FUTURE OF Data

Scaling a business in this sector comes with a level of complexity and compliance. Data can be a truly transformative force but comes with unique challenges and must deliver outcomes to ensure user trust. We get this. This collab aimed to support CEOs' growth by bringing together later-stage CEOs, investors, and industry leaders for bespoke support.

FUTURE OF data DOMAIN EXPERTS

For this cohort we're bringing together some of the UK's most innovative later stage CEOs in the
data vertical, complimented with other industry leaders to deliver tightly personalised sessions.

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Tugce Bulut
Co-Founder at alchemy.ai, former CEO of Streetbees

Tugce served as the CEO & founder of Streetbees, a groundbreaking global intelligence platform. Boasting a global user base of over 3.5 million in 189 countries, under her tenure the company closed a £30 million series B round and scaled new heights in success and innovation. She has now moved onto her next venture, alchemy.ai., building a proprietary frontier LLM to create meaningful human connections.

Husayn Kassai
CEO at Quench.ai, exited Onfido

Husayn currently leads the team at Quench.ai that builds AI infrastructure to supercharge training & productivity. Prior to this he was CEO & co-founder of Onfido, an identity verification start-up. Founded with two friends from Oxford University, he successfully led a global team of over 500 people across seven regions and raised more than £143 million in funding. In February 2024 Onfido was acquired by Entrust, a US competitor. The deal was Oxford’s largest-ever return on investment for a student-led start-up.

Odera Nonyelu Ume-Ezeoke
Founder at Limbic Labs, exited Viewsy

Odera is a seasoned entrepreneur and investor based in Lisbon. His expertise spans across various domains but one of his notable achievements was founding Viewsy, a location data SaaS platform that was later acquired by Ipsos in 2018. Prior to this, Odera was an integral part of the early pre-IPO Groupon team, contributing to the company’s successful $13.5 billion IPO. He is now founder of Limbic Labs, a Venture Studio & Startup Investing company.

Paul Humphrey
CEO at BMLL

Paul is CEO at BMLL, an award-winning data and analytics company operating at the cutting edge of capital markets. He has over 30 years’ experience holding various global executive management positions in Investment Banking, Stock Exchange Management, Market Data Vendors and Brokerages. He formerly served as interim CEO of Euronext London and Global Head of FICC at Euronext NV, where he was responsible for the development and execution of strategy in Fixed-income, Rates, Foreign Exchange and Commodity markets.

Leon Rees
Principal, Startups Division at Amazon Web Services

Leon works with Tier 0/1 venture capital firms (Lightspeed Venture Partners, Atomico etc), to ensure the best start-ups come to AWS. He is also a Gen AI lead for AWS, developing relationships with start-ups and leading investors. He collaborates hands-on with prominent start-ups, foundation model trainers, model consumers and enterprises embracing new AI/ML powered business models. Prior to AWS, Leon was CTO for NatWest Ventures, has been an advisor to VC/PE and consulting firms, and always is a software engineer.

Benedikt von Thungen
CEO and Founder of Sanome

Benedikt's passion is scaling exceptional teams & companies. He has built multiple companies across renewable energy, enterprise software, AI, drug discovery, and healthcare. This includes one exit, two companies that are still going strong, and now Sanome which was founded in 2020 and is rewriting healthcare. In all of his companies Benedikt has scrutinized the impact of data and its ability to provide rich insights and be utilised as a force for good.

Tristan Gillen
Co-founder at Growth Division

Tristan is a co-founder, new business generator, CRM expert and Martech whizz. Prior to Growth Division he worked at Europe’s largest tech distribution firm in their Business Intelligence unit, a start-up called Ordoo, and then founded Growth Division to help start-ups overcome one of the biggest challenges Ordoo faced: finding scalable channels to market. He uses Growth Division’s unique growth process and team of marketing experts to help founders define strategies, validate channels, and unlock exponential growth.

Debbie Edwards
High Performance & Transformation Coach

Debbie is entrepreneur, speaker, investor and high performance & leadership coach working globally with entrepreneurs, CEOs and senior execs. She moved from being a founder of a tech startup raising investment and being in the boardrooms of some of the top FTSE 100 to giving it all up and building out a successful coaching practice. With over 30 years’ experience working in challenging sectors including the military, she works with teams and individuals on strategic performance through gentle leadership.

Wanda Haddock
Founder-to-CEO Coach

Wanda is a serial founder, founder-coach, and pragmatic organisational psychologist. She has spent 30 years helping founders grow their businesses as they position, transition through investment rounds, expand into new regions, experience hypergrowth and exit. Primarily in Tech, Wanda has helped founders bridge the Founder-to-CEO gap and with 20 000+ hours of coaching experience can help unlock new ways of being & doing that will accelerate growth and fulfilment.

Meet the COHORT

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Luis Galeas
Ambar

Founder & CEO, Luis is obsessed with creating abstractions that empower software engineers to do more with less. Ambar enables companies to use real-time data easily and without errors, speeding up roadmaps by up to 20x and eliminating millions in business risk.

Trent Peek
We Are Fulfillment

Along with his co-founder, Trent started the business as CEO in 2022 after the duo identified an unmet need with their own ecommerce companies. WeAreFulfilment set out on a mission to enable tech to supercharge ecommerce and provide a best in class fulfilment solution.

Zoe Bucknell
Kuberno

Zoe has distilled 20 years' experience of executive leadership as a General Counsel and Governance professional into founding and being CEO of Kuberno. It is driven to transform the way technology is used to help organisations navigate to future fit governance with better entity management.

Andy Howard
CSX Carbon

As CEO & Co-founder, Andy started CSX Carbon to create the infrastructure for transformative, trusted Carbon, Natural Capital and Biodiversity markets. By offering land managers a fair return for environmental land management, it encourages the positive delivery of Nature Based Solutions.

Anthony Peake
IntelligentAI

CEO & Co-Founder, Anthony built an Intelligent Risk Underwriting platform that uses A.I to innovate the proptech and insurtech sector and provide actionable insights. The platform gives rebuild cost valuations for commercial & residential properties and a 360 degree view of risk in real time.

Robin Brattel
Lab1

Lab1 provides data analytical services for niche online datasets such as emerging social media and the dark web, aimed at providing businesses with cybersecurity and risk analysis services. Billions of data entities under management, adding an average 626 more every second.

Alastair Bovim
InsightTerra

Alastair is CEO of InsightTerra which brings leading edge cloud-based data management and analytics to enhance risk management at the nexus of the built and natural environments.

Gordon Tveito-Duncan
GaiaLens

As CEO & Co-Founder, Gordon is passionate about working at the intersection of sustainability, finance and technology. GaiaLens is disrupting the sustainability data and analytics space through an AI powered sustainability analytics platform for institutional investors and financial services companies.

Erik Mathiesen-Dreyfus
Infer

Co-Founder and CEO of Infer, building the future of data analytics - ML powered, AI driven insights. Giving analysts and companies the ability to truly understand their data in seconds.

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Maria Vanifatova
Meaningful Vision

Meaningful Vision is a multi-country SaaS competitor intelligence platform, offering insights into pricing, promotions, locations, and traffic data to the Foodservice industry. As CEO, Maria founded the company to combine best in class big data assets and web scraping, and AI & Ml tools that collect and process data quickly and accurately.

Andrew Nicholson
Osprey Flight Solutions

CEO of Osprey Flight Solutions, the business has developed big data and artificial intelligence technology designed to provide instantaneous risk management and security services to flight operators.

Ben Whittam-Smith
Deontic Data

As CEO, Ben works to automate compliance decisions over data usage. Deontic Data is collaborating with data originators, providers, and consumers to develop standards and solutions for the data supply chain to automate it.

Rob Passmore
Additive.earth

As CEO of Additive.Earth Rob is dedicated to using advanced digital technologies to improve environmental monitoring and deliver nature based solutions. Additive.Earth has launched and scaled a portfolio of climate, nature, and green tech impact ventures, focused on accelerating society's response to the climate emergency.

Gwenhivir Wyatt-Moon
Prospectral

As CEO and Co-founder of a University of Cambridge spin out, Gwen’s mission to build the next generation of machine vision cameras. Prospectral’s technology and new approach to spectral imaging will empower companies with lower-cost, more compact, and less complex cameras for gathering the data required to detect and analyse materials.

Bronwynne Stoddart
iKue

iKue is a female-founded technology company innovating with customer data to power personalisation in the telecoms sector. First by name, first by nature; IKue believes first party customer data is critical to win the race for improved personalisation.

Sabrina Palme
Palqee

Palqee helps enterprises build trusted relationships with their customers through smart Data Governance, solutions covering AI Trustworthiness, Data Protection and Information Security. Sabrina is an experienced leader in Governance, Risk, Compliance, and a self taught data scientist.

Alex Burton
Alchem Technologies

Alex co-founded Alchem Tech with The Hon Bob Daigle, previous COO of Rebellion Defense. Alchem is a data and systems integrator providing high-end technical capabilities in the national security, defence, and critical infrastructure sectors.

Nithin Thomas
Klarytee

CEO and founder of Klarytee, a SaaS platform that builds security into sensitive content to enable granular control wherever the data goes. Nithin's ambition is to one day enable organisations to share data with their employees, suppliers and customers over any channel, platform or media without security being a concern.

"The CEO Circles, meeting up with other CEOs online, were excellent.  The connections to professional service providers was also very valuable."
Michael Valstar
BlueSkeyeAI
"My favourite sessions were definitely the CEO stories - I found these by far the most valuable. There are so many things about building a company that are shared challenges, lessons etc and hearing from people x years ahead of us in a small group setting was great."
Finn Stevenson
Flokk Health
"The time commitment of VentureCEO worked well for me - a nice weekly rhythm without being overbearing. Loved the in person open and close events! The highlight, as the program for me was about bringing people together as much as anything else. It was brilliant getting to meet and hear stories from others on the same journey. and the CEO Stories hearing from later stage CEOs was a key motivator for joining the program."
Sam Milliken-Smith
Hibi
"Loved the in person open and close events - so inspriring, well attended and fun! In the CEO Circles connecting with the rest of the cohort I loved the honesty, authenticity and realising that it is not easy for everyone, not just you. Finally - loved the love! Everyone was so supportive, well meaning and respected the hustle and the grit."
Amit Patel,
Peachy

WHAT EACH SESSION PROVIDEs

CEO Stories

The unique opportunity to hear from and grill later stage CEOs in fintech who have been there and done it (Series B and beyond).

CEO Strategy

Topic specific deep dive sessions with subject matter experts. From maintaining a resilient & adaptive culture to embedding a competitive strategy, these sessions will provide practical tools to adapt these concepts to early-stage company growth.

CEO Circles

Join a curated community of CEOs in the same sector and at the same stage to share challenges, experiences, and ambitions. You'll learn how to manage your mindset and energise the founder journey.

CEO Wellbeing

A chance to focus on you as an individual: your leadership development and your personal wellness.

VC Office Hours

121 time with our VC partners and a chance to review your pitch deck with an investor.

Tactical Office Hours

One-on-one sessions with the best experts in fields such as legal, finance, HR, PR, and growth & fundraising strategy.

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