Andrey Kessel

Chief Operating Officer at Squirro

📍 Greater Cambridge Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 23 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2013
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Multiple roles including Chief Operating Officer and board member
2013
Accurate, Private, and Secure AI-Driven Enterprise Intelligence at Scale We are the Enterprise GenAI Platform of choice for the heaviest regulated industries. Our precision-engineered AI empowers organizations to enhance quality, accelerate speed, and reduce costs—safely and at scale. Recognized by Gartner as a visionary company, Squirro is a leading enterprise-ready generative AI provider specializing in search, insights, and automation. Our mission is to develop and deliver cutting-edge AI products that augment human intelligence, automate processes, and provide actionable insights for enterprises across industries. With over ten years of experience, Squirro expertly combines AI, machine learning, predictive analytics, generative AI, and symbolic AI, such as knowledge graphs. Our Differentiators: -Privacy: Robust access and permission controls to protect your data at every level at scale. -Security: ISO-certified with flexible deployment options to keep your data secure. -Accuracy: Knowledge graph integration and advanced algorithms for precise, deterministic insights that you can trust. -Scalability: Proven performance on over 10 TB of data with 10k+ users. Our platform scales effortlessly to meet enterprise demands. Squirro is trusted by central banks and over 30 industry leaders, including the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, Standard Chartered Bank, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Henkel. 🏆 Our Central Banking FinTech RegTech Award Winning Engagement: https://www.centralbanking.com/awards/7958739/artificial-intelligence-initiative-european-central-bank
Venture capital investor
2012
FormulaVC is a venture capital firm specializing in seed stage, early stage, and growth stage investments. The firm invests mainly in Information Technologies and Telecommunication sectors, and specifically interested in new enterprise solutions and applications, new structures of work and life and new interaction models. FormulaVC has offices in Great Britain, Russia, and the U.S.
Venture capital investor
2003
Amadeus Capital Partners is a global technology investor. Since 1997, the firm has raised over $1bn for investment and used it to back more than 180 companies. With vast experience and a great network, Amadeus’ team of investors and entrepreneurs share a passion for the transformative power of technology. Pioneering businesses we’ve backed include cyber security vendor ForeScout (NASDAQ:FSCT); Graphcore, innovators in intelligent microprocessors; IVF genetic testing company, Igenomix; the first single-chip Bluetooth solution, CSR (acquired by Qualcomm); IndiaMART, the B2B online marketplace (NSE: INDIAMART) and speech recognition company VocalIQ (acquired by Apple).
Experience · 5 entries
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Investments (4)
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2013
Multiple roles including Chief Operating Officer and board member
2013
Accurate, Private, and Secure AI-Driven Enterprise Intelligence at Scale We are the Enterprise GenAI Platform of choice for the heaviest regulated industries. Our precision-engineered AI empowers organizations to enhance quality, accelerate speed, and reduce costs—safely and at scale. Recognized by Gartner as a visionary company, Squirro is a leading enterprise-ready generative AI provider specializing in search, insights, and automation. Our mission is to develop and deliver cutting-edge AI products that augment human intelligence, automate processes, and provide actionable insights for enterprises across industries. With over ten years of experience, Squirro expertly combines AI, machine learning, predictive analytics, generative AI, and symbolic AI, such as knowledge graphs. Our Differentiators: -Privacy: Robust access and permission controls to protect your data at every level at scale. -Security: ISO-certified with flexible deployment options to keep your data secure. -Accuracy: Knowledge graph integration and advanced algorithms for precise, deterministic insights that you can trust. -Scalability: Proven performance on over 10 TB of data with 10k+ users. Our platform scales effortlessly to meet enterprise demands. Squirro is trusted by central banks and over 30 industry leaders, including the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, Standard Chartered Bank, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Henkel. 🏆 Our Central Banking FinTech RegTech Award Winning Engagement: https://www.centralbanking.com/awards/7958739/artificial-intelligence-initiative-european-central-bank
2012
Venture capital investor
2012
FormulaVC is a venture capital firm specializing in seed stage, early stage, and growth stage investments. The firm invests mainly in Information Technologies and Telecommunication sectors, and specifically interested in new enterprise solutions and applications, new structures of work and life and new interaction models. FormulaVC has offices in Great Britain, Russia, and the U.S.
2011
TexDrive
Co-founder and shareholder
2011
2009
various high-tech companies
Business development/operations as well as mentor/shareholder/advisor/board member
2009
2003
Venture capital investor
2003
Amadeus Capital Partners is a global technology investor. Since 1997, the firm has raised over $1bn for investment and used it to back more than 180 companies. With vast experience and a great network, Amadeus’ team of investors and entrepreneurs share a passion for the transformative power of technology. Pioneering businesses we’ve backed include cyber security vendor ForeScout (NASDAQ:FSCT); Graphcore, innovators in intelligent microprocessors; IVF genetic testing company, Igenomix; the first single-chip Bluetooth solution, CSR (acquired by Qualcomm); IndiaMART, the B2B online marketplace (NSE: INDIAMART) and speech recognition company VocalIQ (acquired by Apple).
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