Luffy AI 🇬🇧
Neuroplastic AI for real-time adaptive control in industrial applications including robotics, motor control, and automotive systems.
About Luffy AI
The company offers a neuroplastic AI solution designed for real-time adaptive control in various industrial applications, including robotics, motor control, and automotive systems. This technology utilizes sparse neural networks that are trained in simulation and refined in real-world environments, achieving significant efficiency improvements while eliminating the need for extensive retraining or large datasets.
Luffy AI is a UK-based company founded in 2019, now around 28 people. It has raised $11.3M in disclosed funding. FundFinder classes it as AI & ML.
Founded by Matthew Carr (Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer; previously CSIRO, Jiddtek; The University of Sydney), Alex Meakins (Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer; previously Cobham, UK Atomic Energy Authority; Imperial College London), Phil Leichauer (Co-Founder and Chief Engineer of Luffy AI; previously Cobham, EnXray Limited; Cardiff University).
Its investors also appear on FundFinder's most-active lists for Series A · Climate & Sustainability (53 funds), Series A · Healthcare & Wellbeing (54 funds), Series A · Life Sciences (20 funds).
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Series A · Jul 2026
- British Growth Fund — Business Growth Fund, is an investment company that provides growth capital for small and mid-sized businesses in the UK and Ireland. · cheques £5M – £20M
- Future Planet — Future Planet Capital links global centres of innovation to opportunities capable of delivering breakthrough returns in the areas of Climate, Education, Health, Security and Sustainable Growth. · cheques £25k – £3M
- UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) — Evergreen, government-backed pre-seed+ fund managed by Future Planet Capital. · cheques up to £1.5M