BBSRC DTP Startup Internships - Oxford Foundry · 2020-01-28 · Oxford BBSRC DTP Start-up Internship JD 3 Placement title Internship Start-up name Appli Location Hythe Bridge Street,

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BBSRC DTP Startup Internships

Oxford Foundry

April 2020 –July 2020

Oxford BBSRC DTP Start-up Internship JD 2

Contents

01 Appli Internship Placement Description………………………………….3-4

02 Peergos Internship Placement Description……………………………...5-6

03 Oxford Cancer Analytics Internship Placement Description…………7-9

04 Smash Medicine Internship Placement Description………………...10-11

05 MO Intelligence Internship Placement Description………………….12-14

06 Myo Internship Placement Description……………...........................15-16

07 Archangel Imaging Internship Placement Description……………..17-19

08 Intelligent Lab on Fire (iLoF) Internship Placement Description…20-22

09 Sibyl Internship Placement Description……………………………….23-24

10 Deep Planet Internship Placement Description……………..……….25-26


Placement title Internship

Start-up name Appli

Location Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford and Park End Street, Oxford

Hours Full time

Placement Duration 3 months (commencing April 2020)

About Appli Appli is a fast-growing startup building an AI platform that tells students their percentage chances of getting into UK universities based on their profiles. We use massive datasets of previously successful and unsuccessful applicants in order to derive the percentage chances of new candidates and tell them what they can do to most effectively improve those chances. With our help students can make more strategic applications and avoid wasting time and effort in improving their profiles. Our product is available on a paid or partnership basis. Both students and schools can purchase Appli reports independently and we are also building relationships with a range of strategic partners to provide them free of charge to currently disadvantaged applicants in order to widen access to top universities. We’ve had excellent results and validation from our customers in our first market of UK medical school applications and have now built the same AI technology for 85% of subjects at the UK’s top 30 universities. Successful interns will join us during an exciting period as we use our recent funding round to grow with aggressive speed and build both our social impact and market share.

About the founding team Christian Holland Founder and CEO Oxford medic and previous admissions coach: Christian provides deep domain expertise and knowledge of the admissions landscape to complement the expertise of the tech team. Ruairidh Forgan Founder and CTO Cambridge physicist with a second home in front of a whiteboard at the Oxford foundry. Ruairidh provides statistical and mathematical talent: leading the Appli technical team. The Technical Team Our technical team is based mainly at Cambridge and comprises a variety of statisticians, developers and mathematicians mainly focused on the back-end development of Appli’s systems.


Skills We’re moving at breakneck pace now so the main requirement for any intern is to be excited by the prospect of flexible and rapidly evolving projects! We will work to shape your individual project through discussing your interests and the company’s requirements during your interview. Sample projects could range from working on the front-end development of Appli’s new browser-based platform to managing several strategic partnerships with organisation committed to widening participation at top universities but we’re very open to value that interns could bring in other areas! Applicants are advised to focus on their key skills and areas of interest in their application and interview and are welcome to suggest potential areas in which they could add value. The most important factor is that you are excited by the prospect of taking ownership of your own project. We will work with you to establish key performance indicators to make sure that you can see how your work fits in with the overall direction of the company, but you will be given a large amount of latitude to decide exactly how to achieve these goals! Interns with a particular interest would also be welcome to contribute to the overall strategic direction of the company, through both informal and formal meetings with the founding team, and other stakeholders including investors. Work timing will be flexible. We’re results driven and hate presenteeism: we focus solely on key results and quality of output rather than counting hours!

Professional development Interns working at Appli will enjoy all the benefits of excitement of working at a rapidly growing startup while being able to shape their development to their particular interests. For the entrepreneurially minded this will be an excellent opportunity to see first-hand how a business can iterate rapidly, testing product and business hypotheses and using these to drive growth. For those with an interest in the underlying technology they’ll be able to contribute to the development of novel tech that has the potential to revolutionise the way in which applicants apply to university. Regardless of their particular interest all interns will contribute to strategic decisions, carry out original market research, develop relationships with strategic partners and develop their knowledge of startup legal issues and accounting. For those with a particular interest in startups we’ll make introductions to others in the startup ecosystem (and will be recruiting more full-time employees in Q2 2020!). For those looking to avoid the city after graduation we may be a good fit, but will also happily make introductions to other companies who are hiring! Broadly – each intern will be able to shape their development based on their area of interest, but will also have a great time at an innovative company aiming to truly democratise access to university!



Start-up name Peergos


Hours Full time


About Peergos Peergos is a privacy and security focused startup founded in 2013. We have built an open source end-to-end encrypted, peer-to-peer file storage, sharing and communication network. Our focus is to build technology that protects privacy and democracy and makes the web more secure. We want to empower the individual and the dream is to build a new web with privacy and security as pillars. Check us out at: peergos.org

About the team We are a currently a team of 4.

Ian Ian did his DPhil in Particle Physics at Oxford University, during which he mainly worked on a

new x86 system emulator, JPC. After his doctorate he was the lead developer on an x86 Linux

process emulator which was able to achieve 80% native speed on x86 hardware. As well as

emulation, he is passionate about distributed systems and cryptography, which is in his blood as

his grandfather worked at Bletchley park during WWII.

Chris

Chris also has a DPhil in Particle Physics from Oxford University and used to work on the Large

Hadron Collider before turning his focus to software engineering. He has written an ACID

compliant distributed noSQL database with better performance than Cassandra.

Kevin

Kevin ported the world's first full x86 system emulator to run in javascript and more recently

contributed to a Linux emulator capable of running WINE in a web browser. He has previously

worked in Banking, Infrastructure, Transport, Business Intelligence and Resource sectors.


Jonathan

Jonathan completed his PhD in Applied Probability at the University of Melbourne. He worked in

various quantitative roles in banking in Australia and the UK before changing industries to become

a software engineer and build enterprise data science products.

Skills Your involvement will be shaped after discussing your interests and the company's requirements during the interview. We require an individual that is comfortable working in the start-up scene. Interns will need to be highly motivated, proactive and committed workers with a passion for learning new skills. It is highly likely that work will span across various disciplines, be it market analysis, business strategy, business development, customer contact, social media management, fundraising and much else besides.

Professional development You will provide valuable input into an early-stage enterprise. As a valued part of a small and dynamic team, you will have ample opportunity for ongoing growth and development. You will be working closely with the founders, including at least weekly 1-1 meetings. We are a tech heavy team and are looking to gain insight from someone who understands the passion we feel but can also bring a different perspective.



Start-up name Oxford Cancer Analytics


Hours Full time


About Oxford Cancer Analytics Oxford Cancer Analytics is an award-winning start-up company focusing on early cancer detection to enable curative treatments. We have developed, DECancer.AI, a deep machine learning platform for early cancer detection and personalized treatment determination. Cancer killed 9.6 million people worldwide in 2018. The deadliest cancers are often diagnosed at the final, incurable stage, because current diagnostics are invasive, expensive, and cannot reliably detect the deadliest cancers early. Cancers are curable when detected early. DECancer.AI provides the solution for early cancer detection using liquid biopsy, a blood test that can sensitively detect cancer materials shed into the blood in a minimally invasive and cost-effective manner. DECancer.AI uses advanced AI technology to analyse multidimensional liquid biopsy data (DNA, protein, epigenetics), and selects succinct panels of clinical biomarkers for early detection of specific cancer subtypes. Thus, we aim to enable early cancer detection and guide personalized selection of the most suitable curative treatment.

About the team

Peter Jianrui Liu, CEO: Peter has been training as a physician and is now conducting DPhil research. Peter’s focus on cancer research for the past 6 years, internship at the World Health Organization, leading the health innovation think tank BRIGHT International, and being President of the Oxford University Scientific Society established multidimensional insights on cancer diagnosis and strong connections to experts in science, policy, and business to implement DECancer.AI.

Andreas Halner, COO: Andreas has been training as a physician in preclinical medicine at St John's College and is now conducting DPhil research. He is the Pathology Tutor for medical students at St John's College, Oxford and has published on mythological and clinical opportunities of applied machine learning. Andreas’ research on machine learning to develop predictive clinical tools bridges data science and AI with clinical implementation.


Antonia Schultze-Mosgau, CSO: Antonia specializes in public health, market and consumer psychology, behavioural and experimental economics, and their interface to neuroscience. As a researcher at the Health Economics Research Centre in Oxford, she focused on predicting health and economic related decision-making processes and behaviour. She has previous entrepreneurial experiences in the start-up scene, such as being involved in the foundation and establishment of a social business. She has strong marketing and HR management skills and is an expert in health economics, business models and strategies.

Guillermo valle Perez, CTO: Guillermo is a DPhil student in AI theory and also has a grounding in biology (Systems Biology Doctoral Training Centre program). He has presented at two of the top three machine learning conferences in the world, International Conference on Machine Learning and the International Conference on Learning Representation. Guillermo is crucial for tailoring our AI algorithm to maximize potential from liquid biopsy data.

Skills We seek new team members with a strong interest in learning about machine learning and its application for early cancer detection and treatment determination. This internship will allow you to apply a strong background in social science to the field of cancer detection, machine learning, and policy research. Two internships are available focusing on the following topics:

1) You will research current NHS policy on machine learning implementation and develop a step by step road map for the implementation of DECancer.AI in the NHS based on current AI and cancer clinical trial policy.

2) You will apply a background in social science and economics to understand the impact that DECancer.AI can deliver for the NHS and the UK by reducing cost, saving lives, and enhancing quality-adjusted life years.

The following skills are preferred:

- Self-driven individual with the ability to conduct independent research - A team player able to learn and contribute to an interdisciplinary team - Although not essential, team mates with a background in qualitative or quantitative

research focusing on policy or economics analysis are preferred - Although not essential, team mates with an interest or background in business

marketing are preferred

Professional development This project is expected to result in both academic publications in peer-reviewed journals and intellectual properties. You will help implement a novel and integrated pipeline to process multi-dimensional liquid biopsy data for the identification of early cancer signatures. You will be working at the intersection of policy, economics, machine learning, and cutting-edge cancer research.

There will be regular mentorship opportunities including meetings with our world-class advisors


and mentors who have held senior leadership roles in international pharma companies including GSK, leading machine learning experts, Oxford professors and physician-scientists, and NHS policy-makers.

This internship is an ideal opportunity to apply academic and research knowledge in an innovative business setting while working with a vibrantly diverse team.



Start-up name SmashMedicine


Hours Full time


About SmashMedicine is a digital innovative EdTech platform that promotes deep-learning by combining multiple learning modalities with gamification and artificial intelligence to make learning medicine fun! Driven by the idea that fun and education no longer have to be separate, we set out on a quest to change the world. Carrying out years of research into learning optimisation and knowledge retention, we developed an efficient and effective approach that makes learners smile instead of being stressed. We will bring this approach to all disciplines, but for now, we focus on medicine with the ultimate aim of minimising misdiagnosis and optimising patient care. Supported by the European Union, Cancer Research UK, a number of universities worldwide and most recently the Oxford Foundry, we are primed to take the world by storm. So, come join the movement and help us change education forever!

The SmashFamily We are the people who make education serious fun. Dr Benjamin H L Harris MBBCh (Hons) MSc MRCP (UK) Fellow, HEA FAcadMEd OA (Co-founder) is an academic clinician and lecturer at the University of Oxford, with medical education and big data expertise. He is both a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and of the Academy of Medical Educators. Ben may think of himself as ‘cool’ whilst on the ward, but his mustard cords say otherwise. Dr Jason L Walsh BSc (Hons) MBBCh (Hons) MSc (Hons) MRCP (UK) (Co-founder) is a hospital physician, researcher and innovative medical educator. His recent award-winning educational research examines the use of question writing and gamification for optimisation of knowledge retention. Further, he has expertise in artificial intelligence, developed during a clinical research fellowship between John's Hopkins University and the American University of Beirut. Mr Matteo Di Giovannantonio MEng (Hons) DPhil (Head of AI) not only brings a fantastic beard but an extensive expertise in machine and deep learning. With a passion in AI, Matteo has a unique ability to bring a personalised user experience to our learners on the SmashMedicine platform. Ms Ee Lin Song (Head of Finance) helps us manage our sustainability strategy and has a glittering CV having worked at companies including Standard Chartered, PWC and Accenture.


Mr Samuel R L Harris BSc (Hons) is our Head of Growth and Strategy. He is an E-learning expert and growth specialist but most importantly his positive spirit enables him to awaken a smile on everyone he meets. Mr Fergus Wood BSc (Hons) MSc (Hons) specialises in user engagement and decision making. He also looks a lot like Michael Fassbender. Furthermore, the SmashAunties and Uncles have extensive knowledge of educational strategy and experience in spinning out billion-dollar companies working at organisations including Oxford Sciences Innovation and Deloitte.

Skills We want to make a difference to the lives of millions of people and to do this we welcome input in a lot of different areas. Everyone has a different background and every perspective brings something new. Whether you can bring computational expertise, marketing and business development experience, clinical knowledge, or just a smile, we will welcome you into the SmashFamily!

Professional development We can help you in a number of different ways and this can be individually tailored to your motivations. Some areas that spring to mind include helping you:

1) Build your CV 2) Improve your understanding of what it takes to run a digital platform (including but not

limited to UX/UI design and back-end development and maintenance) 3) Develop machine learning skills 4) Learn how to obtain funding (e.g. grants and investment) 5) Improve your medical knowledge and critical thinking 6) Deepen your understanding of pedagogical and e-pedagogical approaches 7) See what the start-up ecosystem has to offer 8) Improve your communication skills at all levels 9) Develop your leadership and management skills and build your business acumen

(particularly in B2B/B2C) 10) Increase the number of times you laugh per day

Alongside this, you will be helping us on our European project. On a daily basis, you will be working alongside the Team making ideas come to life and you will be able to see and understand the inner workings of a tech start-up. Furthermore, you will have the chance to be creative with your ideas being used to help shape the platform. Of course, the journey changes daily and so no two days will be the same!



Start-up name MO Intelligence


Hours Full time


About MO Intelligence MO Intelligence is an artificial intelligence startup consists of a group of top-tier research scientists, developing advanced machine learning and robotics technologies for construction industry. We empower machines with perception abilities to sense the real world and create digital twins with full of semantics. Construction, as one of the largest sectors of the world economy, suffers from low productivity, labour shortage and onerous management. An estimated 20% of the schedule delay is caused by data vulnerability, around 30% of the work performed by construction companies is actually rework, and the cost reaches 5% of the whole budget. The issue is caused by the fact that most of the construction projects still rely on humans with primitive tools and technologies to record and evaluate construction process periodically .

The current focus of MO Intelligence is on autonomous mobile surveying, which grants the abilities of monitoring the whole construction progress with automatic specifications while eliminating human errors from the traditional workflow. We provide intelligent and efficient surveying solutions based on our advanced robotics technologies to create digital twins for constructions, which bridges the gap between the offline construction sites and online management service. The intelligent automation workflow brought by MO Intelligence not only digitalises the construction work with minimum human labour, but also enables delicacy management over the whole construction process. At MO Intelligence, we are going to empower the construction industry with more advanced AI technologies to have safer and more efficient building works.

About the team (200-250 words) Yishu Miao (CEO), DPhil in Computer Science at the University of Oxford, Master in Data Mining at Tsinghua University, Research intern at DeepMind. He is a pioneer research scientist in deep learning, passionate entrepreneur, and experienced software engineer. He has years’ experience on landing AI technologies in multiple different areas. Sen Wang (CTO), Assistant Professor at Heriot Watts University and Edinburgh Robotics Centre, post-doc at the University of Oxford. He is a robotics & AI scientist, expert in autonomous robot, and leading researcher in SLAM, with rich experience in providing industrial services for big companies (e.g. oil & gas companies). Phil Blunsom (Non-executive Director), Principal Scientist of DeepMind, Associated Professor of University of Oxford, Founder of DarkBlue Labs. He established a world leading


academic research group in deep learning for language at Oxford and is currently leading the language group at DeepMind. Karl Hermann (Non-executive Director), Senior Staff of DeepMind, Founder & CEO of DarkBlue Labs, DPhil in Computer Science at the University of Oxford, previous Senior Associate at McKinsey. He is a pioneer scientist and entrepreneur with full of experience in connecting AI technologies and real-world applications. Chris Dyer (Board Advisor), Senior Staff of DeepMind, Consulting Professor of Carnegie Mellon University, board advisor of Unbabel. He is a leading researcher in machine learning and computational linguistics. In 2017, he was a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Skills You’ll need to have (any one of them):

● Marketing & Operation o Customer development (create a strategy to test and validate potential

customers, arrange meetings and activate sales channels). o Business document preparation (pitch presentation, funding application,

marketing strategies and social media blogs). o Project management (build up efficient communicating channel inside the team,

manage the development process and deliver the milestones).

● Designer & Engineer o UI/UE, VR, website or dashboard design (create user friendly interface to deliver

the functionalities of our products). o 3D graphics, BIM model or three.js (design 3D models for presentation,

demonstration and product pitch). o System architect (architect, design and build enterprise applications with our

machine learning backend service). ● Other

o Crazy hardass entrepreneur who is willing to learn at anytime. o Passionate engineer/scientist who wants to automate anything. o Worked at construction industry (or related) and desire to disrupt it anywhere.

Professional development You will work in a high-tech AI startup together with top-tier machine learning scientists to solve real-world problems in the industry. You will learn how to land advanced AI technologies in applications, how to solve emerging challenges by quickly learning new skills, and how to drive yourself to enter unfamiliar fields and deliver outputs. You will be given the space and resources to scope out your idea (innovative business strategy, disruptive product design or creative machine learning algorithm). You will have an opportunity to define your own role in MO Intelligence, compensate each other’s expertise in the team and contribute to the strategic discussions & decisions. You will have regular 1-1 meetings with the founders team and advisors to help you make progress. The culture of MO Intelligence is to encourage everyone to be the best at their scopes, without fear of failure or concern of being new to other areas. This is a valuable opportunity to join an early-stage tech enterprise and learn fast with the team.


MO Intelligence is not perfect because we are still growing, but we warmly welcome anyone who has ambitions of boosting the landing of AI technologies, improving construction industry or sensing/digitalising the world to join us at 2020. Let’s build a better MO Intelligence together!



Start-up name myo


Hours Full time

Placement Duration 3 months (flexible, otherwise commencing April 2020)

About myo Think about care homes: what is happening on each day? Most people have no idea – we hope that our grandmothers are being well cared for but aren’t really sure. We decided to get an inside look. Spending four months working as caregivers, we experienced first-hand how much effort and love the carers, nurses, and other staff members put into bringing joy and comfort into the lives of their residents. Good news, right? Well, yes – the trouble is, no-one knows about it! As a result, myo was born. We open a window into the lives of people living in care homes, providing a technological solution to increase transparency and contact for relatives and friends. Imagine getting a notification: “Grandma Betty had a great time at the museum today!” You open the myo app and see a photo of your granny peering at the exhibits, having a coffee in the cafe, and buying a toy dinosaur that you suspect is going to be part of your next Christmas present.

You send back a comment: “Looks like fun! 💖” Founded in 2017, myo is one of the first start-ups in Germany to bring digitalization into the space of elderly care. Since late 2018, we have brought the business to the UK market – with an office in the heart of the City of London.

About the team The myo team consists of 16 full time employees. We have 7 people working on the tech-side of the business while the others are responsible for operation, covering areas such as Business Development, Sales, Customer Success, Operations, Fundraising. The founders of myo are: Jasper Böckel – prior to his MBA from ESADE Business School, Jasper was a strategic consulting with Stern Stewart & Co for 6 years. He is responsible for sales, business development and product management. Richard Böckel – after studying PPE in Germany and at New College, Oxford, Richard joined a serial entrepreneur in Munich, being co-founder in one start-up whilst being employed in the main med-tech company. He is heading the UK business. Felix Kuna – prior to his MBA from IESE Business School, Felix was an investment professional with Blackstone and Quilvest for 5 years. He takes care of operations and all financial and legal matters such as fundraising and budgeting.


Skills We are looking for a motivated intern to help us in bringing our vision to the UK market. You are intellectually curious, have good people skills and like to think creatively and problem oriented. You have a hands-on mentality and are curious towards the healthcare/care market. Excellent communication skills are desirable as this is a people’s business. Being a native English speaker would be helpful, as you might be working on linguistic topics. This 3-month internship offers a fantastic opportunity to experience the fast-paced start-up environment and to be part of a relatively young, small team in the UK. You will be working very closely with us on our day-to-day tasks and have the chance to gain experience in:

• Operations – how do we implement our product in care homes?

• Business Development – how can we develop our product and what partnership opportunities are recommendable?

• B2B & B2C customer success – what do our users want? How do we ensure that our customers are satisfied? What is our competitive advantage? What do we learn from our analytics?

• Sales activities – how do we acquire new customers?

Professional development

At myo, our people come first – before product, definitely before profits. That’s because without

good, happy people on board, it’s impossible to create a world-class product, let alone achieve

sustainable profits. What does that mean for you?

● Create your own path and learn as you go. All things equal, we prefer cleverness to

experience, because the world is changing so fast that yesterday’s experience won’t

matter for long. Your development is our top priority so you will receive mentoring and

an education budget to put towards whatever you want to learn

● Shape the company and share the success. Got an idea for a new feature? Let’s talk!

We want you to leave your mark on what we are creating together and in turn we share

the success through an equity-based compensation component

● Make tomorrow better than today. Life is messy, and start-ups are chaotic. We accept

that and focus on making each day slightly better than the last

● Feel like part of a team. Our social committee will organize plenty of opportunities to get

to know and have fun with your colleagues

● Be fun, be different. Life is too short to accept boring. At myo, we don’t think that work

should be something to be endured, a place to hide your true self – we want your true

colours to shine through! We really believe that being fun and being different are sources

of strength for the business, not just empty bullsh*t to use in recruitment material like this

We look forward to your application and to share part of the journey with you.



Start-up name Archangel Imaging

Location Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford; Park End Street, Oxford Harwell Space Campus, Oxfordshire

Hours Full time


About Archangel Imaging Founded in 2016 in Harwell Space Campus, Oxfordshire, Archangel Imaging builds the most collaborative platform to enable human and smart machine teaming together to tackle persistent, world-scale problems like illegal poaching, metal theft, and smuggling. Our products include bespoke smart cameras with built-in AI and satellite communications, and Cerebella, the collaborative platform for centralised real-time alerts and actions. Both are integrated with other partners’ sensors, drones, rovers and robotic systems to suit different environments and challenges. The whole end-to-end, highly adaptable solution makes it possible to do real-time safeguarding of very large, remote areas where there’s little infrastructure and connectivity. We empower the small teams of wildlife volunteers, researchers to security and government teams, around the world, to detect and act on wildlife, organised crimes and security incidents earlier and more effectively than ever before. Our current team of 10 has a combined 40 years of aerospace, embedded systems, military, and technical leadership experience. We won the BT Infinity Lab Augmented Intelligence Award (2018), AIConics AI for Good award presented at no.10 (2019), and worked with European Space Agency and Ministry of Defence. We are also recently accepted into two startup programs (Creative Destruction Lab and Oxford Foundry’s LEV8) with mentoring and support from leaders and chief executives from world-changing companies like ex-Google, IBM, and Linkedin.

About the team Our team has grown to include 10 full-time staff, with the majority of the team being based at Oxford or our main office in Harwell Campus. Details on our founders can be found below. Dan Sola MEng, University of Oxford Multiple World records on unmanned systems (QinetiQ, Airbus, Boeing). Operations on 5 continents. British Army Officer, manned & unmanned operations (Afghanistan) & leadership instruction. Mentor for Singularity University in Silicon Valley Jonathan Mist BEng, Brunel University 20 years’ experience (Nokia, Anritsu) in high assurance deployable technology development Technical Lead in wireless telecoms, embedded software, software systems architecture


Deployment lead for technology proving projects (wildlife, oil theft, metal theft) Trang Tran MSc University of Oxford, BSc King’s College London Previous startup & consulting experience Building out company systems, financial management, HR, IT Market development and user research

Skills We look for people who are impatient and disciplined about making things happen as part of a high-performance team. We work in agile ‘sprints’ and structure our work based on each other’s strengths and interests. Each of us often take on high level of responsibilities from early on, then growing to become a team lead. We value driven teammates with good judgment, structured thinking, a focus on delivering results, and a passion about solving long standing world-scale problems, like poaching.

Experience in any of these areas would be beneficial:

• Marketing: supporting social media campaigns, creating promotional materials and contents, building brand outreach and improving engagement metrics.

• Market development: conducting primary and secondary market research to support commercialisation strategy and decision-making

• Business development: supporting commercial proposals, customer acquisition

• Implementing best practices, processes and systems to improve efficiency

• Building (high-performance) teams: building our brand, help attract and support talents

You must have very good spoken & written English, and previous experience delivering high-quality work/outputs as a team.

Professional development Explain some of the ways you would plan to support the intern(s) personal and professional development during their 3-month internship placement with your venture, highlighting opportunities for knowledge/skills development (e.g. regular 1-1s with founder(s), offer innovative learning experiences, create performance/growth plans, etc.) We have run internship placements since 2016, supporting from MBA to STEM and social sciences students, with the following structure:

• Each intern spends the first week with technical and general onboarding to learn about important concepts, skills and workflows, using a mixture of reading, recorded and live presentations, semi-guided tasks, and (paid) online courses.

• By the end of first week, we also help you set high-level tasks & goals to be achieved, plus training needs during your placement.

• Each 2-week work sprints involve a Monday sync (planning, setting results to be achieved, retrospectives, reviewing progress and priorities).

• You will be paired with one of the founders whom you report to, and other support buddies.

• The supervisor has the responsibility of reviewing your work, providing ongoing quick steers and feedback, and biweekly 1:1.


• There are also ad-hoc, broader team knowledge-sharing sessions (live or recorded). We also encourage you to participate in any events the company is participating – which we find useful for building commercial awareness.

• All interns can access our paid online learning platforms to learn in their own time. We are happy to consider follow-on opportunity with our successful candidates, whether that be a permanent position, or potential research collaborations. Previous interns’ feedback can be found here https://www.careers.ox.ac.uk/internshipyearbook/archangel-aerospace-2/

https://www.careers.ox.ac.uk/internshipyearbook/archangel-aerospace-2/



Start-up name Intelligent Lab on Fibre (iLoF)


Hours Full time


About iLoF iLoF is enabling a new era of personalized, precision medicine, by providing screening and stratification tools in an affordable, fast and portable way. Currently focusing a patented platform technology on the epidemic of our century: Alzheimer's disease. Why: After more than 14 years and failure of 400+ major clinical trials, Alzheimer's trials need help. 90% of initially enrolled patients leave trials due to invasive, inconvenient screening, causing the development of potentially effective drugs to be abandoned. What: iLoF delivers an inexpensive, non-invasive way of stratifying patients for Alzheimer's clinical trials, saving 40% of the total screening costs and 70% of screening time for clinical trials of Alzheimer's, crucial to enable a treatment for the disease. By using a non-invasive test, iLoF transforms the patient experience and makes trials convenient and patient-centric. How: Identifying exosome-based biomarkers, using a patented photonics and Artificial Intelligence system. Selected by European Institute of Innovation & Technology as winners of the flagship program Wild Card, and supported by EIT Health, iLoF has operations in Porto, Portugal and Oxford, United Kingdom and has been featured as one of the most disruptive companies in Europe.

About the team Luis Valente, Business Lead

• Masters in Electrical Engineering, University of Porto

• More than 8 years of experience in supply chain and operations strategy in companies spanning various sectors

• Founded and operated a tech-retail startup for 6 years, specializing in optimized demand prediction and reduced need for safety stocks


Dr. Mehak Mumtaz, Operational Lead

• MBioChem (Oxford), DPhil Pathology

• Strategy consultant at EY-Parthenon, performing due diligence for primarily mid-market PE firms and advising C-suite leaders on market-entry and growth strategy engagements

• Previously an EIT Health Innovation Fellow, managing a €1.5m innovation project on Rare Cancers at Oxford University, as well as leading the strategy for an Oxford University spinout company delivering rare cancer services to the NHS

• I2I Fellow at the Said Business school Joana Paiva, Technical Lead

• Masters in Biomedical Engineering (University of Coimbra), PhD in Physics (University of Porto)

• Inventor and founder of the iLoF system

• Over 30 publication and 3 patents requests Dr. Paula Sampaio, Science Lead

• PhD Biomedical Sciences (University of Porto)

• Senior Scientist and head of Microscopy at the biggest R&D institute in Portugal

Skills You’ll need to be:

• An initiator and problem-solver, using creativity and resourcefulness to break down and overcome organizational obstacles

• A motivated team player with excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication

• Previous experience with start-ups is preferred

• Experience with pharmaceuticals is not essential but an interest is necessary

• And most importantly, ready to get your hands dirty and have fun!

Professional development Fast-growing startup with opportunity to shape your experience Since incorporation in October 2019, iLoF is rapidly growing and we are looking for support in multiple areas. You will be supporting an early-stage startup in setting its long-term strategy and achieving its milestones. You will be working alongside the founders and will have the opportunity to have complete ownership of a project, defined keeping your interests and venture needs in mind, and most likely spanning multiple skillsets. Some examples of potential projects are:

1. Commercial/Business development – uncovering new business opportunities, developing partnerships and creating sales leads

2. Marketing/Branding – developing new marketing content with strategic messaging, communicating with external stakeholders

3. Fundraising – supporting founders in preparation of funding round including preparing pitches, business models etc

Regular feedback and coaching We believe in goal-setting, regular 1:1s, and feedback, to ensure you are stretching yourself, constantly learning and making the most of your time


Travel We are a multi-country team, and there will be opportunities to travel abroad to meet the rest of the team and get involved in our R&D operations Follow-on opportunities We are a well-funded startup and depending on performance and fit, there will be an opportunity to extend the internship or join us permanently when you are available If all the above, and a chance to accompany us on a mission to enable a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease excites you, give us a shout!



Start-up name Sibyl


Hours Full time


About Sibyl Sibyl supercharges professionals to boost their impact. We are currently working with a top 50

UK law firm and a leading European insurer.

We trust professionals with some of the most important jobs in our society, but the way they operate hasn’t changed for hundreds of years. As a result, professionals are frustrated by repetitive work and the essential services they provide are not keeping pace with the modern world. Sibyl believes that technology can simplify these services, allowing professionals to focus their energy. We will transform multiple professions, starting with legal. Our current focus is on building a claim assessment tool for insurers and law firms, which will transform the way claims are handled. At the moment, a skilled professional has to read through paper piles for each claim and come to a view on prospects, likely costs and payouts. This process is expensive. Every year, organisations spend about £1.2bn and 16m hours on this initial assessment. In the cases where the outcome is obvious, there is no ongoing value as the case will settle quickly. Sibyl removes the need to read the claim documents. It instantly predicts quantitative claim statistics such as the chance of success and the potential costs. Organisations can resolve claims where the merits are clear, and let their best people concentrate on high-value marginal cases. This improves speed of service, and allows professionals to focus on the cases where they have most impact!

About the team The Sibyl co-founders all met at a Legal Hackathon organised by the Court Service (HMCTS), where they won the prize for coolest tech. Since then we have also recruited a fantastic developer. Nikul Vadgama, Head of Product and co-founder: Nik is a doctoral candidate in engineering at Oxford, with experience at Rolls-Royce and in the investment research industry. He makes sure the team is working together fantastically and that we’re building the right things. Sivo Daskalov, Head of Technology and co-founder: Sivo is a doctoral candidate in machine learning with commercial development experience at EuroRisk Systems. He works his magic to build solutions to the knotty problems our customers face, and has a track record of smashing every challenge.


Richard Strauss, Head of Commercial and co-founder: Richard is qualified lawyer with 5 years post qualified experience across the City, in-house and Government. After experiencing first hand the burden of repetitive work, he looked to technology to change this. He leads the sales effort, as well as providing legal insights for the product. Sneji Yanakieva, Developer: Sneji has a Master’s in computer science and commercial development experience working on a predictive portfolio management system. She works with Sivo across all elements of the stack, with particular experience in systems architecture.

Skills Above all else, we want to work with fantastic people who bring a different perspective to our thinking. You’ll need to have:

● Enthusiasm for our mission ● Empathy ● Great communication skills ● A desire to make a positive difference ● An appetite to learn and improve

Any of the following technical skills are desirable (but not essential):

● Legal knowledge ● Social science background relating to AI ● Conducting Primary market research ● Financial modelling and market sizing

Professional development Our business is about helping people fulfill their potential in order to make a positive difference. That applies both to our customers and our team. To achieve this, we’re building a culture where everyone is clear on priorities, feels like they belong and can share mistakes and vulnerability. We will expect you to be open about what we’re doing well and where we can improve. And we promise to do the same. The internship is an opportunity to learn about all aspects of our business over a critical three months. We will be turning a successful pilot into an ongoing service, rolling out that service to early adopters and making sure they love it, building our brand, as well as raising money to support our growth plans. You will get rare insights into building a company through this exciting period. We need you to help:

● Develop our go-to-market strategy ● Talk to customers and ensure we stay focused on their biggest pain ● Make sure Sibyl is a thought leader on subjects that concern our customers ● Build our proposition to investors

You will be based at the Foundry but working closely with our remote team. This will involve a mix of regular 1-2-1s with founders and whole team meetings. We will agree a development plan with you and be clear about how this links to company objectives, making sure we review regularly and track progress. We’re confident it will be an exciting and rewarding experience!



Start-up name Deep Planet


Hours Part time - Full time (20 - 37.5 hours)


About Deep Planet Deep Planet uses satellite data and machine learning to deliver actionable insights in agriculture for farmers, businesses and governments. Our mission is to harness machine learning for the benefit of the planet with an aim to drive global sustainability through better decision making. Deep Planet’s focus is on leveraging satellite data for agriculture, forestry and water industries. Our products include

• VineSignal – A decision management platform for vineyards helping vineyards to monitor soil health including soil moisture, nitrogen, potassium and crop health to increase crop yield by more than 20%.

• CropSignal – A crop or tree identification tool helping supply chain industry to identify crops in areas of interest, monitor crop health and predict annual yield and help optimise procurement decisions.

Deep Planet is supported by the European Space Agency BIC UK, Copernicus Incubation Programme and SPRINT Programme. Deep Planet has been named as one of the Game Changers of Thames Valley twice (2018 and 2019). We work with international customers, leading satellite companies, local and international government agencies, research organisations and universities to build and deliver our state-of-the-art technology. Our team regularly attends conferences and workshops focused on Machine Learning, AI for Good and Geograpahic Information Systems.

About the team We have a diverse and a global team with the founding team with experience in starting and scaling companies. Founding Team

• Natalia Efremova (CTO) – Research Fellow at Said Business School. Natalia is a world renown scientist in Machine Learning and Computer Vision. She has 15 years of experience including working at several start-ups. Her passion is to apply state-of-the-art AI and ML tools for good with a goal to provide new ways of approaching climate change and environmental problems. Natalia has an MBA from Oxford University and PhD from University of Kyoto.

• Sushma Shankar (CEO) – Sushma has 15 years of R&D experience and has led the world’s first 4G mobile call. Sushma has worked as Head of Business Planning and Product Management Lead in the telecoms industry. Sushma is passionate about


bringing applications of emerging technologies to life and making an impact on society. Sushma has a MBA from Oxford University and a Masters in Computer Engineering from Illinois Tech, US.

• Dave Carter (CFO) – With 18 years of finance and operations experience, Dave has held senior executive roles with successful technology companies, including software,

innovation, energy and consulting. Dave loves making an impact combining technology

and finance experience with a passion for growing and scaling companies and people. Dave is

a Chartered Accountant with an MBA from Oxford University. Deep Planet’s technical team consists of 4 members including Data Scientist, Machine Learning Researchers and GIS Specialist. Deep Planet is currently recruiting for several full time roles in its technical and commercial team.

Skills As we are a rapidly growing business, we are looking for a number of contributions on the commercial aspect of the business. To begin with, we value self-starters with an entrepreneurial mindset. Areas we are looking for support with are:

• Business Development and marketing mainly in Europe, Australia and US

• Grant writing and submissions

• Support of founders in preparation of funding round (business presentation, project management, business model)

Work timings will be flexible and progress will be assessed on completion of milestones within deadlines and quality of output.

Professional development Deep Planet is a fast growing Agri Tech company with the technology that would impact food production world-wide with a market size of 7.2B GBP. Over the next few months, Deep Planet will be closing its next funding round and going through an exciting growth phase, including doubling our team, ramping up our sales and marketing efforts and winning innovation grants. As an intern you will be part of the team that is making this happen. Our founders combine many years of experience on entrepreneurial technology and business and all enjoy sharing our knowledge with our team. You will be working on a 3 month project working closely with not only our team, but also our partners, customers and collaborators so you will have a wide exposure to the business giving you the opportunity to step up and pick up knowledge and skills that you are interested in. On a daily basis, you will be working with the CEO and CFO including weekly or bi-weekly meetings. This role has the potential to become a full time role on completion of the internship.

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