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 CEO’ operating in the Software 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.
Bhavesh Dayalji
Chief Executive Officer of Kensho
Bhavesh Dayalji is the Chief Executive Officer of Kensho.
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About Kensho: Kensho combines natural language search, graphical user interfaces, and secure cloud computing to create a new class of analytics tools.
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Alex Kendall
Co-Founder & CEO of Wayve
Alex Kendall is the co-founder & CEO at Wayve.
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About Wayve: Wayve uses end-to-end deep learning to develop artificial intelligence capable of complex driving.
Boris Lipchin
Founder and CEO of BRIO Systems
Boris Lipchin, co-founder and CEO of Brio Systems, Inc.. Boris was previously a co-founder and CTO of Airmada, Inc. before Airmada four years as a flight software engineer, launch operator and GN&C engineer for SpaceX.
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About Brio, BRIO Systems, Techstars: BRIO Systems offers a complete COVID-19 testing system to help employers keep teams safe and businesses on track.
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.
Andrew Antoš
CEO & Founder of Klarity
Andrew is Cofounder and CEO of Klarity. Andrew is a Harvard lawyer (LL.M. 17′) and spends his time on product development, doing sales and business strategy. Before Klarity, he worked as an associate at Squire Patton Boggs where he was focusing on Technology M&A and IP & Licensing.
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About Klarity: Klarity uses Artificial Intelligence to automate Billing & RevRec contract review for SaaS and Software companies.
Ramses Alcaide
Co-Founder , CEO & President of Neurable
Ramses Alcaide is an electrical Engineer, neuroscientist, previous CEO of Pharo LLC and current CEO of Neurable. At Pharo, he managed high impact health projects, such as a malaria prediction system, a rehabilitation technology for stroke patients and a health monitoring system. As a researcher, he has worked extensively to develop the brain-computer interface (BCI) technology for people with amputations, children with cerebral palsy and people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He was also the CTO and CSO at NeuroStride, developing their go to market strategy and technology. Lastly, he is also the inventor and primary developer of Neurable. His honors include the Neuroscience Innovator Award, National Science Foundation Fellowship, and Ford Foundation Fellowship.
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About Neurable: Neurable creates brain-enabled control directed towards virtual and augmented reality.
Humayun Sheikh
Co-Founder & CEO of Fetch.AI
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About Fetch.AI: Fetch.AI develops a decentralized network for digital representatives to find, communicate, and trade with each other.
Archil Cheishvili
Co-Founder and CEO of GenesisAI
Archie (Archil) Cheishvili is the Co-Founder and CEO of GenesisAI.
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About GenesisAI, Palatine Analytics: GenesisAI is an Artificial Intelligence marketplace that allows companies to buy or sell AI products and services
Ali Alauoubiy
Co-founder & CEO of ProdX.ai
Ali shapes the strategies that harness big data to solve daily problems. His focus is firmly on technology, platform capabilities and business growth. He has 18 years of experience in leading technology, delivery functions and business transformation across a range of sectors including financial service, travel, private equity and professional service. Ali has a Bachelor’s degree with Honors in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Birmingham. And is currently completing the General Management Program (GMP) at Harvard Business School. A transformational leader experienced in managing large scale transformation initiatives, emerging technologies, complexity reduction/simplification, globally distributed diverse teams, strategic business growth, turnaround, restructuring, and operation management. With a broad International career experience across the Middle East, Asia Pacific, Africa and North America. – Cross-functional leadership, management and coaching multi-cultural, and distributed (including remote) teams, including setting clear and measurable goals aligned to strategy and fostering collaboration across diverse teams – Leading complex enterprise and digital transformations (including Agile Delivery and DevOps, Change Management, Culture Change, AI and Machine Learning and Cloud Migration). – Delivering multi-million-dollar budget software integration and transformation projects in a broad range of sectors (Private Equity, eTrading, wealth & asset management, aviation and, professional services). – Effective internal and external stakeholder management experience across business units. – Previous work experience at Dresdner Kleinwort (2004-2008), financial.com (2008-2010), Mubasher Financial Group (2010-2012), National Net Ventures (2012-2014), Credit Suisse (2014-2015), Emirates Airline (2015-2017) and ESW Capital (2017-2019).
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About ProdX.ai: Bring transparency and objectivity to the workplace by empowering individuals to achieve more, powered by A.I. insights and coaching.
Simon Galbraith
Founder & CEO of Redgate Software
Simon is the joint founder and CEO of Redgate Software. Over the past 15 years, Simon has been part of Redgate’s growth from a 2 person firm operating out of a spare room to today’s 300 person outfit with hundreds of thousands of users. Although Simon’s responsibilities are primarily strategic, his background is technical with qualifications including a PhD in physics from Cambridge University and former employment with Shell and ThornEMI.
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About Redgate Software: Redgate is the leading provider of software for professionals working on the Microsoft data platform.
Lyric Jain
Founder & CEO of Logically
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About Logically: Logically develops the latest in AI technologies to combat information overload, misinformation, fake news & other types of harmful content.
David Shrier
Co-Founder & CEO of Esme Learning Solutions
David is a globally recognized thought leader in technology and educational innovation, serial entrepreneur, and author. The portfolio of digital classes he created for MIT and University of Oxford have engaged more than 15,000 innovators in over 140 countries, and revolutionized the model for university short-course offerings. He is a Professor of Practice (AI and Innovation) with Imperial College Business School, and holds a secondary appointment as Associate Fellow with SaÏd Business School, University of Oxford. David has published five books in the past five years focused on technology disruption, the three most recent of which with MIT Press or Little Brown. His latest book, Augmenting Your Career: How to Win at Work in the Age of AI will be published by Little Brown in spring 2021.
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About Adit EdTech, Colorado School of Mines, Copper, Esme Learning Solutions, FINRA, Imperial College Business School, MIT Press, Riff Analytics, University of Oxford, Visionary Future: Esme Learning is transforming the world’s workforce for the Fourth Industrial Revolution using AI.
Eduarda Bardavid
Co-Founder & CEO of Drag
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About Drag: The Everything Inbox for teams. One single place to support customers, manage tasks and close deals, from the place teams love – Email.
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.
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.
Peter Dabrowa
CEO of Wonde
CEO at Wonde.
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About Bay Tree PR, Koala, Wonde: Wonde provides third party applications access to secure school data.
Robert McGrath
CEO of Labtiva
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About Labtiva: Labtiva develops online software for scientists offering research management tools for the life sciences and academic literature industries.
Joshua Lessing
Co-Founder and CEO of Root AI
Joshua Lessing is the Co-Founder and CEO at Root AI.
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About AppHarvest, Root AI: Root AI is a research company aiming to create intelligent robots that will help growers build the farms of the future.
Nan-Wei Gong
Co-founder & CEO of FIGUR8
Dr. Nan-Wei Gong is a researcher, engineer and serial entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and CEO of figur8 Inc, and a research affiliate of the MIT Media Lab. Her first start-up, 3dim Tech Inc, received the grand prize of the MIT $100K entrepreneurship competition in 2013, selected in the Global Founders’ Skill Accelerator and was acquired in 2014. She founded Circular2 in 2014 – a technical consulting agency that specialized in on body sensing, low-power wearable electronics and digital textile research and development. Their clients include top universities – MIT, Harvard – and fortune 500 companies such as Google and Samsung. Her past work includes flexible and customizable printed sensing surfaces for gestural control, time-of-flight modules for 3D gesture tracking, and wearable sensing for dynamic management of ubiquitous media. She publishes her research extensively at top-tier computer science conferences and journals including best papers at CHI, UbiComp, UIST and IEEE pervasive magazine. She has worked in a number of industrial research labs, among them Microsoft Research and the Nokia Research Center, and was assigned as the R&D lead of Project Jacquard at Google ATAP in 2014-2016. She holds a PhD and MS degree in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab and a MS in Materials Science and Engineering from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.
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About FIGUR8, MIT Media Lab: FIGUR8 is the most advanced on-body movement intelligence solution for evaluating musculoskeletal health.
Jana Eggers
CEO of Nara Logics
Jana is CEO of Nara Logics (naralogics.com), a neuroscience-based artificial intelligence company focused on turning big data into smart actions. Whether starting and growing companies, or leading large organizations within big companies, Jana focuses on understanding the customer needs and creating technology products that customers love and drive business growth. Her software and technology experience comes from technology and executive positions at Intuit (NASDAQ INTU), Blackbaud (NASDAQ BLKB), Lycos, American Airline’s Sabre, and as CEO of Spreadshirt. She received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science at Hendrix College, followed by graduate school at RPI and supercomputing research at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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About Blackbaud, Nara Logics, SureCruise.com: Nara Logics is a neuroscience-based AI synaptic intelligence for better decisions.
Konstantin Kiselev
CEO of Conundrum
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About Conundrum: Conundrum is a platform helps factories to solve the tasks of predictive maintenance.
David Vorick
CEO of Nebulous
David Vorick is the CEO at Nebulous.
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About Nebulous, Skynet Labs: Nebulous expertise in designing blockchain hardware and software infrastructure.
Meghan McCormick
Co-Founder & CEO of OZÉ
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About OZÉ: OZÉ is a habit-forming mobile app that makes it easy for SMEs in Africa to keep digital records, make better decisions and access capital.
Max Kleiman-Weiner
Co-founder & CEO of Common Sense Machines
Max is Co-founder and CEO of Common Sense Machines and an active angel investor. He was cofounder and chief scientist of Diffeo (acquired by Salesforce in 2019) as well as a PhD student in computational cognitive science at MIT, funded by the NSF and the Hertz Foundation. He won best paper at RLDM 2017 for models of human cooperation and the William James Award at SPP for computational work on moral learning. Previously, he was a Fulbright fellow in Beijing. Max holds an MSc in statistics from Oxford, where he was a Marshall scholar, and an undergraduate degree from Stanford, where he was a Goldwater scholar.
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About Common Sense Machines, Diffeo: Common Sense Machines is building artificial intelligence that learns to translate the world into a 3D simulation.
Josh Kanner
Founder & CEO of Smartvid io
Software entrepreneur and executive with background in cloud, mobility, and web environments. Was founder or management team member of two venture capital backed software companies that revolutionized their respective markets before being acquired. Co-founded a third and managed it through the startup and seed funding process. Deep functional skills in marketing, product management, and business development. Domain expertise in AEC (architecture, engineering and construction), information security (infosec), and strategic sourcing. www.linkedin.com/pub/josh-kanner/0/99/717/ (CrunchBase bug not updating “website” links in profile)
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About CVP Management, Smartvid io: Our AI-powered Safety Suite helps companies identify their highest risk projects and act to prevent incidents from occurring.
Filip Twarowski
CEO of Point
Filip Twarowski is CEO and Co-Founder at EasyEmail.ai. Fil is an MIT mathematician and aerospace engineer. He’s gathered experience in big data, statistical modeling and natural language processing while working for NASA and Quantlab Financial. His first startup experience was in 2015, when he worked for a medical software startup to help predict diseases without doctor supervision. He led teams of 70 people and organized one of the largest career fairs in the US. Filip also competed in judo on the National Team for Poland and played the harmonica on a couple of blues bands.
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About Point: Point helps the user to easily save snippets of text, templates, and other content, and re-use them effortlessly on any website.
Mohamed Elmasry
CEO & Co-Founder of Tactful
Mohamed Elmasry is a person with “think, plan, act & accomplish” mentality who has a proven experience in motivating people to work towards challenging goals. I have been in the business world for several years running and growing businesses. I excelled in the fields of project management, business development, engineering management, and building strategic business relationships. My passion goes to distributive innovation, managing products development, defining processes and methodologies, also sustaining engineering and business activities.
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About Arm Holdings, Tactful: Unified Cognitive Customer Experience Platform
Eben Upton
Chief Executive Officer of Raspberry Pi Foundation
Eben Upton is a founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and serves as the CEO of Raspberry Pi (Trading), its commercial arm. In an earlier life, he founded two successful mobile games and middleware companies, Ideaworks 3d (now Marmalade) and Podfun, held the post of Director of Studies for Computer Science at St John’s College, Cambridge, and wrote the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary with his father, Professor Clive Upton. He holds a BA, a PhD and an MBA from the University of Cambridge.
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About Raspberry Pi Foundation, Raspberry Pi Foundation: Raspberry Pi Foundation is a charity that develops a credit card-sized computer that can be plugged into a TV and keyboard.
Matthew Cleevely
CEO & Chairman of 10to8
Matthew founded 10to8 with a few friends to help simplify managing bookings and make the world a little bit more organised. He helps out where needed across the business in strategy, accounting, finance, compliance, fund raising and people. Outside of 10to8 he works with wide range of high growth businesses to help them achieve their goals. He’s also got an MEng in Engineering from Oxford and MPhil in Economics from Cambridge
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About 10to8: 10to8 is a powerful appointment scheduling software that is GDPR & CCPA ready, offers HIPAA tools, and is ISO 27001 certified.
Michael Yaroshefsky
Founder & CEO of Visor
Michael Yaroshefsky is the founder and CEO of RocketVisor.
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About Visor: The world’s most connected spreadsheet
Darran Milne
Co-Founder & CEO of VividQ
Dr Darran Milne – Chief Executive Officer, PhD (University of St Andrews & Max Plank Institute) Mathematician and Theoretical Physicist by training, with a PhD in quantum information theory from the University of St Andrews and the Max Plank Institute in Erlangen. Having started his career as a quantitative analyst at a large financial software house, he soon began to direct product development initiatives, and manage client implementation projects as a Scrum Master. As one of the co-founders of VividQ and its CTO, he directed the original research and development efforts of the team that evolved into the currently offered products. In his role as a CEO, he has been responsible for leading and execution of the company’s technology and commercial strategies.
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About VividQ: VividQ powers the revolution in digital display with Computer-Generated Holography.
John Frank
CEO of Diffeo
John is CEO and co-founder of Diffeo, where he focuses on helping people digest complex information using collaborative machine intelligence. John’s previous startup, MetaCarta, pioneered map-based entity search and was acquired by Nokia in 2010, where he served as Chief Architect for Search until 2012. John has a B.S. from Yale, loves solar cars, and is a Hertz Fellow at MIT in soft condensed matter physics.
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About Diffeo: collaborative machine intelligence
Meridith Unger
Founder & CEO of Nix
Meridith is the founder and CEO at Nix. Meridith is a college basketball player-turned-runner, and has run seven marathons on her way to completing all the world majors. Before founding Nix, she helped launch six life science startups with several venture capital and venture creation firms. Meridith received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College where she received the Anna Pell Wheeler Prize for Mathematics, and her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. She is a Kauffman Fellow as well as a Harvard Business School Blavatnik Fellow.
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About Nix: Nix is a consumer diagnostic company that develops a sweat-based biometric sensor to monitor hydration levels for athletes.
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.
Chris Mitchell
CEO & Founder of Audio Analytic
Dr Chris Mitchell founded Audio Analytic following the completion of his self-funded PhD in sound information systems and signal processing. Chris received a prestigious Kauffman/NCGE Fellowship to investigate the commercial implications of his research, through which he received training at Harvard Business School and worked with Cisco Systems in San Jose, US. Subsequently, Chris attended the Ignite programme at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School, funded by the East of England Development Agency. He is an internationally published author, an associate lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University’s Design and Technology Department, and holder of multiple patents.
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About Audio Analytic: Audio Analytic creates exceptional human experiences through giving consumer technology a greater sense of hearing.
Qi Su
Co-founder & CEO of Modelo
CEO and Co-Founder of Modelo, Qi Su, partnered with Tian Deng in 2014 to start Modelo after noticing an easy-to-use, web-based application for collaborating and presenting 3D and VR CAD designs was missing from the industry. Qi is responsible for defining the company’s vision and strategy and ensuring the strategy is implemented successfully. He is actively involved in all areas of the business including product development, sales, marketing, and recruiting. Hailing originally from China, over the last 15 years, Qi has worked hard throughout Asia and North America to build a commanding resume which includes a Masters qualification from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He translates this strong background into building a company and a product that serves the specific requirements of AEC professionals throughout the world. Qi is a soccer player (a middle field striker) and a motorcycle lover. When not in the office, he enjoys spending time with his lovely daughter and wife.
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About Coohom, Modelo: Modelo is a design and development communication platform created for the architecture, engineering and construction industries.
Lauren Kuntz
CEO & Co-Founder of Gaiascope
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About Gaiascope: Gaiascope helps energy companies and investors transition to the future in the most economic way possible.
Edison Almeida
CEO, Board Director, Board Member, Shareholder of eCurv
Edison Almeida is eCurv’s co-founder. He brings over 15 years of experience as an electrical engineer, consultant, and sales executive in the telecommunications, information security, and energy industries to the company. Mr. Almeida started his career with Motorola, designing cellular networks for the major wireless operators in Sao Paulo, Brazil. While at inCode, a Mobility engineering and strategy consulting firm, Edison led teams in the delivery of digital cellular infrastructure projects to the major mobile operators in the US. Prior to inCode, Edison was a Sales Director at VeriSign, where he delivered cutting-edge solutions to Fortune 500 companies, including state of the art cyber-intelligence, managed security services, digital content delivery, and online brand management technology offerings. Edison graduated cum laude from Babson College with an MBA in entrepreneurship. He received his undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Sao Paulo University’s Polytechnic School – POLI-USP.
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About eCurv, Schneider Electric: ECurv is a tech firm that offers electric energy distribution through their energy demand management software services.
Rui Li
Co-Founder & CEO of Robby Technologies
Rui Li is the Co-Founder & CEO at Robby Technologies.
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About Robby Technologies: Robby Technologies is building self-driving robots to deliver food and packages autonomously to users’ doorsteps.
Anum Hussain
Co-Founder and CEO of Below the Fold
Anum Hussain is the Co-Founder and CEO at Below the Fold. Nearly 3,000 miles away from campus, two MIT graduates met in a cafe in Los Angeles. What was intended to be an introductory chat turned into a deep conversation about how to use technology to radically improve the way we consume news online. To get started on that journey, our debut product is a Google Chrome extension that helps news seekers save time and dig deeper. As you read an article, Acciyo appears to the right of your screen like a bookmark sleeve, using natural language processing to populate a timeline of everything published on that subject, kind of like previous chapters of a news story. We aim to make it easier for any news reader to get the context they need to read the news with ease. The root of our name, accio, means “to summon” or “to fetch” in Latin. For those of you who recognize it as the popular Harry Potter spell – yes, that is the actual inspiration for our name. With backgrounds in journalism and media, experience in product marketing and design, and a little bit of magic … we’re on a mission to transform reading the news from a survivalist exercise into a rich, motivating experience.
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About Below the Fold: Below the Fold uses machine learning to provide automatic context on any news article.
Justin Ott
CEO of Spark EV Technology
CEO at Spark EV Technology.
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About Spark EV Technology: Spark develops and supplies personalised journey prediction and map display software products for electric vehicles.
Ramsey Faragher
Founder & CEO of Focal Point Positioning
Ramsey Faragher is the CEO and CTO at Focal Point Positioning. He is a world-leading expert in GNSS-denied positioning and is pioneering the development of game-changing new technologies to set new standards in indoor positioning and autonomous positioning systems. He holds a first class degree in Physics and a PhD in opportunistic radio positioning, both from the University of Cambridge. Ramsey is also a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation, and a Bye Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge. Previously he was a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, where he developed the first online SLAM-based indoor positioning system for smartphones. Prior to this he was a Principal Scientist at the BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre where he developed the award-winning and patented NAVSOP opportunistic positioning suite and other GNSS-denied tracking technologies.
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About Focal Point Positioning: Focal Point has developed next generation navigation and positioning software for smartphones, wearables and autonomous vehicles.
Yeh Diab
Cofounder/CEO of Service Route
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About Service Route: Service Route is a property maintenance platform that helps maintenance professionals manage and grow their 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.
Andy Vidan
CEO of Composable Analytics, Inc.
Andy Vidan is the Co-Founder & CEO of Scrypt.He attend to the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2011.
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About Composable Analytics, Inc., Scrypt: Intelligent DataOps platform with built-in composable services for data orchestration, automation and analytics
Greg Silverman
CEO of Concentric
Greg Silverman is the CEO at Concentric.
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About Concentric: Concentric enable transformation with an augmented intelligence platform that delivers trustworthy, actionable what-if answers in real-time.
Shravane Balabasqer
Founder | CEO of Carbon Analytics
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About Carbon Analytics: A granular asset focused carbon intelligence & offsetting platform for active industrial decarbonisation across the value chain.
Adam Durant
Founder & CEO of SATAVIA
Adam Durant is CEO and Founder of Satavia. Prior to founding SATAVIA, Dr. Durant worked as a professional scientist and held posts at the University of Cambridge and Norwegian Institute for Air Research. Dr. Durant has grown Satavia to achieve global recognition in the Tällt Ventures Disrupt 100 list in 2017 and was selected to participate in the 2017 SVC2UK CEO Summit held at Buckingham Palace. In addition, he has taken SATAVIA to the finals of Pitch@Palace 6.0; Mass Challenge 2016; and Copernicus Masters 2016. He has also won over £1.5m grant funding since 2015 from Innovate UK, Aerospace Technology Institute, and the European Space Agency for Satavia.
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About SATAVIA: SATAVIA simplifies decision-making for smarter, greener aviation
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.
Nicolaas Matthijs
CEO, Founder of Fronteer LTD
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About Fronteer LTD: Creating awesome Educational Technology experiences
Nicolaas Matthijs
CEO, Founder of Fronteer LTD
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About Fronteer LTD: Creating awesome Educational Technology experiences
Shahriar Khushrushahi
Co-Founder & CEO of Notch Technologies
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About Notch Technologies: Notch Technologies is developing tech for boosting the communications capabilities of drones.
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.
Yscaira Jimenez
Founder & CEO of Plexx
Yscaira Jimenez, a Dominican immigrant, grew up attending public schools in the Bronx, taught English to students in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, and has spent most of her professional career working for high-impact tutoring. She founded and ran La Pregunta Arts Cafe, an arts cafe in Harlem, for five years. Yscaira also worked for three New York education startups (Rocket Learning, Learn-It Systems, Platform Learning) in business development, operation, and corporate trainer roles bringing tutoring to more than 10,000 low-income students across the United States. In addition to English, she speaks Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. As a Legatum Fellow, Yscaira is CEO of and has spent the last year working on Plexx, a mobile app that’s reinventing the job search, training, and application process for young people without college degrees. Her focus is on the United States and Brazil. She has partnered with local municipalities, foundations, workforce development agencies, and employers and will be running two pilots this summer in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil and the Bronx, New York. Yscaira received her MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. She also holds a 2003 BA in English and Latin American Studies from Columbia University.
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About LaborX, Plexx: Plexx is a mobile application where people can train skills to get a job.
David Mindell
CEO & Founder of Humatics
David A. Mindell, PhD—Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has spent twenty-five years researching the myriad relationships between people and machines. He has led or contributed to more than 25 oceanographic expeditions and developed and commercially licensed spread-spectrum sonar technologies for undersea navigation. He is the author of five books, including Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy (2015), Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in the First Six Lunar Landings (2008), and Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing Before Cybernetics (2000).
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About Humatics: Humatics is developing microlocation products that will revolutionize how people and machines locate, navigate, and collaborate.
Romain Marmot
Deputy CEO, Chief Operating Officer – US, Oncology Division Coordinator, Co-founder of Voluntis
Romain is Chief Operations Officer of Voluntis and heads the company’s North American operations in Cambridge, MA. He has more than 15 years of experience in digital health and software medical devices. He holds an MSc from École Centrale Paris in applied mathematics.
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About Voluntis: Voluntis is a healthcare-related software company specialized in patient relationship management.
Pierre Leurent
Founder & CEO of Voluntis
Pierre has more than 15 years of international experience in software medical devices, disease management and telemedicine solutions in Europe and the United States. Before founding Voluntis in 2001, Pierre worked with General Electric Medical Systems and with HealthCenter Internet Services, an online cardiology EMR solution vendor in San Francisco. In addition, Pierre is the Director of Syntec Numérique, where he leads the telemedicine workgroup, co-leader of CSIS-CSF’s e-health workgroup and e-health advisor within Nouvelle France Industrielle’s health steering committee. Pierre is a graduate of the Ecole Centrale Paris engineering school.
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About Voluntis: Voluntis is a healthcare-related software company specialized in patient relationship management.
Colin Bray
CEO of 1Spatial
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About 1Spatial: 1Spatial provides the software solutions and services that manage the world’s largest spatial big data.
Colin Bray
CEO of 1Spatial
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About 1Spatial: 1Spatial provides the software solutions and services that manage the world’s largest spatial big data.
Ashish Fernando
Founder and CEO of iSchoolConnect
Ashish Fernando is the Founder and CEO at iSchoolConnect.
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About iSchoolConnect: Artificial Intelligence, international student admission, international universities and colleges.
Vitor Pamplona
CEO of EyeNetra
I am mostly known for starting a smart, connected wave of technologies in eye care. We created the first smartphone add-on to measure the refractive error of the eyes, the first at-home vision test to be self-administered by the patient alone, the first to use virtual reality to improve the experience, the first tele-optometry deployment, the first to allow patients to track their own eyesight over time, and the first to complete an integrated solution to remote refractive care worldwide. All of them are marketed products these days (EyeNetra, EyeQue, OnSight, Blink). My research also established the concept and first prototype of a 3D display that eliminates the need for corrective eyewear altogether (Tailored Displays). I operate in the triple frontier between optics, computer science, and vision science from early research to post-breakeven. We have created and deployed refractive innovations that enable eyecare providers to fulfill a vision correction to the ~4.5B people in need. That vision correction is delivered in various form factors: eyeglasses, contacts, Lasik surgery, self-correcting displays, holograms, virtual and augmented reality add-ons, etc; and through a range of companies and products my technology helped create and deploy over the past years. My executive style is based on transparency, freedom, diversity, and trust. Besides the technical knowledge, I have hands-on experience in corporate governance, marketing, sales, fundraising and finances, business development, and intellectual property, both in an NGO and Startup settings. In the side, I co-founded PUB-Boston and the SciBr Foundation to help catalyze Brazilian innovation worldwide. In the past, I co-founded one of the biggest Java User Groups in Brazil (JavaFree), the first Portuguese-speaking on-line portal for Ruby (RubyOnBr), the first 3D game engine for feature phones (M3GE), deployed 11 other open source projects while working full time as a software developer and architect.
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About EyeNetra, Path Check, SciBr Foundation: EyeNetra is a developer of an eye diagnostics platform used to measure the correction of users’ vision through smartphone-based technology.
Tim Cheeseright
Chief Executive Officer of Torx Software
Tim Cheeseright is the director of product at Cresset Biomolecular Discovery.
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About Cresset, Torx Software: Torx Software is a platform for small molecule discovery chemistry.
Adam Greenwood-Byrne
CEO of RealVNC
Adam was appointed CEO in March 2018 after successfully building RealVNC’s intellectual property licensing (OEM) business and transforming their end-user proposition to a SaaS model. Leading the business into Livingbridge’s 2021 investment has left RealVNC poised for its next stage of growth.
With a background in Mathematics and Computer Science, and a career spent growing IT companies from the ground up, Adam bridges the technical and commercial interests of the business. Seeing his role as building a world-class team that works together in harmony to deliver an excellent service, this has been an important attribute.
Over his career, he has helped charities, non-profits, start-ups, scale-ups and corporates alike to deploy technology that maximises efficiency and effectiveness. His passion for RealVNC as a productivity solution that’s relevant in every industry sector, at every organisation size, is only amplified by its long history of reducing carbon emissions and creating workplace equity by enabling people to reduce their personal travel and work wherever works.
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About RealVNC: Accelerate your business with secure remote desktop access and support for a connected world.
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.
Robert Scoffin
CEO of Cresset
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About Cresset: Cresset is software and services for small molecule discovery and design.
Piers Wombwell
CEO of Ekioh
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About Ekioh: Ekioh develops cutting-edge browsers, including Flow, its new multithreaded browser.
Alex Smeets
CEO, Cambridge Funding Solutions of Pintrack Ltd
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About : Pintrack Ltd is a tech company focused on software development.
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.
Geoff Meyerson
CEO and Founder of Evolved Capital
Geoff brings a track record of success in investment banking, venture capital and licensing where he has closed >30 transactions of all varieties. While an investment banker in UBS’ Global Healthcare Investment Banking Group, he closed 12 financing and M&A transactions with a variety of life science companies. Geoff worked at MedImmune in business development working on their small molecule strategy, which resulted in three transactions, and where he also assisted with two other transactions. While a venture capitalist at SR One, the venture capital subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline, he closed eight transactions in the US and Europe, co-leading the due diligence for Algeta, which concluded an $800M partnership with Bayer leading to a 20x+ return to investors. Geoff worked in business development at Zelos Therapeutics where he negotiated a drug delivery collaboration with Aegis Therapeutics. He brings strong deal acumen, business and financial strategy, and negotiation capabilities. Geoff founded and is President and of an exclusive relationship building non-profit organization called, BioBreak. BioBreak has grown to four regions nationally (Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia and New Jersey) and has a membership base of >2,000 senior life science operating and investing executives. He also has served two terms on the board of the Wharton Health Care Management Alumni Association. Geoff was named by the Philadelphia Business Journal to their 40 Under Forty list for 2010. He holds an MBA in Health Care Management from the Wharton School, a Master of Biotechnology from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BS in Economics from Duke University. Geoff lives in Needham, MA with his wife, three children and new dog. He is a registered rep from FINRA having received his Series 79, 63, and 24 licenses.
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About Evolved Capital: Evolved Capital is a service that offers tools for streamlining financial transactions and organize the investment process.
Ben Pellegrini
Chief Executive Officer of Intellegens
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About Intellegens: Cambridge spin out using Deep Learning to train on big, incomplete data. Currently working in drug discovery and material design.
Misha Kapushesky
Chief Executive Officer of Genestack
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About Genestack: Genestack provides customers in the pharma, biotech and healthcare sectors with multi-omics data management and integration solutions.
Rory Crawford
Co-Founder & CEO of BevSpot
Rory Crawford is Founder at BevSpot.
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About BevSpot: Online platform for the Food and Beverage industry.
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.
Robert Suh
Founder and CEO of OnCorps
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About OnCorps: OnCorps is a provider of decision and behavioral science into machine learning nudges to help people make better decisions.
Sadiq Jaffer
CEO of Opsian
Sadiq holds a PhD in Autonomous Robotics and has for years consulted for multi-national companies designing and implementing highly scalable intelligent platforms. His experience has included deep learning systems, embedded platforms, desktop and mobile games development.
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About Opsian: Opsian performance reports give you line-level granularity – giving you actionable information to eliminate bottlenecks.
Sithamparanathan Sabesan
Founder and CEO of PervasID
Sithamparanathan Sabesan read a BEng (Hons) Electronic Engineering at Sheffield University in 2004, where he scored the highest marks in his year, and was awarded the Sir William Siemens Medal for being among the UK’s top 18 science and technology students. Sabesan worked on RFID since beginning his PhD on the subject of ‘Passive RFID real time sensing system for intelligent infrastructure’ at Cambridge University in 2007 and was elected to a Research Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge University in 2011. Prior to his PhD, he worked at ARM as an Electronic Engineer. Sabesan is a recipient of the 2011 Royal Academy of Engineering ERA Entrepreneurs Award and the 2011 UK ICT Pioneers of Connected World award. In 2014 he was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellowship, and most recently he was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year award, as well as the Sir George Macfarlane Medal 2016 for excellence in the early stage of the career. He is a Fellow of the ERA Foundation.
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About PervasID: PervasID is developing a high reliability
Antony Rix
CEO of Granta Innovation
An entrepreneur with an engineering background, Antony has spent over 20 years working in telecommunications, wireless technology, medical devices and product development. He started his career at a major telecoms research laboratory, then co-founded Psytechnics, a spin-out commercialising network quality assessment and monitoring technology. He then spent more than a decade at TTP, the leading technology and product development consultancy, before joining 8power as co-founder and CEO. He is currently founder and CEO at Lucida Medical, developing AI for cancer screening using MRI.
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About Lucida Medical: Research, consulting and development of AI and ML applications in business and healthcare
Phil Strazzulla
CEO of NextWave Hire
Phil Strazzulla is the founder and CEO at NextWave Hire.
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About NextWave Hire: NextWave Hire allows HR teams to market their company through career sites, and talent communities.
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.
John McInerney
Founder and CEO of Amperfii
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About Amperfii: Amperfii offers a data enablement platform that helps companies drive better business outcomes.
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.
Ken Roberts
CEO & Founder of AudioTelligence
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About AudioTelligence: AudioTelligence delivers real-time audio processing technology for the enhancement of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems.
Josh Harris
Founder & CEO of Doc2
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About Doc2: Allowing SMEs to create, send and eSign their contracts in seconds.
Manasi Vartak
Founder and CEO of Verta
Manasi Vartak is the founder and CEO of Verta.ai, an early-stage startup building software to help data science and machine learning teams rapidly build and integrate ML across products. Manasi is the creator of ModelDB, the first open source model management system used at Fortune 500 companies and in popular open source projects including Kubeflow. Manasi earned her PhD in computer science from MIT CSAIL, where she worked on software systems for data science and ML. Besides ML Infra, Manasi has worked on personalizing the Twitter newsfeed, automated data visualization, and ML model debugging. She’s a recipient of the Facebook PhD Fellowship and the Google Anita Borg Scholarship.
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About Verta: Verta builds software infrastructure to help enterprise data science and machine learning (ML) teams develop and deploy ML models.
Adam Bishop
CEO of SchemeServe
Adam will try to convince you he invented Software-as-a-Service. He’s been running web based software companies since 15 when still at grammar school and over the years in between migrating (Oxford >> Cambridge >> Italy) has programmed most things: real-time Forex and futures trading systems, 3D games, medical software, music production apps… He passes his (precious) spare time penning classical music, trading Bitcoin and reading Wikipedia. He wants SchemeServe to be perfect.
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About CityTech, SchemeServe: SchemeServe is a cloud based insurance software, including simple scheme management, online billing and beautiful MI reports.
Nizar Romdan
CEO & Co-founder of Virtual Arts Ltd.
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About Virtual Arts Ltd.: We are building a leading state of the art Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality Technology and interactive content company.
Garry Lowther
Chief Executive Officer of TriSys
Garry graduated in 1985 and has spent his entire career working with information technology, having worked in both the private and public sectors, including finance, telecoms, insurance, media. Garry founded TriSys in 1992 to build sophisticated software for business. Garry is passionate about new technology in particular software development with recent focus on cloud computing in the mobile space, and has built solid working relationships with both customers, partners and suppliers.
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About TriSys: TriSys Business Software has been providing CRM solutions to the recruitment industry.
Gavin Gray
CEO of Oomf
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About Oomf: Oomf is a software platform enabling the sharing economy.
Jerry Pett
Co-Founder & CEO of Thymometrics
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About Thymometrics: Always-On & Pulse Employee Engagement Surveys and Employee Feedback Solutions
Erik Thomsen
Chief Executive Officer of Gaia Metrics
Erik Thomsen is Chief Executive Officer of Gaia Metrics. An internationally recognized authority in the fields of multidimensional information systems and sustainability reporting, his reference book, OLAP Solutions: Building Multidimensional Information Systems 2nd edition, is used around the world in both graduate computer science and MBA courses. He was awarded one the fundamental patents behind the business intelligence (or decision support) industry for the creation of multi level hierarchies with indicators that support different calculation states across those hierarchies – something fundamental to nearly all sustainability reporting applications. Previously, as an aggregation specialist for the World Bank, Erik designed the software models for numerous national and sub national integrated socio-economic-environmental indicator systems. He also designed the logic for how the World Bank aggregates irregular data for its system of national accounts (SNA). Prior to co-founding Gaia Metrics (and a related company MindsEye Software www.mindseyesoftware.com/dev, which provides technology to Gaia Metrics under license), Erik was Distinguished Scientist at Hyperion Solutions (now a part of Oracle).
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About Gaia Metrics: Gaia Metrics offers SaaS-based software and data services for the identification of financial risks in environmental and social issues.
Richard Hobson
CEO and Founder of Herdsy
Richard Hobson holds a B.A. in Finance & DBS(IT) from the Michael Smurfit School of Business. He has a diverse skillset as he is both a Software Developer and an Accountant who has worked in these roles for IBM and Aviva. Under Richard’s leadership, Herdsy has grown from a kitchen table business to one that has won international awards and was a finalist in 2018 for Cambridge Agtech Company of the year.
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About Herdsy: Herdsy automates and analyses farm animal data and converts it into valuable profit decisions for farmers.
