William Tunstall-Pedoe
InvestorInvestor at Cambridge Innovation Capital · Member of the Advisory Panel at Start Codon · Full member at Cambridge Angels group
London
Writes $10K – $500K checks · typically $100K
About
William Tunstall-Pedoe founded a company whose technology (Evi) was acquired by Amazon and became part of Alexa; he held a senior role in the team that defined, built and launched the Amazon Echo. He now works as an angel investor and is a fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab, a Toronto-based AI startup incubator. He holds a first class honours degree in Computer Science from Churchill College, Cambridge.
Invests in
AI & Machine Learning
Experience
- UnlikelyAICEO and Foundercurrent2019 — presentGreater London, England, United Kingdom
- Ada HealthAdvisorcurrent2017 — presentBerlin Metropolitan Area
- Cambridge Innovation Capital plcMember of the Advisory Panelcurrent2017 — present
- Cambridge AngelsFull membercurrent2016 — presentGreater Cambridge Area
- Genius 2000 LtdFounder and ownercurrent1998 — present
- Creative Destruction LabFellow2019 — 2022Greater Oxford Area
- Creative Destruction LabFellow2016 — 2020Greater Toronto Area, Canada
- Cambridge Judge Business SchoolFellow in Entrepreneurship2017 — 2022
- Fluent.aiAdvisor2017 — 2020Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area
- Career breakmyself2016
- Evi TechnologiesPrincipal Product Manager (Alexa and Amazon Echo)2012 — 2016Greater Cambridge Area
- Evi TechnologiesFounder and Chief Product Officer2012
- Evi TechnologiesFounder and CEO2005 — 2012
- Isaac Newton InstituteDeveloper1993 — 1994
- The Fourth DimensionSoftware Engineer1991 — 1992
- IOTA SoftwareSoftware Engineer1991
- University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSoftware Engineer1990
- Acorn ComputersSupport Specialist1990
- XOBSoftware Engineer1983 — 1990
- University of Minnesota, Division of EpidemiologySoftware Engineer1988
- GEC Hirst Research CentreASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Research1988
- GEC Hirst Research CentreVLSI Research1988
Skills & more
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Natural Language UnderstandingProduct ManagementSpeech RecognitionMobile DevicesMobile ApplicationsIntellectual PropertyStrategic PartnershipsSemantic TechnologiesNatural Language ProcessingDistributed SystemsE-commercePatentsLanguages English · French
- XCS224N - Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning — Stanford University
- Machine Learning — Stanford University (through Coursera)
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Colleagues at Cambridge Innovation Capital
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is William Tunstall-Pedoe?
- William Tunstall-Pedoe founded a company whose technology (Evi) was acquired by Amazon and became part of Alexa; he held a senior role in the team that defined, built and launched the Amazon Echo. He now works as an angel investor and is a fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab, a Toronto-based AI startup incubator. He holds a first class honours degree in Computer Science from Churchill College, Cambridge.
- Where does William Tunstall-Pedoe work?
- William Tunstall-Pedoe is at Cambridge Innovation Capital.
- What does William Tunstall-Pedoe invest in?
- William Tunstall-Pedoe invests in AI & Machine Learning.
- What check size does William Tunstall-Pedoe write?
- William Tunstall-Pedoe typically writes checks of $10K – $500K.
- Where did William Tunstall-Pedoe go to school?
- William Tunstall-Pedoe studied at University of Cambridge (MA, Computer Science).
Founder mafias
University of Cambridge mafia256
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
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Creative Destruction Lab mafia31
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Cambridge Innovation Capital mafia3
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Same school
Also attended University of Cambridge1,186
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Shared employers
Also worked at Ada Health8
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Also worked at Creative Destruction Lab174
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