Talfan Evans
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Talfan Evans

I'm currently working on a new venture in the AI space (stealth).

I also run Clay VC, an angel syndicate investing in early stage startups in the creative AI space, as well as investing personally. I'm a first round investor in 20+ companies including ElevenLabs, Mistral, Lovable, Cusp AI, Curio AI, Paradigm AI and Slingshot AI.

I was previously a Senior Research Scientist in the Machine Learning team at DeepMind, where I worked on improving pre-training compute efficiency for multimodal foundation models.

Previously, I was a postdoc at the Dyson Robotics Lab at Imperial College London, where I worked on real-time distributed inference and abstraction in spatial / visual perception systems. I did my PhD at University College London working on memory systems.

I love trail running and just finished my first ultra marathon. My next race will be the Ultra-X Finland in June 2026.