Lumilinks has been named the 2025 Snowflake Startup Challenge Winner at the Snowflake Summit in San Francisco, beating over a thousand startups from more than a hundred countries, and recognising the company’s work to make data and AI accessible.
Gary Cole, CEO at Lumilinks said: “Data and applications shouldn’t be about the technical audience — it’s about the business user. Our goal is to find a business user with a problem and solve it, delivering realised business impact and measurable ROI.
“When we entered the challenge, we didn’t want to pitch a concept that only sounded good in theory - we wanted to show something real, proven, and delivering value today. For industries like utilities, logistics, and field services — often underserved or slower to adopt AI — even small improvements can have an outsized impact.
“That’s why we start by identifying and solving high-impact problems, designing AI that is easy to adopt, integrates with existing processes, and delivers clear ROI.”
During the pitch at Snowflake Summit, the judges focused on two things: real, proven business impact and serving industries that have often been left behind by the AI revolution.
Lumilinks has built natively on Snowflake to accelerate the development of other solutions including Smart Insights, executive-ready BI dashboards and live reporting in Streamlit, and Smart Repair, which helps engineers and service managers book cost-effective repairs.
Cole concluded: “We believe AI adoption should be about results you can measure. Every engagement includes a value report showing exactly what was invested, what’s projected, and what’s being achieved. Winning the Snowflake Startup Challenge is powerful validation of that approach, and another step on our mission to help organisations turn AI strategy into real-world outcomes.”