About us
A holding company committed to accelerating the value of the Bittensor ecosystem for tomorrow's future.
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Our involvement ranges from driving competition with miners and ensuring integrity with our validators to building AI applications and fostering real-world commercial partnerships to bring the value of Bittensor to the broader market. We are committed to a longterm investment approach aimed at contributing and propagating the success of Bittensor, with the ultimate goal of helping it reach its full potential and realise vision of truly decentralising AI.
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Gyles Foster
Gyles brings 12 years of commercial leadership experience to the team, culminating in his role at Crosslake Technologies, a solutions-driven global technology advisory firm catering to private equity investors. At Crosslake, Gyles focused on technology due diligence, digital transformation strategy, and data and technology value creation. Throughout his tenure, he supported over 45 mid-market transactions ranging from £25M to £700M across EMEA.
Jack Foster
Jack has extensive experience in technology consulting and data science. His career has provided him with deep insights into data-driven decision-making and a broad view of the tech industry's challenges. His fascination with the value delivered through open-source technology, and AI in particular, sparked his interest in Bittensor, a network that fosters decentralised intelligence and AI development.
Joshua Payne
Josh has extensive entrepreneurial experience in capital markets, crypto mining, and M&A in the renewable energy sector. He is the Co-Founder and COO of Battery Future Acquisition Corp, a $357 million NASDAQ-listed battery metals SPAC. Additionally, he founded Arkon Energy and NSCALE, a vertically integrated GPU cloud platform.
Will Blears
Will is a Computer Science graduate from Newcastle University with 5 years of experience in the fintech industry, working on projects for major financial institutions. He specialises low latency financial data systems, having worked on an FX trading platform in Dublin and a market surveillance system for the Stock Exchange in Montreal.
David Marsden
David holds a master’s degree in Physics from the University of Warwick. He then pursued a PhD in experimental particle physics at the University of Manchester, where he conducted research on neutrino experiments and searched for new particles using the MicroBooNE detector.
Mica Menard
Mica graduated from the University of Nantes with a master's degree in Computer Science and Machine Learning. His experience includes working on natural language processing in e-commerce and developing algorithms for smart energy usage in time series processing for energy management.
Mitch Sparrow
Mitch completed his Master's Degree in Computer Science, specialising in AI at the University of Nottingham. Since then, he's been working as a consultant in the Machine Learning field, focusing on Computer Vision projects using modern machine learning methods.