UK AI newsletter - Feb 2021

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Corporate finance

Labelbox raises $40 million for its data labeling and annotation tools - Ve... CloudFactory (11 Feb)
Chip start-up Graphcore asks UK government to block Nvidia's Arm acquisitio... Graphcore (8 Feb)
Genesys backs London-based startup with £8M funding transforming customer s... Limitless Technology (2 Feb)
Photomath raises $23M in Series B funding led by Menlo Ventures - Business-... Microblink (20 Feb)
AI scale-up Peak to create 130 jobs following £15.2m investment - BusinessC... Peak (17 Feb)
Peak.AI raises $21 million to drive enterprise AI adoption - VentureBeat Peak (17 Feb)

Business development

Behavox Integrates WhatsApp and WeChat Data Into Compliance Platform With T... Behavox (17 Feb)
BenevolentAI announces first patient dosed in its Atopic Dermatitis clinica... BenevolentAI (11 Feb)
Autonomous robots aim to enhance customer service | Result in Brief | H2020... BotsAndUs (26 Feb)
Quantum computing enters cancer arena with Cambridge-California pact - Busi... Cambridge Quantum (24 Feb)
Alzheimer's is first target as Cambridge Quantum Computing collaborates wit... Cambridge Quantum (5 Feb)
Quantum AI Consortium Grows, Seeks Open Ecosystem - EnterpriseAI Cambridge Quantum (2 Feb)
Star International Mirdif introduces engaging AI-powered curricula and adva... Century Tech (25 Feb)
Exscientia and the University of Oxford announce partnership to develop tre... Exscientia (11 Feb)
The CBCS partners with FNA for the development of SupTech capabilities - Cu... FNA (11 Feb)
Fetch.ai spinoff launches decentralized commodities exchange - Cointelegrap... Fetch.ai (26 Feb)
Bosch and Fetch.ai to Collaborate on Preparations for the Launch - AiThorit... Fetch.ai (18 Feb)
Fetch.ai partners with FESTO on decentralised manufacturing marketplace - A... Fetch.ai (12 Feb)
Graphcore Launches AI Cloud Service with Cirrascale - EE Times India Graphcore (2 Feb)
Challenger bank focused on growth in Yorkshire | TheBusinessDesk.com - The ... OakNorth Bank (11 Feb)
London tech firm launches Almanac, an analytics platform that wants to be t... Olvin (17 Feb)
Mobile biometrics onboarding gains, new cloud service and partnerships unve... Onfido (17 Feb)
BP and Oxbotica complete autonomous vehicle trial in Germany - just-auto.co... Oxbotica (11 Feb)
Oxbotica driverless cars trialled in world first at BP plant in Germany - O... Oxbotica (9 Feb)
Lead Forensics Turbocharges Lead Generation With Panintelligence Partnershi... Panintelligence (15 Feb)
Renalytix AI enters partnership with Univeristy of Utah Health - ShareCast Renalytix AI (24 Feb)
Senseon Unveils FridgiGuard, an Easy-Install Refrigerator Lock for Healthca... Senseon (18 Feb)
Senseye Partners with PTC to Accelerate Predictive Maintenance Technology A... Senseye (16 Feb)
SCOR partners with Senseye on machinery failure product - Reinsurance News Senseye (12 Feb)
Project set to deliver first 5G agri-robot - New Electronics Small Robot Company (15 Feb)
Tessian Launches Industry-First Solution to Detect and Prevent Email Attach... Tessian (11 Feb)
ThoughtRiver unveils Contract Acceleration Platform to help lawyers contrac... ThoughtRiver (11 Feb)
Ebbon Group moves into automotive AI with Zegami partnership - FleetNews Zegami (3 Feb)
Saudi-Backed U.K. Health App Babylon Ends Deal with Tencent - Bloomberg babylon health (19 Feb)
AI scale-up techspert.io ramps globally with Texas office | Business Weekly... techspert (17 Feb)

Career

Insurtech Cytora adds AXA XL's Kelly Lyles to advisory board - Reinsurance ... Cytora (4 Feb)
Mark Synek Named Logically's First Chief Revenue Officer - PR Web Logically (2 Feb)
Previse announces two new hires to boost InstantPay launch - IBS Intelligen... Previse (15 Feb)
Babylon Health hires US COO, CTO, CBO in expansion push - Business Insider babylon health (23 Feb)

Financials

FintechOS reports 195 percent growth in 2020, consolidating its position in... FintechOS (19 Feb)
Onfido Delivers Record Revenue Year for Fiscal 2020 - Business Wire Onfido (3 Feb)
RenalytixAI to announce Financial Results for six and three months ended De... Renalytix AI (23 Feb)
Company behind GP at Hand reports £95m loss - GP online babylon health (2 Feb)

Market

UK funding rounds: Ambitious early-stage tech startups that got investments... CreditEnable (23 Feb)

People

Interview with Robert Newry, CEO & Co-Founder at Arctic Shores - TechRound Arctic Shores (8 Feb)
INTERVIEW: Mike Tuchen, CEO, Onfido - Mobile ID World Onfido (22 Feb)
Nikola Mrksic, Co-founder and CEO of PolyAI - Interview Series - Unite.AI PolyAI (18 Feb)

Overview

Behind the Idea: FintechOS - The Fintech Times FintechOS (18 Feb)
How GeoSpock is supercharging geospatial analytics - ComputerWeekly.com GeoSpock (23 Feb)
Karakuri, the British Tesla of kitchen and food robotics is here - UKTN (UK... Karakuri (10 Feb)

Market views

What’s Next For Quantum In 2021 - Forbes Cambridge Quantum (24 Feb)
The global quantum computing race has begun. What will it take to win it? -... Cambridge Quantum (9 Feb)
A UK-India Trade Deal Could Create a Modern Silk Road, With Fintech a Key E... CreditEnable (16 Feb)
AI startup founders reveal their artificial intelligence trends for 2021 - ... Edgify (17 Feb)
Challenges of being a founder: Confidence isn't always key - Sifted Fluidly (22 Feb)
Nuance and Onfido highlight biometrics benefits for protecting cryptocurren... Onfido (22 Feb)
Telemedicine and chatbots are using data to transform health care - Venture... babylon health (1 Feb)

Other

AI reveals how those coveted Super Bowl LV commercials failed - TechRepubli... Realeyes (10 Feb)