James Smith

Co-Founder at Hessian

Co-founder

Hessian· Spring 2026 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom

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2026Co-founder· Hessian

Founder · since 2026

Company

Hessian

Role

Co-Founder

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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Hessian

Forward-deployed AI Agents

Spring 2026

Experience

Career

Hessian
Co-founder
Co-Founder · 2026 – Present
2026
DRW
Software Engineer · London, England, United Kingdom · 2025 – 2026
2025
Bloomberg LP
Software Engineer · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · 2020 – 2025
2020
Featurespace
Software Engineer · Greater Cambridge Area · 2019
2019
Featurespace
Contract Software Engineer · United Kingdom · 2018 – 2019
2018
Featurespace
Software Engineer · Greater Cambridge Area · 2018
2018

Bio

James, co-founder and COO of Hessian – leads forward-deployed engagements: customer relationship, system design, shipping AI pipelines to production. Previously five years at Bloomberg building a data platform processing billions of observations for financial firms, including entity-disambiguation AI pipelines, then DRW building data infrastructure and pipelines for commodities trading desks. CS at Durham University (top of year); awarded three scholarships from the University of Cambridge.