Paul Bassat’s Square Peg Capital has invested in its youngest start-up founder, leading a funding round in Liam Fuller’s artificial intelligence software firm Source, months after the Irish teenager went viral with a LinkedIn photo showing him taking a business call from a high-school toilet.
Fuller was 17 when he met with Bassat and a string of other investors on a short holiday to Australia from Dublin in March, when his precocious entrepreneurialism won him a $US1.4 million ($2.1 million) cheque.
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