CPO & Co-Founder play a crucial role in any startup. It takes an extraordinary person to fulfil the CPO & Co-Founder role. We have selected these CPO & Co-Founder’s for this list as they are inspiring for a variety of reasons – whether that’s pushing boundaries, creating groundbreaking products, or doing their bit to save the world.
Our analysts did their best to select be best, and most innovative CPO & Co-Founder’s. The list is in no particular order!
Rob Whitehead
CPO & Co-Founder @ Improbable
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Robert Whitehead is the Co-Founder & CTO at Improbable. He worked as Cohort Member at Entrepreneur First. He served as Technical Consultant at McKinsey & Company. He was the Founder of TyroTech Software. He also served as Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg LP.
Learn more about Rob Whitehead on Crunchbase…Improbable is a UK-based games technology company that is dedicated to building powerful technology designed to help problems. Read more about Improbable on Crunchbase…
Alice Bentinck
CPO & Co-Founder @ Entrepreneur First
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Alice Bentinck is co-founder of Entrepreneur First, the early stage investor that builds deep tech companies from scratch. EF invests in individuals with computer science and engineering backgrounds and has built more than 100 companies. Their portfolio includes exits such as Magic Pony Technology to Twitter for a reported $150m and Represent to Custom Inc for close to $100m. Alice set up Code First: Girls, a not-for-profit that helps young women explore careers in technology, including teaching them to code for free. She is also on the Imperial College Computer Science Industrial Liaison Board and was made an MBE in 2016.
Learn more about Alice Bentinck on Crunchbase… Read more about Entrepreneur First on Crunchbase…
Imam Hoque
COO, CPO & Co-founder @ Quantexa
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Imam has spent 28 years in the IT services and software industry and now specialises in large data driven solutions with a focus on financial crime. He worked as a developer, project manager and technical architect before becoming the CTO of an internet solutions start-up and then founding Detica NetReveal. He grew Detica NetReveal to a team of more than 300 specialists and then as a managing board director went on to acquire and integrate Norkom AML. Prior to Quantexa, Imam led the SAS Financial Crime practice for EMEA/AP.
Learn more about Imam Hoque on Crunchbase…Quantexa develops network analytics tools for the detection and prevention of financial crime. Read more about Quantexa on Crunchbase…
Jan Vanhoutte
CPO & Co-Founder @ Shepper
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Shepper collects data on physical assets for businesses using the power of technology and people Read more about Shepper on Crunchbase…
Rajiv Tanna
CPO & Co-Founder @ Birdie
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Birdie is a digital caretech company focused on elderly care at home. Read more about Birdie on Crunchbase…
Toby Allen
CPO & Co-founder @ Skipr
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Martin Salo
CPO & Co-founder @ Realeyes
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In constant pursuit of technical excellence and innovation, Martin has helped make Realeyes the technology leader in webcam-based emotion measurement, used by publishers, agencies and Fortune 500 brands across the globe. Deeming none of the available technology was good enough for emotions measurement, Martin worked with CTO Elnar to build the Realeyes platform from scratch. Martin’s unrelenting standards resulted in a product that combines easy usability and cutting-edge analytics, harnessing our industry-leading technology to the service of customer needs. Martin wrote his first line of code at the tender age of 7; at 12 he created an app that was downloaded by tens of thousands of people; he founded his own successful digital creative agency and has been CIO for both Raunopol and Mothercare (Baltics) – all before the age of thirty.
Learn more about Martin Salo on Crunchbase…Measuring Human Response At The Speed & Scale Of AI Read more about Realeyes on Crunchbase…