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Unitary

Context-aware AI and computer vision models

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21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision
  • Machine Learning
  • SaaS
Holborn, London, UK

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Company mission

To develop video understanding AI and deploy it at scale to solve real-world problems in content moderation and beyond.

Top investors

38% female employees

Our take

5 billion hours of video are played online every day and this number is growing fast. This has resulted in an explosion of harmful content, which is damaging the reputation of content platforms.

Currently, platforms hosting video content are reliant on either armies of human moderators or not fit for purpose A.I. tools that fail to recognise context. In focusing just on video content and combining computer vision with a mathematical model of context, Unitary has created cutting-edge technology for this field.

The company now needs to build its technology into a product that can fit seamlessly into the workflows of moderation teams on the dozens of video-hosting platforms that they hope will become clients.

While Unitary has made significant strides, previous efforts in content moderation A.I by Google and AWS have become unstuck in meeting the intricate problem of recognising and triaging different varieties of toxicity all while recognising appropriate context. It is yet to be proven that Unitary will be successful where these efforts have failed.

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Benefits

  • ⏱️ Flexible hours and location
  • 🏝️28 Days Holiday + Flexible public Holidays (choose to take public holidays on the days they fall, or take them at a different time of the year when it fits your values, beliefs, and calendar better)
  • 📈 Share options
  • 🏦 Occupational pension
  • 🚼 Paid parental leave (3 months of fully paid for everyone regardless of gender, location or family situation)
  • 🏥 Paid sick leave (2 weeks fully paid)
  • 🧠 Brain-Love Budget (£1,000 per person per year towards professional development and growth)
  • 🫂 Feel-Good Budget (£500 per person per year towards anything health and wellness related)

Company values

  • Fiercely Passionate
  • Unbeatable as a Team
  • Endlessly curious
  • United through Diversity

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Oct 2023

$15m

SERIES A

Mar 2023

$8m

SEED

Total funding: $25.1m

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Leadership

Sasha Haco

(CEO)

Before entering the startup world, Sasha was using mathematics to solve the mysteries of the universe. During their PhD at Cambridge they worked with Stephen Hawking on the black hole information paradox and spent a year as a visiting fellow at Harvard.

James Thewlis

(CTO)

James has a PhD in computer vision from Oxford’s Visual Geometry Group, where they developed methods for visual understanding with less manual annotation. Has worked with Facebook AI Research and has published at top international conferences.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Unitary

  • Unitary is committed to creating an inclusive workforce. We believe that employing people from a diverse range of backgrounds stimulates creativity and critical thinking.
  • This is an essential part of Unitary developing high-quality products and building a company that is enjoyable to work for and with.

Endorsements

All

Opportunities to learn (1)

Meaningful work (1)

Growing fast (1)

Unitary is right at the beginning of our startup journey and changing all the time, which makes it a really exciting environment and a great opportunity for people who like building things from scratch. I've had the chance to set up processes and projects from scratch and start conversations with the team about how we want to build Unitary for the future.

Operations & Strategy

Opportunities to learn

Mar 2022

Unitary is working at the intersection of technological, social and policy changes that are shaping how the world maintains online safety and builds structures to reduce online harm. Being able to learn about and have input into the tech industry and companies that define our generation and having the chance to see a positive impact of my work within that area is one of the main reasons I wanted to join the company.

Operations & Strategy

Meaningful work

Mar 2022

I've been here 3 months and we've gone from a small group of 5 people to doubling in size. We will again grow 2-3x by the end of the year and will likely keep hiring. It's exciting being part of a growing organisation because new challenges and opportunities come out of that journey.

Operations & Strategy

Growing fast

Mar 2022

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