MC

Mark Cummins

Entrepreneur, investor

Ireland

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Work Experience

2010

  • Angel Investor

    2010

  • Board Member

    2024

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

  • Board Member

    2022

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

2023 - 2023

  • EIR

    2023 - 2023

    Mentoring founders in the 2023 NDRC cohort at Dogpatch labs.

2020 - 2022

  • GM, Pointy

    2020 - 2022

    Bringing the word's local retail inventory online.

2013 - 2020

  • 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.

2010 - 2013

  • 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

2009 - 2010

  • 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.

2005 - 2009

  • 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)

2004 - 2004

  • 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.