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AMPLYFI Ltd is an artificial intelligence (AI) company specialising in advanced Big Data analytics and intelligence gathering. The company was founded by Chris Ganje, Ian Jones, Mark Woods, Yunus Saatchi and Odin Taylor; whose expertise span decades of working in blue chip organisations and AI. Its headquarters are in Cardiff, with offices also located in San Francisco.

Founded in 2015, AMPLYFI was borne out of recognition that even 'best practice' business intelligence research tools and methodologies have limitations including natural biases, capacity, speed and cost. The company was created with the intent of overcoming these limitations and keeping pace in a rapidly changing technology landscape.

AMPLYFI's flagship product, DataVoyant™, is a user-friendly Business Intelligence and Research tool that leverages AI to mine billions of resources in the Surface and Deep Web (including academic papers, patents, government reports, financial databases, news items etc) to make powerful predictions and projection models. Specifically designed for B2B purposes, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform enables faster and more agile strategic decision-making; delivering wholly unbiased insight and reducing traditional consultancy-led projects from around three months to as little as one week. DataVoyant™ is universally applicable and uniquely able to work across all modern languages, enabling even non-subject matter experts to discover and monitor what is happening globally, whilst keeping company insights and strategic lines of enquiry in-house. Its value-add has been proven in areas such as competitor intelligence, investment optimisation and M&A targeting by some of the world's largest companies in sectors spanning energy, aerospace and defence, banking, insurance, private equity and professional services.

In addition to securing £800k in funding and a £400k long-term interest-free loan from the Welsh Government, AMPLYFI has been revenue generating since its conception. The start-up has won favourable press coverage, grants and awards including Wales' Technology Start-up of the Year 2017 , global Top 100 Artificial Intelligence firm , and one of "35 firms at cutting edge of innovation and technology". CEO, Chris Ganje, has also been recognised individually in The Sunday Times Maserati 100, Wales Online's "Top 35 Businessmen Under 35" and most recently as Innovation Entrepreneur of the Year at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards 2017.

In October 2017, AMPLYFI made headlines for contributing to a Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center white paper which surveys North Korea's biological weapons program and is thought to have started in the 1960's. For this report, DataVoyant™ mined 840,000 websites mentioning biological weapons, of which 23,000 were linked to North Korea.

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