Adarga (company)

Adarga is a UK-based artificial intelligence (AI) software provider working with customers across defense, national security, and commercial organizations. Adarga delivers enterprise SaaS products to help customers effectively analyze vast amounts of unstructured data faster. The company's flagship product, Adarga Vantage, uses natural language processing, machine learning, and network science technology to help organizations manage fast-evolving situations, improve decision-making, anticipate new threats, and mitigate risk.

Adarga works with organizations engaged in defense and national security, as well as commercial businesses. Its customers include the British Army, Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force. Vantage is an out-of-the-box AI software solution used by analysts with challenges in the variety, scale, and complexity of their information. The company's AI analytics technology processes unstructured data at scale, extracting information in context to present it in comprehensible formats. It works with in-house and open-source information, improving productivity by automating time- and knowledge-intensive tasks.

The Adarga knowledge platform underpins Vantage. The platform uses over thirty-five machine learning models (both proprietary and fine-tuned by Adarga for this specific use case) to ingest, process, and extract information from large volumes of information in over seventy-five languages.

Vantage aims to deliver insights and improved foresight to analysts, planners, and decision-makers by analyzing data from millions of sources faster. Powered by AI, Vantage offloads time-consuming tasks such as information collection and processing so that users can focus on critical analysis. The software extracts, synthesizes, and summarizes results drawn from data sources in different languages—identifying, linking, and corroborating themes to help users explore different threads of investigation and compare narratives.

Adarga Labs is a service provided by the company, applying its data scientists, engineers, and digital integrators to develop custom AI applications to solve customers' unique business problems.

Adarga was founded in 2016 by CEO Rob Bassett Cross in response to the challenges presented by the growth in information. Bassett Cross had prior experience working in the British Army and in the financial sector. Adarga was created to apply AI and machine learning techniques to understanding text, voice, and video data for real-world problems. The company is headquartered in London and primarily serves UK customers but has also expanded into Australia and the USA.

In September 2019, Adarga closed a £5 million ($6.4 million) series A from Allectus Capital. At the time of the funding, the company stated it had a sales pipeline of over £30 million through strategic collaborations with a number of global industrial partners. In November 2019, the company revealed it had upsized its series A fundraising to £7 million with an additional £2 million ($2.6 million) investment from Moore Strategic Ventures LLC. In May 2023, the company announced $20 million in funding led by BOKA Group.