The opportunity was presented to him by longtime companion Solina Chau, head of his private technology investment company, Horizons Ventures.

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Mobile phone executive Frank Meehan works for Horizons Ventures, which was an investor in Siri when Apple bought the company on April 28 last year.

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Founded by former Mastercard and Mozy employees and backed by top-tier investors, including Horizons Ventures, First Round, CrunchFund, Pelion Venture Partners, Samsung Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, Bitcasa is redefining how consumers are storing and accessing their data.

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In late 2011 he released a prototype app called Trimmit and secured financial backing from Horizons Ventures, the investment vehicle of billionaire Ka-shing, and spent much of 2012 working with specialist NLP engineers and angel investors to improve the app and re-release it as Summly.

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