Secondmind joins Tech Nation Future Fifty 2024 cohort of leading UK scaleups
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As one of the UK’s most respected and influential programmes for digital/tech-enabled businesses, Future Fifty empowers its cohort to scale from Series B+ to unicorn, IPO and beyond. Secondmind’s recognition follows a transformative year, marked by an expanded strategic partnership with Mazda Motor Corporation, a new investment round and several industry awards.
Joining the Future Fifty programme places Secondmind among esteemed alumni including Riverlane, Wayve, Darktrace, PolyAI and ao.com. The programme focuses on themes of access and growth. It equips high-potential companies with extensive resources and opportunities, fostering invaluable relationships amongst the cohort, alumni and wider UK technology ecosystem of top-tier investors, policymakers and potential customers.
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Hide AdThis announcement follows a milestone 12 months for Secondmind which included the extension of a multi-year strategic partnership with Mazda Motor Corporation, a $16m investment round, new customer wins and several international awards for automotive, AI and engineering excellence for its market-leading products. Participating in the Future Fifty program will catalyze Secondmind efforts to advance and scale its cloud-native system design and calibration products which empower automotive engineers with state-of-the-art Active Learning to accelerate the design and development of more sustainable, software-defined vehicles.
Gary Brotman, CEO at Secondmind, said: “It is an incredible honor and privilege to be selected to join the 2024 cohort of industry-leading Tech Nation Future Fifty scaleups. The program’s track record of elevating companies to new heights is exceptional and we are looking forward to tapping the unmatched breadth of Future Fifty resources, tools, mentors and global networks to accelerate Secondmind growth and global expansion.”
Johnny Mayo, Future Fifty Lead, Tech Nation, said: “It is a pleasure to welcome Secondmind, one of the UK’s most dynamic growth-stage companies, into the programme. This Future Fifty cohort represents some of the most promising and high-potential ventures in the UK right now. We were excited to announce them at today’s first-ever Future Fifty Forum – a unique event bringing together ambitious scaleups with our programme alumni who have gone on to become some of the UK’s most successful tech companies. What’s clear from this newest cohort is the continued strength across the UK tech scene in sectors such as biotech, AI, aerospace and quantum – this Future Fifty cohort has the potential to bring huge economic value to our tech ecosystem.”
For more information about Secondmind, visit www.secondmind.ai, and for more on Tech Nation Future Fifty, visit https://technation.io/programmes/future-fifty/.
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