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DUBLIN

AYLIEN Pointy

Charles Bibby and Mark

Cummins – who used to

work at Google – have

developed hardware

to drive customers

to bricks-and-mortar

stores, and help

small businesses to

establish themselves

in e-commerce. A shop

owner plugs a “Pointy

box” into their barcode

scanner. The box then

automatically creates a

Pointy page of the store’s

products, getting the

shop online and pushing

it up the Google search

rankings. pointy.com

AYLIEN is a media

intelligence platform that

uses machine learning

to scrape insights from

sources such as news

and reviews websites,

Twitter, comments and

documents. “We trawl

through news content

from tens of thousands

of sources in real time,

and rely on natural

language processing

to capture key insights

for businesses,” says

CEO Parsa Ghaffari.

The method can also be

applied to a business’

own data. Companies

dealing with risk

assessment, finance and

publishing benefit the

most, he says – adding

that Microsoft, Moody’s

and IHS Markit are

clients. aylien.com

Ub o t ic a Te ch nolo g ie s

This robotics startup

uses AI to enhance

computer vision, with its

primary markets being

space, biomedicine and

industry 4.0. CEO Fintan

Buckley says the startup

is working with the

European Space Agency,

but Ubotica’s tech can

also apply to a broad

class of autonomous

identification and

classification tasks –

from a camera mounted

on a warehouse forklift to

a multi-spectral sensor

in an Earth observation

satellite. ubotica.com

Nuritas

Founded in 2014 by

mathematician and

computational biologist

Nora Khaldi, Nuritas

combines AI, biotech

and data mining to

discover molecules

with potential uses in

dietary supplements or

drugs with therapeutic

and commercial

applications. In 2018, it

attracted €30m support

from the European

Investment Bank,

and investment from

Salesforce CEO Marc

Benioff. nuritas.com

Nora Khaldi, founder of

biotech startup Nuritas

WHERE TO WORK

The Tara Building, Tara St, Dublin, D02 F99

Just minutes from the river Liffey, this co-working

space offers 24/7 access, social activities,

creative development workshops and even

wellness classes – as well as meeting rooms, bike

storage and showers. thetarabuilding.com

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