Welsh healthtech company Pontiro is expanding its platform that enables the safe, compliant use of medical imaging data for research and AI, as it prepares to scale across UK healthcare organisations and support evidence-based AI adoption.
Pontiro, a healthtech company focused on enabling the safe and compliant use of medical imaging data for research and AI, has raised £357,500 in a funding round led by SFC Capital, with participation from Plug and Play Ventures and the British Business Bank.
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.
As AI adoption accelerates across healthcare, expectations are shifting. Safe data access alone is no longer sufficient, and healthcare leaders increasingly require evidence that AI deployments deliver measurable operational value.
Pontiro’s platform has processed more than 2 million medical images across NHS Wales, supporting secure anonymisation, AI validation case studies, and teaching workflows across multiple health boards. By replacing fragmented manual processes with automated tools integrated into hospital systems, the company has reduced turnaround times while lowering compliance risk.
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.
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.
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.