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Nearform
Builds agentic AI, digital products and platform modernisation for regulated enterprises via senior delivery pods
Nearform is an engineering firm that builds agentic AI systems, digital products and modernised enterprise platforms for large organisations. It works through small senior delivery pods and forward deployed engineers who embed in client teams. Its site names Renalytix, an AI-enabled kidney diagnostics platform, as a client and lists partnerships with Anthropic, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Sanity.
- Type of firm
- Forward-deployed engineering
- Known for
- Agentic AI systems for regulated enterprises
- Based in
- Tramore, Ireland
- Founded
- 2011
- Employees
- 51 to 200
- Funding
- Series B or later (Growth)
- Ownership
- VC-backed · Columbia Capital
- Status
- Active
- Generalist or specialist
- Generalist
- Built on
- Anthropic, AWS, Google Cloud
- Delivery model
- Embedded team
- Founders
- Cian Ó Maidín
- Website
- nearform.com
Funding and deals
- 2021-02: Growth, not disclosed, led by Columbia Capital
Investors
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