UKAI · Oct 2025
Coverage of Tenyks’s CCTV analytics for retail and hospitality, including subscription pricing, expansion plans, and reported use across camera networks.
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Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Cambridge-based YC S21 visual-intelligence startup that turns existing CCTV and other video streams into operational insights for hospitality/QSR and adjacent sectors; the company also publishes a legacy computer-vision workflow product called Nucleus for dataset curation and model QA.
Primary product
Visual Intelligence Platform (video AI agents / videoGPT for cameras)
Founded
2019
Headquarters
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Team size
10-20
Work style
Remote
Industry
IT Services and IT Consulting
Sub-industry
Visual intelligence / computer vision MLOps
Offices
28 Chesterton Road, Cambridge CB4 3AZ, United Kingdom
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Business model
subscription
SaaS
enterprise software
Funding
Stage
seed
Total raised
$3.6M
Latest round
Non-Equity Assistance / Incubator-Accelerator II · May 2024
Non-Equity Assistance / Incubator-Accelerator II
May 2024 · Intel Ignite
Mar 2022 · Speedinvest, firstminute capital
Aug 2021 · Y Combinator
Feb 2020 · University of Cambridge Enterprise
Nov 2019
People & investors
Leadership
CEO & Co-founder
Co-founder & Director of Technology
Head of Operations
Head of Legal
Founders
Co-founder & CTO (former)
Work & culture
Publicly described as meritocratic, caring, and disciplined, with a 'hacker mindset'; the company emphasizes learning with zest, aiming high, anti-fragility, shipping fast, and staying together. Public sources also describe it as remote-first.
Work style
Remote
Product & market
Pricing
Tiered subscription pricing with Starter, Pro, and Enterprise plans; monthly and annual billing are publicly listed.
Differentiators
- —Uses existing CCTV and video infrastructure; no new hardware required
- —Converts video into searchable operational intelligence
- —Natural-language video search / VideoGPT-style workflows
- —Real-time alerts, dashboards, and multi-camera tracking
- —Strong focus on QSR and hospitality ROI
- —Deployable in days with white-glove onboarding
- —Combines vision AI with VLMs and operational analytics
Technology
ReactJS
d3.js
Python Flask
MongoDB
Docker
AWS
Google Cloud
Microsoft Azure
PyTorch
TensorFlow
NVIDIA TAO/TLT Toolkit
Tenyks SDK
Tenyks CLI
Customers
Quick-service restaurants (QSRs)
hospitality brands
restaurant operators and franchisees
retail businesses
healthcare organizations
education organizations
logistics companies
Fortune 500 enterprises
global system integrators
high-growth startups
Competitors
LatticeFlow AI
Voxel51
Dive
Aquarium Learning
Scale AI
Labelbox
Lightly
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
approximately $1.2M-$2.4M ARR (public estimates vary by source)
Estimated monthly visits
1.1K
Traffic estimate as of Mar 2025
Latest news
IPVM · Jul 2025
Profile/interview focused on Tenyks as a generative/visual AI company and its product direction.
Maddyness UK · Jun 2025
Founder Q&A with Botty Dimanov on the company’s pivot from AI explainability to CCTV-based operational intelligence, its remote team, and its focus on hospitality/QSR.
LinkedIn · Jun 2025
Company post promoting the UKTN founder interview and highlighting lessons on adaptability and founder mindset.
UKTN · Jun 2025
Interview with Botty Dimanov on founding lessons, adaptability, and how Tenyks uses video feeds for AI-delivered insights.
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