William Tunstall-Pedoe
InvestorInvestor at Cambridge Innovation Capital
London
Writes $10K β $500K checks Β· 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 β presentGreater London, England, United Kingdom
- Ada HealthAdvisorcurrent2017 β presentBerlin Metropolitan Area
- Cambridge Innovation Capital plcMember of the Advisory Panelcurrent2017 β present
- Cambridge AngelsFull membercurrent2016 β presentGreater Cambridge Area
- Genius 2000 LtdFounder and ownercurrent1998 β present
- Creative Destruction LabFellow2019 β 2022Greater Oxford Area
- Creative Destruction LabFellow2016 β 2020Greater Toronto Area, Canada
- Cambridge Judge Business SchoolFellow in Entrepreneurship2017 β 2022
- Fluent.aiAdvisor2017 β 2020Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area
- Career breakmyself2016
- Evi TechnologiesPrincipal Product Manager (Alexa and Amazon Echo)2012 β 2016Greater Cambridge Area
- Evi TechnologiesFounder and Chief Product Officer2012
- Evi TechnologiesFounder and CEO2005 β 2012
- Isaac Newton InstituteDeveloper1993 β 1994
- The Fourth DimensionSoftware Engineer1991 β 1992
- IOTA SoftwareSoftware Engineer1991
- University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSoftware Engineer1990
- Acorn ComputersSupport Specialist1990
- XOBSoftware Engineer1983 β 1990
- University of Minnesota, Division of EpidemiologySoftware Engineer1988
Education
- University of CambridgeMA, Computer Science1988 β 1991
Skills & more
Management9Leadership1conversational interfacesPythonC++Start-ups69Entrepreneurship47Artificial Intelligence38Software Development35Venture Capital14Machine Learning13Software Engineering10
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Natural Language UnderstandingProduct ManagementSpeech RecognitionMobile DevicesMobile ApplicationsIntellectual PropertyStrategic PartnershipsSemantic TechnologiesNatural Language ProcessingDistributed SystemsE-commercePatentsLanguages English Β· French
- XCS224N - Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning β Stanford University
- Machine Learning β Stanford University (through Coursera)
From William's professional profile.
Same school
Also attended University of Cambridge621
Niko BonatsosInvestment Team at General CatalystGeorgia StevensonInvestor at Index VenturesHannah SealInvestor at Index VenturesAnthony PhilippakisInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Erik NordlanderInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Nic LowdenInvestor at Moonfire Ventures
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Shared employers
Also worked at Ada Health6
Also worked at Creative Destruction Lab118
Greg RudinBoard Partner at Menlo VenturesPaul VeradittakitManaging Partner at Pantera CapitalIsabel FoxHead of Investor Relations at Hoxton VenturesAngelaGeneral Partner at Version One VenturesMatt StevensEntrepreneur in Residence at Tech Square VenturesChristophe JurczakPartner at Quantonation
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Also worked at Evi Technologies3
Also worked at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill29
Lucy LiuPrincipal at Longwood FundHaley LeversedgeInvestor at Silversmith Capital PartnersChris HartshornAdvisor at ChrysalixDon HolzworthDigital Health Advisor at Excelerate Health VenturesSelene ParekhDigital Health Advisor at Excelerate Health VenturesCam PattersonDigital Health Advisor at Excelerate Health Ventures
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Colleagues at Cambridge Innovation Capital
Adam Glinsman
Investor at Cambridge Innovation Capital
Andrew Williamson
Managing Partner at Cambridge Innovation Capital
Andy Neely
Vice Chair at Cambridge Innovation Capital
Andy Richards
Investor at Cambridge Innovation Capital
Anne Horgan
Partner at Cambridge Innovation Capital
Christopher Tapper
Senior Associate at Cambridge Innovation Capital
Damian Crowther
Entrepreneur in Residence at Cambridge Innovation Capital
Dipesh Patel
Operating Partner at Cambridge Innovation Capital
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Investors connected to William in public investor directories β a warm-intro map.

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