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Douglas de Jager

Headline: Startup Member
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://www.dothomes.com
Industries: Information Technology, Internet
Skills: Entrepreneurship, Software Engineering
Location: London
Groups: Imperial Entrepreneurs
Interested in: Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Recruiting for my startup
Schools: Imperial College London, University of Oxford

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: BytePlay Limited
Position: Co-Founder
Description: BytePlay is a London-based search technology company. It was founded in May 2006 by Artemi Krymski and Douglas de Jager, two young alumni of Europe’s leading technology university, Imperial College London; and is now equity-backed by three of Europe’s leading early-stage venture capital groups, The Accelerator Group (TAG), Arts Alliance and Samos Investment. BytePlay focuses on the development of fast-scaling data-mining technologies for the Web. DotHomes.com is the company’s first consumer-facing product - a real estate search engine which covers the UK, South Africa and the US. In June 2007 Artemi was selected by Business Week as one of Europe’s Young Entrepreneurs 2007. In July 2007 DotHomes was picked out by The Guardian newspaper as one of its Top 10 dotcoms to watch. In November 2007 Esquire magazine short-listed DotHomes as Best New Idea at its Man at the Top Awards 2007 - along with Waitrose, Fashion Academy and Yotel.

EDUCATION

University: Imperial College London

University: University of Oxford

PUBLICATIONS

Papers: Asynchronous Iterative Solution for State-Based Performance Metrics - SIGMETRICS '07
Matrix-Vector Splitting for Eigenvector Solution - PASTA '06
Hypergraph Partitioning for Faster Parallel PageRank Computation - LNCS '05

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  • Andrew Scott

    I'm currently CEO of Rummble, a mobile technology company. Born in Cambridge, England, I started my first company at sixteen. Ive owned a cell phones since they were the size of a brick and have fifteen years working in ICT and mobile.

  • Stephanie Bouchet

    Marketing Connoisseur with over 9 years of marketing expertise developed in world-beating start-ups & blue chip corporations in the digital media, telecom & entertainment industries. Proven track record includes: Joost, Skype, BT and Warner Home Vide

  • Chris Morton

    Associate at Balderton Capital - Venture Capital, MA from Cambridge in Physics & Philosophy (2003), London.