EF Alumni

Toby Mather

CEO, Lingumi

Founded:

Cofounder:

Interests / background:

Education, Speech and Language

Location:

London

Cohort:

Toby Mather studied Modern Languages at Oxford University, before joining Entrepreneur First’s fifth cohort and founding Lingumi.

Company:

Lingumi

Helping children around the world learn English.

Groups of people

9 EF companies named top UK startups to watch

20 July, 2021

Pre-school edtech startup Lingumi raises £4m, adds some free services during COVID-19

1 April, 2020

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Saahil Dama

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

Rachiket Arya

NUS Science and Technology Scholar, with experience in building software products from scratch.

Charlotte Joy Trudgill

Deep experience in building businesses in fragmented markets, and driving digital transformation.

Wilmer Daza

Full-stack software & machine learning engineer with experience in the software development industry

Hector de Wazières

Former data scientist and strategy consultant with multiple entrepreneurial experiences

Tamir Shklaz

Computer Science nerd, 3x startup founder & South African Entrepreneur of the Year (2019)

Pulkit Agarwal

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

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Ryan Dunwoody

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Tanrajbir Singh Takher

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Karishma Galani

Former EdTech researcher with a Master's in education from Harvard University

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Hardik Thakkar

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

Adit Trivedi

Co-founder, Lingumi

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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.

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Vatsal Aggarwal

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Anshul Basia

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Wilmer Daza

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Hector de Wazières

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Danica Damljanovic

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Machine learning researcher, previously worked at Google Brain and IPSoft

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Jiameng Gao

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Data scientist, PhD in Applied Machine Learning

Adam Beaudoin

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Narasimha Suda

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