Ashraf Attia, founder of Fintech Startup Predictiva, named in the top 50 tech talents contributing to economic growth in the UK

Ashraf K. Attia, co-founder and CEO of Predictiva

The latest Tech Nation Visa report published in September 2022 lists Ashraf Attia among the top fifty global talents in the UK

LEICESTER, UNITED KINGDOM, Sept. 16, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — In the UK, the world’s third most valuable technology economy, demand for talented employees means attracting global talent is critical to continued success. The latest Tech Nation Visa report lists Ashraf Attia among the top fifty global talents in the UK, contributing to the UK’s economic growth. Ashraf is an Egyptian entrepreneur who moved to the UK in 2018 via the Tech Nation Exceptional Talent Visa. The company he co-founded created six Deep Tech roles and is expected to contribute over £80m to the UK economy by 2025.

Predictiva, the Fintech-AI startup founded by Ashraf Attia with Maysara Hammouda in the UK, solves the most challenging optimization dilemmas in financial markets to deliver predictable profits while minimizing risk. Using advanced Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms, Predictiva – which has already received multiple awards and been featured in several “top tech” lists, including Tech Nation Rising Stars, IBM Best Machine Learning Project and The Next Web – uses AI to redefine Financial Intelligence and make advanced AI available to everyone.

“As many technology companies globally are experiencing, it is difficult to recruit employees with the right skills and capabilities,” Ashraf said. “There is huge growth in the UK tech sector, so we are moving fast, networking hard and doing everything we can to bring new hires into the team and try to ensure the availability of talent doesn’t limit Predictiva’s success.”

The UK tech ecosystem is valued at just under $1 trillion and is the world’s third most valuable tech economy, behind only the US and China. According to the annual Tech Nation Visa Report 2022, the UK continues to benefit from high levels of investment and funding in the technology sector: over $16 billion in the first half of 2022, and is set to surpass investment in France, Germany and the Nordics. Today, just under 5 million people work in UK tech startups and scaleups, and more than 2 million tech vacancies were advertised in the last year, more than any other area of ​​the UK job market.

With such enormous growth and investment comes an ever-increasing demand for talent, outstripping local supply in every region. Tech Nation’s founding CEO, Gerard Grech, said in the report’s release, “We are grateful to the exceptionally talented tech workers and founders who have come to the UK from around the world. The UK’s future is technology, and with the help of even more incredible global talent to come, we will continue to be the first choice for businesses to start, scale and stay.”

The Tech Nation Visa enables the brightest and best technology talent from around the world to come and work in the UK’s digital technology sector, contributing their cutting-edge expertise, creativity and innovation to maintain the UK’s position at the forefront of the global digital economy.

“At Predictiva, our small team, based in Leicester and Edinburgh, continues to innovate and invest in Deep Tech, particularly AI, Deep Reinforcement Learning and other new machine learning capabilities. I am delighted to be included and recognized on this Tech Nation list, and as with so much in business, this is an honor we share as a team.”

About Predictiva
At Predictiva, we are determined to solve the most challenging optimization dilemmas in the financial markets, to deliver predictable profits while minimizing risk. Using state-of-the-art Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms, our platform, Investiva, uses AI to redefine Financial Intelligence and make advanced AI accessible to everyone.

Important Predictive Milestones
• May 2021: Predictiva’s first funding round resulted in investment from 7 angel investors and a post-money valuation of £4.9 million.
• Featured by The Next Web (TNW) as one of Europe’s 50 best data-driven startups.
• Won the IBM Best Machine Learning Project Award at the University of Edinburgh.
• Won the regional award for the Tech Nation Rising Stars competition.
• Developed strategic partnerships with leading technology providers including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), NVIDIA and leading universities such as the University of Edinburgh.
• Won the Innovate UK Smart Grant competition with a total grant value of £345K
• September 2022: The Tech Nation Visa Report 2022 names co-founder and CEO Ashraf Attia as one of the top 50 global tech talents in the UK, contributing to the UK’s economic growth.

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