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Mar 2021
Keeping Windows computers in a desired state that ensures productivity and good cyber hygiene is a huge challenge. The complexity of modern enterprise environments under siege from hackers drives a continuous need to deploy security updates as threats are discovered and vulnerabilities exposed. Aiden exists to keep endpoints up to date with the speed and accuracy needed to meet this challenge.
We improve end-user experience by ensuring all computers have exactly the software they’re supposed to have and nothing else.
- We simplify your IT processes: With Aiden’s trusted solution, you can ditch the hassles of maintaining computer images, manually deploying software updates, and rolling out new machines by hyperautomating these time-consuming tasks.
- We save you time (and headaches): Whether responding to help desk tickets or pushing out software updates, IT is like playing a constant game of whack-a-mole. With Aiden, you and your team can spend less time building machines, troubleshooting, deploying, patching, and stressing. Aiden frees you to focus on high-impact, more rewarding projects.
- We support your compliance efforts: Keeping up with compliance frameworks (HIPAA, NIST, CIS, etc.) and performing constant security reviews associated with them is no small feat. AidenBot combined with a plain-English policy document enables your environment to comply with standards and audits.
Investor
Jun 2018
The Music Fund takes a revolutionary approach to funding artists. Advances in technology and data science are finally helping the long-tail of up-and-coming musicians to pursue their ambitions. Using methods honed in finance, The Music Fund applies machine learning and statistical techniques to develop a broader and fairer market for music royalties.
Through the Music Fund, independent artists can swap unpredictable royalties for a lump sum or finance the next record, tour or publicity campaign, all without giving up any artistic control or ownership of future works. The Music Fund’s smart algorithms value an artist’s catalog by analyzing data to make fair offers for part of their future royalties.
Investor
Apr 2018
Welcome to AI as a Service.
Pivigo helps you to use AI within your business, from insights to drive better decision making, enabling growth, and driving efficiency/cost reduction.
- Pivigo build and customise the AI Services for you and integrate with your technology / platform stack as needed
- We host your AI Service in our dedicated, secure environment
- We look after all aspects of the service from performance, reliability and accuracy over time
This way you can concentrate on what you do best, running your business successfully.
So far, we have completed over 350+ AI and data science projects for partners such as KPMG, Royal Mail, Barclays, British Gas, M&S and many more.
Investor
Mar 2018
Populus is a platform for cities to manage and price commercial fleets to deliver safer and more sustainable streets. Over 100 cities around the world rely on Populus to receive GPS data from commercial vehicles, and are now leveraging our platform to create, manage, and enforce payment for access to curbs to prioritize transitions to lower carbon transportation.
We are hiring! Visit our website for more information and to apply:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/populus
Investor
Mar 2018
Honeycomb is the observability platform that enables engineering teams to find and solve problems they couldnt before. Honeycomb’s approach is fundamentally different from other tools that claim observability, and is built to help teams answer novel questions about their ever-evolving cloud applications.
Other tools silo your data across disjointed pillars (logs, metrics, and traces), are too slow, and constrain teams to only answer predetermined questions. Honeycomb unifies all data sources in a single type, returning queries in seconds – not minutes – and revealing critical issues that logs and metrics alone can’t see. Using the power of distributed tracing and a query engine designed for highly-contextual telemetry data, Honeycomb reveals both why a problem is happening and who specifically is impacted.
Every interface is interactive, enabling any engineer – no matter how tenured – to ask questions on the fly, drill down by any dimension and solve issues before customers notice. Powered by machine learning, BubbleUp enables you to quickly spot outliers that reveal the cause of hidden issues. Engineering teams can deploy confidently, resolve incidents faster and focus on high-value work that drives innovation.
Investor
Mar 2018
Aiwyn delivers the first complete platform built specifically for modern accounting firms.
We make it easy for firms to consolidate systems and automate manual work across payments, practice management, client experience, and tax. With Aiwyn, firms can streamline operations, reduce complexity, and deliver faster, more consistent, and more personalized service to every client.
Trusted by 175+ of the profession’s top firms, Aiwyn is how accounting leaders are building smarter, more scalable practices, without adding more tools or more overhead.
Board Member
Dec 2017
The Oxford Foundry, University of Oxford, is an entrepreneurship centre opened by Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, in 2017. We support all 24,000 students at the University of Oxford, from undergraduates and postgraduates to DPhils and all alumni, to better society through entrepreneurship.
The Foundry is building a new generation of ventures and leaders that, whilst commercial, are focused on people and the planet first. To date, the 32 ventures on cohorts 1-3 of the OXFO Elevate Accelerator (https://www.oxfordfoundry.ox.ac.uk/about-oxfo-elevate) have raised £53m+, are valued at over £157m, have created 250+ jobs globally, and are having a positive impact around the world across all sectors and industries.
The Foundry has 3,400+ members from all four divisions and 38 colleges of the University, representing 103 nationalities. OXFO programmes include skills and training workshops on idea exploration and design thinking, creativity, and tech skills, the All-Innovate university-wide idea generation competition, inspirational speaker series and masterclasses, the OXFO Entrepreneurial Fellowship Initiative, Student Advisory Board and OXFO Booster grants, and many others.
Sign up to the OXFO newsletter for more information: https://oxfordfoundry.tfaforms.net/f/oxford_foundry_newsletter
Investor
Sep 2017
ImpactVision is a machine learning company, applying hyperspectral imaging technology to food supply chains to deliver consistent food quality, generate premium products and reduce supply chain waste. Our software provides insights about the quality foods, such as the freshness of fish, the ripeness of avocados or the presence of foreign objects non-invasively and rapidly at production grade speeds.
Investor
Sep 2017
Apeels evolving technology stack is built on an unprecedented understanding of produce quality and shelf life. This has only deepened as the use of data and technology have given partners a powerful way to accurately and efficiently evaluate produce for ripeness, freshness, and other attributes. Apeel is developing science-backed, technology-supported solutions that help improve the produce experience on shelf.
Investor
Mar 2017
Compass Technology Group is an IT recruiting and staffing firm based in Dallas / Fort Worth. Our firm was founded by seasoned industry professionals and has continued to enjoy substantial growth since our founding in 2008. We embrace an unrelenting commitment to quality service while retaining the passion, flexibility, and innovation of a boutique firm.
We support contract, contract-to-hire and direct hire opportunities in Information Technology with a primary focus on the following disciplines:
• SW Architecture & Development (.Net and Java)
• Program and Project Management
• Business Analysis
• QA Testing (Manual and Automated)
• DevOps, Configuration and Release Management
• Systems Administration and Engineering
• IT Security and GRC
Investor
Jan 2017
Provenance provides supply chain management, marketing, research and consultancy services to food businesses across the supply chain, with an emphasis on supporting, promoting and developing more sustainable and local supply chains:
* Supply chain management
We bring professional standards and systems to independent food supply chains of every scale
* Sustainability audits
We audit supply chains, develop sustainability improvement plans and oversee their implementation
* Public sector supply support
We support businesses in meeting tendering requirements and submitting tenders for public sector contracts.
* Marketing and communications support
We provide affordable but effective consultancy to food businesses on marketing and communication.
* Foraged foods
We can assess the potential of farmed and other land for foraged produce.
* Research and consultancy
We offer a wide range of consultancy and research services on food supply chains and sustainability issues.
We can help find sources of local, UK and fairly imported produce, and work with farmers and food businesses to raise standards along the supply chain. Provenance has experience of commercial production, wholesale, food service and retail, and of funded support and development organisations.
Provenance has extensive contacts with UK and European producers and producer groups, markets and food and farming organisations. We offer advice and support that meets the practical requirements of private, public and third sector food businesses and organisations.
Working with individual client businesses, we can assess the entire supply chain to identify and implement the necessary standards and practices for assured quality, increased sustainability and stronger trading relationships.
Investor
Jan 2017
Provenance is the global platform for validating green claims, enabling brands and retailers to share them with confidence through the customer journey. This empowers customers to cut through the greenwash and make informed choices at checkout, to accelerate the sustainability transition.
Provenance’s data infrastructure and framework enable multi-brand retailers and their brand partners to comply with regulations, capture the green growth opportunity and future-proof their market share.
Today, more than 350 leading retailers and brands are using Provenance to communicate their sustainability credentials, including Holland & Barrett, Unilever, Estee Lauder, Princes, Arla, THG, Amika, BELU, L’Occitane, Dermalogica, Caudalie, The NueCo, Weleda and more. www.provenance.org
Investor
2017
Universities, global research organizations, and big corporations have people outside their core group of enterprise users that need access to online services.
Managing these external user accounts is costly to the enterprise and frustrating for the end user. That is where Cirrus Identity comes in. We make secure, easy to integrate, cloud-hosted identity products to give those users easy access to internal enterprise services.
The Cirrus Gateway is our most popular tool, and enables easy integration of social identities, like Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook with enterprise Single Sign-On solutions. Our gateway is used by many universities and global research companies to allow parents, external research collaborators, prospective students, alumni, and others to access campus services and research projects using their existing social identities.
The Gateway eliminates the need for these external users to create new usernames and passwords, removing user frustration and common support tickets for forgotten usernames and passwords.
The Cirrus Account link service is all about making the connection between one user and multiple digital identities. If you provide an option to login with multiple social identities, people may forget WHICH social identity they have previously chosen. Our Account Link service helps make it easy to tag each social identity with a specific user so they can forget every time and never experience a challenging login process.
We have several more services to make access ridiculously easy for you external users.
Common Use Cases:
Universities: Alumni engagement, parent access to pay tuition, student applicants, continuing education students.
Global Research Collaboration: Research projects that involve scientists and researchers around the globe
Enterprise companies: External auditors and consultants that need access to company systems and information
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Nov 2025
RUGIO is grant intelligence for the underfunded. We surface aligned funders, spot pre-RFP signals before theyre announced, map co-funding coalitions, and trace your warm paths in — every prospect verified against the funders own eligibility. From network-dependent guessing to evidence-based action. A Merian Ventures company.
2023
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Investor
Mar 2021
Keeping Windows computers in a desired state that ensures productivity and good cyber hygiene is a huge challenge. The complexity of modern enterprise environments under siege from hackers drives a continuous need to deploy security updates as threats are discovered and vulnerabilities exposed. Aiden exists to keep endpoints up to date with the speed and accuracy needed to meet this challenge.
We improve end-user experience by ensuring all computers have exactly the software they’re supposed to have and nothing else.
- We simplify your IT processes: With Aiden’s trusted solution, you can ditch the hassles of maintaining computer images, manually deploying software updates, and rolling out new machines by hyperautomating these time-consuming tasks.
- We save you time (and headaches): Whether responding to help desk tickets or pushing out software updates, IT is like playing a constant game of whack-a-mole. With Aiden, you and your team can spend less time building machines, troubleshooting, deploying, patching, and stressing. Aiden frees you to focus on high-impact, more rewarding projects.
- We support your compliance efforts: Keeping up with compliance frameworks (HIPAA, NIST, CIS, etc.) and performing constant security reviews associated with them is no small feat. AidenBot combined with a plain-English policy document enables your environment to comply with standards and audits.
2018
Investor
Jun 2018
The Music Fund takes a revolutionary approach to funding artists. Advances in technology and data science are finally helping the long-tail of up-and-coming musicians to pursue their ambitions. Using methods honed in finance, The Music Fund applies machine learning and statistical techniques to develop a broader and fairer market for music royalties.
Through the Music Fund, independent artists can swap unpredictable royalties for a lump sum or finance the next record, tour or publicity campaign, all without giving up any artistic control or ownership of future works. The Music Fund’s smart algorithms value an artist’s catalog by analyzing data to make fair offers for part of their future royalties.
Investor
Apr 2018
Welcome to AI as a Service.
Pivigo helps you to use AI within your business, from insights to drive better decision making, enabling growth, and driving efficiency/cost reduction.
- Pivigo build and customise the AI Services for you and integrate with your technology / platform stack as needed
- We host your AI Service in our dedicated, secure environment
- We look after all aspects of the service from performance, reliability and accuracy over time
This way you can concentrate on what you do best, running your business successfully.
So far, we have completed over 350+ AI and data science projects for partners such as KPMG, Royal Mail, Barclays, British Gas, M&S and many more.
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