Humanloop

Tech enabling AI systems to query human experts efficiently.

data center employee on platform works on neural network software tasks

Humanloop’s technology enables AI systems to query human experts on only the most valuable data and learn much faster.

The spinout was the first development platform for LLM applications and shaped industry standards for how to manage and evaluate AI.

In 2025, it was acquired by Anthropic.

Marina Santilli

Interim Director of Physical Sciences & Engineering

Marina has specialised in the commercialisation of computer science and AI-based inventions and deep tech venture building since joining UCL Ventures in 2007. She headed straight into industry after graduating in Physics from Imperial College, enjoying a successful career in datacomms engineering and becoming Director of new product development at Verizon.

In 2010 she designed and developed E-lucid, a platform to enable online licensing of UCL’s intellectual property. E-lucid is now used by over 30 research institutions around the world and was spun out as a commercial business in 2023.

Marina was involved in the formation of many successful UCL spinouts including Satalia, Re:infer, 3DRepo, MatrixMill, Humanloop, Stanhope AI.