Co-Founder/CEO at Opteran By Leah Martin This week we interviewed David to understand all things Opteran and where it all began. Opteran reverse-engineers biological systems onto silicon, enabling machines to see, sense, navigate and make decisions better than existing AI approaches, calling it ‘natural intelligence’. It’s fascinating, science fiction in…

By Leah Martin Paul is one of our awesome Episode 1 CEO’s. He’s loves his sport, he’s super positive and he wears his Perchpeek merch with pride. PerchPeek is a digital relocation platform that helps anyone live anywhere. Find out all about what makes this CEO tick…

The team at Opteran are planning to put a honeybee brain on a chip. No, this is not an attempt to replace our endangered pollinators with robot equivalents, and while it might sound like the stuff of science fiction it turns out to be a very useful idea — and…

By Leah Martin This week we interviewed Patrick Short, he’s American, he studied his Phd at Cambridge and he’s now the Co- Founder and CEO of Sano Genetics. A startup that allows users to safely and simply get involved in medical trials by using at home DNA testing. They are…

By Carina Namih We are delighted to be backing Phasecraft in the largest seed funding round for a UK quantum computing company as they announce a new quantum algorithm breakthrough. I’ve spent long enough working with emerging technologies to know just how rare it is for internationally renowned scientists at…

Blog by Carina Namih For a CEO, the decision to build a distributed team is not one to be taken lightly. At one of our regular portfolio CEO dinners last year, the conversation quickly descended into a heated debate about the pros and cons of building remote teams. On one…

Blog by Paul McNabb The biggest thing to have happened in IT for a long time has been the evolution of the public cloud — that is the centralisation, standardisation and industrialisation of computing capability to massively lower the cost per transaction. This is nothing less than the industrial revolution…

In the wake of us sharing the exiting news of our investment in Vector AI few weeks back, we also caught up with the CEO James Coombes to find out a little bit more about him… Q: What’s your name and where do you come from? James Coombes. There isn’t…

At Episode 1 over half of our investments operate in the deeply technical domain — AI driven companies like Vector account for about half of such investments. We don’t look for businesses that are just using AI, we look for businesses that are breaking boundaries in AI and, critically, have…