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RecordWhat it isPlaceLinksConfidence
44pixelsCompaniesMaker of Clara, an AI that answers business phone calls.technation.io/upscale-2026-cohort-announcement/one source
Assembled (UK office)CompaniesSan Francisco firm selling customer-facing AI agents and support workforce management; opened a London office as its European base in 2025.support agents and workforce managementKey facts Founded 2018; Series B $51m (£37.8m) (2022, per linked report); named clients Etsy, Robinhood, Stripe (2025-06)Londonuktech.news/ai/assembled-opens-london-office-202one source
Connex OneCompaniesManchester cloud platform for omnichannel customer contact and automation, which raised £93m in 2022.AI customer engagement platformKey facts Series C £93m (2022-10); 35 staff at Manchester HQ (2018-05); 8.5 million interactions a day (2018-05); revenue expected about £6m in 2018 (2018-05); offices opened in Miami, Barcelona and Melbourne (2022); target workforce of 1,000 (2022-10); customers O2, Gousto (2022-10)Manchesterbusinesscloud.co.uk/news/93m-series-c-funding-fo · uktech.news/saas/connex-one-series-c-20221010one source
ConveoCompaniesLondon firm whose AI moderator interviews real people on video and builds a searchable store of consumer insight for brands and agencies.AI-moderated video interviewsKey facts Team of 90; YC Summer 2024; YC page lists news headlines "Conveo raises $50M Series A" (2026-09-02) and "$5.3M" (2025-03-06)Londonycombinator.com/companies/conveoone source
HostcommCompaniesUK-owned contact-centre and telephony provider, trading since 2004, that now sells AI voice and chat agents hosted in AWS London.contact-centre AI voice agentsKey facts 500+ UK organisations served (2026); AI voice agent Persona in 30+ languages (2026); PCI DSS Level 1 five years running (2026); on G-Cloud 14 (2026); named customers BT, HMRC, Scottish Power, HomeServe, Kantar (2026)hostcomm.co.uk/one source
IRIS Audio TechnologiesCompaniesUK-headquartered company whose AI removes background noise from calls; its IRIS Clarity product is sold to call centres.AI call noise removalKey facts Series A £5.6m, first institutional investment (2023-04); claims average handling time cut by up to 11% and transcription accuracy up more than 10% (2023-04); customers include call centres and Red Bull Racing (2023-04); research partners Goldsmiths and Mount Sinai (2023-04)businesscloud.co.uk/news/iris-ai-voice-isolationone source
MotivesCompaniesLondon start-up running qualitative consumer research and focus groups with AI interviewers for large consumer brands.AI-run focus groupsKey facts YC Summer 2025; case study with Wild (a Unilever acquisition) testing packaging conceptsLondonycombinator.com/companies/motivesone source
NatterboxCompaniesCloud business phone system used to run call centres, record calls and analyse voice for sales and service teams.Salesforce telephony and voice analyticsKey facts Over 450 organisations use it (2018-04); customers include Groupon, Canon, Legal & General (2018-04); total raised £8m including founder funding (2018-04)uktech.news/news/global-com-firm-natterbox-nabs-one source
NeuralSpaceCompaniesSpeech and language-processing tools for many languages, sold to developers and businesses. dissolvedspeech and language technologyLondonCompanies House · uktech.news/ai/neuralspace-funding-seed-20220920 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
OpenDialogCompaniesA platform for designing and running chat-based AI assistants without writing code.conversational AILondon (WC2R 0EX)Companies House · uktech.news/ai/opendialog-ai-4m-20220524 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
Parloa (UK office)CompaniesBerlin-based AI agent platform for customer communications; opened its first London office in June 2026.enterprise voice AI agentsKey facts Series D $350m (£260m) at $3bn valuation (2026-01); unicorn since 2025-05; offices Berlin, Munich, New York, France, Spain; Milan from 2026-07-01 (2026-06)Londonuktech.news/news/berlin-based-unicorn-parloa-ope · tech.eu/2026/10/15/ai-europes-10-most-funded-comone source
Pri0r1ty Intelligence GroupCompaniesAIM-quoted AI software firm for small businesses covering social media, investor relations and governance, with an AI advisory bot.AI investor-relations botKey facts Joined AIM via Alteration Earth SPAC with a £13m acquisition deal and £1m working-capital raise (2024-12); over 20 SME customers in first six weeks after launch (2024-12)uktech.news/ai/ai-firm-pri0r1ty-to-join-the-londone source
SpeechmaticsCompanies · also on LabsMakes 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
WluperCompaniesBuilt conversational AI for voice assistants with deep knowledge of one subject, starting with in-car navigation; the company was liquidated and dissolved in 2025. dissolvedconversational AILondon (registered office was 322 High Holborn until May 2024)Companies House · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
Xentric AICompaniesPlatform for voice and text chatbots that automate conversations with users.digicatapult.org.uk/about/press-releases/post/laone source

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