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 board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based Founder operating in the Apps space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Romain Afflelou
Co-Founder of Cosmo Connected
Romain spearheaded the digital strategy of Alain Afflelou Group before becoming an investor in numerous start-ups. He uses his fine-tuned analysis skills to support and invest in innovative start-ups. In addition to being a major shareholder and Co founder of Cosmo Connected a French start-up specialized in connected objects related to security and mobility. Romain is Director and Board member of Multiwave Technologies /develops breakthrough metamaterial technologies to improve people’s lives. Serial investor in +50Tech companies 6over6 (Acquired by 1-800 contacts) Cityscoot Clay Inc VR Cowboy Bike Epicery Everoad (Ex Convargo) Fithouse Fré Skincare Fokoya Guillotine Vodka Klassroom Laminate Technologies MeetFabric Molotov TV Multiwave Technologies Nestor Octopus Officeriders Onoff telecom Pledg Quiqup Universal Standard Shapr Spendesk Zipdrug…(Acquire by Anthem Pharmacy)
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About Cosmo Connected: The Leader in Connected Safety in Urban Mobility.
Nikolai Durov
Co-Founder of Telegram Messenger
Nikolai Valeryevich Durov is a Co-Founder of Telegram Messenger. He is a Russian programmer and mathematician. He is the elder brother of Pavel Durov, together with whom he founded the social networking site VK and later Telegram.
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About Telegram Messenger: Telegram is a cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app with a focus on privacy, security, and speed.
Michelle Kennedy
Co-Founder & CEO of Peanut
Michelle joined Badoo originally as lead counsel over 4 years ago. Prior to joining Badoo she was a successful corporate lawyer at leading international law firm, Mishcon de Reya, before being poached by the firm’s successful biotech client, Quotient Bioscience to head up their legal team. During her time at Badoo, she built the legal, compliance, HR and talent teams before moving into a more operationally focused role, including a position on the board. Today, Michelle is responsible for most key areas of the business, and works closely with founder and CEO Andrey Andreev, on the existing product, and exciting ‘special projects’ coming soon….
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About Peanut: Peanut is an online platform that provides a safe space for women to connect across fertility and motherhood.
Marc Boyan
Founder & CEO of Miroma Ventures
Marc began his career in marketing with the Goldsmith family, creating and selling events such as World Wrestling Federation, Net Aid, Smash Hits & Route of Kings. His first business venture started in 2000, setting up tourist information channel, City Tour TV. The concept can now be found in various airlines, black taxis and hotels in the UK. In 2003, Marc spotted an opportunity to use barter in all areas of modern commerce and set up corporate barter company, Miroma International. He has grown the business into one of the leading corporate barter companies in Europe with Miroma International’s growth trajectory recognized in The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 report on UK businesses for four years in a row between 2008 and 2011. Outside of Miroma International, Marc has also focused on building out the Miroma Ventures portfolio, focusing on media, technology and consumer investments. Marc is a dedicated supporter of the Rays of Sunshine Children’s Charity, sitting on its Executive Board.
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About Miroma Group, Miroma Ventures: Miroma Ventures is the investment arm of The Miroma Group, predominantly investing in growth stage consumer brands and media platforms.
Alexander Asseily
Co-Founder of Elvie
Alex is an entrepreneur and investor with more than 20 years of experience in consumer products and wearable technology. Among other things, Alex co-founded Jawbone, where he led the team to release its most iconic consumer products. Alex advises a number of companies and charities in the US and Europe, including Nectarine Health, Lilium and Atomico.
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About Elvie, State.it: Elvie is a British femtech company developing smart technology for women.
Tania Boler
Founder and CEO of Elvie
Tania is an internationally recognized women’s health expert and has held leadership positions for various global NGOs and the United Nations. Passionate about challenging taboo women’s issues, Tania founded Elvie in 2013, partnering with Alexander Asseily to create a global hub of connected health and lifestyle products for women.
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About Elvie: Elvie is a British femtech company developing smart technology for women.
Kirill Chliaifchtein
Founder & CEO of SwiftGift
Founder & CEO at SwiftGift
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About SwiftGift: SwiftGift is the world’s first Instant Gift Messenger App which allows you to send real gifts to anyone in your phone’s contact book.
Ignacio Leonhardt
Founder of Handy
Ignacio Leonhardt is the technical co-founder at Handybook.com. He graduated with a degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Duke University and a Masters degree in Finance from London School of Economics. He previously worked as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs and as an Associate at Cambridge Associates in London.
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About Handy, Kyan Health: Handy, formerly Handybook, is an app through which users can book cleaners, plumbers, handymen, and other household service providers.
Yevgeny Brener
Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer of 365Scores
Yevgeny Brener is the Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer at 365Scores.
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About 365Scores: 365Scores is a cross-platform application that enables users to create their own personalized sports channel.
Shahzad Younas
Founder & CEO of Muzmatch
Shahzad Younas is the founder and CEO of Muzmatch.
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About Muzmatch: Muzmatch is the worlds biggest dating app for Muslims looking for their life partner. Backed by Y Combinator S17.
Alex Algard
CEO & Co-Founder of Hiya
Alex advises Ekata on strategy and product development in his role as Chairman. He is currently the CEO of Hiya and Chairman of Whitepages, which he founded in 1997. He holds a B.A. in Economics and an M.S. in Engineering, both from Stanford University. He was selected as Software Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young.
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About Hiya: Hiya is a developer of a caller identification application designed to offer a better phone experience to mobile users worldwide.
Akin Babayigit
Co-Founder of Tripledot Studios
Akin Babayigit is currently a co-founder of Tripledot Studios, a mobile games studio based in London. Before starting Tripledot, Akin was an active investor & advisor to various companies in the gaming space as well as serving as the Head of Business Operations & Special Projects at King Digital Entertainment. Before his experience at King, Akin was the head of Facebook Audience Network in EMEA.
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About Tripledot Studios: Tripledot Studios is a mobile games studio that develops casual mobile games such as solitaire app and several puzzle games.
Eyal Chameides
Co-Founder of Tripledot Studios
Eyal Chameides is the Creative Director for Product Madness, where he oversees and coordinates the creative teams working for Product Madness across the globe. Knowing from an early age that he never really wanted to be a grown up he has a background in fine arts and computers as well as a BA in Game Design from RMIT. He spends most of his time thinking about Batman. Over the past ten years Eyal has directed the design and execution of dozens of titles across multiple platforms, initially for consoles and then for Social and Mobile at Product Madness.Throughout his career Eyal has overseen, managed and guided creative teams in Australia, UK, USA, Israel, China, India and the Philippines.
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About Product Madness, Tripledot Studios: Tripledot Studios is a mobile games studio that develops casual mobile games such as solitaire app and several puzzle games.
Lior Shiff
Co-Founder and CEO of Tripledot Studios
Lior Shiff is a co-founder and the CEO of Tripledot Studios, co-founder and Chairman of On The Spot Development. and co-founder of Luna Labs. Until December 2015, he was Managing Director/CEO of Product Madness, which he co-founded in 2007. Lior spearheaded the successful sale of Product Madness to Aristocrat at the end of 2012. Product Madness is a leader in the Social Casino segment with revenues of $400m/year. Lior is an active advisor, speaker, and investor in the mobile games space. Previously, Lior worked at McKinsey & Co. and in The Israeli NSA, where he managed an R&D department of 40 engineers. Lior holds a BA degree in Computer Science, Accounting and an additional BA degree in Psychology all from the Tel Aviv University. He also holds an MBA from Stanford University.
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About On The Spot, Tripledot Studios: Tripledot Studios is a mobile games studio that develops casual mobile games such as solitaire app and several puzzle games.
Henri Moissinac
Co-Founder & CEO of dott
Henri Moissinac runs Consumer Partnerships at Uber EMEA,in London.Previously, he led Mobile Partnerships at Facebook, based in California. Before that, he led eBay mobile.
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About dott: Dott offers dock-less, shared electrical scooters and bikes as alternatives for short-distance travel.
Anton Chirkunov
Founder & CEO of Wheely
Anton Chirkunov is the Founder and CEO at Wheely.
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About Wheely: Wheely is a luxury ride-hailing service, allowing customers to book chauffeur-driven journeys both on-demand and pre-booked through an app.
Faisal Khalid
CEO & Founder of Bits
Faisal is the Founder and CEO of Renters Union, a popular chatbot ‘lawyer’ that provides free, instant, personalised legal advice to Londoners. It has been covered in TechCrunch, TimeOut, EveningStandard and numerous legal blogs, and been hailed by users as ‘something the Mayor should have built’, ‘BRILLIANT’ and ‘totally rubbish.’ Faisal previously built and sold a fintech venture, and spent several years in banking and private equity, before learning to code and moving to tech. Faisal holds a BA from Harvard University, and MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, and lives in London.
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About Bits, RentersUnion: Bits helps people build their credit score by providing them with a digital credit card that they pay off every month.
Paul Croft
Co-Founder & Chief Games Officer of Mediatonic Games
Paul Croft is a Co-Founder & Chief Games Officer at Mediatonic Games.
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About Mediatonic Games, Tonic Games Group: Mediatonic develops and publishes games for digital platforms such as smartphones, PCs and consoles.
Eduard Panteleev
Co-Founder & CEO of ANNA : Absolutely No Nonsense Admin
Co-Founder and CEO at Anna.
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About ANNA : Absolutely No Nonsense Admin: Business Banking and Admin service
Shachar Bialick
Founder & CEO of Curve
Shachar Bialick is a serial entrepreneur, passionate about using technology to improve lives. He is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Curve -a fintech startup. Hefounded Curve to give people a simpler, smarter way to manage their financial life. It allows people to spend from all their bank accounts and cards through one smart Curve card, connected to an even smarter app. Cardholders can see all their business and personal spend in one place, cut out bank fees on business trips, make their existing cards more secure, manage cash flow with ‘financial time travel’, and never worry about doing their expenses again.
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About Curve: Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.
Christian Owens
Founder, CEO of Paddle
Christian Owens is a technology entrepreneur located in the United Kingdom. Christian has been involved with a number of startups but most notably his own two [Branchr Advertising](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/branchr-advertising) and [Mac Bundle Box](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mac-bundle-box). Christian is currently the Founder and Director of Branchr Advertising. A company with a new approach on CPC based internet advertising that allows fair ad distribution, without contracts or startup fees. Previously Christian was involved in the creation of various web based technologies and applications that have since been sold. Christian also started The Dream Apps, a privately funded Macintosh software development company.
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About Paddle, The Thiel Foundation: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Harrison Rose
Co-Founder, Chief Customer Officer of Paddle
Co-Founder, Chief Customer Officer at Paddle
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About Paddle: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Geri Cupi
Founder & CEO of Twig
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About Twig: Twig is a fintech startup that provides a mobile banking app.
Luke Heron
Co-Founder of TestCard Ltd
Luke Heron co-founded TestCard.com, a UK domiciled startup revolutionising the direct to consumer healthcare diagnostics market.
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About TestCard Ltd: TestCard is the medical technology company behind the eponymous at-home test kit. A partnering mobile app delivers immediate results.
Nicolas Shulman
Founder and CEO of BlockDox
Nic Shulman is the award winning founder and CEO of BlockDox. He is a lawyer, author and a recognised expert in the field of building management appearing on national tv, radio and in newspapers.
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About BlockDox, FPRA, News on the Block: BlockDox is a software platform and mobile application.
Oleg Fomenko
Co-Founder of Sweatcoin
Oleg Fomenko is an entrepreneur and advisor with experience in consumer tech, mobile music, telecoms and consumer goods. He is known for his ability to generate and polish a consumer business idea into an attractive proposition and to lead its implementation through securing funding, building teams and boards as well as negotiating groundbreaking commercial deals and partnerships. Oleg is the co-founder of Sweatcoin, a free smartphone app that enables users to turn movement into currency. It does so by monitoring the steps you take when you walk in order to reward you with ‘coins’ that you can then spend on real life goods, service and experiences, available through the Sweatcoin platform. Oleg was also the CEO and Founder of Bloom.fm from 2008-2014. Bloom.fm was an award-winning mobile music streaming service that attracted 1.2m registered users in the UK by offering the world’s’ first £1 per month subscription and outstanding user experience. Oleg built it from an initial idea to £16M funding raise, selected an amazing team, attracted a high-profile advisory board, and negotiated ground-breaking music licensing deals within conservative and creative budget.
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About mflow, Sweatcoin: Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by economic value of physical movement.
Anton Derlyatka
Co-Founder, Co-CEO of Sweatcoin
Anton is an entrepreneur and investor in Fitness, Wearable and Talent technology verticals
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About Entelo, Good&Co, RolePoint, SmartUp.io, Sweatcoin, Talent Equity Ventures (TEqV): Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by economic value of physical movement.
Amrit Johal
Founder of Convo App
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About Convo App: A sport social network where all fans can convo with one another!
Jasneel Nagi
Founder of Convo App
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About Convo App: A sport social network where all fans can convo with one another!
Robyn Exton
Founder and CEO of Her
Robyn is the CEO & Founder of HER the world’s largest brand for LGBTQ womxn & queer people. HER builds products and experiences that connect womxn in the way that works best for them. Their app is home to 4 million people across the world, with dating and community connections, and their events run in 15 cities, hosting 50,000 people per year. With content, events and communities, HER is opening up opportunities for LGBTQ womxn that never existed before.
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About Her: Her is a dating application for lesbians, bisexual and bi-curious women, allowing users to connect with each other and their community.
Anthony Eskinazi
Founder & CEO of JustPark
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About JustPark: JustPark is a parking app reinventing parking for the digital era.
Daniel Shellard
CEO, Co-Founder of Fiit
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About Fiit: The UK’s highest-rated fitness platform, Fiit has thousands of global members and partnerships with brands including Sky and The Gym Group.
Ian McCaig
CMO, Co-Founder of Fiit
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About Fiit: The UK’s highest-rated fitness platform, Fiit has thousands of global members and partnerships with brands including Sky and The Gym Group.
Sammi Adhami
CCO, Co-Founder of Fiit
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About Fiit: The UK’s highest-rated fitness platform, Fiit has thousands of global members and partnerships with brands including Sky and The Gym Group.
Arnaud Vinciguerra
Founder/CEO of Domos FS
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About Domos FS, Memnon Archiving Services: Domos FS offers a suite of apps for alternative investment funds including private equity, real estate, debt, and infrastructure.
Jan Farrarons
Founder & Director of Judopay
Jan Farrarons is the founder of Dojo, Capital On Tap, and Judopay.
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About Capital on Tap, Dojo, Judopay: Judopay is a mobile-first payments platform.
Dan Hubert
CEO & Founder of AppyWay
Dan initially founded AppyParking after experiencing first-hand the pain of parking caused by a fragmented and broken market when trying to park near the Royal Albert Hall for a concert. From this was born the AppyParking mobile app, but more questions quickly arose… What if we could digitise parking spaces? And not just spaces – but all of the UK’s kerbs? What opportunities would that unlock? How could a digitised, dynamic kerb not only meet the ever-growing demands of urban transport today – but shape that of tomorrow? From that lightbulb moment onwards, Dan was hooked and with AppyWay, he’s leading the charge to help cities thrive, from the kerb up.
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Romain Saint Guilhem
Co-Founder and COO of Zebra Fuel
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About Altacasa, Zebra Fuel: Zebra Fuel is a mobile fuel delivery service that delivers fuel into a vehicle directly at a preferred delivery time.
Reda Bennis
Co-Founder and CEO of Zebra Fuel
Reda Bennis (@reda_zebra) is the CEO & Co-Founder @ Zebra Fuel
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About Inside Capital, Zebra Fuel: Zebra Fuel is a mobile fuel delivery service that delivers fuel into a vehicle directly at a preferred delivery time.
Mustafa Khanwala
Founder and CEO of MishiPay
Mustafa is a Mechatronic Engineer who has previously worked in and led projects with companies like Porsche, National Instruments, Barclays and TATA and has proven track record in successful innovation. He has sales experience through working in his family business and starting a food delivery venture in Manchester in 2011. Towards the end of his MSc Engineering with Finance degree at UCL, he thought of the idea for MishiPay after having waited too long in a queue to buy 1 just item. He then started MishiPay as a side project and designed and built the first functional prototype by himself. Having worked on MishiPay for several months and after seeing the technology working in real life, he rejected offers from Goldman Sachs, KPMG and Barclays to work full-time on MishiPay. He also called up Tanvi then, a brilliant computer systems engineer, his friend since 5 years and someone he’s worked with previously. He convinced her to join MishiPay as CoFounder and CTO and they haven’t looked back since. As proof of their teamwork, just look at their accomplishments since Nov 2015; live public trials in London, Cisco global partnership, seed investment, major retailer projects in India, Europe and the Middle East, awards from Mayor of London, Government of India, Anita Borg Institute, University of Manchester, UCL and others.
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About MishiPay: Mishipay is an app allowing you to never have to stand in line to pay at a store again.
Tessa Clarke
Co-Founder of OLIO
My parents are farmers and so I know how much hard work goes into producing the food we all eat, and absolutely *hate* throwing it away! Fast forward to 2014, I was moving country and the removal men said I had to bin our food – I couldn’t do it and that was the light bulb moment when OLIO was born.
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About Hot Topics, OLIO, OLIO, Unreasonable, Virgin StartUp: OLIO is a global food sharing app connecting neighbors, volunteers, and businesses.
Saasha Celestial-One
Co-Founder & COO of OLIO
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About OLIO: OLIO is a global food sharing app connecting neighbors, volunteers, and businesses.
Ron Zeghibe
Executive Chairman, Founder of FREE NOW
Ron Zeghibe is the Founder & Chairman of the Board of Directors at Hailo. Prior to this he has enjoyed a successful career in media and outdoor advertising.
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About FREE NOW, Xenomorph: FREE NOW is one of the biggest ride-hailing apps in Europe and currently available in 11 countries.
Caspar Woolley
Founder & Director of FREE NOW
Caspar Woolley is the founder and president of [Hailo](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hailo#/entity), an easy-to-use smartphone application that allows passengers to find taxis. Previously, he was the chief executive officer of eCourier.co.uk. Woolley holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering and economics from the University of Cambridge. He lives in London, United Kingdom.
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About FREE NOW, Sifted: FREE NOW is one of the biggest ride-hailing apps in Europe and currently available in 11 countries.
Baris Ozaydinli
Founder & CEO of Scooch
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About Fitwell, Founders Factory, Founders Factory, Scooch: Scooch is a mobile application that encourages individuals to reach a medically recommended level of movement.
Ian Hooper
CEO & Founder of Scooch
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About Scooch: Scooch is a mobile application that encourages individuals to reach a medically recommended level of movement.
Max Cheremkhin
Co-Founder of Chappy
In 2006 Max co-founded dating app Badoo. It is now the world’s biggest dating app with 370m users, globally. Max is considered a pioneer in the digital dating sphere having been the first to launch freemium models, instant messaging and profile swiping functionality. Max is well versed in the mobile app dating space and is now applying his genius to the gay dating world. Max is largely responsible for Chappy’s design and product strategy.
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About Chappy: Chappy is an online dating app dedicated for gay men.
Will Harris
Co-Founder of Entale Media
Wil Harris is a journalist and serial entrepreneur with a proven track record of building successful creative businesses, most recently in the field of online video and publishing. After a misguided stint studying Law at Oxford, in 2005 Wil co-founded Bit-Tech.net, an online blog for computer hardware and gaming geeks. By March 2007, the site was read by over 1 million avid PC enthusiasts worldwide each month, carried advertising from every major PC enthusiast brand, and had earned an enviable reputation as a global leader in its field. In 2008, Wil co-founded ChannelFlip Media, then UK’s leading producer of made-for-web video. As CEO, Wil led ChannelFlip’s growth to over 12m+ subscribers across a network of 150+ YouTube channels. ChannelFlip worked with some of the top creative talent on the web, including Charlie McDonnell, Jonty Picking and Lee Hardcastle, as well as some of television’s top talent, including Richard Hammond, David Mitchell, Warwick Davis and David Hasselhoff. ChanelFlip was acquired by the Shine Group in 2012 and is now part of EndemolShine. In 2014, he became the Head of Digital for Condé Nast, UK. Currently, Harris is CEO and of Entale Maedia, a new media startup that produces a technology platform to revolutionise the production, discovery and listening experience of podcasts and other audio content. He also co-founder Entale Media.
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About Entale Media, Hotwolf: Entale offers an AI-powered platform that provides an immersive podcasting experience.
Archie Woodhead
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of InCrowd Sports
Archie Woodhead is a Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at InCrowd Sports.
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About InCrowd Sports: Incrowd builds sponsorship activation platforms to give fans an in-stadia experience.
Murat Mutlu
Co-Founder/CEO of Marvel
Murat Mutlu, a designer based in London. I’m the co-founder of Marvel, a free prototyping tool for creative brains. I love coming up with new ideas and experimenting with tech.Some of my favourite things are hacks and pointless apps and sites. Prior to starting Marvel I was a freelancer at various startups and agencies around London.
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About Marvel: Marvel puts the power of design in everyone’s hands.
Jonathan Siao
Co Founder of Marvel
After graduating from Queen Mary’s University with a degree in Computer Science; Jon worked at Mfuse,Nokia and Badoo before starting his own iPhone development agency and then more recently teaming up with Carl. When not managing his team of highly skilled developers, Jon spends his spare time hacking Cat based iphone apps
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About Marvel: Marvel puts the power of design in everyone’s hands.
Brendan Moore
Co-Founder of Marvel
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About Marvel: Marvel puts the power of design in everyone’s hands.
Ben Dixon
Co-Founder & CTO of Sona
Ben is a senior developer focused on web application development. He primarily creates Ruby on Rails and Android applications. He also has experience in front-end development in both Backbone and Angular JS as well as infrastructure management with Chef and Docker. He’s the author of Reliably Deploying Rails Applications (http://www.deployingrailsbook.com/) which covers how to deploy medium-sized Rails Applications in an easy, scalable fashion, and spoke at Railsconf 2014 on this topic. He also spoke at Railsconf 2015 on how Docker can be tightly integrated with Rails to do far more interesting things than just deployment. He is currently CTO of Sona, the unified frontend for the frontline workforce.
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About Sona: Sona is the employee app for tomorrow’s workforce.
Oli Johnson
Co-Founder of Sona
Oli Johnson is a Co-founder of Sona.
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About Sona: Sona is the employee app for tomorrow’s workforce.
Ian Hetherington
Co-Founder of WRLD
Ian has been involved in the video game industry since 1982. He founded and was Managing Director of Psygnosis Limited, which became one of the most successful UK based publishers. Psygnosis was sold to Sony in 1993 and Ian was retained as the Managing Director of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe from 1994-1997 where he was instrumental in the design and implementation of the hardware and software for Sony’s new Playstation console, and oversaw the development of the European launch catalogue (80% market share at launch).
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About Midoki, Realtime Worlds, WRLD: A 3D cloud-based platform of real-world environments to create digital twins.
Raam Thakrar
Founder of TouchNote
Raam is a co-founder of Touchnote, an m-commerce start-up selling personalised greeting cards on both the web and mobile. Previous varied experience in consulting – strategy consulting in London, rural and small businesses in London, Washington DC and Central America. I was also a published journalist in Mexico. Next stop, pizza chef.
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About TouchNote: TouchNote helps you send thoughtful cards and prints to loved ones, right from your mobile, tablet or desktop.
Avin Rabheru
Founder & CEO of Housekeep
Avin Rabheru joined Smedvig Capital in 2008 and is a Senior Associate. He joined from Roland Berger Strategy Consultants where he worked with senior management teams on corporate strategy projects, operational improvement initiatives and commercial due diligence across a range of sectors in Europe, North America and Asia. Prior to that, Avin worked in M&A at Citigroup and Rothschild. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at University College, Oxford. He is currently a board advisor to The Smart Cube, myhomemove, PPC and Exchange Group, and previously worked with the teams at Streetcar and Clearvision.
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About Housekeep: Housework that works – brilliant local cleaners & tradespeople
Ian Broom
CEO & Founder of Fliplet
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About Fliplet: Enterprise app platform to create, manage and securely distribute apps without writing code or creating designs.
Taras Polischuk
Co-Founder & COO of Dorm
Taras Polischuk is the Co-Founder and COO at Dorm.
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About Dorm, Forbes, PomaBrush: Dorm is an audio learning app that aggregates and curates the world’s podcasting content.
Ranbir Arora
Co-Founder, CEO of Dorm
Ranbir Arora is the CEO and Co-Founder at Dorm.
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About Dorm: Dorm is an audio learning app that aggregates and curates the world’s podcasting content.
Sanford Dickert
Founder / CEO of OWLR Technologies
Sanford Dickert is a product technologist focusing on bring new technology-based products to market. In his varied career, Sanford has held numerous senior positions in Product Development, Marketing, and Technology. When describing Sanford, descriptions include Product Expeditor, a transformative CTO and/or Market-sensitive Technologist — primarily working with promising start-up, leading venture funds and Fortune 500 firms to take on high-beta projects or accelerate positive change within their organizations through the effective use of technology, performance metrics and product development/marketing techniques.
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About OWLR Technologies: User-friendly software which makes complex home security cameras easy-to-use, more intelligent and safer for all.
Ashley Friedlein
CEO & Founder of Guild
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About Ably Realtime, Cambridge Judge Business School, Centaur Media Plc, Econsultancy, Founders4Schools, Guild: Guild is the platform for professional communities and networking.
Anna Lowe
Director of Partnerships & Co-Founder of SMARTIFY
Anna is CoFounder and Director of Partnerships at Smartify a global platform for art described by the New Scientist as “the Shazam and Spotify of art”. A firm believer that culture needs stewardship not disruption, Anna works closely with museums to embrace new technologies that support their growth and resilience. Anna is a Trustee of Tate, the youngest ever trustee of a national museum. Anna also sits on the UK5G Creative Industries working group and is an Industry Champion for the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC).
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About SMARTIFY, Tate: SMARTIFY provides instant access to inspiring art commentary, straight to your smartphone.
Phil McGriskin
CEO & Founder of Vitesse PSP
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About Vitesse PSP: Vitesse is the smart way to make secure global money transfers.
Daneh Westropp
Founder & CEO of Pickle
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About Pickle: Find different friends for different things!
Ben Silvertown
Founder of Lapse
Ben Silvertown is the Founder at Lapse.
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About Lapse: Lapse is a social disposable camera app.
Dan Wagner
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Rezolve
Dan Wagner began his career as a junior Account Executive at the advertising agency WCRS. While doing market research, that involved laborious searching of back copies of newspapers, journals, and research reports Dan first generated the concept of an electronic, PC-based information service. In 1985 at the age of 20, he left WCRS to pursue his ambition of creating such a service and established M.A.I.D. Dan was the driving force behind M.A.I.D.’s growth and development, including listings on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Throughout his career he has engineered numerous acquisitions and has been responsible for forging a wide array of strategic alliances. He led M.A.I.D.’s move into the Internet technology and eCommerce markets, being one of the first to understand their huge potential, and conceived the technology which is now Venda, in 1998. He has won a variety of business awards that recognize his achievements including The World Economic Forum’s Global Leader of Tomorrow in 1997 and Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 1999.
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About Bright Station Ltd., Bright Station Ventures, Rezolve, Venda: Rezolve allows any kind of product or media to instantly trigger a highly relevant, contextual engagement between consumer and retailer
Pip Wilson
Co-Founder and CEO of amicable
A successful entrepreneur, director, angel investor and start-up mentor, Pip is passionate about empowering women in tech and disrupting traditional business models. Pip Wilson is co-founder and CEO of amicable apps: the faster, fairer, fixed-price way to an amicable divorce. In 2002 Pip co-founded Bluefin Solutions, a SAP consultancy and a full SAP Services Partner, which she exited last year to Mindtree. Pip is also a trustee and board member of The Girls’ Network, a foundation that matches girls from low socio-economic backgrounds with inspirational female mentors. She believes in the power of teams, the importance of diversity, and that the best businesses help employees balance life with work. In her view, successful start-ups of the future will combine a sustainable business model with a clear social purpose and diverse teams. This view drives her investment decisions.
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About amicable: Amicable offers a divorce service that works with couples to help them reach fairer agreements.
Kate Daly
Co-Founder of amicable
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About amicable: Amicable offers a divorce service that works with couples to help them reach fairer agreements.
James Washer
Founder of Super Snaps
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About Super Snaps: Super easy photo printing and gifting.
Govind Balakrishnan
Co-Founder & CEO of Curio
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About Curio: Listen to the world’s best journalism on the go
Srikant Chakravarti
Co-Founder & COO of Curio
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About Curio: Listen to the world’s best journalism on the go
Kwame Ferreira
Founder & CEO of Impossible
Kwame is founder and CEO of impossible.com which helps develop businesses through a planet centric design approach, aligning business goals with planetary needs. Kwame has, among many other things, created record labels (enchufada.com), emotional wearables (bond-touch.com), bot engines (nikabot.com) and kind insurance companies (kinsu.co.uk).
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About Impossible: A new social network of giving and receiving. impossible. Do good. Feel good.
Lily Cole
Founder of Impossible
Lily Cole is an actress, social entrepreneur and Founder of Impossible.com, a social network that encourages users to exchange skills and services for free in the hope of encouraging a peer-to-peer gift economy.
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About Impossible: A new social network of giving and receiving. impossible. Do good. Feel good.
Prakash Pilley
Co-Founder of Innovify
Founder at Innovify
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About CodeMonk.ai, Innovify: Innovify is a digital venture studio enabling startups and corporates to convert their ideas in to Most Lovable Products
Ruchit Jani
Co-Founder of Innovify
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About Innovify, Matangi Industries LLP: Innovify is a digital venture studio enabling startups and corporates to convert their ideas in to Most Lovable Products
Denis Bolotov
Co-Founder of Lemur
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About Lemur: Lemur helps to find a friend for your pet and also find pet-lovers all around the world.
Darius Kumana
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Wrisk
Darius has worked in varied environments, holding executive/leadership roles in firms ranging from large corporates to small avant-garde firms, consultancies and green-field startups. He is an expert UX practitioner and led the Experience Design Practice for ThoughtWorks Europe (a top technical consultancy) for several years. During his time there he led several successful digital programmes, including large scale transformations for Thomson Reuters and launching TimeOut’s award-winning iPhone app.
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About Wrisk: Wrisk offers a customizable platform that enables businesses to create mobile-first insurance experiences for their customers.
Megan Neale
Co-Founder & COO of Limitless
Megan Neale is the Co-Founder and COO at Limitless.
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About Limitless, Semafone: The Limitless GigCX platform enables businesses to connect customers with qualified experts to solve customer service enquiries on-demand.
Sylvester Lewis
Co-Founder & CEO of SUPPA Networking
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About SUPPA Networking: Build your social and professional network by making meaningful in-person connections at some of the best restaurants and bars in London.
Josh Graham
Co-Founder & CMO of Airtime Rewards
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About Airtime Rewards, Samply: Airtime Rewards is an innovative loyalty platform pioneering unique rewards solutions with mobile operators.
Mac Dziedziela
CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Screenable
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About Delta Heed, Screenable: Screenable is a smart video interview platform designed for recruiters to streamline applicant screenings.
Jude Ower
Founder & CEO of PlayMob
Jude Ower is changing the world through game play. She has spent 10 years working within games, creating educational, training and awareness games across a range of organisations from corporate, government and education. Jude is now concentrating on social and mobile games, and how engaging mass audience of game players can make a world changing difference.
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About Department for International Trade, PlayMob: Playmob is the gaming engagement platform for brands with purpose.
Thomas Mann
CEO, Founder of Raycast
Thomas Paul Mann is the CEO and Founder at Raycast.
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About Raycast: Raycast is a developer of a command bar software intended to assist developers to control their tools.
Tom Godber
Co-Founder & CTO of Masabi
Tom is a Co-Founder of Masabi and a mobile programming expert with a passion for design and usability. Keenly aware of changing mobile trends in what is one the fastest moving consumer markets today, he defines the technical strategic goals and implementation plans that allow Masabi to best meet the needs of end users. Tom has spent almost ten years at Masabi building mobile applications, servers and frameworks, troubleshooting, and architected a gaming platform now processing millions of dollars per month. Prior to founding Masabi, Tom worked with Accenture and Trilogy Software in addition to founding MoMo Estonia. Tom has a master’s degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University.
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About Masabi, Masabi: Masabi is the global leader in transport mobile ticketing and payments.
Ben Whitaker
Head of Innovation, Founder & Director of Masabi
Ben Whitaker Co-Founder of Masabi, Ben is the company’s product evangelist, focussing primarily on business development at the company. He is a familiar face on both the mobile and train industry circuits, regularly invited to interviews and speaking slots at major industry events worldwide. A classic visionary, Ben helped define the UK rail mobile ticketing standard and move the weight of industry opinion behind it. He is also a security expert with a strong engineering background, designing Masabi’s award-winning encryptMe product. Prior to founding Masabi, Ben worked at IBM, Xerox and Raytheon (Encrypted Radar Systems) on projects ranging from computer interface usability to military cryptography. Ben has an MEng degree in Engineering and Management (MET) from Cambridge University.
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About Masabi: Masabi is the global leader in transport mobile ticketing and payments.
Ed Howson
Co-Founder of Masabi
Ed has over ten years experience in telecoms marketing and PR working with companies from across the value chain from core infrastructure technology, through handset components to mobile content. Since co-founding Masabi in 2001, he has lead marketing and media outreach for the company. In 2005, Ed also founded specialist PR agency Temono which has since grown its client base to include: IPWireless, Ubiquisys, RAD Data Communications, the Femto Forum and Ericsson IPX. He previously worked at AxiCom, a leading pan-European PR and Marketing consultancy where he managed accounts including Flarion, Trigenix, Airespace, RealNetworks, Symbian, Sierra Wireless, Esmertec, Beatnik and IBM.
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About Masabi: Masabi is the global leader in transport mobile ticketing and payments.
Martin Macmillan
CEO & Founder of Pollen VC
Martin has 20 years’ experience in launching and building technology businesses in FinTech, music and media sectors, and a prior career in Investment banking as a bond trader. Having experienced first-hand the growth challenges facing tech start-ups and the lack of financing options open to developers, he saw the to marry his traditional financial markets and technology experience to create a disruptive new business model for the digital industry. Prior to Pollen, Martin was CEO at Soniqplay, CEO at Level Four (acquired by clear2pay) and a Director of UBS in London, where he ran the short term credit trading group and conceived and delivered UBS’ first client-facing electronic debt trading platform.
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About Pollen VC, Soniqplay: Pollen VC provides credit facilities to app and game developers
Raluca Diana Papuc
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Anvex
Raluca Diana Papuc is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Anvex App – Technology Startup.
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About Anvex: The new easy way to get connected with top freelancers for everyday help and inspiration.
Jason jefferys
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Fetch
Jason Jefferys is a Chief Executive Officer at Fetchmyorder.
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About Fetch, The Takeaway App Company: FETCH is the app where you can order and pay for food and drink in bars and restaurants.
Adit Trivedi
Co Founder, COO of Lingumi
Co-founder & COO of Lingumi who are providing the world’s best teaching service to children all around the world through Technology.
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About Lingumi: Lingumi is an edtech startup that teaches English to kids aged 2 to 6 using an app and a range of physical products.
Nikita Korotaev
Co-Founder & CTO of RELAYTO Document Experience Platform
Nikita Korotaev joined RELAYTO/ Document Experience as Co-Founder & CTO in 2017.
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About Glocal Partners, RELAYTO Document Experience Platform: RELAYTO helps B2B marketers generate more leads & sales by turning static documents into interactive presentations & webpages
Dmitriy Molokov
Founder of Absolute
Friend, partner, gentleman, entrepreneur.
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About Absolute: Absolute – the place where technologies helps self-development and connecting with the world around them.
Azmat Yusuf
Founder / CEO of Citymapper
Mr. Azmat Yusuf is a Founder at Citymapper Limited.Yusuf previously worked at Google, as well as in the venture capital and equities fields for international banks. He started the app in 2011 as a guide for Londoners to navigate the city’s bus network. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in both Electrical Engineering and Economics and received his MBA from INSEAD in 2009.
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About Citymapper: Citymapper is a transport app for cities.
Martynas Gudonavicius
CEO & Co-Founder of Trafi
Martynas Gudonavičius is CEO and co-founder of Trafi. Joining the company at an early stage, Martynas has since then spearheaded global expansion and focused on the commercial side of the business. Before joining Trafi, Martynas was Head of Emerging Markets at InMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile ad network and tech platform. Previous to that, Martynas acted as Sales Director for Central and Eastern Europe for Adform.
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About Trafi: Trafi is a mobility-as-a-service platform for shared transportation solutions, helping cities and corporates to reach their goals.
Everest Troost-Ekong
Co-Founder & CEO of Food Drop
Everest Troost-Ekong is the Co-Founder and CEO at Food Drop.
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About Food Drop: A tech platform to connect stores with unsold food to local charities
Justin Hsu
CEO / Founder of MarcoPolo Learning
Justin Hsu is one of the founders of Marco Polo Learning.
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About MarcoPolo Learning: MarcoPolo Learning is an award-winning digital curriculum developer for early learners.
Robert Tezescu
CEO & Founder of Antares Code Studio
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About Antares Code Studio, Xtraordinary Ltd: Custom software services, including web and mobile application development.
Richard Fulton
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Raylo
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About Raylo: Raylo is on a mission to shake up the UK mobile sector.
Jinden Badesha
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Raylo
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About Raylo: Raylo is on a mission to shake up the UK mobile sector.
Branko Milutinovic
Co-Founder & CEO of Nordeus
Branko Milutinovic is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of one of the fastest growing European gaming company Nordeus. Over the previous 4 years bootstrapped Nordeus have grown from 3 to 150 people, pioneering the cross-platform game development & publishing and becoming one of the most successful social and mobile gaming companies world wide. Engineer by education, gamer in heart, Branko grew up playing sports, enjoying video games and coding. Not much has changed since. Nordeus is best known for Top Eleven, one of the most popular sports video games in the world with more than 5 million players on a daily basis and legendary Jose Mourinho as the official face of the game. Branko earned his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Belgrade (2002-2008).
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About Nordeus: Nordeus develops mobile and browser-based social network games for web, Android and iOS devices.
