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Datactics Secures £1.2m Seed Funding

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Belfast software solutions provider Datactics has raised £1.2m from the Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Growth Fund (NI) in its second round of funding, completing a package commenced in 2018.

“Seldom does a day go by where the possibilities of machine learning aren’t being discussed, and everything we are hearing from industry agrees that any successful use of this technology will rely on fast access to perfected data,” said CEO Stuart Harvey. “This has been our sweet spot since we were founded, and in which we’ve been investing continuously throughout the six years I have been involved at Datactics.”

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