The VETTDD 50 · UK startups · 2026
Meryem Arik
Co-Founder and CEO, Doubleword · doubleword.ai ↗
Doubleword sells cheaper ways to run AI models, not train them. Its chief executive is building a UK inference business around that cost, and the government’s Sovereign AI Unit is backing it with compute
- compute access through the Sovereign AI Unit
- Apr 2026
- Series A, led by Dawn Capital
- $12m
- claimed saving on batch inference versus closed APIs
- 90%
- year the company was founded
- 2021