Zeki

Identifying individuals with the best science, research and engineering expertise.

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1-20 employees
  • B2B
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Marketplace
  • Recruitment
  • Big data
  • Deep Tech
  • Analytics
  • Data Analysis
  • Science
  • Biotechnology
Holborn, London, UK

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Company mission

To drive cutting-edge ideas forward by providing data that empowers the investment in top innovators.

Our take

Over $2 trillion a year of investor money gets spent on research and development, but there is little oversight over the talent which works on the problems this money is allocated to solving. At the same time, extremely talented scientists are often overlooked due to poor funding processes and an uneven playing field for discovery.

Zeki Research, co-founded by former Home Office Director General Thomas Hurd, aims to improve this situation with a platform that matches the world's top science and engineering talent to funding & resources.

This area is ripe for change - the urgent problems that tech companies, governments and international foundations are trying to solve require that no resource goes wasted. Its challenge will be to scale its operations but if it is able to do so, its institutional knowledge of deep tech will place it in a strong position to deliver on its focus of finding (and funding) the young emerging talent that will be the driver of innovation in the future.

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Steph

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Benefits

  • Comprehensive Group Private Medical Insurance
  • Group Pension Scheme (with employer contribution)
  • Group Life Insurance
  • Group Critical Illness
  • Group Income Protection
  • Health and Wellness
  • 25 days holiday with all UK Bank holidays

Company values

  • Respect:  We value diverse talents and perspectives. Zeki's mission is to drive more innovation to tackle global challenges. Our commitment to respect is evident in our inclusive marketing, diverse workforce, and opportunities for growth and advancement.
  • Trust: Transparency is essential for trust and understanding. We maintain openness with our clients and stakeholders by sharing information about our technology and business practices. Handling data transparently is paramount to us.
  • Integrity: Integrity is our foundation. We conduct business with honesty, ethics, and a dedication to doing what is right, even when unnoticed. Our belief in the integrity of our work underpins our success.
  • Novelty: Novelty drives Zeki. We are committed to driving discovery of innovators and bringing cutting-edge ideas to life.

Leadership

Thomas Hurd

(Co-Founder)

Was Director General at the UK Office of Security and Counter Terrorism. Before that was Director of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Also founded Joint Biosecurity Centre.

Margaux Bergen Hurd

(Co-Founder)

Is also Co-Founder & Partner at Hersh + Hurd. Previously was Chief Development & Communications Officer with Orb Media and Managing Director of Strategic Communications at The History Factory.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Zeki

Margaux Hurd (COO)

  • Respect: We respect and include a diversity of talents and perspectives and welcome all points of view
  • The Company is an equal opportunities employer. As a Company we are committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service and following practices which are free from unfair and unlawful discrimination. Our goal is to ensure that no applicant or member of staff receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation is disadvantaged by conductions or requirements which cannot be shown to be relevant to performance.

Endorsements

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I joined Zeki because I was attracted to its mission and the combination of basic research and data analysis as the core of the business. Zeki boasts some great talent, a horizontal structure to conducting work, and ample room for improvement and advancement.

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Opportunities to learn

Sep 2023

Zeki offers many opportunities for upskilling and training, with much emphasis placed on data analysis as well as on basic research skills. Everyone is expected and encourage to improve and upskill at Zeki.

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Career progression

Sep 2023

Zeki focuses on a rather important and central problem in the deep tech world: how to identify and nurture emerging talent, those people who will be leading in some of the cutting-edge technology that currently dominates much of our lives.

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Meaningful work

Sep 2023