#1 Becoming an Entrepreneur - Three and a Half Founders
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We have brought together some of the world’s smartest and most ambitious minds to form a diverse and dynamic global community. Here are some profiles of our outstanding alumni.
Noor Shaker
Founder, GTN
Noor Shaker
Founder, GTN
Noor joined EF8 where she met her co-founder Vid and founded GTN, a company that offers a quantum leap in drug discovery. Noor is a professor from Aalborg University in Copenhagen with ten years of academic experience in machine learning. She has published more than 50 papers with 1000 citations and an entire book on generative networks. She has won a number of awards and grants for her research.
Rohit Jha
Founder, Transcelestial Technologies
Rohit Jha
Founder, Transcelestial Technologies
Rohit cofounded Transcelestial Technologies (EFSG1). Transcelestial is developing a ground breaking satellite communications network, using proprietary laser technology to transfer data 1000 times faster than current wireless technologies, across any distance. He’s an Electrical Engineer by training, and worked for 4 years in RBS’ FX Electronic Markets Team on latency in communications before joining EF.
Zehan Wang
Founder, Magic Pony Technology
Zehan Wang
Founder, Magic Pony Technology
Zehan is the cofounder of Magic Pony Technology (EF3), a video processing startup that was acquired by Twitter. Zehan joined EF after earning a PhD in Computer Vision and Biomedical Image Analysis from Imperial. He experimented with a number of ideas while at EF, before cofounding alongside another Imperial graduate he met at EF, Rob Bishop.
Dave Hunter
Founder, Optimal Labs
Dave Hunter
Founder, Optimal Labs
Dave rejected a PhD offer from Princeton to join EF and found Optimal Labs (EF7). Optimal applies bleeding-edge Deep Reinforcement Learning to create highly-intelligent autopilots for farms. Dave holds a first class Master’s in Computer Science from Oxford and previously ran the algorithmic trading quantitative strategies team at Deutsche Bank where his algorithms traded >5% of the European stock market volume.
Sadaf Monajemi
Founder, See-Mode
Sadaf Monajemi
Founder, See-Mode
Sadaf is co-founder of See-Mode, which empowers doctors to predict strokes and save lives with no additional test. She has a PhD and a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a dual degree in Biomedical Engineering. She has collaborated with leading AI and machine learning experts from UCLA, University of Oxford, and Imperial College.
Neel Popat
Founder, Donut
Neel Popat
Founder, Donut
Neel met his co-founder Jordan on the first Berlin cohort, and together they founded Donut, an investment service into digital assets (read: crypto). Prior to joining EF, Neel has over 7 years of deep finance experience having worked at 3 top-tier investment funds managing >$150bn. Neel started his career at Rothschild and holds a first class degree in Financial Mathematics & Statistics from LSE/Harvard. He built his first business out of his bedroom aged 14.
Over 200 Companies Founded
We back those who want to work with cutting edge technologies, which means the companies created through the programme span a number of different industries.
Magic Sandbox
producing world class software engineers at scale.
INFRASTRUCTURE/DEV TOOLS
Magic Sandbox
Founders
Jord van den Hooff Mislav Stipetic
Jord van den Hooff Mislav Stipetic
Magic Sandbox produces world class software engineers at scale. What makes a great developer are the years of navigating and interacting with a diverse stack at a top tech company. Such exposure doesn’t just deepen the understanding of technologies, it enables the engineer to connect the dots, and as a result solve hard problems effectively.
Jord van den Hooff is a full-stack designer. He moved to China aged 19, where he studied Chinese & Design. He spent 10 years building startups, including an e-commerce company. He was also UX Design Director at Razorfish and Publicis. In Europe, he joined BCG Digital Ventures as a Senior PM.
Mislav Stipetic is a full-stack engineer. He studied CS in Zagreb (TA in Computational Theory & Compilation of Programming Languages). He was part of the Core Infrastructure team at Delivery Hero. He then joined the AI Team at Flixbus and recently led the IoT platform at Infarm.
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Affable
Leverage AI for your Influencer Marketing Campaigns.
AR/VR/MEDIA
Affable
Founders
Nisarg Shah Swayam Narain
Nisarg Shah Swayam Narain
Affable is building an end-to-end platform that brings intelligence and automation to influencer marketing. They derive insights about micro influencers and their audience by using cutting edge computer vision algorithms on social media posts. Affable is building the technology that enables one-click influencer marketing at scale, doing to social what Google Adwords did to search.
Nisarg Shah graduated with a silver medal for overall excellence from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). He worked with Goldman Sachs where he spearheaded software automation and big data projects. Nisarg also developed and launched a social learning platform (Graspr) and an AR visualisation platform (Visualive) before founding Affable.
Swayam Narain is an award winning computer scientist who graduated top of his class at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He was a software engineer at Pivotal Labs where he turned client’s ideas to high quality products. He has expertise in building computer vision pipelines, social media platforms and cloud applications that scale.
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Open Cosmos
Open Cosmos provides customers with a development kit and simulator so they can build the technology at their own pace following its standard.
Aerospace
Open Cosmos
Founders
Rafel Jordá Siquier Han Lai
Rafel Jordá Siquier Han Lai
Open Cosmos provides our customers a development kit and simulator so they can build the technology at their own pace following our standard. When ready, we take care of all the paperwork, integrate it into our nanosatellite alongside other customers and put it into space. This approach allows mass customization, reducing costs from the millions down to a few hundred thousand.
Rafel Jorda̝ Siquier is an aerospace engineer with an MBA and background in both space startups and big industry players such as Airbus D&S. He’s supported by a team of four.
Han Lai is an electronic engineer with 10 years of experience in a China-based supply-chain business producing high tech sensors.
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Hadean
Unifying the performance and capabilities of HPC (high-performance computing).
INFRASTRUCTURE/DEV TOOLS
Hadean
Founders
Alec Mocatta
Alec Mocatta
Hadean is unifying the performance and capabilities of HPC (high-performance computing) and the commoditisation and scale of ‘big data’, with easy-to-use development tools.
The applications of the technology range from financial market prediction and climate modelling to deep learning and synthetic biology.
Alec Mocatta built an indoor positioning company whose technology beat out Cisco and Estimote for accuracy. He sold that company during EF to work full time on Hadean.
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Brolly
Brolly is an AI-driven personal insurance concierge, available through a smartphone app.
Finance
Brolly
Founders
Phoebe Hugh Mykhailo Loginov
Phoebe Hugh Mykhailo Loginov
Brolly is an AI-driven personal insurance concierge, available through a smartphone app. Brolly is being built to make it incredibly easy people to understand, manage and buy insurance, using the Brolly Advisor, Brolly Locker and Brolly Shop.
Phoebe Hugh began her career at Aviva as an Underwriter and Product Manager. She holds qualifications with the Chartered Insurance Institute and a BSc in Psychology from the University of Manchester.
Mykhailo Loginov spent over 7 years at Microsoft and Skype as a Software Engineer and Manager, and holds a Masters in Computer Science from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
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Circuit Mind
Circuit Mind is using AI to completely automate the design of electronic circuits.
COMPUTING HARDWARE
Circuit Mind
Founders
Tomide Adesanmi Basilio Gentile
Tomide Adesanmi Basilio Gentile
Circuit Mind is using AI to completely automate the design of electronic circuits. Every year £40bn and 1.5bn hours are spent globally in tedious and repetitive circuit board design work. We are building extremely complex artificial intelligence that takes in the requirements for a circuit board and outputs the circuit board final design, ready for manufacture. This means better circuits, designed orders of magnitude faster, at a fraction of the cost.
Tomide Adesanmi is an electronic systems engineer with a Master’s from the University of Leeds. He spent over four years building high integrity AR displays for pilots at BAE Systems. His expertise in complex systems design is central to Circuit Mind’s technology.
Basilio Gentile has two Master’s degrees, including one in Electrical Engineering, and a PhD from ETH Zurich with a focus on mathematical algorithms for complex systems. He declined postdocs at Harvard and Berkeley to start Circuit Mind. His mastery of high-performance algorithms is at the core of Circuit Mind’s solution.
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