Richard Crosfield

Investment Director at Presidio Ventures

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2026
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Mar 2026
In a world of immense uncertainty, digiLab is a pioneering AI company that empowers governments and organisations in safety-critical or highly regulated industries to solve critical, complex, and high-stakes challenges using machine learning and uncertainty quantification. From forging a path to clean energy to life-saving medical diagnostics and beyond, making critical decisions with unwavering confidence is difficult, especially when data is complex, sparse, or incomplete. This is where digiLab’s expertise shines through. Our trustworthy and explainable AI platform, The Uncertainty Engine, supported by our team of machine learning specialists and data scientists, enables decision-makers to accelerate innovation, reduce the risk of failure, turn insight into action, and deliver greater value through more informed and confident decisions.
Board Observer
Apr 2025
Slamcore is an embedded software company that provides real-time location, mapping and perception solutions using vision-based SLAM (simultaneous localization & mapping). Combining state-of-the-art visual-SLAM technology, sensor fusion and advanced AI, Slamcore’s SDK provides a Spatial Intelligence foundation on which to build, enhance and enable products for a wide range of applications and industries, from consumer-grade robots, drones and devices to industrial-grade machinery and vehicles. Slamcore launched its first dedicated product for the Industrial Automation and Material Handling industry in 2024. Slamcore Aware seamlessly integrates into new and existing customer products, enabling redundancy, and increasing robustness and precision, by providing real-time positioning for manual and autonomous vehicles (e.g. forklifts). Slamcore’s advanced AI enables customers to improve operational safety and efficiency by detecting and tracking people, other vehicles and assets in the surroundings. At Slamcore we are continuously improving our technology and products - Get in touch with us to find out more.
Investor
Feb 2025
We are building a fair ecosystem for AI data, helping AI companies responsibly acquire high quality data sets and enabling data owners to be compensated for their work.
Board Member
Aug 2024
Luffy AI has developed ultra-efficient, adaptive neural networks that enable true learning and adaption at the edge. At over 800 times more computationally efficient, we can target applications completely inaccessible to current AI approaches. Luffy is leveraging this advantage to build AI control systems that learn the nuances of the equipment and adapt to changes over time to obtain maximum performance and robustness. Building on a platform technology, we are now targeting early adopters in industrial manufacturing and robotics. We have just deployed one of our adaptive AI controllers into a composites process with a UK Industry4.0 manufacturer. The AI allows better control of the temperature profile, reducing the calibration time of the process and increasing overall throughput and energy efficiency. Our products service major companies in the metals, chemicals, specialty materials and drone sectors.
Board Member
Apr 2024
enspired is Europes leading optimizer of battery energy storage systems (BESS), with over 1 GW under management. We maximize the revenues, efficiency, and lifespan of grid-scale batteries. With our data-based optimization in the power markets, your asset achieves peak profitability with minimum degradation while supporting the grid and the integration of more renewables. Our in-house trading and optimization platform integrates billions of data points, AI, machine learning, and reinforcement learning to stay ahead of market developments. And with our commitment to revenue transparency, we publish verifiable commercial results to establish a new, reliable benchmarking standard that helps you get a true understanding of what your asset is worth. Make a data-driven decision for your business case with our full-range BESS optimization service. Lets talk about your project! Book a meeting 👉 https://hubs.la/Q03NK7v50 See enspireds portfolio performance 👉 https://hubs.ly/Q03T_TnD0 Grow your energy knowledge 👉 https://hubs.la/Q03NK7FM0
Board Member
Aug 2023
Building the quantum networking technology to scale quantum computers. Stay Entangled!
Board Member
Jul 2022
TOffeeAM is a company developing state-of-the-art generative design software for engineering. The companys mission is to make engineers go further and faster by offering a unique software solution for designing and optimizing engineering components and systems. Its cloud-based, multi-physics, simulation-driven software automates the design process by employing advanced algorithms and optimization techniques, generating designs that maximize performance while meeting all of your design and manufacturing constraints, in minutes and hours rather than weeks and months. With TOffeeAM, engineers can streamline the design process, achieve superior results, and push the boundaries of whats possible in engineering innovation. Forget everything you know about design. And think again.
Board Observer
Aug 2021
Connected Energy is a world leader in battery energy storage. Our business combines low-carbon mobility, energy transition, and the circular economy. Our energy storage technology is being used by businesses across Europe to store electricity – either from renewable generation such as PV and wind or from the grid – to use it when they need it most. Were one of only a few companies worldwide with the proven technology to reuse end-of-life electric vehicle batteries and bring them back to life as energy storage. In doing so, we have created a solution that solves many of the power challenges businesses face. Our product helps customers take control of the energy available to them, make the most of solar or wind generation, optimise a site’s energy use by managing demand and overcoming capacity constraints. We’re on a mission to help the world embrace sustainable energy solutions. As the world strives for a low-carbon future, our systems are the true bridge to a clean energy future. By maximising EV batteries as an energy store, we are doing things differently to make a huge, positive impact on the planet.
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2026
Investor
Mar 2026
In a world of immense uncertainty, digiLab is a pioneering AI company that empowers governments and organisations in safety-critical or highly regulated industries to solve critical, complex, and high-stakes challenges using machine learning and uncertainty quantification. From forging a path to clean energy to life-saving medical diagnostics and beyond, making critical decisions with unwavering confidence is difficult, especially when data is complex, sparse, or incomplete. This is where digiLab’s expertise shines through. Our trustworthy and explainable AI platform, The Uncertainty Engine, supported by our team of machine learning specialists and data scientists, enables decision-makers to accelerate innovation, reduce the risk of failure, turn insight into action, and deliver greater value through more informed and confident decisions.
2025
Board Observer
Apr 2025
Slamcore is an embedded software company that provides real-time location, mapping and perception solutions using vision-based SLAM (simultaneous localization & mapping). Combining state-of-the-art visual-SLAM technology, sensor fusion and advanced AI, Slamcore’s SDK provides a Spatial Intelligence foundation on which to build, enhance and enable products for a wide range of applications and industries, from consumer-grade robots, drones and devices to industrial-grade machinery and vehicles. Slamcore launched its first dedicated product for the Industrial Automation and Material Handling industry in 2024. Slamcore Aware seamlessly integrates into new and existing customer products, enabling redundancy, and increasing robustness and precision, by providing real-time positioning for manual and autonomous vehicles (e.g. forklifts). Slamcore’s advanced AI enables customers to improve operational safety and efficiency by detecting and tracking people, other vehicles and assets in the surroundings. At Slamcore we are continuously improving our technology and products - Get in touch with us to find out more.
Investor
Feb 2025
We are building a fair ecosystem for AI data, helping AI companies responsibly acquire high quality data sets and enabling data owners to be compensated for their work.
2024
Board Member
Aug 2024
Luffy AI has developed ultra-efficient, adaptive neural networks that enable true learning and adaption at the edge. At over 800 times more computationally efficient, we can target applications completely inaccessible to current AI approaches. Luffy is leveraging this advantage to build AI control systems that learn the nuances of the equipment and adapt to changes over time to obtain maximum performance and robustness. Building on a platform technology, we are now targeting early adopters in industrial manufacturing and robotics. We have just deployed one of our adaptive AI controllers into a composites process with a UK Industry4.0 manufacturer. The AI allows better control of the temperature profile, reducing the calibration time of the process and increasing overall throughput and energy efficiency. Our products service major companies in the metals, chemicals, specialty materials and drone sectors.
Board Member
Apr 2024
enspired is Europes leading optimizer of battery energy storage systems (BESS), with over 1 GW under management. We maximize the revenues, efficiency, and lifespan of grid-scale batteries. With our data-based optimization in the power markets, your asset achieves peak profitability with minimum degradation while supporting the grid and the integration of more renewables. Our in-house trading and optimization platform integrates billions of data points, AI, machine learning, and reinforcement learning to stay ahead of market developments. And with our commitment to revenue transparency, we publish verifiable commercial results to establish a new, reliable benchmarking standard that helps you get a true understanding of what your asset is worth. Make a data-driven decision for your business case with our full-range BESS optimization service. Lets talk about your project! Book a meeting 👉 https://hubs.la/Q03NK7v50 See enspireds portfolio performance 👉 https://hubs.ly/Q03T_TnD0 Grow your energy knowledge 👉 https://hubs.la/Q03NK7FM0
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