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Mark Cummins

Investor

Ireland

Overview 

Mark Cummins is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor based in Ireland with a background in computer vision, machine learning, and robotics. He has co-founded and served as CEO of successful ventures like Pointy and Plink, and has made strategic investments in companies like Inscribe and Kota. Mark has held key roles at Google as a Senior Software Engineer and General Manager at Pointy, and has contributed as an Angel Investor and Board Member at organizations like Scale Ireland and UWC Endowment Fund.

Work Experience 

  • Angel Investor

    2010 - Current

UWC Endowment Fund

  • Board Member

    2024

    Helping future generations of talented but financially-constrained students to study at UWC.

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Scale Ireland

  • Board Member

    2022

    Scale Ireland represents, and advocates on behalf of, Irish tech start-up and scale-up companies.

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NDRC

  • EIR

    2023 - 2023

    Mentoring founders in the 2023 NDRC cohort at Dogpatch labs.

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Google

  • GM, Pointy

    2020 - 2022

    Bringing the word's local retail inventory online.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

google.com

Pointy

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2013 - 2020

    Pointy is the simplest way to get small shops online. All you need is a barcode scanner. Pointy was acquired by Google in Jan 2020.

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Google

  • Senior Software Engineer

    2010 - 2013

    Worked on large scale computer vision problems. Our systems were used in many products including Google Goggles, Translate, Drive, Photos, etc. For a public description of some of this work see our ICCV paper: http://goo.gl/3NUp5Q

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

google.com

Plink

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2009 - 2010

    Plink became Google's first UK acquisition in April 2010. Our visual search engine technology allowed users to simply take a picture of something in order to find out more about it. Our first product, PlinkArt, recognized famous paintings and was a winner of the ADC2 and a featured app on the Android market.

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University of Oxford

  • PhD, Mobile Robotics

    2005 - 2009

    Vision-based place recognition and mapping for mobile robots (FAB-MAP algorithm). Supervisor: Prof. Paul Newman. -Best vision paper prize, ICRA 2008. -Most cited IJRR paper of the last ten years (Source: http://ijr.sagepub.com/reports/most-cited)

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IBM

  • Extreme Blue Internship Program

    2004 - 2004

    Worked on automated source code translation from Visual Basic to Java. Wrote the core source-to-source translation engine.

IBM is an IT technology and consulting firm providing computer hardware, software, infrastructure, and hosting services.

ibm.com

Education 

Investments 

Inscribe

Series B

Total funding: $39M

Kota

Pre Seed

Total funding: $8M

&Open

Seed

Total funding: $33M

Dgraph Labs

Seed

Total funding: $21M

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