Mel Morris

CEO @ Corpora.ai - We deliver frontier research with applications that surface uniquely relevant knowledge in milliseconds, helping institutions discover earlier, decide faster, and lead sooner.

📍 Greater Derby Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 41 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2025
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Dec 2025
Universal Collaboration Research, UCR is a UK based award winning developer of breakthrough energy technologies and advanced materials. UCR’s transformative Inductive Capacitor Device (ICD), reduces energy consumption by over 60% in electrolytic processes, including metals refining and hydrogen production. UCR’s sustainable technology also enables the generation of ceramic alloy composite materials with ultra-resilience to degradation. Fused to components to extend operational life and increase efficiency by 20% or more, reducing the carbon impact of entire supply chains. UCR’s Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (PEO) ceramics offer significant market potential across energy, aerospace, automotive, hydrogen production, and industrial sectors due to their durability, heat resistance, and efficiency-enhancing properties. With growing demand for renewable energy, electric vehicles, and hydrogen infrastructure, UCR’s ceramics are positioned to capture a share of these multi-billion-dollar markets by improving performance and reducing costs. UCR is collaborating with the Henry Royce Institute on material resilience, following their publication, “Degradation in structural materials for net zero. A landscaping exercise”. UCR’s technology enables decarbonisation across industries with minimal impact while improving profitability.
Angel Investor and CEO
Sep 2024
Corpora.ai: Accelerating Knowledge, Revolutionizing Research. Corpora.ai is the first AI-driven research engine platform dedicated to providing researchers with a powerful tool that combines the vastness of a library with the speed and accuracy of AI. By mining millions of documents per second and offering fully verifiable insights, Corpora.ai is set to transform how both professionals and scholars explore, understand, and utilize information. The Research Engine revolutionizes knowledge discovery by condensing vast amounts of information into concise, AI-ordered summaries, highlighting only the unique insights from thousands of sources. Unlike traditional search engines and AI-Search, corpora.ai offers a focused, in-depth view with fully attributed sources, making it a vital productivity tool in the blurry world of AI-generated content. This transformative technology explores complex topics deeply and understands them quickly. By finding relevant documents, normalizing their content, and identifying only the net unique knowledge, the Research Engine condenses vast information into a powerful, AI-ordered, and summarized resource - like no other. The corpora.ai Research Engine gives users a focused, in-depth view backed by fully attributed sources, integrating content from fresh and vast data pools at near-zero latency. As AI-generated content floods the internet, the ratio of unique new information will shrink, making the corpora.ai Research Engine critical for identifying truly distinct insights. By ensuring content is verifiable and comprehensive, we can address key gaps and challenges in GenAI research. This doesn’t just gather knowledge - it accelerates knowledge discovery, amplifying understanding, and enabling researchers, professionals, and innovators to achieve breakthroughs faster and more reliably than ever before. Uncover the knowledge you need, but never had the time to find.
Seed Investor
Aug 2016
Adthena is the market-leading, AI-driven search intelligence platform that helps enterprise brands and agencies lower paid search costs, protect brand equity and stay ahead of competitor movements. Built by data scientists for search specialists struggling to gain transparency and wasting budget in a largely blind auction in Google Ads, Adthena provides paid search intelligence to uncover the blindspots. For 12+ years, our unique AI learning models have helped more than 300 customers across the globe see beyond Google, so they can proactively adapt paid search strategies with actionable insights.
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May 2015
BriefYourMarket is an all-in-one marketing platform, designed to help estate agents see high-quality leads returned from their email marketing. Our goal is to gain agents like you new, quality leads and nurture your existing contacts to the point of business, as well as help to represent your brand. With your existing database acting as a gold mine, we help you maximise your data through a range of online and offline tools to help increase your revenue. As well as providing you with the means to send effective communications, we can also create content on your behalf, taking the stress of marketing out of your hands and over to our in-house experts. If you are looking to grow your market share and let the industry experts handle your marketing, book a demonstration of our platform today.
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2025
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Dec 2025
Universal Collaboration Research, UCR is a UK based award winning developer of breakthrough energy technologies and advanced materials. UCR’s transformative Inductive Capacitor Device (ICD), reduces energy consumption by over 60% in electrolytic processes, including metals refining and hydrogen production. UCR’s sustainable technology also enables the generation of ceramic alloy composite materials with ultra-resilience to degradation. Fused to components to extend operational life and increase efficiency by 20% or more, reducing the carbon impact of entire supply chains. UCR’s Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (PEO) ceramics offer significant market potential across energy, aerospace, automotive, hydrogen production, and industrial sectors due to their durability, heat resistance, and efficiency-enhancing properties. With growing demand for renewable energy, electric vehicles, and hydrogen infrastructure, UCR’s ceramics are positioned to capture a share of these multi-billion-dollar markets by improving performance and reducing costs. UCR is collaborating with the Henry Royce Institute on material resilience, following their publication, “Degradation in structural materials for net zero. A landscaping exercise”. UCR’s technology enables decarbonisation across industries with minimal impact while improving profitability.
2024
Angel Investor and CEO
Sep 2024
Corpora.ai: Accelerating Knowledge, Revolutionizing Research. Corpora.ai is the first AI-driven research engine platform dedicated to providing researchers with a powerful tool that combines the vastness of a library with the speed and accuracy of AI. By mining millions of documents per second and offering fully verifiable insights, Corpora.ai is set to transform how both professionals and scholars explore, understand, and utilize information. The Research Engine revolutionizes knowledge discovery by condensing vast amounts of information into concise, AI-ordered summaries, highlighting only the unique insights from thousands of sources. Unlike traditional search engines and AI-Search, corpora.ai offers a focused, in-depth view with fully attributed sources, making it a vital productivity tool in the blurry world of AI-generated content. This transformative technology explores complex topics deeply and understands them quickly. By finding relevant documents, normalizing their content, and identifying only the net unique knowledge, the Research Engine condenses vast information into a powerful, AI-ordered, and summarized resource - like no other. The corpora.ai Research Engine gives users a focused, in-depth view backed by fully attributed sources, integrating content from fresh and vast data pools at near-zero latency. As AI-generated content floods the internet, the ratio of unique new information will shrink, making the corpora.ai Research Engine critical for identifying truly distinct insights. By ensuring content is verifiable and comprehensive, we can address key gaps and challenges in GenAI research. This doesn’t just gather knowledge - it accelerates knowledge discovery, amplifying understanding, and enabling researchers, professionals, and innovators to achieve breakthroughs faster and more reliably than ever before. Uncover the knowledge you need, but never had the time to find.
2016
Seed Investor
Aug 2016
Adthena is the market-leading, AI-driven search intelligence platform that helps enterprise brands and agencies lower paid search costs, protect brand equity and stay ahead of competitor movements. Built by data scientists for search specialists struggling to gain transparency and wasting budget in a largely blind auction in Google Ads, Adthena provides paid search intelligence to uncover the blindspots. For 12+ years, our unique AI learning models have helped more than 300 customers across the globe see beyond Google, so they can proactively adapt paid search strategies with actionable insights.
CONVERT TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
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Apr 2016
Entotem
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Apr 2016
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