Tom Canning
About
Tom Canning is from London, England, United Kingdom. Tom works in the following industries: "Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals". Tom is currently Board Observer and Investor at Zinklar, located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Tom also works as Partner at Beacon Capital, a job Tom has held since Apr 2022. In Tom's previous role as a Board Observer and Investor at Humanising Autonomy, Tom worked in London, England, United Kingdom until Nov 2022. Prior to joining Humanising Autonomy, Tom was a Vice President of Global Sales IoT and Devices at Canonical Ltd. and held the position of Vice President of Global Sales IoT and Devices at London, UK. Prior to that, Tom was a Vice President of Sales EMEA and APAC at Planview, Inc., based in London, United Kingdom from Aug 2014 to Mar 2017. Tom started working as Vice President of Sales North America at Spigit Inc. in San Francisco Bay Area in Feb 2011. From Jul 2009 to Dec 2010, Tom was Advisor at Cisco, based in San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to that, Tom was a Founder and CEO at Connectize Inc., based in San Francisco Bay Area from Jan 2007 to Dec 2009. Tom started working as Vice President Sales and Business Development at VMware in San Francisco Bay Area in Oct 2005.
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Tom Canning's current jobs
Zinklar is a consumer research platform that connects brands to people. With Zinklar, brands make better decisions supported by the right insights and consumers make their voice heard to get better products, experiences and content.
A London-based VC investing in Enterprise Tech across Europe. We provide both early stage capital (<£1M ARR) and capital for later stage founder liquidity (<£10m ARR). Our mission is to source and invest in “Best-in-Class” assets, generate outsized returns for our LP's and accelerate the rate of digital transformation across the European Enterprise. We believe that European Enterprise Tech is entering its next phase of growth and will continue convergence to US valuation levels. Today, is both undervalued and underserved and this represents opportunity.
Tom Canning's past jobs
We teach machines to understand people for a better experience. We make automation human-centric Our ethical computer-vision software understands and predicts human behaviour so that we can quickly, safely and accurately provide the context between people and machines, whether it’s a vehicle, a traffic control, smart home device, in a simulation or any other automated machine.
Mission: Deliver, maintain, secure and sustain open source from cloud to desktop and devices. From Canonical Kubernetes for multi-cloud operations to Ubuntu Core for the Internet of Things (IoT), Ubuntu is indeed the reference platform. Canonical provides 24/7 enterprise support, security, and break-fix engineering for Ubuntu, OpenStack, Docker and Kubernetes. Embedded devices updates managed via SaaS OTA services. Enterprise Linux done right. We offer partner programmes for public clouds, IHVs/OEMs, desktop, channel/resellers and global systems integrators such as: Google, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Wipro, Infosys, Intel, Nvidia, NXP, Qualcomm, Xilinx, ARM, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Advantech, Adlink, Aaeon and Mediatek.
Spigit is used by leading companies in systems integration, financial services, insurance, pharmaceutical, healthcare, technology, and more, including IBM, Capgemini, Citibank, and Pfizer. Spigit’s 6M SaaS users from 170+ countries have generated over $1B in increased revenue from their enterprise innovation programs. Provides organizations the ability to tap into the collective intelligence of customers, employees, and partners to accelerate innovation by finding the best ideas and making the right decisions. Exit: Mindjet/Planview
A pioneer in Internet Protocol-based wireless network technology for smart-grid applications, Archrock provided a SaaS advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and grid communication platform that enabled OEMs to create interoperable wireless meshed IPv6-based smart meter systems. Provided real-time meter data collection to facilitate the utility industry's transition to an open and interoperable smart grid. Network also deployed across enterprise datacenter infrastructure for real time energy and thermal reporting to help reduce energy consumption and improve PUE/DCIE metrics. Exit: Cisco Systems Inc.
A SaaS multi-sided marketplace for sales collaboration and knowledge management to help accelerate deal velocity. Raised seed funding and hired team to build MVP releases developed on both Salesforce and Twitter platforms leveraging available api's and security infrastructure.
ActiveGrid, the Enterprise LAMP company, provides a service-oriented application platform built on the lightweight architecture of the proven LAMP software infrastructure stack. ActiveGrid Enterprise LAMP simplifies and speeds the development of service-oriented applications that weave together existing enterprise systems into new rich web applications and services. ActiveGrid Enterprise LAMP applications can be flexibly deployed on grids of commodity machines. Exit: VMware
Enterprise "Integration-as-a-service” platform, which includes a public directory for services, simplified provisioning and process editing tools and a version of the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). Exit Minor Ventures . Exit: Minor Ventures
Enterprise management infrastructure critical for building and running Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs). In particular, managing the relationship between Web Service providers (the systems that provide Services) and the Web Service consumers (the systems that utilize these Services) in order to insure loose coupling between consumers and providers is especially important to maintain two core benefits of SOA: asset reuse and business agility. Exit: Software AG
The original unified RIA architecture to create rich web applications that are easier to deploy and cheaper to operate relative to more specialized technologies. Started in an MIT laboratory, with Tim Berners-Lee and embodied such HTML5+CSS+Javascript+WebGL features. Exit SCSC
Total-e-Business comprehensive e-business platform – all based on the Java 2 platform and XML standards. Bluestone’s support of the JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology, the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) component architecture, and the Java Servlets API – core enterprise technologies which are unified in J2EE – simplifies enterprise application development by providing a comprehensive set of component services. IPO, Exit: HP
Thin client computing