Ashley Williams
Partner, Mishcon de Reya
We are a law firm that’s focussed on supporting the innovation economy. We’ve got Cris from Frontier Deep Tech and Francesco from Silicon Roundabout Ventures and we are super excited to be partnering with them. We are going to hear a little bit from the community and what they are doing around deep tech and then we’re going to hand over to Jeff who is going to do a walk around the amazing start-ups we have today in the room.
Dr Cristina Esteban Pardo
Founder, Frontier Deep Tech
We are the largest community of deep tech here in the UK and Europe but yes, just join us, join the community we do have these type of activities every month, it’s an open community and yeah it would be great to see you more often around.
Francesco Perticarari
General Partner, Silicon Roundabout Ventures
And it’s all been about getting engineers like myself and scientists get together and the founders in our ranks to showcase their technologies and what I realised is that so many of the most advanced technologies, they also happen to be the ones that can have the biggest impact in the world were not getting funded. Most of the VC was VCs were giving us better CRMs and so two years ago I had this crazy thing of launching a fund the end, at the end of the year with the first closing now we’re actively deploying we have eight portfolio companies, one is in the room.
Geoff Dragon
Partner, Mishcon de Reya
And we’re just going to follow it around kind of Jules Holland-esque, kind of like backstage at Robot Wars style so er, that’s what we are going to go for.
Rodrigo Marquez-Pacanins
Board Member, PI Energy
We actually have a revolutionary solar tech technology that actually allows us to bring production of these things back to Europe and the US.
Celina Messner
Co-Founder, Clare&Me
We feel like IA therapy not as a replacement of human therapist but rather like an expansion of the offering.
Richard Draisey
CEO, Seabird
She had a vision for beautiful electric boats when she’d seen the Formula E and seen what was possible with cars.
Nat Kennedy
Breadwinner, Toast
So if you think about your Tesco’s meal deal you never get the ends of the bread do you?
Geoff Dragon
Partner, Mishcon de Reya
No never.
Nat Kennedy
Breadwinner, Toast
Never, where do they go? Straight into our lovely little beer.
Darren James
Head of Airframe Integration, Greenjets
As a USP is that we do very efficient propulsors that are very quiet, very safe and help in the adoption of drone technology.
Gaurav Chawla
CEO, Lumirithmic
Um we are a company focused on very high quality facial scanning and deep learning um you know, movie making, everyone loves Avengers uh but how do we create those faces? What we are doing is we are taking all that technology down to a single phone.
Daniel HirschMann
Founder, CEO, Hirsch & Mann
It’s an interesting one because we are a creative agency that’s really playing with its space between design and technology we find that uh, first of all trying to explain to people what the ideas that we come up with, how they are going to manifest in reality. I t’s quite difficult to do so one of the difficulties that we’ve resolved is how to unboard somebody to a creative idea.
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