About
Ray brings over 25 years of experience with high performance, low power parallel processor technology. Starting his career with INMOS, he went on to found his first in a series of startups, Division plc, 20 years ago. At his second startup, Ray architected a multi-threaded graphics GP-GPU processor and has developed low-power, scaled heterogeneous maths accelerator SoCs and large imaging supercomputers. He has extensive knowledge of heterogeneous acceleration, compilers and software architectures and their applicability to the ‘difficult’ processing challenges in gigabit signal processing. He brings a broad range entrepreneurial startup experience, taking Division, PixelFusion and Clearspeed to IPO. Ray has 26 US and UK patents granted or filed and holds a computer science and cybernetics degree from the University of Kent.
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- • 3 investors at Blu Wireless are tracked.
- • 4 investors hold the Founder/CTO role in VCSift. Ray McConnell is one of them.
- • 115 investors are based in Bristol, Bristol, City of, United Kingdom.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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- Location
- Bristol, UK
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