PRESS RELEASE 

Cardiff, August 23, 2021: Cardiff-based AI startup Nightingale HQ has become the first UK startup to join EIT Manufacturing, the largest European consortium of manufacturers that includes big names like Whirlpool, Siemens, Philips, P&G, and many prominent research and academic institutes. It’s supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union.  

The tech startup founded by Data Scientist Steph Locke and Innovation expert Ruth Kearney will work with a dedicated EIT Business Creation Manager for the next six months to access markets to accelerate their efforts in addressing critical challenges across manufacturing. CEO Steph Locke added that the collaboration

is important for us but also for businesses across the UK as it shows that business creation and collaborations can continue to be strengthened even post-Brexit. There are ways and means and we are proof of this and we want other UK businesses to have this opportunity too.

Joining EIT gives the business greater visibility for the GoSmarter platform that they are currently developing. Manufacturers can augment their workers with a range of no-code tools that they can easily deploy to automate repetitive processes around them. It’s fast and affordable. Dr. Wolfgang Kniejski, Senior Business Creation Manager at EIT Manufacturing is keen to support the startup, he stated that

We are proud of having Nightingale HQ in our startup portfolio. Their high-tech GoSmarter solution has the potential to offer significant value to Europe’s manufacturing industry. I am truly looking forward to a successful cooperation. 

The founders also have several trips planned to Germany where they will get the opportunity to meet manufacturers who want to work with startups. The company will receive further financial support in the form of investment readiness preparation and investor introductions. Commercial Director Ruth Kearney is keen to develop stronger links, adding to existing collaborations with major research centers Helmholtz and The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).

‘Joining EIT Manufacturing offers us a significant opportunity to explore German and Austria markets, who are major industrial players. We get to meet manufacturers and further validate and test our GoSmarter tools – the opportunity to co-develop solutions is also important to us. We look forward to what’s lies ahead.’

EIT Manufacturing offers many different business opportunities, they run a series of industry match-making events and challenges whereby major manufacturers look to partner with innovative solution providers. Their BoostUp competition has three challenges from Whirlpool EMEA, Voestalpine (global steel manufacturers,) and EROSKI (global retailers) and is currently open to applications.

There are tons of opportunities and this Wales-based startup is out there creating opportunities and paving the way for other UK businesses to do the same.

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Contact

Ruth Kearney

Nightingale HQ

ruth@nightingalehq.ai

EIT Manufacturing

EIT Manufacturing is an Innovation Community within the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) – that connects the leading manufacturing actors in Europe. They are supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union.  

They bring together manufacturing businesses with leading universities and research and technology organisations to make a truly interdisciplinary organisation. Founded in 2019, more than 65 organisations are already part of the consortium. It is one of eight innovation communities within EIT. The others are EIT Climate-KIC, EIT Digital, EIT Food, EIT Health, EIT InnoEnergy, EIT Raw Materials, and EIT Urban Mobility. eitmanufacturing.eu/ 

Nightingale HQ CEO Steph Locke and Commercial Director Ruth Kearney meet with EIT Manufacturing Director Dr. Christian Bölling and Senior Business Creation Manager Dr. Wolfgang Kniejski in Frankfurt.

Nightingale HQ 

Nightingale HQ was founded by Steph Locke, AI specialist, and Ruth Kearney, Innovation expert. They believe that businesses do not have to choose between embracing technology or supporting jobs, it’s about augmenting workers with the right tools. Their GoSmarter platform offers no-code tools to manufacturers to support workers to automate repetitive tasks around them easily. GoSmarter allows any manufacturer with just 1 engineer to use tools that can easily improve operations fast. nightingalehq.ai/

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