Aussie AI whizz left to study at Cambridge, but founded a unicorn
Dave Excell just wanted to do a PhD, but serendipity led him to switch from study to start-ups. Now his artificial intelligence business is heading for unicorn status.
London | Tech geek Dave Excell left Canberra in 2004 for Cambridge University intending to do a PhD and enjoy life in the ivy-clad cloisters. But things didn’t go quite according to plan.
He arrived in England with a BA in engineering and IT from the Australian National University, three suitcases and a burning interest in artificial intelligence – which back then was more of a wild-west stretch of the tech landscape than it is today.
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