4th September
Community Critique #1. Small group, seminar-style discussions. The goal? Interdisciplinary feedback that will transform trajectories.
4th September
Cohort Kick Off Week - planning, dreaming, setting milestones, getting feedback, and becoming part of the Pillar VC team.
8th October
In October we announced our full line-up for cohort 1 powered by ARIA and DSIT. Time flies!
10th November
How do we scale ambition?' - our Exec-Director, Leah, interviewing Encode Advisor Chris Anderson at our AI for Science summit.
Designing novel complex proteins that retain AlphaFold predicted structure while exploring sequence space - shared by Encode Fellow Jude Wells.
4th September
Interdisciplinarity is a founding principle. Quarterly 'Co-Working Weeks' give Encode Fellows time and inspiration to share ideas.
10th November
A glimpse of our AI for Science Summit, hosted at the Francis Crick in partnership with Renaissance Philanthropy and Conception X. The goal? To inspire a new generation of founders in the UK.
15th November
Hey Siri - play salsa music'. Pillar VC supported ARIA and Vsim (ARIA Creator) on their 'How to Train Your Robot' hackathon in Cambridge.
Cohort 1: 18 Encode Fellows, now part of the Pillar VC team.
16th July
The Speakers' Corner of our Summer Salon saw ARIA Programme Directory Jenny Read asking us the question 'What if AI could develop robot bodies more capable than ours?'
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21st November
15th July
Pillar team members Leone, Leah and Tony visiting No.10 Downing Street in July for a roundtable kicking off our first cohort.
10th October
Lights, Camera, Action! Capturing a moment in time, we interviewed all Encode Fellows about their vision for the future, on a much loved orange chair.
13th November
Encode Fellow Tim Reichelt gives a talk to OxfordxML about his project, co-organised by Encode Fellow Botos Csaba.
13th November
Spreading inspiration - Encode Fellow Shruti Mishra sharing her journey and research with the MechEng department at Imperial College London.
Cutting the first electrode - a critical step on the path to translation for Encode Fellow Bryan.
5th December
Pillar VC x NeurIPS. Encode Fellow Lars taking the audience through his AI for Inverse Materials Design project.
15th November
Encode Fellow Edward Grant, AI researcher Jianwei Liu, and ARIA Director Jenny Read formed a powerhouse hackathon team.
22nd October
We celebrate fails just as much as wins. Encode Fellow Ben Williams tries his first 3D 'splat' of a small reef dataset, using a new approach to speed it up ~10x.
Model predictive control. Test, fail, iterate, repeat.
28th November
The task is pinch (index+thumb)' - shared by Encode Fellow Martyna in our #fails channel.
16th July
What could we achieve, if we dared to dream? Our Summer Salon was designed to inspire.
FluidFrame: Encode Fellow Shruti Mishra shared a codebase for a tabular reinforcement learning agent navigating cellular flows, one is visualised here.
New equiptment unlocks new experiments. For Encode Fellow Bryan Li, this excitement comes in the form of a new laser machine in his lab at Imperial.
11 different types of cells in a healthy human lung. Joining us from the Meta Health Technology team, Encode Fellow Alpkaan Celik is on a mission to cure cancer.
11th November
Pillar's Neural Decoding Dinner - co-hosted with Jacques Carolan, ARIA Programme Director (Scalable Neural Interfaces).
3rd September
Encode Faculty partners, and lab colleagues, joined us in London to brainstorm what 0-3 months could like on the Encode Fellowship.
7th December
Encode Fellow Jude Wells sharing his poster at EurIPS 2025. His 'Opportunity Budget' helped enable this trip.
30th September
Encode Fellow Ben shared the 'crown jewel of his PhD' on using AI accelerated acoustic monitoring of reefs to measure the outcomes of coral reef restoration.
9th October
Work hard, play hard. Punting on the River Cam - a key moment at our Cambridge Workshop.
20th March
In March we threw our official launch party. One panellist went late to a board meeting because they were "having too much fun".
3rd-5th December
Pillar VC x NeurIPS. We had three Encode Fellows present their work this year.
10th October
Each month all Encode Fellows meet for an in-person workshop. A crucial opportunity to brain-share, be inspired and accelerate projects.
16th July
Pillar VC's Summer Salon's 'Speakers' Corner', featuring an explorer, a generative biology luminary, a Programme Director and an Encode Fellow all asking - 'What if?'
10th September
Lunch with Encode Advisor Andrew Giessel. CTO, and former Exec-Director of AI Engineering at Moderna - we learnt a lot!
16th July
It takes a village. A snapshot of Encode Faculty, Fellows and supporters.
Photonic pattern recognition in micro-meter chips with nano joule energy, a focus for Encode Fellow Xing Chen.
3rd September
Fail Big, Fail Fast' - the theme of a fellow-only dinner we hosted during our Cohort Kick Off Week. Start as you mean to go on.
What do we mean by 'real world impact'? Encode Fellow Ben Williams in action accelerating coral reef photogrammetry with deep learning techniques.
8th October
Encode Fellow Ayush Noori (AI for Precision Neurology) was the lead author on 'A global log for medical AI', an industry pioneering paper.
12th Februrary
Earlier this year, we launched in the UK, with support from the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA). We're proud to be an ARIA Activation Partner.
8th December
There's nothing better than a homecooked meal. Throughout the fellowship, we build time for small group get-togethers. Chef: Encode Fellow Jonathan Carter.
A few of our Encode Faculty partners. The Fellowship wouldn't be possible without them.
A working prototype visualising a coral reef habitat with gaussian splatting by Encode Fellow Ben Williams.
Encode Fellow Tim's model generates satellite cloud fields from a coarse atmospheric profile. Tim is embedded at the University of Oxford working with Professor Philip Stier.
10th November
Pillar VC partnered with Renaissance Philanthropy and Conception X to host the AI for Science Summit.
Encode Fellow Philine Bommer's first presentation of AI for Safe Climate Cooling to the GeoScience community at the American Geoscientific Union (AGU2025) in New Orleans.
10th November
Encode Fellow Will Bolton interviews Chris Thompson & Tim Weaving at Pillar VC's AI for Science Summit, in partnership with Renaissance Philanthropy and Conception X
September
Red Teaming session with the Encode Fellows during our September Co-Working Week - we pressure test ideas into reality.
4th September
Community Critique #1. Small group, seminar-style discussions. The goal? Interdisciplinary feedback that will transform trajectories.
4th September
Cohort Kick Off Week - planning, dreaming, setting milestones, getting feedback, and becoming part of the Pillar VC team.
8th October
In October we announced our full line-up for cohort 1 powered by ARIA and DSIT. Time flies!
10th November
How do we scale ambition?' - our Exec-Director, Leah, interviewing Encode Advisor Chris Anderson at our AI for Science summit.
Designing novel complex proteins that retain AlphaFold predicted structure while exploring sequence space - shared by Encode Fellow Jude Wells.
4th September
Interdisciplinarity is a founding principle. Quarterly 'Co-Working Weeks' give Encode Fellows time and inspiration to share ideas.
10th November
A glimpse of our AI for Science Summit, hosted at the Francis Crick in partnership with Renaissance Philanthropy and Conception X. The goal? To inspire a new generation of founders in the UK.
15th November
Hey Siri - play salsa music'. Pillar VC supported ARIA and Vsim (ARIA Creator) on their 'How to Train Your Robot' hackathon in Cambridge.
Cohort 1: 18 Encode Fellows, now part of the Pillar VC team.
16th July
The Speakers' Corner of our Summer Salon saw ARIA Programme Directory Jenny Read asking us the question 'What if AI could develop robot bodies more capable than ours?'
21st November
15th July
Pillar team members Leone, Leah and Tony visiting No.10 Downing Street in July for a roundtable kicking off our first cohort.
10th October
Lights, Camera, Action! Capturing a moment in time, we interviewed all Encode Fellows about their vision for the future, on a much loved orange chair.
13th November
Encode Fellow Tim Reichelt gives a talk to OxfordxML about his project, co-organised by Encode Fellow Botos Csaba.
13th November
Spreading inspiration - Encode Fellow Shruti Mishra sharing her journey and research with the MechEng department at Imperial College London.
Cutting the first electrode - a critical step on the path to translation for Encode Fellow Bryan.
5th December
Pillar VC x NeurIPS. Encode Fellow Lars taking the audience through his AI for Inverse Materials Design project.
15th November
Encode Fellow Edward Grant, AI researcher Jianwei Liu, and ARIA Director Jenny Read formed a powerhouse hackathon team.
22nd October
We celebrate fails just as much as wins. Encode Fellow Ben Williams tries his first 3D 'splat' of a small reef dataset, using a new approach to speed it up ~10x.
Model predictive control. Test, fail, iterate, repeat.
28th November
The task is pinch (index+thumb)' - shared by Encode Fellow Martyna in our #fails channel.
16th July
What could we achieve, if we dared to dream? Our Summer Salon was designed to inspire.
FluidFrame: Encode Fellow Shruti Mishra shared a codebase for a tabular reinforcement learning agent navigating cellular flows, one is visualised here.
New equiptment unlocks new experiments. For Encode Fellow Bryan Li, this excitement comes in the form of a new laser machine in his lab at Imperial.
11 different types of cells in a healthy human lung. Joining us from the Meta Health Technology team, Encode Fellow Alpkaan Celik is on a mission to cure cancer.
11th November
Pillar's Neural Decoding Dinner - co-hosted with Jacques Carolan, ARIA Programme Director (Scalable Neural Interfaces).
3rd September
Encode Faculty partners, and lab colleagues, joined us in London to brainstorm what 0-3 months could like on the Encode Fellowship.
7th December
Encode Fellow Jude Wells sharing his poster at EurIPS 2025. His 'Opportunity Budget' helped enable this trip.
30th September
Encode Fellow Ben shared the 'crown jewel of his PhD' on using AI accelerated acoustic monitoring of reefs to measure the outcomes of coral reef restoration.
9th October
Work hard, play hard. Punting on the River Cam - a key moment at our Cambridge Workshop.
20th March
In March we threw our official launch party. One panellist went late to a board meeting because they were "having too much fun".
3rd-5th December
Pillar VC x NeurIPS. We had three Encode Fellows present their work this year.
10th October
Each month all Encode Fellows meet for an in-person workshop. A crucial opportunity to brain-share, be inspired and accelerate projects.
16th July
Pillar VC's Summer Salon's 'Speakers' Corner', featuring an explorer, a generative biology luminary, a Programme Director and an Encode Fellow all asking - 'What if?'
10th September
Lunch with Encode Advisor Andrew Giessel. CTO, and former Exec-Director of AI Engineering at Moderna - we learnt a lot!
16th July
It takes a village. A snapshot of Encode Faculty, Fellows and supporters.
Photonic pattern recognition in micro-meter chips with nano joule energy, a focus for Encode Fellow Xing Chen.
3rd September
Fail Big, Fail Fast' - the theme of a fellow-only dinner we hosted during our Cohort Kick Off Week. Start as you mean to go on.
What do we mean by 'real world impact'? Encode Fellow Ben Williams in action accelerating coral reef photogrammetry with deep learning techniques.
8th October
Encode Fellow Ayush Noori (AI for Precision Neurology) was the lead author on 'A global log for medical AI', an industry pioneering paper.
12th Februrary
Earlier this year, we launched in the UK, with support from the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA). We're proud to be an ARIA Activation Partner.
8th December
There's nothing better than a homecooked meal. Throughout the fellowship, we build time for small group get-togethers. Chef: Encode Fellow Jonathan Carter.
A few of our Encode Faculty partners. The Fellowship wouldn't be possible without them.
A working prototype visualising a coral reef habitat with gaussian splatting by Encode Fellow Ben Williams.
Encode Fellow Tim's model generates satellite cloud fields from a coarse atmospheric profile. Tim is embedded at the University of Oxford working with Professor Philip Stier.
10th November
Pillar VC partnered with Renaissance Philanthropy and Conception X to host the AI for Science Summit.
Encode Fellow Philine Bommer's first presentation of AI for Safe Climate Cooling to the GeoScience community at the American Geoscientific Union (AGU2025) in New Orleans.
10th November
Encode Fellow Will Bolton interviews Chris Thompson & Tim Weaving at Pillar VC's AI for Science Summit, in partnership with Renaissance Philanthropy and Conception X
September
Red Teaming session with the Encode Fellows during our September Co-Working Week - we pressure test ideas into reality.
4th September
Community Critique #1. Small group, seminar-style discussions. The goal? Interdisciplinary feedback that will transform trajectories.
4th September
Cohort Kick Off Week - planning, dreaming, setting milestones, getting feedback, and becoming part of the Pillar VC team.
8th October
In October we announced our full line-up for cohort 1 powered by ARIA and DSIT. Time flies!
10th November
How do we scale ambition?' - our Exec-Director, Leah, interviewing Encode Advisor Chris Anderson at our AI for Science summit.
Designing novel complex proteins that retain AlphaFold predicted structure while exploring sequence space - shared by Encode Fellow Jude Wells.
4th September
Interdisciplinarity is a founding principle. Quarterly 'Co-Working Weeks' give Encode Fellows time and inspiration to share ideas.
10th November
A glimpse of our AI for Science Summit, hosted at the Francis Crick in partnership with Renaissance Philanthropy and Conception X. The goal? To inspire a new generation of founders in the UK.
15th November
Hey Siri - play salsa music'. Pillar VC supported ARIA and Vsim (ARIA Creator) on their 'How to Train Your Robot' hackathon in Cambridge.
Cohort 1: 18 Encode Fellows, now part of the Pillar VC team.
16th July
The Speakers' Corner of our Summer Salon saw ARIA Programme Directory Jenny Read asking us the question 'What if AI could develop robot bodies more capable than ours?'
21st November
15th July
Pillar team members Leone, Leah and Tony visiting No.10 Downing Street in July for a roundtable kicking off our first cohort.
10th October
Lights, Camera, Action! Capturing a moment in time, we interviewed all Encode Fellows about their vision for the future, on a much loved orange chair.
13th November
Encode Fellow Tim Reichelt gives a talk to OxfordxML about his project, co-organised by Encode Fellow Botos Csaba.
13th November
Spreading inspiration - Encode Fellow Shruti Mishra sharing her journey and research with the MechEng department at Imperial College London.
Cutting the first electrode - a critical step on the path to translation for Encode Fellow Bryan.
5th December
Pillar VC x NeurIPS. Encode Fellow Lars taking the audience through his AI for Inverse Materials Design project.
15th November
Encode Fellow Edward Grant, AI researcher Jianwei Liu, and ARIA Director Jenny Read formed a powerhouse hackathon team.
22nd October
We celebrate fails just as much as wins. Encode Fellow Ben Williams tries his first 3D 'splat' of a small reef dataset, using a new approach to speed it up ~10x.
Model predictive control. Test, fail, iterate, repeat.
28th November
The task is pinch (index+thumb)' - shared by Encode Fellow Martyna in our #fails channel.
16th July
What could we achieve, if we dared to dream? Our Summer Salon was designed to inspire.
FluidFrame: Encode Fellow Shruti Mishra shared a codebase for a tabular reinforcement learning agent navigating cellular flows, one is visualised here.
New equiptment unlocks new experiments. For Encode Fellow Bryan Li, this excitement comes in the form of a new laser machine in his lab at Imperial.
11 different types of cells in a healthy human lung. Joining us from the Meta Health Technology team, Encode Fellow Alpkaan Celik is on a mission to cure cancer.
11th November
Pillar's Neural Decoding Dinner - co-hosted with Jacques Carolan, ARIA Programme Director (Scalable Neural Interfaces).
3rd September
Encode Faculty partners, and lab colleagues, joined us in London to brainstorm what 0-3 months could like on the Encode Fellowship.
7th December
Encode Fellow Jude Wells sharing his poster at EurIPS 2025. His 'Opportunity Budget' helped enable this trip.
30th September
Encode Fellow Ben shared the 'crown jewel of his PhD' on using AI accelerated acoustic monitoring of reefs to measure the outcomes of coral reef restoration.
9th October
Work hard, play hard. Punting on the River Cam - a key moment at our Cambridge Workshop.
20th March
In March we threw our official launch party. One panellist went late to a board meeting because they were "having too much fun".
3rd-5th December
Pillar VC x NeurIPS. We had three Encode Fellows present their work this year.
10th October
Each month all Encode Fellows meet for an in-person workshop. A crucial opportunity to brain-share, be inspired and accelerate projects.
16th July
Pillar VC's Summer Salon's 'Speakers' Corner', featuring an explorer, a generative biology luminary, a Programme Director and an Encode Fellow all asking - 'What if?'
10th September
Lunch with Encode Advisor Andrew Giessel. CTO, and former Exec-Director of AI Engineering at Moderna - we learnt a lot!
16th July
It takes a village. A snapshot of Encode Faculty, Fellows and supporters.
Photonic pattern recognition in micro-meter chips with nano joule energy, a focus for Encode Fellow Xing Chen.
3rd September
Fail Big, Fail Fast' - the theme of a fellow-only dinner we hosted during our Cohort Kick Off Week. Start as you mean to go on.
What do we mean by 'real world impact'? Encode Fellow Ben Williams in action accelerating coral reef photogrammetry with deep learning techniques.
8th October
Encode Fellow Ayush Noori (AI for Precision Neurology) was the lead author on 'A global log for medical AI', an industry pioneering paper.
12th Februrary
Earlier this year, we launched in the UK, with support from the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA). We're proud to be an ARIA Activation Partner.
8th December
There's nothing better than a homecooked meal. Throughout the fellowship, we build time for small group get-togethers. Chef: Encode Fellow Jonathan Carter.
A few of our Encode Faculty partners. The Fellowship wouldn't be possible without them.
A working prototype visualising a coral reef habitat with gaussian splatting by Encode Fellow Ben Williams.
Encode Fellow Tim's model generates satellite cloud fields from a coarse atmospheric profile. Tim is embedded at the University of Oxford working with Professor Philip Stier.
10th November
Pillar VC partnered with Renaissance Philanthropy and Conception X to host the AI for Science Summit.
Encode Fellow Philine Bommer's first presentation of AI for Safe Climate Cooling to the GeoScience community at the American Geoscientific Union (AGU2025) in New Orleans.
10th November
Encode Fellow Will Bolton interviews Chris Thompson & Tim Weaving at Pillar VC's AI for Science Summit, in partnership with Renaissance Philanthropy and Conception X
September
Red Teaming session with the Encode Fellows during our September Co-Working Week - we pressure test ideas into reality.
4th September
Community Critique #1. Small group, seminar-style discussions. The goal? Interdisciplinary feedback that will transform trajectories.
4th September
Cohort Kick Off Week - planning, dreaming, setting milestones, getting feedback, and becoming part of the Pillar VC team.
8th October
In October we announced our full line-up for cohort 1 powered by ARIA and DSIT. Time flies!
10th November
How do we scale ambition?' - our Exec-Director, Leah, interviewing Encode Advisor Chris Anderson at our AI for Science summit.
Designing novel complex proteins that retain AlphaFold predicted structure while exploring sequence space - shared by Encode Fellow Jude Wells.
4th September
Interdisciplinarity is a founding principle. Quarterly 'Co-Working Weeks' give Encode Fellows time and inspiration to share ideas.
10th November
A glimpse of our AI for Science Summit, hosted at the Francis Crick in partnership with Renaissance Philanthropy and Conception X. The goal? To inspire a new generation of founders in the UK.
15th November
Hey Siri - play salsa music'. Pillar VC supported ARIA and Vsim (ARIA Creator) on their 'How to Train Your Robot' hackathon in Cambridge.
Cohort 1: 18 Encode Fellows, now part of the Pillar VC team.
16th July
The Speakers' Corner of our Summer Salon saw ARIA Programme Directory Jenny Read asking us the question 'What if AI could develop robot bodies more capable than ours?'
21st November
15th July
Pillar team members Leone, Leah and Tony visiting No.10 Downing Street in July for a roundtable kicking off our first cohort.
10th October
Lights, Camera, Action! Capturing a moment in time, we interviewed all Encode Fellows about their vision for the future, on a much loved orange chair.
13th November
Encode Fellow Tim Reichelt gives a talk to OxfordxML about his project, co-organised by Encode Fellow Botos Csaba.
13th November
Spreading inspiration - Encode Fellow Shruti Mishra sharing her journey and research with the MechEng department at Imperial College London.
Cutting the first electrode - a critical step on the path to translation for Encode Fellow Bryan.
5th December
Pillar VC x NeurIPS. Encode Fellow Lars taking the audience through his AI for Inverse Materials Design project.
15th November
Encode Fellow Edward Grant, AI researcher Jianwei Liu, and ARIA Director Jenny Read formed a powerhouse hackathon team.
22nd October
We celebrate fails just as much as wins. Encode Fellow Ben Williams tries his first 3D 'splat' of a small reef dataset, using a new approach to speed it up ~10x.
Model predictive control. Test, fail, iterate, repeat.
28th November
The task is pinch (index+thumb)' - shared by Encode Fellow Martyna in our #fails channel.
16th July
What could we achieve, if we dared to dream? Our Summer Salon was designed to inspire.
FluidFrame: Encode Fellow Shruti Mishra shared a codebase for a tabular reinforcement learning agent navigating cellular flows, one is visualised here.
New equiptment unlocks new experiments. For Encode Fellow Bryan Li, this excitement comes in the form of a new laser machine in his lab at Imperial.
11 different types of cells in a healthy human lung. Joining us from the Meta Health Technology team, Encode Fellow Alpkaan Celik is on a mission to cure cancer.
11th November
Pillar's Neural Decoding Dinner - co-hosted with Jacques Carolan, ARIA Programme Director (Scalable Neural Interfaces).
3rd September
Encode Faculty partners, and lab colleagues, joined us in London to brainstorm what 0-3 months could like on the Encode Fellowship.
7th December
Encode Fellow Jude Wells sharing his poster at EurIPS 2025. His 'Opportunity Budget' helped enable this trip.
30th September
Encode Fellow Ben shared the 'crown jewel of his PhD' on using AI accelerated acoustic monitoring of reefs to measure the outcomes of coral reef restoration.
9th October
Work hard, play hard. Punting on the River Cam - a key moment at our Cambridge Workshop.
20th March
In March we threw our official launch party. One panellist went late to a board meeting because they were "having too much fun".
3rd-5th December
Pillar VC x NeurIPS. We had three Encode Fellows present their work this year.
10th October
Each month all Encode Fellows meet for an in-person workshop. A crucial opportunity to brain-share, be inspired and accelerate projects.
16th July
Pillar VC's Summer Salon's 'Speakers' Corner', featuring an explorer, a generative biology luminary, a Programme Director and an Encode Fellow all asking - 'What if?'
10th September
Lunch with Encode Advisor Andrew Giessel. CTO, and former Exec-Director of AI Engineering at Moderna - we learnt a lot!
16th July
It takes a village. A snapshot of Encode Faculty, Fellows and supporters.
Photonic pattern recognition in micro-meter chips with nano joule energy, a focus for Encode Fellow Xing Chen.
3rd September
Fail Big, Fail Fast' - the theme of a fellow-only dinner we hosted during our Cohort Kick Off Week. Start as you mean to go on.
What do we mean by 'real world impact'? Encode Fellow Ben Williams in action accelerating coral reef photogrammetry with deep learning techniques.
8th October
Encode Fellow Ayush Noori (AI for Precision Neurology) was the lead author on 'A global log for medical AI', an industry pioneering paper.
12th Februrary
Earlier this year, we launched in the UK, with support from the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA). We're proud to be an ARIA Activation Partner.
8th December
There's nothing better than a homecooked meal. Throughout the fellowship, we build time for small group get-togethers. Chef: Encode Fellow Jonathan Carter.
A few of our Encode Faculty partners. The Fellowship wouldn't be possible without them.
A working prototype visualising a coral reef habitat with gaussian splatting by Encode Fellow Ben Williams.
Encode Fellow Tim's model generates satellite cloud fields from a coarse atmospheric profile. Tim is embedded at the University of Oxford working with Professor Philip Stier.
10th November
Pillar VC partnered with Renaissance Philanthropy and Conception X to host the AI for Science Summit.
Encode Fellow Philine Bommer's first presentation of AI for Safe Climate Cooling to the GeoScience community at the American Geoscientific Union (AGU2025) in New Orleans.
10th November
Encode Fellow Will Bolton interviews Chris Thompson & Tim Weaving at Pillar VC's AI for Science Summit, in partnership with Renaissance Philanthropy and Conception X
September
Red Teaming session with the Encode Fellows during our September Co-Working Week - we pressure test ideas into reality.