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Steven Willmott

Founder

CEO at Safe Intelligence

London, England, United Kingdom

FoundedSafe Intelligence

About

Steven Willmott is CEO of Safe Intelligence and a Venture Partner at Piton Capital. He previously co-founded and served as CEO of Timewarp Labs and 3scale Inc., the latter acquired by Red Hat, where he continued as Senior Director and Head of API Infrastructure. Willmott holds a Doctorate in AI from EPFL in Switzerland, has authored more than 100 scientific publications, and has made angel investments in companies including Elemeno Health, GDPR.Dev, Restack.IO, Sharplaunch, and Mercury.

CEO at Safe Intelligence

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Safe Intelligence's investors · 3

Amadeus Capital PartnersLondon · $50K – $12.7M checks · since 2025OTB VenturesAmsterdam · $1.1M – $7.7M checks · since 2025Vsquared VenturesMünchen · since 2025

Co-founders at Safe Intelligence

ALAlessio Lomuscio
Alessio LomuscioCTO

Experience

  1. Safe IntelligenceCEO at Safe Intelligence / Spec27current2025 — present
  2. Safe IntelligenceProduct and Engineering Lead2023 — 2025London, England, United Kingdom
  3. Piton CapitalVenture Partnercurrent2023 — presentLondon, England, United Kingdom
  4. Timewarp IncCo-Founder2020 — 2023Austin, Texas, United States
  5. Red HatSenior Director and Head of API Infrastructure2016 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
  6. 3scale Inc.CEO2010 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
  7. 3scale Inc.Co-founder and Technical lead2008 — 2010
  8. Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaResearch Leader2002 — 2008
  9. Agentlink IIIResearch Action Coordinator2003 — 2006
  10. AgentcitiesProject Coordinator2002 — 2006
  11. École polytechnique fédérale de LausannePostdoctoral Researcher2001 — 2002
  12. Madame TussaudsGuide1995 — 1996

Skills & more

Open-Source SoftwareStrategic ThinkingLeadershipSalesFundraisingArtificial Intelligence99Distributed Systems99SOA8Mobile6Ruby20Programming24Web Development11
+12 moreXMLEntrepreneurshipHTMLCSSUMLComputer ScienceProduct DevelopmentSemantic WebWeb 2.0Open SourceMySQLPHP

Languages German, Spanish, French, English

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Steven Willmott?
Steven Willmott is CEO of Safe Intelligence and a Venture Partner at Piton Capital. He previously co-founded and served as CEO of Timewarp Labs and 3scale Inc., the latter acquired by Red Hat, where he continued as Senior Director and Head of API Infrastructure. Willmott holds a Doctorate in AI from EPFL in Switzerland, has authored more than 100 scientific publications, and has made angel investments in companies including Elemeno Health, GDPR.Dev, Restack.IO, Sharplaunch, and Mercury.
Where does Steven Willmott work?
Steven Willmott is CEO of Safe Intelligence.
What companies did Steven Willmott found?
Steven Willmott founded Safe Intelligence.
Where did Steven Willmott go to school?
Steven Willmott studied at EPFL (PhD, Artificial Intelligence / Distributed Systems / Communication Networks); The University of Edinburgh (Msc, Artificial Intelligence / Informatics); University of Warwick (Bsc, Mathematics).

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