Cloudax press & media

Press coverage of Cloudax, official company announcements, company facts, spokespeople and brand assets. Press enquiries: [email protected].

Cloudax in the press

  • Manchester teen entrepreneurs' conversational AI startup bags spot on €500,000 accelerator programme, Prolific North, 21 July 2026, by Chris Newbould. The story of Cloudax from a first contract won at a 50 Cent concert to thousands of calls a day across legal, insurance and financial services, and a place on the EWOR Traction Fellowship.
  • Cloudax Accepted Into EWOR Traction Fellowship, Call Centre Helper.

Company facts

  • Name: Cloudax. One word, capital C only. Not CloudAX, Cloud AX or CloudX.
  • What it does: conversational AI for customer conversations across voice, chat and video. Not a chatbot vendor, and not voice-only.
  • Scale: thousands of calls a day across live deployments.
  • Partners: Gamma, Avoira, TelXL, Mobysoft, Worldpay.
  • Leadership and board: Oliver Hobson, Co-Founder. Leo Motley, Co-Founder. David Blockley, COO, thirty-five years in software with two data businesses founded and sold, to Auto Data Network and GB Group PLC. Andy Reiss, CFO, previously fourteen years as director of research at AllianceBernstein in New York and an adviser on enterprise policy at the Cabinet Office. David Ordman, board member, formerly Group CFO of IHS Towers through its 2021 NYSE listing. Garry Gormley, non-executive director, founder of FAB Solutions.
  • Funding: Pre-Seed, c. $530k, from EWOR and angel investors.
  • Valuation: c. $5.35m, most recent round, December 2025.

Company boilerplate

Customers do not want to wait on hold, and businesses cannot hire their way out of the problem. Cloudax builds conversational AI agents that pick up instead, answering on voice, chat and video and resolving the request inside the systems that hold the answer.

Leadership team

Leo Motley on technology, product and AI standards. Oliver Hobson on commercial and market. Andy Reiss on regulatory.

Assets

Logos, colour, typography and imagery are downloadable from the Cloudax brand kit. Official announcements are published in the newsroom.