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William Tunstall-Pedoe

Investor

Investor 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

  1. UnlikelyAICEO and Foundercurrent2019 — presentGreater London, England, United Kingdom
  2. Ada HealthAdvisorcurrent2017 — presentBerlin Metropolitan Area
  3. Cambridge Innovation Capital plcMember of the Advisory Panelcurrent2017 — present
  4. Cambridge AngelsFull membercurrent2016 — presentGreater Cambridge Area
  5. Genius 2000 LtdFounder and ownercurrent1998 — present
  6. Creative Destruction LabFellow2019 — 2022Greater Oxford Area
  7. Creative Destruction LabFellow2016 — 2020Greater Toronto Area, Canada
  8. Cambridge Judge Business SchoolFellow in Entrepreneurship2017 — 2022
  9. Fluent.aiAdvisor2017 — 2020Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area
  10. Career breakmyself2016
  11. Evi TechnologiesPrincipal Product Manager (Alexa and Amazon Echo)2012 — 2016Greater Cambridge Area
  12. Evi TechnologiesFounder and Chief Product Officer2012
  13. Evi TechnologiesFounder and CEO2005 — 2012
  14. Isaac Newton InstituteDeveloper1993 — 1994
  15. The Fourth DimensionSoftware Engineer1991 — 1992
  16. IOTA SoftwareSoftware Engineer1991
  17. University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSoftware Engineer1990
  18. Acorn ComputersSupport Specialist1990
  19. XOBSoftware Engineer1983 — 1990
  20. University of Minnesota, Division of EpidemiologySoftware Engineer1988
  21. GEC Hirst Research CentreASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Research1988
  22. GEC Hirst Research CentreVLSI Research1988

Skills & more

Management9Leadership1conversational interfacesPythonC++Start-ups69Entrepreneurship47Artificial Intelligence38Software Development35Venture Capital14Machine Learning13Software Engineering10
+12 moreNatural Language UnderstandingProduct ManagementSpeech RecognitionMobile DevicesMobile ApplicationsIntellectual PropertyStrategic PartnershipsSemantic TechnologiesNatural Language ProcessingDistributed SystemsE-commercePatents

Languages English · French

  • XCS224N - Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning — Stanford University
  • Machine Learning — Stanford University (through Coursera)

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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).

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