Ellie Horvath
At Best Startup London we track over 100,000 London based startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 101 Messaging companies in London. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Messaging Companies & Startups (London)
IRCCloud
| Founders | James Wheare, Richard Jones |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
IRCCloud is a modern, always-connected IRC client that works on mobile and the web
VoxSmart
| Founders | John Enoch |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
VoxSmart is a global communications surveillance software provider.
Shipamax
| Founders | Fabian Blaicher, Jenna Brown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Shipamax provides seamless fleet and deals management for operators and brokers.
Ably Realtime
| Founders | Matthew O’Riordan, Paddy Byers |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Ably is the platform to power synchronized digital experiences in realtime.
Guild
| Founders | Ashley Friedlein, Matthew O’Riordan |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Guild is the platform for professional communities and networking.
askporter
| Founders | Sam Tassell, Tom Shrive |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
AskPorter is an AI machine learning messaging platform that optimises property and facilities.
HelloDone
| Founders | Charles Cadbury, Ed Hodges, Pete Shannon |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Automating social messaging for online retail brands
Emoticast
| Founders | Bobby Simms, James Fabricant |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Emoticast is a platform to share music GIFs with sound across all platforms.
Blink
| Founders | Sean Nolan |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
We make remote working less remote. Welcome to the Frontline of the Future.
BotsCrew
| Founders | Max Gladysh, Nazar Hembara |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
BotsCrew provides AI development and chatbots development services.
Pushfor
| Founders | John Safa |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Pushfor is a secure content sharing platform that pushes, controls and tracks content of any type or size.
Peanut
| Founders | Michelle Kennedy |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Peanut is an online platform that provides a safe space for women to connect across fertility and motherhood.
XConnect Global Networks
| Founders | Eli Katz |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
XConnect provides interconnection services driving the adoption of IP-based multimedia communications.
Riot
| Founders | Amandine Le Pape, Gary Miles, Matthew Hodgson |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Riot offers an open, secure, and inter-operable communication platform for work and home.
Netspeak Games
| Founders | Callum Brighting |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Netspeak Games operates as a zero-crunch studio that develops online multiplayer games.
BARE: Dating Less Serious
| Founders | Alex Sergent, Anna Adamiak, Gillian Myhill, Phil Beesley |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
BARE is a platform that allows women to expose their pictures in a simple, secure, and enjoyable way.
Hutoma
| Founders | Andrea Cibelli, Maurizio Cibelli |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Hutoma is a building emotionally evolved AI interfaces for connected devices, app and web powered by Deep Learning.
YEO Messaging
| Founders | Alan E J Jones, Sarah Norford-Jones |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
YEO Messaging is a messaging platform that provides secure a messaging service focused on business settings.
TubeChat
| Founders | Nina Tumanishvili |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
TubeChat is the only short-range messaging app designed to work on the London Underground where there is no cellular or wifi.
MindLink Software
| Founders | Howard Travers, Joseph Do |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
MindLink provides business critical collaboration enabled through Enterprise Chat.
QuickBlox
| Founders | Dmytro Filatov, Taras Filatov |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
QuickBlox is a cloud communication backend that allows to add Chat, Video calling, Push Notifications, Cloud Sync into mobile and web apps.
Amity
| Founders | Korawad Chearavanont |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Amity powers in-app social experiences, helping developers to easily add pre-built social features to any app with a few lines of code.
Nattr
| Founders | Laura Russell, Melanie Mercier |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Crowdsource clever text responses
Alloxentric
| Founders | Max Kreimerman |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Alloxentric is a communications platform that integrates voice and text to design automated and multi-channel contact strategies.
Messagenius
| Founders | Luigi Fidelio, Simone Giacco |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Messagenius provides the secure enterprise messaging for smart, secure, and integrated internal communication among colleagues.
Pusher
| Founders | Damien Tanner, Max Williams |
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Pusher Ltd. provides a hosted API service for adding real-time bi-directional.
Free Postcode Lottery
| Founders | Chris Holbrook |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Free Postcode Lottery is an online lottery platform
Blink Solutions
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The one-stop shop website testing solution
Sure
| Founders | Alexandra Neczliova, Juraj Pal, Sebastian Krumhausen, Suzanne van Nes |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Sure curates the most “Instagrammed” food and drink spots.
CS Networks
| Founders | Stefan Ćertić |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
CS Networks, a telecommunications service provider, offers professional services and premium quality IT solutions for the mobile industry.
Royal Mail
| Founders | Henry VIII |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Royal Mail is a delivery and email messaging company that specializes in parcels.track & manage delivery, packaging & manage mail services.
Monty Mobile
| Founders | Mountasser Hachem |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
GSMA certified Open Connectivity SMS Hub and Roaming Broker, providing direct connectivity to Mobile Operators worldwide
YOU Global
| Founders | Aidar Akbi |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
YOU is a powerful next generation App that combined Task-Manager, Calendar, Messenger, Reminders and Social Network.
eVigilo
| Founders | Guy Weiss |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
eVigilo is a security company that develops and distributes national mass notification systems.
Lutebox
| Founders | Ali Ahmed, Owais Shaikh |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Lutebox is the award winning company behind Dispatch, an ‘on-command’ service that gets you food, drinks and essentials by instant message.
Globr messenger
| Founders | Jimi Ayoku |
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Chat freely with friends and family in any language.
Hitch
| Founders | Anton Gu |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Hitch is a mobile messaging application
Samba Networks
| Founders | Ben Atherton, Dilip Shukla, Neil Patrick |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
User first advertising for the new economy. Samba is the leader in user first mobile video formats for brand advertising
Lemeno
| Founders | Abdulaziz Al Abdulaziz |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Lemeno is the world’s first instant-planning™ app where you’ll never have to waste time messaging about what to do a
AskWinston
| Founders | James Harbridge, Kaivan Faria |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
AskWinston is a developer of a messaging platform designed to request home-services.
My Happy
| Founders | Neil Berry |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Pay-it-forward messaging app, focussed around sending and receiving positive affirmations either from galleries or user generated.
NexText
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Nextext is a messenger of the future that allows user to schedule messages.
Dispatch
| Founders | Ali Ahmed |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Dispatch operates as a delivery assistant powered by artificial intelligence.
Starthawk
| Founders | Ben Liger |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Starthawk is an online platform for finding a co-founder for startups and businesses.
GoSquared
| Founders | Geoff Wagstaff, James Gill, James Taylor |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
GoSquared is a platform where businesses can communicate with their customers through analytics, CRM, live chat, and marketing automation.
Sendible
| Founders | Gavin Hammar |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Sendible, a social media marketing platform, allows individuals and businesses to engage with their customers across multiple channels.
WaveDeck
| Founders | Jacob Levant |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Wavedeck Media is a mobile communication company delivering voice messaging and communication services worldwide.
Sphere (Acquired by Twitter)
| Founders | Nick D’Aloisio, Tomas Halgas |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Now part of Twitter! Sphere is a community chat app turns groups into close, vibrant, purposeful and productive communities, instantly!
Kayako
| Founders | Jamie Edwards, Varun Shoor |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Grow your business with Kayako, the unified customer service platform.
Palringo
| Founders | Martin Rosinski |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Palringo is a social gaming and chat app. Users can send instant messages, play games and form large groups based on common interests.
Rabbit Technologies
| Founders | Alexis Richardson |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Rabbit Technologies offers RabbitMQ which is open source message broker software implementing the advanced message queuing protocol (AMQP).
Activate Technologies
| Founders | Alex Jupiter |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Activate Technologies creates and manages bots used for payments, event management, and growing brand awareness.
Gingersnap
| Founders | Jens Bachem, Marc Goodchild |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The shared adventure app for grandparents and grandchildren.
Teamer
| Founders | Ken Moulton, Niall McEvoy, Stephen Moulton |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Teamer is a sports team management app that takes the hassle out of organizing any sports team, club, or group.
Visixtwo
| Founders | Nathan Barker |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Visixtwo develop instant messaging applications company.
Wozityou
| Founders | Daniel Jain, Jordon Golding-Smith |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Wozityou is a location-sensing social networking app that enables users to connect with others in their vicinity.
Pikmy
| Founders | Bartosz Leszczyński |
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Pikmy is a simple way of connect and accelerate friends to make every ideas done together in real-time.
Novastone Media Ltd.
| Founders | Douglas Orr |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Bridging the gap between advisors and clients via messaging centred solutions
Cellcrypt
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Cellcrypt offers mobile voice calling solutions to deliver encrypted data between mobile devices over wireless networks.
Email Checker
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Email Checker offers fast and accurate email verification solutions.
Yubl
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The London-based social network
Nap App
| Founders | Rory Williams |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Disappearing Group Chats
VisionMobile
| Founders | Andreas Constantinou |
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VisionMobile is the leading analyst firm in the developer economy.
Superforce
| Founders | Dmitry Aksenov, Sofia Fominova |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
AI-powered desktopless workforce management
Mobile Interactive Group
| Founders | Anthony Nelson, Barry Houlihan |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Mobile Interactive Group, an integrated communications business, offers advertising, payment, and marketing services via mobile channels.
The Chat Shop
| Founders | Joe Bush, Jonathan Everett |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Live Chat Outsourcing and Consulting
Dods (Group) plc
| Founders | Unknown |
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Dods is a global political information, publishing, training, events and communications business
VixT
| Founders | Gabriel Varaljay, Tibor Hanis, Viktor Nyics |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
VixT – turns your texts into a video mashup! It’s better than GIF. Best friend of the creative content marketer. iOS / Android + chatbots
Twoo.com
| Founders | Lorenz Bogaert |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Twoo is the fastest growing place to chat, search, share photos and play fun introductory games.
The Brand Union
| Founders | Unknown |
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The Brand Union specializes in strategies to grow brand recognition.
ConXhub
| Founders | Mark Trowbridge |
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Worlds #1, MOBILE FIRST, Communication Service, for every aspiring Business.
conXhub has taken the best of VoIP & Mobile Cellular communications and mashed it together with customer interaction & professional switchboard features to give you the ultimate communication solution! Be Great with Cloud Communications
Fix8
| Founders | Unknown |
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Fix8’s mission is to craft quality kombucha, focusing on sophisticated tastes and healthful benefits.
Meet Parker
| Founders | Freddie Savundra |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Meet Parker provides AI Assistant that improves lead conversions.
OnBrand Group
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
OnBrand Group is a specialist provider of marketing services and communications.
Mobile Marketing Group MMG
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Mobile Marketing Group MMG is a company that provides text message based marketing and customer contact services.
Snapd App
| Founders | Neil Metson |
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Snapd is a brand new app that lets you send snaps to friends and capture their reaction. The two images are saved together in a social feed.
Wordy
| Founders | Anders Schepelern |
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Wordy is a human copy-editing and proofreading service that optimizes queries and content in real time.
Movirtu
| Founders | Nigel Waller |
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Our vision is to redefine the mobile experience by introducing virtual identities, enabling innovative solutions.
PingMe
| Founders | Unknown |
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PingMe enables individuals to post encoded messages on social networks that can only be decoded by the recipient.
ZummZumm
| Founders | Tony Million |
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ZummZumm is a location-based conversation network that enables users to talk to strangers about a variety of topics.
Keepsite
| Founders | Unknown |
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Running a project-based business is complicated. Keepsite makes it simple. We help teams deliver great projects and love construction again.
BuckleUp
| Founders | Michael Richard |
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Date Nearby & Now! BuckleUp With Every Gender & Sexuality! BuckleUp still Works When & Where other Apps don’t!
CleverVoice
| Founders | Unknown |
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Interactive Voicemail Broadcasting
Safe Citizens
| Founders | Korin Taunton, Martin Hogan |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Geo-relevant Public Safety and emergency management platform
Cloud SIM App
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Cloud SIM App is a mobile application that offers international calling and messaging services.
Intently
| Founders | Neil Harris |
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Intently is a web platform that enables its users to request and provide services to and from individuals around the world.
Boomerang Messaging
| Founders | Peter Tanner |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Boomerang Messaging offers automated digital communications over SMS, e-mail, and voice that enables management of time.
Bonfire
| Founders | Alex Voltz, Jay Caines-Gooby, Josh Russell |
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Bonfire is the developer of a browser plugin that allows users to chat on Twitter.
Contact Customer Care UK
| Founders | Unknown |
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Contact Customer Care UK is a provide instant support to the customers.
C24 Technologies
| Founders | John Davies |
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C24 Technologies is a software company specializing in fast data and high velocity messaging solutions.
Artwishlist
| Founders | Christian Huhnt, Dimitrios Hermann |
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Artwishlist is a messaging app for the art world, where the user can buy and sell fine art without commissions.
JumpInChat
| Founders | Unknown |
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JumpInChat is a group video chat room application, allowing on demand and reserved video chat rooms powered by WebRTC
Kaana
| Founders | Albert Isern Alvarez |
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The first free integrated Social Platform with many services and applications, developed with collaborative feedback.
mIRC
| Founders | Khaled Mardam-Bey |
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mIRC is an internet relay chat software that enables its users to communicate and share content with others.
Mobile Interactive Technology
| Founders | Unknown |
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Mobile Interactive Technology (MIT) designs, develops and builds cutting edge applications and technologies for the mobile.
Telnic
| Founders | Unknown |
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Telnic is an England-based company that acts as the registry operator and sponsoring organization for the .tel top level domain.
SevenBee
| Founders | Valentine Agamah |
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SevenBee is a productivity tool designed to help landlords, property managers, and tenants better manage their day-to-day communications.
WRG Creative Communication
| Founders | Unknown |
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WRG Creative Communication is a creative agency that specializes in live marketing and healthcare communication.
Shock
| Founders | Bartosz Wawrzyniak, Patryk Nawrocki |
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Shock is location-based photo sharing app that helps users to meet new peoples around the world and talk with them.
Thumbtel
| Founders | Andy Munarriz |
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leemail
| Founders | Lee Morgenroth |
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leemail is a widget on a browser that allows users to create custom emails specific to any site.
