Welcome back to the Ideas to Impact podcast, powered by Techscaler, where we bring you unfiltered conversations with founders and ecosystem leaders reshaping the future of work, tech, and entrepreneurship. Each episode unpacks the personal stories, practical lessons, and hard-won insights from those building the next generation of startups.
In this episode, we speak with Mohamed “Mo” Zamzam, co-founder of Neuron, an AI-powered platform helping businesses adopt agentic systems. With a career spanning two decades in enterprise tech and a bold pivot into startup life at 38, Mo shares a refreshingly honest take on co-founder alignment, customer-led development, and building a venture-backed company from the ground up.
We explore how he found the right co-founder (after a few failed attempts), why he believes in “selling before you build,” and what it really takes to stay resilient while navigating funding, family, and uncertainty. From ISO certifications on a shoestring to US fundraising strategies and hiring through serendipity, Mo’s story is a crash course in ambition paired with pragmatism.
Mohamed Zamzam, co-founder of Neuron, joins us to talk about building a startup at the intersection of AI automation and enterprise workflows. He discusses the challenges of finding a committed co-founder, the discipline of customer-first product development, and how Neuron scaled from idea to investment, without losing sight of what matters most.
Launched from Edinburgh, Neuron enables companies to deploy agentic systems: AI-powered tools that automate repetitive, operational tasks previously requiring human input. Mo and his co-founder Shiv deliberately chose to delay coding in favour of sales and validation, allowing them to build with clarity and speed.
We cover Mo’s reflections on career reinvention, the value of showing up (literally), what makes a startup investor-ready, and how Neuron navigated a Delaware flip to attract U.S. venture capital, all while balancing life as a founder, partner, and father.
“Co-founders come before the idea. On the days you’re low, only someone equally committed to the vision will pull you through.
Mohamed Zamzam, co-founder of Neuron
Mohamed “Mo” Zamzam is a seasoned tech executive building AI-driven operational systems at Neuron, an Edinburgh startup automating business workflows through secure, ISO 27001-certified agentic AI.
With 20+ years in enterprise tech, Mohamed leverages deep expertise from his time as a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a background in cloud infrastructure/security. Since Neuron’s 2019 launch, he’s spearheaded its venture-backed expansion into enterprise and U.S. markets while forging strategic partnerships.
An active voice in Europe’s tech ecosystem, he recently co-hosted roundtables at Turing Fest 2025 (Edinburgh) and joined the Sidebar community (San Jose), mentoring early-stage founders. He is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and currently completing an Executive MBA. Whether advising early-stage founders or closing U.S. venture deals, Mo brings a thoughtful, human-first perspective to the future of AI in business.
In this conversation, Mo Zamzam walks us through his remarkable pivot from working in enterprise tech at AWS, IBM, and BCG, to co-founding Neuron, a startup helping businesses operationalise AI through agentic automation.
At age 38, Mo realised he wanted the next 20 years of his life to be about building something with real, lasting value. That decision led him to the University of Edinburgh’s Executive MBA programme—right as ChatGPT was making waves globally. Inspired by the rapid evolution of AI, Mo set out to create a product that would help non-technical business users gain insights and automate workflows using large language models.
But he also knew he couldn’t do it alone.
Mo shares candidly how he navigated co-founder mismatches, the emotional toll of trying (and failing) to launch with family, and how attending a local Techscaler event led him to Shiv, now Neuron’s co-founder and product lead. Together, they embraced a “sell before you build” mindset, running paid pilot projects and prototyping for early customers across various sectors before writing a single line of code.
The episode explores:
Mo’s advice is grounded, actionable, and full of heart—offering clarity for anyone trying to navigate the messy middle of startup building.
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