 The company was acquired by taxi firm Addison Lee in 2014, after which James returned to focus on MyCQs with is co-founder and CTO Omair Vaiyani.In 2014, MyCQs received funding and mentoring from Jisc, an education technology charity, and received a scholarship from The University of Leeds.In 2015, the team shifted focus by integrating more algorithms based on educational psychology research, and started to describe itself as a 'personalised learning' platform.