EF Alumni

Sebastiaan de Vries

CTO, Limbic

Founded:

Cofounder:

Interests / background:

Healthcare and Medicine, Neuroscience

Location:

London

Cohort:

Sebastiaan has worked on building apps and websites since he was 16 years old.

Prior to Limbic, Sebastiaan founded and ran Florin (the best peer-to-peer payment app in The Netherlands, according to multiple consumer reports). Sebastiaan has a keen eye and proven track record for developing intuitive apps and digital interfaces. He believes these user-centric principles are lacking in health-technology today (and that it’s time to remedy the situation).

Company:

Limbic

A unifying AI therapy assistant for care providers, clinicians and patients

EF alum Limbic’s AI mental health chatbot tool receives Class IIa UKCA mark

17 January, 2023

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Cleo, Limbic and Omnipresent named in Top 10 of TechRound100 2021

24 November, 2021

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Christopher Tan

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Dr Dom Pimenta

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Uzay Macar

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Sam Milliken-Smith

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Antonia Theodorakopoulou

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Dr Miena Amiri

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Fabian Steuer

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

Eva-Maria Goblirsch

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Maxime Mistretta

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

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Hannah Burrow

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Noreen Wu

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

Arthur Sousa

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Dan Pappo

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Phil Protomanni

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Pr Andreas Horn

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Dr Jordy Tasserie

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

Dr. Claus Gruber

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Dominik Pederzani

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Agathe de Vulpian

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

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Grégory Lista

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

Dr. Leslie Dickson-Tetteh

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Dilip Rajeswari

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Bali Lee

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Stefan Bostock

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Sophia Parvizi-Wayne

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Dr. Trishala Punjabi

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Ramya Seetharaman

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Priya Ramani

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Florian Savoy

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Bhargav Sosale

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Siyavash G. Nia

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Jacob John

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Giancarlo De Lio

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Andrew Jajack

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Luise Müller

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Mahmut Martin Yüksel

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Mark Caffrey

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Marcus Hott

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Oliver Weiss

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

Jay Bullen

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Claire Trant

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Madeleine Moscatelli

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Maria Teresa Perez Zaballos

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

Maria Corlianò

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Ian Chong

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Divya Sriram

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

Gabriel Dumy

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Amélie Quilichini

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Cristiana Banila

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Shakiba Kaveh

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Giovanni Rovere

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Stefan van der Fluit

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Kit Logan

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Charlie Leggate

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Kishan Kishan

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Amiya Patanaik

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Eoin Hyde

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Lorenz Berger

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Ali Khachlouf

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Tanguy Serrat

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Amber Hill

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Alex Palmer-Walsh

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Ed Cartwright

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Micol de Ruvo

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Vivek Sheraton

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Caleb Chiu

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Megan Lam

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Rose Haft

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Xavier Millot

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Jurek Kozyra

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Syed Shakeel Ahmed

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Marek Sirendi

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Dimitris Athanasiou

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Guillem Singla Buxarrais

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Kaveh Taghipour

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Aneesh Sathe

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Ewan Munro

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Tommaso Federico Demarie

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Deepanshu Malik

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Saurabh Jejurikar

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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

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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

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Emil Fristed

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Sven Mischkewitz

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Fouad Al Noor

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Ross Harper

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Helene Guillaume

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Evan Kervella

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Dimitri Labat

PhD in theoretical physics with expertise in superconductivity and its applications

Jorge Alexander

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

Ben Lakey

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Trisha Chatterjee

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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

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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

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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

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Built and monetised digital products, passionate about contraceptive healthcare

Manasa Nadipally

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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

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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

Clemens Tepel

MSc in Sustainable Energies, began his career at McKinsey

Rayna Patel

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

Georgina Kirby

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Data scientist, previously Imperial College London and GSK

Laina Emmanuel

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Healthcare business expert, previously Clinton Health Access Initiative

Rimjhim Agrawal

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

Pahini Pandya

Cancer researcher, post-doctorate from Cambridge

David Gorgan

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Experienced with medical ML products and in the healthcare industry

Rocio Acuna Hidalgo

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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

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

Jens Thang

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Experience in building companies with specific expertise in the technology industry

Alexandra Boussommier

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Arun Bhatia

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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

Eva-Maria Goblirsch

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

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.

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.

Sean Kortschot

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Kishan Kishan

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Expert in bioelectronic design and soft condensed matter physics

Amiya Patanaik

Experience studying sleep and cognitive neuroscience. PhD in Computer Engineering

Amber Hill

Expertise in medical research and engineering, PhD in Biomedical Neuroscience

Micol de Ruvo

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PhD and postdoc in Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering

Kai Lammel

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Commercial experience in Marketing, Sales and Consulting

Abhinav Yadav

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PhD in computational neuroscience, st experience in dealing with big-data

Guillem Singla Buxarrais

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Prize-winning biomedical engineer

Raphael Holca-Lamarre

PhD at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning

Jonathan O’Keefe

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Doctor, neuroscientist and machine learning engineer

David Wood

Data scientist, PhD in Computational Neuroscience

Jack Weston

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Emil Fristed

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Sven Mischkewitz

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Ross Harper

PhD in Computational Neuroscience, led on 4 Innovate UK projects

Dr Stefano Goria

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Dr Emilia Molimpakis

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

Satyakama Paul

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

Soumya Bhattacharjee

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Cognitive neuroscientist with experience in deep brain recording and learning theory

Rayna Patel

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

Laina Emmanuel

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Healthcare business expert, previously Clinton Health Access Initiative

Rimjhim Agrawal

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Alexandre Reeber

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