# Reza Javan

> Reza Javan is the CEO and co-founder of Telescope, a London-based AI prospecting platform that automates B2B outbound across email and LinkedIn. Before he sold software to salespeople, he was Dr. Reza Rezaei Javan, an Oxford DPhil microbiologist who sequenced thousands of pneumococcal genomes and discovered new families of antimicrobial peptides. He swapped the lab bench for a startup at Entrepreneur First's LD17 cohort, where Telescope was born in 2021. The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, Soma Capital and Entrepreneur First.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-Founder at Telescope
- **Organizations:** Telescope, Entrepreneur First, University of Oxford
- **Education:** BSc (Hons) Biomedical Science, University of Surrey, MSc Molecular Biology & Pathology of Viruses, Imperial College London, DPhil Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford (St Catherine's College, Nuffield Department of Medicine)
- **Known for:** Co-founded Telescope, an AI prospecting platform used by 20,000+ companies, Raised funding from Sequoia Capital, Soma Capital and Entrepreneur First, Selected for Sequoia Capital's Arc cohort (Summer 2022)

## Career timeline

- **2010** — Earns BSc in Biomedical Science from the University of Surrey
- **2014** — Completes MSc in Molecular Biology & Pathology of Viruses at Imperial College London
- **2015** — Begins DPhil in Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford, researching pneumococcal genomics
- **2018** — Co-authors research identifying a large repertoire of antimicrobial peptides across pneumococcal genomes (Frontiers in Microbiology)
- **2019** — Publishes work on prophages in Streptococcus and their role in pathogenesis (Nature Communications)
- **2021** — Joins Entrepreneur First's LD17 cohort and co-founds Telescope
- **2022** — Telescope joins Sequoia Capital's Arc program (Summer 2022) and raises ~$1M
- **2024** — Telescope scales to thousands of companies with AI-driven outbound automation

## Achievements

- Co-founded Telescope, an AI prospecting platform used by 20,000+ companies
- Raised funding from Sequoia Capital, Soma Capital and Entrepreneur First
- Selected for Sequoia Capital's Arc cohort (Summer 2022)
- Earned a DPhil in Clinical Medicine from the University of Oxford
- Published peer-reviewed genomics research in Nature Communications and Frontiers in Microbiology
- Discovered and characterised new bacteriocin gene clusters across thousands of pneumococcal genomes
- Elected committee member of The Oxford Union

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — Featured by Google Cloud and partners speaking on AI-driven sales as CEO of Telescope
- **2024-07** — Shared a walkthrough video on how Telescope finds leads in seconds

## Links

- Website: https://trytelescope.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rezajavan/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/thebioscientist

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Last updated: 2026-06-08