{"id":20523,"date":"2025-07-24T12:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/20523\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:44:07","slug":"ai-start-up-founded-by-irish-teenager-raises-1-4m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/20523\/","title":{"rendered":"AI start-up founded by Irish teenager raises $1.4m"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source<\/a>, the Irish start-up founded by teenager Liam Fuller, has raised $1.4m (\u20ac1.2m) in a pre-seed funding round led by Australian venture capital outfit Square Peg.<\/p>\n

Source is building an AI procurement platform for retail businesses that integrates with stores’ email and point-of-service feeds to project inventory levels and automatically send purchase orders to suppliers.<\/p>\n

The company says it can reduce admin hours by up to 80 per cent by eliminating manual processes and keeping shelves stocked, allowing shop owners to focus on other areas.<\/p>\n

18-year-old Fuller began building Shopify apps and experimenting with large language models when he was 14.<\/p>\n

Fuller and Joseph Mudrak won the Regeneron award at the 2024 BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition<\/a> for their project, ‘Your Dynamic AI Voice Companion \u2013 Redefining Personal Assistance’.<\/p>\n

A serial entrepreneur, Fuller was suspended from school for a viral LinkedIn post showing him making sales calls from the school bathroom.<\/p>\n

He has now gone full-time with Source. The Source website states that its platform will launch this summer.<\/p>\n

Announcing the funding round on LinkedIn, Fuller wrote that he “cold emailed” Square Peg co-founder Paul Bassat in March while visiting his grandparents in Australia. <\/p>\n

He travelled to Sydney the next day to meet Bassatt, who later agreed to lead the funding round.<\/p>\n

“I couldn’t be happier to have such an amazing group of investors behind me from across the globe ([San Francisco], Australia, Ireland) with such a high conviction in not only the current vision for Source but for myself as a founder, its incredible – thank you.<\/p>\n

“And I’m extremely grateful for the people who helped me along the way, with intros & their time with 0 expectations of return.<\/p>\n

“This is just the start, and I’m incredibly excited.”<\/p>\n

TEN13, Stripe chief technical officer David Singleton, Eucalyptus co-founder Charlie Gearside and other angel investors also participated in the funding round.<\/p>\n

“What struck us most about Liam when we met him wasn’t just his age, but his first-principles thinking and clear articulation of the ‘idea maze’ that led him to procurement automation,” said Square Peg in a statement.<\/p>\n

\"Source\"Liam Fuller in an images that resulted from his suspension from school.<\/p>\n

“Liam pairs technical depth with an intuitive understanding of how AI can solve real-world problems.<\/p>\n

“We’re not just excited by his current vision for Source, we’re excited by his ability to navigate and adapt as the business evolves.”<\/p>\n

Fuller is joined by chief technical officer Yoan Gabison, an AI engineer who oversees engineering from Paris. Gabison previously built a real-time notifications SaaS platform.<\/p>\n

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