I’m Tom. I build, back, and explore frontier tech.

At ten, I wrote my first program on a BBC Micro computer borrowed from school. I spent weekends taking apart and rebuilding computers and websites. Medicine and sport were everywhere: I helped at my parents' surgery, grew up around conversations about patients and treatments, and rowed seriously: Henley, England juniors, Oxford.

I studied Physics at Oxford to understand how the universe works. I went deep on computational simulation and ML in my master's thesis on agent-based modelling of complex systems. I studied biophysics, systems biology, and quantitative finance. I also played a lot of poker, useful practice in decision-making under uncertainty.

That mix of complex systems and uncertainty pulled me into hedge funds. Nearly a decade in small high-performance teams taught me markets, capital allocation and decision-making under pressure. I learned a lot, but I wasn't building the future.

I left to build at the frontier. I founded companies that took AI from research to product, from speech foundation models to AI commerce. I've learned a tonne and invested in other founders and startups along the way. I'm biased towards first-principles thinking, new technology, product-led growth and fast iteration.

I've been a biohacker for decades; now I'm focused on technologies that extend healthy life. AI was deep tech long before the current wave. Now the frontier is moving into atoms, especially biology, and I want to help build the companies that bend the lifespan curve.

If you're building something bold, let's chat.