Published: February 12, 2026 at 2:20 pm
Key figures behind Downing Street’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic have raised £10 million for their startup.
Electric Twin was founded by Dr Ben Warner, a physicist and the former Chief Adviser on Digital and Data to the Prime Minister, and Alex Cooper, a former military commander who established the UK’s mass testing response during the pandemic.
Having worked together in Number 10 at the heart of the COVID response, they founded Electric Twin so that decision makers had the tools they needed to make better decisions.
“Electric Twin was born from our experience leading through crisis, where we spotted a common problem: too many decisions had to be made with incomplete information,” said CEO Cooper.
The AI platform is building synthetic audiences that accurately model how people think and behave in real life.