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Start-up of the month: Weeve makes a success story of language learning

Weeve is an educational tech business from Dublin that helps language learners improve their skills through stories

Weeve co-founders Cian McNally, Evan Mcgloughlin, Oisín Morrin and Aaron Connolly

It began with a lot of manual labour but then this Dublin start-up added artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential accelerated. Weeve puts words from one language into sentences of other languages to help understand the word in context.

It began with the business manually changing sentences in print editions of books two years ago, using out of copyright titles like Alice in Wonderland and the Great Gatsby. However, over the last year it has ...