EF Alumni

Clemens Tepel

CEO, Deepspin

Founded:

Cofounder:

Pedro Freire Silva

Interests / background:

Energy, Healthcare and Medicine

Location:

Berlin

Cohort:

Before joining EF, Clemens spent 3 years in management consulting with McKinsey & Company where he focused on new product development, operations and strategy. He holds an M.Sc. with Distinction in Sustainable Energies from Imperial College London and finished his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in Stuttgart top of class.

“
I have always been passionate about game-changing technologies that have the potential to create a massive positive impact on the world. And this is what really excites me about what we are building at DeepSpin. If you also have the ambition to build an impactful technology-driven venture from scratch, EF is the perfect environment to find a co-founder and start it!
”

Company:

DeepSpin

Developing next-generation MRI systems at a fraction of the cost

Berliner Startup DeepSpin erhält cdgw-Zukunftspreis 2020

13 October, 2020

DeepSpin (BE1) raises seed funding for its ‘portable, ultra-low-cost’ MRI system

30 June, 2020

Robert Rouse

CTO, Primordial

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

Amaury van Trappen de Buggenoms

CEO, A&B Smart Materials

Cambridge Graduate. Ex-Rolls-Royce Thermal Engineer. Specialist in Photovoltaic Thermal Transfers.

Fannie Lin

Repeat Entrepreneur and founder. PhD.

Justin Macorin

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

Anna Wang

Experienced investor in renewable & infrastructure projects. Helped companies with energy transition

Naveen Vedula

Artificial Intelligence PhD with expertise in computer vision and hardware

Ajay Gupta

Domain expert with 20 years at GE and previous start-up founder (exit 2019)

Dr Saeid Masudy Panah

CTO, SunGreenH2

Award-winning scientist in field of nanoscale materials and renewable energy devices

Tulika Raj

CEO, SunGreenH2

Experienced commercial leader, scaled renewable energy companies and led large project investments

Arjun Bhattarai

PhD on vanadium redox flow batteries

Avishek Kumar

Expert in renewable technologies with product design and manufacturing experience

Simon Spurrier

Engineer and product manager, built financial optimisation algorithms

Francesco Montomoli

PhD in Energy Engineering, Imperial College reader and REng Enterprise Fellow.

Animesh Kumar Jha

Co-founder, Volt14

Degree in Mechanical Engineering, developed novel nanomaterials and nanomanufacturing methods

Aashish Mehta

CEO, TransferFi

Serial innovator, IoT and big analogue data expert

Christian Schiller

Led and scaled BlaBlaCar Germany to 6 million registered users

Volkan Bilici

Full-stack software and blockchain developer

Chris Choy

CTO, Carnot Innovations

Data scientist and full stack developer, PhD in Statistics

Ashish Justin

CEO, Carnot Innovations

Certified Energy Manager with a Master’s in Automation

Leon Farrant

CEO, Green Li-ion

Accomplished leader with experience in energy and engineering sectors

Reza Katal

CTO, Green Li-ion

Industry expert in lithium battery recycling

Vladimir Chuchkin

CEO, Waste Labs

Experienced in business development for tech and energy companies

Hubert Tse

Experience in capital markets, launched successful energy trading ventures

Dr Vishvak Kannan

CTO, Surge Analytics

PhD in Chemical Engineering with a focus on energy systems

Shivani Shah

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

Laurent Bourgouin

Experienced in energy industry, led digital transformation for industry heavyweights

John C. Waite

CEO, Phycobloom

Developed technology for sustainable energy with a background in Material Science

Mark Aaron Chan

CTO, Thermosphr

PhD in Mechanical Enginereing, expert in thermal systems

Nicolas Le Borgne

CEO, Thermosphr

Experience in startups, Master's in Economic Law from Sciences Po

Emir Nurov

Expert in product development and commercialisation

Jayantika Soni

Expert in the development of control algorithms for energy and power systems

Chong Chieh Tseng

CTO, Energy Lite

Experience in tech companies in software and hardware sectors

John Michael Bernil

CEO, Energy Lite

Experience in energy infrastructure projects

Ali Naderi

Deep researcher in field of gas processing membranes

Andre Lorenceau

Experienced in scaling and raising from VCs

Ali Safari

Trained as a nuclear engineer, passionate about using technology to impact climate change

Cecy Price

CEO, Biographica

Oxford biological scientist. Imperial ML Masters. Experience commercialising gene-editing technology

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.

Uzay Macar

Serial healthtech entrepreneur & software engineer. Studied at Columbia University & Mila.

Sam Milliken-Smith

5+ years in healthcare innovation with UnitedHealth Group & the NHS. Oxford & Cambridge graduate.

Antonia Theodorakopoulou

CEO, Optima Nanomed

Multi-awarded chemist in computational methods and nanotechnology, ex startup strategy consultant.

Dr Miena Amiri

Ex Merck strategy lead & portfolio manager, physician by training, with PhD in med. psychology.

Fabian Steuer

CTO, Amayu Health

Full-stack engineer, data scientist and product leader in VC-backed startups.

Eva-Maria Goblirsch

CEO, Amayu Health

Ex-McKinsey & Bain, psychologist & systemic therapist, co-founder healthtech, mgmt tech startup

Maxime Mistretta

CTO, Spore Biotechnologies

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

Saurabh Jejurikar

CEO, Endovision

5x founder, experienced in business development, AI and mathematics.

Hannah Burrow

Frustrated dentist automating boring bits of work.

Noreen Wu

Repeat founder experienced in global high-end B2B design, marketing and business development.

Arthur Sousa

Repeat founder with 10+ years in B2C Growth, Product & Engineering for global tech companies.

Dan Pappo

CPO, Agota Health

Healthcare delivery innovation expert. Ex Phreesia, Columbia, Field Trip, Parsley Health.

Phil Protomanni

CEO, Agota Health

Tech sales leader turned healthcare executive. Led COVID vaccination and testing team across Canada.

Pr Andreas Horn

World class professor at Harvard University specialised in Deep Brain Stimulation & medical imaging.

Dr Jordy Tasserie

Neuroscientist, PhD in Brain Stimulation & Medical Imaging (Paris), researcher Toronto & Harvard.

Dr. Claus Gruber

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

Dominik Pederzani

Second-time founder, ex-McKinsey, Wharton MBA, COO of publicly-listed fintech.

Agathe de Vulpian

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

Adrian Ahne

CTO, Akuity Care

PhD in AI applied to digital health, studying psychological factors of chronic diseases.

Grégory Lista

CEO, Akuity Care

Ex-strategy consultant & sr leader in Pharma, track record in market access & commercial operations.

Dr. Leslie Dickson-Tetteh

Leslie is an MD and ex-product manager at Cera Care, he’s also an Oxford alumni with 5 publications.

Dilip Rajeswari

Led the R&D team, working at the intersection of Machine Learning, Neuroscience and Psychiatry.

Bali Lee

PhD in Neuroscience. Five years establishing preclinical, translational and clinical collaborations.

Stefan Bostock

CTO, Kanjo Health

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

Sophia Parvizi-Wayne

CEO, Kanjo Health

Mental health expert. Tech founder. Pioneered the largest education campaign of its time as a teen.

Cyril Deroy

CSO, Celerity Labs

PhD Bioengineering at Oxford. Microfluidics & 3D print specialist. Work used in academia & industry.

Dr. Trishala Punjabi

Medical doctor (MBBS) and second-time entrepreneur.

Ramya Seetharaman

CTO, Haemetrics

Multidisciplinary scientist with eight years of expertise executing academic and industrial projects

Priya Ramani

CEO, Haemetrics

PhD, deep expertise in human health & disease. Commercialised innovative technologies.

Florian Savoy

Computer vision and machine learning expert

Bhargav Sosale

Software engineer and product designer

Siyavash G. Nia

Former VP of Product, dual masters in Tech & Science, built FDA approved AI medical imaging product

Jacob John

Former product lead and second-time founder with experience taking startups from 0-1

Giancarlo De Lio

CEO, Trust Chain

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

Andrew Jajack

2x YC founder in diagnostics space with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering

Dana Mihal Aronovici

CTO, FemXX Health

Expert SW Engineer from ETH Zürich with MedTech experience. Endometriosis patient & advocate

Luise Müller

CEO, FemXX Health

Experienced founder & business leader; focus on building impact B2C platforms, brands & communities

Mahmut Martin Yüksel

Medical Doctor, Harvard Neuroscientist, PhD (c) Neuroengineering at EPFL, 2x CEO & Medical Founder

Mark Caffrey

Applied Physicist, Biomedical & Electrical Engineer, PhD (c) Medical Tech NUI Galway, 2x CTO

Marcus Hott

Developed cardiac ML algorithms at Harvard Medical School & nano-satellites at NASA. TUM graduate

Oliver Weiss

Serial founder. Developed ISO standard. Public Health speaker. CBS graduate

Jay Bullen

Developed new, low-cost methods for water quality monitoring. PhD from Imperial College London

Claire Trant

7+ years in wastewater engineering strategy and innovation, PhD with Rolls-Royce Aerospace

Madeleine Moscatelli

CTO, EndoGene.Bio

PhD & Post-Doc in Genetics & Epigenetics with extensive stem cell experience ex-Université de Paris

Maria Teresa Perez Zaballos

CEO, EndoGene.Bio

Ex-Merck Fertility Portfolio Expansion Manager. PhD in Medical Devices, & MSc in Biotech Management

Maria Corlianò

Maria is an award-winning scientist and brings experience in the field of the gut microbiome.

Ian Chong

An experienced founder, founded & exited 2 businesses prior, specialising in performance marketing.

Divya Sriram

PhD in cancer biology, expert in innovating the infectious diseases diagnosis with molecular biology

Gabriel Dumy

PhD in acoustophoresis with experience in developing cell growing acoustic devices

Amélie Quilichini

Engineer with experience in managing tech & hardware projects as a strategy consultant

Cristiana Banila

PhD in Molecular Epidemiology, developed cancer screening tool for NHS, Oxford and Princeton grad

Shakiba Kaveh

Developed and sold technologies to the skincare industry, PhD Materials Science from Cambridge

Giovanni Rovere

Developed biomedical wearables, ETH Zurich PhD graduate. Expert in acquiring data from the body

Stefan van der Fluit

Led growth at Facebook and 2018 Dutch national Ironman age group champion

Kit Logan

Founded a product studio at 14, winning awards for activity tracking products loved by 350k people

Charlie Leggate

Experienced founder and commercial strategist, grew a FitTech community from 0-450k

Jedd Cheong Jia Hao

Co-founder, Qandela

PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, expert in medical imaging

Kishan Kishan

Co-founder, Neurobit

Expert in bioelectronic design and soft condensed matter physics

Amiya Patanaik

Experience studying sleep and cognitive neuroscience. PhD in Computer Engineering

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

Ali Khachlouf

CEO, SquareMind

Experience in private equity and consulting, advised on strategy and growth

Tanguy Serrat

CTO, SquareMind

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

Amber Hill

Expertise in medical research and engineering, PhD in Biomedical Neuroscience

Alex Palmer-Walsh

PhD in Aerospace Engineering

Ed Cartwright

Paediatric doctor with a PhD in Microbiology & Epidemiology

Micol de Ruvo

CTO, Cogniscent

PhD and postdoc in Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering

Kai Lammel

CEO, Cogniscent

Commercial experience in Marketing, Sales and Consulting

Vivek Sheraton

Degree in Chemical Engineering, developed cancer simulation models for PhD

Caleb Chiu

Expert in consumer applications, developed AI-enabled digital therapeutics

Megan Lam

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

Rose Haft

Studied Biomedical Optics at some of the world's leading engineering schools

Xavier Millot

Co-founder, Nectar

Computer Science graduate, grew team and technology at Hinge Health

Jurek Kozyra

PhD in DNA Nanotechnology, background in complex AI

Syed Shakeel Ahmed

PhD in Cancer Biology, experience leading collaborative projects with cancer clinics

Joshua Oppenheimer

CEO, Transformative

Emergency medicine doctor

Marek Sirendi

CTO, Transformative

Ex-researcher at CERN, PhD in High Energy Physics

Dimitris Athanasiou

CTO, Neurofenix

Master’s in Biomechanics, experience in medical device development and clinical trials

Guillem Singla Buxarrais

CEO, Neurofenix

Prize-winning biomedical engineer

Kaveh Taghipour

PhD in Natural Language Processing, developed information extraction and text classification systems

Aneesh Sathe

PhD in Mechanobiology, developed computer vision systems to identify cancer cells

Jonathan O’Keefe

CEO, Machine Medicine

Doctor, neuroscientist and machine learning engineer

Abhishek Agrawal

Experience in high precision manufacturing sector

Ewan Munro

CTO, Entropica Labs

Specialist in modelling physical platforms for quantum computing and information processing

Tommaso Federico Demarie

CEO, Entropica Labs

Physicist with experience in the field of quantum computing

Deepanshu Malik

CTO, EndoVision

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

Saurabh Jejurikar

CEO, EndoVision

MSc in Mathematics, experienced in building and managing talented tech teams

Ernestas Sirka

Leading researcher in proteomics and clinical test development

Michael Dove

Worked in consulting and business development at top pharmaceutical and healthcare organisations

Laura Douglas

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

Quin Wills

Medical doctor with PhD in system genomics, founded Cellular and Systems Genomics department

Jack O’Meara

Biomedical engineer with experience bringing new technologies to market

Jack Weston

PhD researching sequential pattern recognition problems in particle physics using deep learning

Emil Fristed

CEO/CSO, Novoic

Computational neuroscientist, leading for Impact Fellow with the Skoll Centre in Oxford

Sven Mischkewitz

Award-winning software engineer, worked on annotation tools for brain cells

Fouad Al Noor

Master's in Electronic Engineering with Nanotechnology

Sebastiaan de Vries

Track record of developing intuitive apps and digital interfaces

Ross Harper

PhD in Computational Neuroscience, led on 4 Innovate UK projects

Helene Guillaume

Ex-hedge fund quant, MSc in financial risks and ultra athlete

Evan Kervella

Data scientist with extensive network in the medical industry

Dimitri Labat

PhD in theoretical physics with expertise in superconductivity and its applications

Jorge Alexander

CTO, Syndi Health

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

Ben Lakey

CEO, Syndi Health

Impact-driven Bioengineer, specialised in Medical Device regulatory navigation and commercialisation

Trisha Chatterjee

CTO, immunitoAI

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

Aridni Shah

CEO, immunitoAI

Experience in immunoassays, molecular techniques & molecular data analytics

Mona Kab Omir

Specialist in nanomedicine with multidisciplinary research experience in industry and academia

Alex Sheppard

Experience in the diagnostics industry space and successfully scaling medtech startups

Julia Fan Li

CEO, Micrographia Bio

Immunologist and recovering VC

Federico Paoletti

Award-winning computational oncology PhD, previously WHO

Ting Lye

Experience implementing data-driven health solutions

Dr Stefano Goria

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

Dr Emilia Molimpakis

Expert in language use as cognitive biomarker (12 years), Neuroscience PhD, Innovation Award Winner

Nick Shaw

CTO, Spotted Zebra

Chartered occupational psychologist and thought leader in the assessment industry

Dr Yousef Amar

PhD in distributed networks and edge computing, avid marathoner

Jose Martin Quesada

Experience in digital, consumer growth and data, CrossFit competitor

Christian Mellor

Expertise in Biomedical Engineering and medical devises

William Nash

Strong knowledge of IG problems and solutions, experience of working with healthcare systems on data

Jean-Baptiste Morlot

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

Jonathan Baptista

Experienced in managing international teams with an MSc in complex systems simulation

Renan Pereira

Data scientist, experience developing and managing scalable machine learning models

Dora Sabino

Experience in cancer research, led projects in industry-modelling cancer treatment response

Alice Pelton

CEO, The Lowdown

Built and monetised digital products, passionate about contraceptive healthcare

Manasa Nadipally

Co-founder, Litmus Eye

Expert in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Medical Image Processing

Moses Kakanga

PhD in biochemistry, experienced running clinical trials

Emiliano Lepore

PhD in biomaterials with experience in product innovation and business development

Dornoosh Zonoobi

PhD in AI medical imaging, experience in leading clinical research

Karol Rogowski

CTO, ElementZero Biolabs

PhD in Biochemistry, experienced in RNA/DNA research

Pedro Freire Silva

Expert in low-cost Nuclear Magnetic Resonance solutions, ex-researcher at world-leading institutions

Rayna Patel

CEO, VineHealth

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

Georgina Kirby

CTO, VineHealth

Data scientist, previously Imperial College London and GSK

Laina Emmanuel

CEO, Brainsight AI

Healthcare business expert, previously Clinton Health Access Initiative

Rimjhim Agrawal

CTO, Brainsight AI

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

Pahini Pandya

Cancer researcher, post-doctorate from Cambridge

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

Joanne Kanaan

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

Anna Shirinskaya

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

Hana Janebdar

Biochemical engineer, previously UCL and Imperial College London

Leighton Turner

Interdisciplinary scientist, PhD in Molecular Genetics

Dr Sripad Devalla

CTO, Origin Health

PhD in clinical AI algorithms for medical imaging and worked with global health systems

Jens Thang

CEO, Origin Health

Experience in building companies with specific expertise in the technology industry

Alexandra Boussommier

Biomedical engineer, using AI to tackle infertility

Arun Bhatia

Master's in Computer Science, built deep tech AI products for companies in India and Japan

Ravi Chandra

Serial entrepreneur in healthcare with experience of working with B2C health businesses

Tobias Rijken

Machine learning scientist with a focus on deep learning

Peter Kecskemethy

Background in high-performance computing and statistical genetics

Laurence Bargery

Developer, skilled in producing high-quality usable scalable software in a production environment

Jacob Haddad

Co-founder, accuRx

Experienced in improving healthcare provider efficiency and quality

Avlokita Tiwari

Bioinformatician with expertise in computational biology and genomic data

Praapti Jayaswal

Molecular and microbiologist combatting anti-microbial resistance

Timothy Bouley

Medical doctor and environmental scientist