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Silicon Real

by Silicon Real

It’s a place where you can learn about the people behind the business. Whether it’s a multi-million dollar success, or new idea raising money, the people that drive these ideas we can all learn from.

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  1. Alex Stephany - CEO of Just Park

    Alex Stephany is the CEO of a startup called JustPark. They're a small team (28 people by February 2015) and have managed to attract some of the foremost talent in the London tech scene as well as investors like BMW and Index Ventures. They are laser-focused on fixing parking: one of the most...

  2. Sarah Drinkwater - Google Campus London

    Sarah Drinkwater is the head of Campus London, Google's first physical hub for startups, providing work and event space, mentorship and education programs, as well as access to a vibrant startup community.

  3. Daniel Murray Founder & Chief Marketing Officer of Grabble

    Daniel Murray Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Grabble which provides “instant, shoppable fashion content that can be bought on the go, by users, in just a couple of swipes.” also known as “Tinder for fashion”

  4. Stephen Rapoport - Founder of Pact Coffee

    Stephen Rapoport, Founder of Pact Coffee which delivers freshly-roasted, speciality coffee to customers across the UK.

  5. Alicia Navarro CEO & Founder of Skimlinks

    Alicia Navarro, the CEO & Co-founder of Skimlinks which helps publishers earn revenues and gain insights from their commerce-related content.

  6. Nic Brisbourne - Founder of Forward Partners

    Nic Brisbourne who is the Founder of Forward Partners, an investment business which works with e-commerce companies from raw idea through to Series A, offering a package of investment, proven methodologies & office space.

  7. Alex Torres - VP of Moovit

    ALEX TORRES, who recently joined public transit app company Moovit as its vice president of global product marketing.

  8. Daniel Glazer - Fried Frank Technology

    Daniel Glazer who leads the Technology practice at the global law firm Fried Frank Since 2012 he's split his time 50/50 between London & NYC advising companies from early-stage start-ups to the Fortune 100

  9. Philippe Botteri - Accel Patners

    Philippe Botteri from Accel Partners, a leading venture capital and growth equity firm with $2 Billion under management in Europe and Israel and $6 Billion Globally.

  10. Charles Armstrong - The Trampery

    The Trampery started life in 2009 when it opened the first shared workspace in Shoreditch, the heart of London’s “Tech City”. Their founder is the sociologist and entrepreneur Charles Armstrong.

  11. Suranga Chandratillake - Balderton Capital

    Suranga Chandratillake founded blinkx, the intelligent search engine for video and audio content in San Francisco and Cambridge in 2004.

  12. Anastasia Emmanuel - Indiegogo

    Anastasia Emmanuel Leads Indiegogo's Hardware, Design & Technology for the UK encouraging Crowdfunding growth for the largest global crowdfunding platform.

  13. Nicolas Brusson - Co-Founder & COO of BlaBlaCar

    Nicolas Brusson is the co-founder and the COO of BlablaCar, a company which connects drivers with empty seats to people looking for a ride.

  14. Tom Valentine - Cofounder of Secret Escapes

    Tom Valentine, Managing Director & Co-Founder at Secret Escapes which curates exclusive, members-only offers for 4 and 5 STAR hotels and holidays

  15. Sam Shank - CEO of HotelTonight

    Sam Shank is the Co- Founder & CEO of HotelTonight, the world's leading hotel booking app.

  16. Jo Bertram - Uber in London

    Jo Bertram is the General Manager for Uber in London, a ridesharing app which connects drivers of private hire vehicles with passengers directly.

  17. Laurent Sellier - VP of Products at Eventbrite

    Laurent Sellier is the VP of Products at Eventbrite, the world's leading self-service ticketing platform with over $1BB in gross ticket sales and 1 million events last year.

  18. Julie Meyer - Founder of EntrepreneurCountry & Ariadne Capital

    Julie Meyer is the Founder of EntrepreneurCountry which connects the world’s enterprises with leading digital enablers.

  19. Ben Holmes - Partner at Index Ventures

    Ben Holmes is a Partner at Index Ventures, a multi-stage international venture capital firm based in London, San Francisco and Geneva.

  20. Harry Blain - Founder of Sedition Art

    Harry Blain is an English art dealer, gallery owner and founder of Sedition Art, an online resource where editioned digital artworks can be bought and traded.

  21. Mike Butcher - Editor-At-Large for TechCrunch

    Mike Butcher is the "Editor-At-Large" for TechCrunch writing about Startups, Venture Capital, and Technology trends.

  22. Claire Cockerton - Co-founder & CEO of Innovate Finance

    Claire Cockerton is the co-founder & CEO of Innovate Finance, a City of London backed movement for a more balanced, resilient, & accessible financial services sector.

  23. Sandy Carter - IBM Ecosystem Development & Social Business Evangelism

    Sandy Carter is the Global General Manager at IBM in charge of Ecosystem Development and Social Business Evangelism

  24. Diane Perlman - Microsoft Ventures UK Start-up Lead

    Diane Perlman is the Microsoft Ventures UK Start-up Lead helping start-ups to grow, partner and prosper.

  25. Nick Hungerford - Founder & CEO of Nutmeg

    Nick Hungerford is the Founder & CEO of Nutmeg, the company on a mission to democratise saving and investing.

  26. Russ Shaw - Founder of Tech London Advocates

    Russ Shaw is the Founder of Tech London Advocates, a group of leaders promoting London's technology sector and addressing the issues on the horizon.

  27. Debu Purkayastha - Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Octopus Investments

    Debu Purkayastha is the Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Octopus Investments

  28. Bernadine Bröcker - Founder & CEO of Vastari

    Bernadine Bröcker is the Founder & CEO of Vastari, an online service that allows art collectors to connect with curators without dealing with a middle man.

  29. BLAST FROM THE PAST - John Collison Co-founder of Stripe - July 2013

    For the August Summer Break we bring you some of the Greatest Hits of Silicon Real with an interview published over one year ago on July 8, 2013 with John Collison, the co-founder of Stripe.

  30. BLAST FROM THE PAST - Taavet Hinrikus Co-founder of Transferwise

    BLAST FROM THE PAST For the August summer break we bring you some of the Greatest Hits of Silicon Real starting with an interview published one year ago on August 12, 2013 with Taavet Hinrikus, Co-Founder of Transferwise.

  31. Andrew Tarver - Bold Rocket

    Andrew Tarver is the Founder of Bold Rocket, a start-up focused on enabling the PEOPLE REVOLUTION

  32. Christian Faes - Founder of LendInvest

    Christian Faes is the Founder of LendInvest, a P2P lending platform focused on the property industry in the UK

  33. Damian Kimmelman - Founder & CEO of DueDil

    Damian Kimmelman is the Founder & CEO of DueDil, which organises private company information into a real-time decision intelligence tool.

  34. Giles Palmer - Founder & CEO of Brandwatch

    Giles Palmer is the Founder & CEO of Brandwatch, a company devised to help organisations find and engage with online conversations that matter.

  35. Kevin Hartz - Founder & CEO of Eventbrite

    Kevin Hartz is the Founder & CEO of Eventbrite

  36. Ian Foddering - CTO for Cisco UK & Ireland

    Ian Foddering is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) & Technical Director for Cisco UK & Ireland

  37. James Gill - CEO of GoSquared

    James Gill is the 23 year old CEO of GoSquared

  38. James Layfield - CEO of Central Working

    James Layfield is the punchy CEO behind Central Working which strives to provides the ideal environment for growing businesses in Bloomsbury, Shoreditch, Campus (Google) & Whitechapel.

  39. Bitcoin London - Ivan Mazour & Hugh Halford-Thompson

    E-commerce Big Data specialist and Bitcoin fanatic Ivan Mazour of Ometria and Hugh Halford-Thompson the Founder of QuickBitcoin

  40. Emily Brooke - CEO & Founder of Blaze

    Emily Brooke often gets called Emily Blaze by mistake...and it's no wonder. When this woman goes on a mission there is fire on her trail and anyone in her path best get out of the way.

  41. Clare Sutcliffe - Co-founder & CEO of Code Club

    Clare Sutcliffe co-founded Code Club when she was still working for the digital advertising agency Albion in 2012 and it has since grown to 2,297 clubs (as of this publish) in the UK alone that teach children aged 9-11 how to program computers. With a £120,000 investment from Google this year…

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  42. Dan Crow - CTO of Songkick

    Dan Crow is the CTO of Songkick and formerly worked at Apple Computer and Google

  43. Andy McLoughlin - Co-Founder of Huddle

    Andy McLoughlin has been a fixture of the Silicon Roundabout since the early days of Co-Founding Huddle in 2006

  44. Yonatan Raz-Fridman - Co-founder of Kano

    Yonatan Raz-Fridman is one cool dude. Armed with a warm Mediterranean smile he strikes you as a the perfect guy to party with but the wrong dude to cross.

  45. Benjamin Southworth - Life After Tech City

    Benjamin Southworth is the former Deputy CEO of Tech City, 3 Beards F ounder & Host of Chew the Fat, and Founder of Ada Lovelace Academy.

  46. Sherry Coutu - Board Member of London Stock Exchange, LinkedIn, Founders4Schools

    Sherry Coutu serves on the boards of The London Stock Exchange, Cambridge University, Raspberry Pi Foundation, Founders4Schools and the Advisory Board of LinkedIn.

  47. Eze Vidra - Head of Google for Entrepreneurs Europe & Google Campus London

    Eze Vidra is the Head of Google for Entrepreneurs Europe and Google Campus London. He is the Founder of TechBikers and writes at vccafe.com Silicon Real Eze Vidra - Head of Google for Entrepreneurs Europe & Google Campus London

  48. Monty Munford - Technology Writer for The Economist, Wired & Telegraph

    Monty Munford is a Technology Writer for The Economist, Wired, Telegraph & Mashable and Founder of Agency Mob76.

  49. Anil Stocker - Founder & CEO of MarketInvoice

    Anil Stocker is the Founder & CEO at MarketInvoice which offers a fast and flexible online method for SMEs to access the capital locked in their long-dated invoices that would otherwise be tied up for 90-120 days.

  50. Jenny Griffiths - Founder & CEO of Snap Fashion

    Jenny Griffiths is the Founder and CEO of Snap Fashion, a visual search engine that allows consumers to search for fashion items using images instead of words using a unique algorithm to find similar items from over 110 UK retailers online.

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