As we approach the middle of 2025, the impact of artificial intelligence continues to change industry and redefine possibilities. From shaking up property finance to advancements in climate risk analysis, AI-driven companies are at the front of innovation. In this article, we highlight ten companies using AI to make a significant impact on their own businesses and on an industry level. Each organisation, whether a startup or an established leader, illustrates diverse applications and the potential of AI technologies.
- TAB
The property market is full of legacy systems and slow-moving lenders. TAB was built to be the opposite. From day one, they have used technology to deliver faster, smarter capital. In 2025, they are pushing that to the edge even further-with AI driving decisions, automation, and insight at every platform level.
AI is not a layer at TAB – it is built into the core. They use machine learning to analyse markets in real time, assess property values, and flag risks before they appear. Meaning at TAB they can lend faster, with more confidence – and write better deals. In just four years, TAB has written over £500 million in loans. AI helps them to underwrite faster, streamline legal processes, and eliminate bottlenecks in credit checks. That speed gets capital to borrowers quicker and returns to investors sooner.
But the real power is in personalisation. TAB’s models are built to spot what clients want next-whether it is a short-term bridge or a longer-term product-so they can recommend, not just react. For investors, it means predictive performance and for borrowers, speed without compromise. And for the TAB team, it means more time to focus on relationships and strategy – not admin. TAB does not use AI because it is the future, they use it because it works. It makes property finance more transparent, more efficient, and more human.
- High Digital
Founded in 2017, High Digital is a global leader in AI-driven data products, with offices in the UK, India, and Kenya. They specialise in designing, building, and delivering scalable data solutions that drive business intelligence across sectors, including telecoms, trade analytics, comparison platforms, logistics, marketing technology, and ESG.
Their flagship products include the ESG Hub, a comprehensive platform for tracking and reporting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics, and Hanse Analytics, a powerful analytics tool providing real-time trade and financial insights. These platforms integrate advanced AI, data automation, and cloud technologies to help organisations make data-driven decisions.
They collaborate closely with clients, ensuring adaptability. High Digital’s core expertise spans data analytics, Python, .NET, JavaScript, Java, Microsoft Technologies, and AWS. They are additionally Cyber Essentials Plus certified and ISO/IEC 27001 accredited, demonstrating their commitment to security and compliance.
High Digital manages projects with two-week sprints, real-time tracking in Jira, and regular stand-ups, planning meetings, and retrospectives to ensure efficient delivery. At High Digital, they blend AI with human innovation, ensuring products and people perform at their best.
- TEXpert AI
TEXpert AI is a Generative AI-powered platform founded by Drishdey Caullychurn, a former treasury manager and trader responsible for overseeing risks in multibillion-dollar balance sheets across global financial institutions. Her vision is to make sustainability an integral part of every data-driven business decision.
At TEXpert AI, they transform messy, scattered information into sharp, decision-ready insights. Using advanced Generative AI techniques, they extract and measure the critical social and governance factors that drive responsible investment decisions, sustainable business growth, and proactive risk management.
Unlike opaque, black-box ESG metrics, the platform delivers full traceability across documents, tables, images, and other data sources – giving users complete transparency and confidence in every metric they use.
TEXpert AI empowers portfolio and asset managers to run dynamic portfolio construction scenarios and converse with their data lakes through natural language, unlocking real-time insights to act faster, adapt smarter, and invest more responsibly.
At the same time, they enable corporates to identify high-impact businesses, measure their social impact, and expose hidden risks within their supply chains – turning complexity into a clear and lasting competitive advantage.
- Hire CFO
As high-growth companies scale, financial leadership becomes critical, yet hiring full-time CFOs can be costly and slow. That’s where Hire CFO comes in, combining the flexibility of Fractional and Full-Time CFOs with the precision of AI to deliver a forward-thinking, cost-effective financial strategy.
On the marketing front, Hire CFO harnesses AI-driven platforms like Meet Alfred to automate LinkedIn outreach and lead generation – reaching the right founders at the right time with personalised messaging. In the future, they are also looking to leverage tools like Clay to predict which companies will be hiring CFOs, allowing for proactive, insight-led business development.
But the real AI magic happens behind the scenes for clients. From AI-powered forecasting, using tools like DataRobot and Prophet, to cash flow prediction and optimisation, Hire CFO enables companies to anticipate financial risks and seize growth opportunities. Smart alerts for liquidity gaps, anomaly detection in expenses with MindBridge or Vic.ai, and automated trend analysis through Fathom make financial reporting more accurate and actionable.
Whether it is improving Accounts Receivable/Payable processes, spotting red flags, or refining strategic models, Hire CFO blends deep industry expertise with advanced AI tools to help businesses make better decisions, faster.
- Riskthinking.ai
Riskthinking.ai is a global leader in physical climate risk intelligence. Founded to replace guesswork with clarity, the company accurately simulates future climate impacts without shortcuts, modelling extremes and exposing tail risks organisations cannot afford to ignore. Its analytics equip financial institutions, governments, and corporations with decision-grade insights for strategic planning, regulation, and stress testing. Canadian financial regulators and other key organisations already rely on the platform to prepare for climate disruptions with confidence.
At the heart of the platform is the Climate Earth Digital Twin (CDT™) – the first genuine digital twin of the global climate risk environment. By integrating over two trillion data points across assets, hazards, sectors, and vulnerabilities, the CDT’s bottom-up approach – driven by patented stochastic modelling – captures the full range of outcomes, including extremes often overlooked by traditional tools. The cloud-native platform offers straightforward, secure, and private onboarding at minimal cost, scaling effortlessly from a single analyst to multinational banks, insurers, and asset managers. Users can visualise exposure, test portfolio resilience, and run policy or environmental scenarios over any horizon – on cloud or on-prem -through intuitive AI-driven queries and dynamic geospatial views.
Trusted by industry leaders, Riskthinking.ai partners with Bloomberg, TMX Group, and other key providers, ensuring seamless workflow integration and alignment with frameworks such as OSFI and TCFD.
Whether assessing transition risk or quantifying exposure to floods, wildfires, extreme heat, or 50 additional hazards worldwide, Riskthinking.ai provides the foresight necessary to manage uncertainty and seize opportunities. Transforming complex climate science into actionable intelligence assists institutions in embedding resilience into operations, investments, and strategy, redefining the standard for climate risk analysis. It is a machine that converts climate risk into a business opportunity.
- iWarranty
iWarranty is an award-winning, AI-powered warranty management platform changing how manufacturers, retailers, dealers, and consumers manage warranties. Dr. Pillai founded iWarranty at the University of Cambridge after several years of industrial research, with a mission to transform the complex ecosystem of warranties. Her solution has gained widespread recognition, winning several awards across the UK and EU. iWarranty is the world’s first truly integrated, AI-powered warranty management platform, and under Dr Pillai’s leadership, this company is at the forefront of practical AI, tackling consumer pain points and transforming warranty management from a source of frustration into an engine for efficiency.
Unlike traditional solutions, iWarranty uses AI and automation to simplify complex warranty processes – eliminating paperwork, reducing fraud, and driving measurable value for OEMs, brands, and insurers. By combining the entire warranty ecosystem on a single digital platform, iWarranty enables effortless collaboration, resulting in faster claims, proactive issue detection, and a user-friendly experience. They are also committed to sustainability, offering eco-conscious repair and reuse options that help brands reduce waste and meet ESG goals.
Before founding iWarranty, Dr Pillai had an impressive career as a corporate finance lawyer with leading global firms in London, advising on complex cross-border transactions and regulatory strategy. She holds a PhD in Law and Macroeconomics, with a focus on financial regulation, graduating Magna Cum Laude. Dr. Pillai’s unique blend of legal, insurance/reinsurance, commercial, and technological expertise powers her mission to make warranty management simpler, smarter, and more sustainable for everyone.
- MiniMax
MiniMax, a Shanghai-based AI company founded in 2021, has quickly emerged as a significant player in China’s AI landscape. Specialising in large language models (LLMs), MiniMax has developed the MiniMax-01 family, including the general-purpose MiniMax-Text-01 and the multimodal MiniMax-VL-01.
Their recent release, Speech-02, supports over 30 languages and can process up to 200,000 characters at once. With substantial investments from Alibaba and Tencent, MiniMax is ready to challenge global AI leaders by offering open-source models tailored for diverse applications.
- Cohere
Cohere, is a startup founded in 2019, and it focuses on providing large language models for enterprise applications. Their platform enables businesses to deploy AI-driven solutions for tasks like copywriting, content moderation, and data classification.
Cohere’s technology is integrated into products from companies like Oracle and Salesforce. In March 2025, their nonprofit research lab introduced Aya Vision, an AI model capable of describing images, translating text, and summarising information, further solidifying their position in the industry.
- Sarvam AI
The Indian startup Sarvam AI, founded in 2023, is dedicated to developing large language models tailored for Indian languages and contexts.
Their models, such as Sarvam 2B and Shuka 1.0, are designed to manage the linguistic diversity of India, supporting languages like Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu. Collaborations with entities like the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and Microsoft aim to enhance AI accessibility and user experience across the nation.
- Mind Foundry
Mind Foundry, a company spun out from the University of Oxford in 2016, specialises in “AI for high-stakes applications.” Operating primarily in sectors like insurance, infrastructure, and defence, Mind Foundry focuses on developing responsible AI solutions designed for critical decision-making scenarios.
Their commitment to ethical AI practices positions them as a trusted partner in complex industries. AI advancement in 2025 is marked by diverse applications across various sectors. The companies highlighted in this list demonstrate the spirit driving AI forward, from improving financial services and sustainability efforts to promoting language processing and ethical AI deployment. As these organisations continue to evolve and influence their respective industries, they represent the dynamic potential of artificial intelligence in shaping the future of business.
