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 Machine Learning 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.
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.
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Nischal Nadhamuni
CTO & Founder of Klarity
Nischal is Cofounder and CTO of Klarity. Nischal is an MIT hacker (B.S. 18′) with strong Machine Learning background. Before he co-founded Klarity, he built an automated fraudulent user detection tool at Flipkart and worked on algorithms to detect cancer causing mutations using Machine Learning for Mass General Hospital.
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About Klarity: Klarity uses Artificial Intelligence to automate Billing & RevRec contract review for SaaS and Software companies.
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.
Toby Simpson
Co-Founder & COO of Fetch.AI
Toby Simpson is a producer of the successful a-life Creatures series of games and early developer at Deepmind. His thirty years’ experience in software, ten as a CTO, are now focussed on crypto-economics.
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About Fetch.AI: Fetch.AI develops a decentralized network for digital representatives to find, communicate, and trade with each other.
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
Dongho Kim
Co-Founder & CTO of Secondmind
Dongho’s research interests are various fields of machine learning and in particular decision making under uncertainty via reinforcement learning. He is originally from South Korea and a former postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University Engineering Department. He is co-founder and CTO at PROWLER.io. He used to play the keyboard and write songs in a rock band. He has also been practising guitar with games like Rocksmith.
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About Secondmind: Machine learning for automotive innovators
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.
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.
Emil Hewage
Co-Founder & CEO of BIOS
Emil’s academic background is as a PhD researcher in computational neuroscience and machine learning. He brings knowledge of neural signalling and signal processing with over 7 year’s industrial & academic R&D experience. He has previously developed medical devices with Siemens Healthcare and Sphere Medical as well as having held roles in finance and medical and cleantech startups.
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About BIOS: A full-stack neural interface platform, that uses AI to decode and encode the signals from to the body, to treat chronic health conditions.
Oliver Armitage
Co-Founder & CSO of BIOS
Oliver Armitage is Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at BIOS, a leading neural engineering startup. Oliver has always had a vision that the human body could be repaired or made better through augmentative technology and how that can be used to improve people’s lives. He studied for his PhD at the University of Cambridge in Bioengineering, working in the world-renowned Nanoscience Centre. He specializes in tissue interfaces and engineering to allow technology to be fused with the body. Oliver was recently named to Forbes 30 Under 30 2018.
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About BIOS: A full-stack neural interface platform, that uses AI to decode and encode the signals from to the body, to treat chronic health conditions.
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.
Venky Soundararajan
Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer of nference
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About nference: nference.inc, provides an AI based software platform that synthesizes siloed biomedical knowledge for insights and makes it computable.
Dennis Sheberla
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Kebotix
Dennis Sheberla is the Founder & CTO at Kebotix.
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About Kebotix: Kebotix is a high-tech materials discovery and production company that reinvent the discovery of new materials using AI.
Christoph Kreisbeck
Founder & Chief Product Officer of Kebotix
Christoph Kreisbeck is the Founder & Chief Product Officer at Kebotix.
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About Kebotix: Kebotix is a high-tech materials discovery and production company that reinvent the discovery of new materials using AI.
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.
Corbin Church
Co-Founder and CEO of Cambridge Touch Technologies Ltd.
Accomplished and energetic entrepreneur working in the high-technology industries of flat panel displays, semiconductors and enterprise SaaS; executive level management and technical experience in all aspects of high-growth company operations. – Experienced in technology commercialization, including: business development and strategy, sales and marketing, customer development, IP management, contract and licensing negotiation, and fund raising.
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About : Pressure Sensitive Multi-Touch for Next-Generation Smart Devices including Smartphones, Tablets, Automotive and Industrial
Arokia Nathan
Co-Founder and Director of Cambridge Touch Technologies Ltd.
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About : Pressure Sensitive Multi-Touch for Next-Generation Smart Devices including Smartphones, Tablets, Automotive and Industrial
Nathan Wilson
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Nara Logics
CTO and Co-Founder at Nara Logics, Inc.
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About Nara Logics: Nara Logics is a neuroscience-based AI synaptic intelligence for better decisions.
Yibiao Zhao
Co-Founder and CEO of ISEE
Yibiao Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of ISEE AI.
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About ISEE: ISEE develops a humanistic artificial intelligence for autonomous driving.
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
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.
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.
Ben Peters
Co-Founder and VP of Product of FiveAI
Ben Peters is a Co-Founder and VP of product at FiveAI.
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About FiveAI: FiveAI provides a software platform designed for providing a solution in urban mobility in public transport to complex urban environments.
David Excell
Founder of Featurespace
Dave is Featurespace’s Founder and CTO,responsible for working directly with our clients. Dave is an experienced technology innovator with over 18 years dedicated to the study of engineering. He has received several accolades in his field, including the ITC Enterprise Award for Young Entrepreneur. Under his leadership, Featurespace has progressed from a concept to a commercial success. Dave currently resides in the U.S. and is managing the Featurespace global expansion from Atlanta, Georgia.
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
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
Matthew George
Founder & CEO of Bridj
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About Bridj: BRIDJ is an intelligent public transport service powered by a demand responsive technology platform.
Layla Shaikley
Co-Founder and VP of Customer Experience of Wise Systems
Layla Shaikley is the co-founder and vice president of customer experience.
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About Wise Systems: Wise Systems’ autonomous dispatch and routing software uses AI to improve fleet efficiency and customer service for last-mile operations.
Ariel Elizarov
Founder of Lazarus
Ariel Elizarov is the Founder at Lazarus.
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About Lazarus: Lazarus uses patient health data to help physicians catch cancer early.
Devon Kinkead
Founder & CEO of Micronotes
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About Micronotes: Micronotes is an AI-enabled cloud-based marketing automation company leverging automated interviews to solve the digital engagement problem.
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.
Suvrit Sra, PhD
Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer of Macro-Eyes
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About Macro-Eyes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Macro-Eyes is an AI company. Our technology makes crucial systems resilient.
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.
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.
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
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
Niluka Satharasinghe
Co-Founder & CTO of Sparrho
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About Sparrho: Sparrho lead the world in democratising science using augmented intelligence.
Roeland P.-J. E. Decorte
Founder & CEO of Decorte Future Industries
Roeland P.-J. E. Decorte is the Founder & CEO at Decorte Future Industries Ltd.
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About Decorte Future Industries: Artificial Intelligence for extracting human health and body data from audio.
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.
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.
Raoul-Gabriel Urma
CEO and Founder of Cambridge Spark
Raoul-Gabriel Urma is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge. His research centers on programming languages and software engineering. He is an author of the upcoming book Java 8 in Action: Lambdas, Streams, and functional-style programming published by Manning. In addition, Raoul has written over 10 peer-reviewed articles and given over 20 technical talks at international conferences. He has worked for large companies such as Google, eBay, Oracle, and Goldman Sachs, as well as for several startup projects.
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About Cambridge Coding Academy, Cambridge Spark: Cambridge Spark is a leader in personalised Data Science training.
Victor Kostyuk
Co-Founder & CTO of OfferFit
Victor Kostyuk is the Co-Founder & CTO at OfferFit.
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About OfferFit: OfferFit selects the best message, incentive, timing, and channel for every customer.
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.
Oliver Hilbourne
Founder and Director of Outfield
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About Outfield: Bringing the future to fruit farming
Igor Chernyy
Founder of Ampello Labs
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About Ampello Labs, Zome Energy Networks, Inc: Technology start-up focusing on human speech interfaces.
