We are Europe's leading specialist early stage investors in security and resilience. Our brilliant portfolio Founders leverage our unique network and sector expertise, benefiting from everything we’ve learned about what it takes to achieve escape velocity in this uniquely challenging sector. We focus on supporting our portfolio to reach early customers, meet other investors, and build long-term key strategic relationships. Our team has deep expertise in this sector, combining national security experience with nearly a decade working with the founders of enterprise security startups. We were the first investors in companies like Immersive Labs, Tessian, and some of the most exciting young companies in the UK, US and Israel.

CyLon Ventures

Sarus Select Capital manages investments and provides investment advisory services.

Sarus Select Capital

The UCL Technology Fund is dedicated to investing in intellectual property commercialisation opportunities arising from UCL’s world-class research base, focusing in particular on the physical and life sciences. The Fund supports UCL in achieving the full potential of innovations that have prospects for outstanding societal and market impact, right through the development journey from initial proof of concept to practical commercial application.

UCL Technology Fund

The stated aim of LCIF is not to fund London tech businesses that otherwise would not get funded but rather to enable those who can raise, to raise significantly more so that they have a sufficient money, time and resources to prove their business model. This way London based tech startups will be more able to raise their next round of funding and thereafter become the great tech companies that London so wants and requires. The London Co-Investment Fund was launched by the Deputy Mayor of London on the 4th December at City Hall. LCIF six co-investment partners has been selected based on their excellent track records of investing and supporting early stage tech businesses in London.

London Co-Investment Fund

Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders. Run by an experienced and diverse team of successful entrepreneurs, we have been relentlessly dedicated to finding the UK’s best Seed-stage startups since 2014. Ascension benefits from the active industry connections essential for the sourcing and development of deal-flow and due diligence. The team has co-invested with the UK’s leading angels and VCs, key to securing follow-on funding as the portfolio businesses move to their next stage of growth. We believe in building an inclusive, community driven brand that can benefit the wider UK tech ecosystem and strive to work with conviction, integrity, humour, and humility.

Ascension

Every year they invest £100,000 each in up to 20 early-stage startups using the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning to build great products and businesses that solve real world problems. In exchange for the investment, they look to receive 5-10% equity. We’re able to lead rounds and help startups raise more through introductions to their network of angels and VCs.

AI Seed

M12 - Microsoft’s venture fund, invests in early-stage enterprise software companies with a focus on AI, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, developer tools, vertical SaaS, and Web3/Gaming. Since 2016, M12 has invested in over 100 companies, helping startups accelerate growth with unparalleled access to Microsoft.

M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund

Amadeus Capital is a global technology investor that invests in technology companies at all stages, from seed to venture buyout; they also buy stakes from other investors or founders, to ensure that companies and entrepreneurs have the runway they need to succeed. They invest in a broad variety of sectors including enterprise and infrastructure software, consumer and business services, medical technology and healthcare IT, and cleantech and resource efficiency. It has the imagination to see where new businesses can be created and the technical insight, operational experience and global network to help entrepreneurs make their vision a reality. The Company was founded in 1997 and since has backed more than 130 companies and raised over $1bn for investment.

Amadeus Capital Partners

Notion is an entrepreneur-led venture capital firm that focuses on high potential businesses in the Cloud Computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) markets. It is an early-stage venture fund that focuses mainly on technology and cloud computing markets. The firm helps European tech companies fulfill their potential and achieve a massive scale. Notion invests early when it can build strong relationships and help to shape the future success of its companies. Notion Capital was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in London, England.

Notion Capital

UCLB is the commercialisation company of UCL and its partner NHS Trusts. They bring to market truly world-leading, world-changing technologies, innovations that have a real and positive impact on people’s lives. UCLB the access point to the wealth of innovation and intellectual property emanating from UCL and partner hospitals including University College Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Royal Free Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital. They offer a number of services to assist the technology development process, from consultancy through to collaborative research, IP licensing and the creation of spinout companies and joint ventures to maximise the commercial potential of new discoveries, materials and processes.

UCLB

Nationwide Building Society is a commercial bank that serves as a building society, savings provider, and mortgage lender. The bank provides a diverse range of financial services, including savings, mortgages, current accounts, credit cards, investments, and loans.

Nationwide

AlbionVC supports visionary founders with long-term capital and scale-up expertise. Founded in 1996, today we are partners to UK early-stage B2B software and healthcare companies. AlbionVC manages c. $1 billion of venture funds, currently invested in over 50 companies. AlbionVC is the technology investment arm of Albion Capital Group LLP, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

AlbionVC

Pentland Group has been proudly supporting people to build the businesses of the future since 1932. Pentland Ventures is the Group’s direct investments division. We aim to combine the conviction of a venture capital fund, the financial discipline of a private equity firm, the operational expertise of a strategic investor and the long-term outlook and values of a fourth-generation family business.

Pentland Ventures

Conviction is a syndicate of global investors pursuing early stage, SaaS based disruptive tech opportunities. Conviction invests exclusively in post-revenue businesses that are disrupting their domestic markets and show the potential to grow into global enterprises with $100m revenue lines.   The Conviction partnership is led by founding shareholder Andrew Jenkins, who has invested in disruptive technologies for 10 years, most notably Mimecast, which is now Nasdaq listed at over $2bn.    Andrew is supported by Jeremy Middleton CBE, Managing Director of successful private investment company Middleton Enterprises Limited, and co-founder of home emergencies repairs business HomeServe plc, now a FTSE 250 company valued at over £2.5bn.

Conviction VC

They offer deposits, home mortgage servicing, and debit card services. Wells Fargo is an American multinational banking and financial services holding company with operations worldwide.

Wells Fargo

Intesa Sanpaolo is a banking group that specializes in wealth management, protection, advisory, and digital orientation. Their products and services include accounts, cards, loans, mortgages, insurance, digital payments, retirement planning, investments, and consulting. It was founded by the merger of Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI.

Intesa Sanpaolo

ACT Venture Partners (ACT VP) is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage deep-tech startups. ACT VP invested in 25 startups in total. ACT's investment philosophy is to identify early-stage ventures and back technical founders with visions and abilities to transform a market or an industry. ACT's target entrepreneurs develop breakthrough products and technologies, establish new market footholds or pursue novel business models.

ACT Venture Partners

Sarus Capital Management is a global asset management firm focused on investment opportunities in the public and private markets of Indochina.

Sarus Capital

Logo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, investing in innovative high growth technology startups with a potential to scale globally.  We partner with exceptional teams with bold ideas and aim to build the future through technology together with them. We focus on the CEE, Baltic and Turkey region and support companies as they transform into established players within their industry.

Logo Ventures

Terra VC is investing in deeptech across the globe and specializing in seed, series A.

Terra VC

Neva SGR, part of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group and wholly owned by the Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center, plans and manages investment funds for professional investors interested in seizing diversification and high-yield opportunities offered by Venture Capital investments. Neva SGR can count on Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center’s and Intesa Sanpaolo Group’s strength, financial resources, know-how and network of relationships, a unique source of value on the market.  Neva SGR is the perfect blend of strength, reputation and stability of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group and the best practices of international venture capital firms. Neva SGR aims to boost the Italian economy through new technologies and to be market maker of the VC asset class of venture capital in Italy.

Neva SGR

Evenlode Foundation

Hazy

Gridcog is an energy transition planning, tracking, and optimization software company. The startup's intelligent technology platform facilitates the simulation, optimization, and tracking of multi-market, multi-site, and multi-asset energy projects. They support the development of more energy-efficient, renewable, zero-carbon communities with solar, storage, heat pumps, and EV charging.

Data has never been more valuable. But with growing privacy demands and tightening regulations, most of the world’s data is locked away and unusable. For businesses to make better decisions, develop new technologies and deliver more value for customers, they need data they can actually use. They need to set their data free to do more.  Hazy is pioneering the new data. We’re the world’s leading synthetic data company, re-engineering enterprise data so that it can be:  - Shared without restrictions - data that can move freely, without restriction, to where it’s needed most in businesses and society - Used without limits - data that’s reliable, safe and easy for people and businesses to use to solve problems and create new value. - Trusted without question - data that’s open, transparent and trusted by people, businesses and society.

Hazy leverages advanced AI/ML techniques to generate smart synthetic data that helps to remove privacy and compliance issues from sensitive raw data. The company trains its advanced generative algorithms with differential privacy to understand and extract signals in data and generate synthetic data to safeguard privacy. It allows users to conduct data analysis, monetize data, or share data freely from governance restrictions without compromising user privacy.

New data privacy regulations have opened up space for a new wave of compliance-focused startups.

Digital Privacy Tools

Hazy offers a synthetic data generation platform that uses AI/ML techniques to remove privacy and compliance issues from sensitive raw data. It also uses advanced generative models based on differential privacy to understand and extract signals in data and generate synthetic data to safeguard privacy. It allows users to conduct data analysis, monetize data, or share data freely from governance restrictions without compromising user privacy.

The toolkit to build machine learning applications at scale

Machine Learning Infrastructure

Hazy and Unbanx launch ethical synthetic data cooperative

Gridcog

Quantexa

Virescent Ventures

Hazy leverages advanced AI/ML techniques to generate smart synthetic data that helps to remove privacy and compliance issues from sensitive raw data. The company trains its advanced generative algorithms with differential privacy to understand and extract signals in data and generate synthetic data to safeguard privacy. It allows users to conduct data analysis, monetize data, or share data freely from governance restrictions without compromising user privacy.Hazy’s software comprises three primary components: the synthesiser, hub, and client. The synthesiser trains and evaluates generative models, the hub acts as the web-based management interface, control plane and generator registry, and the client works with generators.&nbsp;Key customers and partners&nbsp;Hazy serves customers across the financial services, technology, automobile, government, and software sectors. Notable customers as of September 2024 included Accenture, BMW Group, and Nationwide.

OneTrust provides compliance solutions that leverage AI tools and automation across all areas of privacy compliance. The company’s AI-powered solution sees widespread use, providing automation in the areas of data discovery, data subject rights management, consent management (with a user-facing preference center for greater control), data protection impact assessments, third-party risk management, incident response reporting, and monitoring.The company also provides regulatory research software that companies can use to train staff and even benchmark their own privacy programs. The company’s Government Records Request Automation solution helps government organizations intake requests, automate data discovery and redaction, and provide a secure two-way communication portal that demonstrates compliance with FOIA, PRR, and the Privacy Act. OneTrust’s products were backed by over 200 patents as of September 2024.OneTrust has strengthened its position in the digital privacy space through several acquisitions in recent years. In March 2021, OneTrust acquired DocuVision, an AI-powered data redaction platform to bolster its data subject rights capabilities through automatic redaction of non-relevant sensitive information. During the same month, OneTrust acquired Convercent to enhance its platform through advanced ethics and compliance capabilities, and helpline and disclosure management. OneTrust acquired the security assurance and certification platform Tugboat Logic in September 2021, to automate its InfoSec assurance and certification processes. Other notable acquisitions include Privacy Core e-learning, DataGuidance, and Integris Software.In March 2023, OneTrust announced the addition of certification automation to the OneTrust GRC and Security Assurance Cloud. This solution which combines automation, pre-built policies and controls spanning 29 industry frameworks, over 100 integrations, compliance content, and expert guidance enables customers to simplify and streamline compliance tasks according to OneTrust.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, OneTrust said it served over 14,000 active customers, including 75 of the Fortune 100. The company claims it serves notable organizations from all industries, with Adobe, Walgreens, Samsung, and Mearsk among its customer base.OneTrust entered a partnership with Dow Jones Risk and Compliance in April 2023, to incorporate risk and compliance data into its third-party due diligence solution.

OneTrust

CENTRL provides automated risk management and privacy management solutions. Through its Privacy360 platform, the company provides solutions to identify compliance gaps, automate data discovery, manage data subject rights requests, consent management (with a user-facing preference center), carry out impact assessments, third-party risk management, monitoring, and reporting.

CENTRL

HighSide provides a secure communications platform for organizations, enterprise archiving solutions, data discovery, and supervision tools in compliance with GDPR, CCPA, etc. In 2019, the company announced the acquisition of Hotshot Technologies, a secure team messaging platform.

HighSide

SecuPI provides a patented platform enabling organizations to achieve compliance with regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. The platform achieves this by providing multiple features to protect data such as pseudonymization, consent controls, audit logs, streamlining breach notifications, etc. SecuPI’s platform is deployed in organizations in the banking, insurance, telecommunications, and health industries.

SecuPi

JoinPrivacy is a B2C solution that allows users to manage their personal data from the websites they use, all from one place.

JoinPrivacy

Solutions to prevent the tracking and collection of the personal data of end-users.

Encrypted communications and data exchanges for internal and external collaboration around sensitive data.

Tools to provide compliance with privacy regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA, and carry out tasks such as data discovery, data governance, consent management, Data Subject Rights (DSR) management, Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) and managing incident response as mandated by these privacy regulations.

Synthetic data generation, data de-identification and anonymization, and other solutions for managing sensitive data.

Storage infrastructure for holding data in compliance with regulations such as GDPR or data residency requirements.

Central management of data access and data privacy and security policies.

Uses AI/ML to automate workflows such as data discovery and data classification

Uses generative AI to provide conversational recommendations to users to remain compliant with privacy regulations

Solutions in this industry hub are offered under a B2B SaaS model

Hazy offers a synthetic data generation platform that uses AI/ML techniques to remove privacy and compliance issues from sensitive raw data. It also uses advanced generative models based on differential privacy to understand and extract signals in data and generate synthetic data to safeguard privacy. It allows users to conduct data analysis, monetize data, or share data freely from governance restrictions without compromising user privacy.In addition, the company also offers a chat-based engine that enables users to generate bespoke multi-table test data from scratch using chat prompts called Whisper. This combines LLM technology and Hazy’s core synthetic data product to generate test data. As of January 2024, Whisper was accessible as a beta version for select customers.The company offers the platform through a subscription model, which includes a free tier with limited features.Key customers and partnershipsHazy serves customers across the financial services, technology, automobile, government, and software sectors. Its notable customers include Accenture, BMW Group, Nationwide, Vodafone, and WellsFargo.The company partnered Logic20/20, a consultancy company, to help the latter’s clients accelerate innovation using synthetic data. It also partnered with Vodafone UK to help its companies and teams generate synthetic data for training and testing ML models.Funding and financialsIn March 2023, the company raised USD 9 million in a Series A funding round led by Conviction VC. It aimed to funnel the fresh funds towards bolstering its market position and exploring the potential of GenAI for privacy-preserving applications

Datagen provides a self-service synthetic data platform that generates visual synthetic data of humans for computer vision applications. The platform allows users to write their own code to generate labeled synthetic data for faces, full body, and humans in motion in the form of images and videos to test and train AI models while retaining complete control over the data. The data covers a range of computer vision tasks including face landmark detection, face and hair segmentation, facial recognition and identification, full body pose estimation, full body segmentation, and behavior detection.Key customers and partnershipsThe company serves three of the top five global technology companies and Fortune 500 companies across the automotive, smart fitness, AR/VR/metaverse, smart office, and home security industries. Its notable customers include Google, Toyota, NVIDIA, IBM, and Intel.Funding and financialsIn March 2022, the company raised USD 50 million in a Series B funding round led by Scale Venture Partners. The funds were utilized to bolster its position in the market.Datagen reported to have recorded 8x growth in revenue in 2022.

Datagen

Weights &amp; Biases offers a platform that allows users to build models with experiment tracking, data set and model versioning, data visualization, hyperparameter optimization, and model management. The platform enables users to automatically retrain and re-evaluate models and centrally manage all model versions through every lifecycle stage—from development to staging to production. It also helps to visualize comparisons between model versions to evaluate performance and identify regressions before model deployment. It also offers toolkits such as <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19172">W&amp;B Weave and W&amp;B Production Monitoring </a>to build and monitor data- and ML-powered applications, respectively, through interactive visualizations.The company also offers a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17880">suite of tools (W&amp;B Prompts) </a>to support large language model operations (LLMOps). W&amp;B Prompts includes tools and features for experiment tracking, debugging, and collaboration, as well as a one-click method to evaluate and score prompts through the OpenAI Eval’s framework.The company provides the platform through a free tier and under a subscription model for up to USD 50 per user per month.Key customers and partnershipsWeights &amp; Biases served more than 700,000 ML practitioners as of August 2023. Its notable include NVIDIA, Toyota, BMW Group, Samsung, Fujifilm, Truebill, and Clear Capital.The company has <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18663">partnered with Lambda </a>, a GPU cloud computing provider, to offer its MLOps platform integrated with the infrastructure services of the latter, catering to enterprises dealing with AI and deep-learning workloads.Funding and financialsIn August 2023, the company raised <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/20874">USD 50 million in a strategic investment </a>round at a valuation of USD 1.25 billion, led by Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman. The round also saw participation from Sapphire Ventures, Coatue, Insight Partners, and other investors. The company aimed to utilize the fresh funds to further develop its ML tools, including the launch of W&amp;B Prompts.

Weights & Biases

BentoML offers an open-source platform called Bento Cloud, for the deployment and scaling of AI applications. It is a fully managed platform that handles the complexities of AI infrastructure, providing serverless autoscaling as required during the development and production stages. The platform helps to ship models to production with advanced deployment options including online and shadow A/B testing, while also providing visibility through model performance monitoring. The platform integrates with an organization’s existing data stack and enables users to continuously deploy and improve models in production. The company offers its platform through a combination of subscription and usage-based model.In addition, BentoML also provides the following open-source platforms: 1) Yatai, for model deployment on Kubernetes and 2) bentoctl, for model deployment on any cloud platform.Key customers and partnershipsAs of January 2024, BentoML reported that over 1,000 organizations, comprising more than 3,000 members, use its platform. Its notable customers include Koo, Open Layer, Line, and Naver.The company entered into a strategic partnership with TomTom, a developer of location technology, to help integrate with various models as well as in LLM deployments.Funding and financialsThe company raised <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19684">USD 9 million in seed funding </a>in June 2023 led by DCM Ventures, with participation from Bow Capital. It aimed to channel the newly acquired funds to enhance its platform and offer developers a range of tools for building, deploying, and scaling AI applications efficiently.

BentoML

Iguazio provides a serverless platform based on its open-source Nuclio framework that helps users to develop, deploy, and manage real-time AI applications without requiring them to manually manage underlying infrastructures such as servers and storage. The platform creates real-time intelligence for applications located at the edge, public cloud, and on-premise data centers and reduces bandwidth constraints by consolidating data into a repository and making it available for applications as required. The platform can ingest and transform data from any source, which is then used to train, evaluate, deploy, and monitor models in production.The company leverages Big Data and ML software such as Apache Spark, TensorFlow, and Kubernetes to manage software containers that enable applications to run across different computing environments.Key customers and partnershipsIguazio serves customers in the financial services, telecommunications, smart mobility, manufacturing, retail, AdTech, gaming, healthcare, energy, and utilities sectors. Notable customers include Samsung, Microsoft, NVIDIA, AWS, Google, and Intel.Funding and financialsIn January 2020, the company raised USD 24 million in a funding round led by INCapital Ventures. The funds were utilized to accelerate its growth, expand its reach into new global markets, grow sales, and facilitate new sales channels that include companies such as Dell Technologies

Iguazio

Cogito Tech provides image and video annotation to generate computer vision training data sets for ML &amp; deep learning (DL). The video annotation solution leverages AI-powered tools to convert video into a sequence of images and generates training data sets for ML-based AI models, including self-driving cars and drones. The AI model understands and derives insights from visual data to detect, identify, classify, and track objects in an image or video. Cogito also provides virtual assistants and chatbots to help users in the process of training ML algorithms. Cogito Tech also provides high-quality, ethically sourced datasets that are compliant and reliable to train ML models.In addition, the company provides services to fine-tune LLMs and GenAI applications through reinforcement learning techniques as well as stress test models through red teaming.Key customers and partnershipsAs of December 2022, the company served more than 150 customers across 25 countries in the retail, medical, automotive, agriculture, robotics, smart cities, security, and manufacturing industries. Notable customers includes Verizon Media, The University of Sydney, National Geographic, Tumblr, and Vimeo.

Cogito Tech

Platforms and frameworks that help developers build and train ML models.

Platforms that deploy and host the trained and tested models in production and integrate them into applications through APIs.

Platforms that generate artificial data that mimics the characteristics of real data, which is then used to train ML models at scale.

Platforms that help monitor and manage ML models in training and deployment to track performance, conduct variance analysis, and optimize performance.

Makers of hardware such as CPUs, GPUs, and other application-specific hardware required to train and run ML workloads.

Integrated solutions that handle the end-to-end processes of developing, training, deploying, and monitoring ML models.

Data exchange providers and platforms that offer data labeling services via manual and/or software methods, which are used as input to train ML models.

Includes companies that provide infrastructure to build AI/ML applications

Provides tools to build, monitor, and deploy GenAI applications

Industry is focused on offering platforms for other businesses to build AI-/ML-powered apps

Hazy

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