Founder & Co-CEO play a crucial role in any startup. It takes an extraordinary person to fulfil the Founder & Co-CEO role. We have selected these Founder & Co-CEO’s for this list as they are inspiring for a variety of reasons – whether that’s pushing boundaries, creating groundbreaking products, or doing their bit to save the world.
Our analysts did their best to select be best, and most innovative Founder & Co-CEO’s. The list is in no particular order!
Peter Fedchenkov
Founder & Co-CEO @ Soveren
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Soveren is a tech-driven privacy management company that helps security teams resolve automated privacy incidents with CCPA and GDPR. Read more about Soveren on Crunchbase…
Andre Chow
Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Digital Surgery
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Andre is a General Surgeon, Web coder, UX designer and all-round hacker. He has a BSc in Surgical Technology, a PhD in Tissue Engineering and leads Operations & Product. When not in the lab, Andre spends his spare time playing a variety of sports, and trying to push his french bulldog off the sofa.
Learn more about Andre Chow on Crunchbase…Digital Surgery is a privately-held pioneer in surgical artificial intelligence (AI), data and analytics, and digital education and training Read more about Digital Surgery on Crunchbase…
Andrew Zhulin
Founder & Co-CEO @ Soveren
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Andrew Zhulin is founder and Co-CEO at Soveren. Previously, he founded SberMarket. He is a tech entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of building successful companies. Before starting the entrepreneurial career, he worked in venture capital and investment banking at Goldman Sachs. Andrew holds a PgD in Finance from the University of London and a Master’s degree in Engineering (honors) from Bauman Moscow State Technical University.
Learn more about Andrew Zhulin on Crunchbase…Soveren is a tech-driven privacy management company that helps security teams resolve automated privacy incidents with CCPA and GDPR. Read more about Soveren on Crunchbase…
Juan Lobato
Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Ebury
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Juan Lobato is a tech entrepreneur based in London. He is the co-founder and co-CEO of Ebury, one of European fastest growing fintechs. Furthermore, he is an investor in over a dozen tech companies across the UK, Europe, and the US
Learn more about Juan Lobato on Crunchbase…Ebury is a financial services company designed to empower small and medium-sized businesses that want to trade internationally. Read more about Ebury on Crunchbase…
Dmitry Lazarichev
Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Wirex
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Dmitry Lazarichev is a seasoned professional in finance, company valuation, consulting and serial entrepreneur From 2005 to 2007 worked as Head of Valuation at Solid, one of the larger investment and finance groups in Russia. In 2007 convinced Solid’s shareholders to form a separate venture concentrating on consulting services for key clients, co-founded it, and was running and growing the business until 2012. In 2012 moved to the UK and founded Peltrade Ltd – the first importer of wood biomass from Russia to the UK. The company reached £1M revenue in the first year and is enjoying healthy growth. In 2014 together with partners co-founded E-Coin (now re branded as Wirex), taking 4 months from inception to ready working platform. Holds an Executive MBA degree from Cass Business School in London (UK), a Bachelor of Economics and Management degree from Irkutsk State Academy of Economics (Russia) and Financial Markets Professional certificate from Federal Service of Financial Markets in Moscow (Russia).
Learn more about Dmitry Lazarichev on Crunchbase…Wirex is a digital payment platform that aims to make crypto and traditional currencies equal and accessible to everyone. Read more about Wirex on Crunchbase…
Pavel Matveev
Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Wirex
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Wirex is a digital payment platform that aims to make crypto and traditional currencies equal and accessible to everyone. Read more about Wirex on Crunchbase…
Pierre Paslier
Cofounder & Co-CEO @ Notpla
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Pierre is a London-based Innovation Design Engineer. He started his career as a Packaging Engineer for L’Oréal in the daytime and hacking 3D-printers in his living room at night. He then decided to study design at the Royal College of Art and in 2013, he co-designed one of the first consumer delta 3D-printers. He loves DIY, especially if it involves drones lifting dangerous electronic components or street art robots redecorating the streets. This passion for innovation led him to co-found two startups, Gravity Sketch (3D creation in VR) and Notpla (edible packaging). Driven by the urge to act on our plastic crisis, he’s now 100% focused on Ooho, the edible water bottle as Co-CEO of Notpla. He has a Masters degree from the RCA’s Innovation Design Engineering programme (MA & MSci) and INSA de Lyon (MEng). He has written articles for Wired Magazine and given a number of conferences about his projects at TEDx conferences in Athens and Warwick.
Learn more about Pierre Paslier on Crunchbase…Sustainable packaging made from seaweed and plants. Read more about Notpla on Crunchbase…
Eirik Holth
Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Black Sheep Coffee
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Black Sheep Coffee is a coffee shop chain. Read more about Black Sheep Coffee on Crunchbase…
Graeme Hossie
Founder & Co-CEO @ Mr Lee’s Pure Foods Co
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Mr Lee’s Pure Foods Co is a real game changer for premium food-on-the-go. Read more about Mr Lee’s Pure Foods Co on Crunchbase…
Holly Stephens
Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Subly
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Subly makes content simple, by automatically transcribing, translating, and adding subtitles. Read more about Subly on Crunchbase…
Richard Prime
Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Sonovate
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Richard has nearly two decades’ experience within the recruitment industry and in that time there isn’t much he hasn’t seen. Before setting up Sonovate, he was a board member of one of the largest recruitment companies in the world and was responsible for a number of brands across key territories. Building on his encounters with traditional finance providers, Richard has built Sonovate to cater exclusively for the contract market.
Learn more about Richard Prime on Crunchbase…Sonovate solves cash flow and admin headaches for users and suppliers of global contingent workforce solutions Read more about Sonovate on Crunchbase…
Damon Chapple
Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Sonovate
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After spending almost two decades in recruitment, Damon wanted to do something uniquely different. Having encountered all the barriers involved with financing and running contractors first hand, Damon set-up Sonovate to challenge the stagnant finance on offer and provide a new solution tailored specifically to the needs of the contract recruitment sector. Damon is using his experience of building businesses all over the world as a group director of a global recruitment band, to drive Sonovate into the market transforming solution it is today.
Learn more about Damon Chapple on Crunchbase…Sonovate solves cash flow and admin headaches for users and suppliers of global contingent workforce solutions Read more about Sonovate on Crunchbase…
Michel De Wachter
Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Appiness
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Michel De Wachter (born 1981) founded Appiness in cooperation with Jonas De Cooman in 2015. Today he functions as co-CEO and COO of the company and operates out of London. Together with his co-founder Jonas, he transformed an idea into a company with more than 20 FTEs developing state of the art technology. Launched in Belgium just 1 year ago, the Spott platform makes any video content interactive and shoppable. With 135.000 users, partnerships with all national broadcasters, 7 million product views per month and a total basket value of 6 million euros, the platform is ready to be launched in the rest of the world. On a monthly basis, Spott is making 15.000 minutes of content interactive and shoppable for OTT, apps and set top boxes.
Learn more about Michel De Wachter on Crunchbase… Read more about Appiness on Crunchbase…
Gavin Berry
Founder & CO-CEO @ Varius World Tech
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Gavin is the visionary behind VWT. As CEO, his responsibilities include defining the company’s long-term business strategy, refining its core proposition, and meeting with investors and potential partners to outline the scale of opportunity.
Learn more about Gavin Berry on Crunchbase…Varius World Tech is a software provider for the emerging world of Blockchain based online gaming. Read more about Varius World Tech on Crunchbase…
Denis Ignatovich
Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Imandra
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Denis Ignatovich has over a decade of experience in trading, risk management, quantitative modeling and complex trading system design. Prior to joining AI, he was head of the central risk trading desk at Deutsche Bank London. He holds an MSc in Finance from the London School of Economics and degrees in CS and Finance from UT Austin.
Learn more about Denis Ignatovich on Crunchbase… Read more about Imandra on Crunchbase…
Phil Westcott
Founder & co-CEO @ Filament AI
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Phil is a former Director at IBM, and a specialist in applied Artificial Intelligence. Phil previously ran the IBM Watson Ecosystem in Europe, led their Smarter Cities business in Southeast Asia and launched IBM’s global IoT practice.
Learn more about Phil Westcott on Crunchbase…Filament helps clients to build proprietary AI capability within their organisation, through consultancy, solutions and tooling Read more about Filament AI on Crunchbase…
Donna North
Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Dressipi
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The leading independently verified Revenue Optimisation Platform for fashion retailers. Read more about Dressipi on Crunchbase…
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