London, UK , March 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RedCloud Holdings plc (NASDAQ:RCT) ("RedCloud" or the "Company"), the technology company building AI infrastructure for global trade today announced the intent to establish a dedicated AI research and development hub at ITU Teknokent in Istanbul, one of the region's most prestigious technology ecosystems.

The hub will focus on data science and engineering to deliver advanced offerings, such as the R.A.I.D. (Realtime AI for Distribution) engine, moving from validated capability into enterprise-grade deployment, supporting early adopter customers and accelerating integration into the Company's RedAI platform, initially in Türkiye and subsequently across international markets.

This marks a deliberate shift from model validation to planned productization, building the engineering capability required to operationalise real-time decision intelligence across complex FMCG trade environments.

From tested intelligence to operational infrastructure

R.A.I.D. has been tested across millions of FMCG transactions, demonstrating recommendation performance above industry benchmarks and establishing a new model for decision-making in high-frequency, fragmented trade environments. The R.A.I.D. engine will be commercialized within the RedAI platform later this year and exist within the intelligence layer embedded in RedAI trading networks.

The focus now moves to intended deployment at scale.

The Türkiye R&D hub will serve as a core engineering centre for:

Translating R.A.I.D. into enterprise-ready workflows
Integrating intelligence into live distribution and trading environments
Supporting early adopter enterprise customers
Expanding RedAI's capability across demand, pricing, inventory and credit decisioning

This approach reflects a broader shift in global trade systems, from software that supports decisions to infrastructure that executes them.

Why Türkiye

Türkiye sits at the intersection of Europe, the Middle East and Asia, which RedCloud believes makes it one of the most strategically important FMCG trade corridors globally.

Its combination of large-scale domestic demand advanced manufacturing capacity and highly fragmented retail and distribution networks, creates both significant opportunity and structural inefficiency. These are precisely the conditions where real-time intelligence has the greatest impact. Locating the R&D hub within ITU Teknokent places RedCloud inside a high-density ecosystem of engineering talent, academic research and deep technology capability.

Justin Floyd, Founder and CEO of RedCloud Holdings plc, said: "Legacy enterprise systems were built to record decisions. They were never designed to make them. R.A.I.D. changes that. What we are building is infrastructure where millions of trade decisions are executed continuously, in real time, across fragmented global networks.

Establishing our R&D base at ITU Teknokent is a deliberate move. This is about putting world-class engineering capability at the centre of one of the most strategically important trade corridors globally. We are moving from proving the model to industrialising it."

Mehmet Bostan, joint venture partner founding CEO of RedCloud Türkiye added: "Türkiye operates at the crossroads of global FMCG trade, however much of the regional trade still runs on fragmented systems and delayed decision-making. The constraint has never been access to data. It is the ability to act on quality data, in real time.

Building engineering capability locally allows us to develop and deploy solutions in the context of a market that reflects the complexity of global trade itself. That is what makes Türkiye the right place to do this."

Scaling the intelligence layer of global trade

With the establishment of the Türkiye R&D hub, RedCloud continues to accelerate its broader strategy to build and deploy intelligent infrastructure across global FMCG markets. This expansion follows the previously announced $50 million infrastructure licence agreement with Pro Raba in Türkiye.

As geopolitical volatility, supply chain fragmentation and demand variability continue to increase, the ability to execute decisions in real time, not retrospectively, is becoming foundational to trade performance. RedCloud's platform is designed to serve as that intelligence layer.

About RedCloud Holdings plc

RedCloud's mission is to build the intelligence infrastructure of global trade, through generation and aggregation of proprietary trading and market data from across the FMCG industry through its RedAI platform ("RedAI"). RedCloud provides market intelligence based on proprietary trading data across categories in each of its markets. The Company also delivers a ‘trading layer' of products for use by its customers, to enable intelligent digital exchange of everyday consumer supplies of FMCG products across business supply chains, supported by a payments and lending ecosystem intended to streamline trade. RedCloud believes its platform and associated products and services solve a decades-old problem of how to digitize trade at scale to generate data and intelligence to enable brands, distributors and retailers to maximize business performance across categories in high growth consumer markets.

RedCloud is a British company registered in London, co-founded by British serial entrepreneur Justin Floyd and Algerian born Soumaya Hamzaoui. In March 2025, RedCloud achieved its initial public offering on New York's Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker "RCT". For more information about RedCloud and its platform, please visit www.redcloudtechnology.com and connect on LinkedIn.

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RedCloud To Establish AI R&D Hub in Türkiye to Advance R.A.I.D. Into Enterprise Deployment