ICN researcher's spin-out company wins Innovate.AI competition and $1m investment
3 May 2018
A start-up co-founded by Dr Fintan Nagle (¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) has won this year's Microsoft Innovate.AI competition.
Dr Nagle, who is part of the Ateention and Cognitive Control research group at ICN, co-founded Hazy in 2017 with two software entrepreneurs, CTO James Arthur and CEO Harry Keen. A ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Business spin-out company, Hazy offers software which aims to help developers and data scientists to share information securely.
Innovate.AI is a global competition launched and supported by M12. Its goal is to recognise and award capital to high-potential artificial intelligenceÌý(AI) and machine learning startup.
As winners of Innovate.IA's European category, Hazy receives $1 million of investment from M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures) in partnership with Notion Capital.
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