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Nurture sets out to be a real teacher’s pet with NI education deal

Limerick-based start-up has raised €1.3m to date and has other possible contracts in the pipeline

Nurture co-founders Daniel Paul, David Neville and Pádraic Hogan. Picture: Flávia Bianchi/Dogpatch Labs

Nurture, a Limerick-based edtech start-up, has been selected by the Education Authority of Northern Ireland to introduce an AI teaching assistant to all of the 1,100 schools it governs.

The deal is a major achievement for the company, with the initiative set to involve 20,000 teachers and 345,000 students.

Nurture helps teachers provide higher quality, research-backed, written feedback and assessments for students, delivered via a custom-built tool through Microsoft Teams. The company’s solution identifies common ...