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Loci

Loci is an applied research company founded by AI scientists from Cambridge, Imperial, MIT, Oxford, and Meta. We build machine learning models to recognize, label, and understand 3D digital assets. This matters because modern life quietly depends on 3D. Most objects made by humans (smartphones, cars, skyscrapers) start as 3D designs. Today’s biggest movies and video games star 3D characters and environments. And the technology of tomorrow, from AR to self-driving cars, relies on digital 3D mapping. The world runs on billions of 3D assets. Loci’s AI makes them easy to search, manage, and use. We automatically generate tags, write captions, categorize, detect art styles, render, and more. Put briefly, Loci organizes the third dimension. Ultimately, we aim to create the first 3D-large language models that are capable of understanding text, image, and 3D inputs -- endowing machines with visual and spatial intelligence as rich as our own.

Scroll Home

Property search hasn't changed in 20 years. You scroll a grid of wide-angle photos, book a viewing, and only find out in person what the place is really like. Scroll Home started with our co-founder, John Whittaker. After studying property, from a family with a long history in the space, he joined Foxtons as an estate agent. He watched Instagram and TikTok change how people watch everything, and watched property marketing move to short-form video. But there was still nowhere for buyers and renters to find a home that way. While he was developing the concept, John approached our other co-founder, Ellis Greenhalgh, who has a background in management consultancy and economic advisory work. Ellis led the business plan and the early fundraising that let Scroll Home start building. Scroll Home is a video-first property app. Every home has a full walkthrough you can swipe, save and enquire on in seconds. Set your search once and get a feed built around it. Share homes into a group chat and decide with the people you're moving with. It's free for buyers and renters. Agents, brokers and developers get their homes in front of people in the format they already spend hours on. We've closed our seed round, backed by one of the biggest names in UK property, and we launch our finished product in London in January 2027. We're a small team based in St James's, London, and we're hiring. If you want to change how London finds a home, have a look at our open roles on the Jobs tab.

EnergyPathways plc

EnergyPathways MESH project will be a new, large-scale, energy storage and decarbonization facility that is expected to provide a secure and dependable supply of affordable low-carbon energy for the UK market for over 25 years. The MESH integrated energy system solution comprises: large-scale Long Duration Energy Storage ("LDES"), flexible low-carbon power capacity and low-carbon hydrogen and graphite production with the potential to branch into low-carbon ammonia production. MESH will connect its LDES integrated storage system using existing infrastructure to the UK grid and nearby offshore wind capacity to help harness value from some of the billions of pounds of the UK's wasted wind power.