Hazy
Synthetic data generation that preserves customer privacy and data utility
Profile
Led by
Harry Keen, Co-founder and CEO
Harry is an entrepreneur, engineer and software developer. He’s been through the Wayra and Cylon accelerator programmes, experiencing six rounds of funding and learning how to build startups from scratch. He previously co-founded Gokami, a travel recommendation site that scrapes the web for the latest travel information and uses AI to automatically generate travel itineraries and destination suggestions. Harry worked as Lead Engineer for Opendesk delivering and selling digital products before founding Hazy to tackle some of the day to day data privacy problems he was experiencing. At Hazy he has taken the company from inception to revenue with two rounds of funding including winning the Microsoft Innovate.AI competition.
Tim Budden, CTO
Tim is a CTO with a strong product focus who loves getting close to the customer problem. He began in software engineering and systems architecture at Clearstream in financial services where he was SVP of development, and designed, built and operated real-time settlement and financing systems. He was Head of Data Science at DataSift where he built innovative social media analytics products with strong privacy guarantees that ran inside Facebook and LinkedIn. On DataSift’s acquisition by Meltwater, he ran the Applied AI team applying Meltwater’s own corporate knowledge graph to investment risk and sales intelligence use cases. Before joining Hazy he was CTO at Sensat, building digital replicas of real-world locations for the Architecture Engineering and Construction sector.