Manchester-based PEAK:AIO has secured €5.7 million in funding to speed up the worldwide rollout of its high-performance storage platform for synthetic intelligence. The spherical was led by Pembroke VCT, which invested €4.2 million, alongside NPIF II – Praetura Fairness Finance and a Silicon Valley investor.
Based by knowledge infrastructure Mark Klarzynski in 2021, PEAK:AIO develops ultra-fast, energy-efficient storage software program designed to unravel AI’s crucial bottleneck: the gradual motion of knowledge. Its programs ship sooner efficiency whereas utilizing much less vitality and area than conventional options, serving to organisations scale AI extra sustainably and cost-effectively.
The recent capital will gasoline worldwide enlargement, crew development, and product improvement. The corporate has already quadrupled income and its companion community up to now yr, with deployments at establishments together with the NHS, King’s Faculty London, the Zoological Society of London, and Los Alamos Nationwide Laboratory within the US.
Mark Klarzynski, Co-founder and CSO of PEAK:AIO mentioned: “AI has created calls for that conventional IT was by no means designed to deal with. From the beginning, we constructed PEAK:AIO to reply these challenges, and our success within the UK rapidly led to adoption within the US. This funding is about greater than development; it’s about backing a UK firm that’s setting new requirements in AI infrastructure worldwide.”
Fred Ursell, Head of Investments at Pembroke Funding Managers, mentioned: “Each main expertise wave exposes bottlenecks that maintain again progress. In AI, that bottleneck is storage – GPUs sit idle whereas knowledge crawls in. PEAK:AIO has constructed an answer from first ideas that flips this equation, unlocking the total potential of AI infrastructure.”
Louise Chapman, NPIF II Fund Principal at Praetura Ventures, famous: “Our NPIF II funding into PEAK:AIO comes at a really opportune time for the AI sector, with Google, Microsoft and Nvidia all saying plans to take a position tens of billions into the UK. Going ahead, this information will create even larger alternatives for firms similar to PEAK:AIO.”
Sue Barnard, Senior Funding Supervisor on the British Enterprise Financial institution, mentioned: “It’s thrilling to see a Northern enterprise on the forefront of the AI sector, creating revolutionary options that advance the expertise. This newest spherical of funding will assist create new jobs and scale the enterprise for a profitable future.”
