Acquisition
Jan 2026Accenture announced an agreement to acquire Faculty; transaction terms were not disclosed.
SourceCompany research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 5, 2026
Overview
Faculty is a UK-founded applied-AI company that helps governments and enterprises safely deploy human-led, explainable AI. Its work combines AI strategy, safety, bespoke system design and implementation with a product-led decision-intelligence offering. Faculty was acquired by Accenture on 2026-03-16; more than 400 Faculty professionals joined Accenture, and Marc Warner became Accenture’s Chief Technology Officer.
Primary product
Frontier: an enterprise decision-intelligence platform that connects organizational data and AI models, supports simulation and optimization, and helps users observe, understand, decide and act across operational workflows.
Founded
2014
Headquarters
London, England, United Kingdom
Team size
400+; approximately 400–500
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Applied artificial intelligence, decision intelligence, AI consultancy and enterprise software
Offices
160 Old Street, London EC1V 9BW, United Kingdom
54 Welbeck Street, London W1G 9XS, United Kingdom
Business model
Enterprise AI consultancy and professional services
AI strategy, design and implementation
Enterprise decision-intelligence software licensing
AI safety and evaluation services
Talent and training through the Faculty Fellowship
Funding
Stage
Acquired by Accenture; previously growth-stage/private
Latest round
Growth funding / Series A (reported by LinkedIn data as Series A) · May 2021
Latest amount
$42.5M
Sep 2022 · Future Fifty
May 2021 · Apax Digital Fund
People & investors
Leadership
Dr Marc Warner
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Dr Angie Ma
Co-Founder; formerly Chief Operating Officer and Chief People Officer
Andrew Brookes
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder
John Gibson
Chief Commercial Officer
Vicki Marchington
Chief People Officer
Dr Patrick Imbach
Chief Financial Officer
Work & culture
Faculty emphasizes intellectual curiosity, diversity of thought, measurable real-world impact, human-led and explainable AI, safety, ethics, privacy and work on high-stakes public and commercial problems. Hiring materials indicate hybrid working, with some customer-facing defence roles requiring UK security clearance and on-site client work.
Work style
Hybrid
Compensation
Public job materials reviewed did not provide reliable salary bands or equity details. Compensation signals are therefore unavailable; benefits are described above.
Benefits
Unlimited annual leave
Private healthcare and dental
Enhanced parental leave
Family-friendly flexibility
Flexible and hybrid working
Sanctus coaching
Part-time or differentiated-hours options
Product & market
Pricing
Custom enterprise pricing; a UK Government Digital Marketplace listing gives an indicative Frontier range of £1,000–£250,000 per unit per month, with no free trial listed.
Differentiators
- —Deep applied-AI and PhD-heavy technical team
- —Strong public-sector, defence, healthcare and other high-stakes deployment record
- —Frontier combines data, models, simulation, optimization and workflow execution
- —Emphasis on safe, human-led, explainable and governed AI
- —Combination of consulting, implementation and proprietary decision-intelligence software
- —Partnerships and safety work with leading AI labs including OpenAI and Mistral AI
Technology
Python
PyTorch
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
GBP10m–GBP20m annually; a LinkedIn-derived company profile reports approximately GBP13.6m
Signals & risks
Acquisition
Mar 2026Accenture completed the acquisition. More than 400 Faculty employees joined Accenture; Marc Warner became Accenture CTO. Faculty is no longer an independent standalone company in the prior sense.
SourceLatest news
Accenture Newsroom · Mar 2026
The acquisition closed; more than 400 Faculty professionals joined Accenture and Marc Warner became Accenture CTO.
Accenture Newsroom · Jan 2026
Accenture announced the planned acquisition, citing Faculty’s applied-AI capabilities and Frontier decision-intelligence product; terms were undisclosed.
Faculty · Jan 2026
Faculty announced expansion into Australia and a regional Fellowship initiative.
Faculty / LinkedIn · Aug 2025
Faculty announced it had joined OpenAI’s Services Partner Program to design, build and deploy enterprise solutions using OpenAI models.