NVIDIA Announces New Investments in the UK Startup Ecosystem

Across industries, the U.K. is putting the full stack to work.

The scale of deployment is growing fast, from enterprises transforming their businesses to startups solving some of the planet’s hardest problems.

NVIDIA is putting that principle into practice, including through a five-year, $250 million compute commitment to strengthen the U.K.’s agentic safety and security research. 

NVIDIA has been investing in the U.K. startup ecosystem, supporting companies including Basecamp Research, Ineffable Intelligence, Synthesia, Wayve and many more. 

Today, NVIDIA announced new planned investments in Boltz, Foresight, Hiverge, Prima Mente and Riverlane.

Boltz, a London-based AI startup founded by MIT researchers, builds biomolecular models and AI agents that help scientists predict molecular structures and interactions, and design potential new medicines.

Foresight, a London-based startup, helps owners of major infrastructure projects, including hyperscale data centers, predict completion dates, mitigate risks and accelerate time to revenue.

Hiverge, a Cambridge-based AI startup founded by researchers from Google DeepMind and the University of Cambridge, builds an AI discovery engine that automatically writes and optimizes algorithms for tasks such as faster AI training and complex logistics planning.

Prima Mente, a London-based AI biology startup, focuses on building biological foundation models to decode complex diseases and identify novel therapeutic targets, starting with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS.

Riverlane, a Cambridge-based quantum computing startup, builds real-time error correction hardware and software that work across all major qubit types, helping quantum computers become reliable enough for practical use.

In addition, NVIDIA is partnering with the Earthshot Prize, joining as a Global Alliance Founding Partner to bring compute and technical expertise to innovators working on solutions for the world’s greatest climate and sustainability challenges.

Technology Leaders Pioneer Intelligent Solutions Across the UK

In energy, Fuse Energy is moving its customer AI onto its own in-house infrastructure, built on NVIDIA B300 Blackwell Ultra, delivering faster, more responsive support to over 450,000 U.K. households. 

Meanwhile, sovereign AI company Locai Labs released Nemotron-Personas-UK — an open source dataset of one million synthetic personas representing the UK’s demographic, regional and cultural diversity — helping developers build fairer, more representative AI systems.

Healthcare 

In healthcare, OneAdvanced is deploying what it calls the U.K.’s first and most advanced fine-tuned LLM for Primary Care AI-triage — built with NVIDIA Agent Toolkit software and open models — supporting millions of National Health Service patients.

Heidi has now integrated NVIDIA Nemotron open models to give clinicians faster access to trusted medical evidence. 

Speechmatics is deploying Oak, a multilingual medical speech recognition model, using NVIDIA Triton Inference — giving healthcare organizations control over where sensitive patient audio is processed. 

Apian, Synnovis and NVIDIA are teaming up to use advanced computing and digital simulations using NVIDIA Cosmos to help hospital robots handle the heavy lifting of moving lab samples, freeing up medical staff to focus on patient care.  

Danaher and NVIDIA are collaborating to advance autonomous science and help accelerate the pace of discovery by bringing accelerated computing, scientific and physical AI into laboratory workflows and instruments. Danaher’s recently announced AI-powered autonomous lab — designed to deliver up to 8x faster discovery of affinity reagents — is using NVIDIA BioNeMo open models within its AI-driven protein design workflows, data and automation technologies that connect design with experimental feedback. 

Smart Cities

On the civic side, Liverpool City Region is building an NVIDIA-powered “City Brain” — a sovereign AI strategy designed as a blueprint for dozens of Unitary Authorities across the U.K. 

Digital Jersey, Innovation City Belfast and Tees Valley Combined Authority are each exploring how trusted AI compute can serve communities and public services.

Financial Services

In financial services, LSEG and NVIDIA are bringing GPU-accelerated market analytics to global institutions. 

Revolut introduced PRAGMA earlier in the year — a foundation model for banking event sequences, pre-trained on 26 million anonymised user histories. PRAGMA has moved from research to real-time scaling.

Lloyds Banking Group built ATUM, a transaction foundation model that converts billions of banking transactions into reusable AI. And Starling is developing a banking foundation model trained on Civo’s U.K. sovereign cloud infrastructure. 

NatWest is collaborating with NVIDIA on Nemotron Voice to better understand how banking customers across the U.K. speak, while Modulr is deploying a network of agents using Nemotron for distinct parts of payment operations. 

Quantum

Quantum is moving from research to systems deployable alongside classical AI, and the U.K. is at the heart of this shift. 

Riverlane has shown how GPUs can accelerate decoder recalibration workflows used in quantum error correction, helping decoder performance keep pace with real-time changes in quantum hardware behaviour. The work forms part of a broader collaboration exploring how AI, accelerated computing and quantum error-correction technologies can work together to support future quantum systems.

Together, these announcements showcase how enterprises, organizations and startups in the U.K. are fostering innovation across the nation. This includes more than 3,100 U.K. companies that are a part of the NVIDIA Inception program for cutting-edge startups. 

Tune in to NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC Berlin keynote on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 11 a.m. CEST.