Top 100 AI startups in UK

Updated: April 17, 2024

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Funding: $2.9B
Octopus Energy develops cloud-based smart grid platform and provides fair prices forever and greener energy from the UK's largest investor in solar generation. It uses an innovative AI and data-based platform to balance loads around the grid.
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Funding: $1.2B
Babylon is a subscription health service provider that enables users to have virtual consultations with doctors and health care professionals via text and video messaging through its mobile application. Babylon app also uses AI to answer questions you normally ask your family doctor.
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Google's DeepMind is the world leader in artificial intelligence research and its application in different fields, like games, medicine, energy efficiency.
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Funding: $692M
Graphcore is a semiconductor company that develops accelerators for AI and machine learning. It aims to make a massively parallel Intelligent Processing Unit that holds the complete machine learning model inside the processor.
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Funding: $474.4M
Exscientia is applying AI and big data processing to accelerate drug discovery and development.
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Funding: $456.6M
Wayve uses end-to-end deep learning to develop artificial intelligence capable of complex driving.
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Funding: $445M
Builder.ai offers a no-code AI-powered app development platform designed to build and operate software projects.
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Funding: $370M
Quantexa has built a machine learning platform branded “Contextual Decision Intelligence” (CDI) that analyses disparate data points to get better insight into nefarious activity
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Funding: $292M
BenevolentAI is applying artificial intelligence to develop new medicines for hard to treat diseases. It is the first fully integrated AI company with pharmaceutical discovery and clinical development capabilities. BenevolentAI’s advanced technology is disrupting the pharmaceutical industry by lowering costs, decreasing failure rates and increasing the speed at which medicines are delivered to patients.
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Funding: $230.5M
Darktrace is the world’s leading machine learning company for cyber security.
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Funding: $229.5M
Oxbotica is developing the next generation of autonomous vehicles, creating the software that makes them go.
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Funding: $192.7M
Zappi is an AI-based market research platform that helps global brands make faster and better decisions to drive business growth.
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Funding: $188.8M
Onfido builds trust in an online world by helping businesses digitally verify people's identities. Our Identity Record Check cross-references your users’ details against a range of verified global databases and credit reference agencies.
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Funding: $184.9M
Tractable builds deep learning tools for visual inspection that can perform faster, cheaper and more accurately than humans. Their technology automates an expert’s task at near zero marginal cost. Their focus is on computer vision and insurance claims.
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Funding: $173.8M
stability.ai is designing and implementing solutions using collective intelligence and augmented technology and is known for its popular image generation tool Stable Diffusion
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Funding: $156.6M
Synthesia allows to generate professional-looking AI videos from text in minutes.
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Funding: $138.8M
Cleo is a developer of an app and chatbot designed as a financial assistant.
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Funding: $135.5M
Infogrid is changing the world through building intelligence. Our AI-powered platform gathers and analyses data from the smartest IoT technology to drive our mission of making every building healthy, efficient and sustainable.
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Funding: $132.6M
Creators of Human Layer Security, Tessian empowers people to do their best work, without security getting in the way.
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Funding: $109.5M
Rossum's artificial intelligence understands complex structured documents, enabling companies to capture data from financial documents efficiently and with human-level accuracy. Unlike existing text mining solutions, Rossum's unique deep neural networks reflect the way humans read documents. This eliminates the need for costly manual implementation, a game changer in the data capture business.
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Funding: $107M
InstaDeep delivers AI-powered decision-making systems for the Enterprise, to solve some of the world’s most complex industrial problems.
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Funding: $101.6M
Signal AI is an artificial intelligence company that transforms the world’s information into accessible, actionable business knowledge.
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Funding: $102M
Bud develops an open banking platform that enables users to access data from any financial product.
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Hawk-Eye is a British company that develops vision-processing, video replay, and creative graphical technologies for sports.
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Funding: $93M
Causaly develops a biomedical research discovery tool designed to find and unlock key hidden evidence in biomedicine.
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Funding: $89.6M
Plum Fintech develops personal savings assistant solutions for customers in the United Kingdom.
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Funding: $82.7M
CHARM Therapeutics uses deep learning on 3D molecular configurations to develop molecule therapeutics to target pathogenic proteins.
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Funding: $78.7M
FiveAI provides software for safe and cost effective urban mobility in public transport and solution to complex urban environments.
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Funding: $75.9M
Fetch.AI develops a decentralized network for digital representatives to find, communicate, and trade with each other.
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Funding: $70.6M
Lifebit is building the world’s first intelligent genomics platform that understands DNA data and generates meaningful insights like humans do.
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Funding: $70.2M
Speechmatics provides automatic speech recognition technologies that can be used anywhere, by anyone, in any language.
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Funding: $70M
Poly AI develops a machine learning platform for conversational artificial intelligence.
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Funding: $70M
iProov develops face authentication technology for online identity verification by global banks and governments.
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Funding: $67.9M
Biotechnology company integrating artificial intelligence with expert pharmacology to discover treatments for rare diseases
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Funding: $67.3M
Your.MD is the world’s smartest AI health information service, offering everyone free access to the health information they need. Your.MD empowers people to discover what’s wrong with them thanks to the world’s first AI system designed to understand individual situations and personal factors, receive medically certified guidance (in partnership with the UK’s NHS)
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Funding: $64.6M
DRONAMICS develops unmanned aerial systems for shipping commercial and special cargo applications.
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Funding: $61.7M
AutogenAI provides cutting edge natural language processing solutions to enable companies to write compelling content for bids.
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Funding: $59.4M
Eigen is a research-driven AI company specialising in NLP for businesses in finance, law and professional services. Eigen automates the extraction and classification of information from documents. Their simple, flexible Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology accurately extracts information from diverse types of documents at scale and can be integrated into our clients’ workflows.
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Funding: $58.9M
Ultromics clinicians and engineers working together to set new standards for world-class cardiovascular diagnostic tools.
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Funding: $52.8M
Faculty is an applied AI company that helps companies who have the scale, data and foresight to adopt AI into their organisations.
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Funding: $51M
causaLens develops human-centered decision-making AI that organizations can trust.
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Funding: £32.7M
Cervest is building an AI-first platform to help businesses, governments and growers adapt to climate volatility, and protect our planet.
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Funding: $41.5M
Ripjar is a data intelligence company that transforms global institutions ability to manage strategic risks. It uses AI that detects financial crime
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Funding: $38M
Dexory captures real-time insights of warehouse operations using fully autonomous robots and Artificial Intelligence.
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Funding: $36.7M
Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud.
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Funding: $35.5M
Using Artificial Intelligence (AI), deep learning algorithms Brainomix team is bringing complete stroke imaging decision support solution to hospitals worldwide.
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Funding: $33.8M
SenSat turns complex visual and spatial data into a real time simulated reality that helps computers solve real world problems. The cloud-based technology allows companies operating in physical domains, such as infrastructure construction, to make more informed decisions based on multiple variables at large scale and complexity. SenSat call this ‘Visual Intelligence’, a subset of Artificial Intelligence focussed on teaching computers how to understand and interact with the real world.
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Funding: $33.7M
Seldon enables ML engineering teams to accelerate from R&D to production with proven 84% efficiency gains. Their open-source projects are considered best-of-breed in model serving, explanations and monitoring
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Funding: $33.7M
Prolific has built a network of 120,000 human participants to inform and stress test AI models.
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Funding: $33.2M
Papercup translates videos using AI by generating voices that sound like the original speaker