Cambridge, UK – December 6, 2022 – Speechmatics, the world’s leading speech-to-text API scaleup, has announced it is using NVIDIA accelerated computing to supercharge its machine learning capabilities. Speechmatics’ transition to self-supervised learning has increased the need for processing power. Speechmatics has now deployed NVIDIA market-leading artificial intelligence (AI) systems and software stack to train […]
London, 6th December 2022: Jenson Funding Partners, the UK-based early-stage venture capital investor, has launched a new fund, Aurora I, for pre-seed-to-Series A stage companies developing innovative solutions that make the transition to Net Zero accessible to all. The venture capital firm, which is one of a small number to be B Corp certified in […]
There’s Tech City (now Tech Nation), Wayra, Level 39, ACF Investors (formerly the Angel CoFund), the British Business Bank, Tech London Advocates, the Great British Entrepreneur Awards – even SEIS, the tax break that has encouraged so many investors to take their first steps into the wonderful world of backing early-stage tech businesses. All have […]
As I wandered the conference floor and sat in on various sessions over those two days, I was mentally identifying and organising those observations, ready to flesh them out on my return to the UK. Then, over the weekend, one point in particular suddenly became much more complicated than it had seemed just a couple […]
Day One – London’s investment power If there was one key takeaway from Beverley Gower-Jones, Managing Partner at Clean Growth Fund, it was the might of London and UK investment power into climate tech. The UK ranks fourth globally for climate tech investment, and London is the second city globally for number of rounds raised […]
Can focusing on the “S” in ESG really pull up the “E”? The best panels are the ones featuring conflicting opinions between participants, and this was certainly true of the discussion about navigating the “ESG reckoning”. In a lively debate, Rakesh Narayana, general manager at Access VC, and Peet Denny, founding partner at Climate VC, […]
When I typed up my story, fintech repeatedly autocorrected, which was mildly frustrating. I was then told by my editor that it was not a word that would ever appear in print (“we don’t use made up words here”) and was forced to write out “financial technology” every time I used it. These days, most […]
My biggest worry in the lead up to this work experience surrounded FieldHouse’s area of specialism – something that had always intimidated me, and I’m sure others too: tech. Thinking of the tech world immediately conjured pictures of complex computer programmes, endless numbers and, well, robots. Fairly quicky I realised, though, that in the tech […]
Former Sunday Times enterprise editor Peter Evans has joined specialist fast-growth tech and venture capital PR agency FieldHouse Associates as Head of Media Strategy. At FieldHouse, Evans will lead work with a number of clients – initially including VC firms ACF Investors, Astia, and IQ Capital, alongside cybersecurity companies Mandiant and Nominet – as well […]
Specialist fast-growth tech and venture capital PR agency FieldHouse Associates has appointed Iain Alexander as Director as part of a raft of promotions throughout the business. Also promoted are Lily Wiggins (to Associate Director), Jhanvi Gudka (to Senior Account Director), Andrew Malone (to Account Director), Max Daniels (to Account Director), John Nikodin (to Junior Account […]
It’s week four, and I’m as excited as I was in week one. The end of August has crept up on us, the summer holidays are over, and so is my time with FieldHouse. I have to say it has been a fascinating, exciting, and eye-opening experience. Getting to discover the many sides of FieldHouse, […]
Cambridge, August 31st 2022: Speechmatics, the leading autonomous speech recognition technology scaleup has now added Language Identification (Language ID) to its industry leading speech-to-text engine. This latest addition allows customers to automatically identify the predominant language spoken in any media file. Customers will save time and effort on manually reviewing files, safe in the knowledge […]