September 2023
Silicon Valleystart-up visit
Please review the profiles of the entrepreneurs and their companies below and contact us if you'd like to meet
All the visiting entrepreneurs will be at the GBx Gala on Wednesday 20th September 2023
Robert Quinn
CEO | MakeSense Technology
Robert Quinn is the founder of MakeSense and an honorary visiting researcher within the Manipulation and Touch Laboratory, Intelligent Systems and Networks Research Group, Imperial College London (ICL).
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Dr. Maxwell Munford
CEO & Founder | osstec
Growing up in an entrepreneurial environment and gaining exposure to technology at the forefront of MedTech has shaped my passion: To take ideas from the lab to the operating room to positively impact society.
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Arnau Donate Duch
Co-founder & CPO | Phare Labs
Arnau is the co-founder and CPO of Phare Labs. He is a London-based designer and engineer working in consumer technology, systems, and innovation.
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SVIP
Developer Fellowship
Code tested, alumni interviewed and visa approved candidates, selected from over 1,000 applicants, available for 1 year or 18 month software developer roles at top Bay Area startups.
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Debesh Mandal
Co-founder and CEO | Nanograb
Dr Debesh Mandal is founder and CEO of Nanograb. He completed his PhD in computational biophysics at Imperial College London under the supervision of Dr Stefano Angioletti-Uberti who is a cofounder and the CSO at Nanograb.
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Diana Canghizer
Founder | Vera AI
Diana is the CEO & Founder of vera AI. She is a human-centred design engineer in practice and has experience with well-known companies such as Microsoft, GSK, Richemont and Holition.
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Federico Vaghi
CTO & Co-Founder | Vera AI
Federico is the CTO & Co-Founder of vera AI. He has experience in MedTech, healthcare technology and AI, previously working in developing medical devices and prosthetics.
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Shefali Bohra
Co-Founder | Dotplot
Shefali has previously worked as a Design Strategist at an AI company Fractal Analytics, delivering novel business enhancing tools and service recommendations to clients.
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Debra Babalola
Co-Founder | Dotplot
Debra Babalola co-founded Dotplot during her master's programme Innovation Design Engineering at Imperial College London and Royal College of Art. Her ambition is to implement solutions that make people’s lives easier to live and that have long-lasting benefits for society at large.
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Nate Macabuag
Founder | Koalaa
Met a gentleman called Alex Lewis who is a designer, a world traveller, a father, and a quadruple amputee. While at uni we started designing prosthetics to his specifications and stumbled across a method that has never been done before or since
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Nathaniel Rose
Founder | Lymbic AI
The founders have always been fascinated by the brain, as they were keen to explore the controlling unit of our bodies which defines our actions. Brain-Computer-Interfacing represents a technological approach.
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Claire Trant
Co-Founder | Untap Health
Claire’s prior work includes innovation in wastewater technologies, she worked on the forefront of international regulation change and innovation.
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Douglas Brion
CEO | Matta
Founder & CEO of Matta - a startup building AI to manufacture the impossible, leveraging the latest AI research and intelligence to digital manufacturing to ultimately change how humans make things.
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Sebastian Pattinson
CTO | Matta
Founder & CTO of Matta - a startup building AI to manufacture the impossible, leveraging the latest AI research and intelligence to digital manufacturing to ultimately change how humans make things.
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SVIP
Developer Fellowship
Code tested, alumni interviewed and visa approved candidates, selected from over 1,000 applicants, available for 1 year or 18 month software developer roles at top Bay Area startups.
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Organizing team members
Sarah Ranchev-Hale
Head of IEL
Over 18 years of experience ranging from delivering world class employer branding, recruitment, and programmes.
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Dr James Groves
Head of Investment Services
Over 10 years’ experience incubating, launching and investing in startups from Oxford University and Imperial College London.
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Graham Hewson
Head of Incubation and Prototyping
Over 20 years’ experience as an Incubation practitioner, Graham is responsible for supporting startups find spaces to grow both in the Incubator and Hackspace workshops.
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