Recite Me Receives £100,000 Investment from Northstar Ventures

Recite Me, a Gateshead, UK-based developer of software that helps dyslexic and visually-impaired web users, received a £100,000 investment from Northstar Ventures.
The investment, which was made through the Finance for Business North East Proof of Concept Fund, will help the company to continue to develop the product,
This allows users to adapt websites to fit their preferences, translating text into more legible fonts, changing the colour contrast and reading out the content on the page from any computer, tablet of smartphone without installing software. 
 
The creator of Recite Me, Mr. Ross Linnett, whose own dyslexia was first identified when he was serving as president of the Northumbria University Student Union, is currently looking to adapt the product to make it compatible with Apple’s iPad. He is also planning to make the software, which is currently being trialled at Northumbria University, available across the globe.
FinSMEs
24/01/2011

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