These ventures have just started at Accelerate Cambridge. They are at various stages of development, with some having already raised their first seed round.
AI4MD
AI4MD stands for Artificial Intelligence for Material Discovery. LEDs, batteries, solar cells are forecasted to have a market size of nearly $450 billion by 2025. Current materials discovery for manufacturing next-generation energy devices relies on using trial-and-error experimentation, which is very slow and expensive. Plus, the discovered material can have limited performance, high cost and low safety, requiring years of iterative improvements to achieve satisfactory performance. AI4MD will accelerate the discovery of new promising materials using artificial intelligence, leading to materials with reduced costs, improved performance and increased safety levels. Our vision is a world that runs on clean energy.
Ambify
Ambify is an environmental health tech company developing wearable devices to reduce the impact of environmental pollutants on our health and wellbeing. Environmental pollution is considered the world's biggest invisible killer, causing up to 14 per cent of premature deaths globally.
Ambify’s integrated hardware and software solutions allow for individual, real-time and continuous monitoring to known environmental health risk factors. Our mission is to empower individuals, employers, healthcare systems and policy makers with the ability to take actionable steps towards reducing the impact of pollutants on our health.
We are backed by Entrepreneur First, one of Europe’s largest deep-tech investors, and are looking for partners to co-develop our solutions.
Cambridge Creative Education Centre
Cambridge Creative Education Centre is aimed for providing diverse creative education courses for different countries. Creative Education is to use creative pedagogies and educational theories to support education in different ways. The company has a strong research team with senior researchers and lecturers from the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. The first course is "Learning English through Drama for Years 3-12" based on the drama pedagogy research. The course includes a full package of curriculum, teacher training, textbooks and teaching tools. The teacher training system is also developed for all English teachers around the world. The company also organises study tours for teachers and students to experience creative education in Cambridge.
eCo-Sense
With rising population levels and reduction in agricultural land, global food security is at risk. In developing economies, such as India, where agriculture takes up to 14 per cent of the GDP, inefficiencies mean crop production is at 30 per cent of maximum efficiency. So, we have to ask the question, how can we improve crop growth productivity?
There exists a field known as precision agriculture, where IoT-based sensors may be embedded into the soil and can provide data by wireless transmission back to farmers, so that they may make more informed decisions on how to better manage their soil health and therefore improve their crop yields. By taking into account metrics such as temperature, humidity, moisture and CO2 emissions, and cross-referencing with satellite data on crop and soil type from an API, we are able to provide recommendations on how to optimise soil health for farmers.
The next question is how do we power these sensors? Most use a battery or solar cell, which uses unsustainable materials or is intermittent, we use a biophotovoltaic cell, which is in essence, as plants/algae grow they can produce electricity by photosynthesis. This energy can be used to power low-powered sensing kits such as the one we are developing, making this a seamless system made to be embedded in agricultural fields.
Our mission is simple: to empower farmers through information technology.
EduRebels
EduRebels uses data analytics to predict and prevent school dropouts in underprivileged areas. Currently, education law in the UK states children may leave formal schooling at the age of 16, but must remain in "full-time training" until the age of 18. This form of education is provided by further education colleges (FECs) which are funded based on the number of students they retain throughout the year. Currently, over 75,000 students leave these institutions every year - costing FECs £214 million in lost government funds. EduRebel uses behavioural and historical data analytics to create an early-warning system and a semi-structured intervention ensuring more students complete their education.
Equilibrium AI
Equilibrium AI are developing an algorithm to predict when individuals with bipolar disorder will have a mood episode. The algorithm uses passively collected sleep and activity data to predict when mood episodes will occur and notifies individuals so that they can make changes to prevent episodes or reduce the severity of the episode.
Imageheal
Imageheal is a web service for enhancing digital images. We believe everyone has the right to look good in their photos. By using our website, you can be proud of every post you make on social media. We have made Imageheal the easiest to use of all image editing tools. So now you can transform amateur images into rich professional photographs literally with one click. Just upload your photograph to imageheal.com and let us take care of the rest. We achieve this by using very sophisticated machine learning and deep learning algorithms. These so called "convolutional neural networks" allow us to perform image super-resolution, noise reduction, upsampling, color enhancement, removal of compression (such as JPEG) artefacts and improvement of the visual quality of image such as photo retouching, cosmetic improvements (such as changes to the body parts of persons in images), image re-orientation, special effects, sharpening and softening and many other forms of image enhancement.
MathSpire
MathSpire is an intelligent suite of tools for learning, teaching, and assessing advanced maths. Our platform combines automated questions, interactive graphs, and complete learning resources developed by Cambridge academics. We aim to be a leading international provider of advanced maths education, and a platform for publishers to develop online content.
Medwyse
Medwyse uses artificial intelligence to provide clinical decision support to doctors. Our mission is to organise the world's medical knowledge and extend every doctor's capabilities.
Medwyse.io is a clinical question answering platform powered by our state of the art AI model. Our AI model is trained using the latest natural language processing technologies and can understand the content and context of medical journal articles and guidelines.
Doctors can ask our AI any questions and receive concise, relevant, evidence-based and up-to-date answers in real-time. By providing clinical decision support to doctors, we enable and empower doctors to practice evidence-based medicine even in uncertain situations. This will ultimately improve patient care and positively impact patient outcomes.
We are very excited about the opportunity to bring AI technologies into the hands of doctors and fundamentally change how medicine is practiced. Get in touch if you want to know more.
ValidApp
ValidApp verifies applications to schools by testing the authorship of submitted essays and recommendation letters using forensic linguistics and natural language processing. Our software utilises advanced stylometry to test submitted writing and our system constructs a writing profile unique as a fingerprint to each and individual student. While ValidApp is initially used for application verification purposes, institutions can continue to use our services and extend it to the students' assignments and coursework. We want students who are the most deserving, not the most resourced, to get a fair shot at entry into and graduating from the world’s top educational institutions.
Verchable
At Verchable, we make videos readable and searchable using artificial intelligence and computer vision. Our proprietary technology runs 150 times faster than real-time and can detect people, places and actions within videos in a scalable way. The speed and resulting lower computational power allows us to generate metadata tags for archive as well as live streaming videos for use cases in content recommendation, visibility, search, licensing and contextual advertising. Currently, we are working with news and media companies to help them contextually understand their videos, faster and cheaper.
