Bolt Perception, the London-based market analysis firm serving to manufacturers unlock client insights by means of AI-moderated analysis, has closed its £7m funding spherical led by Pembroke VCT with participation from 212, Lively Companions, Velocity and TIBAS Ventures.
The brand new funding will assist to scale its BoltChatAI software globally, along with funding the corporate’s subsequent ambition to create an ‘assistant AI chief insights officer’ – a real-time intelligence associate that acts as a decision-making platform for manufacturers.
The AI-powered system will be capable of immediately reply enterprise questions by tapping into an organization’s historic analysis and market information, in addition to autonomously interact actual customers by means of new AI-moderated interviews and ship actionable insights.
Bolt Perception believes this may change the way in which insights are sourced, transferring from passive, project-based analysis to an always-on, proactive intelligence hub embedded in enterprise decision-making.
Bolt Perception is led by CEO and co-founder Hakan Yurdakul, who spent 14 years at Unilever in model technique and transformation, and CTO and co-founder Kerem Turgay, a Harvard and ETH Zurich-trained engineer with expertise at Siemens, Coca-Cola and Afiniti.
“With the launch of BoltChatAI in 2022, we proved that AI-moderated qualitative analysis might ship wealthy perception at unprecedented pace and scale,” says Yurdakul.
“At the moment, we’re constructing on that basis with a daring new ambition, to create the assistant AI chief insights officer. This new funding will energy the subsequent section of that journey.”
The funding can even assist Bolt Perception strengthen its place in a world insights market valued at round £115B.
“Bolt Perception is a superb instance of how AI can lead change in a longtime trade by placing actual client voices on the coronary heart of decision-making,” provides Andrew Wolfson, CEO at Pembroke Funding Managers. “As demand for real-time intelligence continues to develop, Bolt is completely positioned to steer a brand new era of client understanding.”
