Peak is an

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company headquartered in

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, UK. It was founded in 2015 and has additional offices in

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, and

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, United States. It is known for its artificial intelligence platform, a

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platform that allows data scientists to build AI workflows, invoke them on ingested data and expose the results via APIs and/or built-in web applications, as well as abstracting the underlying

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History

The company was founded by CEO Richard Potter, David Leitch and Atul Sharma. In 2015, Peak was one of the winners of the Tech North Northern Stars competition. In 2017, it secured £2.5 million in Series A capital funding from MMC Ventures for investment in

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and

technologies and was named as one of the top five startups in Manchester by ''Wired'' magazine. In 2018, it was chosen to work as part of

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's Innovation Lab and it was one of the 37 fastest growing technology companies in the UK selected to join the

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Upscale programme. In April 2020, the company raised $12 million in extended series A funding, which is required to sustain its growth, commercial expansion, and R&D efforts. In February 2021, Peak announced a $21 million Series B funding round – led by investors Oxx, Praetura Ventures, MMC Ventures and Arete – to further make AI accessible to non-tech companies. In August 2021, Peak announced a $75 million Series C funding round, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. In March 2025, Peak was acquired by leading global software company,

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References

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