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Matthew Simmonds

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Cofounder at Speakset

Virginia Water, England, United Kingdom

FoundedSpeakset

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Matthew: together at McLaren Group Ltd.

About

Matthew Simmonds is a Technical Delivery Consultant at Terrella and the former CTO and Managing Director of Entocycle, where he developed early prototypes, led core technology development, built a technical team, and later established the sales function and partnerships with companies including Siemens and Bühler. He holds a first-class engineering degree from Oxford and has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. His work spans deep tech scaling, industrial automation, technical due diligence, and hardware fundraising, with $28M raised across his ventures.

Cofounder at Speakset

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Speakset's investors · 1

Entrepreneur FirstBengaluru · $1M – $7M checks

Co-founders at Speakset

EMEwan Marshall
Ewan MarshallCEO
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Adi KasliwalCofounder

Experience

  1. TerrellaTechnical Delivery Consultantcurrent2026 — present
  2. OmmaAdvisorcurrent2026 — present
  3. Riseos CareAdvisorcurrent2026 — present
  4. BelowZeroAdvisorcurrent2026 — present
  5. Studio MatterPartnerships Consultantcurrent2026 — present
  6. Self-employedConsultant: Strategic Advisor & Technical Deliverycurrent2026 — presentSurrey
  7. ENTOCYCLEManaging Director2022 — 2025London, England, United Kingdom
  8. ENTOCYCLECTO2017 — 2022London Bridge
  9. The Meaning of WorkWriter2016 — 2017London
  10. SpeakSet (Acquired)Co-Founder2013 — 2016London, United Kingdom
  11. Entrepreneur FirstCohort member2012 — 2013London, United Kingdom
  12. McLaren Group Ltd.Summer Intern Design Engineer2010Woking, Surrey

Skills & more

Technical AdvisoryLean StartupConsultancy ServicesFreelancingSmall Business ConsultingEngineering11Entrepreneurship23Music3Microsoft Office9Microsoft Excel6PowerPoint4Microsoft Word1
+11 moreAutoCADEnvironmental ScienceMatlabBusiness StrategyCoaching & MentoringProduct DevelopmentMarketingSimulinkStrategic PlanningProgrammingStart-ups

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Who is Matthew Simmonds?
Matthew Simmonds is a Technical Delivery Consultant at Terrella and the former CTO and Managing Director of Entocycle, where he developed early prototypes, led core technology development, built a technical team, and later established the sales function and partnerships with companies including Siemens and Bühler. He holds a first-class engineering degree from Oxford and has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. His work spans deep tech scaling, industrial automation, technical due diligence, and hardware fundraising, with $28M raised across his ventures.
Where does Matthew Simmonds work?
Matthew Simmonds is Cofounder of Speakset.
What companies did Matthew Simmonds found?
Matthew Simmonds founded Speakset.
Where did Matthew Simmonds go to school?
Matthew Simmonds studied at University of Oxford (Master of Engineering (MEng), Engineering Technology); Walton High School.

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