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Why We Believe Ergodic’s World Model AI is the Future of Enterprise Decision-Making

Oxford Capital is proud to announce it has invested in Ergodic alongside Mercuri and Shilling, reflecting our ongoing commitment to backing innovative startups capable of fundamentally transforming industries. We are delighted to outline why we chose to support Ergodic and the potential we see in their groundbreaking approach.

Why Ergodic?

Ergodic addresses a critical challenge in enterprise decision-making: extracting actionable insights from complex and unstructured data. Through their pioneering approach leveraging world models, Ergodic stands uniquely positioned to revolutionise how businesses make informed, defensible, and highly impactful decisions.

Understanding the Problem

In today’s market, enterprises face an explosion of data. Much of this data is multi-modal, unstructured, dispersed, and challenging to analyse. Traditional AI and machine learning models, while powerful, often act as ‘black boxes’, providing outputs without clear reasoning or actionable explanations.

This opacity creates distrust, especially as regulations tighten around AI’s application in business decisions. Companies require transparent, explainable insights that empower decision-makers rather than overwhelm them.

Ergodic’s Unique Solution

Ergodic is building a sophisticated end-to-end AI platform designed explicitly to unlock the potential relationships within unstructured data. Ergodic tackles this challenge by:

  1. Structuring Enterprise Data: Leveraging large language models (LLMs), Ergodic creates a structured ‘knowledge representation’ from vast amounts of both structured and unstructured enterprise data.

  2. Leveraging a World Model Approach: Unlike contemporary AI methods, Ergodic employs a World Model approach, developing an internal model that has the ability to predict future states given any business action or event.

  1. Empowering Business Users: Ergodic is designed to be user-friendly, allowing non-technical business users to perform scenario analyses and directly identify actionable steps that positively influence key performance indicators (KPIs).

The Market Opportunity

Following the introduction of the UK’s AI Action Plan and significant investment into national digital infrastructure, the opportunity for AI across sectors, from healthcare to financial services, in the United Kingdom has substantially accelerated this year. Adoption is advancing at an expansive pace, with reports that over 52% of UK businesses are already deploying AI, and enterprise-scale adoption alone could unlock up to £119  Billion in annual productivity gains. As demand for enterprise AI solutions continues to scale, in the United Kingdom and globally, the compounding impact is expected to reshape productivity and operational efficiency, necessitating novel methodologies and differentiated solutions to meet the complexity and scale of enterprise needs.

Ergodic’s differentiation lies in its proprietary approach to handling unstructured data, leveraging AI world models with advanced natural language processing (NLP) techniques. This innovation places Ergodic well ahead of existing competitors in the space which primarily focus on structured data, positioned to lead the next wave of enterprise solutions. 

The Strength of the Team

Ergodic’s potential is underpinned by its exceptional founding team: Zubair Magrey, Andre Franca, and Andrej Nikonov. The team has extensive experience in enterprise-scale data solutions, AI research and engineering.

The synergy and diverse expertise of the founding trio provide Ergodic with a robust foundation for overcoming technical challenges and rapidly advancing their innovative product roadmap.

Early Traction

Despite its early stage, Ergodic has already demonstrated notable traction. With Fortune 500 leaders engaged as customers & design partners, Ergodic has started proving its value proposition across distinct use cases like product forecasting, supply chain and sales optimisation. This practical validation provides Oxford Capital confidence in the market relevance and scalability of Ergodic’s platform.

Strategic Investment Decision

Ergodic is set to become a leading player in the enterprise AI market, significantly enhancing enterprise decision-making and operational outcomes across various industries. It exemplifies the kind of visionary company we strive to back—one that not only anticipates future industry needs but actively shapes them through pioneering technology and insightful execution.

We look forward to supporting the founders on this exciting journey.

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Due to the potential for losses, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) considers this investment to be high risk.

What are the key risks?

  1. You could lose all the money you invest
    1. If the business you invest in fails, you are likely to lose 100% of the money you invested. Most start-up businesses fail.
  2. You are unlikely to be protected if something goes wrong
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  3. You won’t get your money back quickly
    1. Even if the business you invest in is successful, it may take several years to get your money back. You are unlikely to be able to sell your investment early.
    2. The most likely way to get your money back is if the business is bought by another business or lists its shares on an exchange such as the London Stock Exchange. These events are not common.
    3. If you are investing in a start-up business, you should not expect to get your money back through dividends. Start-up businesses rarely pay these.
  4. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
    1. Putting all your money into a single business or type of investment for example, is risky. Spreading your money across different investments makes you less dependent on any one to do well.
    2. A good rule of thumb is not to invest more than 10% of your money in high-risk investments. https://www.fca.org.uk/investsmart/5-questions-ask-you-invest
  5. The value of your investment can be reduced
    1. The percentage of the business that you own will decrease if the business issues more shares. This could mean that the value of your investment reduces, depending on how much the business grows. Most start-up businesses issue multiple rounds of shares.
    2. These new shares could have additional rights that your shares don’t have, such as the right to receive a fixed dividend, which could further reduce your chances of getting a return on your investment.

 

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