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Board Observer
2018
Accurate, Private, and Secure AI-Driven Enterprise Intelligence at Scale
We are the Enterprise GenAI Platform of choice for the heaviest regulated industries.
Our precision-engineered AI empowers organizations to enhance quality, accelerate speed, and reduce costs—safely and at scale.
Recognized by Gartner as a visionary company, Squirro is a leading enterprise-ready generative AI provider specializing in search, insights, and automation. Our mission is to develop and deliver cutting-edge AI products that augment human intelligence, automate processes, and provide actionable insights for enterprises across industries.
With over ten years of experience, Squirro expertly combines AI, machine learning, predictive analytics, generative AI, and symbolic AI, such as knowledge graphs.
Our Differentiators:
-Privacy: Robust access and permission controls to protect your data at every level at scale.
-Security: ISO-certified with flexible deployment options to keep your data secure.
-Accuracy: Knowledge graph integration and advanced algorithms for precise, deterministic insights that you can trust.
-Scalability: Proven performance on over 10 TB of data with 10k+ users.
Our platform scales effortlessly to meet enterprise demands.
Squirro is trusted by central banks and over 30 industry leaders, including the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, Standard Chartered Bank, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Henkel.
🏆 Our Central Banking FinTech RegTech Award Winning Engagement: https://www.centralbanking.com/awards/7958739/artificial-intelligence-initiative-european-central-bank
Board Observer
2015
At SimplyCook we want to bring joy to millions of meal times globally through flavour. Our vision is to help create a world where everyone can regularly experience the joy of cooking meals they can be proud of.
Launched in 2014, we believe that it should be simple to cook high quality, healthy and delicious new meals from scratch. With close to a million recipe kits sold every month, we want to bring happiness and authentic flavours to our customers.
Over the years, our team has grown a lot. Were proud of what were building together and we want to achieve 3 things for our community:
- Flavour. We want your meal times to taste amazing.
- Money saving. Our short shopping lists mean our customers do not have to spend on 20 ingredients to cook a chef designed recipe. Our meals work out between £2 and £6 per person in total.
- Control. Use our kits whenever you want. Recipes take 20 to 30 minutes and the fresh ingredients to add are easily accessible to buy and swappable.
With an excellent rating of 4.5* and over 9,000 reviews on Trustpilot, SimplyCook is also part of the world’s largest food and beverage company, Nestlé. A company who is driven by a simple aim: unlocking the power of food to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come.
Join SimplyCook and cook new meals from scratch anytime. Fabulous flavour pots and 20 to 30 min recipes through your letterbox. Try for £1 P&P today!
Board Observer
2015
AimBrain is a #BIDaaS (Biometric Identity as-a-Service) platform. Connectivity to the platform is via open-source SDKs and an API; businesses and developers can go trial-to-deployment with 1,000 free API calls a month, on our free platform AimBrain On Demand.
Our approach combines 100% proprietary passive (anomaly detection and behavioural) and active (voice, facial and combined face/audio/lip movement) authentication modules to verify the user, not the device. The cloud model lets companies authenticate their users across any channel and any device, to reduce fraud and improve the security experience.
Board Observer
2015
Zipcube is an easy marketplace to locate, book and share great spaces online. Once you find your perfect meeting, office, event or unique space, you can book it and pay directly online.
Whether you need an event space for one day, an office for few days or a meeting room for a few hours, Zipcube connects people to a unique mobile experience, allowing users to find their perfect place to work or organise an event.
Zipcube is the easiest way for companies and venues to monetise their extra space and showcase it to an audience of millions.
Board Observer
2015
Passfort is a Moodys Analytics company and we are on a mission to digitally transform the way compliance professionals work. We are transforming risk and compliance, creating a world where risk is understood so decisions can be made with confidence.
We stop financial crime not good customers.
Born in the cloud, Passfort’s SaaS solutions are designed for the digital economy. They are hardware-free, affordable, flexible to configure and easy to use, with constant feature innovation and a choice of deployment options.
Our low to no-code solution thrives on complexity, such as multiple customer types, multiple product lines and multi-jurisdictions, solving challenges at scale without being costly to implement and evolve.
We enable regulated financial services companies to rapidly onboard customers then manage risk and compliance standards throughout the customer lifecycle. Our integration model enables us to ingest datasets from any provider and interoperate with any system. We help you build a data ecosystem, with pre-built connectors to more than 25 data providers and growing.
Passfort’s dynamic orchestration of customer due diligence (CDD), enhanced due diligence (EDD), Know Your Customer (KYC), Know Your Business (KYB) and anti-money laundering (AML) workflows puts the weight of compliance activity on automation and our risk engine, not your customers.
We layer automation to speed up manual processes and remedial tasks that can’t be automated, bringing your compliance team in where they add most value for analysis, judgement and decision-making.
Compliance efficiency and greater customer experiences. No compromise.
Board Observer
2015
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Attest is the consumer research platform that puts trustworthy insights in more peoples hands. By combining the best bits of research technology and human expertise, we make it simple and fast for anyone to uncover opportunity with consumer data. Brands like Unilever, Santander, Walgreens/Boots, Sainsburys, Trustpilot, JCDecaux and more rely on us to cut through the noise and deliver facts.
On our self-serve platform, you can survey 125 million consumers in 58 countries in minutes; they answer your burning questions in 48 hours on average. So you can back every decision, from big picture to every day, with real-world evidence.
Because when you know how your target consumers are changing, acting, feeling and buying, you always know your next move is the right one.
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2018
Board Observer
2018
Accurate, Private, and Secure AI-Driven Enterprise Intelligence at Scale
We are the Enterprise GenAI Platform of choice for the heaviest regulated industries.
Our precision-engineered AI empowers organizations to enhance quality, accelerate speed, and reduce costs—safely and at scale.
Recognized by Gartner as a visionary company, Squirro is a leading enterprise-ready generative AI provider specializing in search, insights, and automation. Our mission is to develop and deliver cutting-edge AI products that augment human intelligence, automate processes, and provide actionable insights for enterprises across industries.
With over ten years of experience, Squirro expertly combines AI, machine learning, predictive analytics, generative AI, and symbolic AI, such as knowledge graphs.
Our Differentiators:
-Privacy: Robust access and permission controls to protect your data at every level at scale.
-Security: ISO-certified with flexible deployment options to keep your data secure.
-Accuracy: Knowledge graph integration and advanced algorithms for precise, deterministic insights that you can trust.
-Scalability: Proven performance on over 10 TB of data with 10k+ users.
Our platform scales effortlessly to meet enterprise demands.
Squirro is trusted by central banks and over 30 industry leaders, including the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, Standard Chartered Bank, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Henkel.
🏆 Our Central Banking FinTech RegTech Award Winning Engagement: https://www.centralbanking.com/awards/7958739/artificial-intelligence-initiative-european-central-bank
Board Observer
2018
Effective March 2021, the 4C brand/LinkedIn profile is no longer an active Wipro account. Please follow Wipro Limited for a bold tomorrow fueled by innovation and digital transformation. #OneWipro
2017
Director, Salesforce Ventures & Corporate Development
Dec 2017
Were the #1 AI CRM—where humans with agents drive customer success together with AI, data, and Customer 360 apps on one platform.
Privacy Statement: http://www.salesforce.com/company/privacy/
2015
Partner
Feb 2015
Episode 1, the backer of successful companies like Carwow, CloudNC, Raft, Robin AI, TouchSurgery, Zoopla, Omnipresent and Attest, is a VC firm investing in B2B software startups at Pre-Seed and Seed.
Episode 1 invests £500k to £3m into extraordinary teams with real insight into markets that are emerging or evolving. As an early stage fund, we invest in the best opportunities, but are particularly interested in how emerging “deep tech” technologies are disrupting industry, and how technology is reinventing markets.
We are the company builders focussed on helping you raise a successful Series A.
Board Observer
2015
At SimplyCook we want to bring joy to millions of meal times globally through flavour. Our vision is to help create a world where everyone can regularly experience the joy of cooking meals they can be proud of.
Launched in 2014, we believe that it should be simple to cook high quality, healthy and delicious new meals from scratch. With close to a million recipe kits sold every month, we want to bring happiness and authentic flavours to our customers.
Over the years, our team has grown a lot. Were proud of what were building together and we want to achieve 3 things for our community:
- Flavour. We want your meal times to taste amazing.
- Money saving. Our short shopping lists mean our customers do not have to spend on 20 ingredients to cook a chef designed recipe. Our meals work out between £2 and £6 per person in total.
- Control. Use our kits whenever you want. Recipes take 20 to 30 minutes and the fresh ingredients to add are easily accessible to buy and swappable.
With an excellent rating of 4.5* and over 9,000 reviews on Trustpilot, SimplyCook is also part of the world’s largest food and beverage company, Nestlé. A company who is driven by a simple aim: unlocking the power of food to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come.
Join SimplyCook and cook new meals from scratch anytime. Fabulous flavour pots and 20 to 30 min recipes through your letterbox. Try for £1 P&P today!
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