A Manchester-based software program firm which claims to ship sooner and extra energy-efficient AI programs has landed hundreds of thousands of kilos in funding from a syndicate of outstanding buyers.
The corporate will announce the funding spherical publicly on Friday.
The deal is being led by Pembroke VCT, which is offering £3.7m of the £5m capital injection.
PEAK:AIO has developed ultra-fast storage programs for AI workloads, and has signed up quite a few establishments as clients the place conventional storage expertise was inhibiting their adoption of AI.
These embody the NHS, King’s School London, the Zoological Society of London, and Los Alamos Nationwide Laboratory, a US authorities analysis facility which acquired greater than $5bn in funding final yr.
“Traditional IT has been around for decades, but AI has created demands that no one saw coming,” Mark Klarzynski, co-founder and chair of PEAK:AIO.
“While many large tech companies tried to rebrand old products for this market, we have worked directly with the pioneers of AI to understand what was really needed.”
Different buyers within the spherical embody NPIF II – Praetura Fairness Finance, which is managed by Praetura Ventures as a part of the Northern Powerhouse Funding Fund II.
Fred Ursell, Head of Investments at Pembroke Funding Managers, mentioned: “Every major technology wave exposes bottlenecks that hold back progress.
“In AI, that bottleneck is storage – GPUs sit idle whereas information crawls in.
“PEAK:AIO has built a solution from first principles that flips this equation, unlocking the full potential of AI infrastructure.”
