Enterprise Tuesday: Quantum – ready or not

Researcher turned founder turned deep-tech venture capitalist committed to advancing sustainable technologies.

Zuzanna graduated from University College London with a major in Quantum & Atomic Physics and a minor in Physical Chemistry. Her early research focused on developing non-invasive cholesterol sensors and non-enzymatic glucose sensors. Transitioning from academia to entrepreneurship, she worked at a sanitation start-up and advised climate-tech ventures before joining a London-based deep-tech VC firm specializing in hardware investments.

She co-founded upLYFT—innovative clothing designed to restore mobility to those who have lost it (Winner of Mayor’s Entrepreneur Competition 2023, Winner of Inclusive Innovation 2023, MIT solv(ED) Youth Innovator 2023). She then became part of the investment team at Energy Revolution Ventures and went on to do business development at one of their portfolio companies, Oort Energy.

Currently, Zuzanna is pursuing a PhD in Sustainable Aviation Fuels at King’s College, University of Cambridge and building Proximo Ventures. Proximo Ventures supports the best university-born innovation by bringing it to global capital markets faster and helps students break into venture capital.

Phil is an Engineer and a Cambridge-based mentor, coach and angel investor in technology start-ups where he generally becomes a director.

He speaks widely on entrepreneurial topics at universities and business schools and is an advisor to organisations wishing to commercialise their IP.

Phil O’Donovan, as co-founder and Managing Director, helped Cambridge-based Cambridge Silicon Radio Ltd raise $85million as a private company and grow, from a start-up of nine founders, into a FTSE 250 listed fabless semiconductor company.

By 2015, Cambridge Silicon Radio had become CSR plc and employed more than 2,000 people in 23 locations around the world.

Within four years from 1998, CSR grew to become the Bluetooth chip market leader and supplier to hundreds of global high-volume consumer product manufacturers.

CSR became a publicly quoted company on the London Stock Exchange in March 2004 and, by 2012, had achieved annual revenue of $1billion.

By 2015, CSR had shipped close to 4billion chips and had acquired seven companies. As a public company, CSR was acquired in 2016 by US company Qualcomm for $2.5billion.

Dr Jeremy Sosabowski is Co-founder & CEO at AlgoDynamix, an AI forecasting analytics company providing hours or days advance warning of major directional market movements.

Their products are used by investment banks and asset managers, including CTAs and hedge funds. Jeremy has over a decade of business and technology commercialization experience.

His previous roles include CTO at an instrumentation company (technology acquired) and data analyst within the online transaction space.