Pontiro Secures £357,500 Investment Led by SFC Capital

Founded by Evan Jenkins, Adam Shannon, and Lewis Bowen, Pontiro was created to address a key bottleneck in healthcare AI: preparing medical imaging data for research and development had long been slow, manual, and resource-intensive.

The new investment marks an important step in Pontiro’s development, reflecting its progression from addressing operational challenges within NHS Wales to building infrastructure that helps healthcare organisations measure the real-world impact of AI. Co-founder Evan Jenkins said the funding validates both the problem the company is addressing and its approach.

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The funding will support expansion beyond Wales into NHS England trusts, with early discussions already underway with organisations exploring AI evaluation frameworks. The company is also working toward inclusion on national procurement frameworks to help streamline adoption across the public sector.

Pontiro was built inside the NHS, alongside the teams who use it every day. That matters. With this investment, we're taking infrastructure that already works at scale in Wales and making it available to trusts across the UK who are navigating the same challenges. said Lewis Bowen, Co-founder of Portiro.

Pontiro addresses a major healthcare challenge: secure access to medical imaging data. Its on-premise anonymisation tool, used across NHS sites, allows hospitals to de-identify scans and reports safely.

This enables compliant, scalable sharing of anonymised datasets with AI developers, CROs and researchers, while fully protecting patient privacy.