Number of Portfolio Companies 8
Number of Exits 
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  • Primary Job Title Co-Founder & CEO
  • Primary Organization 
    DeepMind
  • Investor Type  Individual/Angel
  • Investor Stage  Seed
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DeepMind is a neuroscience-inspired AI company, bought by Google in Jan 2014 in their largest European acquisition to date. Demis is now Vice President of Engineering at Google DeepMind and leads Google’s general AI efforts, including the development of AlphaGo, the first program to ever beat a professional player at the game of Go.

Demis is a

former child chess prodigy, who finished his A-levels two years early before coding the multi-million selling simulation game Theme Park aged 17. Following graduation from Cambridge University with a Double First in Computer Science he founded the pioneering videogames company Elixir Studios producing award-winning games for global publishers such as Vivendi Universal.

After a decade of experience leading successful technology startups, Demis returned to academia to complete a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at UCL, followed by postdocs at MIT and Harvard, before founding DeepMind.

Number of Investments 9
Demis Hassabis has made 9 investments. Their latest investment was Series A - Cosmos Innovation on Oct 19, 2023, when Cosmos Innovation raised
$16.8M
.
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Oct 19, 2023
Cosmos Innovation
Series A - Cosmos Innovation
$16.8M
Jun 28, 2022
Entrepreneur First
Series C - Entrepreneur First
£129.9M
Jul 30, 2018
nPlan
No
Seed Round - nPlan
£3M
Sep 12, 2017
Entrepreneur First
No
Venture Round - Entrepreneur First
$12.4M
Jul 20, 2017
Graphcore
No
Series B - Graphcore
$30M
Mar 22, 2016
Netomi
No
Seed Round - Netomi
$2.6M
Sep 17, 2015
Focal Point Positioning
Seed Round - Focal Point Positioning
£412K
Aug 23, 2015
Thread
No
Series A - Thread
£4.4M
Dec 18, 2014
Eat Just
Series C - Eat Just
$90M
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Demis Hassabis has exit - Thread.
  • Thread Thread operates as an online personal styling platform designed to help men find clothes.
Number of Current Jobs 3
Demis Hassabis has 3 current jobs including Founder and CEO at Isomorphic Laboratories, Co-Founder & CEO at DeepMind, and Founder & CEO at DeepMind.
Demis Hassabis studied at University of CambridgeUniversity of Cambridge, and University College London (UCL).
Number of Events 2
Demis Hassabis has participated in 2 events. They most recently attended, or will attend, DLD17 on Sep 3, 2017.