Our Founders

Aaron Oliver-Taylor MVS

Co-Founder, Gold Standard Phantoms

Co-founder of Gold Standard Phantoms (GSP), the company solving MRI's biggest blind spot — calibration. GSP's METRION technology embeds calibration phantoms within each patient scan to enable real-time correction and consistent quantitative MRI worldwide.

Alaa Amer MVS

Co-Founder & CEO @Equisy🚀

Founder, startup advisor, and finance executive with 16+ years of experience building and scaling ventures across fintech, cybersecurity, edtech, and emerging technologies. As Co-Founder & CEO of Equisy, I help startups, investors, and accelerators streamline fundraising through AI-driven matching, investment readiness, and ecosystem collaboration. Experienced in raising capital, structuring deals, and helping founders navigate growth from idea to scale.

Alex Deadman MVS

Co-Founder, Tickets for Good

Co-founder of Tickets for Good, the social impact ticketing platform distributing 1.2M+ event experiences to 650K+ verified healthcare, education and charity workers across the UK, North America and Continental Europe.

Chris Burden MVS

The multi device platform that knows your garden

Chris Burden is the Founder of Grow Pro, a UK-focused gardening technology platform built to actually know your garden. A former Royal Marines Commando with thirteen years in health, safety and compliance across tier-one UK construction contractors, he pairs frontline discipline with deep domain knowledge. He started Grow Pro because the tool he needed as a gardener simply did not exist.

Daniel Camilleri MVS

Robotics Super-Builder

Founder of Kinematic Trees, building orchestration and zero code development for all robotics. 2nd time founder and full-stack super builder. XPrize robotics finalist.

Dash Tabor MVS

Data, AI & ML Founder

Founder of TUBR, building AI and ML capabilities to work with small data sets to provide 90%+ accurate predictions. Ex-Experian, American living in Sheffield, UK.

David Dixon MVS

Co-Founder & CEO, Future Greens

Co-founder and CEO of Future Greens, building AI-controlled two-stage anaerobic digestion — 3–10x faster and 10x smaller than traditional systems. MOUs with major brewers including Carlsberg.

Gabriele Barteskaite MVS

Co-Founder, Future Greens

Co-founder of Future Greens, the AI-controlled anaerobic digestion company saving medium breweries roughly £200K a year through faster, more compact waste processing.

Jack Ledingham MVS

Co-founder, Danu Water

Co-founder of Danu Water, building plug-and-play desalination systems that recover and reuse water from industrial wastewater.

Kyra Sedransk Campbell MVS

Founder, Danu Water

Co-founder of Danu Water, building plug-and-play desalination systems that recover and reuse water from industrial wastewater.

Malik Allawal Farooq MVS

Founder, Demoxis

Second-time founder building Demoxis, an Innovate UK-backed GovTech platform helping councils and public institutions better understand, prioritise and respond to community needs.

Possible Etumnu MVS

Founder, NAYA AI

Founder of NAYA AI, building voice-driven AI sales agents that handle inbound and outbound calls, qualify leads, and book meetings for home services, real estate, contact centres and B2B sales teams.

Ramy Mrad MVS

Co-Founder of Equisy

Advisor & Serial Entrepreneur with 16+ years scaling startups and corporates across UK & EMEA. I specialize in GTM strategy, fundraising, and growth acceleration, helping tech ventures achieve rapid market traction and investor confidence.

Award-winning product designer featured in TIME Magazine's top 10 global edtech products. Founder of Merve.

Sam Knight MVS

Founder of Stokkex | Building the Transaction Layer for the Energy & Infrastructure Industry

I'm the Founder of Stokkex, a technology platform transforming how infrastructure and energy equipment is sourced, traded and reused. Having spent over a decade delivering major renewable energy, grid connection and infrastructure projects, I've experienced first-hand the supply chain challenges that cost businesses time and money. I'm passionate about building scalable businesses that solve real industry problems and creating technology that brings greater efficiency, transparency and sustainability to the sectors that power the economy.

Stevan Parkin MVS

Founder, MiniVox

Founder of MiniVox, the UK EdTech platform giving teachers and parents an educational, child-safe alternative to social media. No likes, no comments, no algorithms — endorsed by counter-terrorism police. 2,000+ users since January 2026 launch.

Steve Rimmer MVS

Co-Founder, Tickets for Good

Co-founder of Tickets for Good. Built the social impact ticketing platform that now serves 650K+ verified healthcare, education and charity workers — 200+ US partners including 10 MLS clubs, the NBA's Houston Rockets, MLB, and the PGA Tour.

Toby Savage-Yu MVS

Founder, StirLight

Co-Founder and CEO of StirLight, bringing independent quality control to friction stir welding, a faster and cleaner way to join metals without melting them. Our StirSense platform verifies weld quality in real time, removing the biggest barrier to wider industrial adoption and giving manufacturers the confidence to switch. Aerospace applications include reducing aircraft door weight by 30%. Automotive applications include EV battery trays welded at 4m /minute. On course for 250% revenue growth with 50%+ margins.

Tom Fripp MVS

Founder, AddParts

Founder of AddParts, the digital spare parts storeroom for pharma and food manufacturers — 3D-printable, food-safe, traceable parts delivered in 11–48 hours, cutting downtime costs that can run to £400K per hour.