Vaysh Kewada, Founder and CEO, was an Entrepreneur in Residence at investor Oxford Sciences Innovation where she spent 18-months working on Salience Labs with the academic founders prior to spinout. Salience Labs is a joint spinout of Oxford and Munster Universities commercialising a novel chip that uses photonics (light) to reach new processing speeds. The technology, published in the prestigious Nature journal in 2020, enables novel next-generation computing systems that process data using photons (light) rather than electrons (electricity). This approach has the potential to deliver on-chip processing speeds up to 1,000 times greater than the existing state-of-the-art, thereby facilitating a seismic shift in the hardware required to fully exploit the capabilities of AI. Before joining Oxford Sciences Innovation, Vaysh was a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company. She holds a MSc degree in Physics from Imperial College London.