Timing and seeing a new market led to entrepreneur Rob Magee and tech executive Paul Condon co-founding Layke AI nine months ago. They had both watched the remarkable rise of data analytics company Databricks, which was founded in 2013 and is today nearing a valuation of $188 billion (€164.4 billion) They saw how large enterprises were increasingly using the platform to store, organise, and interrogate vast amounts of data.  But equally, they knew that the powerful data tool was only being used by large Irish businesses who could afford to hire Ireland’s biggest consultancy firms to implement Databricks software. Databricks…

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