Alexander John

CEO, Spectral Studios | AI-native localisation infrastructure for film & TV

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
Operator-angel🌍 United Kingdom
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Jan 2024
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Investor
Jan 2024
Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Take a look at https://discordapp.com/jobs for openings.
Angel Investor
Oct 2020
Svami is a progressive drinks company. Made in India, Svami offers the most relevant range of non-alcoholic drinks for a world consumed with premium living and premium consumption. Our current portfolio of all-natural alternative beverages features the country’s finest tonic waters and ginger ale.
Angel Investor
Sep 2020
BluSmart is Indias first and leading all-electric ride-hailing mobility service. We are here for a reason. We are on a mission to steer urban India towards a sustainable means of transportation and to provide them efficient, affordable, intelligent, safe and reliable mobility. With sustainability being at the core of our operations, our vision is to help transform the Indian cities by building a holistic and comprehensive electric on-demand mobility platform.
Angel Investor
Jul 2020
Big Bang Boom Solutions Private Limited, Chennai is a defense startup and a deep tech defense solutions integrator. BBBS’s interests are in manufacturing and development of indigenous defense and allied technologies. Our development partnerships in India helps in large scale manufacturing of Personal Safety Drone along with a Security on Demand logistics solutions for the Indian market. We have in house capabilities to develop critical solutions for the security and defense space and are currently developing number of indigenous technologies, including the previously won iDex challenges such as; • 360 Advanced Battle Interface – 360 view for Armored Vehicles – iDex Challenge • Anti drone defense system – iDex Challenge. • T-series Unmanned Tank Development – co-development along with AmPRO and T&T, USA. • BN based Hybrid Armor for Personnel – in house development • AI based - Smart fencing system • Drones for riot control “Flying Warden” – in house development with Thanos Tech. • Spray Based Coagulant - wound healing and dressing • Exoskeleton for enhanced physical abilities • Blood flow monitoring probe and medical implant • COVID 19 Solutions - Test Kits, Ventilators and Drone Sanitization
Experience · 6 entries
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2024
Investor
Jan 2024
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Investor
Jan 2024
Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Take a look at https://discordapp.com/jobs for openings.
2023
Founder
Jan 2023
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
2020
Angel Investor
Oct 2020
Svami is a progressive drinks company. Made in India, Svami offers the most relevant range of non-alcoholic drinks for a world consumed with premium living and premium consumption. Our current portfolio of all-natural alternative beverages features the country’s finest tonic waters and ginger ale.
Angel Investor
Sep 2020
BluSmart is Indias first and leading all-electric ride-hailing mobility service. We are here for a reason. We are on a mission to steer urban India towards a sustainable means of transportation and to provide them efficient, affordable, intelligent, safe and reliable mobility. With sustainability being at the core of our operations, our vision is to help transform the Indian cities by building a holistic and comprehensive electric on-demand mobility platform.
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