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Plumerai

Plumerai is making deep learning tiny and radically more efficient

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1-20 employees
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Deep Tech
  • Computer Vision
London, UK

Company mission

Plumerai is making deep learning tiny and accurate. We make it easy for developers to add highly accurate AI to their embedded products and thereby enable them to create amazing new products. This is how we work towards a future with 100s of billions of intelligent sensors on the edge.

Top investors

10% female employees

Our take

Plumerai is making deep learning tiny and radically more efficient to enable inference on small, affordable and low-power hardware. This makes it possible to embed intelligent, battery-powered sensors everywhere and create a future where we know more things faster. Plumerai envisions a future with 100s of billions of tiny AI devices that create a huge opportunity for smart homes, retail, on-device voice assistants, and many more markets.

This is being made possible with the help of Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs). These are deep learning models where the activations and weights are encoded using only 1 bit. Plumerai primarily deploys their BNNs on microcontrollers and low-power FPGAs. The company vertically integrates all layers of the stack. From data collection and curation, custom training software, model architectures, pre- and postprocessing, and all the way down to the fastest inference engines.

Plumerai is backed by world-class investors with strong backgrounds in deep learning. Among them are Tony Fadell (creator of iPod, iPhone, founder of Nest), Hermann Hauser (founder of Arm) and Zoubin Ghahramani (University of Cambridge, Google DeepMind).

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Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours - start work at a time that suits you best!
  • Stock options
  • Choose your own laptop
  • Regular socials for each office as well as whole company meet-ups. We've held many socials so far, including white water rafting, team meals, and virtual games nights. If you have any ideas for socials or events, we would love to get them booked into the team calendar!
  • Opportunities to travel for conferences and to meet your colleagues across Europe (London & Amsterdam
  • 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
  • Hybrid working: We usually do 2 team days in the office per week, but you can choose whether to come in more if you like
  • Health insurance

Funding (1 round)

Oct 2018

$2.2m

SEED

Total funding: $2.2m

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Leadership

Studied a Masters in Mathematics at Ultrecht University, interning in the Machine Learning group. He founded Plumerai whilst at Entrepreneur First

Has a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University of Valencia. Met Roeland at Entrepreneur First

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Plumerai

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Roeland Nusselder (CEO)

  • We need diversity of thought and experience to form a great team and to build something truly innovative!
  • Being a relatively small team, we realise that we’re all important in creating and improving the culture at Plumerai. We have regular socials (which can be initiated by anyone in the team) and offer travel between our offices in London & Amsterdam, as well as whole team offsites, so you can get to know everyone and learn about what what everyone is working on.
  • We offer flexible work hours and work from home opportunities so our team can work when and how it suits them best!
  • It’s really important to us that everyone can be themselves and can share their ideas and opinions, and our flat team structure helps to do this.
  • We realise that there is lots more we could do to improve D&I at Plumerai, so if you had any ideas we would be supportive in getting them started!
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