# Simon Ponsford

> Simon Ponsford is a startup investor at YellowDog (Bath). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [YellowDog](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yellowdog)
- Location: Bath, United Kingdom
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonponsford/

Simon Ponsford is a startup investor at YellowDog in Bath. To Simon, technology related business problems are like a juicy bone to get his teeth into. He has 16 years of experience in high growth start-up environments working in CIO, CTO and Technical Architect roles in the UK, Europe, Middle East and North America, with several cloud computing related patents to his name.He is passionate aboutdelivering ‘green’ technology and is best known for designing the world’s lowest powered Windows PC in 2008. He is also responsible for KumoWatt, the leading training programme for IT professionals interested in reducing the carbon impact of what they do.

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## About YellowDog

VC Fund · Bristol, United Kingdom

YellowDog enables companies across the globe to accelerate and optimise complex data processes with the most scalable predictive scheduling and orchestration platform for hybrid and multi-cloud management. There are multiple uses of the technology, across multiple industries - from Life Sciences, to Financial Services, to CGI and more. The idealcloud workflows are those that are elastic, highly parallelisable and distributable. The technology automates the selection of the best source of compute for every workload, delivering new levels of prediction and efficiency in cost and performance optimisation.

2 contacts available at YellowDog.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gareth Williams | Founder & Non-Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gareth-williams-6 |
| Simon Ponsford | Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-ponsford |

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