Startup IQ Engines receives NIH and NSF grants

Startup IQ Engines, developer of the oMoby image search iPhone app, announced that it is receiving additonal funding from multiple sources. In addition to US$1 million in Series A financing, IQ Engines has been awarded $119K from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) for tools to assist the visually impaired, and $200K from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop 3D object representations for visual search.

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