UK BUSINESS AI UNIVERSE: Places: North West: Software and tools

Founded

2011 (company page: "Empowering data teams since 2011")

Founders

Matthew Scullion — co-founder (CEO until 2026); Ed Thompson — co-founder and CTO

Chief executive

Girish Pancha — from 2026-08-04 (news listing headline; the announcement page itself would not open)

Other leaders

Sanjay Krishnamurthi — Chief Development Officer; Ed Thompson — CTO; Graeme Cantu-Park — CIO and CISO; Narayan Menon — President of Operations and CFO; Tim O'Neil — Chief Revenue Officer (from 2026-03-11); Kimberly Trull — General Counsel

Hq

Manchester (England: North West) — company states "dual headquarters in Denver and Manchester"

Other offices

Denver, Colorado (Outside the UK)

What it does

Data integration and pipeline software for cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake and Databricks. Its Maia product is a set of AI agents that build data pipelines from plain-language requests.

Products

Maia — "a team of agentic AI data engineers" that build end-to-end pipelines from natural-language prompts, invitation only at launch — 2025-06-03; Data integration platform native on Snowflake Marketplace — 2025-03-11; no-code GenAI pipeline features for Databricks users — 2024-06-12

Customers named

Cisco, DocuSign, St. James Place, Slack, TUI — https://www.matillion.com/about; London Stock Exchange Group, EDF — https://www.matillion.com/news/matillion-unveils-agentic-data-team-maia; Merck, GE Healthcare, Precision for Medicine, ServiceNow — https://www.matillion.com/news/matillion-appoints-tim-oneil-as-chief-revenue-officer

Partnerships

Snowflake — platform launched natively on Snowflake Marketplace — 2025-03-11; Snowflake — Maia launched at Snowflake Summit 2025 with integrations to Snowflake Cortex AI and Snowpark Container Services — 2025-06-03; Databricks — GenAI features for Databricks users — 2024-06-12

Usage or revenue as published

"Thousands of enterprises" — 2025-06-03 — https://www.matillion.com/news/matillion-unveils-agentic-data-team-maia

Valuation reported

1.5bn USD — Series E (date not printed beside it) — https://www.matillion.com/about; CRO release says "minted as a unicorn in 2021" — single_source (two primary pages, no independent source opened)

Rounds found

date null — Series A — amount null — YFM Equity Partners (a lead) — null; date null — Series B — amount null — Sapphire Ventures and Scale Venture Partners (leads) — null; date null — Series C — amount null — Battery Ventures (a lead) — null; date null — Series D — amount null — Lightspeed Venture Partners (a lead) — null (already DEAL-SW-041, 2021-02-16); date null — Series E — amount null — null — General Atlantic listed among investors

Status now

Active; dual headquarters in Manchester and Denver; Girish Pancha named chief executive in August 2026, with Matthew Scullion's new role not confirmed on a page opened.

Confidence

verified (CEO change on two primary pages); other fields single_source

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

Founded

2022 (UKTN roundup, 2026-02-20)

Founders

null (UKTN names Tobie Morgan Hitchcock as chief executive only)

Chief executive

Tobie Morgan Hitchcock — from null (CEO in 2026-02)

Other leaders

Mike Chalfen (founder, Chalfen Ventures) — director from 2026-02

Hq

London (England: London) — UKTN roundup 2026-02-20

What it does

A database that holds many kinds of data in one system — tables, documents, graphs, time series, vectors for AI search, maps and key-value pairs — with real-time updates.

Products

SurrealDB 3.0 — by 2026-02

Rounds found

2024 — Series A — 14.8m GBP — null — null; 2026-02-17 — Series A extension — 23m USD (17m GBP) — no lead stated — Chalfen Ventures, Begin Capital (new); FirstMark, Georgian (existing) (already DEAL-LC-075)

Open source

null (stars not stated)

Status now

Active; extended its Series A in February 2026.

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.