Investment

One of the UK’s fastest-growing artificial intelligence companies has raised £38 million in Series D funding.

London-based Signal AI will use funds to further build out its ‘decision augmentation’ solution for business leaders.

The round was led by Highland Europe, bringing its total funding to date to $100m. Other investors in this round include abrdn, existing investors include Redline, MMC, Hearst and Guardian Media Group Ventures.

“Our vision at Signal AI is to transform business decision making through augmented intelligence,” said David Benigson, CEO and co-founder. 

“We are thrilled to have Highland Europe and Aberdeen Standard Investments join us in this latest round and appreciate the continued belief and support of our existing investors. 

“The investment will allow us to continue to attract the best-in-class machine learning and AI product engineering talent, to scale our AIQ platform, grow our international hubs and advance the use of our decision augmentation solution with some of the world’s biggest companies.”

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Signal AI’s decision augmentation solution uses the world’s news, broadcast, blog and regulatory data to understand a decision maker’s context and extract knowledge from these diverse sources. 

It then delivers relevant knowledge through a SaaS interface, real-time alerts, interactive dashboards and a suite of APIs to help decision makers across a range of industries make informed and confident decisions. 

Signal AI’s insights are currently delivered to over 40% of the Fortune 500 through its strategic partnership with Deloitte.

 

“Signal AI is a stand-out category-defining business” said Tony Zappalà, partner at Highland Europe. 

“We are excited to be involved with the next chapter of the company’s innovative growth. 

“David and the leadership team have a clear vision for the decision augmentation category they are helping to define and as Gartner’s research has shown, the opportunity is huge.”