UK AI newsletter - Mar 2021

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Corporate finance

Talipot ESG Investments' Equity Investment Into Cambridge Quantum Computing... Cambridge Quantum (13 Mar)
Sales intelligence firm Cognism raises £9m to expand around Europe - Busine... Cognism (15 Mar)
Exscientia raises $100m funding to develop autonomous drug design - Pharmac... Exscientia (11 Mar)
Fetch.ai nabs $5M in institutional investment - Cambridge Network Fetch.ai (17 Mar)
Virign Money adds Fluidly to fintech partnership rostum - Finextra Fluidly (24 Mar)
Logically Announces Acquisition of Managed Security Service Provider, Cerda... Logically (30 Mar)
KAR Global Announces Strategic Investment in AI-Powered Vehicle Inspections... RAVIN (16 Mar)
Wefarm Raises $11M in Series-A Plus Funding - FinSMEs Wefarm (12 Mar)
Digital GP app Babylon works with Citi as it mulls $4bn US listing - Telegr... babylon health (27 Mar)
Babylon Health buys Fresno-based practice as part of U.S. expansion - MedCi... babylon health (10 Mar)
Babylon Health to sell Canada operations to Telus Health - Business Insider babylon health (8 Mar)
Inside the disruptive rise of $2 billion Babylon Health, which sources say ... babylon health (8 Mar)

Business development

AMPLYFI Partners with US Think Tank to Identify Overlooked Chinese AI - Bus... AMPLYFI (24 Mar)
Insurtech Artificial joins Convex on data-driven marine liability product -... Artificial labs (22 Mar)
Behavox Expands Compliance Platform with Twitter Support - Destination CRM Behavox (10 Mar)
Behavox Adds Microsoft Teams to Expanding List of Industry-Leading Applicat... Behavox (3 Mar)
Cambridge Quantum Computing Pioneers Quantum Machine Learning Methods for R... Cambridge Quantum (30 Mar)
Cambridge Quantum Announce Largest Ever Natural Language Processing Impleme... Cambridge Quantum (2 Mar)
Roche and Cambridge Quantum Computing Use Algorithms for Early Alzheimer's ... Cambridge Quantum (1 Mar)
Cognism embeds 'intent to buy' into prospect database to deliver the hottes... Cognism (24 Mar)
Bofin deploys ComplyAdvantage AML screening kit - Finextra ComplyAdvantage (30 Mar)
Fetch.ai Launches Mainnet v2.0 With Validators Including Outlier Ventures, ... Fetch.ai (31 Mar)
Graphcore Shows GAN Gains for CERN - The Next Platform Graphcore (24 Mar)
Logically Launches Two New Strategic Business Units - Telecom Reseller Logically (23 Mar)
Logically to launch AI-based threat intelligence platform in India - ETTele... Logically (1 Mar)
Bitex taps Onfido for instant KYC for crypto investors - Finextra - Finextr... Onfido (17 Mar)
Settld joins forces with Onfido for secure identity verification - The Payp... Onfido (5 Mar)
Selfie biometrics facilitate secure onboarding for new partners of HooYu, O... Onfido (2 Mar)
Consortium makes big shift in autonomous vehicle research in the UK - Compu... Oxbotica (15 Mar)
Deloitte partners with cybersecurity scale-up - BusinessCloud Quantexa (21 Mar)
Renalytix AI confident despite delay to new US Medicare rule - ShareCast Renalytix AI (15 Mar)
Acquedotto del Fiora adopts Geospatial AI to drive down leakage and inform ... Rezatec (23 Mar)
Accenture and Ripjar Help Shell Transform Risk Screening by Applying Artifi... Ripjar (22 Mar)
Cambridge-based Speechmatics automatic speech-to-text service launches on M... SPEECHMATICS (23 Mar)
Senseon Releases New Electronic Lock for Two-Way Storage Compartments - PRN... Senseon (4 Mar)
Small Robot Company (SRC) to Work With the 5G RuralDorset Project - Electro... Small Robot Company (5 Mar)
Sumsub launches face biometric liveness detection to boost onboarding - Bio... Sumsub (31 Mar)
Sumsub Teams Up with Mercuryo to Help Crypto Businesses - Finance Magnates Sumsub (24 Mar)
Verv Technologies announces pivotal engagement with Cortex Design - Norther... Verv (25 Mar)
Wefarm to extend SMS service into online platform - BusinessCloud Wefarm (10 Mar)
Babylon expands digital healthcare services in US | Digital Healthcare - He... babylon health (4 Mar)
Healx and the PKD Charity collaborate to apply AI to the discovery of novel... healx (8 Mar)
MQube mortgages go live on MAB with firms working on AI-enabled fact find –... mqube (30 Mar)
MQube launches AI-powered mortgage platform to transform lending - Mortgage... mqube (18 Mar)

Career

Behavox appoints Joseph Benjamin as CTO - Help Net Security Behavox (17 Mar)
Cytora adds Thomas Huerlimann to board of advisors - Reinsurance News Cytora (4 Mar)
Croatia's Microblink names new managing director - SeeNews Microblink (2 Mar)
ProFinda Hires Yustina Saleh as Chief Product Officer and Head of Analytics... Profinda (10 Mar)
Ecommerce Technology Leader RevLifter Names Chris Dobson as Chairman - PRNe... RevLifter (23 Mar)
Duo Security's Matthew Smith joins Tessian as its new Chief Strategy Office... Tessian (17 Mar)

Awards

Bristol tech firm Graphcore named among UK’s top scale-ups driving record i... Graphcore (17 Mar)
Realeyes earns patent for its attention-measuring product, PreView - PR Wee... Realeyes (4 Mar)

Financials

OakNorth Bank reports £78 million pre-tax profit - Finextra - Finextra OakNorth Bank (22 Mar)
Renalytix AI losses widen as it progresses development programme - ShareCas... Renalytix AI (2 Mar)

People

Humayun Sheikh, CEO of Fetch.ai - Interview Series - Unite.AI Fetch.ai (2 Mar)
Tobias Rijken, Co-Founder & CTO at Kheiron Medical Technologies - Interview... Kheiron Medical Technologies (16 Mar)
Interview with Jacob Sever, Founder & CTO at Sumsub - TechRound Sumsub (24 Mar)

Overview

Meet your digital twin - Construction Index Disperse (3 Mar)
Supermicro Ultra Servers Now Available in Graphcore IP‌U‌-P‍OD - HPCwire Graphcore (26 Mar)
London-based startup Sumsub set to revolutionise AI-based identity verifica... Sumsub (30 Mar)

Market views

Why now is the right time to invest in European quantum computing - Sifted Cambridge Quantum (1 Mar)
A Wave Of Billion-Dollar Computer Vision Startups Is Coming - Forbes Hummingbird Technologies (1 Mar)
AI Powered Automatic Facial Similarity Detection to Authenticate Customers ... Onfido (17 Mar)
Data Is the Answer to Reducing the Rising Costs of Compliance - Internation... Quantexa (11 Mar)
Geospatial AI technology to monitor high risk dams for US utility - Interna... Rezatec (16 Mar)
The future of food is all about robot farmers and electrocuting weeds - Wir... Small Robot Company (29 Mar)
How the insurance industry is embracing innovation to cover unforeseen risk... Tictrac (28 Mar)
Using AI in medical diagnosis: Protecting patients and algorithms - Lexolog... Ultromics (19 Mar)

Trading

Fetch.ai (FET) hits a 2-year high after DeFi integration and Bosch partners... Fetch.ai (7 Mar)

Other

Digitalising drug discovery - pharmaphorum Lifebit (19 Mar)
The AI-powered fact checker that investigates QAnon influencers shares its ... Logically (1 Mar)
Identity fraud attempts double in wake of Bitcoin price surge - Information... Onfido (9 Mar)
The problem with manual legal review in contract negotiation - Cambridge Ne... ThoughtRiver (18 Mar)
Tictrac reveals employee health habits during the national lockdowns - Bdai... Tictrac (30 Mar)
Food worth nearly Dhs10 billion is wasted annually despite remedial governm... Winnow Solutions (8 Mar)