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Liesl Yearsley

Overview

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Liesl Yearsley is founder/CEO of Cognea Artificial Intelligence, which was acquired by IBM and is now an integral part of Watson. Prior to that, she was founder of Mooter, a search engine company specializing in predictive personalization. This company listed on the stock exchange. Her first patents on VR go back over a decade.

Personal Investments

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Liesl Yearsley invested in Cognea on
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    Cognea Cognea designs and develops artificial intelligence technology platform for creating interactive virtual agents to chat.

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs 2
Number of Past Jobs 2
Liesl Yearsley has 2 current jobs as Founder, Chief Executive Officer at Akin and Founder at MyCyberTwin. Additionally, Liesl Yearsley has had 2 past jobs including Founder at Cognea.
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Education

Liesl Yearsley studied at University of the Witwatersrand, University of South Africa, and  Griffith University.

Events

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Liesl Yearsley has participated in 5 events. They most recently attended, or will attend, CEBIT Australia 2019 on Oct 29, 2019.

Recent News and Activity

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Cognea raised
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