Athar Ali

Fractional Product Executive for healthtech, medtech, AI | ScaleUps Ventures looking for UK scientists and entrepreneurs to support

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2020
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Angel Investor
May 2020
Jiva.ai is an AI company that uses a model fusion first approach to machine learning to provide a sophisticated platform that enables multi-modal AI. Allowing non-technical users to iteratively grow, evolve and deploy models based on their data for real-world use. We are primarily focused on healthcare. Our primary use-cases are (1) prostate cancer diagnosis from MRI images (2) bone fracture diagnosis in emergency care situations from X-ray (3) predicting liver disease susceptibility. Jiva.ai is funded by both equity investors and public grants.
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2024
Founder CEO, Startup accelerator in partnership with Brunel University
Jan 2024
ScaleUps Ventures is a unique accelerator for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and startups in the UK. It is focused on innovation adoption with its consortium partners which includes Brunel Partners Academic Centre for Health Sciences (BPACHS), Brunel University, various NHS Trusts, NHS partners including Health Innovation Networks and a number of companies that support the UK health innovation ecosystem.
Co-founder of Healthcare Ventures Accelerator
Jan 2024
Founded in 1966, Brunel is a leading technology university renowned for its education and research and its spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship. It is based on a single leafy campus with outstanding sports facilities, easy access to central London and a friendly, vibrant and strikingly international community. Our education is designed to equip students with the academic knowledge and personal skills they need to forge successful and rewarding careers. Our academics are leaders in their field and combine rigorous academic study with opportunities to apply your knowledge to real-world issues. We encourage all our students to undertake professional practice during their studies to explore areas of special interest through project work.
2023
Venture Builder
Oct 2023
NPL is the UK’s National Metrology Institute, providing the measurement capability that underpins the UKs prosperity and quality of life. From new antibiotics to tackle resistance and more effective cancer treatments, to secure quantum communications and superfast 5G, technological advances must be built on a foundation of reliable measurement to succeed. Building on over a century’s worth of expertise, our science, engineering and technology provides this foundation. We save lives, protect the environment and enable citizens to feel safe and secure, as well as support international trade and commercial innovation. As a national laboratory, our advice is always impartial and independent, meaning consumers, investors, policymakers and entrepreneurs can always rely on the work we do. Measure Up: Stay informed about all things NPL
2020
Industry Exchange Network (IXN) Industry partner
Sep 2020
UCL (University College London) is Londons leading multidisciplinary university, ranked 9th in the QS World University Rankings. Established in 1826 UCL opened up education in England for the first time to students of any race, class or religion and was also the first university to welcome female students on equal terms with men. Today UCL is made up of remarkable people: eminent professors and exceptional students. Academic excellence and conducting research that addresses real-world problems inform our ethos to this day. To see more photos of UCL you can visit our Flickr Gallery: www.flickr.com/photos/uclnews/sets/ To view videos of UCL and our work, you can subscribe to our YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/UCLTV Looking for a job at UCL? Find out more about working with us and view the latest vacancies: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/jobs
Angel Investor
May 2020
Jiva.ai is an AI company that uses a model fusion first approach to machine learning to provide a sophisticated platform that enables multi-modal AI. Allowing non-technical users to iteratively grow, evolve and deploy models based on their data for real-world use. We are primarily focused on healthcare. Our primary use-cases are (1) prostate cancer diagnosis from MRI images (2) bone fracture diagnosis in emergency care situations from X-ray (3) predicting liver disease susceptibility. Jiva.ai is funded by both equity investors and public grants.
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