UK BUSINESS AI UNIVERSE: Places: South East: Software and tools

Software and tools

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Record	What it is	Place	Links	Confidence
DiffblueCompanies	Makes an AI agent that writes unit tests for Java code automatically, so developers do not have to write the tests by hand.software testing Profile Founded null (Oxford University spin-out) Founders Daniel Kroening — founder; professor of computer science at Oxford University Hq null (Oxford University spin-out; city of base not printed) What it does Uses AI to write unit tests for existing software code automatically, so developers can find bugs and change code more safely. Products AI test-writing tool; planned refactoring tool (2017) — dates null Rounds found 2017-06-27 — Series A — 22m USD — Goldman Sachs Principal Strategy Investments — Oxford Sciences Innovations, Oxford Technology and Innovations Fund Status now Active per existing record; no 2025–2026 page opened this round. Confidence single_source Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.	Oxford (operating base per releases); registered office London (EC4A 3TW)	Companies House · businesswire.com/news/home/20250331532523/en/Dif · businesswire.com/news/home/20251104720918/en · joplinglobe.com/region/national_business/new-dif · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.	verified
ICS.AICompanies	Basingstoke company selling AI assistants to public bodies, such as a hospital ward assistant and council customer-service bots.	Basingstoke (RG24 8AG )	Companies House · applytosupply.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/ · applytosupply.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/ · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/ai/local-government-ai-trial-nets-7-	verified
InfoSumCompanies	Data collaboration platform, founded in Basingstoke, that lets firms match customer records without sharing raw data; bought by WPP in 2025. acquireddata clean roomKey facts Total raised $90m since 2016 (2021-08); more than 50 new customers since September 2020 Series A (2021-08); employee base doubled since Series A (2021-08); media customers Channel 4, DIRECTV, ITV, Netflix, News Corp, Samsung Ads (2025-04); joins WPP's GroupM and WPP Open, adding federated learning for client AI models (2025-04); valued at $300m in 2021, per the Wall Street Journal as cited by Marketing Brew (trade)	Basingstoke (founded); described as New York-based in 2021	infosum.com/blog/wpp-acquires-infosum · uktech.news/news/uk-founded-adtech-infosum-raise	verified
Mach42 (formerly Machine Discovery)Companies	Oxford University spin-out whose machine-learning software predicts how designs, starting with analogue chips, will behave. renamed Models and products (1) Mach42 Discovery Platform (Mach42) 2026-07-21 liveMach42's AI platform that builds fast stand-in models of slow simulations, first for analogue chip design.	Oxford (OX4 4GP)	Companies House · uktech.news/ai/machine-discovery-simulations-fun · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · mach42.ai/resource-IntroducingMach42.html	verified
Mind FoundryCompanies	An Oxford University spin-out that makes AI software to turn sensor data into findings people can trust, now sold mainly for defence and security. Profile Founded 2016 (UKTN 2021) Founders Stephen Roberts — co-founder; Michael Osborne — co-founder Hq Oxford (England: South East) What it does An Oxford University spin-out building AI systems for public-sector and private-sector organisations. Funding total as published 13.7m GBP — as of 2021-06 — https://www.uktech.news/news/ai-for-good-startups-in-uk-20210621 Status now Active per existing record; no 2025–2026 page opened this round. Confidence single_source Round 6 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; sources are listed in the record panel.	Ewert House, Ewert Place, Oxford (OX2 7DD)	Companies House · mindfoundry.ai/contact · mindfoundry.ai/resources/newsroom · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.	verified
Oxford Semantic TechnologiesCompanies	Made RDFox, a database and reasoning engine for knowledge graphs that joins up facts from many sources; bought by Samsung Electronics in 2024. acquiredknowledge graphs	Oxford (OX2 0HA)	Companies House · uktech.news/tech-hubs/south-east/oxford/samsung- · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · oxfordscienceenterprises.com/news/oxford-semanti · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.	verified
Poindexter LabsCompanies	Produces expert-level training data for advanced AI models, using subject-matter experts on its own platform.	Sunningdale (registered office, SL5 0LD )	Companies House · tech.eu/2026/06/02/poindexter-labs-raises-ps2m-t · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.	verified
QuantrolOxCompanies	AI software that automatically tunes the qubits of quantum computers, whatever the hardware.	Oxford (OX1 4HL )	Companies House · uktech.news/deep-tech/oxford-ai-quantum-computer · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.	verified