Harry Destecroix

Harry is Director and Co-Founder at Unit DX, and CEO and Co-Founder at Ziylo. Unit DX is the UK’s first independent Science Incubator, based in Bristol. Unit DX was founded after noticing a complete lack of facilities for scientific spin-outs from local Universities. Driven by the need to find space for his science start-up, Ziylo, he co-founded his second company, Unit DX. In just 18 months, the Unit DX team completed the design, raised the finance, and converted a disused warehouse into a 15,000 sq ft state-of-the-art science incubator, with Ziylo as the anchor tenant. Since opening in 2017, the incubator is now home to 15 early stage science companies ranging from quantum to biotech start-ups.

Ziylo was founded during Harry’s PhD in Chemistry, and is a device / therapeutics start-up, with a game-changing glucose detection platform, which will be used to help diabetics by enabling the next generation of continuous glucose monitors and smarter insulins.

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