Tekniti AI Recognised at the Soyoye Entrepreneurship Prize

Tekniti AI was named among the winners of the Soyoye Entrepreneurship Prize after pitching to a panel of investors and founders in London. But the prize is not the point.

The problem

The Renters' Rights Act has fundamentally changed property compliance in England. Landlords and letting agents face 18 classes of obligation, new statutory forms, expanded penalties, and a property portal most of the market has never heard of. The tooling they rely on today was not designed for any of this.

But compliance is only the surface problem. The deeper problem is leverage.

A landlord managing five units should not be doing the same manual work per unit as a landlord managing fifty. A letting agent scaling their portfolio should not need to scale their back-office headcount at the same rate. The economics of property management break when every compliance task, every certificate renewal, every regulatory update requires a human in the loop.

Tekniti AI puts property compliance on autopilot. It keeps landlords and letting agents audit-ready and regulation-proof, automatically, so they can manage more units with less overhead and fewer sleepless nights before an inspection. The goal is simple: one landlord or one agent should be able to operate at a level of compliance rigour that used to require a dedicated operations team.

That is what leverage looks like in property management. Not working harder on compliance, but not having to think about it at all.

The judges

The credibility of a prize lives in who is judging it.

Babatunde Soyoye co-founded Helios Investment Partners in 2004. Helios manages over $3 billion in capital commitments and has executed more than $7 billion in completed investments across Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. Before Helios, he was a Principal at TPG Capital in London. He created this prize almost a decade ago to back early-stage founders.

Michael Stothard is a Partner at Firstminute Capital, the $500 million seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders. Firstminute was founded by Brent Hoberman, who co-founded lastminute.com, and has made first-money bets on five AI unicorns including Mistral, Wayve, and n8n. Before venture, Stothard spent 15 years in media as the founding editor of Sifted and a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times.

Dr. Pahini Pandya founded Panakeia, which uses AI to diagnose cancer from tissue images. Her technology delivers same-day biomarker results and is clinically deployed in NHS hospitals. She won this same prize in 2019. Since then: £7.4 million raised, $2.5 million in annual revenue, and a product in clinical use. She is the best-case outcome for what early-stage recognition can become.

They assessed each venture on commercial potential, traction, business model, technology, and founder-market fit. Tekniti made the cut.

What now

The regulatory tailwind is real, the market is underserved, and the landlords and agents Tekniti talks to all say the same thing: they did not get into property to become compliance administrators.

Tekniti is building the thing that means they do not have to be.

If you are a landlord, letting agent, or property manager who wants compliance running on autopilot, get in touch.

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