currently living in london at the london AI hub
matilda glynn-henley
investor @ merantix
// a bit about me
I'm a pre-seed VC at Merantix Capital where we invest at the AI Application layer (check it out here https://www.merantix-capital.com/). Previously I founded a company using AI to solve the housing crisis and was a software engineer. I studied CS at Oxford. Currently based in London at the London AI Hub.
If you are building something cool my (work) email is matilda @ merantix dot com.
// current projects
- Linear Probes for Inference Time Monitoring → — Research on linear probes for monitoring model behaviour at inference time
- Technical AI Safety Course → — Blue Dot AI safety technical course
// community
- threecourses.xyz — VC backed invite only community of technical women working in startups in London
- Founder of START Berlin Female Mentorship — connecting 15 founders and VCs to female students
// hackathons
// things i've done
- Founding Investor, Merantix Capital(April 2025 - Present)
Sourced and closed €6M+ across pre-seed AI startups; built internal AI evaluation tools
- Operations, Pluto(2025)
Lived in Paris and ran operations at Pluto hacker house
- Founder, Parlia AI(March 2024 - 2025)
AI planning policy tool; secured EXIST funding
- Software Developer, Fine Legal(Nov 2023 – April 2024)
Built customer-facing features (React/TypeScript, Java)
- Previous Roles, Softwire, GCHQ(2022 - 2023)
Softwire (Software Dev Intern), GCHQ (Cyber Security Intern)
// events
// past projects
- OnFabric Generative Interfaces → — Built agentic generative interface on top of OnFabric MCP
- Blue Dot AGI Strategy — Explored AI Control Defenses
- Data Visualization (JavaScript, D3.js) → — Created a front-end project visualising female headliners at UK music festivals
- Investment Memo Generator (Python, Langchain) → — Agentic workflow for generating investment memos
- Legal Front-End User Flow & Portal (React, TypeScript, Next.js, Java) → — User-friendly front-end flow and internal portal for legal case management
- Turtle Charity Mobile App (React Native, TypeScript, Express, MS SQL Server) — Built a full-stack charity app with backend and database integration
- Tinder Scraper for Oxford Hack (Python, TypeScript, React) — Built a bot to match Tinder profiles with Facebook's Ox-love page (Not submitted due to regulations)
- ML to detect hidden messages in SVGs (Python - scikit-learn) — Developed a Python tool for detecting hidden messages in images
- Python Module for Distributed Music Playback (Python, C++) → — Developed a module for synchronous music playback across Raspberry Pi devices
- Legal News Website (Next.js, React, TypeScript) → — Built a blog platform with search (prefix search tree for linear time complexity), cached favourites, and email validation