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Alchera Technologies

Real-time mobility insights for decision making in infrastructure.

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1-20 employees
  • B2B
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Deep Tech
  • Mobility
  • SaaS
  • Data Integration
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Sharing
Central Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Company mission

To make infrastructure intelligent.

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Alchera Technologies was established in order to provide real-time data and analytics for infrastructure operators, allowing data-driven decision-making to drive better transport networks. It delivers this by providing operators of road infrastructure with historical, real-time, and predicted information about roadways so they can make decisions based on evidence instead of gut instinct.

Along with enabling more effective traffic management and optimisation of road network capacity, Alchera helps decrease travel time, improve bus networks, and reduce environmental impacts. It differentiates itself from existing solutions by using AI to drive better insights into data at scale, operating with lower cost, higher reliability, and greater coverage. Combining existing sensor networks - such as mobile, internet of things, and CCTV - can construct powerful recommendations for operators.

So far Alchera has partnered with National Highways, Transport for London, and councils including York, Lancashire, Oxford, Cambridge and many more. In January 2024, Costain and Alcher delivered work for National Highways to use predictive analytics to optimise road maintenance, saving cost and reducing the impact on customer journeys.

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Benefits

  • 👩‍💻 Remote-first processes (or an office if you're in Cambridge)
  • 📅 Flexible working
  • 👩‍⚕️ Private healthcare
  • 🏝️ Flexible holiday (min 5.6 weeks)
  • ⛰️ Team off-sites
  • 💵 Pension contributions
  • 💻 New equipment and budget to build your own workspace (MacBook Pro or equivalent, monitors, software etc.)
  • 🍿 Team activities (virtual lunches, company outings, etc)
  • 🌎 Access to a network of other high-growth teams & co’s for personal & professional development (e.g. 5 a side football league, SE & ML journal clubs)

Funding (2 rounds)

Sep 2021

$0.2m

SEED

Feb 2018

$0.7m

ANGEL

Total funding: $0.9m

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Leadership

Emil Hewage

(Director)

They studied Engineering at Cambridge, before undertaking a Doctorate in Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning. They founded Cambridge Applied Research, before founding Alchera Technologies in 2016.

After a Masters at Imperial, they worked as a Ph.D. student at Institut Néel CNRS and in Research and Development at Cambridge Applied Research. They co-founded Alchera Technologies with Emil, serving as Operations Lead since 2017.

They studied at Cambridge before working at StarLeaf, and co-founding Alchera Technologies.

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