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You don't need years of work experience to be the CEO or CTO.

Through our 6-month platform, you’ll get paid to test out your ideas with a pool of exceptional people who want to build technology startups.

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David Gorgan

CEO, Nostos Genomics

Experienced with medical ML products and in the healthcare industry

Berlin

Rocio Acuna Hidalgo

CTO, Nostos Genomics

Medical doctor with PhD in human genetics, previously Max Planck Institute

Berlin

Leopold Spenner

CEO, Alcemy

MSc Industrial Engineering, expert in cement and concrete industries

Berlin

Robert Meyer

CTO, Alcemy

PhD in Machine Learning

Berlin

Tomide Adesanmi

CEO, Circuit Mind

Electronics engineer, Master's from University of Leeds

Basilio Gentile

CTO, Circuit Mind

PhD in mathematical algorithms for complex systems from ETH Zurich
Making blood tests 100x faster and 100x simpler

Mohammad Danesh

CTO, Transcelestial

PhD in Nanophotics from NUS, designed and built photonic systems

Singapore

Rohit Jha

CEO, Transcelestial

Bachelors in Electrical and Electronic Engineering NTU, previously RBS

Ramakrishna Nanjundaiah

CEO, Phantasma

MSc in Computational Mechanics, built city-scale simulations

Berlin

Maria Meier

CTO, Phantasma Labs

MSc in Software Engineering, previously TU Munich, Brown University and Oracle

Sachin Chiramel

CEO, real analytics

Experience in investment banking and financial services

Nitin Shukla

CTO, real analytics

Experienced data scientist, previously IIT

Shao-Ning Huang

Venture Partner, Entrepreneur First

Exited founder, private investor, active angel and startup advocate

Rayna Patel

CEO, VineHealth

Doctor and neuroscientist, previously Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, Columbia

London

Georgina Kirby

CTO, VineHealth

Data scientist, previously Imperial College London and GSK

London

Rob Bishop

Venture Partner, Entrepreneur First

Investor and founder of Magic Pony, built through Entrepreneur First and exited to Twitter for $150M

You don't need years of work experience to be the CEO or CTO.

Through our 6-month platform, you’ll get paid to test out your ideas with a pool of exceptional people who want to build technology startups.

Join as an individual. Leave with a company.

Theo Saville 

CEO, CloudNC

Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineer, background in metals 3D printing

London

Chris Emery

CTO, CloudNC

Engineer programming since age 12, expert in 3D graphics and high-performance computing

London

Maëliza Seymour

CEO, Codist

Experience as an IT project manager at global banks, machine learning graduate

Paris

Shubhadeep Roychowdhury

CTO, Codist

Software developer and machine learning engineer, published author on data science

Paris

Laina Emmanuel

CEO, Brainsight AI

Healthcare business expert, previously Clinton Health Access Initiative

Bangalore

Rimjhim Agrawal

CTO, Brainsight AI

PhD in AI in Psychiatry from National Institute of Mental Health and Neuroscience

Bangalore

Zeena Qureshi

CEO, Sonantic

Speech and language therapy expert

John Flynn

CTO, Sonantic

MSc Sound Computing, film industry
Empowering doctors to predict strokes and save lives

Jean-Baptiste Clouard

CEO, Flowlity

Experienced in supply chains, previously Anaplan, Quintiq, and Dassault Systèmes

Karim Benchaaboun

CTO, Flowlity

Machine learning engineer, previously Axa and Criteo

Venkat Raju

Venture Partner, Entrepreneur First

Serial entrepreneur and prolific angel investor and mentor

Reid Hoffman

Founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn

Investor and board member at Entrepreneur First, previously PayPal, Apple and Fujitsu

Alex Dalyac

CEO, Tractable

Ex-Imperial College London, LSE and Rocket Internet, co-founded EF's first Unicorn, Tractable

London

Razvan Ranca

CTO, Tractable

Computer scientist, previously Cambridge, worked with leading academic in Machine Learning

London

Hazel Savage

CEO, Musiio

Experienced music industry professional, previously Shazam, Pandora and Universal Music

Aron Pettersson

CTO, Musiio

Data science specialist, degree in Physics and Master's in Molecular Biology

Rathin Shah

CEO, Spenny

Worked in investment banking and management at JP Morgan Chase, graduate of BITS Pilani

Gaurav Arora

CTO, Spenny

Software engineer, previously Netflix and Ixigo

Nimantha Baranasuriya

CEO, Ackcio

PhD in Computer Science, specialist in wireless networks

Singapore

Mobashir Mohammad

CTO, Ackcio

Expert in IoT and wireless networking

Singapore

Matthew Wilson

Co-founder (Commercial), Omnipresent

Experienced entrepreneur and technologist

London

Guenther Eisinger

Co-founder (Operations), Ominpresent

Served in the Austrian Special Forces, ran his own international business

London

Joanne Kanaan

CEO, Omini

PhD from Ecole Normale Supérieure, research at the frontier of biochemistry and biophysics

Paris

Anna Shirinskaya

CTO, Omini

PhD in bioelectronics from Ecole Polytechnique, expert in bio-sensing devices

Paris

Sasha Haco

CEO, Unitary

Astrophysicist, previously Cambridge and Harvard

London

James Thewlis

CTO, Unitary

Computer vision expert, previously Facebook and AdTech

London
Cleo is the money app that has your back.

Zaraif Ayaat Hossain

CEO, Retail Pulse

CPG insider, deep experience in the challenges of unorganised retail markets

Bangalore

Anshul Gupta

CTO, Retail Pulse

Engineering degree from NIT, led winning team in P&G Global AI Challenge

Bangalore

Ankur Singh

CEO, Vadoo

Built and sold products for video companies

Bangalore

Anil Chandra Naidu Matcha

CTO, Vadoo

Engineer, previously IIT, Samsung and Cisco

Bangalore

Rubal Chib

CEO, QZense

Electronics engineer, previously Havells and IOTA

Bangalore

Shrishti Batra

CTO, QZense

PhD in Computational Biology & Chemical Ecology, previously NCBS, Max Planck Institute

Bangalore
A space data network using lasers to transfer data at up to 1000x faster

Yassine Emile Tahi

CEO, Kinetix

AI project leader, previously HEC Paris & Sciences Po

Paris

Henri Mirande

CTO, Kinetix

Deep learning expert, graduated from CentraleSupélec aged 20

Paris

Masha Krol

CEO, Ampersand

Previous startup founder, created and led Human-AI Interaction team at Element AI

Toronto

Anwar Jeffrey

CTO, Ampersand

Full-stack developer, scaled backend at YC-backed GovTech from Series A to IPO

Toronto

Hana Janebdar

CEO, Juno Bio

Biochemical engineer, previously UCL and Imperial College London

London

Leighton Turner

CTO, Juno Bio

Interdisciplinary scientist, PhD in Molecular Genetics

London
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Individuals joined

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