Turbo-charging UK self-driving SMEs: Zenzic announces 2024 CAM Scale-Up winners
To accelerate self-driving in the UK, Zenzic has announced six more exceptional SMEs to receive up to £100k each as part of its prestigious CAM Scale-Up programme.
22 self-driving innovators have been supported by the programme since 2020. This is the fifth ‘cohort’, and we’ve covered the journeys of multiple 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 winners here on Cars of the Future.
The six 2024 winners, in alphabetical order, are:
- Blueskeye AI – Nottingham-based company building clinical grade facial recognition technology for fatigue detection.
- Deontic UK –London-based large language model (LLM) artificial intelligence to help integrate regulatory frameworks into self-driving technology.
- Maaind – London-based company using speech recognition, computer vision and smart device readings to mitigate stress-related driving accidents.
- Moonbility – London-based company using CCTV to provide real-time information about available wheelchair bays on buses.
- Opteran – Headquartered in London, provides neuromorphic software to enable machines to mimic the human brain’s driving abilities.
- Saif Systems – Cambridge-based provider of real-time safety monitoring software on proprietary hardware e.g. to stop systems operating outside of constraints.
Self-driving funding
Supported by the government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV), and in partnership with tech start-up supporter Plug and Play, a key benefit of CAM Scale-Up UK success is access to the world-leading facilities of CAM Testbed UK, which now includes Catesby Tunnel and Tees Valley.
Mark Cracknell, Programme Director at Zenzic, said: “CAM Scale-Up UK is not just about providing funding to businesses, it’s very much a wrap-around support programme which provides those successful with everything they need to truly realise their potential.
“Through CAM Testbed UK, they can test their solutions in as close to real-life scenarios as possible and accelerate their route to market. All the while picking the brains of some of the brightest minds in industry.”
For further info on the CAM Scale-Up UK programme, please see the Zenzic website.
