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RecordWhat it isPlaceLinksConfidence
AtlaCompaniesTrains AI models whose job is to check and score the answers of other AI models.AI evaluationLondonatla-ai.com/jobs/research-engineer · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · ycombinator.com/companies/atlaone source
ComposalCompaniesSends swarms of AI agents to use a product as its customers would, finding bugs before release.London (—)ycombinator.com/companies/composal · ycombinator.com/companies/industry/Developer%20Tone source
DiffblueCompaniesMakes 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
ETIQ AICompaniesTesting tool that helps data scientists find and fix bias in their machine-learning models.digicatapult.org.uk/about/press-releases/post/10 · etiq.ai/posts/etiq-ai-announce-eu900-000-seed-fuone source
Evidently AICompaniesOpen-source tool for monitoring and evaluating machine-learning and LLM systems in production.open-source ML monitoringKey facts Team size 2 (YC profile, 2026-10); YC Summer 2021 batch; GitHub evidentlyaiLondonycombinator.com/companies/evidently-aione source
HumanloopCompaniesMade software for managing prompts and for testing and monitoring apps built on large language models; its team joined Anthropic in 2025 and the product closed. wound_downLLM evaluationLondon (operating base as reported); registered office Cambridge (CB1 2LA)Companies House · techcrunch.com/2025/08/13/anthropic-nabs-humanlo · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.one source
LaminarCompaniesOpen-source tracing and debugging platform that records every LLM call and tool use by AI agents.AI agent observabilityKey facts Team size 6 (YC profile, 2026-10); users named: Browser Use, OpenHands, Rye.com, Alai (2026-03); default observability tool in Browser Use docs (2026-03)Londontech.eu/2026/03/17/agent-debugging-startup-lamin · ycombinator.com/companies/laminarone source
ManaMindCompaniesAutonomous AI agents that play video games to find bugs and write reports while the game is being built.AI agents for game testingKey facts Design partners: Included Games, Crazy Labs (2026-04)Londontech.eu/2026/04/30/manamind-secures-15m-to-develone source
MeticulousCompaniesRecords real user sessions and replays them against each code change to catch interface bugs, including in AI-written code.automated UI testingKey facts Team size 15 (YC profile, 2026-10); YC Summer 2021 batchLondonycombinator.com/companies/meticulousone source
Unlikely AICompanies · also on LabsBuilds its own AI for decisions in regulated fields such as financial services, accounting and insurance, where answers must be explainable and correct.
Profile
Legal name
null (footer "© 2026 UnlikelyAI")
Founders
William Tunstall-Pedoe — founder and CEO
Chief executive
William Tunstall-Pedoe — from null
Other leaders
Tom Mason — senior hire, former CTO of Stability AI (title at UnlikelyAI not stated) — announced 1 September 2025; Amelia Armour — board member (Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners) — 2022; Berkowitz (first name not given) — board member — 2022; Rishy Shukla — Applied Science Manager; Ailish McLaughlin — Solutions Lead
Hq
null (described as a "U.K. foundation model maker"); other_offices: null
What it does
A UK company building "neurosymbolic" AI for decisions where errors are costly. It turns documents and rules written in plain language into a structured form, so answers can be explained and repeated exactly. It sells to financial services (customer chat guardrails), accounting (disclosure checklists) and insurance (routine claims).
Research focus
neurosymbolic AI; explainable and consistent decision-making; guardrails for LLMs
Models and products
UnlikelyAI platform — decisioning for fintech, accounting and insurance — 2026 (site); research site lab.unlikely.ai
Customers or partners named
Lloyds Banking Group — testimonial from Ranil Boteju, Chief Data and Analytics Officer — 2026 — https://unlikely.ai/
Papers and awards
National AI Awards 2026 — AI Innovation of the Year (UnlikelyAI) and Alan Turing Innovator of the Year (William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng) — July 2026
Funding total as published
20,000,000 USD seed (plus a £1.1m angel round in October 2020) — as of 15 September 2022 — https://unlikely.ai/unlikely-ai-raises-20m-in-oversubscribed-seed-round
Rounds found
2020-10 — angel — 1,100,000 GBP — none (26 angel investors) — (NEW: DEAL-LAB-9013); 2022-09-15 — seed — 20,000,000 USD — Amadeus Capital Partners and Octopus Ventures (co-leads) — Cambridge Innovation Capital, Metaplanet (Jaan Tallinn) and others (already DEAL-LAB-030)
Status now
Active; won two National AI Awards in July 2026 and posted company news up to 29 October 2026.

Labs Round 7 deep profile (30 Oct 2026), as the researchers wrote it; confidence: single_source (all from company pages; seed round already verified in the deal file).

Sources

  1. unlikely.ai/unlikely-ai-raises-20m-in-oversubscr
  2. unlikely.ai/newsroom/ai-awards-2026
  3. unlikely.ai/
  4. unlikely.ai/newsroom/alexa-co-creator-gives-firs
  5. unlikely.ai/newsroom
Models and products (1)
  1. UnlikelyAI neurosymbolic platform 2026-07-22 in useUnlikelyAI's platform joining neural models with symbolic logic so banks, insurers and accountants can check AI decisions.
LondonCompanies House · unlikely.ai/ · uktech.news/ai/unlikely-ai-funding-20220915 · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov. · find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.verified

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