JECO mentorship team helped to mentor this year's DARE Academy teams.

At JECO, we’re building the optimisation layer for software, regardless of who wrote it. Founded by a Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur, and a seasoned industry veteran with 25+ years in games and tech, we set out to redefine how software gets built. Software performance optimisation is traditionally slow, manual and expensive. We call it death by a thousand bugs: a relentless drain on time, budget and creativity which holds back the work that matters most. And beyond development teams, most organisations have no clear picture of what their wider IT operations and infrastructure are actually costing them in compute spend or energy use. Our products give teams the insight and automation to build and operate more efficiently and more sustainably. JECO Optimiser uses automated, ML-driven tooling to measure, analyse, fix and validate performance issues across your codebase - cutting the time developers spend firefighting and freeing them to focus on the features and creativity that make great software. JECO Scope gives organisations clear, real-time visibility into the true cost of their IT operations and infrastructure, so leaders can make smarter, more informed decisions at every level. Our mission is to redefine how software gets built by creating tools that automatically remove waste, improve performance, reduce compute costs and even cut carbon emissions: a new standard for every product that runs on code.