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 Cambridge based Founder operating in the Information Technology 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.
Vinayak Ramesh
Co-Founder and CEO of Ikigai Labs
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About Ikigai Labs, Stealth: Ikigai helps analysts and operations teams automate data-intensive business, finance, analytics and supplychain operations within clicks.
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Vojta Drmota
Co-Founder and CEO of Ribbon
Vojta Drmota is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ribbon.
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About Ribbon: Ribbon is a one-stop-shop online platform for live and recorded events that provides services such as Zoom integrations and email marketing.
Jim Salem
Founder of Quickbase
Jim Salem is the Founder of Quick Base.
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About Quickbase: Quickbase helps organizations see, connect and control every element of the complex projects.
Claude von Roesgen
Founder of Quickbase
Claude von Roesgen is the Founder of Quick Base.
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About Quickbase: Quickbase helps organizations see, connect and control every element of the complex projects.
Joe Rice
Founder of Quickbase
Joe Rice is the Founder of Quick Base.
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About Quickbase: Quickbase helps organizations see, connect and control every element of the complex projects.
David Perrault
Founder of ETA Wireless, Inc.
– Professor of electrical engineering at MIT – 20 years+ experience in power conversion and switched-mode power amplifiers. – Author of more than 75 papers in refereed journals on power conversion and RF topics; holds over 50 patents – Co-founder of
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About ETA Wireless, Inc.: Eta Wireless designs power management ICs that reduce energy consumption and heat dissipation of mobile devices.
Alicia Chong Rodriguez
Co-Founder and CEO of Bloomer Health Tech
Alicia Chong Rodriguez is the founder and CEO of Bloomer Tech. She holds two master’s degrees in engineering and management/integrated design and electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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About Bloomer Health Tech: Bloomer Tech uses everyday fabrics and machine learning for personalized detection, monitoring, and treatment of chronic diseases.
Richard F. Dulude
Co-Founder & Partner of Underscore VC
Co-Founder & Partner at Underscore VC
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About Underscore VC: Underscore VC is a venture capital firm backing entrepreneurs from Seed to Series A.
Simanta Gautam
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Synapse Technology Corporation
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About Synapse Technology Corporation: Synapse uses proprietary deep learning and computer vision systems to modernize the security and defense visual analysis field.
Adam Kelly
Co-Founder & Chief Knowledge Officer of Accrete
CKO at Accrete.AI.
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About Accrete: Accrete AI enables organizations to solve novel classes of real world information complexity problems by scaling tacit knowledge.
Dirk Englund
Co-Founder of DUST Identity
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About DUST Identity, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, QuEra Computing: DUST Identity is a proprietary technology which utilizes nanodiamonds to create an unclonable identity layer on any object.
Ophir Gaathon
Co-Founder & CEO of DUST Identity
Ophir Gaathon is the CEO and co-founder of DUST Identity.
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About DUST Identity: DUST Identity is a proprietary technology which utilizes nanodiamonds to create an unclonable identity layer on any object.
Kalyan Veeramachaneni
Co-Founder of DataCebo
Kalyan Veeramachaneni is a principal research scientist within MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing. He is a principal investigator at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), where he heads the Data-to-AI Group. His group focuses on building large-scale AI systems that work alongside humans, continuously learning from data, generating predictions and integrating those predictions into human decision-making. The group develops foundational algorithms, abstractions, and systems to enable these three tasks at scale. Algorithms, systems and open-source software developed by the group are deployed for applications in the financial, medical, and education sectors. Veeramachaneni is the co-founder of Feature Labs, a data science automation company (acquired by Alteryx). Veeramachaneni is also the co-founder of PatternEx, a cybersecurity company that adapts machine learning models based on real-time analyst feedback. Veeramachaneni earned an MS in computer engineering and a PhD in philosophy and electrical engineering from Syracuse University.
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About Alteryx, DataCebo, Feature Labs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: DataCebo engages in making synthetic data a reality.
Ben Edelstein
Co-Founder of LogRocket
Ben Edelstein is the co-founder of LogRocket.
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About LogRocket: LogRocket records videos of user sessions with logs and network data, identifying UX problems and revealing the root cause of every bug.
Matthew Arbesfeld
CEO and Co-Founder of LogRocket
Matthew Arbesfeld is the CEO and co-founder of LogRocket.
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About LogRocket: LogRocket records videos of user sessions with logs and network data, identifying UX problems and revealing the root cause of every bug.
Laurence Bargery
Co Founder & CTO of AccuRx
Laurence Bargery is a Co-founder & CTO at accuRx.
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About AccuRx: AccuRx is on a mission to bring patients and their healthcare teams together.
Mosin Badkar
Co-Founder and VP of Cardiac Design Labs
Mosin Badkar is responsible for product R and D and Algorithms. His scope includes design of new products, prototyping of design and proof of concept. His scope also includes planning and tracking of new product designs, system level and various software development activities.
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About Cardiac Design Labs: Cardiac Design Labs is into designing, developing, deploying and selling intelligent devices for medical purpose.
Roger Dingledine
Co-Founder & Developer of Tor Project
Roger Dingledine is the original developer of Tor along with Nick Mathewson and Paul Syverson. Leading researcher in the anonymous communications field. Frequent speaker at conferences to advocate Tor and explain what Tor is and can do. Helps coordinate academic researchers. Runs one of the directory authorities.
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About Tor Project: Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet.
Sam Bose
CEO / Founder of IntelliSense.io
Sam got exposed to the world of Machine 2 Machine some 10 years ago. Back then he could see the potential of technology in changing the world around us, but change came with numerous obstacles. After encountering the challenges of first generation technologies, IntellISense.io was started as one of the first next generation IoT solutions companies. The technology and solution were selected as one of the eight IoT solutions to be showcased by the UK government.
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About IntelliSense.io: An Industrial AI company focusing on the Mining sector increasing efficiency sustainability & safety with trusted & transparent AI solutions
Karthik Dinakar
CTO & Co-Founder of Pienso
Karthik Dinakar is a computer scientist in machine learning, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction. Karthik was a Reid Hoffman Fellow at MIT and the recipient of the 2015 Dewey Winburne Award. Karthik has previously held positions at Microsoft and Deutsche. He was invited to the White House on two occasions to present his research on the computational detection of cyberbullying and use of probabilistic graphical Bayesian models for crisis counseling. Karthik holds a doctoral degree from MIT.
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About Pienso: Pienso is a machine learning platform that makes it easy to turn text data into insights for non-programmers.
Ganesh Pai
Founder & CEO of Uptycs
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About Uptycs: Uptycs is the provider of a cloud-native security analytics platform for security analysts, incident response teams, and IT professionals.
Lane Rettig
Founder of Seratis
Lane is a software developer with a passion for entrepreneurship, business and technology. He previously worked at a quant hedge fund and is currently a Wharton MBA student.
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About CurrencySpot, Seratis: Communication for healthcare providers
Rohit Makol
Founder & COO of HeyHub
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About HeyHub: The community experience and tenant engagement platform driving operational efficiency across your spaces.
James Graham
Co-Founder and CEO of Community Phone
James Graham is the co-founder and CEO of Community Phone.
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About Community Phone: Community Phone provides easy-to-use, dependable landline phone service for households and businesses.
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero
Co-Founder, Co-Inventor, and CEO of Nu Quantum
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero is the co-inventor of Nu Quantum technology and currently serves the company as Chief Executive Officer. Carmen is a national award-winning physicist and leader of pro-equality action in science and beyond.
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About Nu Quantum: Nu Quantum is a quantum networking start-up building the entanglement fabric essential to scaling quantum computers.
Matthew Applegate
Chief Technical Officer & Co-Founder of Nu Quantum
Matthew Applegate is the co-inventor of Nu Quantum technology and currently serves the company as CTO. Matthew is a computer scientist, mathematician, and industry expert turned quantum physicist.
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About Nu Quantum: Nu Quantum is a telecommunications company that develops end-to-end quantum cryptography systems.
Joshua Rabinowitz
Founder of Raze Therapeutics
Joshua Rabinowitz is Professor of Chemistry and Integrative Genomics at Princeton University. He is a Member of the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the Lewis-Sigler Institute at Princeton University. Dr. Rabinowitz’s lab studies metabolism from the system biology perspective. His group develops methods that combine mass spectrometry, isotope tracers, and mathematical modeling to quantitate metabolic flux. Using these methods, Dr. Rabinowitz attempts to understand basic principles of metabolic flux control. His lab has found that most enzyme active sites are saturated, with competition between metabolites determining enzyme activity. It is now combining metabolomics with proteomics to investigate the relative importance of active site competition, allostery, and enzyme concentrations in overall metabolic regulation. Dr. Rabinowitz’s lab is also interested in identifying the contributions of different pathways to producing key high-energy cofactors, such as ATP, NADPH, and activated one-carbon donors. Recently, it identified an unexpected tie between two of these cofactor systems, with folate metabolism playing a significant role in redox homeostasis. The lab collaborates broadly, with one notable collaboration having led to discovery of the oncometabolite 2-hydroxyglutarate. Methods developed in the lab are widely used in the cancer metabolism community.
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About Raze Therapeutics: Raze Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the discovery and development of oncology therapeutics.
Vamsi Mootha
Founder of Raze Therapeutics
Vamsi Mootha is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and directs a laboratory based at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also Professor of Systems Biology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute. Dr. Mootha’s research is focused on mitochondria, often termed the “powerhouses of the cell.” Dr. Mootha’s group has utilized tandem mass spectrometry, computation, and biochemistry to characterize the mitochondrial proteome, which now serves as a molecular blueprint for clinical and systematic studies of mitochondria. Dr. Mootha and his colleagues have used this inventory to discover the mitochondrial calcium uniporter, a major channel of communication between mitochondria and the rest of the cell. He collaborates extensively with clinicians and researchers throughout the world, and together they have elucidated more than one dozen disease genes that underlie severe, metabolic diseases. His team has developed a number of computational tools that are used widely by the community.
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About Raze Therapeutics: Raze Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the discovery and development of oncology therapeutics.
Phillip Ragon
Founder & CEO of Intersystems
Since founding InterSystems in 1978, Ragon has led the company to worldwide prominence in the database, interoperability, and healthcare application markets. Prior to starting InterSystems, Ragon co-founded a healthcare software company that became a leader in the U.S. and is now part of GE Healthcare. He has served as a healthcare IT consultant to academic and government institutions and received a prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in healthcare information technology. Ragon is a Trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where he also served as Honorary Co-Chair of the MGH Campaign. He is on the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows. He is also a member of the MIT Corporation, the governing body of MIT, and chairs the Visiting Committee that reviews the Physics Department. In 2008, Ragon helped created the Ragon Institute, a joint research center of MGH, MIT, and Harvard. The vision of the Ragon Institute is to harness the immune system through science to prevent and cure disease, and its immediate objective is the creation of a vaccine for HIV. The son of a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, Ragon was born in Arizona. He grew up in a variety of states and graduated from high school in Bogota, Colombia. He obtained an S.B. (B.S) in physics from MIT.
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About Intersystems: InterSystems is a vendor of software and technology for high-performance database management, integration, and health information systems.
Ashifi Gogo
Founder and CEO of Sproxil
Ashifi founded Sproxil® in 2009 and currently serves as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. Under his leadership, Sproxil developed its award-winning Sproxil Defender™ technology that has been used over 75 million times by consumers in 6 countries to verify the authenticity of their products and earn instant rewards for their loyalty. In 2015, Ashifi was named to Fortune’s 40 under 40 list. He was awarded the Social Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2014 by the Schwab Foundation. In 2013, Sproxil was named the world’s most innovative company in health care by Fast Company, and #7 most innovative worldwide, beating 99 of the Fortune 100 companies. Ashifi served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation and on the Meta-Council on the Illicit Economy. He holds a US Patent and earned a Ph.D. in Engineering from Dartmouth College. Ashifi holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Physics from Whitman College, where he delivered the 2018 commencement address and received an honorary doctorate. He is Dartmouth’s first-ever Ph.D. Innovation Fellow and teaches a course in New Business Ventures Technology Management at Columbia University.
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About Sproxil: Sproxil is an information technology company that focuses on supply chains and consumer engagement.
Boyd Mulvey
CEO & Founder of Chorus Intelligence
Boyd started his career in 1990 as a data analyst for Credit Suisse Financial Products (CSFP), an investment bank which created and traded derivative financial instruments based in London. At CSFP Boyd created a database for analysing capital at risk for the bank called FRED (Financial Risk Exposure Database) which is still in use today. Boyd moved from analyst to strategy at UBS and then into investment banking where he helped to raise money for and float several technology companies on the UK Stock Exchange before launching a Venture Capitalist Fund called the CREATE East of England Fund, which specialised in investing into early stage tech companies around the Cambridge area. Following the completion of that Fund, Boyd founded Chorus Intelligence to focus on data analytics once again.
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About Chorus Intelligence: Chorus Intelligence provides technology that allows authorities to investigate crimes using mobile phone records.
Tony Robinson
Founder of Speechmatics
Tony pioneered recurrent neural networks in speech recognition and has built and scaled multiple speech groups and companies. Tony’s passion is the development and application of machine learning to tasks that have traditionally been considered impossible for computers to solve.
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About Speechmatics: Global experts in deep learning and speech recognition
Brodie Stone
Co-Founder of UnifiHealth
Brodie Stone is the Co-Founder at UnifiHealth.
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About UnifiHealth: UnifiHealth is reimagining how health benefits are built and delivered to small businesses.
Maya R. Said
CEO and Co-Founder of Outcomes4Me
Maya Said is the Founder and CEO of Outcomes4Me.
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About Outcomes4Me: Outcomes4Me is a developer of a free mobile app and platform to navigate cancer treatment and care.
Tristram Norman
Co-Founder & CTO of Simprints
Tristram Norman, CTO and Co-Founder of Simprints. Tristram is a software engineer with an MSc with high honors from the University of London and professional certifications from MIT in Big Data. His software portfolio includes a complete systems portal with energy industry leader JDR Cables Inc. Tristram is a Forbes 30 under 30 Social Entrepreneur.
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About Simprints: Simprints is a nonprofit company building technology to increase effectiveness in how the world fights global poverty.
Toby Norman
Co-Founder & CEO of Simprints
Toby Norman, CEO and Co-Founder of Simprints. Gates Scholar and PhD in Management from the University of Cambridge, BA in Biology from Harvard. Toby has worked >10 years with frontline workers across Africa, Asia, and Central America on initiatives to improve global health and development through technology. Toby is a 2018 GLG Fellow, 2017 Schwab Social Entrepreneur of the Year, and 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur.
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About Simprints: Simprints is a nonprofit company building technology to increase effectiveness in how the world fights global poverty.
Daniel Carballo
CEO & Co-Founder of Encora Therapeutics
Daniel Carballo is the CEO at Encora Therapeutics.
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About Encora Therapeutics: Encora helps people with neurodegenerative movement disorders regain independence and control in their lives.
Magdeline Pokar
Founder, Managing Director of Asia Research News
Maggie is the managing director of Asia Research News, overseeing all aspects of this innovative startup.
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About Asia Research News: Asia Research News connects researchers with international media, policy makers, fellow collaborators and the science-hungry public.
Jonathan Jackson
Co-Founder & CEO of Dimagi
Jonathan Jackson is the CEO and cofounder of Dimagi, a socially conscious technology company that develops CommCare, an open source, scalable mobile platform for low-resource settings. Jonathan is a social entrepreneur and innovator with extensive mobile technology expertise in both low-income and high-income settings. He has co-founded multiple organizations focused on improved healthcare delivery and poverty alleviation globally. As co-founder and CEO of Dimagi, Jonathan has overseen the growth of the company from the founding team to over 100 world-wide employees that operate programs in over 50 countries. He made an uncompromising commitment to open source software and developed a highly interactive, collaborative culture that fosters partnerships across academics, philanthropists, and implementers. Jonathan earned his bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
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About Dimagi: Dimagi is an award-winning technology company, developing scalable ICT solutions for low-resource settings.
Patrick Short
CEO & Co-Founder of Sano Genetics
Co-Founder and CEO of Heterogeneous, a genetic data sharing platform dedicated to providing researchers with access to high-quality and dynamic genetic and medical data while empowering users to own and control their own data. https://www.heterogeneous.co.uk/
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About Sano Genetics: Sano Genetics is a personalised medicine research platform with data privacy and transparency at its core.
William Jones
CTO & Co-Founder of Sano Genetics
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About Sano Genetics: Sano Genetics is a personalised medicine research platform with data privacy and transparency at its core.
Paul McConkey
Co-Founder & Technical Director of Imagen Ltd
Paul McConkey is Co-Founder & Technical Director at Imagen Ltd.
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About Cambridge Medical Communication, Imagen Ltd: Imagen Ltd is a modular enterprise video platform that enables content owners to publish and monetize media archives.
Tony Blake
Founder Director of Imagen Ltd
Tony Blake is Co-Founder at Imagen Ltd.
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About Imagen Ltd, Screenocean: Imagen Ltd is a modular enterprise video platform that enables content owners to publish and monetize media archives.
Dan Cvrcek
Founder of KeyChest
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About KeyChest, Smart Architects: KeyChest is a certificate management tool that helps small to medium sized businesses to website expiration due to unmanaged encryption.
Julian Chesterfield
Founder and CEO of Sunlight.Io
Julian Chesterfield, founder and CEO of Sunlight, has worked in the cloud and virtualisation industry for over 15 years. After completing his PhD at Cambridge University, he became involved in writing a technology called Xen, which became the foundation of the public cloud back in 2007 when it was adopted by Amazon and most of the emerging public cloud infrastructure providers of the day.
Julian began Sunlight as an incubation project in 2013 to build a lightweight hypervisor for low-power Arm processors. On seeing its value for data-intensive applications at the Edge, Julian and the founding team built it into a full hyperconverged infrastructure stack – Sunlight. Sunlight secured $6m in Series A funding in December 2020 and has gone on to launch new products, including the Sunlight Infrastructure Manager (SIM) and Marketplace.
Julian previously held positions at OnApp, as Chief Scientific Officer, and Citrix, as Storage Architect
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About Sunlight.Io: Sunlight.io makes running and managing applications and infrastructure at the edge as easy as in the cloud. Sunlight works with efficient, ruggedized edge hardware – so you can consolidate all of your in-location edge applications with full isolation, security and high availability.
Mick Correll
President and Co-Founder of Genospace
Mick Correll is the Co-Founder & President of Genospace.
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About Genospace: Genospace is a medicine software platform that genomics is driving the development of precision medicine.
Zied Etleb
Co Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Curiato Inc.
Zied Etleb is the co-founder and chief executive officer at Curiato.
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About Curiato Inc.: Provides caregivers and patients a holistic, end-to-end, management system.
Daniel Watts
Founder & Managing Director of Aluminati Network Group
Daniel leads the Aluminati team and has overall responsibility for defining the company’s technical and business strategies and with his deep sector knowledge he leads product innovation. Daniel founded the company in 2002 when he graduated from Oxford with an honours degree in Computation. An expert in online engagement, Daniel is regularly invited to speak at industry conferences and is in regular attendance at multiple CASE events per year. In his spare time Daniel enjoys the physical and mental challenges of basketball and has also coached the Darwin College ladies team to Cambridge championship titles for 4 consecutive years.
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About Aluminati Network Group: Aluminati Network Group provide online services and platforms to unite alumni, student and member networks.
Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
Founder & CEO of Patients Know Best
Mohammad is founder and CEO of Patients Know Best and has over 15 years of experience in medical software. He trained as a physician at the University of Cambridge; worked as a staff scientist at the National Institutes of Health; and was a management consultant to US hospitals at The Advisory Board Company. He is the author of seven books, including Personal health records: A guide for clinicians and Streamlining Hospital-Patient Communication: Developing High Impact Patient Portals. He is also an honourary senior research associate at UCL medical school for his research on patient-controlled medical records. In 2012 he was elected an Ashoka Fellow as a social entrepreneur for the contributions he has made to patient care.
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About Patients Know Best: Patients Know Best provide hospitals with personal health records software so that their patients can better manage their health.
Gadi Oren
CEO and Co-Founder of ITculate
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About ITculate, NetApp: ITculate’s discover components and service dependencies to create a context, visualization and service level KPIs.
Ken Banks
Founder of FrontlineSMS
Ken Banks is the founder of [Frontline SMS](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/frontlinesms) and [Kiwanja.net](http://www.Kiwanja.net). He specializes in the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change in the developing world. He combines over 22 years in I.T. with over 15 years experience living and working throughout Africa in countries including Kenya, Nigeria (where he ran a primate sanctuary), South Africa, Mozambique, Cameroon, Zambia, Uganda and Zimbabwe. In 1999 he graduated from Sussex University with honours in Social Anthropology with Development Studies His vision is to empower others to create social change, and he does this by developing and providing tools to mostly grassroots organisations who seek to better use technology in their work. In 2007 he hit headline news on the BBC when his text messaging application – FrontlineSMS – was used to help monitor the Nigerian Presidential elections. Since launch the software has been successfully implemented in over forty countries including Afghanistan, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, the Philippines and Pakistan Ken has recently been interviewed by the BBC World Service, The Economist, BBC News Online, The New York Times, Nokia, Mongabay.com, The Africa Journal, White African and the Sussex University Alumni magazine, among many others, and he was recently invited to take part in an Aspen Institute round table discussion on the use of mobiles in activism and civic engagement. Ken has written about his work, and the wider role of mobile technology, for a number of publications including Pambazuka News, Didactics World and Vodafone Receiver magazine, and has a regular online column in PC World. He has also acted as an official judge for the Global Mobile Awards, the Mobile Messaging Awards and his own nGOmobile initiative, and is a regional judge for the 2008 Adjudication Panel for the African ICT Achievers Awards Programme He has spoken about the application of mobile technology at a number of conferences, workshops and organisations including Nokia, IDEO, Stanford University, the MacArthur Foundation, Amnesty International and the University of Arizona. He has also presented papers at the W3C Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries (Bangalore, 2006 and Sao Paulo, 2008) and the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (Canada, 2007), where he also sat on a specialist panel discussing web delivery models for emerging markets. Ken also spoke at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (2008), and delivered a keynote address at Mobile Messaging 2008 in Cannes Ken was recently awarded grants from the MacArthur Foundation and the Open Society Institute (OSI), and has been short listed for two mobile industry awards for the development of FrontlineSMS. Between 2006 and 2007 he was based at Stanford University as a Visiting Fellow on the Reuters Digital Vision Program. He currently spends his time between Cambridge (UK) and Stanford University in California.
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About FrontlineSMS, Kiwanja.Net: FrontlineSMS is free, open source software.
Ed Colby
CEO and Founder of Purrmetrix
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About Purrmetrix: Purrmetrix uses real time data loggers to drive powerful, hassle free analytics.
Mal McCallion
Founder & MD of Growtion
Mal McCallion is heading-up Growtion, the cost-effective, unique business consultancy focused on helping organisations maximise their growth – fast. Using an exclusive formula, successfully tested in multiple industries, it’s your growth solution.
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About Growtion: Growtion provides cost-effective growth consultancy. Using a unique formula tested in multiple industries, Growtion is your growth solution.
Marcio Macedo
Co-Founder & VP Products of Ava Robotics
Marcio is Co-Founder and VP Products at Ava Robotics. Previously, Marcio was Director of Product Management for commercial robots at iRobot where he led the product strategy for iRobot’s industry-leading autonomous robots for commercial applications. A video conferencing industry veteran, prior to iRobot Marcio served in product management leadership roles at HP, Polycom, and PictureTel Corp. Marcio has a BSEE from the Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, an MSEE from Northeastern University and an MBA from Babson College.
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About Ava Robotics: Ava Robotics is a robotics technology company that designs and builds intelligent robots for the workplace.
Youssef Saleh
Founder & CEO of Ava Robotics
Youssef Saleh is the Founder and CEO of Ava Robotics.
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About Ava Robotics: Ava Robotics is a robotics technology company that designs and builds intelligent robots for the workplace.
Matt Blumberg
Founder and Executive Director of GridRepublic
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About GridRepublic: GridRepublic plugs you into a novel form of digital philanthropy: Volunteer Computing.
Andrew Flewitt
Director and Co-Founder of Sorex Sensors
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About Sorex Sensors, University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge: Sorex Sensors manufactures high sensitivity MEMS mass sensors to transform industrial and consumer products.
Jack Wu
Founder of Coolso
Jack Wu is the founder of CoolSo Inc.
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About Coolso: Coolso uses unique patent technology to develop wearable gesture recognition solution.
Federico Cismondi
Founder & CEO of doDOC Corporation
Founder at doDOC
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About doDOC Corporation: doDOC allows several people to work on the same document at the same time. Plan, draft, edit, review and approve docs more than 70% faster.
Josh Harris
Founder & CEO of Doc2
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About Doc2: Allowing SMEs to create, send and eSign their contracts in seconds.
Jacob Feala
Founder of Outlier Bio
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About Outlier Bio: Outlier Bio is a secure platform helps consultants to manage value-based pricing for their clients.
Jacob Feala
Founder of Outlier Bio
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About Outlier Bio: Outlier Bio is a secure platform helps consultants to manage value-based pricing for their clients.
Will Hunt
Co-Founder of In.security
Will Hunt is an information security enthusiast who has worked in IT security for the past 9 years. He is an Associate Director at NotSoSecure and was an infrastructure hacking trainer at Blackhat USA 2017. Prior to this he was a pentester and trainer, developing and delivering technical and non-technical courses for a leading IT security firm. Before pentesting Will was an experienced digital forensics consultant and trainer. He runs the blog stealthsploit.com and has identified and responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities in various software.
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About In.security: In.security is a specialist cyber security organisation providing technical and educational services.
Owen Shearing
Co-Founder of In.security
Owen Shearing has worked in the IT industry for a number of years, the last 6 specifically within security. He is an Associate Director at NotSoSecure, a specialist IT security company delivering high-end IT security consultancy and training. Owen has delivered NotSoSecure training courses at Blackhat Asia, USA and EU over the past couple of years. He runs the blog rebootuser.com and has authored tools which can be found at github.com/rebootuser.
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About In.security: In.security is a specialist cyber security organisation providing technical and educational services.
Tanya Cashorali
Founder of TCB Analytics
Tanya Cashorali is the founding partner of TCB Analytics, a Boston-based data consultancy, and the chief data officer of Stattleship, a sports content and data business that connects brands with sports fans through social media. Previously, she worked as a data scientist at Biogen. Tanya started her career in bioinformatics and has applied her experience to other data-rich verticals such as telecom, finance, and sports. She brings over 10 years of experience using R in data scientist roles as well as managing and training data analysts, and she’s helped grow a handful of Boston startups.
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About TCB Analytics: TCB Analytics offers a full range of analytics solutions to help you manage, analyze and visualize your data.
Jyotin Gambhir
Founder of SecureFLO
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About : SecureFLO provides Governance Risk and Compliance & Security as a Service (SECaaS)
Joseph Coughlin
Founder and Director of MIT AgeLab
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About MIT AgeLab: The MIT AgeLab was created in 1999 to invent new ideas and creatively translate technologies.
Eric Quesnel
Director of Services, Founder of Quesnel Technology Solutions
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About Quesnel Technology Solutions: Enterprise level technology specialists.
Patrick Vinck
Co-Founder of KoBoToolbox
Patrick Vinck is Co-Founder at KoBoToolbox.
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About KoBoToolbox: KoBoToolbox is a suite of tools for field data collection for use in challenging environments. Our software is free and open source.
