Innovate UK

Founded in 2007, Innovate UK is a non-profit organization based in Swindon, UK. It supports businesses across various economic sectors by offering funding services to promote science and technology innovations.

Mike Biddle

Programme Director of Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund

Will Drury

Executive Director, Digital and Technologies

Paul Gadd

Deputy Director

Dr. Tom Jenkins

Deputy Director

Scott James O'Brien

Director, Innovation Finance

Nigel Walker

Deputy Director, Lending and Investor Partnerships

Past deals in Data Mining

ReactWise

Grant in 2025
ReactWise develops a no-code platform that optimizes chemical reactions. Its AI-driven system predicts optimal reaction conditions, saving users time and resources.

Wordnerds

Grant in 2024
Wordnerds specializes in AI-powered linguistics to analyze vast amounts of unstructured text data. Their platform enables businesses to derive actionable insights from customer feedback, online reviews, and surveys, facilitating informed decision-making.

Bendi

Seed Round in 2024
Bendi uses AI to monitor global data sources for human rights, environmental, and governance risks in supply chains. Its platform maps millions of data points from news, legal cases, and social media in multiple languages, providing real-time risk intelligence to help businesses build resilient supply chains.

TRUSS

Grant in 2024
Instant access to rich, actionable data about fashion products to power resale.

Bendi

Grant in 2023
Bendi uses AI to monitor global data sources for human rights, environmental, and governance risks in supply chains. Its platform maps millions of data points from news, legal cases, and social media in multiple languages, providing real-time risk intelligence to help businesses build resilient supply chains.

Intellegens

Grant in 2023
Intellegens is a company that specializes in applying machine learning to enhance innovation across various industries, including materials, chemicals, and manufacturing. Its flagship product, Alchemite™, was initially developed at the University of Cambridge and is designed to train deep neural networks using sparse and noisy data, where conventional machine learning methods often struggle. This platform allows scientists, engineers, and analysts to optimize formulations, products, and processes while significantly reducing the number of experiments required, often by up to 90%. Alchemite™ features a user-friendly web interface and powerful graphical analysis tools, and it can be seamlessly integrated into existing data science workflows. The technology has been successfully applied in multiple fields, including drug discovery, materials development, and additive manufacturing, thereby enabling clients to extract greater value from their data and accelerate their development timelines.

Productive Machines

Grant in 2023
Productive Machines enhances metal cutting efficiency by employing digital twins of machining processes. This enables rapid simulation of millions of parameters, improving CAM and G-code for increased productivity and part quality.

Built AI

Grant in 2022
Built AI is a developer of an advanced real estate investment analysis platform aimed at enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of commercial property evaluations for real estate professionals. The platform leverages artificial intelligence and natural language processing to provide tools for screening and prospecting, investment analysis, and risk assessment. It also offers insights into historical deal pipelines and existing portfolios, as well as key local factors that influence investment decisions. By streamlining the analysis process, Built AI enables clients to gain a competitive edge in the challenging real estate market.

CONNECT Care

Grant in 2022
We already know that upto 50% of patients struggle to take their medicines – patients are not well-supported and too often it remains a hidden problem until it's too late. CONNECT Care want to change that: empowering patients and, at the same time, using data-driven insights to enable clinicians and carers to provide better support in real-time.

FourJaw Manufacturing Analytics

Grant in 2022
FourJaw Manufacturing Analytics provides a machine-agnostic data analytics platform that aims to maximize machining productivity through data-driven manufacturing. The platform offers real-time visibility of the shop floor, enabling users to monitor each machine's status, identify unplanned downtime, and respond quickly, with cloud-based monitoring and analytics designed for small and medium-sized manufacturers.

Drone Ag

Grant in 2022
Drone Ag is a UK-based company focused on enhancing agricultural productivity through drone automation and artificial intelligence software. Comprising a team of farmers, agronomists, drone pilots, and software engineers, the company leverages its extensive experience from operating drone systems on its own 6,000-acre farm. Drone Ag develops practical software solutions and provides training courses for farmers and agronomy companies. Its technology includes systems that collect and analyze leaf-level crop data, allowing farmers to optimize the use of ground machinery and drone sprayers by targeting specific areas of fields at the right times. This approach not only helps in efficient crop assessment but also promotes precision agriculture, ensuring that farmers can enhance their operations effectively.

CONNECT Care

Grant in 2021
We already know that upto 50% of patients struggle to take their medicines – patients are not well-supported and too often it remains a hidden problem until it's too late. CONNECT Care want to change that: empowering patients and, at the same time, using data-driven insights to enable clinicians and carers to provide better support in real-time.

Predictiva

Grant in 2021
Predictiva is a company that provides an artificial intelligence platform designed to enhance financial trading and investment management using advanced Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms. It offers solutions that cater to various financial assets, focusing on optimizing decision-making in complex financial markets. By leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, Predictiva aims to deliver predictable profits while minimizing risks, enabling users to engage in a more accurate, data-driven approach to trading. The platform is accessible to users without a background in AI or data science, utilizing autonomous machine learning algorithms to simplify the trading process and enhance financial intelligence for traders and investment managers.

Glamorous AI

Grant in 2021
Glamorous AI develops an artificial intelligence driven drug discovery platform that accelerates pharmaceutical research by leveraging prior experimental results to identify and optimize chemical scaffolds, predict activities, and screen ultra-large chemical libraries. The platform addresses low-data, sparse, and noisy datasets, enabling the discovery of novel compounds and potential therapeutics.

Bendi

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Bendi uses AI to monitor global data sources for human rights, environmental, and governance risks in supply chains. Its platform maps millions of data points from news, legal cases, and social media in multiple languages, providing real-time risk intelligence to help businesses build resilient supply chains.

IgniteData

Grant in 2021
IgniteData is a company focused on transforming clinical trials through innovative technology solutions. Its flagship product, Archer, is a cloud-based virtual research assistant that facilitates secure transmission of clinical data from electronic health records to electronic data capture systems. By automating patient data processes, IgniteData aims to enhance the efficiency of clinical research, enabling researchers to collect trial data more swiftly. This approach not only accelerates the development of crucial therapies but also improves the quality of studies while reducing the workload for research teams. Ultimately, IgniteData is dedicated to streamlining key clinical research processes to ensure that important medical advancements reach patients more quickly.

Etiq AI

Grant in 2021
Etiq AI develops an artificial intelligence-driven testing software. This platform analyzes data and models to identify potential biases in real-time, providing analytics for decision-making and applying fixes to mitigate these issues. It enables financial firms to improve business outcomes by deploying fairer applications.

Freyda

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Freyda is a technology company that provides an artificial intelligence based content management platform designed to eliminate manual data entry from documents. Its platform uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to recognize, extract, and normalize data, enabling financial services clients to automate repetitive data entry and retrieval tasks. By converting unstructured documents into structured data, Freyda allows users to extract, retrieve, and analyze information directly from documents with significantly higher efficiency, reportedly increasing productivity up to 75 times. The solution helps reduce obscure data and supports faster, smarter decision making in investing and other data-driven workflows.

Elixivity

Grant in 2020
Elixivity uses AI to quantify and benchmark people-related impact on financial performance. Its platform analyzes vast amounts of data to identify key patterns, enabling enterprises to make data-driven decisions about inclusion and diversity.

Intelligent AI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Intelligent AI develops an intelligent risk underwriting management platform that reduces global business risk and business interruption claims. The platform provides global location intelligence by combining artificial intelligence, data science, satellite imagery analysis, and risk data sets to deliver a comprehensive view of risk across insurers' or corporations' commercial property portfolios. This enables insurers and businesses to measure, predict, and mitigate commercial property risks in real-time and to gain actionable insights to safeguard their operations.

Intellegens

Grant in 2020
Intellegens is a company that specializes in applying machine learning to enhance innovation across various industries, including materials, chemicals, and manufacturing. Its flagship product, Alchemite™, was initially developed at the University of Cambridge and is designed to train deep neural networks using sparse and noisy data, where conventional machine learning methods often struggle. This platform allows scientists, engineers, and analysts to optimize formulations, products, and processes while significantly reducing the number of experiments required, often by up to 90%. Alchemite™ features a user-friendly web interface and powerful graphical analysis tools, and it can be seamlessly integrated into existing data science workflows. The technology has been successfully applied in multiple fields, including drug discovery, materials development, and additive manufacturing, thereby enabling clients to extract greater value from their data and accelerate their development timelines.

Dexory

Seed Round in 2020
Dexory is a company focused on revolutionizing warehouse operations through the use of autonomous robots and Artificial Intelligence. By offering fully autonomous, mobile, and modular robots, Dexory enables efficient data collection and management within logistics environments. These robots measure, track, and locate goods without disrupting existing workflows, delivering real-time insights at each stage of receiving, storing, and dispatching products. The information gathered is integrated into digital twin technology, which allows warehouses to quickly adapt to operational challenges. This innovative approach not only enhances efficiency but also helps clients reduce costs and conserve resources by minimizing the time spent locating missing goods.

Game Doctor

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Game Doctor develops data-driven gamification technology. They offer services that include big data, mobile applications, health promotion, health marketing, public health, engagement, and behavior change.

Arbor Steel

Grant in 2020
Arbor Steel is a developer of a digital identity platform that focuses on providing robust solutions for data storage and usage control. The platform integrates identity verification and authentication features to combat identity theft and ensure secure online operations. Arbor Steel offers software-as-a-service (SaaS) and management services that allow both individuals and organizations to organize sensitive documents in a centralized location, categorized in folders for easy search and retrieval. This enables users to communicate with confidence, clarity, and efficiency while managing their projects and workflows effectively.

RAIS

Debt Financing in 2019
We help D2C brands grow the value of their customers faster by providing software, intelligence and expertise. Our Customer Data Intelligence Platform creates a genuine single point of truth, for every customer, by consolidating and deduplicating each data point. This enables brands to: • Quickly diagnose performance of marketing activity, accelerating the ability to test, learn and optimise. • Identify true VIPs and create strategies that build and track their engagement • Easy revenue forecast modelling, so brands know what it'll take to hit whatever revenue targets they're trying to achieve in seconds. • See how recent activity impacts predicted Customer Lifetime Value, so they can stop, continue or adjust to optimise acquisition. Our CRM personal data fields tool takes multiple customer data sources as inputs and uses customised logic to create rich metadata that can be used to personalise campaigns. This enables brands to: • To trigger, segment and personalise communications via their existing email marketing tools • Use multiple sources of customer data to increase personalisation, not just that which sits in a duplicated state within the e-commerce platform.

Eagle Genomics

Grant in 2018
Eagle Genomics is a life sciences software company that provides data management and analytics platforms for genomics and related fields. Its solutions enable management, orchestration and exploitation of genomics and other life sciences data, turning diverse datasets into usable data assets and supporting end-to-end workflows from data integration and curation to analysis, visualization and sharing. The company combines biology, bioinformatics, data science, and enterprise software engineering to help pharmaceutical, consumer goods, and agricultural technology organizations shorten research cycles and improve decision making. Its offerings cover next-generation sequencing data management and analysis, cloud-based bioinformatics, biomarker discovery, microarray analysis, and pipeline design, as well as on-demand consulting and tools for managing research data. Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, with an international footprint, Eagle Genomics emphasizes building an enterprise information architecture for the genomics era, enabling customers to realize the value of digital assets and enhance productivity across R&D programs.

Circadian

Grant in 2017
Specializes in behavioral analytics to detect fraudulent activities and recognize genuine customers.

Eagle Genomics

Grant in 2017
Eagle Genomics is a life sciences software company that provides data management and analytics platforms for genomics and related fields. Its solutions enable management, orchestration and exploitation of genomics and other life sciences data, turning diverse datasets into usable data assets and supporting end-to-end workflows from data integration and curation to analysis, visualization and sharing. The company combines biology, bioinformatics, data science, and enterprise software engineering to help pharmaceutical, consumer goods, and agricultural technology organizations shorten research cycles and improve decision making. Its offerings cover next-generation sequencing data management and analysis, cloud-based bioinformatics, biomarker discovery, microarray analysis, and pipeline design, as well as on-demand consulting and tools for managing research data. Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, with an international footprint, Eagle Genomics emphasizes building an enterprise information architecture for the genomics era, enabling customers to realize the value of digital assets and enhance productivity across R&D programs.

RAIS

Grant in 2017
We help D2C brands grow the value of their customers faster by providing software, intelligence and expertise. Our Customer Data Intelligence Platform creates a genuine single point of truth, for every customer, by consolidating and deduplicating each data point. This enables brands to: • Quickly diagnose performance of marketing activity, accelerating the ability to test, learn and optimise. • Identify true VIPs and create strategies that build and track their engagement • Easy revenue forecast modelling, so brands know what it'll take to hit whatever revenue targets they're trying to achieve in seconds. • See how recent activity impacts predicted Customer Lifetime Value, so they can stop, continue or adjust to optimise acquisition. Our CRM personal data fields tool takes multiple customer data sources as inputs and uses customised logic to create rich metadata that can be used to personalise campaigns. This enables brands to: • To trigger, segment and personalise communications via their existing email marketing tools • Use multiple sources of customer data to increase personalisation, not just that which sits in a duplicated state within the e-commerce platform.

Terrabotics

Grant in 2017
Terrabotics Ltd. is a London-based company that specializes in developing automated solutions for organizations operating in remote and hazardous environments. Founded in 2013, Terrabotics transforms satellite, aerial, and UAV imagery into 3D terrain data and 2.5D elevation models, enabling users to make informed decisions across various sectors, including energy, mining, construction, and the environment. The company utilizes advanced algorithms and data fusion techniques to analyze vast amounts of remote sensing data, offering insights that help track lifecycle events in supply chains, such as natural gas flaring and industrial emissions. By providing objective and up-to-date operational, market, and environmental intelligence, Terrabotics supports organizations in reducing risk, enhancing decision-making, and promoting transparency in the management of vital natural resources.

Outcomes Based Healthcare

Grant in 2014
Outcomes Based Healthcare is a company dedicated to enhancing the healthcare system through outcome-based methodologies. It focuses on co-creating healthcare outcomes alongside patients, employing both academic and technical rigor in measuring and contracting for these outcomes. The company develops technology products that assist commissioners and health providers in tracking and measuring health outcomes for specific population segments. By integrating health and non-health datasets and utilizing big data analytics with machine learning techniques, Outcomes Based Healthcare aims to predict health outcomes effectively. Additionally, it creates smartphone applications to assess Patient Reported Outcomes. The team comprises professionals with diverse expertise in medicine, business, economics, computer science, and web technology, all committed to designing patient-centered care and empowering the health system through innovative technological solutions.

Big Data Partnership

Grant in 2014
Big Data Partnership is a consulting firm that assists organizations across various industries in becoming data-driven through the adoption of advanced data science and big data technologies. As companies generate data at unprecedented rates, particularly unstructured data from sources such as social networks and mobile content, Big Data Partnership aims to help clients harness this complexity for competitive advantage. The firm offers a range of services, including big data engineering, data science, and certified training and support, with a focus on technologies like the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, Apache Spark, and Apache Cassandra. By enabling organizations to effectively capture, store, and analyze large datasets, Big Data Partnership strives to transform data into a valuable asset, driving new revenue streams and enhancing operational efficiency. Their team consists of certified industry experts who provide tailored, cost-effective solutions while reducing risks by training client staff in necessary skills.

Warwick Analytics

Seed Round in 2013
Warwick Analytics specializes in advanced predictive analytics and process automation. Its core product, PrediCX, uses proprietary machine learning technology to automatically classify text-heavy data with minimal human effort, enabling enhanced insights into verbatim text data, robotic process automation, and sentiment analysis for consumer feedback.
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