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StudentCrowd

StudentCrowd is the decision-making hub for higher education and the accommodation sector. Comprising two parts, it has helped over 14 million+ students to make HE-related decisions and provides data and insights to the sector, serving investors, developers, operators, universities, and property advisors. - The StudentCrowd.com website welcomes a supportive student community to share their experiences on what University life is truly like. The website platform helps students to make the big decisions - Which university? Which course? Which accommodation? StudentCrowd helps millions of students to make an informed decision based on trustworthy reviews. To ensure authenticity, StudentCrowd verify users have a university email address. - The Data and Insights platform curates the most comprehensive real-time dataset on the student housing market, with over 4.3 billion data points and delivering updates on pricing, availability, rental incentives, property details, planning applications, and verified student sentiment. Its insights are available across the UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria and further expansion across Europe is planned. StudentCrowd creates insight tools to help decision-makers improve the student experience.

Dex

Dex is for exceptional people who build exceptional things. We connect exceptional Software Engineers with venture-backed Start-ups and Scale-ups in London. Few roles. Fewer candidates. Better matches. We are curated. We only offer a rigorously selected set of roles from the best organisations. Every opportunity is vetted. We are transparent. We insist on full transparency on salary, terms and package from the get-go. Giving you confidence that things really are the way they seem. We are long term. Dex stays with you throughout your career across promotion cycles, frustration peaks and surfacing big opportunities. Treat your job search like production (not a sandbox). Brief Dex to find the roles actually worth your time.

Checkstep

Checkstep is the trusted AI content moderation software that helps global platforms detect harmful content, enforce policies, and stay compliant at scale. Combine powerful automation with human expertise to deliver safe, relevant, and compliant digital experiences. Checkstep was founded in 2020 by serial entrepreneur Guillaume Bouchard, Facebook’s former AI Integrity Manager in London, who successfully exited his first business, Bloomsbury AI, to Facebook in 2018, and by Jonathan Manfield, former Software Engineering Lead at JP Morgan with an initial focus on misinformation. The company is backed by influential personalities of the tech industry from the U.S. and U.K., including many previous founders of online platforms, such as Joe White MBE, co-founder of Moonfruit.com and British Consul General in San Francisco, Jon Oringer who founded Shutterstock, a leading stock photography provider, as well as technology specialists, such as William Tunstall-Pedoe, who founded Evi, which became Amazon Alexa, and Diana Hu, who leads the AR platform at Niantic the company behind Pokemon Go.

Liquid

Liquid is a group of people who build cultural currency and business impact for our partners. We specialise in cultural strategy, creative execution and brand scaling services.

Hypervision Surgical

Hypervision Surgical Ltd is a spin-out company formed from King's College London and was founded by a team of clinicians, medical imaging and artificial intelligence (AI) experts. Based on safe light alone, our goal is to equip clinicians with advanced computer-assisted tissue analysis for improved surgical precision and patient safety.