Russell Haggar
Managing Director - ChipStart UK at Silicon Catalyst.UK
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRussell Haggar is a deeptech entrepreneur and investor with 14+ years building and advising hardware-anchored startups, currently leading ChipStart UK to nurture pre-seed semiconductor ventures. He blends hands-on product and commercial leadership—from co-founding processor startups to steering IoT, smart energy and agritech spin-outs—with extensive venture and corporate development experience. Russell has repeatedly turned specialist engineering IP into investable businesses and exits, and he’s comfortable moving between boardrooms, labs and early customer engagements. Notably, he has a track record of creating whole-home and in-band connectivity systems and translating high-performance compute ideas into commercial strategies. A Cambridge computer science MA, he combines technical depth with a pragmatic talent for fundraising, market strategy and mentor-led startup acceleration.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MA (1st class) Computer Science, MA (1st class) Computer Science at University of CambridgeHaberdashers' Boys' School
Github Skills (7)
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audio3
react3
i2s2
i2c1
clock1
component-library1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
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