UK AI newsletter - Apr 2021

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Corporate finance

Amyris To Acquire Beauty Labs Combining Clean Beauty Leadership With Digita... Beauty Labs (14 Apr)
Croatian Startup Investments Reach Over Billion Kuna in 3 Months - Total Cr... Cognism (27 Apr)
Exscientia Announces Investment of up to $525M - Business Wire Exscientia (27 Apr)
FintechOS Raises USD60M in Series B Funding - FinSMEs FintechOS (23 Apr)
Mirriad upgrades to New York OTCQX® Best Market - PRNewswire MIRRIAD ADVERTISING (21 Apr)
Ocado eyes driverless deliveries with £10m investment in start-up Oxbotica ... Oxbotica (16 Apr)

Business development

Behavox Shows Strong Industry Momentum With Notable Product, Customer, And ... Behavox (28 Apr)
Schonfeld Selects Behavox to Monitor Encrypted Communications Apps and Enha... Behavox (21 Apr)
Behavox Expands Cloud Archiving Solution to Speed and Simplify Search, Anal... Behavox (6 Apr)
Lilly's Olumiant flunks COVID-19 trial – or does it? - - pharmaphorum BenevolentAI (9 Apr)
German Aerospace Center and Cambridge Quantum Partner to Use Quantum to Bui... Cambridge Quantum (29 Apr)
Cambridge Quantum pushes into NLP and quantum computing with new head of AI... Cambridge Quantum (18 Apr)
ComplyAdvantage Launches New Risk and Compliance Program - The Fintech Time... ComplyAdvantage (28 Apr)
Gemini Exchange Integrates ComplyAdvantage AML Solutions - The Chain Bullet... ComplyAdvantage (13 Apr)
ContractPodAi Expands Beyond CLM with Launch of One Legal Platform - PR New... ContractPodAi (6 Apr)
CreditEnable forms partnership with India's Flipkart - Finextra CreditEnable (22 Apr)
Medtronic taps virtual reality 'flight simulators' for brain surgery, built... Digital Surgery (26 Apr)
Exscientia Announces First AI-Designed Immuno-Oncology Drug to Enter Clinic... Exscientia (9 Apr)
AI startup Faculty wins contract to predict future requirements for the UK’... Faculty (26 Apr)
Fetch.ai Announces Collaboration with Catena-X Automotive Network - Coinspe... Fetch.ai (28 Apr)
First Bank joins forces with FintechOS, launches the SME Creditum app - The... FintechOS (28 Apr)
GraphCore opens Japan office - eeNews Europe Graphcore (28 Apr)
GraphCore joins €2.6m project for real world AI - eeNews Europe Graphcore (23 Apr)
Humanising Autonomy announces commercial partnership with Streamax Technolo... Humanising Autonomy (6 Apr)
Digital banking service One signs with ID verification firm Onfido - Finext... Onfido (21 Apr)
Orange partners with Onfido - Security Document World Onfido (15 Apr)
Onfido Collaborates with Microsoft to Bring the Future of Reusable Identity... Onfido (5 Apr)
KFC UK & Ireland taps Peak AI tech for guest centric menus — Retail Technol... Peak (28 Apr)
Renalytix AI adds new biomarkers to platform for tricky to diagnose CKD - M... Renalytix AI (15 Apr)
Renalytix AI extends collaboration with Joslin Diabetes Center - Vox Market... Renalytix AI (14 Apr)
Intelligent monitoring system trialled on three Canal & Rivers Trust reserv... Rezatec (26 Apr)
SC utility adopts Geospatial AI technology for dam monitoring - WaterWorld Rezatec (1 Apr)
ADLINK Technology Joins Senseye Ready Partner Ecosystem to Enable Rapid ROI... Senseye (14 Apr)
Propetly partners with Sumsub for property investment ID checks - P2P Finan... Sumsub (13 Apr)
Sumsub & GreenBond Meter team up for KYC, crypto monitoring services - IBS ... Sumsub (5 Apr)
Tessian updates its intelligence platform to strengthen employee security b... Tessian (6 Apr)
Tessian Launches Human Layer Risk Hub to Help Organizations Measure Risk an... Tessian (4 Apr)
Winnow Solutions, LLC, a Buckley LLP Company, Launches New Online Platform ... Winnow Solutions (20 Apr)
Healx launches partnership with Ataxia UK and FARA to find treatments for r... healx (9 Apr)
SimplyBiz Mortgages partners with new lender MPowered Mortgages - Financial... mqube (14 Apr)
MPowered partners with Legal & General Mortgage Club - Mortgage Strategy mqube (7 Apr)

Career

Cambridge Quantum Appoints Professor Stephen Clark as Head of Artificial In... Cambridge Quantum (12 Apr)
Priya Lakhani OBE appointed as Non-Executive Board Member to DCMS - GOV.UK Century Tech (21 Apr)
Cognism hires former ZoomInfo Sales Leader as it aggressively recruits for ... Cognism (28 Apr)
Nike's Former COO Joins Olvin's Board - SGB Media Olvin (5 Apr)
Quantexa appoints HSBC CEO to board | London Business News | Londonlovesbus... Quantexa (28 Apr)
Senseye Forms New Steering Group - Automation.com Senseye (20 Apr)
Ex-Dyson lead joins BioTech targeting rare diseases - BusinessCloud healx (27 Apr)

Overview

Multiple sensory inputs: Sound plus movement patent delivers better user ex... Audio Analytic (15 Apr)
NVIDIA Dominates A Near-Empty Field In AI Benchmarks Again - Forbes Graphcore (21 Apr)
AI system claims to prevent more than 90% of crashes - FleetNews Humanising Autonomy (16 Apr)
Q&A: An AI tool to speed up breast cancer diagnosis - Med-Tech Innovation Kheiron Medical Technologies (1 Apr)
Tackling misinformation with AI as well as humans - Sifted Logically (9 Apr)
Leeds-based software developer flies the Northern tech industry flag follow... Panintelligence (12 Apr)

Market views

COVID heralds a faster future for drug development (if stakeholders can col... BenevolentAI (8 Apr)
Panintelligence Predicts a 'No-Code Revolution' Could Unlock UK Technology ... Panintelligence (2 Apr)
Papercup CEO and Science Advisor on Speech Translation and Synthetic Voices... Papercup (16 Apr)
Why are so many companies investing in AI voice recognition tech? - Managem... SPEECHMATICS (22 Apr)
Why you should automate your contract negotiation process - Cambridge Netwo... ThoughtRiver (19 Apr)
Some FDA-approved AI medical devices are not ‘adequately’ evaluated, Stanfo... babylon health (12 Apr)
AI in Drug Discovery Starts to Live Up to the Hype - Genetic Engineering & ... healx (2 Apr)

Corporate - other

Plaintiff in Onfido biometric data privacy suit argues against appeal of ar... Onfido (12 Apr)

Trading

Mirriad Advertising PLC jumps after joining US over the counter market - Pr... MIRRIAD ADVERTISING (21 Apr)