At the grand old age of nine, Axonista is more of a scale-up than a start-up, but it’s still a significant presence in Dublin’s tech scene.
Start-up: Zender, Belgium, 2018
Hendrik Dacquin has always been interested in the interaction of broadcasting, interactive media and gaming – it’s a confluence he’s been circling for most of his career.
Start-up: Orbie, Greece, 2018
Athens-based start-up Orbie has created a news aggregator that pulls content from websites and collates it into one automated video stream for publication on smart TVs, VR, mobile and in-car entertainment systems
Start-up: Melodrive, Germany, 2017
Two years on from raising a seed-funding round to develop its AI-powered generative music technology, Melodrive is revising both its business strategy and product offering.
Start-up: Amper Music, US, 2014
Face the music: Drew Silverstein is the co-founder of Amper Music, an AI that composes, produces and performs music
Start-up: MXX, UK, 2015
In this month’s Start-up Alley, we look at music start-ups using AI and sophisticated software development to help video creators produce innovative soundtracks.
Start-up: PlayGiga, Spain, 2013
Based on a mix of deep tech and content curation, PlayGiga’s cloud-based ‘Netflix for gaming’ service is set to disrupt the video gaming industry
Start-up: Videntifier, Iceland, 2007
Founders of Videntifier, Herwig Lejsek and Friðrik Ásmundsson, developed their software over a decade ago, in collaboration with Reykjavík University
Start-up: Pixseller, UK, 2017
For Dr Sepi Chakaveh, a data science lecturer at the University of Oxford, Pixsellar is an accumulation of all her web streaming and AI research, compressed into a handful of technologies
Start-up: Glue, Finland, 2014
Glue aims to improve conference calls by using VR avatars to represent body language and non-verbal communication