Cyril Lutterodt

President & Managing Partner at Black Seed

2021 - 2024

Black Seed Ventures Ltd, a venture studio, and Black Seed GP LLP, British early-stage venture firm, have made a significant impact in the industry by raising £5 million ($6.2 million) as part of their inaugural fund dedicated to solely supporting Black founders in the country. This round was led by the asset manager M&G Investments, and further bolstered by contributions from Atomico and Molten Ventures. With an ambitious goal, the firm is actively working towards raising an additional £5 million to conclude this funding round.

Co-Founder

2020 - 2021

ZOI is a tele-diagnostic detection startup building a remote/non-invasive AI-based screening and triaging tool for diseases and infections. The era of the low touch economy is upon us. At ZOI we are at the intersection of biology and technology with the mission of enabling businesses and governments to get back to the 'new normal'. We seek to explore the symbiosis of humans and machines in an effort to enable the advancement of diagnostics and medicine. 

EF LD14 Cohort Member

2020 - 2020

Entrepreneur First brings together extraordinary people to build startups from scratch in London, Singapore, Berlin, Hong Kong, Paris and Bangalore. EF funds individuals and help build co-founding teams, develop ideas, and accelerate through fundraising from the world's best investors. EF have built over 150 companies, have over 1000 alumni worldwide, and our portfolio has a valuation of over $1.5 billion. EF's major exits to date include Magic Pony, led by Rob Bishop and Zehan Wang, which was acquired by Twitter for a reported $150 million only 18 months after the founders met on the EF programme. For more information about Entrepreneur First, check out www.joinef.com.

Co-Founder

2016 - 2020

Chief Executive Officer

2016 - 2020

- Fundraised a seed round - Develop plans for maintaining current design wins and their revenue and find adjacent opportunities for growth - Focused on high level networking and drives the collaboration with customers, consultants and industry opinion leaders - Strategise in the capital expense allocation process including business case development, portfolio management, and prioritization, and program execution - Orchestrate executive-level relationships and interactions at key accounts. As well as addressing customer's information needs by developing technology solutions and supporting information and technology systems on multiple computing platforms - Identified, developed, and used tools to help speed the diagnosis of complex problems involving multiple networked products - Perform including workload planning, management reporting, and process improvements - Develop and execute strategic and tactical plans for the pursuit and development of key opportunities

Vice President of The Rover Society

2016 - 2016

Led and managed a team of 20 students to place in the top 10 universities in the world with the University Rover Challenge. We worked with the Elon Musk Foundation to build a low-cost affordable mars lunar rover with the support of NASA. More Info: https://rover.uta.cloud/HTML2/index.html

Research Assistant - Heracleia Human Centered Computing Laboratory

2013 - 2015

http://heracleia.uta.edu/ - Leads, directs and conducts enrollment/benefit meetings with researchers, beneficiaries and government representatives - Drive continuous improvement and ensure all Quality Management System procedures are followed - Built Soft-Robotics for Human Computing Interaction applications - Worked on building robotic hardware and software solutions which were delivered to Lockheed Martin, National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health - Worked on RFP(Request for Proposal) over $1-2 million as business development and commercial ‘project’ management - Assist in the technical/management direction on the design and implementation of a diverse portfolio of, complex evaluation and research projects - Improve existing data analysis methods or develop novel learning algorithms