Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), has announced the winners of the Agentic AI Pioneers Prize at an industry award ceremony.
The national competition focused on three high-growth sectors: advanced manufacturing, health and life sciences, and the creative industries. More than 200 applications were submitted, underlining the strength of the UK’s innovation ecosystem and its position at the forefront of AI-driven design and technology.
Danu Insights (pictured) is the overall prize winner for its ‘Agentic Digital Twin Builder for the Life Sciences’ project, submitted for the Health & Life Science category. The winning solution helps researchers overcome the growing complexity in life sciences by simulating biological processes and pinpointing the most meaningful experiments to pursue. Through its integrated platform, Danu Insights streamlines modelling, validation, and experiment planning, saving resources and accelerating breakthroughs in therapies and biomanufacturing to enable faster, more efficient, and sustainable innovation.
Other winning businesses include Singular Machine for its multi-agent engineering platform, CoEngen, that coordinates design across disciplines using a shared data model, enabling rapid, traceable optimisation of complex systems, and Tellme for a solution that delivers real-time, adaptive museum experiences via visitors’ smartphones.
“Our ambition with the Agentic AI Pioneers Prize is to support the companies set to shape the future of agentic AI and unlock its potential to drive growth within the UK’s key industrial sectors. We are excited to be helping these award-winning companies to take the next steps towards scaling up and deploying their solutions to deliver real-world impact,” said Sara El-Hanfy, Head of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Innovate UK.
Established in partnership with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), the prize is designed to unlock the UK’s leadership in agentic AI by removing barriers to growth and equipping ambitious businesses with the vital support they need to thrive.
