EF Alumni

Arpit Bajpai

CTO, LegalAI

Founded:

Cofounder:

Dr. Tessia Tober

Interests / background:

Law, Machine Learning, web3

Location:

Berlin

Cohort:

Arpit holds a Masters degree in computer science from the Technical University of Munich. He has previously held positions as a software consultant, team lead and scientist, and developed an award-winning machine learning algorithm for PV forecasting. He has scientific publications in the field of ML & Blockchain.

LegalAI pitch at Europe 15 Demo Day

Company:

LegalAI

Automating litigation through AI

Gregory Mostyn

Seasoned sales & marketing leader who's managed 25m+ in revenue across two high growth startups.

Leon Wisskirchen

WHU graduate. Serial founder and former Head of Operations at SumUp US. Full-stack web developer.

Konstantin Häfner

Awarded lawyer with a strong VC/regulatory background. Former legal advisor at N26.

Avi Agarwal

Natural language processing expert, built products that grew revenue by $750,000

Saahil Dama

Former tech lawyer at top-tier firm, ran profitable EdTech company

Marcus Naughton

CEO/CTO, Chatsight

LLB Graduate, with Economics. Self-taught NLP/AI Engineer. Red Bull Basement national winner 2019

Saaras Mehan

Computer Science at Cambridge, expert in Machine Learning (Goldman, Microsoft, Autodesk, Lexsnap)

Nelson Jones

Law at Oxford, worked at Luminance AI, owner/builder of target customer (SME)

Priya Surya

MPA/ID in International Development, experience in growth and building international partnerships

Shubhankar Srivastava

Specialist in AI and machine learning

Hardesh Singh

Qualified solicitor with experience in risk and compliance

Dr. Tessia Tober

Former strategy consultant with expertise in International Law

Nitish Mutha

Software engineer, coding since the age of 5

Rafie Faruq

Lifelong programmer with MSc in Machine Learning, previously a derivatives trader

Kush Madlani

Ex-Tractable ML Researcher. Left career as a derivatives trader after teaching himself how to code.

Gregory Mostyn

Seasoned sales & marketing leader who's managed 25m+ in revenue across two high growth startups.

Julien Séveno-Piltant

EPITA AI graduate, deep-learning teacher & full-stack developer. Former CTO & serial entrepreneur.

Abdulhakim Bashir

CTO, Moonah Technologies

ML Engineer & Analyst @ Nigerian Government. Built AML algos to monitor finance & crypto sectors.

Robert Rouse

CTO, Primordial

PhD in Environmental Science and ML at the University of Cambridge. Former climate tech founder.

Dominic Hall

CTO, Biographica

Cambridge PhD in computational genomics. Graph ML specialist. Gene discovery ML researcher.

Elton Soares

3x founder w/ expertise in infrastructure product. Built last venture to 45 employees & R$120 M GMV.

Dirk Brink

CTO, Salus Labs

Web3 security expert and full-stack SW engineer. Chartered Engineer and Imperial graduate.

Yanlin Duan

CTO, Greenspot AI

Machine Learning Master from Columbia University. Tech lead of Robinhood’s lifecycle marketing tool.

Gian Luigi D’Alessandro

Physics PhD, ML expert at CERN. Indie Game Developer. Leading author of 3D modelling papers.

Timothy Wu

Self-taught AI Engineer. Lawyer & legal-tech founder. LLB Graduate at LSE.

Nicholas Ustaran-Anderegg

Machine learning engineer, MEng Imperial College London.

Olivia Stannah

Banker turned builder. Left Merrill & UBS for CompSci at Imperial. Led eng team at payment startup.

Christopher Tan

ML Scientist in Language-based Reinforcement Learning, research partner at DeepMind & Google Brain.

Dr Dom Pimenta

MBBS UCL, pharmaceutical & cardiology physician, digital health academic, winner of RAE award.

Lucien Maman

Ph.D. holder in Affective Computing / AI, with a background in software and video engineering.

Ege Yay

CTO, CloudSale AI

Early employee & Country Manager at Bolt. Europe partner at MEGVII. Found & sold previous AI startup

François-Guillaume Fernandez

Deep learning researcher for DevTools. Top contributor to the leading AI open source framework.

Eric Daoud Attoyan

CTO, Guided Energy

Machine Learning PhD from INRIA & Paris-Saclay Uni. Transport & Resource Allocation specialist.

Maxime Mistretta

CTO, Spore Biotechnologies

PhD & Postdoc in Microbiology at Institut Pasteur. Specialist in advanced bacterial imaging methods.

Jay Shah

Experienced NLP system developer making work fun.

Dr. Claus Gruber

Medical Doctor (LMU, Harvard), researcher on telemedicine/shared care at Moorfields in London.

Maximilian Rolf

Former tech investment banker, advised leading B2B SaaS companies.

Daniel Partida

MSc in applied mathematics from ETH Zurich. Passion for web3 with deep expertise in NLP/AI.

Damodar Sojka

Experienced CTO. Built two-sided marketplaces. Passion for using Web3 to solve Web2 inefficiencies.

Agathe de Vulpian

BSc Ecole Polytechnique in Maths & Computer Science. MPhil Cambridge University in Machine Learning.

Daniel Sozonov

Founder of leading applied ML company in facial recognition for access control and payments.

Tom Gotsman

CEO, SoLo Protocol

Oxford, UC Berkeley, Imperial College. Machine learning researcher. Previous AI startup manager.

Stefan Bostock

CTO, Kanjo Health

Expert in digital biomarkers, machine learning & computer vision. Merck Innovation award winner.

Rohan Tangri

CEO, Compass Labs

AI @ JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Statistical Machine Learning PhD @ Imperial College London.

Elisabeth Duijnstee

CEO, Compass Labs

Physics PhD @ University of Oxford, Machine Learning fellow @ Faculty AI.

Aakarsh Yadav

2x Masters from IIT Kharagpur. Full stack developer. Built social media & platform-based products.

Vishal Bhalla

TU Munich graduate, with an AI major. Specialist in NLP and personal assistants R&D.

Vibhor Saran

Ex VP - Data Science Team at Dozee, with 3 patents on applied Digital Signal Processing.

Sakshi Udeshi

CTO, Lumeros AI

PhD, Machine Learning Testing from SUTD. Discovered 100K+ bugs in Google, Microsoft and Amazon’s AI.

Manick Kalra

CEO, Lumeros AI

NUS EEE Valedictorian (Highest Distinction). Built AI to generate over US$10M in tyre sales.

Kevin Yee

CTO, BetterData

BEng in AI. Ex-IBM. Unlocked phones with fake human fingerprints. Winner of Ideasinc 2017.

Uzair Javaid

CEO, BetterData

PhD in blockchain. Hacked 670 Ethereum wallets. Ex-Merkle Science. E-gaming competition winner 2010.

Admond Lee

Physicist turned full-stack data scientist.

Burhan Ul Tayyab

AI Researcher with Global Awards.

Fannie Lin

Repeat Entrepreneur and founder. PhD.

Ulysse Mizrahi

Serial early-start-upper, passionate about all things productivity

Nicolas Rasamimanana

Entrepreneur with tech background, PhD in Machine Learning

Florian Savoy

Computer vision and machine learning expert

Negin Nahoomi

CTO, Speech Titan

NLP Engineer with experience developing AI products from R&D to production

Justin Macorin

2x founder focused on ML & cybersecurity. Built & sold enterprise SaaS to Fortune 500s

Avi Agarwal

Natural language processing expert, built products that grew revenue by $750,000

Siddharth Sharma

#13 @ Wayve. Deployed real-time Machine Learning on autonomous vehicles. Ex-Microsoft.

Alexander Reichenbach

Former lead product owner at Mercedes-Benz. Master’s in Computing/Machine Learning from Imperial

Pamela Carvallo

Machine learning specialist (PhD) & 2nd time technical founder.

Kacper Kielak

CTO, Quantum Boost

Software engineer specialising in machine learning and optimisation. Ex-Amazon and JPMorgan.

Oleksii Sidorov

Machine Learning expert who has built algorithms at Facebook AI Research and Oxford University.

Mansoor Rahimat Khan

CEO, Beatoven.ai

Engineer combining classical music training and a background in live and recording industry

Siddharth Bhardwaj

CTO, Beatoven.ai

Solved problems in audio signal processing, machine learning, deep learning & generative music

Cuong To

CTO, Cinference

Expert in machine learning, previously lead data scientist at AI startup

Christian Wirsching

CEO, Cinference

Former management consultant with degrees in engineering and business

Daan Zeeuwe

Experienced software architect and published researcher, worked on multiple AI-related projects

Carmine Paolino

Began programming at 5, developed machine learning and anti-corruption systems

Artur Begyan

Mathematical financial developer and economist, including working as a Quant at Bank of America

Saaras Mehan

Computer Science at Cambridge, expert in Machine Learning (Goldman, Microsoft, Autodesk, Lexsnap)

Eoin Hyde

Co-founder Innersight Labs

PhD in Computer Science from University of Oxford

Lorenz Berger

Co-founder, InnersightLabs

PhD in Computer Science from Oxford University

Tanguy Serrat

CTO, SquareMind

MSc in Machine Learning, developed state-of- the-art deep learning systems for medical surgery

Tsung-Hsien (Shawn) Wen

Machine learning researcher, previously worked at Google Brain and IPSoft

Nikola Mrkšić

PhD in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, first hire at VocalIQ

Jiameng Gao

Engineer, Master's in Machine Learning, Speech and Language Technology

Megan Lam

Held research fellowship at Yale School of Medicine and advisor to HealthTech developments

Asmelash Teka Hagdu

Data scientist, PhD in Applied Machine Learning

Phong Vo

PhD in Signal and Images, expertise ranging from machine learning to computer vision

Rob Palumbo

Growth marketing leader who scaled 3x B2C companies from Seed to Series A/B+ and millions in revenue

Sankar Seramani

CEO, Connectify.AI

Machine learning expert and telecommunications engineer

Dmitry Isupov

Co-founder, Chattermill

Degree in Mathematics, background in quantitative marketing

Siddhartha Gunti

Co-founder, Adaface

Researched in context based machine translation, ex-Quant

Deepti Chopra

Co-founder, Adaface

Engineer, former researcher at Caltech

Wilder Lopes

PhD in Machine Learning, experience building deep learning systems

Raz Ghafoor

Prize winning engineer, developed machine learning algorithms

Ulf Bissbort

CTO, Synchronous

PhD in Theoretical Physics, experience in simulation and machine learning

Avni Agrawal

Computer science engineer, experience in big data analytics and machine learning

Gustavo Silva

CTO, Rosecut Technologies

Machine learning specialist

Stefan Boronea

CTO, Proportunity

Experience applying machine learning in research and commercial applications

Rashid Khan

Master’s in Machine Learning, industrial experience

Shubhankar Srivastava

Specialist in AI and machine learning

Lingxiao Xia

Expert in data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence

Raphael Holca-Lamarre

PhD at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning

Tuhin Chakraborty

Software engineer, previously led engineering teams

Jonathan O’Keefe

CEO, Machine Medicine

Doctor, neuroscientist and machine learning engineer

Ashish Kumar

Co-founder, Konigle

PhD in Machine Learning, developed framework for pattern detection from unstructured data

Long Hoang

Computer scientist, built machine learning models that analyse millions of transactions

Mohamed Ben Arbia

Specialist in signal processing and machine learning

Hasan Sheikh Faridul

Co-founder, Eyn

PhD in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, worked in world-leading security companies

Deepanshu Malik

CTO, EndoVision

Experience building deep tech platforms and using computer vision and machine learning on video

James Williams

CEO, Beyond Labs

Experience in finance, built high performance trading systems

Yu Zheng

CEO, ArrayStream

PhD in Quantitative Finance, expert in machine learning, option pricing and portfolio construction

Himanshu Upreti

CTO, AI Palette

Extensive experience in big data analytics and machine learning

Laura Douglas

Experience building AI health products, degrees in Machine Learning and Statistics

David Wood

Data scientist, PhD in Computational Neuroscience

Jordan Noble

Statistical machine learning expert focused on implementing real-time solutions at scale

Tristan Garrec

Deep expertise in computational market design

Sigurjon Isaksson

Strong interest and background in Machine Learning and Financial Engineering

Nnaemeka Obodoekwe

Built software architecture across Africa’s biggest banks and led machine learning teams

Jorge Alexander

CTO, Syndi Health

2x CTO with a track-record of implementing scalable and disruptive machine learning solutions

Tanrajbir Singh Takher

Former Data Scientist with a Master's in machine learning from UCL

Trisha Chatterjee

CTO, immunitoAI

Experienced in R&D, applying AI & ML solutions to various real world problems

Shalabh Singh

Expert generalist with Machine Learning background

Dr Siddhartha

Expertise in multiple machine learning domains, in particular Natural Language Processing

Kunal Sandeep

Co-founder, Polymerize

Industry experience in product development and management

Edoardo Barp

Vice President of Engineering, X80

Mathematician and machine learning specialist

Shivani Shah

PhD from French Nuclear Research Institute CEA, applied Machine Learning to large datasets

Prateek Gaur

Extensive background in computer science and machine learning, ex-Head of Data

Christopher Thompson

CTO, Micrographia Bio

Molecular biologist, machine learning engineer and roboticist

Andrea Mambrini

Award winning data scientist, developed bio-inspired algorithms for European Space Agency

Dr Stefano Goria

Expert in mathematical modelling & multi-modal ML (17 years), PhD in Theoretical Physics, ex-quant

Tom Walker

Worked at the cutting-edge of mathematical optimisation and on production machine learning

Dr Yousef Amar

PhD in distributed networks and edge computing, avid marathoner

Simon Jordan

Machine learning expert, ex-researcher in Silicon Valley and led development teams at Volkswagan

Mehdi Adjaoue

Machine learning expert, deployed autonomous museum guides as an undergraduate

Jean-Baptiste Morlot

PhD in machine learning applied to genetics, pioneer in deep learning to decode sequencing data

Renan Pereira

Data scientist, experience developing and managing scalable machine learning models

Barnaby Hussey-Yeo

Data scientist with interests in finance and machine learning

Tarik Dadi

Led data science projects around the world, Master's Degree in Machine Learning

Nitish Mutha

Software engineer, coding since the age of 5

Rafie Faruq

Lifelong programmer with MSc in Machine Learning, previously a derivatives trader

Satyakama Paul

CTO, BrainEnTech Neuroscience

Data scientist with PhD and postdoc in AI and experience in Machine Learning

Josh Kettlewell

Expert in machine learning, quantum computing and cryptocurrency

Shivam Mani Tripathi

Deep research in AI and automation, experience in product building

Abdelhadi Azzouni

Conducted innovative research applying machine learning to optimise large scale computer networks

Anil Chandra Naidu Matcha

Engineer, previously IIT, Samsung and Cisco

Jean-Vincent de Carvalho

Hacker, full-stack engineer and machine learning expert.

David Gorgan

CEO, Nostos Genomics

Experienced with medical ML products and in the healthcare industry

Rocio Acuna Hidalgo

CTO, Nostos Genomics

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

Pandu Raharja

Machine learning expert, experienced in developing models for cancer detection

Sadaf Monajemi

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Milad Mohammadzadeh

PhD in Biomedical Fluid Dynamics

Robert Meyer

PhD in Machine Learning

Jean-Baptiste Clouard

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

Karim Benchaaboun

Machine learning engineer, previously Axa and Criteo

Ramakrishna Nanjundaiah

MSc in Computational Mechanics, built city-scale simulations

Maria Meier

CTO, Phantasma Labs

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

Ankur Singh

Built and sold products for video companies

Tobias Rijken

Machine learning scientist with a focus on deep learning

Avlokita Tiwari

Bioinformatician with expertise in computational biology and genomic data

Joris Guerry

CTO, Rumble Studio

Machine learning and AI expert, previously built full-stack applications for industry giants.

Abdulhakim Bashir

CTO, Moonah Technologies

ML Engineer & Analyst @ Nigerian Government. Built AML algos to monitor finance & crypto sectors.

Zachary Schwartzman

CEO, Moonah Technologies

Former Wall Street Internet & Crypto Analyst @ RBC. Worked on ~12 IPOs (Jumia). Oxford MBA.

Dirk Brink

CTO, Salus Labs

Web3 security expert and full-stack SW engineer. Chartered Engineer and Imperial graduate.

Cornelia Weinzierl

CEO, Salus Labs

Serial entrepreneur, Crypto since 2017, Web3 community building, BSc Technology and Management.

Daniel Duma

Founder & CTO of multiple tech startups, PhD in AI, ex-Google, ex-Alexa.

Nikita Bulgakov

LSE, Finance. ex-VC (invested $17M+ in 30+ companies) & B2B Sales specialist (led team of 25+).

Pac O’Shea

Ex-VP and Sales leader. Led teams across fintechs and financial institutions.

Praneet Sinha

Fintech/web3 entrepreneur with 5+ yrs exp; built & scaled products in DeFi, banking & paying domain.

Hevar Abrihem

Exp tech lead; founded game server startup, acquired B2C venture, dev web3 interoperability solution

Syed Salman Haider

CarletonU Computer Science Grad, specialist in computer & internet security. Ex-Blockchain Engineer.

Vladimir Stoyanov

MSc, MFin, MBA; Led, grew & exited a B2B SaaS Co. Ex-trader at UBS with US$6B AUM.

Arnaud Favier

PhD in Distributed Systems; Web3 specialist and e-commerce founder with US$300k spent in ads.

Fatima Rizwan

CEO, Metaschool

Bitcoin maxi, passionate about edtech and developer ecosystem.

Greg Wilsenach

PhD Maths/Computer Science & postdoc/researcher & Gates Scholar at Cambridge University.

Rav Singh Sandhu

Fmr EMEA Lead at Facebook, built the largest decentralised newsroom in the world pre-DAO.

Daniel Partida

MSc in applied mathematics from ETH Zurich. Passion for web3 with deep expertise in NLP/AI.

Moritz Gessl

WHU graduate, co-founded crypto start-up and built companies for an incubator, in crypto since 2017.

Gerald Pollak

CEO, Blocktorch

London Business School graduate. Self-taught developer. Ex-Apple biz dev and Series A VC.

Amine Afia

CTO, Blocktorch

KIT & INP Grenoble grad. Specialist in building & leading teams to deliver SaaS products at scale.

Damodar Sojka

Experienced CTO. Built two-sided marketplaces. Passion for using Web3 to solve Web2 inefficiencies.

Chris Parsons

CTO, Grey Swan Finance

Oxford-trained software engineer. Professional experience in backend, and solidity development.

Ben Stemper

CEO, Grey Swan Finance

Former Options Quant at Citadel. PhD in Options Pricing. Oxford Mathematics MSc.

Tom Gotsman

CEO, SoLo Protocol

Oxford, UC Berkeley, Imperial College. Machine learning researcher. Previous AI startup manager.

Louis Lammerting

CTO, SoLo Protocol

Founded Math X (40k users). Ex-Consultant at Strategy & University of Chicago Blockchain Engineer.

Rohan Tangri

CEO, Compass Labs

AI @ JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Statistical Machine Learning PhD @ Imperial College London.

Elisabeth Duijnstee

CEO, Compass Labs

Physics PhD @ University of Oxford, Machine Learning fellow @ Faculty AI.

Marmik Pandya

MS Computer Science from Northeastern. Engineering at Nielsen, Dream11 & Amazon.

Dhawal Patel

Built Loan Origination & Management Systems for Capital Float & Funding Societies. Ex-CTO at Aureal.

Agrim Singh

CS graduate, SUTD Singapore, Former web3 founder, worked with Pitbull.

Samarth Shyam

3rd time founder, investor. Secured deals with large airlines and telco's in MENA and Europe.

Raymond Yeh

CTO, Bluejay Finance

Expert in privacy, smart contract auditing and trading. Ex-smart contract engineer at Govtech SG

Sherry Jiang

CEO, Bluejay Finance

UC Berkeley graduate in Business. Previously at Google working on emerging market payments.

Uzair Javaid

CEO, BetterData

PhD in blockchain. Hacked 670 Ethereum wallets. Ex-Merkle Science. E-gaming competition winner 2010.

Katrin Shechtman

CTO, Trust Chain

Tech entrepreneur with 17+ yrs. Led her own consultancy company with FinTech & government clients

Giancarlo De Lio

CEO, Trust Chain

Seasoned entrepreneur with 20+ yrs including co-founding VitalHub (IPO) and multiple exists

Charles Ashby-Lepore

CTO, Metacommerce

Senior Software Developer, with expertise in Machine Learning. Ex Co-Founder, Koïos Intelligence.

Ryan Watkins

CEO, Metacommerce

Product-focused entrepreneur and growth leader with 8+ years experience scaling 3x B2B startups.

Sanskar Jayaswal

Supported startups across business & growth functions in 0-1 stage, pivotal role in FinTech domains

Pranav Nair

Hands-on experience in Blockchain 2.0, Solidity & Smart Contracts, built banking products

Siddharth Sharma

#13 @ Wayve. Deployed real-time Machine Learning on autonomous vehicles. Ex-Microsoft.

Vatsal Aggarwal

Built Alexa’s first human-like voice, have 8 patents + publications in speech ML; Maths @ Cambridge

Tom Etminan

Founded 2nd Gen Art NFT project on Solana. 2x founder. web3 investor

Dr. Desiree-Jessica Pely

CTO, MetaWealth

Financial Economist trained at LMU Munich, Yale, & University of Miami, Computer Science background

Florian Drummen

CEO, MetaWealth

Built and scaled ventures at BCG Digital Ventures and FinTech Unicorn SumUp, WHU Graduate

Adrian Kozhevnikov

Product-focused full-stack web3 developer working with startups since 17. Started the YC for Oxford.

Bisola Asolo

Previously exited web3 founder. Full-stack developer with a finance background, ex J.P. Morgan.

James Branigan

Cambridge graduate. Degrees in Physics, Applied Mathematics, and AI. Former top B2C salesman

Ojas Shukla

Second time founder. University of Singapore dropout. Successfully exited first company at age 19

Marcus Naughton

CEO/CTO, Chatsight

LLB Graduate, with Economics. Self-taught NLP/AI Engineer. Red Bull Basement national winner 2019

David Bouba

Co-founder, Swaap

Ex-Snap Inc. engineer building million-user scale software products

Cyrille Pastour

Co-founder, Swaap

Ex-BCG. Master’s in Finance from HEC Paris.

Srivar Harlalka

MSc in Finance and Strategy, founded 3 consumer facing startups

Srinidhi Moodalagiri

Computer scientist, built risk models for multi-billion dollar consumer portfolios

Artur Begyan

Mathematical financial developer and economist, including working as a Quant at Bank of America

Simon Jones

Strong financial technology startup background; prior founder, operator and investor

Pulkit Agarwal

Math nerd, Stanford GSB Alum and Ex-Palantir, Top of class at Georgia Tech at the age of 20

Nirmal AK

CTO, Merkle Science

Fraud data scientist

Mriganka Pattnaik

CEO, Merkle Science

Experience from across investment banking and technology

Volkan Bilici

Full-stack software and blockchain developer

Jatin Shah

Expert in distributed systems with a PhD in Computer Science