Josh Buckley is just 23yrs,and the CEO and founder of MinoMonsters, a Pokemon type game where you can battle and trade pet monsters. Josh is the youngest CEO to have raised funding from investment giant Andreessen Horowitz at 19 years of age.
The Kent born youngster sold his first company at the age of 15. He created 'Menewsha' a community where users create whimsical avatars and interact online for fun. He sold this for a six figures sum while still in school.
He then moved to Silicon Valley & participated in Y Combinator to help take his company to the next level and take on Pokemon brand. His USP is a game for iOS where Pokemon is not available.
Nick D'Aloisio
Nick D'Aloisio is only 20 years old but he has already managed to raise $250,00 in funding for his startup, Summly. He created an app that offers a simpler way to browse and search the web by automatically summarising search results, web pages and articles to make content easier to sift to and find what is most relevant to you.
In it's first 4 days after it reached 17k downloads and is now well over 100,000. Still studying for his GCSE's he had to get special dispensation to delay his mocks while he traveled to San Fransisco.
So to sum it up, he is one to watch in 2017!
James Gill (GoSquared)
James Gill is the CEO and co founder of GoSquared a real time web analytics service which he started during his gap year. rather than taking the year to travel, he decided to build a web app which people would pay for and by the end of the year him and his co founders realised they had done just that.
James now works on GoSquared at White BearYard from which GoSquared got their angel funding and they are surrounded by other great startups which will help them as they look to grow and take on their main rivals Chartbeat.
Rashid Kasirye -(Link Up TV)
Rashid Kasirye finishes up our young entrepreneurs list after he started Link Up TV, an online music and talent platform, straight out of college and has seen it grow from humble beginnings to a strong online community, which sees their YouTube page hitting over a million monthly views and thousands of fans on Facebook and Twitter.
Rashid has already seen the company make music videos for artists on some of the top UK music channels and his popularity is sure to keep growing in the industry. As we journey through 2017 and Link Up TV step up their video production capacity I'm sure you will see even more music videos in the charts made by Rashid and his team.
Joshua March (Conversocial)
Joshua March is now onto his second business, Conversocial an integrated Social CRM and marketing software which helps companies with marketing and customer support via social media.
With social media becoming a mainstay in our day to day lives it is essential for all businesses to be active on social networks and be able to effectively monitor conversations around your business and industry.
Josh saw this and started Conversocial a couple years ago and has developed it too a position where they can expect to grow rapidly as more and more businesses start realising the potential of social media.
Josh previously founded the first preferred Facebook Development company in the UK with Dan Lester and has lots of experience in the social space from it's early days.
Compiled
by Rishi Chowdhury
Co founder of YHP, founder of
IncuBus Ventures, online marketing consultant & host of one of London's top
entrepreneurial events (Flagons Den). Regularly found networking around Tech
City, convincing myself I'm working. Working for the future, living for the
moment.
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