Cambridge graduates to ‘educate’ judges with transformational AI EdTech play
AI EdTech business sAInaptic has entered four categories of the Business Weekly Awards, demonstrating the exciting potential of its technology.
The Cambridge-based company is led by two exceptional female co-founders, both Cambridge graduates, who are passionate about using artificial intelligence to transform education.
sAInaptic has entered Young Company of the Year, CJBS Graduate Business of the Year, Disruptive Technology and Cambridge Judge Business School Woman Entrepreneur of the Year.
The founders, Dr Rajeshwari Iyer and Kavitha Ravindran, recognised a huge gap in the support available for students revising for their GCSE Science exams. The company is developing an AI-based assessments model that brings feedback-driven teaching and learning to users at scale. Its technology is proprietary and evidence-based and leverages recent advances in AI to auto-mark descriptive answers and give instant, teacher-like feedback. This enables students to course correct, while reducing marking workload for teachers.
GCSE Science exams comprise around 70 per cent open-ended questions but most revision resources support only closed-ended/multiple-choice questions.
Teachers struggle to have enough time for delivering content and supporting students in gaining exam techniques and skills in an effective and continuous manner, the co-founders believe. For their part, students do not know what ‘good’ looks like when they have to construct their own answer.
Since launching its products in September and November 2022, sAInaptic has grown to more than 14k registered users, with students from over 1,000 schools and 20 countries using its technology to learn more effectively.
sAInaptic’s automarking tool is built using text analysis and natural language processing methods. Its automarker is intelligent – not just a simple word search! It identifies correct concepts in student responses to provide instant and personalised feedback.
sAInaptic is a play on the word synapse. A synapse is the junction between nerve cells that helps in transfer of information from one neuron to the next. The strength of the synaptic network in our brain dictates the consolidation of information from our short-term to long-term memory.
Entries to this year’s awards are being accepted up to June 30. The award categories are:
Young Company of the Year
Cambridge Judge Graduate Business of the Year
The Sir Michael Marshall Engineering Excellence Award
Disruptive Technology
The Pathfinder Award
Technology Scale-up
Life Science Scale-up
Life Science Innovation
International Trade Champion
Quoted Company of the Year.
Cambridge Judge Business School Woman Entrepreneur of the Year
Sustainability Champion
DeepTech Innovation
Investment of the Year
Lead forensic sponsor Mills & Reeve, a UK leading law firm, will set up an interview with entrants’ chosen spokesperson to prepare a confidential report for the judges.
From all of the entrants a Business of the Year will be selected to join a Hall of Fame that includes Abcam, Acambis, Arm, Autonomy, AVEVA, Bicycle Therapeutics, British Sugar, Cambridge Antibody Technology, Cambridge Quantum, CSR, Darktrace, Domino, Frontier Developments, Horizon Discovery, Ieso Digital Health, Perkins Engines, Pi Group, Ryanair, Sepura, TTP, Treatt plc, Virata and Xaar plc.
• You can enter the Awards online at www.businessweekly.co.uk or by emailing chair of judges, Tony Quested: tquested@businessweekly.co.uk