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Our story

Business runs on conversations

Re:infer, a UiPath company, was created to unlock the value in business conversations. A spin-out from the world-leading AI research lab at UCL, Re:infer builds on decades of research by the founding team.

Conversations are the most valuable interaction a business can have with its customers. Our mission is to advance and democratise powerful AI, making it a part of every business communication.

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15+
Leading technology & consultancy partners
$7.6M+
In funding from respected firms and investors
100M+

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2015

Year founded

Our mission

Re:infer’s mission is to unlock the power of conversational data for everyone

We combine the best of human intelligence and machine efficiency to help our clients scale effortlessly and deliver the best products and services. We help businesses be more scalable and customer centric.

Our journey

Founded by machine learning researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs

2015

Re:infer formed by Dr. Ed Challis, Marius Cobzarenco and Professor David Barber following their work at UCL's Centre for AI Research.

2016

Re:infer launches an early customer base including the luxury e-commerce leader Farfetch, a London-listed insurer and a Tier-1 global investment bank.

2017

Re:infer wins Best AI startup at World Summit AI, Best Innovation at the ISG Automation Summit and Best innovation in NLP at multiple industry events and publications. Re:infer has read and processed 1 million messages in production.

2018

Re:infer closes a $3.5m seed funding round, led by Touchstone Innovations, with participation from Crane Venture Partners, Seedcamp, and AI entreprepreneur Dr Jason Kingdon.  Re:infer has read and processed 20 million messages in production. Pitchbook fastest top 5 growing startups in Europe.

2019

Re:infer recognised as the UK's AI Innovator by the UK Government. Beat IBM Watson in a head to head comparison against +30% accuracy, 200x training time with tighter model governance and control. Recognised by HfS Hot Vendor.

2020

Re:infer closes a $4.5m funding round, led by Crane Venture Partners with participation from IP Group, and AI investor Dr Jason Kingdon. Re:infer has read and processed 100 million messages in production.

2021

Re:infer is recognised as a Gartner Cool vendor in Conversational AI and Natural Language Tech. The Re:infer platform adds mixed language models and outperforms Google AutoML in a head-to-head comparison.

2022

We’re very proud to announce that Re:infer has joined UiPath, the leading enterprise automation software company.

Read the press release to learn more.

Leadership

Founded by machine learning researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs

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Cristian Cobzarenco
Co-founder and VP Engineering
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David Barber
Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer
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Edward Challis
Co-founder and CEO
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George Barnett
Head of Product and Ops
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Jason Kingdon
Advisor and Investor
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Marius Cobzarenco
Co-founder and CTO
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Martin Moran
Advisor and Investor
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Mike Robinson
Marketing Director

Investors

We are backed by top-tier investors such as Crane Venture Partners, Seedcamp, and IP Group, in addition to leading AI and Enterprise entrepreneurs behind companies including UiPath and Salesforce.

Recognitions and achievements

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Frost & Sullivan
Conversational Intelligence Services Analytics Market Excellence in Best Practices 2022.
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Gartner Cool Vendor
Conversational & Natural Language Technologies 2021
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HFS Hot Vendor
Enterprise & Machine Learning Platform 2021
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IDC Awards
IDC Innovation with AI Award Winner – 2020
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AIConics Awards
Best AI Startup 2019
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NeurIPS
Research published in hundreds of leading ML journals including NeurIPS
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FIN/SUM
Best Fintech 2019
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ISG
Best Automation Startup 2018
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ISO 27001
Certified
Re:infer partners

Working together to drive digital transformation

From technology providers to leading implementation and consulting companies, the Re:infer partner ecosystem is used by enterprises to achieve their digital transformation goals.

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Join the team

Re:infer is a VC backed, high-growth AI startup

We are tackling a huge commercial problem, working at the forefront of NLP and AI. We like to find intelligent, considerate and kind people that are ready to make a big impact. 

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Build better products and services. Quickly. Scalably. Efficiently.

Increase operational scalability, enhance the customer experience, and improve control with Re:infer’s Conversational Data Intelligence Platform.