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Portfolio companies

Encord

Encord

Encord provides an AI data development platform for advanced vision and multimodal teams.

SeeChange Technologies

SeeChange Technologies

SeeChange Technologies develops visual AI software that optimises retail operations and self-checkout systems.

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Re:infer

Conversational data intelligence platform that interprets and acts on business communications.

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Virtuoso

Virtuoso provides an artificial intelligence powered test automation platform.

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SenseOn

SenseOn builds an AI powered cybersecurity platform to automate threat detection and response.

Foundries.io

Foundries.io

Foundries.io provides a cloud-native platform for secure Internet of Things and Edge devices.

Cord Technologies

Cord Technologies

Cord Technologies automates training data preparation for artificial intelligence applications.

OpenSensors

OpenSensors

OpenSensors provides data-driven workplace transformation and environmental monitoring solutions.

Harbr

Harbr

Harbr provides an enterprise data exchange platform that helps organisations share, manage, and monetise data securely.

PQShield

PQShield

PQShield builds quantum-resistant cryptographic solutions for the global technology supply chain.

7bridges

7bridges

7bridges provides an artificial intelligence platform for supply chain optimisation and logistics management.

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Onfido

Onfido provides digital identity verification and authentication through artificial intelligence.

Senseon

Senseon

Senseon develops artificial intelligence technology for automated cyber defence and threat detection.


Team

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Scott Sage

Co-founder and Partner

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Krishna Visvanathan

General Partner


Recent investments

Series B
£23.4M

The Series B round was led by Next47 with participation from Y Combinator, CRV, and Crane Venture Partners.

"In 10 years, every company will have an AI department in the same way that they have an IT department today or risk losing relevance, and Encord will be the only platform they need to accomplish the process of turning data into functional AI models,"
— Ulrik Stig Hansen, Co-Founder and President
Series A
$20.0M

The Series A round was led by Eight Roads Ventures with backing from MMC Ventures, Crane Venture Partners and Winton Ventures.

"We are facing a new reality whereby attackers are advancing more quickly than legacy approaches can keep up with, but hybrid and multi-cloud environments are far more complex than we yet know how to defend. Added to this, the volume and speed of data is beyond what legacy architecture was ever designed to handle. The daily headlines show legacy approaches don’t work and if we don’t do something courageous now as a security community or we aren’t going to stand a chance in the future. We chose to partner with Eight Roads Ventures because of their ability to support SenseOn’s vision, thanks to their collaborative partnership style, their strong knowledge of the cyber industry and their global footprint."
— David Atkinson
Series A
£5.8M

The Series A round was led by IQ Capital with participation from Crane Venture Partners and Backed VC.

"The industry needs a new cloud DevOps approach to IoT that’s built from the ground up to reinvent how software is developed and deployed. At Foundries.io, our team’s deep expertise and experience has helped us to reinvent how devices are secured and managed. We believe the latest software is always the most secure and most trusted, so we have created the FoundriesFactory platform to deliver to the embedded industry an easy to use cloud-native solution for secure open source-based software development and management,"
— George Grey, CEO
Seed
£3.0M

The seed round was led by Crane Venture Partners to support international demand and product development.

"OpenSensors was founded to use data to measure, understand and improve the world around us. How we work and live are changing faster than we could have ever anticipated. There is a real opportunity for humanity to rethink how we use the physical world with sustainability in mind as well as making the design of workplaces better for people using them. Businesses need an efficient way to gather data about their office buildings to manage capacity so employees can return to the workplace safely and rethink design based on need rather than the status quo."
— Yodit Stanton, CEO and founder
Series A
£28.2M

Dawn Capital and Tiger Global Management co-led the round, which will fund team expansion.

"Despite significant investments in data-focused technologies and teams over the last decade, most enterprises are still unable to deliver targeted outcomes from data in a timely and scalable manner. The secure data sharing and collaboration capabilities of Harbr’s enterprise data exchange platform fast-track those outcomes,"
— Gary Butler, CEO and co-founder
Series C
£38.3M

The Series C financing was led by SBI Investment and Salesforce Ventures to support international expansion and product development.

"We chose to invest in Onfido because they have proven their expertise at using artificial intelligence to effectively fight fraud, giving businesses a safe and secure way to scale their businesses online."
— Tomoyuki Nii, Executive Officer
Seed
£4.9M

MMC Ventures led the seed round to support international expansion and technological scaling.

"Cyber-attacks are one of the greatest concerns for the modern business. Organisations’ networks are becoming increasingly complex and accelerated tech adoption creates additional noise for attackers to hide within. Meanwhile, attacker innovation is growing, and their techniques evade current cyber defence tools, which are unable to differentiate between genuinely malicious threats and merely new or unusual activity."
— David Atkinson, Founder and CEO