UK AI newsletter - Jan 2021

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Corporate finance

Adthena Announces Acquisition of Kantar's Paid Search Intelligence Business... Adthena (20 Jan)
JPIN Venture Catalysts leads £2 million round in CreditEnable - Finextra CreditEnable (18 Jan)
Exscientia Receives A $4.2 Million Grant From The Gates Foundation To Devel... Exscientia (15 Jan)
Graphcore Raises $222 Million in Round of Funding - Electropages Graphcore (16 Jan)
Self-driving software startup Oxbotica raises $47 million in latest funding... Oxbotica (6 Jan)
London-based startup Proportunity helping first-time home buyers nets £7.5M... Proportunity (29 Jan)

Business development

Artificial Collaborates to Enhance COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing Solution - B... Artificial labs (25 Jan)
Behavox forms integration partnership with Red Box - Finextra Behavox (20 Jan)
BenevolentAI and AstraZeneca achieve collaboration milestone with novel AI-... BenevolentAI (27 Jan)
Big Pharma forging more partnerships with AI vendors for drug discovery - C... BenevolentAI (22 Jan)
Roche taps into quantum computing software for Alzheimer's disease research... Cambridge Quantum (28 Jan)
Aker BP and Cambridge Quantum Computing to Develop Quantum Machine Learning... Cambridge Quantum (19 Jan)
As Demand for Legal Technology Increases in the Asia-Pacific Region, Contra... ContractPodAi (19 Jan)
Fetch and Yoti join forces to bring KYC to autonomous DeFi agents - Cointel... Fetch.ai (19 Jan)
Fetch.ai launches AI travel agents to reduce hotel booking distribution cos... Fetch.ai (15 Jan)
eMAG partners up with FintechOS to launch new online credit application - T... FintechOS (20 Jan)
Cirrascale Cloud Services and Graphcore Announce Availability of Graphcloud... Graphcore (26 Jan)
European power player chooses KAO Data Campus for key installation - Busine... InstaDeep (26 Jan)
Tecate’s AI-Powered Music Video Integration Shows a New Model for Product P... MIRRIAD ADVERTISING (12 Jan)
MANGOPAY and Onfido partner to speed user onboarding – PCR - PCR-online.biz Onfido (28 Jan)
FundOf Platform Verifies Content Creators Via Biometrics - Mobile ID World Onfido (8 Jan)
HSBC - using AI to join the financial crime ‘dots’ - Diginomica Quantexa (28 Jan)
Renalytix AI hails new pathway to national Medicare coverage for KidneyInte... Renalytix AI (13 Jan)
Renalytix AI enters chronic kidney disease partnership with DaVita - ShareC... Renalytix AI (5 Jan)
Satellite-based dam monitoring system launched - International Water Power ... Rezatec (28 Jan)
iDenfy adopts Manu behavioral biometrics, Sumsub and Yoti each announce par... Sumsub (21 Jan)
LegacyFX Partners With Sum And Substance Ltd. - FX Empire Sumsub (14 Jan)
Garmin EMEA Champions Employee Wellbeing with Tictrac - Bdaily Tictrac (11 Jan)
Babylon secures partnership in US - LaingBuisson babylon health (15 Jan)
Healx joins Mission: Cure to speed up rare disease treatments - Cambridge I... healx (23 Jan)

Career

Cambridge Quantum Computing Appoints Oxford University Professor Bob Coecke... Cambridge Quantum (6 Jan)
Cambridge AI start-up Secondmind loses chief executive - Telegraph.co.uk Secondmind (19 Jan)
citybizlist : New York : Streetbees Appoints Sebastian 'Seb' Hempstead as G... Streetbees (27 Jan)

Awards

ContractPodAi Wins 2021 BIG Innovation Award - Business Intelligence Group ... ContractPodAi (15 Jan)
Six finalists for global smart city architecture challenge - eeNews Europe GeoSpock (27 Jan)

Market

Startup Funding: December 2020 - SemiEngineering Cambridge Quantum (6 Jan)
ComplyAdvantage Releases State Of Financial Crime Report For 2021 - Busines... ComplyAdvantage (13 Jan)
The top medtech deals of 2020 (and one that got away) - MedTech Dive Digital Surgery (4 Jan)
This Week in Fintech: TFT Bi-Weekly News Roundup 12/01 - The Fintech Times Humn (12 Jan)
news and analysis for omnichannel retailers - Retail Technology Innovation ... RevLifter (4 Jan)
Speechmatics Survey: Voice Enterprise Adoption Accelerating Post-Pandemic -... SPEECHMATICS (26 Jan)

People

CTO Talk: Q&A with Exscientia's Garry Pairaudeau - Verdict Exscientia (15 Jan)
EU-Startups Podcast / Episode 13: Interview with Tugce Bulut – Founder and ... Streetbees (18 Jan)

Overview

AFTAs 2020: Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor (AI, Machine Lear... Behavox (25 Jan)
Brunch with Sifted: Karakuri's robot chef - Sifted Karakuri (5 Jan)

Market views

How AI could transform post-pandemic healthcare - Business Insider - Busine... BenevolentAI (25 Jan)
What You Need For Your Quantum Computing Pilots In 2021 - Forbes Cambridge Quantum (29 Jan)
Climate and agricultural technology: What technologies does the producer ne... Cervest (18 Jan)
Welcome to the supermarket of the future: How technology is transforming th... Edgify (2 Jan)
‘All drugs will be designed by computers by 2030’ - The Telegraph Exscientia (18 Jan)
2021 technology trend review, part two: AI, knowledge graphs, and the COVID... Graphcore (20 Jan)
Fake News Is Rampant, Here Is How Artificial Intelligence Can Help - Forbes Logically (25 Jan)
Digital workshop: How to do a fact check - Newslaundry Logically (6 Jan)
Self-driving vehicle report suggests widespread use within 15 years - Fleet... Oxbotica (14 Jan)
'Peak hype': why the driverless car revolution has stalled - The Guardian Oxbotica (3 Jan)
Start-ups force finance chiefs to rethink attitude to risk - Financial Time... Quantexa (11 Jan)
Speaker ID is the sleeper biometric function speech apps need to nail - Bio... SPEECHMATICS (26 Jan)
How some companies are solving the issues with language and AI - TechRepubl... SPEECHMATICS (4 Jan)
Supply Chains Must Invest in AI to Boost Resilience | Technology - Supply C... Secondmind (1 Jan)
MLOps - The Missing Piece In The Enterprise AI Puzzle - Forbes Seldon (5 Jan)
Artificial Intelligence in shipping and how it works - ShipInsight Senseye (11 Jan)
Some of Our Food Tech Predictions for 2021 - The Spoon Small Robot Company (10 Jan)
Cyber security predictions 2021 – view from the experts - The Commentator Tessian (26 Jan)
Why Microsoft’s self-driving car strategy is quietly brilliant - The Next W... Wayve (27 Jan)
Health brands get ready for 2021: fads, fakes and FAANGs - CampaignLive babylon health (15 Jan)

Corporate - other

FDA Clears Ultromics Echocardiography AI for Auto Identification of Coronar... Ultromics (6 Jan)