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in Physics from the University of Cambridge and was a
Marie Curie fellow. He co-founded the company with
Dr. Joshua Oppenheimer, who is an Emergency
Medicine Physician, and Dr. Marek Rei, who is a
lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Cambridge. Dr. Rei is a deep learning and
predictive analytics expert from his work at SwiftKey, a
company that created a predictive keyboard and exited to
Microsoft.

Exceptional Algorithm for the Betterment

Transformative AI’s artificially intelligent predictive
algorithm, CodeRhythm, predicts SCA within minutes,
with high accuracy on cardiac data. This would serve as
the basis for an early warning software-as-a-service that
would alert clinicians of impending ventricular
arrhythmias and improve patient survival across various
global healthcare settings.

Awards and Accolades

Transformative AI has won competitive public and
private award funding in the U.K., EU, and the U.S. It
has also won the Global Pistoia Alliance Audience
Choice Award.

The company was one of the first start-ups to work with
the Center for Medical Interoperability in the US. It was
also selected to work with Philips Healthworks and

Entrepreneur First and was named as ‘ TechCrunch’s Top

3 Entrepreneur First Start-ups’.

Turning Challenges into Opportunities

Asked about the major challenges they faced while

launching the start-up, they said, “As the predictive

healthcare field is so new with few precedents, we’ve had

to work with and will continue working with several

regulatory consultants and lawyers.”

As a healthcare start-up, Transformative AI has achieved

more than its share and will be looking forward to more

advancements and developments. Upon asking them

about what advice they would give to budding

entrepreneurs, Dr. Sirendi said, “Stick with your goal

and never give up.”