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Oct 31, 2018
Alexandra Pedraszewska
Polish Non-Technical Co-Founder of a Tech Startup in Cambridge/London
Summary
Aleksandra Pedraszewska is a Co-Founder and Head of Commercial at VividQ - a UK-based start-up offering revolutionary software platform for next generation holographic display. Aleksandra co-founded VividQ when completing her MPhil degree in Technology Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School. Today, she heads up VividQ’s sales, marketing, and operations teams based in London. She manages the implementation of VividQ software framework by world-leading customer electronics and embedded systems manufacturers.
Aleksandra is also involved in completing the £3m funding round (having previously raised £2.2 seed investment). Before, she gained professional experience at Rolls-Royce, HBO, and IdeaLab Ventures amongst others. Aleksandra is an avid contributor towards initiatives promoting women in tech and technologies originating from her home country – Poland (supporting the Polish innovation diaspora network PLUGin). She is a recipient of numerous prizes and scholarships, including Female Undergraduate of the Year 2015, and Cambridge Leadership Prize, and was named on the Code First: Girls “Ones to Watch 2018” list.
Links
- Alexandra's linkedin
- An article about the Holographic Displays in BusinessCloud
- An article about the Holographic Displays in the Augmented World Expo
- vivid-q website
- Camentrepreneurs
- Official Alumni page of CAMentrepreneurs
- Masters of philosophy - technology policy
About your host Richard Lucas
Richard is a business and social entrepreneur who founded, led and/or invested in more than 30 businesses, Richard has been a TEDx event organiser, supports the pro-entrepreneurship ecosystem, and leads entrepreneurship workshops at all levels: from pre-schools to leading business schools. Richard was born in Oxford and moved to Poland in 1991. Read more here.
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Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis
Richard Lucas is a business and social entrepreneur who founded, led and/or invested in more than 30 businesses.
Kimon Fountoukidis is the founder of both Argos Multilingual and PMR. Both companies were founded in the mid 90s with zero capital and both have gone on to become market leaders in their respective sectors. Kimon was born in New York and moved to Krakow, Poland in 1993. Listen to his story here.