UK AI companies, and what they actually do

Fintech

9fin provides data and analytics for debt capital markets, using AI to extract terms and covenants out of documents that analysts would otherwise read by hand.

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Fintech

Abound lends to UK consumers using open banking data rather than credit scores, on the argument that what is actually in someone's bank account predicts repayment better than a score does.

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London

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healthcare

Alchemab studies people who should have got seriously ill and did not, sequencing their immune systems to find the antibodies protecting them.

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Cambridge

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Fintech

ANNA Money is a business account for UK sole traders and small companies with tax filing built in — it sets aside VAT, prepares returns and files them, which is the part most small business banking leaves to you.

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London

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HR

Applied is hiring software built around removing bias — anonymised applications, structured scoring and evidence-based decisions rather than CV screening.

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London

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research

Attest runs consumer research surveys against its own UK and international panels, returning results in hours rather than weeks.

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London

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Sales and CRM

Attio is a CRM you build to fit how your business actually sells, rather than adapting your process to someone else's pipeline.

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London

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robotics

Automata builds robotic arms and the software that chains laboratory instruments into a continuous workflow, so diagnostics and screening can run without someone moving samples between machines.

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London

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science

Basecamp Research collects DNA from organisms in extreme environments to build a database of proteins nobody has sequenced before, then trains models on it.

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London

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HR

Beamery is a talent platform that tracks and engages candidates over time rather than only when a role is open, and maps the skills a company already has.

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London

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Fintech

Behavox reads the email, chat and recorded calls inside a bank looking for market abuse and insider dealing, across languages.

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London

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healthcare

bit.bio reprograms human stem cells into specific cell types on demand — consistently and at scale, which conventional methods struggle with.

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Cambridge

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research

Callosum is an AI research company backed by the UK government's Sovereign AI fund.

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London

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enterprise ai

causaLens builds software that looks for cause rather than correlation, so a business can ask what would happen if it changed a price rather than only what has happened before.

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London

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healthcare

Causaly reads across millions of biomedical papers and trials and maps what causes what — which gene, which disease, which mechanism.

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London

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HR

CharlieHR is HR software built specifically for UK small businesses — holiday, onboarding, records and policies for companies too small to have an HR department.

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London

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healthcare

Charm Therapeutics models how a drug molecule and its target protein fold around each other, rather than treating the protein as a fixed shape.

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London

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science

Chemify digitises chemistry itself — encoding chemical synthesis as executable code so a molecule can be made reproducibly by a machine anywhere.

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Glasgow

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video

Colossyan generates presenter-led video from a script using synthetic avatars, aimed at workplace training and internal communication.

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London

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Customer support

Connex AI provides contact-centre software with AI built into the workflow — routing, agent assistance and conversational handling across voice and digital channels.

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Manchester

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healthcare

Curve Therapeutics screens for drug candidates inside living cells rather than in test tubes, which lets it go after targets conventional methods treat as undruggable.

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Southampton

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science

CuspAI uses AI to search for new materials with specified properties, starting with materials for carbon capture.

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Cambridge

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robotics

Dexory builds autonomous robots that move through warehouses scanning stock, producing a live picture of what is actually on the shelves versus what the system thinks.

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Hastings

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accounting

Dext extracts data from receipts, invoices and bank statements and pushes it into accounting software, removing the manual entry that fills a bookkeeper's week.

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London

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PropTech

Dwelly applies AI to lettings and property management, automating the administrative work of running rented property.

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London

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E-commerce

EDITED tracks retail pricing and assortment across the market in real time, so a retailer can see what competitors are charging and what is selling.

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London

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voice

ElevenLabs generates synthetic speech and clones voices, and is the reference product in the category.

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London

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Developer tools

Encord is the workbench for preparing training data — labelling video, images, audio and medical scans, then measuring where a model is failing.

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London

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hardware

Envisics builds holographic head-up displays for cars, projecting navigation and hazard information into the driver's field of view so they do not look away from the road.

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Milton Keynes

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healthcare

Exscientia designed drug molecules with AI and was the first company to get an AI-designed candidate into human trials.

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Oxford

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data

Faculty builds and deploys AI systems for organisations that have data but not AI teams, with substantial UK public-sector work including the NHS.

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London

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agents

Fetch.ai builds infrastructure for autonomous software agents that negotiate and transact with each other, with an open marketplace for those agents.

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Cambridge

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semiconductors

Fractile designs chips that run large language models faster by doing the computation in memory, attacking the bandwidth bottleneck that limits inference speed on conventional hardware.

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London

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accounting

FreeAgent is accounting software for UK sole traders and small limited companies, covering Self Assessment, VAT and Corporation Tax.

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Edinburgh

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Legal

Genie AI provides a large open library of contract templates under English law, with AI drafting on top.

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London

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infrastructure

Gensyn is building a network that lets model training run across other people's idle hardware, with cryptographic proof that the work was actually done.

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London

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meetings

Granola is a meeting notetaker that combines its own transcript with the notes you type yourself, rather than producing a summary you had no hand in.

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London

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semiconductors

Graphcore designs the Intelligence Processing Unit, a processor architecture built specifically for machine learning rather than adapted from graphics.

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Bristol

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healthcare

Healx uses AI to find new uses for existing drugs in rare diseases, where patient numbers are too small to justify developing a treatment from scratch.

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Cambridge

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healthcare

Huma monitors patients at home and flags deterioration before it becomes an emergency, running virtual wards and decentralised drug trials.

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London

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Developer tools

Humanloop built the tooling teams use to test whether a change to a prompt actually improved anything — evaluation, versioning and monitoring for LLM applications.

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London

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robotics

Humanoid is a UK robotics company building general-purpose humanoid robots.

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London

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research

Ineffable Intelligence is an AI research company in the UK government's Sovereign AI portfolio.

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London

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research

InstaDeep builds decision-making systems for problems with too many variables to solve by hand — railway scheduling, logistics routing, and predicting how a virus will mutate.

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London

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healthcare

Isomorphic Labs applies AlphaFold-derived methods to drug discovery, designing molecules computationally rather than screening them physically.

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London

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Legal

Juro handles the contract lifecycle — drafting, negotiation, signature and storage — in one place, aimed at legal and operations teams in fast-growing companies rather than at law firms.

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London

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healthcare

LabGenius designs antibodies with a closed loop: a model proposes candidates, robots in its Bermondsey lab build and test them overnight, and the results retrain the model.

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London

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science

Latent Labs builds generative models for molecular biology — designing new antibodies and optimising enzymes computationally.

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London

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Legal

Lawhive provides legal services to UK consumers and small businesses at fixed prices, using AI to handle the routine work and regulated solicitors for the rest.

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London

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healthcare

Lindus Health runs clinical trials end to end, calling itself the "anti-CRO" — it takes on the whole study rather than selling services into it, and shares risk on the outcome.

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London

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Legal

Luminance reads contracts and flags what is unusual in them, trained on English law rather than adapted from a US product.

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Cambridge

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Fintech

Model ML builds AI tooling for financial analysts, automating the research and model-building work that fills an analyst's week.

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London

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education

Multiverse runs apprenticeships in data, AI and software as an alternative to university degrees, placing apprentices with employers and training them on the job.

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London

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infrastructure

Nscale builds and runs data centres designed for AI workloads rather than general cloud computing, and sells access to that capacity.

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London

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semiconductors

OLIX designs silicon for AI workloads.

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London

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infrastructure

Ori sells pay-as-you-go access to GPU compute for training and running AI models, partnering with data centres across Europe rather than owning the hardware itself.

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London

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Autonomous vehicles

Oxa, formerly Oxbotica, builds software that makes existing vehicles self-driving — aimed at industrial and commercial fleets rather than consumer cars.

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Oxford

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video

Papercup dubs video into other languages with synthetic voices that retain the tone of the original speaker, aimed at media companies with large back catalogues.

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London

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data

Peak applies AI to commercial decisions — pricing, inventory and demand forecasting — mainly for retail and consumer goods businesses.

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Manchester

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marketing

Phrasee generates and tests marketing language — subject lines, push notifications, ad copy — against a brand's own performance data rather than generic best practice.

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London

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engineering

PhysicsX replaces slow physics simulations with AI models that approximate them, so an engineer can iterate a design in minutes instead of overnight.

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London

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voice

PolyAI builds voice assistants that handle customer service calls — letting callers speak naturally, interrupt and change subject rather than navigating a phone menu.

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London

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semiconductors

Pragmatic Semiconductor makes flexible chips cheaply enough to put computation into packaging and disposable medical devices, and fabricates them in County Durham rather than East Asia.

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Cambridge

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healthcare

Proximie lets a surgeon join another surgeon's operating theatre remotely and work on the same view, and records the procedure so it can be reviewed and taught from.

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London

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data

Quantexa connects fragmented records — customers, transactions, companies — into a single network so that patterns invisible in any one system become visible.

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London

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Legal

Robin AI drafts and reviews contracts, combining its own models with a legal team for the work that still needs a lawyer.

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London

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Autonomous vehicles

Secondmind used active learning to cut the number of physical tests needed to calibrate an engine, replacing brute-force dynamometer runs with a model that chooses what to try next.

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Cambridge

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E-commerce

Shop Circle acquires and operates e-commerce software tools, mostly in the Shopify ecosystem, and adds AI capability across the portfolio.

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London

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Media intelligence

Signal AI reads news, regulatory filings and broadcast media at scale and tells organisations what is being said about them and their markets.

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London

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voice

Speechmatics builds speech recognition with unusually strong handling of accents and dialects, including UK regional speech that models trained mostly on American English transcribe badly.

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Cambridge

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Foundation models

Stability AI builds open-weight generative models, most visibly the Stable Diffusion image models.

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London

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E-commerce

Swap builds operations software for e-commerce brands, covering returns, shipping and inventory.

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London

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climate

Sylvera rates carbon credits, scoring whether a project actually removed the carbon it claims.

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London

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video

Synthesia turns a script into a video presented by a synthetic avatar, without a camera, studio or presenter.

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London

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energy

Tem applies AI to energy procurement and management for businesses.

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London

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Developer tools

Tessl is building tooling for what it calls AI-native development, where the specification rather than the code is the artefact a team maintains.

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London

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computer vision

Tractable reads photographs of damaged cars and buildings and estimates what the repair costs.

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London

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Media intelligence

Unitary moderates video by reading picture, speech and text together, because the meaning of a clip usually is not in any one of them alone.

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London

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energy

UrbanChain runs a peer-to-peer energy exchange matching renewable generators directly with business consumers, bypassing the conventional wholesale market.

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Manchester

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Developer tools

V7 automates the labelling of images, documents and scans for teams training computer-vision models, and increasingly runs document workflows outright.

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London

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procurement

Vertice helps companies control what they spend on software and cloud, using pricing data across its customer base to tell a buyer whether a renewal quote is reasonable.

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London

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Autonomous vehicles

Wayve builds self-driving software that learns to drive from data rather than following hand-coded rules and high-definition maps.

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London

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HR

Willo runs asynchronous video interviews: candidates record answers in their own time and hiring teams review them together.

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Glasgow

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