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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 Edinburgh based CEO’ operating in the Machine Learning space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Andrew Veitch
CEO of Machine Labs
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About Machine Labs: Big company machine learning for marketing at a small company price.
Jim Thompson
Co-Founder & CEO of Cogbooks
Jim has a strong track record in bringing new technology products to market. It’s something he’s done successfully for Thermo Electron and Applied Materials, creating products that reached $100m+ in annual sales. Jim has extensive international experience in Asia, the US and Europe.
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About Cogbooks: CogBooks is an adaptive web-based learning platform.
Andrew Richards
CEO of Codeplay Software
Andrew Richards is founder and CEO of Codeplay Software Ltd, a highly successful business that has evolved since 2002 creating compilers and other software development tools for gaming and mobile phone products. Much of this experience is now being applied to enable heterogeneous processing products for machine learning and vision processing. Andrew also brings strong leadership in open standards definitions, specifically chair of the Khronos SYCL for OpenCL group and chair of Software Working Group for the HSA Foundation. Andrew graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in Computer Science and Physics.
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About Codeplay Software, The Melting Pot Edinburgh: Enabling AI to be Open, Safe and Accessible to All
Neil Tocher
Co-Founder, CEO, CTO of NCTech
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About NCTech: NCTech is a big data and analytics provider. Pioneering edge-to-cloud big data capture & provision with ML/AI for Google, government & AEC
Zhuoran Wang
Co-founder & CEO of Tricorn
Zhuoran Wang is Co-founder & CEO at trio.ai.
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About Tricorn: Tricorn is an AI startup focused on developing a conversational platform that enables people to interact with smart device.
Ashutosh Natraj
CEO & CoFounder of Vidrona
Oxford University Researcher turned entrepreneur with 9 years of experience in academia and industry across the world such as IBM Research. Ash holds a PhD in Robotics and Computer Vision for UAVs(Distinction), Erasmus Mundus (ViBOT) scholar with 3 Masters in Robotics and Computer Vision.
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About Vidrona, Vine Rangers: Vidrona is a British AI Based Predictive Prescriptive Analytics Company for the Utilities. It helps utilities to increase RoI.
