Announcing Brits by the Bay startups


We’re thrilled to announce the Brits in the Bay participants – the most exciting UK startups looking to expand their business into the US.

Aiden.AI – Marie Outtier, Co-founder & CEO 
Aiden.ai is an Ai-as-a service for growth teams: a unified marketing platform that generates daily actionable recommendations across Facebook, Adwords, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Log-in, approve Aiden’s recommendations. 

Automata – Suryansh Chandra, Co-Founder
Founded in 2015, the Automata mission is to democratise industrial automation. In 2019 we launched Eva, the £4,990 6-axis industrial robot arm you can program in 15 minutes. The software – Choreograph – is browser-based (accessed via wifi or ethernet) and extendable through API, Python SDK or 24 V logic.

Chargifi – Dan Bladen, Co-Founder & CEO
Chargifi is building the foundational technology that transforms the way the world manages, monitors and monetises power. The world is going electric and electric is going wireless. Wireless power is now doing for power what Wifi did for connectivity and Chargifi is at the forefront of this revolution. 

EduMe – Jacob Waern, Co-Founder & CEO
EduMe is a Workforce Success platform used by modern companies across 6 continents to train, engage and communicate with their workforce. By having effective learning and relevant information in the palm of their hands, the workforce at companies like Uber, Airbnb and Vodafone are empowered to perform at their best.

Flock – Ed Klinger, CEO
Flock is a London-based, VC- and Government-backed tech startup that uses Big Data to identify and quantify the risk of drone flights (featured in The Economist, The Financial Times, TechCrunch,Evening Standard, The Guardian, & more). 

Gecko Engage – Matthew Lanham, Co-Founder & CEO
Gecko is committed to building products around the needs of Higher, and Further Education providers that increase the success of their student recruitment activities, and reduce the workload associated with recruitment.

Kheiron Medical – Tobias Rijken, CTO & Co-Founder
Kheiron’s aim is to help breast cancer patients live longer, better lives through earlier detection. We combine new deep learning methods, data science and radiology insights to help doctors find malignancies in mammograms

Pepper – Simon Kelton, Co-Founder & Director
Pepper is transforming hospitality with mobile. A B2B SaaS platform, Pepper builds cost effective merchant branded apps for hospitality companies looking to enhance the customer journey, improve operational efficiency and drive revenue, all while gathering actionable data for direct mobile marketing.

Provenance – Astrid Chang, COO-CFO
Provenance is using tech to power the transparency movement – helping brands bring their supply chain and impact behind products to shoppers that care, enabling a more conscious, fair, and low-impact consumption

Relative Insight – Ben Hookway, CEO
Relative Insight helps brands fuel sharper strategy and smarter communication by comparing and analysing language. The technology has origins in a 10-year research project into criminal linguistics, where it was designed to identify and track criminals online.

Shepper – Ben Prouty, CEO
Like a real-life Google search, Shepper allows businesses to send real people to physical locations to collect data and insights. From checking the condition of a property to inspecting practices in a retail store, Shepper provides handy media and commentary quickly.

Speechmatics – John Milliken, CEO
With the voice revolution here, Speechmatics has used its decades of machine learning and research expertise to develop Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), available in private or public clouds and securely on-premises. 

The ID Co – Milko Radotic, CCO
Founded in 2011, The ID Co. has been building products based on (Open) bank data, creating convenience for consumers and helping businesses like online lenders easily onboard their customers by solving pains such as affordability and credit risk.

Upgrade Pack – Urchana Moudgil, Group COO
Upgrade Pack is a new type of loyalty platform offering access to discounted upgrades on flights and hotels to the most valued customers and employees of some of the biggest and most innovative companies in the world. London based, we work with clients and partners globally.

VRtuoso – Francesco Furnari, Founder & CEO
VRtuoso is the first Enterprise product to enable anyone in-house to quickly and easily create VR & AR trainings, presentations, and any immersive experiences. During any session you can guide and control what the audience views on their headsets in real-time. VRtuoso is the PowerPoint for VR and much more!