The Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech list and Asian Tech Pioneers Awards celebrate the contribution made by British Asians to this country’s tech sector and marked its impact by publishing the Asians in Tech Impact Report earlier this year.
Twenty-seven Asian Tech Pioneers were lauded by equality charity, Diversity UK, at a celebration on marking a decade of championing entrepreneurs in the sector. The Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech list and Asian Tech Pioneers Awards celebrate the contribution made by British Asians to this country’s tech sector and marked its impact by publishing the Asians in Tech Impact Report earlier this year.
This year’s Asian Tech Pioneer Award winners include biotech entrepreneur Dr Farid Khan who has created 4 ventures in the sector, including Protein Technologies Ltd, a multi-million state of the art contract research organisation working in industrial biotechnology and genetic engineering; Dr. Bea Bakshi, a General Practitioner, Co-Founder, and CEO of C the Signs, an award-winning platform that uses artificial intelligence to identify patients at risk of cancer at the earliest and most survivable stage of the disease; Julia Fan Li who is the Co-Founder & CEO of Micrographia Bio, a deeptech bio company focused on applying machine learning to bioimaging to accelerate drug discovery; Priya Oberoi-Cattai who founded Goddess Gaia Ventures (GGV), Europe’s first women’s centric healthcare fund and Dr Jing Ouyang who is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Patchwork Health, a pioneer in workforce management solutions in healthcare.
“We are pleased to be recognising twenty-seven of the most inspirational Asian stars with the Asian Tech Pioneers Awards”, said Lopa Patel MBE, Chair of Diversity UK, who has helmed the initiative since its inception, “these are individuals at the peak of their tech journey; from being serial venture builders or deep-tech investors to pioneering social entrepreneurs and innovators. The list’s focus this year has been in HealthTech and ImpactTech, so it is not surprising to see this reflected with Healthtech pioneers being honoured.”
“It was double pleasing to see that 44% of the Asian Tech Pioneer Award winners were women and that women are also well represented in the entrepreneurial support network with investors like Dama Sathianathan, a Senior Partner at Bethnal Green Ventures, Europe’s leading early stage VC in tech for good which has 4 funds and has made 141 investments to date; Rupa Ganatra Popat, Founder & Managing Partner of Arāya Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in exceptional entrepreneurs who are transforming the way we live and work and ecosystem builders like Shruti Ajitsaria who is the Head of Fuse, Allen & Overy’s tech innovation space.”
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