Startups / Autonomous vehicles
Secondmind
secondmind.ai Cambridge UK company
- Headquarters
- Cambridge
- Sector
- Autonomous vehicles
- Incorporated
- 2016
What does Secondmind do?
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. Founded in Cambridge as Prowler.io and acquired by Mazda.
How does Secondmind work?
Uses active learning to choose the most informative next experiment, so far fewer physical tests are needed to calibrate an engine.
What does Secondmind offer?
Automotive engineering optimisation software, now within Mazda.
Secondmind builds active machine learning software that accelerates vehicle powertrain design and control calibration. Its Gaussian process optimization engine reduces the physical prototype testing and dynamometer calibration time needed by automotive engineers by up to eighty percent. Founded in Cambridge in 2016 as Prowler.io, the company was acquired by Japanese automaker Mazda in 2024 following a multi-year engineering collaboration.
Who runs Secondmind?
Secondmind has 7 currently appointed directors.
- OHS SECRETARIES LIMITED
- Gary Bruce Brotman
- Adam Matthew Broun
- Kevin Edward Dillon
- Hermann Maria, Dr Hauser
- Ian Michael Lane
- Carl Edward, Professor Rasmussen
Currently appointed officers only, from the Companies House register. Directors who have resigned are excluded — naming someone who left as running the company is worse than naming nobody.
Where is Secondmind based?
Secondmind is headquartered in Cambridge, outside London. It was incorporated in 2016. Other AI companies in Cambridge →
Why does Secondmind matter to a UK operator?
Cut the number of physical engine tests needed for calibration, then was acquired by Mazda. A clean example of a Cambridge company solving one industrial problem well and exiting to its customer.
Company record
Registered as SECONDMIND LIMITED, company 09973282, a private limited company, incorporated on 27 January 2016. Registered office: 9th Floor 107 Cheapside, London, United Kingdom, EC2V 6DN. SIC 58290 - Other software publishing.
Looked up on the register. Of the first 83 numbers supplied to this directory, 12 belonged to entirely different businesses.
What else is Torus tracking near Secondmind?
2 other UK companies working in Autonomous vehicles:
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