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RecordWhat it isPlaceLinksConfidence
1SpatialCompaniesListed Cambridge company that helps organisations manage and improve the quality of location-based data.geospatial data qualityKey facts Revenue up 3% to £33.4m, year to January 2025; recurring revenue 62% of total; €9m Belgian digital-twin contract started late; first significant sales of 1Streetworks SaaS (2025-03)Cambridgeuktech.news/news/investment-news/1spatial-sharesone source
Fetch.aiCompaniesMakes software for building, finding and running AI agents that act for people and businesses, including a consumer app that coordinates brand agents.AI agents
Profile
Founded
2017 (UKTN 2021 Cambridge list)
Founders
Humayun Sheikh — co-founder and CEO; Thomas Hain — co-founder; Toby Simpson — co-founder (UKTN 2021)
Chief executive
Humayun Sheikh — from null (CEO in 2021-03)
Hq
Cambridge (England: East of England)
What it does
Builds a blockchain-based platform where software "agents" representing people or machines trade and coordinate, with machine learning on a shared ledger; the network runs on its own token, FET.
Products
decentralised machine-learning platform on a distributed ledger; FET token; agent-based exchange system — dates null
Customers named
Festo (decentralised marketplace) — https://www.uktech.news/news/cambridge-based-fetch-ai-by-deepmind-pioneers-scores-3-6m-for-developing-decentralised-ai-20210315
Partnerships
Fireblocks — wallet and infrastructure platform to add FET — 2021-03; Festo — decentralised marketplace — 2021-03
Usage or revenue as published
a multi-agent system integrated with over 700,000 hotels (unnamed) — 2021-03-15 — UKTN
Funding total as published
16.9m GBP — as of 2021-05 — https://www.uktech.news/news/promising-deep-tech-startups-of-cambridge-2021-20210510
Rounds found
2021-03-15 — investment — 5m USD (3.6m GBP) — GDA Group — null
Status now
Active per existing record (existing records DEAL-SW-017/018 show 2024 collapse and rename events, not re-checked).
Confidence
single_source (two trade pages, no primary)

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

Cambridge (stated base; registered office IP33 1NE)Companies House · businesswire.com/news/home/20251119088395/en · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
NetcallCompaniesBedford-based AIM-listed software firm whose Liberty cloud platform adds AI document processing from its Parble acquisition.low-code and AI automationKey facts Revenue £39.1m FY2024; turnover £23m in the second half of 2024, up 25%; cloud products 76% of total annual contract value; cloud sales up 45% year on year (2025-03)Bedforduktech.news/cloud/netcall-bolsters-ai-cloud-offeone source
RainbirdCompaniesNorwich company with an AI decision-making platform that captures staff expertise as automated advice; a Techstars alumnus.rules-based decision AIKey facts Joined Tech City UK Upscale 3.0 (2018-02); Mastercard Start Path Global class (2016-03)Norwichuktech.news/tech-hubs/the-east-of-england/tech-i · uktech.news/news/mastercard-partners-with-norwicone source
SpeechmaticsCompaniesMakes speech-to-text software that understands many languages, sold to other companies to build into their products.speech recognition
Profile
Founded
2009 (UKTN 2021 Cambridge list)
Founders
Tony Robinson — founder (UKTN 2021)
Chief executive
Katy Wigdahl — from null (CEO in June 2022 per UKTN; still CEO April 2026 per company); John Milliken was chief executive in October 2019
Other leaders
Lauren King — Chief Marketing Officer (2026-01); Jonathan Klahr (Susquehanna Growth Equity) — board member (from 2022-06)
Hq
Cambridge (England: East of England); company boilerplate says "headquartered in Cambridge and London"
Other offices
London; Boston (Outside the UK); Chennai, India (Outside the UK); Czech Republic (Outside the UK) — offices as listed by UKTN 2022-06
What it does
Speech-to-text software sold through an API. It turns live or recorded speech in 55+ languages into text, in the cloud, on a company's own servers or on the device itself, and is used for voice agents, captioning and medical note-taking.
Products
Medical Model for Real-time (medical speech-to-text; 93% accuracy, 96% medical keyword recall) — preview 2025-09-15; On Device speech-to-text model — 2025 (in Adobe Premiere 2026-04-21); ForceEndOfUtterance (final transcript within 250ms) — by 2026-02; English-Arabic bilingual model — announced for early 2026
Customers named
Deloitte UK, 3Play Media, Veritone — https://uktech.news/ai/speechmatics-series-b-20220628; AI-Media, Content Guru, Nordhealth Therapy — https://www.speechmatics.com/company/articles-and-news/speechmatics-sets-record-in-medical-speech-to-text-with-93-percent-accuracy; Adobe (Premiere) — https://www.speechmatics.com/company/articles-and-news/adobe-and-speechmatics-deliver-cloud-grade-speech-recognition-on-device-for-premiere
Partnerships
Boost.ai — enterprise voice AI for regulated industries in Europe, extending to the US — 2026-02-12; Sully.ai — autonomous healthcare agents and scribes on NVIDIA infrastructure — 2026-01-12; Adobe — on-device speech-to-text in Premiere — 2026-04-21; NVIDIA — medical model optimised through NVIDIA Triton Inference Server — 2025-09-15; LiveKit and Pipecat — voice-agent platform partners — by 2025-09; Edvak EHR — speech layer for clinical documentation in an AI-native health record system — 2026-02-17; Ambarella — speech recognition on Ambarella CVflow AI chips for offline edge devices, shown at CES — 2025-01-02; Barometer — transcription and brand-safety data for podcast advertising — 2025-04-22
Usage or revenue as published
real-time usage up 4x 2024 to 2025; voice-agent usage up 9x in 2025; medical model usage up 15x year on year — 2026-01-07 — https://www.speechmatics.com/company/articles-and-news/speechmatics-in-2025-the-numbers-that-shaped-voice-ais-breakthrough-year; medical models available in English, German, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish and Arabic — 2026-02-17 — https://www.speechmatics.com/company/articles-and-news/speechmatics-and-edvak-ehr-partner-to-make-voice-safe-for-clinical-automation
Funding total as published
10.2m GBP — as of 2021-05 (before the 2022 Series B) — https://www.uktech.news/news/promising-deep-tech-startups-of-cambridge-2021-20210510
Rounds found
2019-10-21 — Series A — 6.35m GBP — AlbionVC — IQ Capital, angel investors; 2022-06-28 — Series B — 62m USD (50.3m GBP) — Susquehanna Growth Equity — AlbionVC, IQ Capital (already DEAL-SW-053)
Status now
Active; Cambridge-based speech-to-text company led by Katy Wigdahl, announcing healthcare and voice-agent partnerships through 2026.
Confidence
verified (CEO on trade and primary pages); funding rounds single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

Models and products (3)
  1. Oak-1 (Speechmatics medical speech-to-text model) 2026-10-14 liveSpeechmatics' medical transcription model for clinical consultations where several people speak and the language may change.
  2. Linden-1 (Speechmatics Agent STT model) 2026-09-17 liveSpeechmatics' fast speech-recognition model built for AI voice agents, returning who said what in real time.
  3. Melia (Speechmatics multilingual speech-to-text model) 2026-06-17 live (production preview, batch transcription)Speechmatics' speech-to-text model that follows speakers who switch between languages within one recording.
Cambridge (CB4 0AE)Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/ai/speechmatics-series-b-20220628 · uktech.news/featured/speechmatics-raises-6-35m-s · uktech.news/ai/speechmatics-series-b-20220628one source
UndoCompaniesCambridge software that records a program's full run so AI coding agents can find the cause of bugs.developer tools
Profile
Founders
Greg Law — founder and CEO
Chief executive
Greg Law — from null
Hq
Cambridge (England: East of England)
Other offices
null (plans to grow teams across the US and Europe)
What it does
Records the full execution history of a running program so that developers, and now AI coding agents, can replay it and find the root cause of software bugs.
Products
time-travel debugging and execution recordings for AI agents — date null
Rounds found
2026-06-16 — round — 37m USD (27.6m GBP) — Elsewhere Partners — null (already DEAL-LC-099)
Status now
Active; Cambridge debugging company that raised 37m USD in June 2026 to serve AI coding agents.
Confidence
single_source

Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.

Cambridge (CB1 3NA)Companies House · uktech.news/ai/undo-raises-27-6m-to-boost-softwa · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified

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