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PEAK:AIO

Case study 24 November 2025

PEAK:AIO, a Manchester-based software company building ultra-fast storage systems for AI workloads has received a £5 million funding round. 

Region/Nation North West
Sector Technology
Programme Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II
Partner
Image of Co founder and CSO of PEAK:AiO

Pembroke has invested £3.7 million, alongside NPIF II – Praetura Equity Finance which is managed by Praetura Ventures as part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II (NPIF II), and a Silicon Valley investor. 

The company has developed an AI software platform that delivers faster, more energy-efficient AI systems, fixing one of the data storage industry’s biggest problems: how information is stored and accessed. 

The new funding will support PEAK:AIO’s global expansion, grow its team, and accelerate development of its scale-out high-performance platform to meet the rising global demand. Its software delivers significantly faster performance while using less energy and physical space compared to traditional storage systems.

AI represents one of the fastest-growing technological transformations in history, with the global market expected to surge from $189 billion in 2023 to $4.8 trillion by 2033. PEAK:AIO directly addresses this challenge with advanced technology that enables organisations to scale AI more cost-effectively and sustainably, turning a global problem into an opportunity for long-term impact.

PEAK:AIO has already demonstrated strong early traction, with its revenue and partner networks both quadrupling over the past year. Its platform has been implemented in institutions where traditional storage technology was preventing AI progress. This includes The NHS, King’s College London, Zoological Society of London, and notably, Los Alamos National Laboratory, a US Government research facility that received $5.24 billion in funding last year.

Mark Klarzynski, Co-Founder and CSO of PEAK:AIO said:  

AI has created demands that traditional IT was never designed to handle. From the start we built PEAK:AIO to answer those challenges, and our success in the UK quickly led to adoption in the US. This investment is about more than growth, it is about backing a UK company that is setting new standards in AI infrastructure worldwide.