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Steve Young

British computer scientistWikipedia

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Oct 13, 2026

Amelia ArmourGUEST
9:56
But what's really interesting is what is happening with the companies that we've been investing in, and about a third of the investments that we've made over time have been into Cambridge spin-outs.
Amelia ArmourGUEST
10:05
And the very first investment that Amadeus made was into a company called Entropic, which came from Professor Steve Young's lab in the engineering department here.
Amelia ArmourGUEST
10:14
And that company, which powers speech recognition, was sold to Microsoft very quickly, only after about 18 months.
Amelia ArmourGUEST
10:22
If we fast forward to now, Steve Young's latest or most recent spin-out was a company called PolyAI, which is building voice AI agents.
Amelia ArmourGUEST
10:32
That company is now massively scaling.
Amelia ArmourGUEST
10:34
It's raised over 200 million in capital.

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