John Taysom
Advisor
Founder in 1995 of Reuters Venture Capital Fund, Visiting Professor at UCL, Policy Fellow at Cambridge University and former Fellow at Harvard University. Investor and entrepreneur in network technologies.
Mr Taysom was the founder of the Reuters Venture Capital Fund, based in Palo Alto, established in 1995, with a focus on innovations in network security and performance. Under his leadership, the fund made 82 investments, $400m in total, notably 17 of the companies went on to achieve initial public offerings including Verisign, phone.com, Digimarc, and Equinix. John held a fellowship at Harvard University between 2011 and 2012.
In 2015, he joined as a Policy Fellow the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy and became a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University College London.
Mr Taysom was the founder of the Reuters Venture Capital Fund, based in Palo Alto, established in 1995, with a focus on innovations in network security and performance. Under his leadership, the fund made 82 investments, $400m in total, notably 17 of the companies went on to achieve initial public offerings including Verisign, phone.com, Digimarc, and Equinix. John held a fellowship at Harvard University between 2011 and 2012.
In 2015, he joined as a Policy Fellow the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy and became a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University College London.