Thomas Stone
Chief Scientist at Captur
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Stone is a Chief Scientist and seasoned AI entrepreneur with 12 years’ experience building and scaling machine learning-driven ventures and investment strategies. He co-founded PredictionIO—the leading open-source ML project that grew an 8,000+ developer community—and now leads AI-driven real-time quality control at Captur while advising and researching at UCL. As a founding partner at Kintsugi (Ad)ventures and former Partner at AI Seed he has helped deploy capital and technical due diligence across 70+ investments and numerous successful exits. He combines deep academic training (PhD, UCL) with operator experience across startups, VC and corporate strategy, including designing data-driven sourcing systems like S.O.U.L.S. for Kindred Capital. Notably, he blends practitioner grit with investor-level portfolio thinking, often surfacing product opportunities from developer and academic ecosystems. Outside work he keeps a light touch—his GitHub bio simply reads “Mmmm donuts,” hinting at a grounded, human side beneath technical leadership.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Centre for Scientific Enterprise London (CSEL) Scholarship, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Centre for Scientific Enterprise London (CSEL) Scholarship, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at London Business SchoolExchange Program, Birmingham Business School and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Applied Economics & Management, Exchange Program, Birmingham Business School and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Applied Economics & Management at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Commerce, International Commerce, Bachelor of Commerce, International Commerce at University of BirminghamUniversity College London
English, Italian, Portuguese
Github Skills (6)
big-data10
machine-learning10
predictionio10
scala10
vagrant5
virtual-machine4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PredictionIO/Demo-AngelList
Oct 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 6 months
thomasrorystone/AIseed
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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