I’m a computer scientist interested in self-improvement.
- now: AI infra at Google
- 2020: ML at Lacework - a promising cloud security startup, raised ~$2B, acquired by Fortinet
- 2018: EIR @ rocketship.vc - worked on RL for trading
- 2013: CTO, C9 - applying ML to sales data. Acquired by insidesales.com, it was an experience
- 2012: featurestream - built a streaming ML system but decided against building an MLaaS company
- 2009: cofounder, Acunu - streaming data analytics company, acquired
¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Invented better indexing algorithms
I was previously an academic:
- 2008-13: Fellow, St Johns College Oxford
- 2006: PhD Computer Science, Cambridge University
I enjoy being involved with deeply-technical VC firms:
- neotribe.vc - technical advisor
- tiny.vc - founding LP, highly active seed/preseed in EMEA (eg Wayve, Sorare, ..)
- rocketship.vc - built company embedding models
- pioneer ai fund - post-YC AI fund
I grew up in the UK and live in the Bay Area. I play drums and I rowed for Cambridge men’s lightweights.