and cofounder of Q&A site Beepl.
Twitter:@sohear Flickr/TechCrunch
72. Avid Larizadeh Duggan of Google Ventures

Along with Tom Hulme, Larizadeh Duggan is
one of Google Ventures two remaining
partners in Europe. Shes also the only
female general partner at the fund.
Larizadeh Duggan led Google Ventures
investment into Yieldify, a two-year-old e-
commerce startup that helps online retailers
convince people to buy products online.
Aside from investing, Larizadeh Duggan also

led the UK Hour of Code project and is a
mentor for the Girls in Tech London
Getty
scheme.
Before joining Google Ventures, Larizadeh Duggan was the cofounder of fashion retail startup
Boticca. She also held product management roles at Skype and eBay in addition to being an
Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Accel Partners.
Twitter:@avidl

71. David Buttress of Just Eat

Just Eat is an online ordering service that
lets people search for local restaurants and
order takeaway food. CEO David Buttress
joined the company in 2013 after working in
sales for Coca-Cola for eight years, where he
won the account manager of the year award.
Just Eat announced in February 2016 that it
had acquired four online food delivery
companies in a 94.7 million deal. It now
owns Spain's La Nevera Roja, Italy's
PizzaBo/hellofood Italy, Brazil's hellofood
Just Eat
Brazil, and Mexico's hellofood Mexico.
Headcount: 977
Twitter:@davidjusteat
70. Sarah Drinkwater of Google Campus

Sarah Drinkwater works for Google as head
of Campus London, a seven-storey space
operated by Google for entrepreneurs near
Old Street Roundabout.
Since its inception just over three years ago,

Campus has developed a community of
45,000 people. It aims to provide open
access education, mentorship, working
space and events that are of interest to the

startup community.
In 2015, Drinkwater became a mentor to Google
Girls in Tech London, which aims to help

talented young women learn skillsfor tech roles.
Twitter:@sarahdrinkwater
69. Sonali De Rycker of Accel Partners

Accel Partners is one of London's most
respected venture capital firms, with a
strong stable of tech talent. And de Rycker is
one of Europe's most experienced
capitalists, having worked for over 14 years
investing in startups.
De Rycker lead Accel Partners investment

into British online fashion startup Lyst, and
also lead investment into online job hunting
app Job Today, which raised $10 million (7
million) in January 2016.
Accel Ventures
In recent years De Rycker has overseen

investments in big-name European startup successes such as Spotify, Moo, Seatwave and
Wonga. She was previously an independent director on the board of IAC. Starting her career as
an Analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co., she went on to join Atlas Ventures in 2000.
Total amount raised: $17 billion (11.7 billion)
Headcount: 186
Twitter:@sonalidr
68. Jeff Lynn of Seedrs

The downside to crowdfunding platforms
like Kickstarter and Indiegogo is that you
dont get any stake in the eventual company
your investment helps build. When these
companies cash out, it can sometimes leave
an bitter taste in supporters mouths, as was
the case for some backers of VR headset
Oculus when it sold to Facebook.
Thats not the case with Seedrs, a London-

based equity crowdfunding platform.
Users invest (as little as 10), and in return, Seedrs
they get a share of the company. Its clearly

an attractive prospect: The company recently recently announced that 100 million has been
invested through its platform.
It was cofounded by Jeff Lynn, a former corporate lawyer, who serves as CEO. In June 2015,
tennis pro Andy Murray joined as an advisor.
Headcount: 46
Twitter:@jeffseedrs

67. Myke Hurley of Relay FM

The bearded and British Myke Hurley is a professional 67. Myke Hurley of Relay FM
podcaster who lives just outside of London.
Hes one of the cofounders and hosts of Relay FM, a

podcast network which launched in 2014, and has a focus on
technology.
In November 2015, he was featured by Apple in one of its

official podcasts, in which explained how he was able to
become an independent podcaster and shared tips for other
would-be podcasters. Relay FM
Twitter:@imyke
66. Peter Smith and Nic Cary of Blockchain

Blockchain is a London-based bitcoin
startup, with cofounder Peter Smith in the
role of CEO and Nic Cary, another
cofounder, acting as its public face.
It was launched in 2011, and offers a number

of bitcoin services, including a tool for
exploring transactions on the blockchain
(the public ledger of all bitcoin
transactions), and a wallet for holding
bitcoin.
In October 2014, it raised $30 million (20.7 Blockchain
million) in VC funding, which was then the

largest ever raise for a bitcoin startup.
Back in July 2015, Peter Smith was chosen to accompanying British Prime Minister David
Cameron on a trade mission in South-East Asia along with a host of other more conventional
companies. Nic Cary is a regular on the conference circuit, speaking publicly on behalf of
Blockchain about the possibilities that bitcoin offers.
Headcount: 38
Twitter:@OneMorePeter,@niccary
65. Christian Hernandez Gallardo of White Star Capital

White Star Capital announced in November
2015 that it had raised a $70 million (48
million) fund to invest in startups in Europe
and the East Coast of the US. Backers
include the Canadian government, the chair
of auction house Christie's, and the founder
of Cirque du Soleil.
White Star partner and cofounder Christian

Hernandez Gallardo is a former Facebook
executive who was the companys director of
EMEA until 2013 when he left to join White
White Star Capital
Star Capital.
Headcount: 9
Twitter:@christianhern
64. Doug Monro of Adzuna

Adzuna, a search engine for classified
listings, lets people discover jobs, cars, and

houses online. The company's job- and

housing-market data is reportedly used by
Prime Minister David Cameron to monitor
the UK economy.
The company brought in 2 million in
investment in 2015 using crowdfunding
platform Crowdcube. 500 investors brought
the company over its 1.5 million target.
Monro also signed a letter urging David
Adzuna
Cameron not to cut immigration to the UKs
tech sector.
Monro launched Adzuna in 2011, having previously worked as COO of property-listing site
Zoopla, managing director of online listing site Gumtree, and a senior manager at eBay.
Headcount: 39
Twitter:@dougall
63. George Spencer of Rentify

George Spencer, in his late twenties, is CEO
of a proptech startup Rentify, which
provides tools for landlords to manage
properties, as well as other rental-focused
services. The company takes a cut of a
propertys rent in return for managing
everything to do with it.
Created in 2011 (and formally launching in

2012), its backed by London venture capital

firm Balderton Capital, and raised 5.5

million last year.
Rentify
Total amount raised: $16.5 million

(11.4 million)
Headcount:60
Twitter:@probablygeorge
62. Elizabeth Varley of TechHub

Elizabeth Varley founded TechHub in 2010
after realising that London was lacking in
shared workspaces for tech companies.
TechHub was one of the first hubs for tech
startups in London, situating itself around
the Old Street area. In 2012 it opened up
office space in Google Campus, a larger
workspace for internet startups sponsored
by Google.
In February 2015 it was announced that
TechHub will expand its partnership with
TechHub
Google into three new locations: India,
Latvia, and Romania. TechHub members in
those countries now have access to Google for Entrepreneurs services.
Varley also signed a letter in October warning Prime Minister David Cameron not to clamp
down on immigration into the UK in case it harms hiring for technology companies and
startups.
Headcount: 69
Twitter:@evarley
61. Sherry Coutu of The Scale-Up Institute

Sherry Coutu is an entrepreneur turned
angel investor whos keen to promote and
support the UKs fastest-growing technology
companies.
In 2015 Coutu launched The Scale-Up

Institute with LinkedIn cofounder Reid
Hoffman. Backed by Google, the Business
Growth Fund, the London Stock Exchange
and several advisory firms, the organisation
aims to provide promising startups with
advice on leadership, export markets and
Scaleup Institute
raising finance alongside, access to a
network of advisors.
Twitter:@scoutu
60. Alexandra Chong of Lulu

Alexandra Chong is the founder of Lulu, the
app that lets women review and rate the

men they date. She started the company in

London in 2010. The site launched with $1
million in investment from VC firms Passion
Capital and PROfounders Capital. But it
changed focus in 2013 to expand to the US
and embrace the college culture there that
had helped Tinder grow.
It was announced in June 2015 that Lulu

would re-enter the UK market, and that
OnLulu.com
followed Chongs star-studded wedding
which was attended by Google cofounder
Sergey Brin and actress Kate Winslet.
Lulu announced in February 2016 that it had been acquired by dating app Badoo, and Chong
became the president of that company.
Read Business Insider UKs full interview with AlexandraChong
Headcount: 13
Twitter:@AlexandraCChong
59. Brent Hoberman CBE of Founders Factory

Lastminute.com cofounder Brent Hoberman
is an entrepreneur, investor and non-
executive director at a number of British
corporates, including Guardian Media
Group and Talk Talk.
In 2010, Hoberman cofounded made.com,

an online e-commerce platform providing

designer furniture without third party

involvement. Today he is chairman of the
company. Last July, made.com raised $60
million (41 million) in a Series C funding
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round.
More recently, Hoberman attracted investment from Guardian Media Group, publisher of The
Guardian, for Founders Factory, an incubator/accelerator based in London.
Hoberman was awarded a CBE in the 2015 New Year's Honour's List for his involvement in the
UK tech sector.
In February 2015 he also backed Onfidos background checking platform in a $4.5 million (3.1
million) funding round.
Twitter:@brenthoberman
58. Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet MBE

Natalie Massenet founded online fashion
portal Net-a-Porter in 2000 when she was
trying to find designer goods for a fashion
shoot. The site sells clothes using a layout
similar to traditional fashion magazines.
Net-a-Porter was merged with Italian

fashion site YOOX in 2015. Massenet stood
to earn 46 million from the deal. However,

Massenet left the company in September

following the merger. She reportedly
received a payoff of over 100 million (77
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million.)
Before starting Net-a-Porter, Massenet worked as a fashion model in Tokyo, assistant at Tatler,
fashion stylist, and also worked with photographer Mario Testino. Shes Chairman of the
British Fashion Council, and received an MBE in 2009 for services to the fashion industry.
Twitter:@NatalieMassenet
57. Miniclip CEO Robert Small

Miniclip is a British gaming company that
often flies under the radar.
Its 14 years old practically ancient by

startup standards and got started building
browser games before moving to platforms
like iOS and Android with the rise of the app
economy.
Robert Small, its founder, serves as CEO.
His company hit a number of milestones in

2015. It passed half a billion downloads;
Agar.io, one of its most popular titles, was Miniclip

Googled more times in 2015 than Fallout

4; and most significantly, Chinese gaming company Tencent bought a majority stake in the
company in February.
Headcount: 155
56. Mike Butcher of TechCrunch

Mike Butcher is the editor at large of
technology news site TechCrunch and is a
high-profile journalist on Europes
technology conference circuit.
Butcher started a movement in 2015 named

Techfugees that aims to help Europes
migrant crisis by harnessing technology and
startups. It started in London, but has since
spread around the world.
Butcher also hosted another Europas

conference in June and also helped present Mike Butcher
TechCrunchs annual Disrupt conference in

London in December.
Twitter:@mikebutcher
55. Husayn Kassai of Onfdo

Oxford graduate Husayn Kassai quit his job
at Merrill Lynch in 2012 after just a week to
focus on building a startup he'd cofounded
at university.

That startup was background checking

service Onfido, which has now raised over
$5 million (3.5 million) from a wide range
of investors, including Spotify backers
Wellington Partners and lastminute.com
cofounder Brent Hoberman. It is now
considered one of Britain's smartest
Onfido
companies.
Onfido which now employs 72 people across offices in London, San Francisco, and Lisbon
boasts over 625 paying customers, including recruiter Morgan McKinley and Hays, and
newspapers like The Daily Mail and the Evening Standard.
Read Business Insider UKs interview with Hussayn Kassia about how he left investment
banking to do a startup here
Headcount:72
Twitter:@HusaynKassai
54. Philosopher Nick Bostrom

Likely the smartest person on this list, Nick
Bostrom is a philosopher who specialises in
artificial intelligence, human enhancement,
and other topics relating to the future of
humanity.
The 42-year-old Swede works as an academic

at the University of Oxford, but his writing

has mainstream appeal too:

Superintelligence, his most recent book,
published in 2014, was a New York Times
bestseller.
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Hes been been cited as an influence by Elon

Musk, the Tesla CEO another high-profile tech figure worried about the potentially adverse
consequences of creating AI. In 2016, the issues that Bostrom writes about are more relevant
than ever before.
53. Chris Morton of Lyst

Chris Morton is the cofounder and CEO of
Lyst, a fashion ecommerce platform that
allows people to shop from over 10,000
designers and stores in one place.
Lyst, founded in London in 2010, raised $40

million (28 million) in April with money
coming from well-known investors like
Accel, Balderton, and DFJ.
Since launching, Lyst has expanded its

platform, where users reportedly spend an
average of $400 (277) per order, to over Lyst
150 countries.
Headcount: 144
Twitter:@chrismorton
52. George Ergatoudis of Spotify

Ergatoudis is the new head of content
programming for the UK at music streaming
giant Spotify. He joined the company at the
start of 2016 after over 10 years in charge of
music at BBC Radio 1. He previously worked
as the head of music policy for the BBC's hip
hop and grime radio station 1Xtra.
Spotify is rolling out a lineup of non-music
content, including videos from NBC and
podcasts from the BBC. Its a good way for
the service to set itself apart from
BBC
competitors like Apple Music, as well as Jay
Zs music streaming service Tidal, which
prides itself on exclusive content.
Headcount: 2,040
Twitter:@GeorgErgatoudis
51. Guy Levin of Coadec

Guy Levin is the executive director of The
Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec), a
policy advisory group started by Mike
Butcher, editor of tech news website

TechCrunch, and Jeff Lynn, chief executive

of equity crowdfunding Seedrs.
Over the last year, Levin has put pressure on

the government to rethink its proposed
immigration policies, which stand to have a
negative impact on the UK tech sector, and
championed the sharing economy sector.
Coadec
He has also led delegations of startup

founders to Brussels, and submitted ideas for the Governments Digital Strategy.
Headcount: 4
Twitter:@guy_levin
50. Minister of State for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries

Ed Vaizey
Ed Vaizey is the Minister of State for Culture,
Communications and Creative Industries
so if you have anything to do with tech in the
UK, his work will likely impact you in some
way.
His portfolio ranges from the sharing
economy (of which he is a strong supporter)
to tech infrastructure and cybersecurity,
along with culture, media, and the creative
industries.
The Conservative MP for Wantage, he is a Alex Lentati/The Evening Standard

trained barrister and a regular speaker at

tech events.
Twitter:@edvaizey
49. Zoopla CEO Alex Chesterman

British property listings site Zoopla was
founded in 2007 by serial entrepreneur Alex
Chesterman, one of the cofounders of
movie-streaming service LoveFilm, which
was sold to Amazon in 2011. As well as
serving as CEO of Zoopla, Chesterman is an
active investor; he has investments in sports
e-commerce site SportsPursuit and student
booking site Uniplaces. In June 2015
Chesterman invested in Farmdrop, a service
that lets people buy food direct from
farmers. Zoopla
Zoopla said in August that Chesterman could

be in line for 19 million worth of shares as an incentive to keep him involved with the
company.
Chesterman is also taking part in the UKs Upscale programme as one its scale coaches. The
scheme is designed to help startups accelerate their growth.
Headcount: 235
48. Joanna, Baroness Shields, OBE

Baroness Shields was appointed the UKs
Minister for Internet Safety and Security in
May. And in December she was named a

Home Office minister, making her a joint
minister at both the Home Office and the
Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Shields previously worked as a managing

director for Google in Europe, ran Bebo,
worked at AOL, and was then recruited by
Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg to run
Facebook in Europe. She was also the CEO
Wikipedia/Rsreidphoto
of Tech City UK.
Twitter:@joannashields
47. Matt Clifford and Alice Bentinck of Entrepreneur First

Matt Clifford andAlice Bentinck are the
cofounders of Entrepreneur First (EF),
which is a London-based company-building
programme for individuals who possess
exceptional technical talent.
In the last year, EF has raised 6.5 million in

funding and expanded its platform to
Singapore, which is also home to one of its
key investors. It has also expanded the
number of places on its course in London
from 30 in 2011 to over 200 today.
Entrepreneur First
EF has helped to create companies like Blaze, Matt Clifford (left) and Alice Bentinck (right) of
famed for its laser bike light, and StreetHub, Entrepreneur First.
which allows people to find products on sale
at small and independent stores in their local area.

Headcount: 145
Twitter:@matthewclifford,@Alicebentinck
46. Emily Brooke of Blaze

Emily Brooke is the founder and CEO of
Blaze, a London startup that has built a laser
bike light that can help save cyclists lives.
Blaze's Laserlight is designed to improve

rider safety by projecting a green laser image
five to six metres in front of the cyclist,
thereby making them more visible to
drivers, pedestrians, and other cyclists.
Brooke, who took part in the first ever

Entrepreneur First startup building
programme, scored a major win for Blaze in Linkedin
December when it was announced that

Santander planned to fit every Boris bike in London with a Blaze Laserlight. The deal is said
to be worth close to 1 million.
Headcount: 9
Twitter:@buzzbrooke
45. Luke Lang and Darren Westlake of Crowdcube

Luke Lang and Darren Westlake are the

cofounders of Crowdcube, Britains biggest

crowdfunding website. Over 138 million
has been invested over the platform into
businesses like burrito chain Chillango and
Camden Town Brewery.
Old school City of London stockbroker

Numis invested 6 million in the company
last July and the pair are working together
to do the worlds first crowdfunded initial
public offering.
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Headcount: 76 Co-founders at Crowdcube. Luke Lang (left) and

Darren Westlake (right).
Twitter:@lukelang,@dazwest
44. Jo Bertram of Uber

Jo Bertram joined Uber in 2013 after
working as a management consultant for
McKinsey and Accenture. Now she manages
the on-demand ride service's operation in
the UK.
2015 was a big year for Uber in the UK. It

became even more of a political topic thanks
to comments by London Mayor Boris
Johnson and mayoral candidates. It also
launched UberPOOL here, which allows
strangers to share rides to get a cheaper fare.
YouTube/Slush
Bertram also talked about the amount of

abuse she receives on Twitter from cab drivers and internet trolls.
Uber has seen off two major threats to its business in London in recent months: Transport for

London dropped plans for a series of harsh proposals that would affect ridesharing apps like
Uber, and the company also won a High Court battle against taxi drivers who claimed that its
driver app met the legal definition of a taximeter.
Total amount raised: $8.6 billion (5.9 billion)
Headcount: 14,299
Twitter:@jo_bertram
43. Kate Unsworth of Vinaya

Kate Unsworth is the CEO and cofounder of
Vinaya (formerly Kovert Designs), a
London-based fashion startup that makes
connected jewellery, including rings and
necklaces that buzz when you receive a
WhatsApp message or email, for example.
Vinaya raised a $3 million (2 million) seed
round in November with Passion Capitals
Eileen Burbidge leading the round and
Bebos Michael Birch also taking part.
Vinaya said it was going to use the funding to Vinaya
set up a research lab in Shoreditch that

would provide insights on brain/human habits that could be used in its product design
process.
Read Business Insider UKs review of a Vinaya ring
Headcount: 24
Twitter:@kateuns

42. Bruce Daisley of Twitter

Bruce Daisley was promoted to become
Twitters vice president of direct sales for
Europe in April last year. He was previously
the companys UK country manager and is
now the companys most senior employee
outside the US.
Twitter represented 1.6% of digital ad

spending in the region (or 129.3 million) in
2015, eMarketer estimates. The region made
up 5% of Twitters monthly active user base
in 2015, according to eMarketer.
Twitter
Prior to joining Twitter, Daisley was

responsible for leading UK sales for YouTube and Googles online display advertising unit.
Headcount: 4,233
Twitter:@brucedaisley
41. Fred Destin of Accel Partners

Though originally Belgian, Fred Destin now
lives in London, where he works as a partner
for top-tier venture capital investment firm
Accel Partners.
Destin sits on the board of Deliveroo, a

London-based rapidly expanding food
delivery startup, after investing in its Series
B in January 2015. Accel has invested in
Deliveroo three times over the last year,
most recently as a participant in a $100
million (69 million) round in November

Accel Partners
2015.
Read Business Insider UKs interview with Fred Destin at Disrupt London
Total amount raised: $17 billion (11.7 billion)
Headcount: 186
Twitter:@fdestin
40. Dave Palmer of Darktrace

Dave Palmer is chief technology officer
(CTO) at cyber security startup Darktrace,
which has a platform that can spot unusual
email activity and suspicious file uploads.
Over the last year, Darktrace has raised

$40.5 million (28 million) from a number
of investors that see potential in its
immune system technology.
Before joining Darktrace, which is backed by

Mike Lynchs invoke capital fund, Palmer
was a cyber security technical expert at Darktrace

GCHQ and MI5. During his time at Britains

spy agencies, he was tasked with looking after their IT infrastructure and keeping an eye on
their networks.
Read Business Insider UKs interview with Dave Palmer about how Darktrace is finding new
talent
Headcount: 160
Twitter:@dveplmr
39. Kieran O'Neill of Thread

Kieran ONeill is the CEO of Thread, which
helps customers make sense of the world of
fashion by matching them up with their own
personal stylist through its platform. The
stylist learns about users and suggests
clothes that they think would suit them.
Users can then purchase the items through
the site. Thread is free to use, but the
company takes a cut of any purchases that
you make.
It was announced in August that Thread had
Thread
raised $8 million (5.5 million) from
investors including Balderton Capital,
Google DeepMind cofounders Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, and former Saks Fifth
Avenue president Andrew Jennings.
CEO Kieran O'Neill started his first online business in 2003 when he founded video streaming
website HolyLemon.com while studying for his GCSE. He eventually sold the site for $1.25
million (814,000).
Read Business Insider UKs feature testing out Thread for ourselves

Headcount: 18
Twitter:@KieranO
38. Former Google Ventures general partner Peter Read

Peter Read is a respected London investor
who joined the Google Ventures team in
Europe when it launched in 2014. Googles
European VC fund made a series of
investments in companies such as Kobalt
and Lost My Name.
However, Read left Google Ventures in July

2015 without announcing why he was
departing the high-profile fund. Business
Insider reported in August that there had
been disagreements within the Google
Flickr/TechCrunch
Ventures team in the UK, and that one
source of frustration was a reliance on
Googles algorithm that helps investors make decisions.
Google ultimately shut down its separate European venture capital fund in December. Out of
the five people who launched the team, only two remained. Read jumped ship on his own
terms and hes likely to make a return to investing in the future.
Twitter:@petermread
37. Murad Ahmed of The Financial Times

Murad Ahmed is the European technology

correspondent at The Financial Times. Here

he covers tech companies across the UK and
Europe, as well as the goings on in Silicon
Valley.
In November, he was named Tech

Journalist of the Year at the UK Tech
Awards, thanks to scoops on Google, Uber,
Microsoft, and Europes startup scene.
After graduating with a degree in law from

the University of Cambridge, Ahmed studied YouTube/Web Summit
journalism at Goldsmiths College. He

became a news trainee at The Times, after which he began his focus on the tech sector.
Twitter:@muradahmed
36. Former Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti

Shami Chakrabarti is a giant of British civil
society. Shes the director of Liberty, an 82-
year-old London human rights organisation.
Libertys remit extends well beyond the tech

sphere but in the years since Edward
Snowdens revelations about Western
governments surveillance, Liberty has
championed digital rights just as it has
traditional civil liberties.
A former Home Office barrister, she has

honourary degrees from Southampon, Flickr/Southbank Centre
Glamorgan,and Middlesex universities, and

is the chancellor at the University of Essex. She was even a flag-bearer at the 2012 Olympics in
London.
Having served as Libertys director since 2003, she announced in January 2016 she is leaving
once a successor is found. She hasnt revealed what she plans to do next.
35. Localglobe founder Robin Klein

Robin Klein (Saul Kleins father) is a well-
known investor in Europe that sits on the
boards of several London startups. Klein is
also on the Tech City Advisory board and an
advisor to Silicon Valley Bank.
During the course of 2015, Robin made a

number of investments through Localglobe,
the VC fund he set up with his son. For
example, he led a 1.1 million investment in
online mortgage advisor Trussle earlier this
month, alongside Betfair cofounder Ed Wray
Index Ventures
and former Google UK MD Dan Cobley. He
and his son also backed education app
Gojimo in a $1.8 million (1.2 million) seed round in December.
While at Index, Klein invested in Adzuna, Citymapper, EDITED, Farfetch, Geckoboard, MOO,
onefinestay, and TransferWise.
Headcount: 7
Twitter:@robinklein
34. Greg Marsh of onefnestay

Greg Marsh cofounded home swapping
service onefinestay in 2009. Marsh, who is

CEO of the company, had a busy year in

2015, raising large amounts of funding and
bringing in a top hotel executive.
onefinestay, which allows people to stay in

expensive, serviced houses in cities around
the world raised $40 million (25.4 million)
in June from a range of well-known
investors. Marsh also hired
InterContinentals chief finance officer, Tom
onefinestay
Singer, in a bid to beef up his management
team.

Headcount: 304
Twitter:@gregmarsh
33. Suranga Chandratillake and Rob Moffat of Balderton Capital

Suranga Chandratillake and Rob Moffat are
partners at Balderton Capital, which has
raised $2.47 billion (1.7 billion) in funding
to date, making it one of Europes largest
venture capital funds.
Over the last year, Chandratillake made his

first Balderton investments into student
media title The Tab and online code editing
platform Cloud 9.
Moffat, meanwhile, was promoted from
principal to partner in January 2015. He led Balderton Capital

the investment in Carwow when he was a Suranga Chandratillake (left) and Rob Moffat (right)
principal investor, and is also a board of Balderton Capital.
director or advisor at Qubit, Wooga,
Housetrip, Rentify, Nutmeg, Prodigy Finance, and Patients Know Best.
Total amount raised: $2.47 billion (1.7 billion)
Headcount: 35
Twitter:@surangac,@robmoff
32. The Tab founders George Marangos-Gilks and Jack Rivlin

The Tab is a network of student news
websites run by editorial teams across the
UK and US. It started off as a Cambridge
student newspaper, founded in 2009 as the
university's first online-only paper. It made
headlines after The Sun fell for its April
Fool's joke about BNP leader Nick Griffin
and for its "Rear of the Year" competition.
The company announced that it had raised
$3 million (2 million) from Balderton
Capital in December, and the money is going
The Tab
towards the expansion of its US site as well
George Marangos-Gilks (left) and Jack Rivlin (right)
as its new general interest site thats not of The Tab.
about a specific university.
Editor-in-chief Jack Rivlin told The Guardian that The Tabs had 3.2 million unique visitors in
November 2015.
Headcount: 48
Twitter:@marangosgilks,@jackrivlin

31. Professor Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking is the acclaimed
theoretical physicist at Cambridge
University who has weighed in on the
artificial intelligence debate on multiple
occasions over the last year.
For example, Hawking, who has the motor

neurone disease amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS), signed an open letter in July
calling for a ban on autonomous weapons.
He also revealed in an interview with the

BBC that he believes AI could end mankind. Flickr/Lwp Kommunikci
"The development of full artificial

intelligence could spell the end of the human race, he said.
30. Matt Brittin of Google

In February 2015, Google appointed Matt
Brittin, formerly head of its
Northern/Central European operations, its
President of EMEA Business and Operations
the first person to hold the role. In short,
hes Googles most senior employee on the
continent giving him serious influence in
tech circles.
Brittin has taken the helm of Google in

Europe during a turbulent time for the
company: It is being investigated by the
Twitter/Matt Brittin
European Commission over antitrust
allegations due to its dominance of the
European search market. More recently Google has come under fire over a 130 million UK
tax bill, which critics say is too little.
He originally studied at Cambridge University, where he was a keen rower even competing in
the Olympics. He subsequently worked for McKinsey & Co., then Trinity Mirror, before joining
the search giant.
Headcount:4,000 (in the UK)
Twitter:@MattBrittin
29. Mike Lynch of Invoke Capital

Mike Lynch has been busy reinvesting the
money he made from selling Autonomy to
HP for over 7 billion in 2011 through his
new investment fund, Invoke Capital.
One of his most exciting investments is

cybersecurity company Darktrace, which
employs former MI5 and GCHQ worker
Dave Palmer as its chief technology officer,
who also features on this list.
Darktrace, which shares an office with

Invoke Capital on Pall Mall in London, was WPA Pool / Getty
backed to the tune of $18 million (12.5

million) last March, with Invoke among the main investors.
Headcount: 160

28. Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales is best known as one of the
cofounders of online encyclopedia
Wikipedia and that recently passed a
significant milestone recently, turning 15
years old in January 2016.
But the 49-year-old Alabama-born Londoner

has had other accomplishments to note over
the last months. In July, his latest project,
The Peoples Operator (TPO), launched in
the US.
For those not in the know, TPO is an Salah Malkawi/Getty Images
ethical mobile network that gives a cut of

its proceeds to charities of its users choosing. It also launched social networking functionality
in 2015, now framing itself as a social network with a unique business model an ad-free
social space that is supported by a one-of-a-kind mobile network.
Wales also has a personal charity under his belt The Jimmy Wales Foundation, which
focuses on championing freedom of speech causes worldwide.
Headcount: 484
Twitter:@jimmy_wales
27. Tom Blomfeld of Mondo

Blomfield is the CEO and cofounder of
Mondo, a new London fintech startup thats
building a branchless bank using its debit
card and accompanying app. Mondo cards
are controlled through the app, and show
users information about the purchases they
make.

Mondo hasnt fully launched yet, but it has

released a version of its card to alpha testers
(you can see how we got on with it here).
Before founding Mondo, Blomfield was a Mondo
cofounder of another London fintech

startup: GoCardless. He left the company in 2013, and started Mondo in 2015.
Headcount: 14
Twitter:@t_blom
26. Leanne Kemp of Everledger

Everledger is a startup that wants to make
diamond theft a thing of the past.
It uses the blockchain the ledger of all

bitcoin transactions to make a public
record that valuable diamonds can be
registered to, recording their unique
characteristics. This should make it harder
to pawn stolen diamonds, and help cut down
on fraud.
The company was created by the Australian

Leanne Kemp in 2015, and took part in the YouTube/Leanne Kemp

Barclays Techstars accelerator in June.
Nearly 900,000 diamonds have been registered to Everledgers platform already, and another
900,000 are queued up. Later down the line, it intends to start registering other luxury goods.
Read Business Insider UKs profile of Leanne Kemp and Everledger
Headcount: 3
Twitter:@leanne_kemp
25. YouTube star Zoella

Zoella is the well-known British YouTube
vlogger who shares updates about fashion,
make-up, and her life. Earlier in February
2016 it was announced that she has reached
10 million YouTube subscribers, and her
videos have been watched over 1 billion
times.
Zoella has also released two books, the first

of which had the highest first-week sales for
a novelist since records began in 1998. And
her second book was named one of the
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highest-selling books of 2015.
Twitter:@ZozeeBo
24. Nicola Mendelsohn CBE of Facebook

Nicola Mendelsohn is Facebooks most senior
executive outside of the US, and runs the social
networks presence in Europe, the Middle East,

and Africa.
Facebook opened its first office in Africa in July,
and Mendelsohn was there to oversee the
companys expansion.
Mendelsohn was given a CBE in the Queens

birthday honours list in June for her work in
creative industries. Aside from her work at
Facebook, shes also co-chair of the Creative
Industries Council, a joint forum between the
creative industry and the UK government. Tim Whitby/Getty Images for Advertising Week
Mendelsohn joined Facebook in July 2013, having

previously served as executive chairman of advertising agency Karamarama. She spent 20
years working for advertising agencies before making the move to the social-networking giant.
Read Business Insider UKs June 2015 interview with Nicola Mendelsohn
Headcount: 14,352
Twitter:@nicolamen
23. Former Index Ventures partner Saul Klein

Klein is a well-known investor in Europe,
formerly of Index Ventures. He joined Index
in 2007, and invested in successful tech
companies such as Songkick, Chartbeat, and
MyHeritage. He left the VC firm in May
2015 to focus on his personal investments.
Klein is also known for cofounding movie

rental service LoveFilm and serving as its

CEO, being one of Skype's original

executives, and cofounding the Seedcamp
startup accelerator program. He cofounded
Flickr/Joi Ito
DIY computer company Kano with his
cousin Alex Klein back in 2013.
In 2016 Klein is planning to work more closely with his father, venture capitalist Robin Klein,
to invest in early stage technology companies. Hes also calling on the government to support
technology zebras (growing technology companies,) not just big-name, billion-dollar
unicorns.
Twitter: @cape
22. Claire Valoti of Snapchat

Claire Valoti was recently poached from her
role as joint head of agency relations at
Facebook to head up Snapchats European
operation from London.
She works as Snapchats general manager of

UK sales, overseeing the companys first
office outside the US. The company has
made a series of hires for its European team
from rival digital media and tech businesses
over the past year.

Total amount raised: $1.2 billion Twitter/clairevaloti
(830 million)
Headcount: 607
Twitter:@clairevaloti
21. Ismail Ahmed of WorldRemit

Somali-born Ismail Ahmed worked for the
UN to help crackdown on money laundering
before setting up WorldRemit in 2010. The
startup offers an app that lets migrants send
money back to family in places like Africa,
India, and Latin America, known as
remittance.
The company was valued at $500 million

(345 million) in a $100 million (69
million) funding round last year, led by
Silicon Valley venture capital firm
WorldRemit
Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV),
which has also backed the likes of Facebook,
Spotify, and Netflix. WorldRemit recently secured a further $45 million (31 million) line of
credit to fund growth and is processing 400,000 transactions a month.
Headcount: 163
20. Julian Assange of WikiLeaks

Is Julian Assange part of the British tech
scene or the Ecuadorian?
Because while the WikiLeaks founder is

geographically located in London, he
remains under Ecuadors jurisdiction: In
2012, he took refuge in the Ecuadorian
Embassy in Knightsbridge to avoid
extradition to Sweden for questioning over
allegations of sexual assault and rape, and
has remained there ever since.
WikiLeaks, his whistleblowing organisation, John Stillwell - WPA Pool/Getty Images
has kept busy during his unconventional

asylum. Over the last year, it has published drafts of the controversial Trans-Pacific
Partnership trade agreement, as well as documents from the Saudi Foreign Ministry and
details on covert NSA spying.
In February 2016, a United Nations panel ruled that his confinement in the embassy amounts
to arbitrary detention but British authorities insist they will still arrest him if he steps
outside.
Twitter: @wikileaks
19. Mustafa Suleyman and Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind

Mustafa Suleyman andDemis

Hassabiscofounded DeepMind with Shane
Legg in 2011, before selling it to Google in
2014 for 400 million.
In January, the pair of artificial intelligence

(AI) experts pitched their AlphaGo agent
against the European champion of board
game Go and won. Theyre planning to take
on the world champion in March.
Over the course of the last year, both

Hassabis and Suleyman have acknowledged Twitter/Mustafa Suleyman, YouTube/ZeitgeistMinds
the potential impact AI could have on Mustafa Suleyman (left) and Demis Hassabis (right)
humanity. To ensure they get their message of Google DeepMind.
across, they have attended several
conferences and given talks about the ethics of AI.
Headcount: 150
Twitter: @mustafasuleymn,@demishassabis
18. Rob Whitehead and Herman Narula of Improbable

Rob Whitehead (CTO) andHerman Narula
(CEO) are the two-man founder team
behind Improbable, a London startup that
wants to be the Google of simulation.
The duo went to the University of Cambridge

together, and in 2012 founded Improbable,
which builds software that can power
sophisticated simulations done by others. It
provides the engine to do the heavy lifting,
so you can get on with the business of
Improbable

actually modelling whatever it is you want to

model. Rob Whitehead (left) and Herman Narula (right) of
Improbable.
The companys original focus was on gaming
massive multiplayer game-worlds but it
has applications in science, research, defence, and more.
It landed a $20 million (14 million) in venture capital funding from well-respected US firm
Andreessen Horowitz in 2015 its second ever investment in the UK.
In November 2015, it officially launched SpatialOS, its operating system. Alongside the launch,
it announced an ambitious flagship project a virtual city run in collaboration with academics
to answer questions about modern urban life. Were going to have an oracle for an entire city,
Narula told Business Insider. Well be able to answer questions like what happens when we
introduce autonomous vehicles, or look at interactions between different things that have just
been [previously] impossible.
Read Business Insider UKs November 2015 interview with Herman Narula
Headcount: 81
Twitter: @RJFWhite,@HermanNarula
17. Eben Upton of Raspberry Pi

Eben Upton is the man behind the Raspberry
Pi, the wildly popular and crazily cheap
single-board computer used to promote
computer science education and beloved by
hobbyists.
The company launched its smallest and

cheapest computer yet in November 2015:
The Raspberry Pi Zero, which retails for just
3.30, or $5. Predictably, it sold out

immediately.
In February 2016, British astronaut Tim Flickr/TechCrunch
Peake notched up a new first for the Uptons

company using the AstroPi in space at the International Space Station.
Twitter: @EbenUpton
16. Azmat Yusuf of Citymapper

Former Googler Azmat Yusuf founded
Citymapper in 2011 as a guide for Londoners
to navigate the city's bus network. The app
evolved into a multimodal travel platform
and today it is used by millions of people
worldwide.
In January, Citymapper raised $40 million

(28 million) from Index Ventures,
Benchmark Capital, and a number of angel
investors.
Citymapper is now available in 31 cities, Twitter
including Hong Kong, Sydney, New York,

Istanbul, Brussels, Tokyo, and San Francisco.

Headcount: 34
Twitter:@azmingo
15. Rohan Silva of Second Home

Silva is the former government technology
advisor who was part of the team that
created the Tech City UK initiative. He
worked closely with George Osborne since
2006, and oversaw the growth of the UK's
startup scene, playing a key role in the
government's relationship with the growing
tech cluster.
Silva left government in 2013, and went to
work for VC fund Index Ventures. But he
quickly decided to launch his own project,
Rohan Silva/Second Home
and created East London coworking space
Second Home.
It was announced in January that Second Home had raised 7.5 million from investors
including Yuri Milner, Tencent chairman Martin Lau, and venture capital firm Index Ventures,
and that it would use the money to expand to Lisbon.
Silva is also planning to double the size of Second Home, and his plans include a huge indoor
lake.
Headcount:9
Twitter: @silva

14. Janine Gibson of BuzzFeed UK

Janine Gibson was appointed editor-in-chief
of BuzzFeed UK in summer 2015. She
started in the role last September after
losing out to Katharine Viner in the race to
replace Alan Rusbridger at the helm of The
Guardian. Previously she was deputy editor
at The Guardian. Prior to that, she was
responsible for launching Guardian US,
where she was editor-in-chief.
While leading Guardian US, Gibson played a

key role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning
BuzzFeed
coverage of the Edward Snowden leaks. The
Oxford graduate began as a reporter in the
media trade press, before becoming a media reporter at the Guardian in 1998 and rising within
the organisation.
Headcount: 1,365
Twitter:@janinegibson
13. Gareth Williams of Skyscanner

Gareth Williams is the CEO and cofounder of
Skyscanner, the Edinburgh-based company
behind one of the worlds most popular
flight comparison sites.
Williams led the Edinburgh company

through a 128 million funding round in
January, valuing it at over a billion dollars.

He also opened Skyscanners first London

office at the end of 2015, which is home to a
team of engineers, led by former Amazon
executive Bryan Dove.
Skyscanner
Skyscanner also has offices in Shenzhen,

Beijing, Barcelona, Glasgow, Miami, Singapore, and Sofia. During 2015, the company grew the
size of its workforce to approximately 800 people.
Headcount: 740
12. Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP

Sir Martin Sorrell is the CEO of the worlds
largest advertising agency holding group,
WPP.
WPPs agencies spend a huge amount on

tech platforms, on behalf of their clients.
Sorrell told us in January that WPP agencies
spent around $4 billion (2.8 billion) with
Google (up 38% from 2014) and $1 billion
(693 million) with Facebook (up 56% on
2014) last year. WPP predict digital
advertising will account for 40-45% of its
Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images
revenue by 2019.
Over the past 12 months, WPP has struck a number of technology partnership deals and
acquisitions including: acquiring Googles digital media agency Essence; striking a year-long
partnership deal between BuzzFeed and WPPs media-buying arm GroupM; launching an ad
agency called Truffle Pig in partnership with Snapchat and The Daily Mail; and taking an
equity stake in internet audience measurement company comScore.
WPP was the most prolific acquirer in the media and marketing industry in 2015, according to
corporate advisory firm Ciesco.
11. Jos Neves of Farfetch

Jos Neves launched Farfetch in 2008 as a
way to marry boutique fashion retailers with
customers, many of whom likely didnt know
the products existed. The company has
taken over $190 million (130 million) in
funding and is now worth over $1 billion
(690 million), making it a "Unicorn."
The companys investors include Conde Nast

and Index Ventures. It's headquartered in
London but has offices in New York, Los
Angeles, Guimares, Porto, So Paulo,
Jos Neves/LinkedIn
Shanghai and Tokyo.
The average users spend over $600 (400) on Farfetch in a single session and the company is
doing over $160 million (110 million) in revenue per year.
Headcount: 909
Twitter:@Farfetch_jose

10. Scott Button and Sarah Wood of Unruly

Button and Wood, Unruly co-CEOs, sold
their video ad tech company to Rupert
Murdochs News Corp in September last
year for $90 million (62.4 million) in cash,
plus up to a further $86 million (59.6
million) if the London-based startup meets
its performance targets.
Unruly specializes in serving and analysing

video advertising and brand videos that
appear outside the confines of YouTube and
Facebook. Its technology allows marketers
Unruly
to buy native video ad formats using
Scott Button (left) and Sarah Wood (right) of Unruly.
automated technologies and track their
performance across social. The company
also offers an analytics tool that predicts whether videos are likely to viral.
Unruly posted a 35% increase in revenue year-on-year to $45.9 million (28.7 million) in 2014.
Read Business Insider UKs interview with Sarah Wood from September 2015, shortly after
Unruly was acquired by News Corp
Headcount: 224
Twitter:@scottbutton,@sarahfwood
9. Jon Reynolds of SwiftKey

Jon Reynolds started SwiftKey straight out of
Cambridge University. The mission,
according to Reynolds, is to make it easy for
everyone to create and communicate on

mobile. The app, which is available on

iPhone and Android, is used by more than
300 million people and relies heavily on
artificial intelligence to predict what,
exactly, the user is trying to say.
Microsoft was interested and acquired

SwiftKey for $250 million (175 million) in
SwiftKey
early 2016. The team will be incorporated
into the company, meaning that Reynolds is
now an employee of Microsoft who will work on AI, an area that Microsoft is intensely focused
on.
Headcount: 148
Twitter:@thejonreynolds
8. Sean Murray of Hello Games

Sean Murray is the CEO of Hello Games, a
Guildford company that is building one of
the most ambitious video games ever made.
No Mans Sky is an attempt to create an
entire universe in an online video game
environment, which will contain
18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets.
Its a project of epic scale, and Hello Games

has started to show off its progress. Stars
like Kanye West, Steven Spielberg, and Elon
Musk have all been given demonstrations of

Hello Games
the game in 2015.
And the game now has an official launch date: June 2016.
Headcount: 16
Twitter:@NoMansSky
7. Nigel Eccles of FanDuel

Nigel Eccles is the founder and CEO of
Edinburgh-based FanDuel, which is a
fantasy sports platform that allows people in
North America to create one-day fantasy
teams and enter them into leagues with cash
prizes.
High-profile investors such as Google

Capital, Time Warner Investments and
Turner Sports backed FanDuel last summer
in a $275 million (176 million) round,
which brought total investment in the
REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
company up to $361 million (234 million).

FanDuel is perhaps the only British unicorn company not to offer its product to people in
Britain. But that could be about to change as Eccles has hinted at the possibility of launching
FanDuel in the UK for Premier League fans in the near future.
Headcount: 438
Twitter:@nigeleccles
6. Riccardo Zacconi of King

You have, of course, heard of Candy Crush.
You cant not. Its the insanely popular
candy-swiping mobile app made by King
Digital Entertainment.
Riccardo Zacconi is the man at the wheel at

King, and hes had a very good year: In
November 2015, Activision Blizzard (the
gaming megacompany behind Call of
Duty, Starcraft, World of Warcraft, and
more) acquired King for a massive $5.9
billion (4.1 billion).
King
Zacconi, who is Italian and lives in London,

cofounded King in 2003, and is its CEO. At the time of the acquisition, the company boasted
330 million monthly active users.
Headcount:1,600
5. Samir Desai of Funding Circle

Samir Desai is the founder of peer-to-peer

business loan platform Funding Circle. The

platform lets savers lend directly to
businesses and over 1 billion has been lent
over the platform since it launched in 2010.
The company was valued at $1 billion (690
million) last year.
Former management consultant Desai

moved to the role of Global CEO last year to
oversee expansion into new markets and in
October Funding Circle entered Germany,
Funding Circle
Spain, and the Netherlands with the
acquisition of Zencap. Desai had the idea for
the business while working on a project at Northern Rock.
Headcount: 266
Twitter:@samirdesai01
4. Kristo Kaarmann and Taavet Hinrikus of TransferWise

Kristo Kaarmann andTaavet Hinrikusare
the Estonian co-founders of low cost online
international money transfer service
TransferWise. The pairs marketing savvy
has helped turn the startup into one of the
few London companies valued at $1 billion
(690 million) after attracting a $58 million
(40 million) investment last year from top
Silicon Valley venture capital firm
Andreessen Horowitz.
Other investors include Sir Richard Branson
TransferWise
and Paypal founder Peter Thiel. Before
TransferWise founders Kristo Kaarmann (left) and
TransferWise, Hinrikus was Skypes first Taavet Hinrikus (right.)
employee. TransferWise went global in 2015
and has already passed the $1 billion
transferred mark in the US.
Read Business Insider UK's interview with TransferWise's cofounders
Headcount: 364
Twitter:@kaarmann,@taavet
3. Julie Adenuga of Beats 1

The tech world was abruptly introduced to
27-year-old Londoner Julie Adenuga in June
2015, when she was announced as one of
three global presenters for Beats 1.
Along with veteran BBC radio DJ Zane Lowe

and New Yorker Ebro Darden, Adenuga is
the face of Apples flagship new internet
radio station broadcasting from her
London studio.
She may be a new face to techies, but she has

strong roots in Londons music scene. In YouTube/HookLDN
2010, she joined the citys underground

radio station Rinse FM. We had no DJ experience, but we just played the music and were
talking rubbish, she said. It worked. Luckily.
And lets not forget her family: Alongside Julie, theres also Joseph and Jamie Adenuga
better known as London grime artists Skepta and JME.
Twitter:@JulieAdenuga

2. William Shu of Deliveroo

William Shu launched his restaurant food
delivery company in London in 2012 after
realising it was hard to get good quality food
delivered to your home or office.
The former investment banker has

subsequently expanded Deliveroo to more
than 30 UK cities and over 20 international
cities. The growth has been fuelled with
$200 million (138 million) in venture
capital funding, half of which was raised last
November.
Deliveroo
Shu has managed to attract popular London

restaurants such as Dishoom, Ping Pong, and Dirty Burger to Deliveroo, where they can access
an even larger customer base in exchange for approximately 30% of every transaction.
Read Business Insider UKs interview with Will Shu about how Deliveroo plans to expand
Headcount: 583
Twitter:@WillShu203
1. Eileen Burbidge MBE of Passion Capital

Eileen Burbidge founded investment fund
Passion Capital in 2011 with Stefan Glaenzer
and Robert Dighero. Since then, Passion
Capital has invested in a series of successful

London companies including DueDil,

GoCardless, GoSquared, and Smarkets.
Burbidge was given an MBE in the Queens

birthday honours list in June for her services
to business. And in July, Burbidge was
named the UK Treasurys special envoy for
fintech, a type of technology that London is
Eileen Burbidge
particularly good at due to the tech sectors
close proximity with banks and politics. She
was also named as one of Prime Minister David Camerons group of business advisors.
But the biggest news of 2015 for Burbidge was when she took the job of Chair of Tech City UK,
the organisation that works to promote the UKs tech startups, in September. Shes the new
public figurehead for the organisation.
2015 was the year when Burbidge really became the face of London tech: shes been profiled in
The Guardian, The Evening Standard, Techworld, Fortune, and The Sunday Times.
Prior to founding Passion Capital, Burbidge worked at Apple, Yahoo, Skype, and Sun
Microsystems.
Read Business Insider UKs interview with Eileen Burbidge about her appointment to Tech City
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Headcount: 12
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Great list, i'm surprised Giles Palmer CEO of Brandwatch isn't on
it http://uk.businessinsider.com/brandwatch-funding-round-2015

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There are some truly inspirational people here. But I think you've
missed one. Tom Carter, the 27 year old CTO at Ultrahaptics. As part of his PhD at Bristol
University he was intrigued by the possibility of being able to create the sensation of touch,
in mid-air, using ultrasound. A lot of very hard maths later, he proved the concept, built a
demonstrator, signed up a whos who of consumer devices as a customer list, and span out
a company.

This is what hes done in the past year:

Raised over 10m of VC funding

Grown a team from 4 to 23 people

Been awarded a grant of 1.49m from the European Commission
Heralded as the human computer interface of the future, his technology enables you to
feel invisible buttons, switches and dials in mid-air. This means that devices can be
controlled by gestures, from home audio equipment to car dashboards, but you can feel
that you are engaged with the device. He can also create 3d shapes in mid air. You can
literally reach out and touch what you can see on a screen, in 3D. Hes filed a ton of
patents, built a team, and got customers across the globe keen to get their hands on his
technology.

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