Faculty is a UK-based AI company that builds an applied-AI platform and deploys models for public-sector and corporate clients. Its work spans government contracts (including NHS work) and corporate engagements with firms such as Red Bull and Virgin Media. The company runs a fellowship/education program that has seen roughly 400 people pass through and attracts about 10% of the U.K.’s PhDs in physics, maths and engineering as applicants, and it recruits PhD graduates aggressively. Faculty emphasizes AI safety and fairness—maintaining an internal ethics panel and publishing research at major conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICM) on privacy, robustness and explainability. The firm says it will remain headquartered in the U.K., double down on the domestic market, then expand to the U.S. and later Europe. Financially, it recently completed a $42.5M growth funding round to fund product buildout, hiring and international expansion, and expects to create about 400 new jobs across engineering, data science and product roles.

Total raised

$43M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

May 2021