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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
Analytics EnginesCompaniesBelfast data company that builds data-integration, machine-learning and analytics systems for clients.data analytics1 Chlorine Gardens, Belfast (BT9 5DJ )Companies House · qub.ac.uk/Research/case-studies/big-data-applica · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
Atera Analytics LtdCompanies · also on Start-upsData-modelling and AI company that took part in the transport strand of the BridgeAI accelerator. listed in BridgeAI accelerator cohort 2 (transport)digicatapult.org.uk/programmes/programme/bridgea · digicatapult.org.uk/about/press-releases/post/dione source
Cirata (formerly WANdisco)CompaniesAIM-listed Sheffield and California data management firm, renamed from WANdisco in 2023 after a sales fraud was found.data migration and replicationKey facts FY22 revenue reported as $24m could be as low as $9m (2023-03); $115.4m of bookings found false (2023-08); 47.5m new shares issued in £24m raise (2023-07); expected quarterly bookings $2.7m, cash $18.2m at 31 Dec 2023 (2024-01); eight data integration contracts incl. General Motors, NatWest, Experian (2024-01)Sheffielduktech.news/big-data/wandisco-suspends-shares-fr · uktech.news/the-circuit/in-conversation-with-cirverified
DatacticsCompaniesBelfast company that makes software to find and fix errors and duplicates in large organisations' data.data qualityBelfast (registered office London W1W 5PF)Companies House · uktech.news/news/edinburgh-based-early-stage-vc- · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
DtechtiveCompaniesSoftware that uses AI to improve the descriptions (metadata) of datasets so people can find them.data discoveryLondon (registered office only) (WC2H 9JQ )Companies House · techuk.org/membership/members/6d76791c-8e31-f011 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
DucoCompaniesCloud platform that helps banks and other financial firms standardise, check and match their data.data reconciliationKey facts Clients use it "globally at a strategic level" (2018-01); plans to grow headcount in Europe and US (2018-01)London (article tag)uktech.news/news/investment-news/data-firm-duco-one source
HarbrCompaniesLondon platform that lets large organisations exchange and share big data sets securely.enterprise data exchangeKey facts Series A came six months after leaving stealth (2020-11)Londontech.eu/features/34153/today-in-european-tech-ha · uktech.news/featured/uk-tech-news-roundup-novembone source
Instill AICompaniesOpen tools that turn images, video, audio and text into structured data that AI applications can use. in_liquidationdata infrastructureLondon (as published)Companies House · uktech.news/ai/instill-ai-funding-deepmind-20230 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
Kleene.aiCompaniesLondon cloud platform that extracts, loads and transforms company data so analysts and business users can work with it.ELT data platformKey facts Customers The Modern Milkman, Blue Light Card, VROMO (2021-04); planned support for Azure Synapse Analytics and Google BigQuery (2021-04)Londonuktech.news/big-data/kleeneai-raises-15m-to-builone source
LightdashCompaniesOpen-source business intelligence platform for companies' data stacks, run from London and San Francisco.open-source BIKey facts Seed $8.4m (2022-10); Series A £8m (2024-10); company jointly registered in US and UK (2022-10); runs "Lightdash University" training scheme (2022-10)Londonuktech.news/big-data/lightdash-raises-7-4m-20221 · uktech.news/funding/uk-tech-funding-roundup-thisone source
MatillionCompaniesMakes cloud software that moves and prepares company data so it can be used for analysis and AI.data integration
Profile
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.

Manchester (registered office Salford, M3 5GS)Companies House · uktech.news/news/cloud-data-integration-manchest · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · uktech.news/news/matillion-raises-35m-in-series-verified
PanintelligenceCompaniesLeeds software firm whose "Pi" suite turns data into reports and live dashboards that other software firms embed in their products.embedded analyticsKey facts 200,000+ users worldwide in retail, education, local government and health (2019-11); 40 staff (2019-11); established 2014Leedsuktech.news/funding/panintelligence-raises-4-5m-one source
QuixCompaniesLondon cloud platform for building real-time, event-driven data applications, started by four former McLaren engineers.real-time data streamingKey facts Earlier £2.3m seed (before 2022-11); Series A for product development and open-source work (2022-11)Londonuktech.news/saas/quix-series-a-20221114one source
Research Data ScotlandNetworks, bodies, events and mediaNot-for-profit funded by the Scottish Government that helps researchers and policymakers reach public-sector data.public-sector data accessKey facts Joined The Data Lab partnership programme (2023-10)Scotlandthedatalab.com/news/forth-point-rds-partnership-one source
SnowplowCompaniesMakes software that collects and organises records of what customers do online, which companies use for analytics and to build data products.customer data
Profile
Founded
2012 (UKTN)
Founders
Alexander Dean — co-founder and CEO; Yali Sassoon — co-founder
Chief executive
Alexander Dean — from null (CEO in 2019-11)
Hq
null (UKTN 2019 does not state)
What it does
Software for collecting detailed behavioural data from websites and apps ("data creation"), which companies feed into analytics and AI models.
Products
Snowplow open-source data collection products — date null
Customers named
Strava, La Presse, The Economist, Weebly, Hudl, Auto Trader, Omio, Secret Escapes — https://www.uktech.news/news/snowplow-analytics-announces-4m-series-a-funding-20191114
Usage or revenue as published
"over 150 customers" — 2019-11 — UKTN; open-source products deployed "on over 600k websites, globally" (MMC Ventures) — 2019-11 — UKTN
Rounds found
2019-11-15 — Series A — 4m GBP — MMC Ventures ("our first VC investor") — null (already DEAL-SW-042)
Open source
Snowplow open-source products — over 600,000 websites — 2019-11
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.

London (EC2A 4HH)Companies House · uktech.news/news/snowplow-analytics-announces-4m · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified
SolidatusCompaniesLondon software that maps how data flows through an organisation's systems, used by banks, drug firms and government.data lineageKey facts Four of the top 10 global systemically important banks in Europe and US as clients (2021-02); "doubled in size" in 2020 (2021-02); sectors include aerospace, manufacturing, telecoms and government (2021-02)Londonuktech.news/news/london-based-next-gen-data-manaone source
SurrealDBCompaniesDatabase software that stores tables, graphs, vectors and other data in one system, built for AI applications.databases
Profile
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.

Altrincham (registered office) (WA14 2DT)Companies House · uktech.news/ai/surrealdb-extends-series-a-202602 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · surrealdb.com/blog/surrealdb-raises-23m-series-averified
WANdisco (renamed Cirata)CompaniesAIM-listed Sheffield data software firm; a 2023 sales fraud cut its reported revenue, it raised £24m to survive and renamed itself Cirata. renameddata replication softwareKey facts FY22 revenue possibly $9m, not $24m reported (2023-03); new shares 47.5m (2023-07); closing cash $18.2m (2023-12)Sheffielduktech.news/big-data/wandisco-funding-lifeline-2 · uktech.news/tech-hubs/yorkshire-humber/sheffieldone source

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