Biography

Kimeshan Naidoo is a South African computer scientist and technology entrepreneur. He is the CTO at BX and Co-Founder of Unibuddy. Naidoo graduated from the University of Cape Town with a BSc Electrical Engineering degree. He moved to the United Kingdom in 2015, and graduated with an MSc Computer Science from University College London. He was featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 Europe list in 2020. You can find his blog at NaidooNotes.com or his code on Github

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Companies Founded

Co-founded Unibuddy, as CTO grew engineering team to 50 engineers, company raised $32 million (Seed, Series A and Series B) and grew to 120+ employees in UK, India & US. $10 million ARR, 3 million users (last updated: 2024).

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Executive Leadership

CTO & Board Observer of BX. Architected and lead the engineering of BX's Core API, AI systems and infrastructure.

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Board, Trustee & Advisor Leadership

Trustee & Director of Ashinaga UK. Globally, Ashinaga supports more than 8,000 orphaned students annually. Over the past 55 years, Ashinaga has helped around 110,000 students gain access to education while raising $1 billion since its founding in Japan.

Founder & Director of the Vejayanthran Education Fund supporting aspriring teachers and education leaders in South Africa. Trustee of the V Naidoo Family Trust.

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Angel Investments

Started dabbling in small angel investments since 2021 in the AI and FinTech space. I have a simple approach - I invest in companies with incredible products that I would be proud of building myself as an engineer. This is still a very nascent part of what I do as I love being fully operational in solving problems and building companies which I spend 99% of my time on at the moment.