SimSage raising cash and targeting launch into US

09 Apr, 2024
Tony Quested
Pioneering data management company SimSage, which operates from St John’s Innovation Centre in Cambridge, is targeting a fast launch into the US. SimSage is currently closing a £1.5 million seed raise to enable faster expansion into the States through both direct and channel sales partnerships.
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Rock de Vocht, SimSage’s Chief Scientific Officer (left) with CEO Sean Wilson.

SimSage helps organisations improve business efficiencies and reduce risk through an intelligent information management platform that accesses all corporate systems from one single query window.

The initiative is geared to helping businesses derive much more value from their data through significantly reducing the time spent finding, categorising and automating the processing of it.

SimSage currently has four core offerings – SimSageAudit, SimSageFind, SimSageCategorise and SimSageAutomate. These solutions allow users to do a range of things including Enterprise Search, cleaning out Dark Data, finding and redacting GDPR non-compliant data and automating a range of manual business processes.

The technology – created by Rock de Vocht, SimSage’s Chief Scientific Officer, and his technical team – enables a customer to find relevant information quickly and securely, with one simple natural language search across all connected systems.

Up and running quickly with no need to move or centralise your data, SimSage can search a wide range of systems including Sharepoint, Google Drive, Dropbox and iManage across more than 300 searchable file types. SimSage removes the cost and complexity of document management systems and reduces business risk particularly around legislative compliance. It saves businesses money and time.

Rock says: “SimSage is one of the best Semantic Search engines around. Using the natural relationships of Language to find structured and unstructured data, SimSage’s accuracy enables it to take advantage of Large Language Models (LLMs) for more accurate answers across very large volumes of data. The LLM assist is called Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).”

CEO Sean Wilson adds that it’s ‘all about scaling the business from here.’ He says the US, in particular, is a primary market for innovative AI-based tech like SimSage owing to its size and aggressive growth culture.

He is fast to point out that SimSage is not just a technology – but “a people business. We have focused on creating something that is useful to people within businesses that are tasked with managing and finding data.

“More than that, we have built a business that has attracted seasoned team-members in business and technology with senior, international, corporate and start-up successes.

“Back in 2019, SimSage was nothing more than an exciting idea born from a conversation with computer scientist, linguist and friend Rock. Now, in 2023 we are a thriving business with a team of over 20, with market-leading clients and a bank of investors. It’s very satisfying to see how far we’ve come in a short time – and we’re continually growing.”

SimSage is a Microsoft Tech Partner and operates from the Azure Cloud Platform, and is expected to achieve Google Cloud Partnership certification in April/May and AWS Cloud certification shortly thereafter.