Founded 2014
Founders Rob Bishop, CEO Zehan Wang, CTO

Magic Pony Technology developed research-led ML models that enhance, predict, and compress video streams. The company was acquired by Twitter in 2016 for its pioneering algorithms.


Founders

Rob
Bishop

CEO

Rob holds a First Class Master’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Imperial College. He was the first engineering employee at Raspberry Pi, and has received numerous awards for his work in technology. He also holds a number of patents in the technology space. He sold his first company, Intelligent Spatial Positioning, while building Magic Pony during the Entrepreneurs First program.

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Zehan
Wang

CTO

Prior to cofounding Magic Pony, Zehan completed a PhD in Visual Information Processing for Medical Image Analysis at Imperial College London, and started a company to track skin conditions using computer vision. After selling Magic Pony to Twitter, Zehan became the Engineering Lead for the machine learning research organization at Twitter. He is now working on building an AI Center of Excellence in Europe, and advises companies on the Entrepreneurs First programme. 

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