Global talent investor

EF Alumni

Dr Emilia Molimpakis

CEO, thymia

Founded:

Cofounder:

Dr Stefano Goria

Interests / background:

AI, Healthcare and Medicine, Media & Gaming, Neuroscience

Location:

Cohort:

Emilia is a domain expert in the field of Neuroscience, having completed her PhD & post-doc at UCL in Linguistics, Neuroscience & Psychology. She has worked with healthy & patient populations using language as a biomarker for their cognition, with fewer than 10 people in the world doing exactly what she does.

thymia pitch at our Europe 14 Demo Day.

Company:

Thymia

Using video games based on Neuropsychology, alongside machine learning analyses of video and speech, to make smart mental health assessments.

Giovanni Rovere

Developed biomedical wearables, expert in acquiring data from the body

Stefan van der Fluit

Led growth at Facebook, 2018 Dutch National Ironman age group champion

Dr Stefano Goria

PhD in Theoretical Physics and ex-quantative analyst

Nick Shaw

CTO, Spotted Zebra

Chartered occupational psychologist and thought leader in the assessment industry

Ian Monk

CEO, Spotted Zebra

Ex-consultant and exited founder

Tom Walker

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

Tom Barber

Experience at the intersection of fashion and technology

Ian Hu

CTO, Phycobloom

PhD in Evolutionary Biology, experience studying algae, synthetic biologists and leading teams

John C. Waite

CEO, Phycobloom

Developed technology for sustainable energy with a background in Material Science

CJ Cassar

PhD with a focus on building augmented and virtual reality tools for engineers

Chris Whitehead

Former systems engineer and technology specialist, experience in B2B sales

Dr Thomas Clayson

PhD in plasma astrophysics, built fusion reactors and the largest pulsed power machine in Europe

Mark Stokes

Mechanical and machine learning engineer, experience in startups and the aerospace 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

Harry Grieve

Full stack data scientist, developed and sold enterprise AI solutions

Dr. Ben Fielding

Computer scientist with publications in Evolutionary Optimisation for Neural Architecture Search

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

James Terry

Product designer and developer, built first company aged 18

Pete Butler

Experienced in the food and restaurant industry, named 'New Food Innovator' by Financial Times

Alice Pelton

CEO, The Lowdown

Built and monetised digital products, passionate about contraceptive healthcare

Raja Srivastav Chirravuri

Master's in Engineering, experience building and scaling natural language processing products

Ehsan Ghoreishi

PhD in AI, built content classification techniques for major telcos

Danica Damljanovic

CEO, Sentient Machines

PhD in AI and Natural Language Processing, worked in startups analysing natural language

Alex Palmer-Walsh

PhD in Aerospace Engineering

Pei-Hao (Eddy) Su

Co-founder, PolyAI

Award-winning reinforcement learning expert, previously Facebook AI Research

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

Jesse Shemen

Graduate of Stearn Business School, previously Deloitte Ventures and Octopus Investments

Caleb Chiu

Expert in consumer applications, developed AI-enabled digital therapeutics

Rose Haft

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

Jurek Kozyra

PhD in DNA Nanotechnology, background in complex AI

Sagar Setu

CTO, Milky Way AI

Robotics and computer vision expert, PhD in Aerospace Engineering

Eunice Wong

CEO, Milky Way AI

Award-winning retail professional

Nicholas Capel

Fullstack developer, Master's in AI

Yufan Wang

Co-founder, AIMS

Ph.D. in the area of wearable devices, artificial intelligence, and sports motion analysis

Audrey Gayman

Chief Artificial Intelligence Office, TOffeeAM

PhD in Additive Manufacturing, expertise in robust analysis

Marco Pietropaoli

PhD in Fluid Dynamics, expertise in AI software for Additive Manufacturing

Gong Yiwei

Co-founder, VRcollab

Brings experience in network and distributed systems

Joshua Oppenheimer

CEO, Transformative

Emergency medicine doctor

Marek Sirendi

CTO, Transformative

Ex-researcher at CERN, PhD in High Energy Physics

Sumukh Avadhani

AI expert, previously Samsung Creativity Lab, Toshiba and Google

Shubhankar Srivastava

Specialist in AI and machine learning

Misha Filippov

Chief Scientist, Quod AI

Mathematical physicist, built AI models for prestigious institutions

Kaveh Taghipour

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

Lingxiao Xia

Expert in data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence

Jaron Collis

Co-founder, Plural AI

PhD in AI, experience building natural language and knowledge-based systems

Haoyu Bai

Co-founder, Movel

PhD in Computer Science with experience in AI and robotics

Mislav Stipetic

CTO, Magic Sandbox

Full-stack engineer, previously led the IoT platform at Infarm

Yazan Al Alami

Co-founder, Creative AI

Helped local and global brands 10x their reach and engagement on social media

Lukas Dirzys

CTO, Creative AI

Expert in optimised image and text generation

Laura Douglas

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

Alex Reed

Degree in commerce, led creation of AI driven buying experience

Nick La Rooy

Co-founder, LoopPerfect

Full-stack developer, ex-Barclays Capital with MA in AI and Philosophy

Helene Guillaume

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

Oliver Dean

CEO, Reti Health

Built AI to automate the diagnosis of prostate cancer from MRI, ex-consultant and GoCardless

Alan Mosca

Researched deep learning theory and optimisation methods, previously worked in quantitative finance

Dev Amratia

Led national review on AI, ex-project manager

Jorge Alexander

CTO, Syndi Health

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

Akshay Gugnani

CTO, Expertia AI

AI and NLP researcher, developed the current state-of-the-art job recommender & hiring system

Trisha Chatterjee

CTO, immunitoAI

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

Dr Elias Willemse

CTO, Waste Labs

Expert in optimisation modelling, developed AI to optimise waste collection

Lucas Lopez

CTO, Volatile AI

Award winning digital smell researcher, built cutting-edge artificial neural networks

Dr Stefano Goria

PhD in Theoretical Physics and ex-quantative analyst

Harry Grieve

Full stack data scientist, developed and sold enterprise AI solutions

Dr. Ben Fielding

Computer scientist with publications in Evolutionary Optimisation for Neural Architecture Search

Hugo Pascail

CTO, Invest Insight

PhD in Quantitative Finance, experience building AI models and econometric algorithms

Jean-Régis de Vauplane

CEO, Invest Insight

Worked on AI and web projects as an Agile Coach and Product Manager

Guglielmo Montone

Specialist in deep and transfer learning

Maëliza Seymour

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

Manasa Nadipally

Co-founder, Litmus Eye

Expert in Computer Vision, Patter Recognition and Medical Image Processing

Satyakama Paul

CTO, BrainEnTech Neuroscience

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

Uzair Ahmed

CTO, Right-Hand Cybersecurity

Expertise across leadership, AI and software development

Shivam Mani Tripathi

Deep research in AI and automation, experience in product building

Dornoosh Zonoobi

PhD in AI medical imaging, experience in leading clinical research

Boon Khai Lim

CTO, Interviewer.AI

Built large-scale web applications, passionate about disruptive tech

Hardik Thakkar

Built complex systems as a software engineer, experienced in Data Science and managing large teams

Puneet Chhabra

CTO, Headlight AI

Experienced in LiDAR, Radar, and Sonar technologies, PhD in Electrical Engineering

Ali Safari

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

Benjamin Tang Hao Zhe

Expert in AI and software engineering, youngest ever quant at a top investment bank

Dmitry Vedenypain

PhD in AI and MBA, experience in consultancy and scaling product teams in VC-funded fintech

Zeena Qureshi

Speech and language therapy expert

Rayna Patel

CEO, VineHealth

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

Georgina Kirby

CTO, VineHealth

Data scientist, previously Imperial College London and GSK

John Flynn

MSc Sound Computing, film industry

Sachin Chiramel

CEO, real analytics

Experience in investment banking and financial services

Nitin Shukla

CTO, real analytics

Experienced data scientist, previously IIT

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

Sasha Haco

Astrophysicist, previously Cambridge and Harvard

James Thewlis

Computer vision expert, previously Facebook and AdTech

Pahini Pandya

Cancer researcher, post-doctorate from Cambridge

Hazel Savage

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

Aron Pettersson

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

Pandu Raharja

Machine learning expert, experienced in developing models for cancer detection

Alex Dalyac

Previously LSE and Imperial College London

Razvan Ranca

Computer scientist, previously Cambridge, left PhD to join our programme

Sadaf Monajemi

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Milad Mohammadzadeh

PhD in Biomedical Fluid Dynamics

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

Yassine Emile Tahi

AI project leader, previously HEC Paris & Sciences Po

Zaraif Ayaat Hossain

CEO, Retail Pulse

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

Anshul Gupta

CTO, Retail Pulse

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

Theo Saville

Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineer, background in metals 3D printing

Chris Emery

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

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

Dr Sripad Devalla

CTO, Origin Health

PhD in AI algorithms for medical imaging

Jens Thang

CEO, Origin Health

Advised healthcare operators and knowledge of visualisation technology

Arun Bhatia

Masters in Computer Science, built deep tech AI products for companies in India and Japan

Carl Robinson

CEO, Rumble Studio

Experienced podcaster and AI data scientist.

Joris Guerry

CTO, Rumble Studio

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

Guillaume Rivals

Computer science and AI engineer, passionate about using data to fight climate change.

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

Giovanni Rovere

Developed biomedical wearables, expert in acquiring data from the body

Stefan van der Fluit

Led growth at Facebook, 2018 Dutch National Ironman age group champion

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

Nicholas Capel

Fullstack developer, Master's in AI

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, s 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

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

Oliver Dean

CEO, Reti Health

Built AI to automate the diagnosis of prostate cancer from MRI, ex-consultant and GoCardless

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, ex-VC and engineer

Federico Paoletti

Award-winning computational oncology PhD, previously WHO

Ting Lye

Experience implementing data-driven health solutions

Dr Stefano Goria

PhD in Theoretical Physics and ex-quantative analyst

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, Patter 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

Pedro Freire Silva

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

Clemens Tepel

MSc in Sustainable Energies, began his career at McKinsey

Arjun Ramaswami Palaniappan

Electronic expert with industrial PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Shubhita Tripathi

Pathogen expert with PhD in Microbiology and Immunology, designed pathogen identification assays

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 AI algorithms for medical imaging

Jens Thang

CEO, Origin Health

Advised healthcare operators and knowledge of visualisation technology

Alexandra Boussommier

Biomedical engineer, using AI to tackle infertility

Arun Bhatia

Masters in Computer Science, built deep tech AI products for companies in India and Japan

Ravi Chandra

Hands-on experience in healthcare startups and working with insurers

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

Raja Srivastav Chirravuri

Master's in Engineering, experience building and scaling natural language processing products

Jiameng Gao

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

Jesse Shemen

Graduate of Stearn Business School, previously Deloitte Ventures and Octopus Investments

Rose Haft

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

Majdi Rabia

CTO, Fairphonic

Two Master's in Applied Probability and Statistics

Tang Heng Yang

CEO, Fairphonic

Expertise in music licensing, audio engineering and creative production

Jordan McRae

CEO, Mobilus Labs

MSc in space and ocean robotics, built complex hardware/software systems

Jatin Shah

Expert in distributed systems with a PhD in Computer Science

Swayam Narain

Award-winning computer scientist and software engineer

Nisarg Shah

Spearheaded software automation and big data projects, launched a social learning platform

Animesh Anand

Experience in developing groundbreaking VR/AR applications

Shivlal Viknesh

Founder of profitable firms in the events space, experienced in strategy and deployment

Deniz Elitez

Computer vision research scientist, built one of the world's fastest MOT algorithms

Abhi Arora

Ran partnerships and operations at Dubsmash, scaled early stage startups

Dr Yousef Amar

PhD in distributed networks and edge computing, avid marathoner

Jose Martin Quesada

Experience in digital, consumer growth and data, CrossFit competitor

Alice Pelton

CEO, The Lowdown

Built and monetised digital products, passionate about contraceptive healthcare

Vasileios Katranidis

PhD in Digital Manufacturing, developed first predictive software tool for thermal spray coatings

Andre Lorenceau

Experienced in scaling and raising from VCs

Anil Chandra Naidu Matcha

Engineer, previously IIT, Samsung and Cisco

Zeena Qureshi

Speech and language therapy expert

John Flynn

MSc Sound Computing, film industry

Sasha Haco

Astrophysicist, previously Cambridge and Harvard

James Thewlis

Computer vision expert, previously Facebook and AdTech

Hazel Savage

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

Aron Pettersson

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

Yassine Emile Tahi

AI project leader, previously HEC Paris & Sciences Po

Henri Mirande

Deep learning expert, graduated from CentraleSupélec aged 20

Ankur Singh

Built and sold products for video companies

Carl Robinson

CEO, Rumble Studio

Experienced podcaster and AI data scientist.

Joris Guerry

CTO, Rumble Studio

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