Niamh Gavin

Senior Advisor

Niamh is an Applied AI Scientist who uses a systems engineering approach to safely transform groundbreaking research into commercial AI-first products that scale. Her operator-investor experience spans the tech stack, product life-cycle, business functions and company stages across the US, EU, MENA and Asia.

Niamh’s expertise is building closed-loop AI platforms that leverage active learning to close the Sim2Real gap and accelerate scientific discovery. These include, multiscale simulation of dynamical systems for SynBio, mechanistic mapping of reaction pathways for Pharma and ab-initio optimisation of catalysts for Industrial Chemistry. Prior she leveraged biomimicry for open-ended search (evolutionary compute), robotic swarms (collective adaptive intel) and photosynthetic solar cells.

Based in Silicon Valley, Niamh is currently an early access partner enabling the real-time inference of multimodal foundation models from Meta, OpenAI, Google, Mistral and a variety of Startups. She is also an early stage investor in DeepTech pioneers such as Recursion, Planet, Applied Intuition, Groq, Phaidra, Stairwell and GordianBio.

Alongside, Niamh is a trusted advisor to Governments, Think Tanks and international agencies on emergent technologies and is a Venture Partner at incubators such as YC, CDL, EF, Crick, and IndieBio.

Niamh graduated summa cum laude from Oxford in Natural Science, and SymSys Computational Science at Stanford and Tsinghua. She also earned her business stripes in Quant Finance, Private Equity, Strategy Consulting and a Stanford MBA.