North AI

Fantastic talk organised by SFC Capital and Simons Muirhead Burton LLP about leveraging AI with Miriam Cha Piers Linney Maryam Fayaz-Torshizi Katie Lockwood Raoul Lumb. Some interesting thoughts 👇🏽 😕 Does #ai really exist today? Or is it just really great ML 💻 Building a thin layer on top of LLMs won't last, companies need to go deep 📞 will ai replace outbound sales calls...and will we ever know if we're talking to a machine or a human 😬 ....

Really glad to be part of the first #PraeSeed cohort investment programme, designed to support the most promising preseed businesses in the North Thanks Jessica Jackson and the Praetura Ventures team With Oleh Kurtianyk and Lucas Cazelli at North AI

🙌 It’s time to meet the #PraeSeed2024 cohort...   Reminder: PraeSeed was created to find, fund and scale the next in the North. We are a capital first programme with over £1m to invest each year into up to 8 companies. (We ended up with 12 not 10, too!)   We’ve had over 200 apps, from AI 🤖 to Water Monitoring 🌊 . 💥 It’s safe to say the team have been blown away by the energy, and the sheer breadth of innovations.   We are so excited to bring you, who we think, may well be the #NextInTheNorth.   Antonym– Factory in a box - Rethinking manufacturing utilising digital supply chain, robotics and 3D printing to enable localised microfactories aquaint– Software to support the hospitality sector, boosting productivity by reducing man hours, improving communications, and upholding food safety standards. Bidscript– Supporting SMEs with automating laborious tendering processes, maximising commercial opportunities. CCI Photonics - Enabling precise antibiotic prescribing for health care professionals, significantly improving patient care and effectively combating antimicrobial resistance with simple and quick tests. Fireflai- Delivering AI powered-data transformation to midmarket businesses to unlock value from legacy systems. Gaia Learning - support neurodivergent children to thrive in education and life through offering holistic online education to support them and the whole family. North AI- AI based insights and recommendations platform for the global media and entertainment sector. Praxium AI- increases the productivity and performance of radiologists in Low and Middle Income Countries, allowing them to save 700,000 lives lost to breast cancer each year. Pupil Pathways - SixIntoSeven #6into7 - Supporting a personalised transition for all#6into7 - Supporting a personalised transition for all#6into7 - Supporting a personalised transition for all – Software to enable the safe and compliant transfer of data for pupils as they transition from one school into another and supporting the identification of children at risk of missing education. Robotiz3d Ltd – AI-driven robotics to detect & classify road defects such as potholes and cracks to support the targeted allocation of maintenance that is less disruptive and more efficient. Scrubmarine - Transforming marine maintenance with eco-friendly, AI-powered cleaning robots to reduce fuel costs and CO2 emissions. WAC– Empowering hourly paid workers to keep track of their working lives, receive the correct pay and feel financially secure. The founders will spend six weeks with us, taking part in Inspire and Educate masterclasses, delivered by the likes of Peak, Modern Milkman, and our Investment Team and Partners.   We're so excited!! Following our Showcase event in Sept, we will move with up to 8 potential investments from the cohort we have selected.   Remember, PraeSeed will run every year so if you’ve missed out on this year, we will reopen for applications for the next cohort in early 2025.

Great to speak to the Alliance Manchester Business School alumni about entrepreneurship, the values of an #mba and the future of #ai in media! Shout out to Lisa Samberg and Chris Garnett for hosting and organising, and for all the amazing students and alumni for such great company. I hope to see far more MBA students take a leap into the world of #startups