Mark Cuban backs ChatableApps, developer of a hearing assist app that removes background noise – TechCrunch

ChatableApps, a U.K. startup commercialising the work of auditory neural signal processing researcher Dr. Andy Simpson, has quietly picked up seed money from Mark Cuban. The company has built a smartphone app that provides hearing assistance by removing background noise in near real-time. Alongside Simpson, the company's co-founders are Brendan O'Driscoll, Aidan Sliney and George Boyle -- the original team behind the music discovery app Soundwave (acquired by Spotify) -- and later joined by CEO Giles Tongue, formerly of wearable tech startup NURVV, who has been tasked with taking the business forward. "Dr Andy Simpson is our CSO [chief science officer] and inventor," Tongue tells me. "He brings together the auditory neuroscience, auditory perception, neural signal processing and artificial Intelligence, is an AI maverick and contrarian thinker, and this unusual intersection are what has led to the creation of our proprietary ground up neuroscience-led AI. His prolific research had over 400 citations before he went into stealth mode."