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LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE) – Data and AI consultancy Mesh-AI launches with $ 30 million in funding from Columbia Capital, with ambitious plans to grow and scale at an unprecedented rate worldwide.

Companies rightly pursue the promise of big data: democratized access to real-time insights into their customers, their products and their business.

But so far, their often substantial data investments have rarely delivered what they promised.

That’s why two top tech entrepreneurs, Matt Farmer and Seb Bulpin, launched Mesh-AI: a global consulting firm that uses data engineering, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to unleash the power of data for businesses.

The launch is backed by Columbia Capital, who have made an initial $ 30 million commitment to help the company adopt, grow and scale worldwide at unprecedented pace.

Her ambitions for Mesh AI are large-scale, aiming for rapid growth in both revenue and headcount, and global expansion of the business.

– Why Mesh AI?

Over the past decade, Matt Farmer and Seb Bulpin have helped hundreds of corporate customers dramatically accelerate their technology transition. Embed modern cross-functional operating models using the latest cloud-native architectures and tools to build platforms and applications quickly, securely and scalably in regulated environments in the public cloud.

During those engagements, they discovered that while companies have an incredible wealth of data, they were struggling on many fronts to turn it into real business value.

Because of this, Mesh AI will focus entirely on transforming businesses into data-driven organizations.

The company is already hiring significant data talent and acquiring a wide range of experts in data engineering, data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The team has unrivaled experience in delivering a true transformation for regulated businesses and has proven the value that data can bring at scale by implementing breakthrough approaches like data mesh. In addition, they have a thorough understanding of the technology, skills, and processes companies need to master in order to deliver on-demand data insights to their organization.

– The mesh AI approach

In terms of approach, Mesh AI’s mission is to realign the business with data.

Mesh-AI offers holistic end-to-end consulting: from the first assessment, the definition of the future fit strategy, the development of basic data platform capabilities to the construction and validation of data use cases, before finally the data maturity in the entire company Scales, matures and improves over time.

The core areas are data engineering, machine learning, artificial intelligence and data mesh, which are used to leverage complex business opportunities that have the potential to create massive and measurable business value.

These are interdependent data functions. Without clean, usable data and effective approaches to cataloging, locating, and accessing that data, powerful AI and ML-enabled applications will find it difficult to achieve their full potential. Mesh AI combines expertise in all areas to ensure that the data foundation is rock solid so that companies can make the most of advanced techniques such as AI and ML.

– The founding team

Matt Farmer will provide strategic direction as Executive Chairman, while Seb Bulpin will take over the helm as CEO and lead the day-to-day operations of the company.

Columbia Capital is providing seed funding after helping Matt on his previous project as co-founder of Contino – a global digital transformation consultancy – where Seb served as global CEO. During their time at Contino, they achieved steady growth of over 100% year-on-year in both sales and the number of employees before the company was acquired by digital giant Cognizant in 2019.

Matt Farmer, Exec Chairman, commented, “The ability to unlock the value of data will determine the success of tomorrow’s businesses, and we are excited to help our enterprise customers do so. I am thrilled to be working with such a fantastic team at Mesh-AI that are customer and culture obsessed at the same time, while working with our partners Columbia Capital who will support our ambitious organic and inorganic growth plans. ”

Seb Bulpin, CEO Mesh-AI, said, “The time has come for data to be high on the business agenda: it will define competitive advantage for the foreseeable future. I look forward to once again positively disrupting the company, demonstrating the immense value that Mesh AI can offer customers, and doing so with a world-class team in all areas of the business! ”

Jason Booma, Partner at Columbia Capital added, “Companies around the world are striving to unlock the value of their data, so we believe the value proposition of mesh AI is both contemporary and powerful. It’s also a pleasure to work with Matt, Seb and the rest of their team again. We know they have what it takes to succeed in a competitive environment and we look forward to seeing the company grow and expand. ”

– Via mesh AI

Mesh-AI is a global consulting firm that leverages data, machine learning and artificial intelligence to accelerate business results for companies.

Our mission is to realign the company with data. We build modern scalable data capabilities that enable machine learning and AI to be applied to complex business opportunities for significant and measurable value creation.

If you are interested in joining the Mesh AI team, contact us at [email protected]

Learn more about Mesh-AI at https://www.mesh-ai.com

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