Cohorts

Ai Build is a London based enterprise SaaS company. Their Additive Manufacturing (AM) software is used by the world’s largest companies to automate and simplify the process of taking CAD designs to successfully 3D printed parts, first time. Through a simple and intuitive UI, even the most complex of designs can be quickly converted to an optimised set of streamed machine instructions.

Carbon Re is a climate tech startup advancing the frontiers of artificial intelligence to decarbonise energy-intensive industries. It is a spinout of UCL and Cambridge University and the technology has the potential to reduce carbon emissions on the gigatonne scale. Carbon Re’s cloud-based platform, Delta Zero, utilises powerful AI tools to achieve operational efficiencies in energy intensive industries, such as cement production, reducing operational costs and carbon emissions to otherwise unachievable levels. Delta Zero enables immediate reductions in energy consumption, cost and carbon emissions, with no capital expenditure.

Greyparrot provides AI Waste Recognition software that automates waste composition analysis to monitor, audit, and sort large waste flows at scale. Greyparrot empowers waste managers, producers and regulators with better data analytics, transparency and automation in the recycling sector. Greyparrot insights can increase recycling rates, reduce the cost of manual sampling, enhance product quality, and empower next generation smart systems.

JET Engineering System Solutions offer floating telecom mesh networked 5G buoys that enable safe, secure and sustainable smart operations by combining data with communications.

Maanch is a multi-award winning global impact management system for investors, corporates and the philanthropy ecosystem. Launched in 2018, Maanch works with 700+ partners across 30+ countries to deliver planetary wellbeing and prosperity.

Wovn help fashion brands access insights through social media audiences to better predict demand, therefore reducing waste and increasing sales. They are helping solve for the tens of billions of new garments that are produced every year and never sold; their mission is to build a future without fashion waste. Wovn help fashion brands understand what consumers want to buy before it is produced, thus addressing overproduction at its root and eliminating waste from the process.

TravelAi is a European Space Agency incubated spin out that has smartphone software that analyses GPS and accelerometer sensor data and applies various processes to determine how someone has travelled. This includes private, public transit and active travel detection without any user input which is also multi-country (+50 countries). They have been working with National Highways (formerly Highways England) for the last 2yrs and together launched the MyWays app.

Spot Ship is an enterprise SAAS company that reduces the time it takes a ship broker to fix a ship from 6 man-days to 2 man-hours. The company makes use of next generation computer vision and machine learning algorithms to channel position list data into a robust cloud SQL database. Brokers are able to query this database through a simple web-based user interface on any device. While the platform allows their clients to save time, reduce costs and increase revenue (via beating slower brokers to a competitive fixture), widespread use will also reduce CO2 emissions from shipping by 90Mt annually, approximately 20% of the UK’s current level of pollution across all sectors.

Singular Intelligence have developed an end-to-end AI-driven data analytics solution called Dynamic Shelf-Life AI that reduces food waste and improves shelf-life of fresh food or packaged food at each stage of the food supply chain - farm, factory, warehouse, transport, retail store, and consumption. A retail decision-making platform powered by AI that forecasts demand and predict consumer behaviours.

SENSIZE is working to enable the circular economy for plastic packaging. They supply a tracking service that makes it cost effective to use high quality reusable packaging rather than disposable items. Their system is helping couriers, manufacturers and retailers to more efficient and environmentally friendly.

Orange Power’s GridRewardsTM is AI powered autonomous energy trading, controlling and settlement system.

Looper is an AI-powered design tool providing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) to help construction companies and manufacturers accelerate their design iteration at an early stage. The software can quickly calculate and visualise the carbon footprint of different material elements within various designs, providing real-time carbon-cost analysis to help team members demonstrate evidence-based results to their clients.

Infyos helps car makers overcome the challenge of opaque and high-risk electric vehicle supply chains through end to end supplier visibility, risk identification and effective action on the ground.

Greener is a B2B algorithmic matchmaking platform which connects food and drink SMEs who are looking for sustainable solutions with SMEs who offer innovative sustainable solutions. Greener's platform caters for all SMEs across the food and drink industry from farming, manufacturing, packaging, retail and wholesale, hospitality, waste management, consulting and compliance. They make sustainability easy for small and medium-sized businesses, and we help innovative sustainability providers to find more, better leads and grow their businesses.

Green+Kode's mission is to "Maximise Resource Efficiency And Reduce All Resource Waste". We develop smart weighing devices with IoT & AI software to reduce food waste & provide automatic food waste solutions at sensible prices for small commercial kitchens.

Freeaim is a startup working on VR shoes which are new, compact and affordable. The Freeaim VR shoes let you naturally walk infinite distances in virtual reality within a small physical play space. We aim to be the locomotion option of choice for a natural feeling and immersive walking in virtual reality.

Findaa uses the IoT technology including Bluetooth, LoRa, AI, and 5G technology to build small tags that attach to items and equipment. This can then be used to monitor and track a range of data points including location, temperature, humidity, shock, vibration, plus other data, anywhere in the world both indoors and outside, automatically in real time.

EGG Lighting are developing a digital passport system for commercial lighting which tracks the commercial, technical, compliance and operational characteristics of each individual asset. This addresses customer needs for transparency and confidence in circular economy products. They enable the shift to circular economy business models and bridge the gap between EGG’s remanufacture service and IoT/AI technology.

Reward4Waste is CryptoCycle™’s first solution that utilises blockchain technology to deliver a unique Digital Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) that will eliminate fraud and dramatically increase recycling rates. Reward4Waste, rewards people for good recycling behaviour all through a simple to use app. We are a recycling and reuse platform, using digital intelligence and unique coding to bring transparency, traceability and accountability to the supply chain, with green Blockchain and AI to engage citizens, drive positive behavioural change and deliver richer data insights and analysis.

castAi help food and beverage companies find the balance between profit and sustainability by reducing both their product and logistical waste. Their solution helps FMCG SMEs solve their waste and inefficiency issues, using the worlds first AI Demand Predictions as-a-service without the hassle or new software to install or learn.

The most innovative manufacturers and their suppliers use technologies from CAE Tech to make mass-customisation achievable and accessible; and to communicate configurable and versioned product data with their customers and supply chain partners. The Infinitive Platform is cloud-based SaaS software for manufacturers of mass-customisable, modular, or build-to-order products.

Arloid Automation is a global leader in AI-based solutions designed to simplify MEP (mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering) systems management for a broad portfolio of real estate. The unique algorithm combines the power of Deep Reinforced Learning and Digital Twin technologies enabling real estate management companies to meet their financial and sustainability objectives.

Additive Flow was founded on the principle of disrupting the advanced manufacturing sector by focusing on optimising the additive manufacturing process against multiple objectives; bringing heightened performance to 3D printing and reducing the overall manufacturing impacts on the environment.

This will help engineers and designers in dealing with the ranging complexity of loads and boundary conditions, assess the interaction between various components and assign appropriate materials to tackle interdisciplinary challenges and design more robust products.

Ascalia help manufacturing companies analyse and simultaneously optimise both their production efficiency and resource expenditure; tackling waste of energy and raw resources in the production processes

The team firmly believe it is possible to revolutionise each manufacturing sector with a good mix of deep industry knowledge and out of the box thinking in artificial intelligence and automation, bridging the gap between manufacturing and high technology.

Founded in 2017, Intellegens accelerates innovation in formulation design and industrial processes with novel machine learning techniques for sparse and noisy data. Its artificial intelligence toolset, commercialised as Alchemite™, trains deep learning models using real-world experimental data allowing for the discovery and development of high-quality materials.

Through an innovative trading platform, the Remade Group aspires to provide customers with ethical and environmentally friendly products that are of the same quality level as new products.

Remade Group has been recently created to commercialise the remanufacturing e-marketplace developed during an Innovate UK feasibility study; it draws on a range of experiences and partners including Innovation Action, Circular, the University of Brighton (UoB) and the University of Sussex (UoS)