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Tom Standen

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Founder at Sylvi
📍 United Kingdom

Tom Standen is the founder of Sylvi, an AI-powered language learning app that recently secured a £350k angel investment and was accepted into NVIDIAs Inception program. A former McKinsey consultant with a Master of Science from The University of Manchester, colleagues have called him a "great data scientist" and "consummate professional".

Inspired to create his company after seeing his girlfriend struggle to speak French despite her language app usage, Tom is passionate about building products that foster real-world conversational confidence. He openly shares his own journey of learning French, demonstrating a personal connection to his companys mission.

Interesting fact: While running a language learning startup, he publicly and humorously admitted to only being at a beginner (A2) level in French himself.

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Experience
6 Years
Current Role
Founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
United Kingdom
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AI in EdTech
As the founder of Sylvi, he is focused on using AI to solve real-world problems in education, specifically by helping users build conversational confidence in new languages.
Startup Funding
He recently raised a £350k angel round for his startup, Sylvi, and has spoken about the focus required to manage a team and improve the product post-funding.
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Career

Work history

7-2024
Founder
Sylvi
11-2022 - 10-2023
Junior Associate
McKinsey & Company
3-2022 - 12-2022
Senior Strategic Analytics Consultant
IBM
2-2022 - 5-2022
Strategy & Modelling - Tokenomics
Decentral Games
1-2022 - 4-2022
Python Tutor
Ignite Hubs
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Education
2015 - 2019
Master of Science - MS
The University of Manchester
2017 - 2018
Exchange student
UCLA
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