Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$10,000.00Max Investment:
$500,000.00Target Investment:
$100,000.00
Skills
Education
Lists including William
Investments
Unlikely AI
Total Funding: $21M
Checkstep
Total Funding: $7.4M
Aibuild
Total Funding: $13M
Pngme
Total Funding: $18M
iSIZE Technologies
Total Funding: $6.9M
Klydo
Total Funding: $1M
black.ai
Total Funding: $4.9M
ThinkSono
Total Funding: $6.9M
Ada Health
Total Funding: $47M
Fluent.ai
Total Funding: $2M
Work Experience
2018
CEO and Founder
2018
Unlikely AI is a deep tech startup working to create a world where highly intelligent automated systems enable humanity to flourish and benefit us all. We are pioneering transformative technology aimed at making Artificial Intelligence more accurate, trustworthy and safe. We are combining the fantastic opportunities created using LLMs with the trust, accuracy and explainability of symbolic/algorithmic methods, which together we call our neurosymbolic platform.
2017
Advisor
2017
Developed by a team of doctors, scientists, and engineers with the belief that every person in the world should have access to quality, personalized health information, and care. Ada has over a million users and has ranked #1 in the Medical Category in over 130 countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, China, Sweden, and Canada. Ada is an extremely exciting business with deep technology, enormous potential and one of only a tiny number of start-ups that I have a long-term advisor relationship.
Member of the Advisory Panel
2017
Cambridge Innovation Capital (“CIC”) combines a unique relationship with the University of Cambridge with deep financial and industry links to invest in rapidly growing intellectual property rich companies in the Cambridge Cluster.
2016
Full member
2016
Cambridge Angels is a group of high-net worth investors who have proven experience as successful entrepreneurs in technology and bio-technology. Members invest in and mentor high quality start-up and early-stage companies in these sectors. Members have been responsible for a large number of the “Cambridge Phenomenon” success stories over recent years.
1998
Founder and owner
1998
Genius 2000 Ltd is a limited company I have used for multiple purposes over the years. It has previously marketed early versions of AI cryptic crossword technology. Another product, Anagram Genius, uses AI techniques to generate interesting and relevant anagrams of any text and has been used by millions of people, including Dan Brown who used it to create the anagrams that were integral to the plot of the Da Vinci Code movie and novel (my name appears in the acknowledgements of all 80 million copies sold).
2016 - 2022
Fellow
2019 - 2022
The Creative Destruction Lab is a seed-stage program for massively scalable, science and technology-based companies. The program employs an objectives-based mentoring process with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation.
Fellow
2016 - 2020
The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a unique program for massively scalable technology-based ventures. It is a business incubator, associated with the University of Toronto, with two large Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning tracks where I am focused. I am still based in the UK but am travelling to Toronto every couple of months to do what I can to help the many promising start-ups that are accepted. I also advise CDL companies remotely between meetings.
2017 - 2022
Fellow in Entrepreneurship
2017 - 2022
The Judge is one of the top business schools in the world, offering a variety of teaching programmes including the Cambridge MBA, the Cambridge Master of Finance, the Cambridge Executive MBA, PhD, MPhil and undergraduate degrees together with a suite of Executive Education courses.
2017 - 2020
Advisor
2017 - 2020
Fluent offers OEMs and user interface designers a speech interface solution for their products and services. Fluent’s patented approach sidesteps the need to convert speech to text and instead learns to understand the meaning of audible speech — in any language or accent. The result is highly flexible, accessible and accurate voice interface that performs robustly even in offline and noisy environments.
2016 - 2016
myself
2016 - 2016
A little more then ten years after founding Evi (True Knowledge) I have made the difficult decision to move on. This period was seven years leading a British venture-backed start-up and three+ as a leader within Amazon. The acquisition was highly successful, resulting in Alexa - a product almost everyone has heard of and which has sold hundreds of millions of devices. I am proud to have been a member of the launch team. The Evi team is also thriving and Amazon's Cambridge (UK) development centre is the result. I am taking time off and thinking gently about what I want to do next.
2005 - 2016
Principal Product Manager (Alexa and Amazon Echo)
2012 - 2016
Following the successful acquisition of Evi by Amazon, I worked in a leadership role within the Evi team but was also principal product manager in Alexa, with a desk in both Seattle and Cambridge, UK. I was a senior member of the team that defined, built and launched Amazon Alexa and Amazon Echo (the first Alexa device). We launched the first Alexa device in late 2014 and I continued to develop the product for several years post launch.
Founder and Chief Product Officer
2012 - 2012
Following the launch of the highly successful Evi product and the intense pipeline of interest that followed, I recruited a highly experienced Silicon Valley executive to work with the team as CEO (Barak Berkowitz) and I moved to the role of Chief Product Officer. The company was successfully sold to Amazon within six months of this happening.
Founder and CEO
2005 - 2012
Evi (formerly True Knowledge) is a venture backed business with an extremely exciting natural language understanding and automatic question answering technology. The company's final successful pivot built on this technology was Evi a voice assistant product that converses with you, understands you and directly answers.The first version was launched in late January 2012 and is available for both Android phones and iPhones. The app became #1 in the Apple app store and had several million downloads within weeks of launch. Behind Evi is a platform containing a knowledge base of machine understandable structured knowledge which can be used to understand the natural language spoken by the user or compute the answers to questions on any topic using generalised inference. The technology was also used by a number of mobile search and other customers and answered millions of questions per month asked by mobile and internet users. I invented the technology, founded the business to further develop and commercialise the technology and raised several rounds of venture capital. I also lead the development and launch of Evi.