Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK 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 Artificial Intelligence space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
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 Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Charles Delingpole
Founder & CEO of ComplyAdvantage
Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processes around money laundering are. Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.
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About ComplyAdvantage: ComplyAdvantage provides AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology.
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Demis Hassabis
Co-Founder & CEO of DeepMind
DeepMind is a neuroscience-inspired AI company, bought by Google in Jan 2014 in their largest European acquisition to date. Demis is now Vice President of Engineering at Google DeepMind and leads Google’s general AI efforts, including the development of AlphaGo, the first program to ever beat a professional player at the game of Go. Demis is a former child chess prodigy, who finished his A-levels two years early before coding the multi-million selling simulation game Theme Park aged 17. Following graduation from Cambridge University with a Double First in Computer Science he founded the pioneering videogames company Elixir Studios producing award-winning games for global publishers such as Vivendi Universal. After a decade of experience leading successful technology startups, Demis returned to academia to complete a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at UCL, followed by postdocs at MIT and Harvard, before founding DeepMind.
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About DeepMind: DeepMind aims to research and build safe artificial intelligence system to solve intelligence, to advance science and humanity.
Shane Legg
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of DeepMind
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About DeepMind: DeepMind aims to research and build safe artificial intelligence system to solve intelligence, to advance science and humanity.
Andre Chow
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Digital Surgery
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.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Digital Surgery, Medtronic, Touch Surgery: Digital Surgery is a privately-held pioneer in surgical artificial intelligence (AI), data and analytics, and digital education and training
Dhruv Ghulati
Co-Founder and CEO of Factmata
Dhruv holds a Distinction in Computer Science and Machine Learning from University College London, and a 1st Class BSc in Economics from the LSE. He was a product manager and co-founder of two London based machine intelligence startups, and is an Entrepreneur First alum and Forbes 30 Under 30 leader in Technology. He wrote his thesis in cost-sensitive classification and distant supervision for statistical claim detection.
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About Factmata: Factmata is an artificial intelligence company for automated content understanding..
Alastair Moore
Co-Founder & Director of Satalia
Alastair Moore is a UCL PhD computer scientist with 10 years experience in AI/ML, UX design, marketplaces, mobile and early stage tech innovation. He was on the founding team of UCL spin-out Satalia.com and venture backed Wearepopup.com. Alastair Moore activities at UCL include helping create The Mobile Academy and the set up IDEALondon innovation centre at the heart of TechCity with Cisco and DC Thomson. He have been a member of the Special Group for Entrepreneurship for the British Computer Society and have mentored at the Wayra Academy, Springboard Mobile (now Techstars London) & Startupbootcamp IoT.
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About Mishcon de Reya, Royal Academy of Engineering, Satalia, UCL School of Management, We Are Pop Up: Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Daniel Hulme
Co-Founder & CEO of Satalia
Daniel is the CEO of Satalia (NPComplete Ltd) a UCL spin-out that provides AI inspired solutions to solve industries hardest problems. He’s the co-founder of the Advanced Skills Initiative that transitions scientists into industry as data scientists. Daniel has a Masters and Doctorate in AI from UCL, and is Director of UCL’s Business Analytics MSc; applying AI to solve business/social problems. He lectures in Computer Science and Management Science at UCL and PCL. Daniel has Advisory and Executive positions in many companies, he holds an international Kauffman Global Entrepreneur Scholarship and actively promotes entrepreneurship and technology innovation across the globe.
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About Satalia, University College London (UCL): Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Barnaby Hussey-Yeo
Founder and CEO of Cleo
Barnaby Hussey-Yeo is Co-Founder & CEO of Cleo AI. He is a Data scientist with a diverse set of interests across machine learning, finance and technology. Significant experience with generating actionable insights from large scale data sets. Enjoy working on complex problems with little direction that require significant planning, critical thinking, and unique insights to solve.
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About Cleo: Cleo is a financial assistant designed for Gen-Z that is fighting for the world’s financial health.
Joel Perlman
Co-Founder of OakNorth
Joel Perlman is the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of OakNorth – the next-generation credit platform that’s redefining lending to lower mid-market businesses (loans of $0.5m-$25m). Joel previously co-founded Copal Amba, an outsourced research company, and served as President for 12 years. During his time building Copal Amba, it grew to 3,000 employees across 11 countries and was acquired by Moody’s Corporation (NYSE: MCO) in 2014. Joel began his career at McKinsey & Company and has degrees from the London School of Economics and Georgetown University.
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About OakNorth, OakNorth Bank: OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
Bashar Aboudaoud
Co-Founder and CSO of Brinc
Bashar is an entrepreneur that has established several businesses in Hong Kong, Guangzhou and London. From 2002-2009 he co-founded Ecico Group’s Hong Kong procurement business and established major clients in Europe and the Middle East. In 2005 he founded Cicero Capital that invested in prime real estate in Guangzhou and London. Cicero Capital built up an investment portfolio of high end residential and commercial properties in Guangzhou that caters to foreign multinationals and local state owned enterprises requirements. Bashar also entered the F&B business in 2008 and opened his first restaurant in Guangzhou.
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About Brinc, Brinc Accelerator of Accelerators: Brinc is a leader in global venture acceleration, operating 18 multidisciplinary accelerator programs in 7 countries.
Vishal Marria
Founder & CEO of Quantexa
Vishal is a globally recognised leader in solving clients’ financial crime and surveillance challenges. He is accomplished at building teams and helping clients to use innovative data analytics for their financial crime challenges. Previously Executive Director at EY, Vishal led major programs at international banks including global Anti Financial Crime technology strategy, data-driven remediation and end to end reviews of strategy and policy. Vishal was instrumental in directing and building the Detica NetReveal business globally and strives to bring together business and IT to address financial crime risks.
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About Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Daniel McPherson
Co Founder of Logical Glue
Daniel McPherson has founded and successfully exited several companies in the UK and US. He has made about 20 investments and is now also focused on incubating startups. Together with Tom Singh (founder of the New Look chain) Daniel has founded the Launch a start up launch pad, which is building some great companies.
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About Beacon Capital, Logical Glue: Logical Glue is a software company that creates products to analyze data for a business to predict profitable outcomes for a business.
Priya Lakhani
Founder & CEO of CENTURY Tech
Former libel barrister, Priya founded FMCG business Masala Masala in 2008 successfully launching its products into nationwide supermarket chains and independent retailers. The company’s charitable arm has provided over 1 million meals and 35,000 vaccinations to the underprivileged in India and Africa. In 2014 Priya founded CENTURY Tech, which is set to disrupt the education sector by utilising big data and data mining techniques to improve students’ learning outcomes. Priya has been a member of the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills’ Entrepreneurs’ Forum, an advisory board member to several educational/skills organisations, including a founding entrepreneur of Gazelle Group Colleges. Priya was awarded Business Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009 and Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2014.
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About CENTURY Tech: CENTURY is the award-winning artificial intelligence teaching and learning platform for schools, colleges and universities.
Ilyas Khan
CEO & Founder of Cambridge Quantum Computing
Ilyas Khan is the founder of Cambridge Quantum Computing. Ilyas is also the Chairman and a founding Trustee of The Stephen Hawking Foundation, and the Leader in Residence at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School where he is also a Fellow in Management Practice. He is also a Fellow of St Edmund’s College Cambridge. Ilyas started his career in merchant banking with J Henry Schroder Wagg, and worked and lived in Hong Kong from 1989 to 2008. He has been an active investor in early stage companies since 1999, having built and then sold two start up companies of his own. Since 2013 has been instrumental in backing the Judge Business School’s highly regarded business accelerator programme. He is the Senior partner in a non executive capacity at Stanhill Capital Partners, and has a small number of other non executive positions. The Stanhill Foundation that was established by Ilyas supports research and scholarship in a number of areas and currently funds a number of doctoral and post doctoral students in the area of mathematics, quantum mechanics and philosophy.
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About Cambridge Quantum Computing, Quantinuum, Stanhill Capital Partners: CQCL develops tools for the commercialisation of quantum computers by understanding quantum protocols and also quantum algorithms.
Tugce Bulut
Founder and CEO of Streetbees
Tugce is passionate about the power of data and the positive change it can bring to the world. She is a published author and Master’s graduate from Cambridge, specialising in poverty alleviation and global living standards. Before founding Streetbees, she spent 6 years as a strategy consultant advising technology and consumer companies to accelerate growth in international markets.
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About Streetbees: Streetbees is a human intelligence platform that collects and analyzes offline consumer behavior.
Oliver May
Co-Founder and CCO of Streetbees
Oliver May is a mathematics and data geek who’s found his true calling in the vitality of the mobile tech world. After 5 years at Morgan Stanley as a trader, Oli co-founded and bootstrapped Fairshare, an elegant app designed to transform the shared living experience. He’s passionate about data and geolocation tech, and making the world more accessible with Streetbees. He also hits a mean forehand at table tennis.
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About Streetbees: Streetbees is a human intelligence platform that collects and analyzes offline consumer behavior.
Janus Friis
Co-Founder of Starship Technologies
Janus co-founded Joost, Skype, Kazaa and Joltid, among other high-profile technology companies, with his long-time business partner Niklas Zennström. Janus is the recipient of a series of industry awards and was also recognized by Time Magazine as one of its 100 Most Influential People in 2006.
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About Joost, Starship Technologies: Starship Technologies is a robotics company building fleets of self-driving delivery robots designed to deliver goods.
Will Wells
Founder & President of Hummingbird Technologies
Will founded Hummingbird Technologies in January 2016, where the business spent its first year developing Machine Learning algorithms at the Imperial College technology incubator. Prior to this, Will spent 10 years in the Finance and Investment sector. This included M&A and other special advisory roles at Citigroup and Lincoln International, as well as investment management at the successful multi-billion dollar Highclere global equity fund, where he was also a Partner. Will grew up on a farm and is a keen sportsman. He holds an MBA from INSEAD Business School and a First Class MA Honours degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. Will sits on the Board of a Royal Marsden cancer charity and Math Engine plc, a UK public investment fund.
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About Hummingbird Technologies: Hummingbird is a drone and satellite enabled imagery analytics business for precision agriculture.
Amber Ghaddar
Founder of AllianceBlock
Amber Ghaddar is one of the three founders of AllianceBlock. The DeFi startup building the world’s first globally compliant decentralized capital market. Prior to this, Amber held various leadership positions at JP Morgan, in sales, structuring and trading where she spearheaded the macro systematic trading strategies team. She holds 3 masters and a PhD and is a graduate of McGill Canada and HEC France. Amber is a thought leader on participative capitalism and the creator of calibrocracy which she discussed in various events (WEF, TEDx, UNWomen, BBC, Bloomberg…).
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About AllianceBlock: AllianceBlock leverages proprietary AI-technology to rate both corporates and investors.
Maria Chatzou Dunford
CEO and Co-Founder of Lifebit
Dr. Maria Chatzou, CEO of Lifebit, is a biotech innovator and a proud geek, expert in bioinformatics, medical informatics and high performance computing. She is also a passionate entrepreneur and has founded two companies, Innovation Forum Barcelona and Techstars-backed Lifebit. Prior to Lifebit, she was a researcher at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, in Barcelona, where she was designing and deploying tools and methods that facilitate the analysis of Big Biomedical Data, allow for biological discoveries, and promote personalised medicine. She was part of the developing team of Nextflow, a programming framework that is revolutionising the computational analysis of genomic data and setting the foundations for personalised medicine computational analyses. Maria is also a frequent industry speaker and has spoken in many international conferences on the subjects of docker containers, genomics workflows, the computational challenges of personalised medicine, AI and HPC in genomics, women in leadership, entrepreneurship, science ventures, among many other topics.
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About Lifebit: Lifebit CloudOS is the intelligent genomics platform that is the industry standard for unified, secure research over distributed big data.
Pablo Prieto Barja
CTO and Co-Founder of Lifebit
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About Lifebit: Lifebit CloudOS is the intelligent genomics platform that is the industry standard for unified, secure research over distributed big data.
Lewis Z. Liu
Co-Founder & CEO of Eigen Technologies
Lewis Z. Liu is the Co-Founder & CEO at Eigen Technologies.
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About Eigen Technologies: Eigen is a research-driven AI company specializing in NLP for businesses in finance, law, and professional services.
Nick Gatfield
Co-Founder of Synchronized
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About Synchronized: Synchronized transforms linear videos into Smart-Video, making them fully interactive and as powerful as hypertext!
Pavan Palety
Founder & CCO of Samya.AI
Pavan Palety is the Founder and Chief Customer Officer at Samya.ai.
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About Samya.AI: Samya.AI operates as a revenue growth AI company that brings the power of deep learning.
Mads Jensen
Founder & Managing Partner of SuperSeed Ventures
Mads is an avid technologist, experienced SaaS entrepreneur and skilled business operator with more than 20 years track record in building and growing technology businesses. His passion is to build great tech companies, and today he does this as investor in and mentor of great founding teams. Mads is technically hands-on, and his expertise includes disruptive innovation using AI and data. He is the author of multiple US patents.
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About SuperSeed Ventures: SuperSeed invests in seed stage B2B SaaS/AI companies and help them reach their first £1m in revenue
Ricky Thomas
Founder & CEO of Avora
Ricky Thomas As founder and CEO of superfast, cloud-based data intelligence platform AVORA, Ricky Thomas is a key disruptor in his space. Ricky has decades of experience building global, scalable high-speed database and transaction systems & now with AVORA, he has built a platform that aggregates any number of data sources, delivering meaningful insight with the power of machine learning. Ricky believes that “to drive growth, businesses need to drastically reduce data blindspots & the time it takes to access critical information, transforming your business’ time to action.” He is a regular speaker at the London Analytics Forum and industry panels on the challenges of traditional data systems and how to overcome them. Previously CTO at IG Group before building a number of business across Europe, most notably PetMeds which he sold in 2013.
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About Avora, MedicAnimal.com, Socialite: Avora provides a complete augmented analytics solution powered by AI that makes in-depth data analysis as easy as a web search.
Fahd Rachidy
Founder and CEO of ABAKA Holdings
Fahd is a serial entrepreneur passionate about helping the industry creates secure financial futures for everyone, and re-inventing the way the financial industry works using Artificial Intelligence. Fahd was previously co-founder of Scientificbeta.com, the leading index retirement digital platform recently acquired by SGX for $205m. Ecole Centrale, Sorbonne University, Lycée Louis Le Grand Paris.
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About ABAKA Holdings: ABAKA is the Enterprise platform powered by Artificial Intelligence enabling institutions to build digital retirement solutions
Matteo Berlucchi
CEO & Co-Founder of Healthily by Your.MD
Matteo’s digital career spans 20 years, during which he has conceived, built and launched several successful companies and services both online and on mobile. Most recently, Matteo was Chief Digital Officer at Northern & Shell, the largest independent media company in the UK,where he grew traffic and revenues 4-fold in just 12 months. Matteo was also the founder and CEO of aNobii, the ebook platform funded by Penguin Random House, HarperCollins which was acquired by Sainsbury’s in 2012. Matteo founded Livestation, the leading service for live TV news online and the first company in the world to stream live TV on iPhones. Livestation is also the winner of the Guardian Digital Innovation Award 2008. Prior to this, Matteo was CEO and co-founder of Skinkers, a software company, which defined the market for desktop widgets and the winner of several international innovation awards in the digital space. Matteo started his career by launching the first online property system in Europe in 1995.
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About Healthily by Your.MD, Vini Italiani: Healthily is the world’s first medically approved self-care app designed around you.
Michael Brennan
Co Founder & Non-Executive Director of BenevolentAI
Mr. Michael Brennan co-founded BenevolentAI Limited in 2013 and serves as its Head of Corporate Development. Mr. Brennan co-founded Novum Securities in 2006 and served as it Chief Executive Officer. In 2009, Mr. Brennan joined Proximagen Group plc, as Head of Corporate Development, where he was focused on fund raising, corporate transactions and business development. Mr. Brennan has over 14 years of equity capital markets experience in the City focusing on the small and mid cap market. He is a Senior corporate finance executive with over 15 years City based capital markets experience. The majority of his time was spent with Evolution Securities where he served as a Director in their corporate finance department and has significant transactional experience including M&A and takeover work. He has been a Non-Executive Director at Litebulb Group Limited since September 13, 2013.
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About BenevolentAI, SimplyPayMe: BenevolentAI is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational medicine technologies.
Ivan Griffin
COO & Co-Founder of BenevolentAI
Ivan joined NESTA in March 2009. He makes and manages investments in the Healthcare sector. Prior to joining NESTA Ivan spent four years at IP Group where he was predominantly focused on healthcare and life science businesses. At IP Group his role encompassed all aspects of technology commercialisation, including identification of investment opportunities, spin-out company formation, business and corporate development as well as private and public equity financings and trade sales. Before joining IP Group Ivan spent two years at Oxford Technology Venture Capital Trust, and a year in post-doctoral research where he published several scientific papers.
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About BenevolentAI: BenevolentAI is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational medicine technologies.
Brent Gutekunst
Chief Development Officer & Founder of BenevolentAI
Mr. Brent Gutekunst co-founded BenevolentAI Limited in 2013 and also serves as its Chief Development Officer. Mr. Gutekunst is the founder of Stratified Medical, Inc. Previously, he founded TouchDx in 2009. Prior to TouchDx, he founded E-Auction. He also founded Collectors Universe and after merging with leading firms in the collectibles industry completed a successful IPO in collectibles.
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About BenevolentAI: BenevolentAI is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational medicine technologies.
Ken Mulvany
Founder & Board Director of BenevolentAI
Mr. Ken Mulvany is a serial entrepreneur and investor with more than 20 years of business leadership experience. He is the Founder and Chairman of BenevolentAI, a $2bn machine intelligence company with end-to-end drug development capabilities. Mr. Mulvany was previously Founder and CEO of Proximagen, a leading biotech company developing medicines for central nervous system disorders, which he sold in 2012. Mulvany sits on several advisory boards including the advisory panel to the UK Government on Artificial Intelligence and the Advisory Board for Oxford Sciences Innovations. He is a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence, and formerly, the Chairman of the Trustees of the Cure Parkinson’s Trust. Mr. Mulvany is a world champion sailor and competed in the 1992 America’s Cup.
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About BenevolentAI: BenevolentAI is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational medicine technologies.
Ben Medlock
Co-Founder of SwiftKey
Ben Medlock is a director, co-founder and CTO of SwiftKey, the London-based technology start-up behind the Android keyboard of the same name. Ben drives technical innovation at SwiftKey, where artificial intelligence and machine learning are used to enhance text entry on handheld devices. Ben developed his expertise in natural language processing and machine learning during eight years of computer science research, which culminated in a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has reviewed for a number of prominent academic journals, and his own work is published in ACL, the leading conference for research into computational linguistics, and also in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Ben currently lives in London, and on the rare occasion that he’s not working, he enjoys playing sport, music and reading theology.
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About SwiftKey: SwiftKey is a technology company that aims to enhance interaction between keyboards and people.
David Plans
CEO and Co-Founder of BioBeats
David Plans is a member of the University of Surrey’s Center for Digital Economy and Center for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, and is working towards machine learning solutions to foster human wellbeing. His primary research focus is adaptive media and affective modelling. Having worked on early mHealth projects in the NHS, he is now leading smartphone and wearable research projects at BUPA, AXA/PPP, and Microsoft Health with his startup, BioBeats, where they are helping actuarial and care provision teams think differently about preventative health.
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About BioBeats: BioBeats is a human company that creates digital artificial intelligence products to tackle mental health globally.
Tim Sadler
Co-Founder & CEO of Tessian
Tim is the CEO and co-founder of CheckRecipient, a next generation email security platform which uses machine learning to predict when emails are being sent to the wrong people. Some of the world’s largest organisations across the financial and legal sectors are using CheckRecipient and in the past 6 months the company has been crowned “Best Security Startup” by WIRED, “Best Machine Intelligence Startup” by Legal Geek and “Best Startup – Gold Category” by Info Security Products Guide. Tim was recently listed as one of Forbes “30 Under 30” in European Technology for 2017.
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About Tessian: Tessian creates a Human Layer Security that helps people work without security disruptions getting in the way.
Edward Bishop
Co-Founder & CTO of Tessian
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About Tessian: Tessian creates a Human Layer Security that helps people work without security disruptions getting in the way.
Thomas Adams
Head of Client-Side Engineering and Co-Founder of Tessian
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About Tessian: Tessian creates a Human Layer Security that helps people work without security disruptions getting in the way.
Kash Amini
Founder of MasLife
Kash Amini is a British serial entrepreneur from an age of 13, Founder and CEO of Maslife; the world’s first banking and wellbeing platform that revolutionises the way people manage their finances. By employing a fusion of A.I., nudge theory, and gamification, the app guides users towards a healthier, wealthier, and happier lifestyle. Kash has a background in launching and investing in various start-ups within Blockchain and security industry and is an early Bitcoin investor from 2015 with a net worth of 100Mil.
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About MasLife: Financial services, Well-being, AI
Tomas Gogar
Co-Founder of Rossum
Tomas Gogar is the Co-Founder and CEO at Rossum. He loves transforming scientific results into easy-to-use products. In his research, he proposed a unique way of employing visual information in the field of text mining. He finished his study at the Czech Technical University in Prague.
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About Rossum: Rossum is an AI-based cloud document gateway for automated business communication.
Jack Hampson
Co-Founder & CEO of Deeper Insights
CEO and Founder at Deeper Insights.
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About Deeper Insights: Deeper Insights solve the toughest human problems through the transformative power of AI.
Slav Slavinski
Co-Founder & Chief of Staff of Behavox
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About Behavox: Behavox is an AI-driven platform that enables you to aggregate, analyze, and act on your entire organization’s data.
Hasna Kourda
Co-Founder & CEO of Save Your Wardrobe
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About Save Your Wardrobe: FashionTech startup using AI to make Fashion more digital and sustainable
Mehdi Doghri
Co-Founder & CTO of Save Your Wardrobe
Entrepreneur, Investor, Advisor. Interested in the Fintech, Fashion Tech, Retail Tech and consumer mobile apps.
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About Save Your Wardrobe: FashionTech startup using AI to make Fashion more digital and sustainable
Pasi William Sachiti
Founder & CEO of Academy of Robotics
William Sachiti is a UK based serial entrepreneur best known for creating a UK driverless car manufacture company competing with multinational incumbents such as Google, Uber and Tesla. The company designs and builds the autonomous vehicles in their UK warehouse. William has started and exited three previous tech start-ups in row, the latest MyCityVenue, an A.I. driven experiences platform serving 1.6 million users was acquired in 2015 by Secret Escapes. Before MyCityVenue, William was the the BBC Investment program Dragons Den, where he pitched a start-up, digital outdoor advertising on bins. The Dragons famously said he needs to be wheeled out of the bin. The company he pitched subsequently was licensed in several countries before being acquired. One of William’s first start-ups he started at 19, was called 123-registration. This company was also acquired for an undisclosed amount.
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About Academy of Robotics: The Academy of Robotics is a technology institute with an extraordinary technical team of engineers, scientists, and researchers.
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.
Varun Sahni
Co-Founder & COO of CreditEnable
Varun Sahni has built and operated multiple successful companies over the past 20 years across emerging and developed markets ranging across financial services, healthcare and high technology firms. He is co-founder of Impact Investment Partners a UK based FCA regulated asset manager which operates across multiple markets and sectors. Prior to which he was head of Acumen India and has worked with Unilever, CARE and Oxfam to build up their SME portfolios. Varun is on a range of global advisory boards and fund investment committees focused on emerging markets and sustainable investing. He has been widely quoted in international media over the years and is a Chevening Scholar from the London School of Economics, a TED Fellow and an Asia Society Global Young Leader. Varun has an MA from Columbia University, and is also a Chevening Scholar.
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About CreditEnable: CreditEnable provides data analytics, deep learning, AI and technology to build solutions to financial challenges.
Nadia Sood
CEO & Co-Founder of CreditEnable
Nadia Sood has more than 20 years of emerging markets debt and equity investment experience. Through her career she has successfully executed and managed complex investments ranging in size from several million $USD to several billion involving a range of investors and financiers such as IFC, Citibank, ICICI, IDFC, ADB, the largest of which was the establishment of an USD 8 billion JV with Tata Power in India. Nadia has founded and built a number of successful businesses including Impact Investment Partners LLP. In 2018 Nadia was admitted into the Young Presidents Organisation, and in 2019 received a runners-up award at Techpreneurs Women in Tech Awards. Nadia holds a BSFS from Georgetown University and a MIA from Columbia University.
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About CreditEnable: CreditEnable provides data analytics, deep learning, AI and technology to build solutions to financial challenges.
Philip Hua
Co-Founder of CreditEnable
Philip Hua has 25 years experience in financial services. He has held senior IT and credit and risk management positions at several investment banks and asset management houses including: Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, Bankers Trust and DSP and Oldfield Partners. Phillip is also the co-creator of Crashmetrics, the only real-time VaR methodology to focus on events that wipe out major institutions. He has published various articles on risk management in academic journals and trade publications. He holds a PhD in applied mathematics from Imperial College and an MBA in Finance from Cass Business School.
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About CreditEnable: CreditEnable provides data analytics, deep learning, AI and technology to build solutions to financial challenges.
Graham Cooke
Founder & CEO of Qubit
Graham has always been tuned into interesting technology and cut his teeth whilst creating a new on-demand TV technology in his pre-Google days. A budding entrepreneur from the age of 13 when he opened a coffee shop at school after buying an espresso machine, he started his first company when he was 15. Graham joined Google in 2005 and lead the global strategy around how to optimize conversion rate effectiveness. He decided to leave with 3 colleagues (Dan, Emre and Ian) to set up QuBit in order to tackle the emerging data revolution.
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
Michael Ouliel
Founder and CEO of BlackSwan Technologies
Michael Ouliel is the founder and CEO of BlackSwan Technologies.
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About BlackSwan Technologies: BlackSwan Technologies makes an enterprise AI operating system used for risk management, compliance, lead generation, and other functions.
Mohammad Khodadadi
Founder / CEO of SATIS.AI
Mohammad Khodadadi is a Director/Chief of data, Technologist, Entrepreneur. Mo is an accomplished technologist and entrepreneur with over 15 years of industry experience that includes building and managing large teams, designing complex AI oriented data architectures, and leading high-growth intelligence-driven businesses. His interests include applying artificial intelligence and machine learning concepts to health and biotech and developing cognitive ecosystems capable of contextual deduction from data for actionable suggestions. Prior to joining Babylon, he founded and ran um.ai, a food advisor that tracks/suggest what you eat. He was also CTO at Klappo, a semantic platform for food ingredients, enabling the development of applications that help people to make educated choices about what they consume. He completed his PhD in Computer Science, speciality in formal methods, and his MSC in Bioinformatic at The University of Manchester. He is also one of the first of 100 tech exceptional talent visa holders in the UK and the winner of sirius enterprenurship competition by UK Trade and Investment ministry.
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About SATIS.AI: Food that makes sense | Delicious, Nutritious and affordable, while green and fair
David Benigson
Founder and CEO of Signal AI
David Benigson is the Founder of Signal Media Ltd. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Miguel Martinez
Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist of Signal AI
Miguel Martinez is the Co-Founder of Signal Media Ltd. and serves as its Chief Data Scientist.
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Nathaniel Barling
Co-Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Knowhere
Nathaniel Barling joined Knowhere as Co-Founder, CEO in 2015.
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About Knowhere: Information technology company using machine learning to deliver factual, community-first, and critical news information at scale.
Ruzbeh Bacha
Founder & CEO of CityFalcon
Ruzbeh Bach is the Founder and CEO at CityFALCON.
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About CityFalcon: A Big Data and AI approach to financial content with news, analytics, and insights on 250k+ topics from 3000+ sources
Louis Decuypere
Founder & CEO of Datatonic
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About Datatonic: Datatonic is a team of data and statistics experts that helps corporations drive their business through the power of analytics.
Jenny Griffiths
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Snap Vision
Jenny Griffiths is an award-winning technology entrepreneur and Computer Vision engineer. She founded her company Snap Vision in 2011, which was the first in the world to offer visual search for fashion retailers and publishers across both mobile and web. Being so early in the journey of the development and commercialisation of today’s AI market, Jenny is a thought-leader not only in AI and computer vision, but also in how to innovate and how to drive markets into adopting new innovations. Her work has led to her winning a number of awards, from the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver medal for personal contributions to UK engineering, to being awarded an MBE for Services to Innovation at the age of just 27. This year she was named as one of Forbes Magazine’s Top 50 Women in Tech in the world.
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About Snap Vision, University of Bristol: Snap Vision specializes in the fields of AI computer games and machine learning.
Theofilos Vasileiadis
CEO/Founder/Lead Investor of Socital
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About Socital: Socital is a SaaS platform specialized in personalization and lead generation for ecommerce.
Victor Riperbelli
CEO and Co-Founder of Synthesia
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About Founders, Synthesia: Synthesia is an AI video avatar platform that creates professional videos from a text in different languages.
Lourdes Agapito
Co-Founder of Synthesia
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About Synthesia: Synthesia is an AI video avatar platform that creates professional videos from a text in different languages.
Steffen Tjerrild
COO, CFO and Co-Founder of Synthesia
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About Synthesia: Synthesia is an AI video avatar platform that creates professional videos from a text in different languages.
Rory Miller-Cheevers
Founder & Managing Director of Hyphen
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About Hyphen: Data Intelligence and Performance Marketing
Monica Hyerim Lee
Founder & CEO / Managing Director of FrontRow Global
Monica Hyerim Lee is the founder and CEO at FrontRow Global.
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About FrontRow Global, Royal College of Art: Music Data Intelligence for Music Industry
Stephen Upstone
Co-Founder & CEO of LoopMe
Stephen Upstone is an established figure in the mobile industry, having worked in mobile advertising since 2006, at the world’s leading mobile companies, including Ad Infuse (sold to Velti), LoopMe and many more. He has very strong experience in mobile and an excellent track record in sales, growth and general management in venture capital backed mobile technology companies including two company sales and one NASDAQ listing. Stephen was Managing Director Europe for Ad Infuse (sold to Velti) and then VP Sales and Business Development Europe for Velti after the takeover. Stephen was part of the senior management team that successfully listed Velti on the NASDAQ and was present in New York for the ringing of the opening bell, raising $300 million USD and reaching over $1 billion USD in valuation. Whilst at Ad Infuse and Velti, he opened offices across the globe, helping to build a multi-million dollar business, working with companies such as Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, Sky and Daily Mail. Prior to Ad Infuse Stephen worked at Touch Clarity (sold to Omniture), FirstCapital, Universal McCann and Lowe Howard Spink. As an experienced mobile advertising expert, Stephen founded LoopMe, the world’s largest mobile video advertising platform, reaching over 2 billion consumers worldwide. Since LoopMe’s foundation, Stephen has opened ten offices all over the world and grown its employee base from only a handful to over one hundred in under three years, developing the company from a start-up to a successful medium sized company with a monthly revenue in the high six figures. Stephen is also Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association UK Advisory Board, a member of the EMEA Board and a supporter of the mobile marketing and advertising initiatives. Stephen was previously Co-Chair of the Global Advertising Committee and was a Member of the IAB Mobile Advertising Committee.
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Marco Van de Bergh
Founder & CTO of LoopMe
As LoopMe’s CTO, Marco oversees LoopMe’s product and technology development from the London office. Marco has worked in mobile advertising since 2006, as Director of Technology EMEA at Ad Infuse (sold to Velti) and Director of Products for Velti based in San Francisco. He worked in development & strategy for mobile services as Senior Business Analyst in Vodafone Group R&D Strategy.
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Allister Furey
Co-Founder & CEO of Sylvera
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About Sylvera: Sylvera develops machine learning-based tools to track the performance of carbon offsets.
Steven Hunter
CEO & Co-Founder of 9fin
Mr. Steven Hunter is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at 9fin Limited.
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About 9fin: The leading data, news and predictive analytics platform for debt capital markets
Huss EL-Sheikh
CTO & Co-Founder of 9fin
Hussam EL-Sheikh is the CTO & Founder at 9fin.
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About 9fin: The leading data, news and predictive analytics platform for debt capital markets
Rayna Patel
Co-Founder and CEO of Vinehealth
Rayna is a medical doctor and neuroscientist with over a decade of experience in healthcare, working in frontline hospitals, national government policy and clinical research (Cambridge, UCL, Harvard, MIT and Columbia). She held strategic and commercial roles in tech startups, government policy and the Cabinet Office’s Nudge Unit, where she used behavioural neuropsychology to change patient behaviours through commercial products.
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About Vinehealth: Vinehealth is a AI-driven platform providing support to improve the quality of life and survival of cancer patients.
Ian Welch
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Callsign
Ian Welch is the COO of Callsign. Previously he held positions at Ladbrokers and Ascot Racecourse. Ian has a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from Coverntry University
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Zia Hayat
Founder and CEO of Callsign
Zia is Chairman, CEO and founder of Callsign. With a PhD in Information Systems Security from the University of Southampton, he has served in various roles in the cybersecurity industry. From research engineer at BAE Systems to internet banking security architect at Lloyds Bank. Zia oversees the overall direction and strategy of the company while contributing to innovation and design of the service.
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Lorena Puica
CEO & Founder of SYD
Born in Romania to father quantum physicist and mother entrepreneur, Lorena has achieved 5 degrees in mathematics, economics and finance, published a book on Microfinance as a tool for empowering individuals towards Sustainable Growth, created a decade-long career in strategy and investment management with global institutions working with portfolios of over £200billion while also being a extreme athlete with 2 world record events. Following 7 years of personal health challenges Lorena founded iamYiam.com as a Preventive Precision Health platform poised to leverage research, ML technology and creativity to empower 1bn people to take charge of their health everyday and lifelong. Speaker at World Government Summit ( https://www.worldgovernmentsummit.org ) , Global Wellness Forum ( https://www.globalwellnesssummit.com ) , UK Government Missions Globally , etc .
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About SYD: Predictive population analytics for enterprise & AI virtual companion for employees
Ali Rezaei Haddad
CEO and Founder of NeuroNav
Ali is a neurosurgical resident in London and an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur. Prior to this, he completed his Academic Foundation Training in the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford undertaking research in the field of neuroimaging. He graduated with first class honours in Neurosciences BSc at Imperial College London, and he holds honorary research positions at the University of Oxford and St George’s Medical School. Ali co-founded the internationally acclaimed GoodSAM app used by the NHS, in which clinically trained individuals sign up as volunteers to respond to life-threatening emergency calls. He also directed and curated the Imagining the Future of Medicine at the Royal Albert Hall in partnership with TEDMED, attended by a live audience of 5,000 people. Inspired by the lack of user friendly and affordable neuronavigation solutions worldwide, he founded NeuroNav to democratise access to neurosurgery navigation solutions.
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About Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, NeuroNav: An augmented reality neuronavigation platform powered by computer vision and machine learning.
Alastair Bathgate
CEO and Co-Founder of Blue Prism
Alastair Bathgate has worked in the enterprise software field since 1996, before which he spent a decade in various management positions at a leading bank. This has given Alastair a unique understanding of operational business processes and how technology can be used to improve efficiency and service. He co-founded Blue Prism in 2001 and has been CEO since. He holds an MBA from Leeds University Business School.
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Karl Moritz Hermann
CEO and Co-Founder of Dark Blue Labs
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Dark Blue Labs: Learning deep representations of data to make intelligent products, including natural language understanding, a reality.
Sofia Fominova
Co-Founder & President of Truligent
Sofia is a successful technology entrepreneur with experience in both B2B and B2C software. As a Co-Founder of Truligent, Sofia’s responsibilities span from marketing to sales to general management and venture development strategy. For her business activities and outstanding research in Artificial Intelligence, Sofia has been awarded a prestigious award from the Worshipful Company of Marketors and recognised as one of the “10 Most Influential Businesswomen” by Insights Success Magazine. Amongst other ventures, Sofia founded Mealz.com – one of the most prominent food technology platforms, educating millions of people about the art of healthy eating and living. Prior to Mealz, Sofia worked at a boutique hedge fund in London and built a business in the hospitality industry. Sofia received her bachelors from the London School of Economics (LSE) and completed two master degrees at University of Westminster.
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About Mealz, Truligent: Truligent builds and operates great software companies.
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.
Gurman Hundal
Co-Founder and CEO of MiQ
Gurman has always been a creator, and has had an interest in setting up business units since the start of his career. Prior to launching Media iQ, Gurman set-up the online ad network, A&NY Media, for the large publishing group Associated Northcliffe Media. From when he joined in 2007 till present, the A&NY Media network was a major catalyst in positioning associated as the most advanced online UK publisher, boasting a robust technology infrastructure and a highly impressive client retention rate. Prior to A&NY Media, Gurman worked for Pan Euro Ad network Adlink Internet Media, setting up a new performance division just 6 months after joining.
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About MiQ: MiQ is an independent marketing intelligence company with the people and technology that help businesses win.
Karim Beguir
Co-Founder & CEO of InstaDeep
Co-Founder & CEO of InstaDeep and Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning, Karim helps companies get a grip on the latest AI advances and deploy them in practice. A graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique and former Program Fellow at NYU’s Courant Institute, Karim has a passion for teaching and using applied mathematics. This encouraged him to launch InstaDeep, nominated at MWC17 in the top 20 global startup list by PCMAG. He is on a mission to democratize AI and make it accessible to a wider audience.
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About InstaDeep: InstaDeep delivers AI-powered decision-making systems for the Enterprise, to solve some of the world’s most complex industrial problems.
Zhangming Niu
Founder & CEO of MindRank AI
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About MindRank AI: MindRank is a developer of an AI-enabled drug-discovery platform intended to discover and develop next generation precision medicines.
Krystian Zajac
Founder and CEO of Hero Labs
Krystian Zajac is a serial entrepreneur specializing in transformative smart home and IoT insurtech products. His ventures have won dozens of awards, been featured across tier-one media and recognized as some of the most disruptive companies in the world. Krystian Zajac founded Hero Labs and currently serves as the chief executive officer.
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About Hero Labs, Hero Labs, Hiro: Hero Labs develops technologies that help prevent water leaks.
Jonty Hurwitz
Founder of DAIZY
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About DAIZY: Crypto and stock risk, impact, ESG. Transparency. Finally.
Stefan Boronea
CTO & Co-Founder of Proportunity
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About Proportunity: Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
Vadim Toader
CEO & Co-Founder of Proportunity
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About Proportunity: Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
Baran Korkmaz
Founder, CEO of ARWAY
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About ARWAY: ARWAY is a spatial mapping platform critical to building the Metaverse.
Yiannis Kiachopoulos
CEO, Co-Founder of Causaly
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About Causaly: Causaly is teaching computers to read all knowledge in Biomedicine
Artur Saudabayev
Co-Founder, CTO of Causaly
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About Causaly: Causaly is teaching computers to read all knowledge in Biomedicine
Jan Medvesek
Co-Founder of Emotech LTD
Jan Medvesek is a technical co-founder of Emotech. Before joining Emotech, Jan got the PhD in Computer Science from UCL. Before joining Emotech, Jan worked on industrial Computer Vision projects across Europe and collaborated with Microsoft, MathWorks and BBC.
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About Emotech LTD: Emotech is an AI startup aiming to redefine the relationship between humans and technology.
Chelsea Chen
Co-Founder of Emotech LTD
Chelsea is a technologist and creativist with diverse and international experience: from consumer strategy planning, marketing and brands. She previously leads the OgilvyOne’s team for clients such as Diageo, VW, Nestle and P&G to name a few.
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About Emotech LTD: Emotech is an AI startup aiming to redefine the relationship between humans and technology.
Hongbin Zhuang
Co-Founder and CEO of Emotech LTD
Hongbin was the product director of Renren.com and assisted it to become one of the largest SNS in China with over 35 million monthly login users, which went to NYSE IPO in 2011. He graduated from UCL with a distinction in the degree of MSc HCI & Ergonomics and strongly believes that the revolution of human computer interaction will make a better world.
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About Emotech LTD: Emotech is an AI startup aiming to redefine the relationship between humans and technology.
James Field
CEO & Founder of LabGenius
James is founder and CEO of LabGenius. James completed his PhD studies at Imperial College London where his research was focused on re-engineering protein nanocages for biotechnological applications. Prior to his PhD, James completed a BSc in Biology with Microbiology and an MRes in Systems and Synthetic Biology, at Imperial College London. James is an active member of the synthetic biology community having participated in the iGEM competition both as an undergraduate (2009), advisor (2011) and judge (2016). In 2017, James was awarded the BBSRC Innovator of the Year award for early career impact. James is also a fellow of the prestigious Synthetic Biology Leadership Excellence Accelerator Program (LEAP).
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About LabGenius: LabGenius is a biopharmaceutical company developing protein therapeutics using a machine learning-driven evolution engine.
Antton Peña
Founder and CPO of Flock Ltd.
Antton Pena is the Founder of Flock, a London-based drone insurtech company which has partnered with Allianz to pioneer the future of Big-Data driven insurance.
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About Flock Ltd.: London-based insurtech building the world’s first fully digital insurance company for connected and autonomous commercial vehicles
Jason Kingdon
Co-Founder of Telectic
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About Blue Prism, Telectic: Telectic applies artificial intelligence (AI) to interpret the Web and discover insights about the professional world.
Iain McLaren
Co-Founder of Telectic
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About Telectic: Telectic applies artificial intelligence (AI) to interpret the Web and discover insights about the professional world.
Mikela Druckman
Founder and CEO of Greyparrot
Mikela is the Founder & CEO of Greyparrot, a UK tech company using AI based computer vision to power next generation robotics and smart systems for waste management. Previously, she was CCO at Blippar, developing cutting edge computer vision and augmented reality products and partnering with global brands to deliver award-winning projects. She is a Global Future Council member at the World Economic Forum, providing thought leadership on emerging technologies including AI for the private and public sector. In 2018, Mikela was listed as “TopWomen50” in tech by WeAreTheCity. She is passionate about using new technologies to solve key challenges in our society.
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About Greyparrot: AI-based computer vision solutions to power next generation robotics and smart systems for the waste management industry
Tuhin Chakraborty
Co-Founder & CEO of Mimica Automation
Tuhin Chakraborty is Co-Founder & CEO at Mimica.ai. Tuhin led software engineering teams at companies like Pandora and LinkedIn while building and selling enterprise software in his spare time.
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About Mimica Automation: Mimica watches you work and learns to automate your most repetitive tasks.
Raphael Holca-Lamarre
Co-Founder & CTO of Mimica Automation
Raphael Holca-Lamarre is Co-Founder & CTO at Mimica.ai. Raphael completed a PhD at the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning, developing brain-inspired learning algorithms for deep neural networks.
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About Mimica Automation: Mimica watches you work and learns to automate your most repetitive tasks.
Zara Riahi
CEO & Founder of Contilio
CEO and Founder of Contilio, a cutting-edge deeptech startup that uses 3D vision, deep learning and BIM to turn construction site data into real-time, intelligent insights on project progress, performance KPIs and risks. 12 yrs global management, commercial, entrepreneurial and engineering experience driving growth and productivity for multi-nationals and startups in North America, Europe and Australia. Prior to Contilio, executed infrastructure (PE) and tech investments (VC/M&A deals) at UBS, London and Westpac, Australia and was lead engineer and project manager for billion dollar construction projects in North America. I sit on the board of an early-stage VC, have advised many CEOs and boards on growth, digital transformation and operations initiatives and was head of business development for a round-A Silicon Valley startup. MBA from London Business School, MASc in Earthquake Engineering (minored in advanced computational methods) from the University of British Columbia, Founder of LBS Construction & Infrastructure Club.
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About Contilio: 3D AI construction analytics platform that provides actionable intelligence in real-time, unlocking $Bn savings & automated payments.
Bola Adegbulu
Co-Founder and CEO of Predina Tech
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About Predina Tech: Building the Location Risk Intelligence platform for the future of Auto Insurance and Mobility
Sarvarth Misra
Co-Founder & CEO of ContractPodAi
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About ContractPodAi, NewGalexy Services: ContractPodAi offers One Legal Platform to support the full spectrum of corporate in-house legal needs.
Oleksander Bondarev
Founder of SentiSum
A highly motivated and ambitious “hacker at heart”, now leveraging tech know-how in the VC game. Love: Clean UI, Web Components, Prototyping, Deep Learning (Tensor Flow, Keras, Theano), NLP and VR/AR.
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About Credo Ventures, SentiSum: SentiSum is a technology startup which is leveraging AI and big data to help enterprises gain competitive advantage.
