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

Contact Organizing Team

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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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