BridgeAI cohorts and organisations

Founded in the U.K., Atera Analytics stands at the forefront of innovation in Advanced Data Modeling and Artificial Intelligence. Our founding team has previous experience working and delivering complex solutions in the data and AI domain across the six continents.

We have cumulative decades of experience  in fields ranging from Data Science, Energy,  Finance, Management Consulting, Transport Systems and Software Development. Our dynamic team is committed to driving digital transformation, cloud migration, sophisticated network modeling, deep learning, and NLP.

Among some of the projects we focus on, we have used Machine-Learning models to do proper estimation of uncertainty, and implement strategic stochastic planning for transport systems. 

We have received major support and development from leading organisations such as Digital Catapult, BridgeAI and Innovate UK. We partner with leading cloud providers for the development of our core technologies and capabilities.

Singular Intelligence offers solutions for automated decisions and insights,  explainability of  drivers and market factors, promoting resilience and sustainability in today’s volatile FMCG market. Started with Oxford University Innovation and Innovate UK competitive funding, the product CatmanAITM has been trialed and rolled out in leading companies such as Unilever, Sainsbury’s, Cranswick, and Kraft Heinz, with significant improvements in Accuracy and ROI.

RailX aims to facilitate logistics for SMEs while reducing CO2 emissions by buying leftover space from existing railway lines and providing “Last-mile” service coverage. However, variable arrival time of ships requires manual intervention and affects the routing efficiency, especially for their JIT services. Singular Intelligence has been tasked to automate the scheduling and optimisation of this supply-chain.

Singular solution optimises routes while considering multiple criteria (time, cost, capacity, CO2 emissions) with various orders of customisable priority. The optimisation considers coverage of maximum destinations with minimum number of transport modes and maximum possible capacity usage, ensuring highly efficient routes.

The efficient optimisation methodology can quickly provide new logistics routes for any changes in the supply chain, such as changes in the ship ETA time, road transport availability or rail timings. It also considers the delivery time requirements and can provide alerts for any impacts on the supply chain, especially JIT services. 

Other unique advantages are:

• Optional budgetary constraints
• Customisable criteria priority based on customer type

Our business and solution experts will work with RailX to assess and solve any unique supply chain requirements. Diverse perspectives will be considered to ensure access, understanding, interpretation and use for all relevant user groups. 

Current route optimisation software like Pulse, TrainPlus are specific to railways, but we will be tapping into the high-potential space of multimodal, multi-criteria route optimisation. We plan to expand to air freight and scale to other sectors like manufacturing, eCommerce while seeking licensing and white-label partnerships with established logistics firms.

iPurvey pioneers’ disruption management for both travel and freight industries, transforming how businesses and traveler’s handle disruptions. Our AI-powered solutions streamline claims processing and supply chain rescheduling, ensuring smoother operations and reducing environmental impact.

In travel, iPurvey enhances traveler experiences by streamlining claims for delays, cancellations, and mishandled luggage, improving passenger satisfaction. In freight operations, iPurvey rapidly identifies disruptions such as port congestion, providing real-time recommendations and rescheduling to optimise capacity usage, ensuring punctual delivery, minimising downtime, and reducing emissions.

By leveraging iPurvey’s platform, businesses can achieve remarkable efficiency gains, with cost savings of up to 30% and a 20% reduction in emissions. These benefits align with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) like SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure) and SDG 13 (Climate Action), driving positive outcomes for all stakeholders and fostering a more sustainable future.

OpenCapacity specialises in turning cutting edge research in computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI), into novel technology solutions for solving existing problems in the transport industry. 

Our core products are focusing on computerised systems for AI-driven capacity analytics, forecasting and visualisation for public transport. Our Digital Twin technologies are trying to enhance the insights for operators in order to better understand the conditions and the content of their rolling stock assets in real-time and future states – turning data into meaningful, actionable information. 

This information enables passengers and operators to make strategic and informed decisions. As part of this, we offer multiple products to help better understand the usage of the public vehicles, such as how vehicles are used, for how long and under what conditions. These all play a critical part for delivering a truly Digital Twin to help enhance the customer experience and operational performance. 

As part of this programme, we will particularly focus on utilising the existing CCTV cameras in order to perform real-time Video Analytics to address TfL’s challenge of providing live information on wheelchair priority space occupancy. By deploying bespoke AI models, our system accurately detects the status of priority spaces, distinguishing between wheelchairs, prams, and other obstructions. 

This data can then be integrated into user-friendly interfaces for smartphones and journey planning apps, empowering passengers with accessibility needs to plan their journeys more effectively. 

Our solution is adaptable and continuously refined, ensuring ongoing optimisation and alignment with TfL’s evolving requirements for capacity planning. With CCTV Video Analytics at its core, our solution offers a streamlined and reliable approach to enhancing the accessibility and independence of bus users across London.

For over 15 years, PODTECH has specialised in developing bespoke software solutions tailored for enterprise and hyper-scale data centre providers. We offer robust support for mission-critical facilitates specialising in power management and real-time monitoring systems. We operate globally on a 24/7 basis.

PODTECH’s LifeSafety.AI solution is an in-house transformative AI-driven computer vision solution originally aimed at detecting PPE compliance for construction on sites. LifeSafety.AI’s flexibility and adaptability enable us to train new object models easily. We are now adapting our solution to improve accessibility on public transportation, specifically within London’s bus network.

The LifeSafety.AI solution, leveraging advanced machine learning for real-time object detection and edge computing for immediate data processing, is uniquely equipped to address the challenge of providing real-time information on wheelchair priority space occupancy on London Buses. By adapting our AI-driven PPE compliance monitoring technology, we can detect different occupants (wheelchairs, prams, luggage) in priority spaces, ensuring accurate, real-time updates.

The LifeSafet.AI solution will be tailored for TfL’s objective in enhancing bus travel accessibility, delivering real-time occupancy for wheelchair priority spaces. This empowers mobility-impaired users with reliable information, addressing the uncertainty of space availability. The solution increases independence and confidence, reducing journey stress and planning time. Integrated with smartphones for a seamless experience, it improves accessibility and fosters a more inclusive transport system. This innovation not only enhances user satisfaction but also aligns with TfL’s commitment to accessibility and service excellence.

Given our existing technology and expertise, implementing this solution within a 14-week timeframe is ambitious but feasible, focusing on rapid model adaptation, collaboration for app integration, and deploying edge devices on buses for pilot testing.

The PODTECH team is very much looking forward to working with both Digital Catapult and TfL on the challenge.

Bahut Limited, led by CEO Shevaan Jayasinghe and CTO Sanuja, is at the forefront of integrating AI, ML, and quantum computing to solve complex optimization problems across various industries with unparalleled efficiency and accuracy. The company has notably advanced the use of these technologies, achieving significant breakthroughs such as outperforming traditional methods and successfully implementing pilot programs in logistics, finance, and energy sectors. These efforts have demonstrated substantial improvements in operational efficiency and cost reductions. With a mission to provide clients with a sustainable competitive edge, Bahut aims to expand its market presence and continuously enhance its technology to further reduce operational costs and improve decision-making processes.

Focusing on the Port of Tyne, Bahut is developing a solution for the Container Placement Optimisation Challenge. This involves a hybrid approach that uses ML to forecast container movement trends and classifies containers to optimise placement. This predictive and optimisation strategy aims to reduce reorganisation moves, equipment use, fuel consumption, and carbon emissions, enhancing operational efficiency at the Port of Tyne.

Hackney AI is at the forefront of innovation in logistics solutions. At Hackney AI, we specialise in transforming the complex world of logistics through advanced combinatorial optimisation.

Our proprietary simulation frameworks are meticulously designed to tackle the intricate challenges of logistics management, delivering unparalleled efficiency and accuracy.

Our technology leverages cutting-edge AI to simulate and analyse myriad logistical variables, enabling our clients to optimise routes, reduce delivery times, and lower costs with unprecedented precision. This proprietary approach not only enhances operational efficiency but also significantly boosts profitability and sustainability for businesses of all sizes.

Rooted in a deep understanding of the dynamic demands of modern supply chains, Hackney AI is committed to providing tailored solutions that are both scalable and adaptable. Our team of experts brings together extensive industry experience and innovative thinking to drive continual improvements and deliver competitive advantages to our clients worldwide

The goal of achieving net zero by 2050 requires the mining industry to reduce its carbon footprint, which currently accounts for approximately 8% of the global carbon footprint. Most metals needed for clean technologies (e.g. lithium and nickel for electric car batteries, copper for electrification, iron for wind turbines) and everyday life (e.g. tens of metals for an iPhone) are extracted from open-pit mines. By implementing more efficient pit walls, the industry could save 200 million metric tonnes of CO2-equivalent carbon emissions and $7 billion per year in direct excavation costs globally.

To address this challenge, OptimalSlope Ltd commercialises a new and unique geotechnical software programme which determines optimal pitwall shapes for metalliferous open pit mines so that the overall steepness of the pitwall, from crest to toe, is maximised for the given lithology and rock properties. OptimalSlope’s innovation (Slope Optimiser) can determine the steepest, optimal slope profiles for any given input lithology, as well as visualise and export the output into strategic mine planning software.

OptimalSlope’s core value proposition to customers is that it offers mine owners a new software tool (Slope Optimiser) for designing mine pit walls. By using Slope Optimiser, mine owners can increase their mine excavation efficiency, leading to profitability increases of up to 50%. Additionally, Slope Optimiser can help reduce the mine carbon footprint in Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 20% on average and decrease the number of rock tailings. Mine designers will benefit from a much more automated design process that requires fewer manual operations. This will result in a safer and more consistent mine design process.

Our next milestone is to achieve a 10-50 fold code execution time speedup using Machine Learning (ML).

Material Index is a UK-based Construction Technology SME founded by a team of software developers, engineers, and architects, that enables construction material reuse at scale.

Construction is responsible for over 50% of UK waste by volume, and reuse rates are currently below 2%. Material Index digitises construction projects and real-estate assets to deliver 10x improvement in reuse rates, by closing the loop between deconstruction and construction.

The process inventories buildings to their constituent components and makes this asset register legible to building owners through an online platform. Material Index helps decision-making for building owners by providing insights on properties such as embodied carbon, ease of extraction, and exchange value. Material Index also provides traceability on the next life of building components through material passports.
Material Index uses AI to increase the speed, safety and accuracy of digitisation. MI is exploring the ability to extract metrics from segmented Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) models. This enables audit data to be captured using standard phone cameras and automates the classification, counting and measuring of elements.

Our built environment is responsible for approximately 40% of Carbon emissions, approximately half of which is in the embodied Carbon of construction materials. Our models of redevelopment must embrace material reuse in order to meet our Net Zero targets. Material Index is committed to enabling the transition to a circular built environment.

Agave Networks is a B2B online platform for the domestic and international exchange of recovered metals using digital product passports for materials’ existence, quality & shipment verification.

We help scrap yards and foundries worldwide to trade recovered metals openly and securely, eliminating the need for personal trust, which can be expensive, time-consuming and risky. Our platform creates immutable digital product passports for each recovered metal a supplier wants to trade. By using computer vision algorithms, our algorithm verifies the materials’ existence, quality and shipment, enabling a secure, efficient and open marketplace for recovered metals.

We gather images and videos from our users’ scrap metal offers using available infrastructure like cameras and smartphones, and our CV algorithms validate the material’s existence, quality and even shipments. Agave Networks is the only end-to-end solution enabling businesses in the metal recycling and recovering value chain to engage in a secure, efficient and reliable trade, helping the industry take a step further into becoming an open-marketplace and net-zero.

Veunex, a visionary startup, is poised to revolutionise safety, particularly in the realms of Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE), by harnessing the formidable capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data. At its core, Veunex is committed to ushering in a new era of occupational and process safety, fundamentally changing how we perceive and manage risks. Pioneer enterprises are already glimpsing the future of HSE through our innovative solutions.

At the heart of Veunex’s mission lies the integration of all risk sources and reaction sources using the formidable capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI (Gen AI). We are unwavering in our commitment to infuse integrity into all HSE practices and organisational processes.

We recognize that the modern world is brimming with complex interdependencies, where even a minor lapse in one sector can trigger catastrophic consequences across multiple domains within an enterprise and its environment. That’s why Veunex not only monitors, analyses, and responds to potential risks in real time but also proactively equips organisations to identify and mitigate risks long before they materialise.
Our ambition knows no bounds. Veunex relentlessly applied AI and Gen AI to anticipate, prevent, and manage risks across diverse sectors, including construction, drilling rigs, refineries, chemicals, and manufacturing. Our objective is crystal clear: to significantly reduce the likelihood of major accidents capable of disrupting cities and causing immeasurable suffering.
Veunex envisions a world where AI serves as humanity’s guardian angel, where predictive analytics and intelligent decision-making preempt disasters before they escalate. Through the fusion of technology, data, and human ingenuity, we are charting a course toward a safer, more resilient future.

Background
The genesis of Attent is a tale of grit, perseverance, and groundbreaking vision. Founder and CEO Kelvin Lee initiated this journey while working as an electrician, dedicating years to creating working prototypes sometimes even from his hotel room. His expertise forged a foundation strong enough to build a marvel in electrical distribution monitoring and safety. The journey reached its pinnacle with the collaboration of industry stalwarts – Alex Lennon and Michael Hull, who brought prowess in software and hardware respectively to the table. Together, they harnessed the power of embedded Artificial Intelligence, steering a revolution in electrical safety with the creation of a groundbreaking AIOT device – Attent.

Introduction
Imagine, right now, the power cuts out. Suddenly, rooms go dark, businesses fall silent, and a wave of uncertainty takes hold. It’s in this critical moment that innovation and foresight shine brightest, standing tall against the chaos. This is where the spirit of a startup meets the breakthrough power of Artificial Intelligence technology. It is here that Attent comes to life, offering not just a solution, but a revolution.

Kelvin Lee, accompanied by a team of seasoned professionals, pioneers this startup, ushering in Attent — a culmination of peak innovation, born from the dynamic interplay of entrepreneurial spirit and futuristic vision. Attent stands as a guardian in the realm of electrical distribution monitoring, utilising artificial intelligence not just to predict potential electrical disruptions before they occur but to instantly notify the person responsible for the electrical distribution system in the event of a power failure, ensuring an unmatched level of safety and prompt responsiveness.

With Attent, we are not just predicting the future, but actively shaping a new era where reliability is the norm, guiding society to a reality where the stress and worry of unexpected power disruptions are relegated to history. Experience the revolution with Attent, where cutting-edge technology meets peace of mind, promising a landscape of electrical monitoring that is more secure, more reliable, and astonishingly predictive, thanks to the power of Artificial Intelligence.

Attent pledges to be your unwavering guardian, heralding a future untouched by the unpredictabilities that come with electrical failures.

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YellowDog solves compute complexity. The platform enables customers to locate, schedule and automatically provision the best compute for their requirements, whether that is by price, machine type, location, energy efficiency and more. Supporting compute-intensive companies across AI / ML, Engineering, Life Sciences and Research.

YellowDog is partnered with all major cloud and compute providers, enabling multi-cloud and on-premise compute management, capable of scaling to millions of cores in minutes (including GPU, FPGA and AI-specific cores). BridgeAI participants can access six months free license usage and expert consultancy to support technology teams.

Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ignited the era of modern AI and is fueling the creation of the industrial metaverse. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing company with data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping industry. More information at https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.

Supercharge your growth with the Google for Startups Cloud Program. Get access to startup experts, your Google Cloud and Firebase costs covered up to $200,000 USD (up to $350,000 USD for AI startups) over 2 years, technical training, business support, and Google-wide offers. We offer two program tiers, Start and Scale, providing eligible startups with resources, support, and discounts to build and grow your business on Google Cloud. More information at https://cloud.google.com/startup/apply?hl=en#application-form

AWS Activate is a free programme specifically designed for startups and early stage entrepreneurs that offers the resources needed to get started on AWS. As an AWS Activate member, you get free tools, resources, content and expert support to accelerate your startup at every stage.

The Port of Tyne, the gateway port in the North-East, is a major deep-sea port located near the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is one of the UK’s largest and busiest ports, handling a diverse range of cargoes, including bulk commodities, forest products, cars, and containers. The port plays a key role in facilitating trade and transportation in the region and beyond.
The port operates a container terminal on its South Shields estate next to river Tyne, which gets regular weekly calls from feeder vessels from Felixstowe and Rotterdam leading to movement of containers to and from the terminal for various customers.

TfL is the integrated transportation authority responsible for managing the public transportation network in Greater London. TfL oversees various modes of transportation, including buses, trains, the London Underground, river services, cycling infrastructure, and road systems. The organisation plays a crucial role in planning, operating, and improving the transportation network to ensure safe, efficient, and accessible travel for London residents and visitors.

RailX’s online digital platform enables customers to obtain a quote and make bookings for the movement of intermodal goods (shipping containers) by rail freight including the final mile arrangements by road. The platform also provides a GLEC-approved carbon saving calculation.

The UK attracts approximately 6,000,000 shipping containers movements per annum, the majority arriving at the UK deep-sea ports of Felixstowe, Southampton and London Gateway, only 10% of which are currently moved by rail. RailX provides SMEs with easy access to rail freight bookings with a view to creating a modal shift from road to rail.

Marks & Clerk is one of the world’s leading IP firms. Its team of patent and trade mark attorneys is one of the largest in Europe, recognised alongside its team of solicitors as leaders in their field. Globally the firm has over 300 IP practitioners based in 15 locations operating across all sectors. The firm has unrivalled wealth and depth of expertise across a wide range of technical areas and specialist fields including: Digital (e.g. Machine Learning, AR/VR, Internet of Things), Medical Devices & Biotech, Creative Industries, Financial Services, Food & Drink, Agritech and Energy & Environment. Its client base is diverse, ranging from well-known multinational corporations to new ventures. Marks & Clerk work with numerous start-ups and spin-outs, as well as with entrepreneurs – helping them identify, protect, enforce and maximise the value of their intellectual property; and many companies have secured investment or succeeded with other commercial aims as a result.

As the UK’s National Standards Body, we provide solutions to support government policies, tackle future challenges, and deliver trust for the benefit of all sectors and society.

By instilling best practices across all industries we open up market access and trade, drive innovation, and strengthen consumer trust.
We bring together a community of over 12,000 experts, striving to create positive change through our development of purpose driven standards and services.

By giving a voice to consumers and providing best practice to solve collective issues, we are shaping a safe and sustainable society that is ready to tackle the challenges of tomorrow.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the UK’s independent body set up to uphold information rights. The Innovation Hub is an ICO service that seeks to influence innovators at an early stage of product or service development to ensure a privacy respectful approach.

 Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, is the UK’s innovation agency. It works to create a better future by inspiring, involving and investing in businesses developing life-changing innovations. Its mission is to help companies to grow through their development and commercialisation of new products, processes and services, supported by an outstanding innovation ecosystem that is agile, inclusive and easy to navigate.