Maria Luque Anguita
AI nerd & programmer | DeepMind scholarship, MSc AI | Investor @ Entrepreneurs First
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Talent Investor
2025 - Current
Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. [Why] We exist to amplify ambition, alter career trajectories, and shape the future. [How] We find exceptional talent, to form exceptional teams, to build exceptional companies. [What] We’ve backed thousands of founders at the earliest stage, creating >$11B in value. Examples include GenZ fintech Cleo AI, encrypted blockchain protocol Aztec, and diamond marketplace Nivoda. EF has pioneered global Talent Investing since 2014 and is backed by some of the world's leading founders and investors including Patrick and John Collison (Stripe); Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), and Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind). For more information visit www.joinef.com
Co-Founder
2024
Founder in Residence
2024 - 2024
London City Leader
2023 - 2024
- Building a strong community of top talent in London by recruiting exceptional individuals and fostering connections. - Organising events to promote networking and collaboration among members. - Representing Nova Talent in London to expand its reach and impact.
Data Engineer
2023 - 2024
Elliptic powers the intelligence that helps financial services, crypto businesses, and governments make faster, smarter and safer decisions. Our growing global ecosystem ensures our customers and partners know exactly how to stay ahead of crypto compliance, reduce risk and shape the future of finance.
Junior Data Engineer
2022 - 2023
Founder and CTO
2021 - 2024
An AI-first patient management system for plastic surgery clinics with a built-in recommender system for facial treatments, predicting optimal laser configurations based on visual skin characteristics to enhance treatment outcomes (see: https://ai-diagonal.com/landing).
Project Director
2022 - 2022
- Secured funding, recruited a development team, and led a government-funded climate project to build a web tool for assessing and recording carbon footprints. - Acted as the key liaison between the Scottish Government and the University of Edinburgh, ensuring stakeholder alignment and presenting project outcomes.
NLP Tutor and Demonstrator
2022 - 2022
Tutoring interactive lessons for FNLP (Foundations of Natural Language Processing) and being a lab demonstrator to assist queries that students might have.
Data Engineer
2020 - 2021
Big data analysis on day to day actions to detect malicious threats with the use of Machine Learning.
SecureWorks is a security service provider offering network, IT, and managed security solutions.
Raised $83,500,000.00 from Centerview Capital.
Machine Learning Researcher
2020 - 2020
Enabling assessments of structures in reinforced concrete, engineered timber, and a combination of different materials (i.e. hybrid structures such as steel frames with timber floor slabs) and employing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to explore the possibility of by-passing computationally-intensive FEA calculations to reduce the embodied environmental impacts of buildings.
Programming Demonstrator for C and C++
2020 - 2020
Assisted with the education of first year students with the programming languages: C and C++.
IT Helpdesk Technician
2018 - 2020
(Recommendation below) Provided support and technical assistance to both students and lecturers utilising software, hardware, as well as other computing systems to enable them to complete tasks (troubleshooting problems) through diagnostic tests and remote access to their computers.
School of Computing Assistant and Student Ambassador
2017 - 2020
Played an integral role in the organisation and marketing of STEM events by supplementing its advertising with personal appearances in photoshoots and speaking out to others about what it is like to be a female STEM student in the University.