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The Connected start-up of the month: Meet Emotionise, the company bringing EI to AI

The company, part of the high potential start-up unit in Enterprise Ireland, is now raising a pre-seed round of €600,000

Marie Toft, Emotionise AI CEO: “We create all of our own data. We have a team of writers that create all of our emotionally intelligent data“

Emotionise AI is an artificial intelligence business that aims to teach machines to understand how humans feel and develop communications tools based on that.

Founded in 2018 by Marie Toft, Tim Pat Dufficy and Siva Sharma, the idea for the business grew out of Toft’s prior work experience and subsequent study in university.

“I worked in the media for a long time, mainly in television, and it was during that time where I saw the role of an emotional connection and response. I had an entrepreneurial itch that I wanted to scratch,” Toft told Connected.