Companies

Sustained helps food and beverage companies measure and reduce their environmental footprint at scale.

By automating product life cycle analysis, Sustained helps clients develop better strategy to reduce the impact of their product portfolio.

Q1 21

MedlyAI is building a platform accessible across multiple device types that is highly effective at providing personalised tuition to students in an engaging manner.

MedlyAI is improving educational outcomes and reducing inequality through affordable AI-powered personalised tuition.

Q3 24

Isla is a software platform for hospitals that enables doctors to design care pathways for remote patient monitoring.

By enabling clinicians to treat more patients & make better, earlier decisions outside of clinical settings the platform can improve health outcomes, quality of life through treatment and reduce cost to care.

Q1-23

32Co is building a platform focused on up-skilling and training health professionals. They are starting in dental care and their longer term vision covers the broader health system.

32Co's training platform increases clinical confidence leading to higher quality provision of health care services, initially in dentistry.

Q1-24

Byway is developing an AI powered booking engine for multi-modal, experience based and flight free travel.

Tourism is responsible for 8-11% of global greenhouse gas emissions and 17% of this is aviation related. Byway provides a platform for customers to book experience based travel itineraries free from flights.

Q2-24

MakeSense is combining haptic technology, RTK GPS and AI to provide better navigation technology for the visually impaired.

There are 170k blind people in the UK but only 4k guide dogs available due to their high cost of training of over £50k per guide dog. MakeSense is creating the first cost effective technology solution that can replace and improve upon the guide dog, increasing access to mobility for blind people globally.

Q2-24

XARlabs is combining the latest developments in computer vision, AI and mixed reality hardware to revolutionise surgical planning and navigation.

XARlabs will present the patient's 3D anatomy in a visual handsfree format to the surgeon, resulting in improved patient outcomes.

Q4 24

Flok Health provides a digital physiotherapy solution that customises individual treatment pathways using AI.

By providing a one-to-many physiotherapy solution, Flok ensures that patients can get immediate access to effective treatment. Delivering treatment remotely also aims to promote adherence and improve outcomes.

Q3 2022

Jude is focussed on providing consumers with products and services that help individuals manage healthcare issues that become more common as you age and are often taboo topics. They're starting with bladder care products.

Improving the quality of life for people suffering from age-related conditions, while also breaking down the stigma associated with these conditions.

Q4-22

Axle is building the infrastructure layer that will control, aggregate and optimise a consumer’s energy assets (EVs, heat pumps, etc.), allowing them to use energy when it’s cheapest and cleanest whilst also monetising these assets through providing flexibility services to the grid

Axle's product will ultimately reduce the consumer’s energy bill and carbon footprint whilst increasing the capacity of the grid to transition towards a renewable energy future.

Q1-23

Foresight Data Machines is building a platform to optimise the manufacturing process in EAF steel plants.

The application of AI to EAF steel manufacturing has the potential to significantly reduce energy usage and hence the carbon emissions associated with steel. Furthermore, by improving the economics of EAF plants, it accelerates their uptake and the future of circular steel.

Q1-22

Sourceful's platform enables clients to find, customise and design sustainable packaging and offset their carbon footprint. Clients can use real-time data to understand the impact of every choice and make informed decisions about their business.

Sourceful is developing the tools, data and products needed to make supply chains more sustainable.

Q4-20

Paired helps couples improve their relationships through a daily interaction focused on healthy communication.

Paired is a stigma free way of improving relationships. Relationship quality has been proven to be correlated with better physical and mental health and childhood development.

Q2-21

Urban Jungle has developed proprietary insurance products to make them accessible and fair. ‍ Their initial product is a monthly contents insurance product focused on the renters market which has traditionally been underserved.

Urban Jungle uses data to target and profitably underwrite customer segments that have traditionally been excluded from accessing insurance.

Q2-20

Hived is a parcel delivery company that is using a combination of software, data science and model innovation to build a zero-emission, low cost but high-quality service. ‍ The result is a parcel delivery service that works better for businesses, customers and for the environment.

Hived are re-designing parcel delivery from the ground up to reduce air and noise pollution within cities.

Q3-21

Runna is a digital running coaching app that's designed to both help people get into running and then take their fitness to the next level.

Habitual runners are estimated to add 3 years to their life and see a 27% reduction in all-cause mortality rates. Getting people into running, making the activity more enjoyable and increasing the runner's ability is core to Runna's mission.

Q4-22

Again is using data science, robotics and model innovation to empower brands to be able to use reusable packaging for the same price as single use.

Accelerating the adoption of reusable packaging has the potential to significantly reduce carbon emissions, water use and plastic waste of FMCG packaging.

Q1-22

Oxford Cancer Analytics combines advances in machine learning and proteomics with liquid biopsy to provide earlier detection of cancer with high accuracy and affordability.

The earlier cancer is detected, the greater the probability of survival through curative treatment. Their test is designed to be scalable and affordable, with an initial focus on lung cancer.

Q4-22

Believe in Science is an R&D focused food company, using a combination of in-house research and the application of cutting edge food technology to reduce the fat and sugar content in mass market bakery. Their first brand is Urban Legend, a new donut brand with half the fat and sugar but same taste and cost of the incumbent brands.

Believe in Science's mission is to help tackle rising obesity level through producing healthier alternatives to current bakery products.

Q3-21

Hylo combines product design, material science and model innovation to create more sustainable sportswear items. Their first product is a running trainer which has a carbon footprint of 6.56kgCO2e, which is 51% less than the industry standard.

By setting the standard for what is possible and combining that with their influencer led education, Hylo has an opportunity to change the behaviours of the sportswear and fashion market as a whole to be more sustainable.

Q4-21