Top 100
On behalf of all my colleagues at Spark Crowdfunding I am delighted to present the Top 100 Most Ambitious Companies in Ireland for 2023.
In the face of significant economic headwinds as a result of rising interest rates and epitomised by heavy job losses in the tech sector, it has been really encouraging to see so many entrepreneurs grow their businesses and increase employment over the last 12 months. The 100 companies that we recognise here have demonstrated ambitious growth potential and we wish them well for 2023 and beyond.
This year’s winners highlight the thriving entrepreneurial environment across the island of Ireland, with sectors including med-tech, finance, education, technology, consumer, leisure and healthcare all represented. We are especially pleased to see such a large proportion of female founders in this year’s cohort, as well as a disproportionately high number of founders under the age of 30. The future is indeed very bright in their hands.
We would like to say a sincere thanks to all of the shortlisted companies that didn’t make the final 100.We were taken aback by the number of entries, which made the process of narrowing it down to the final 100 extremely challenging for the judges.
At Spark Crowdfunding, we are proud to play our part in supporting Irish enterprises – our database of 10,000+ investors are looking to invest in businesses like those featured here!
We would like to wish you all a peaceful Christmas and a prosperous New Year!
Chris.
Chris
4Securitas Page 03 Access Earth Limited Page 05 Akara Page 07
All Real Nutrition Page 09 All About Sunday Page 11 Allihies Seafood/Pure Ocean Algae Page 13 Allsorter Page 15
ApplyOn Limited Page 17 AuriGen Medical Page 19 Back To Work Connect Page 21 biologit Page 23 BioSimulytics Page 25 Botfiler Limited Page 27
Boundary Blade Ltd Page 29 Bowsy Page 31 Bumpey Page 33 BusterBox Page 35 CaliberAI Page 37 Carbonspace Page 39 ClubSpot Page 41 Coroflo Page 43
Danu Sports Limited Page 45 Dataships Page 47
Digi Food NPD Page 49 Drive Page 51
Druid Learning Page 53 Dynomed Page 55 Eccospray Ltd Page 57 EdgeTier Page 59 Emotionise Page 61 EnergyElephant Page 63 EudaOrg Page 65
Everyangle Page 67 fiid Page 69 Filter Page 71
finca skin organics Page 73
Fodder Box Ltd. Page 75
Foghlaim SDL, Ltd trading as MyWordPal Page 77 Gasgon Medical Page 79 giyst Page 81
GKinetic Energy Ltd Page 83 Gladcloud Page 85 Go Eve Ltd Page 87
Graphite Note Page 89
Great Visitor Experiences Page 91 HaloCare Page 93
Head Diagnostics Page 95
Helgen Technologies Limited Page 97 Huggnote Page 99 inclusio Page 101
Inferex Page 103
Instazap Ltd Page 105
InVera Medical Page 107
Kianda Page 109
LegitFit Page 111
Lintil Property Technology Page 113
MEG Page 115
Motarme Page 117
MoveAhead Page 119
MyGug Ltd Page 121
NewBridge Technologies Page 123
NoFrixion Ltd Page 125
Nory Page 127
Nurture Page 129
OceanR Page 131
Ochre Bio Ltd. Page 133
Ocumetra Page 135
OnlineApplication.com Page 137
OpinionX Page 139
Orb Media Page 141 Outmin Page 143
Positive Carbon Page 145
Precision Sports Technology Page 147
Prepsheets Page 149
ProMotion Rewards Page 151
ReaDI-Watch Page 153 RugbySmarts Page 155 SalesTier Page 157
Servblock Page 159
Shopbox AI Page 161 Shuppa Page 163
Site Passport Page 165
SizeWise Limited Page 167
Smile Genius Dental Page 169
Telegenz Page 171
Thanks Plants Page 173
Tines Page 175
Translit Page 177
Trigr Page 179
UBO Service Page 181
Ulysses Neuroscience Ltd. Page 183
Unbanx Page 185
Vaultree Page 187
VisionR Page 189
Votechnik Page 191
Vyra Page 193
We2Sure Page 195
Wellola Page 197
xWave Technologies Page 199
Zerobin Group Ltd. Page 201
Dublin Est. 2017
Stefan Umit Uygur - CEO
Ph.D., senior IT Security and infrastructure expert. Stefan has many years of experience in IT Security and setting up main infrastructures, top to bottom data centers, and backend infrastructures for global gaming companies such as AMAYA Inc. and larger incorporations like Sun Microsystems and Oracle, FD. Experienced in building/managing teams and recruiting/ training.
Donal Kerr - Chief Administration Officer
Business and legal specialist, most recently working legal/trust & safety at Twitter EMEA for 4 years. Extensive experience in Financial Services (Citi, BNY Mellon, Royal Bank of Canada). Experienced in people management, building teams, and recruiting. Attorney at law, New York State. Boston College Cybersecurity Program alumni.
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
NEXT YEAR: 300% 3 YEARS: 500% 5 YEARS: 800%
Company Profile
4Securitas is an innovative European cyber security firm focused on proactively preventing cyberattacks as well as protecting the critical data at the core of every organization. With offices in Ireland and Italy, the company develops ACSIA XDR Plus (Automated Cyber Security Intelligence Application), an Extended Detection and Response solution, that includes Threat Intelligence and Anti-Surveillance protection as a unified XDR product.
Company Achievements to Date
2022 was a break-out year for 4Securitas. We are an innovative European cyber security firm proactively preventing cyberattacks and protecting the critical data at the core of every organization we serve today across Europe and the Middle East, we provide customers with an Extended Detection and Response solution that includes Threat Intelligence and AntiSurveillance protection from day one and delivers real-time correlation of events across all domains to reduce the needs of customers to have multiple security tools that do not today correlate the threats across the network .
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Company Profile
Multi-award winning company, Access Earth Limited was established in 2015 by Matt McCann and was inspired by his own experiences living with Cerebral Palsy and his frustrations in trying to survive in an inaccessible world.
Access Earth provides customers and staff the ability to deliver direct feedback to businesses on their accessibility-related experiences, to help support and encourage meaningful and lasting improvements so everyone can feel the safest and most welcome while working, visiting or experiencing the world around them.
Company Achievements to Date
n Customers and companies that Access Earth have worked with include The Musgrave Group, Microsoft UK, Trinity College Dublin, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, Enable Ireland and the International Transport Forum.
n Some of our key partners include the European Space Agency Business Incubation Center, Sports Integrity Global Alliance, Global Sports innovation Centre, Microsoft for Startups and World Federation of Deaf Blind. Access Earth are also a HPSU client with Enterprise Ireland.
n Most recently Access Earth had the privilege of winning the Social Impact Award at the Diversity in Tech Awards 2022.
Kildare Est. 2015
Matt McCann is CEO and co-founder of Access Earth. Matt has spoken about the importance of accessibility on the global stage, including at the United Nations and also a founding member of Aspen Institute UK NextGen Network. Matt founded Access Earth based on his own lived experiences and frustrations in trying to survive in an inaccessible world.
Dónal McClean is the COO and co-founder of Access Earth and works as the client-facing side of Access Earth. With his background as a senior consultant at BDO Eaton Square, Dónal is an expert at assessing project needs, process strategy and ensuring the level of excellence Access Earth customers have grown to expect is delivered.
Company Profile
Akara is leading the creation of a better and more efficient public health system, powered by data-driven automation. Our AI powered disinfection robots allow hospitals to decontaminate rooms up to six times faster while achieving a higher standard of cleanliness and using fewer resources than before. This enables them to perform more procedures while reducing pressures on frontline workers
Dublin, Ireland
Est. 2017
Company Achievements to Date
n Award for “Best Application of AI in Healthcare” at AI Awards (2022).
n Winner EIT Health Startups Meet Healthcare Providers Accelerator (2022)
n Award for “Pilot Project of the Year” at CIO Awards (2021)
n Awarded funding by European Innovation Council (EIC) accelerator (2021)
n Time magazine: Best inventions of the year (2019)
n Time Magazine cover (2019).
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
NEXT YEAR: 200% 3 YEARS: 1000% 5 YEARS: 10000%
Akara was formed in 2019 and is a spin-out from Trinity College Dublin. Our founders hold PhD and Masters degrees in robotics and research underlying our innovation has been published in some of the leading scientific journals and conferences. Our founding team has been working together for nearly a decade and we have a proven track record for developing service robots in healthcare. Our work has previously been featured by media outlets including: Forbes, Time magazine (cover story and named as Time invention of the year in 2019), the BBC, and the Times, among others.
Akara_Robotics
Est. 2020
Darren is the founder of AllAboutSunday. Everything that we see on the Sunday platform is a byproduct of his passion and love for horse racing.
Achieving business goals through digital strategy is his core competency and this unique skill has been used to great effect throughout the Sunday product.
There have been some key highlights to his career but as a true entrepreneur he knows that discipline and execution are the differences between success and failure.
Darren is an effective marketing & communications specialist. Having founded Brando Digital in 2005 he managed a successful exit in 2016. During those incredibly successful years Brando was a Forbes Top 100 Digital Agency in 2010, a Cannes Lion Winner in 2010, and a Best European Sports Sponsorship winner in 2011. Darren has won 32 National & International Marketing Awards and he worries that enjoying work and being good at work is becoming unfashionable.
Company Profile
The AllAboutSunday app platform transforms the racehorse ownership experience by providing high-quality immersive information and world-class unique content on demand to syndicate owners. The AllAboutSunday platform delivers more than micro share affordable race horse ownership/syndication. The race itself is only part of the owner journey. The platform upgrades ownership to an immersive experience with unique premium content straight from the trainers’ yards. From GPS powered training data dashboards to streamed broadcasts of jockey feedback and pre-race thoughts of elite trainers, this content cannot be accessed anywhere else.
Company Achievements to Date
n AllAboutSunday has already signed up over 4,100 subscriber owners, purchased 6 horses and put them in training with 3 elite trainers: Henry De Bromhead, Gordon Elliott and Donald McCain.
n More than €650,000 has been invested in the technology platform and launch of the service.
n Revenues for 2022 will exceed €350,000 with a very basic marketing spend.
n Most importantly, customer spending behaviour has confirmed the sheer power of an immersive experience as average entry-level spend of €69 has grown to an average of €149 in the first 6 months of content consumption.
n AllAboutSunday is projecting annual revenues of over €2m in year 2. Having confirmed the demand for the service from 4,100 users, AllAboutSunday are raising €300,000 on the Spark Crowdfunding platform to rapidly accelerate the growth rates of the business.
n Over the next 3 years, the company is targeting annual revenues above €15 million, from 75,000 subscribers/customers and have 50 racehorses in training. This will make the company a very attractive target for sports media companies.
Michael O’Neill – Founder and CEO
A graduate of the University of Limerick (Computer Engineering). Michael started commercial fishing in 1990, purchasing his first of two fishing vessel in 1992. In 2004 Michael O’Neill sold this business and began work as an Enterprise Development Officer. In 2007 Michael returned to the private sector, concentrating his efforts on other marine based activities including the development of Europe’s first commercial Abalone RAS farm and Irish Atlantic Salt Ltd, a multi award winning sea salt manufacturing company. Michael Founded Pure Ocean Algae in 2019, with the intention of developing a fully vertically integrated supply chain, from seed to Biorefinary, for Dulse, a high value red seaweed. Michael has 30 years experiences in the marine sector, representing the Irish seafood industry on the National Executive of the Irish Shellfish Association.
Company Profile
Pure Ocean Algae, is an Aquaculture based Biotechnology company which creates vertically integrated value chains, from microalgae and other marine resources. The company has the ultimate “Green“ credentials, based on a raw material that is 100% environmentally sustainable and ultimately Carbon negative.
Over the past 3 years, Pure Ocean Algae focused its attention on developing sustainable, macroalgae based infrastructure and aquaculture licensing, positioning the company at the forefront of Ireland's Marine Bio-economy.
Company Achievements to Date
n The company was formed in 2018, and successfully led a DTIF consortium application, securing €1.9 million from Irish Government (2019). This project aimed to commercialise the production of Palmaria palmata, (Dulse) a red seaweed, creating a protein fraction that could then be used for the management of Type 2 diabetes.
n The company successfully deployed its first trial cultivated material to sea in 2019, which was followed by successful deployment of two further crops, to date.
n The company has developed on-shore processes, successfully growing large volumes of reproductive material, decreasing grow out times, as well as increasing protein levels, which facilitates extraction. The company has also extended the growing season by 3 months, significantly increasing biomass production.
n The company raised €1.5 million in June 2022 funding the next level of development. Key is the expansion of its hatchery and nursery facilities, which, when finished, will be one of the largest facilities of its type in the world.
n The DTIF project has commenced Human Intervention trials, which are expected to be finished in October 2023.
n The company is expanding to develop other Seaweed species and is also expanding its primary and secondary processing, with several product launches planned for early 2023.
Company Profile
Allsorter’s rapid text cognition is focused on turning big data into smart data globally for hundreds of clients and thousands of daily users including the largest Agencies from USA to APAC . Our platform’s natural language processing does to text what the Google query box does to search i.e. makes data understandable Our SaaS transforms all shapes and sizes of CV / Resume data into uniform branded templates for onward transmission by Recruiters to their Customers - decimating the transaction time taken to prepare and making this data understandable to the machines that ingest and store them worldwide. Allsorter’s – Bias-X drives D&I and ESG within the workplace by cancelling bias at scale. We are multi-vertical, VC backed, and scaling to millions of users.
Company Achievements to Date
n Scaled to service clients in every continent.
n Built a market leading platform with > 200 B2B customers and servicing the #1 & #2 largest Staffing Companies in the world.
n VC backed and aiming to grow by another 300%+ next year.
Robbie Burns is the CEO and co-founder of ApplyOn. Robbie previously established a successful digital consulting practice, SCG Growth Partners, and has over tens of years of experience in digital consulting specialising in go-to-market strategies for financial service companies including the launch of a number of successful marketplaces and products including Compare, MyCash, Paymaster and BestQuote.
Adam Inglefield is a full stack developer and product manager at ApplyOn and has been working with Robbie for over 5 years. Adam is a senior development and product strategist responsible for the development and launch of over 20 financial service and insurance products.
Barry O’Brien is non-executive Chairperson at ApplyOn. Barry is currently an investor in a number of successful companies including SCG Growth Partners which he co-founded with Robbie in 2013, as well as IFPIL, WCC and Hammock Greens. Previously he was CEO at Digicel Jamaica, Digicel Financial Services Group and Vero Solutions (TheNowFactory).
Company Profile
ApplyOn™ is an all-in-one customer experience and innovation platform that enables organisations and teams of any size to build, test and launch new digital products and services in half the time and half the cost of other platforms improving their innovation, agility and speed to market.
Founded in 2021, ApplyOn has quickly gained a number of high-profile insurance, financial service and public service customers helping them to develop, trial and launch new products and services rapidly and cost effectively accelerating the delivery of their digital customer offering and experience.
Dr John Thompson MD MBA.
John is a co-founder of AuriGen Medical, where he leads the fundraising, strategy and stakeholder engagement. Before co-founding AuriGen Medical, John had a successful career in Pfizer, where he was tasked with the commercialization of several in-market and pipeline assets.
John is a medical graduate of the RCSI and has a 1st class honors MBA from The Smurfit School of Business.
Tony O’Halloran is the CTO & Co-Founder of AuriGen Medical and leads the technical product development and IP strategy. Tony has over 20 years’ experience leading multidisciplinary team in Medtronic and TE Medical researching and commercializing a range of medical devices.
Tony graduated with a first-class honor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MSc BioInnovation from NUIG Galway.
Síora Maclean is a co-founder of AuriGen Medical and leads business operations including business planning, product development coordination, financial management and strategic planning. Síora has 20 years’ experience in MedTech product development and has successfully developed numerous products from concept to commercialisation in her time at Creganna Medical & Abbott Vascular Síora graduated from Queens University of Belfast with a MSc in Chemical Engineering.
Company Profile
AuriGen Medical is a Galway MedTech company, developing smart connected heart implants, targeting Europe’s biggest killer, chronic cardiovascular disease (CVD). Our devices address the significant unmet medical needs of patients at risk of stroke, heart failure and atrial fibrillation. Current approaches to treat these complex CVD patients requires multiple expensive devices and procedures. AuriGen’s platform of devices will treat stroke and atrial fibrillation while providing long-term remote monitoring for heart failure, in a 30 minute day-case procedure. Our platform will transform care of millions of CVD patients, by improving quality of life, reducing healthcare costs and ultimately saving lives.
Company Achievements to Date
AuriGen Medical is the first & only company to rank 1st in the two largest EU grant award programs, providing unequivocal validation of our company’s breakthrough technology. These and other grants have provided AuriGen with almost €14m in non-dilutive funding, and €3.5m
Gina is a social entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Back To Work Connect. She is a business professional with a demonstrated history of working across multiple industries including retail, construction and logistics. She is strategic and customer focused, results driven and continuously embraces the opportunity to lead business and innovate to create a better environment for all.
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
Company Profile
Back To Work Connect is an education and employment career hub designed to get midlife workers (Returners & Career Changers) back to work after a career break.
Our goal is to make the recruitment process transparent and easy for everyone by helping employers plan for future skills shortages and develop their talent pipeline.
Company Achievements to Date
Since the launch in March 2020, BTWC has:
n Developed and launched the BTWC online platform with information and support dedicated to returners and resources on Returner Friendly Recruitment processes.
n Averaged 240 jobs hosted at any time n Advertised > 320 active courses
n Launched a webinar series in 2021. Total number of attendees > 1,900. n Signed up dozens of educational institutions and employers.
n Launched our Returner Open Badge campaign and interactive quiz
n Launched a Candidate Identification Programme - identifying candidates suitable for introduction to and/or placement in employment.
n Launched a Podcast series to reach more users
Dublin Est. 2021
Nicole Baker, CEO Immunologist and Pharmacovigilance professional with extensive knowledge in medical and regulatory affairs, pharmacovigilance, and clinical trials, gained by leading and managing global, multi-disciplinary teams. 20+ years experience in pharmaceutical industry, regulatory authorities and academia.
Bruno Ohana, CTO Technology leader with broad industry experience of 20+ years, having performed Senior Engineering/management roles from startups to FAANG on large-scale cloud platforms, fintech, healthcare, and AI teams.
Company Profile
Scientific Literature Monitoring for Human and Animal Pharmacovigilance, Cosmetovigilance, Nutrivigilance and Medical Devices.
biologit MLM-AI is an artificial intelligence enabled scientific literature monitoring platform for active safety surveillance that is simple to use, fully web-enabled, delivering true productivity gains on screening workflows for companies of all sizes.
Company Achievements to Date
n The company has grown from 2 employees to 10. n Has secured sales in Ireland and Internationally n The company has actively participated and sponsored a number of events in pharmacovigilance and AI.
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Company Profile
BioSimulytics is a spin-out company from UCD offering a quantum physics-based, AI/ ML-powered, HPC cloud-delivered pharmatech platform dedicated to improving the speed, scale, novelty and success rate of early-stage drug development. BioSimulytics works with leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies worldwide in providing its unique molecular simulation capabilities to transform the process of getting from molecules to medicine.
Company Achievements to Date
BioSimulytics has successfully validated its technology in the marketplace and has secured commercial contracts with leading biopharma companies in Europe and the US to generate its first revenues. The company has also established a large pipeline of target customers for strong revenue growth and has signed a strategic channel partnership agreement with a leading US-China CRO with 800 pharma clients for joint sales and marketing activity. BioSimulytics also has established technology partnerships with AWS and a major French HPC platform provider for scalable high throughput cloud delivery of its technology to pharma clients globally. The company raised €595K in a pre-seed round in 2021 from a combination of Enterprise Ireland HPSU and private angel investors and a further €200K in 2022 from the European EIT Digital programme for acceleration of its go-to-market strategy. BioSimulytics has won several awards including UCD Spin-Out Company of the Year in 2022.
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
NEXT YEAR: 300% 3 YEARS: 3000% 5 YEARS: 15000%
Dublin Est. 2019
BioSimulytics has 3 co-founders: Peter Doyle - CEO: Peter has over 25 years’ experience in commercial leadership of high-tech ventures including a previous IPO on Nasdaq.
Niall English - CTO: Niall is a professor in chemical engineering with previous industry experience in molecular simulation software development in the US and UK
Company Profile
Botfiler is a VAT reporting and analytics tool. It helps detect VAT errors saving companies from over-paying VAT or exposing them to fines from Revenue and HMRC.
Company Profile
Agri Tech & Manufacture of Tools: Boundary Blade® is a unique patented 5 Level Fence Tester & Pocket Knife Agricultural Tool sold globally. It allows Farmers to easily check electric fence current and “Walk away with their mind at ease” - An Innovation Awards Product Finalist. V2 Functions as a tracking device for farm safety and monitoring.
Company Achievements to Date
To date, we have designed, built and completed technical and market validation with our mark 1 product, opening up routes with distributors in the USA, UK, Netherlands, France and Germany. We are distributing to New Zealand-based co-op Farmlands which supplies over 80 stores Down Under. 30% of our stock is currently exported. Our plans are to continue to scale the business by working with distributors in each country and enter the Ag-tech space with another dominant product that we can roll out to our existing network.
Company Profile
Bowsy is an online platform that connects final year and post graduate students with businesses through paid, remote project work on Bowsy.com. Our platform is a one-stop remote working solution that allows students to gain relevant work experience while building their employer network. Our mission is to create equality of opportunity for all students by leveraging remote work as an enabler that gives university students access to remote work opportunities that is independent of where they live or where they study.
John Brady is CEO and Founder, with over 20 years international experience, building teams and businesses as a Marketing Director for a FTSE10 company. This included roles as Head of the Global Innovation based in London, Area Marketing Director for South East Europe and Marketing Director roles in Poland, Croatia and Iran.
Renata Covisi is Operations Director at Bowsy and is a qualified software engineer (Computer Science and Data Analytics), as well as having a degree in Economics and an MSc in Sustainability. Renata joined Bowsy as a full stack developer when she was a post graduate student working on the Bowsy platform and successfully led a team of 7 developers on the development and upgrade of the current platform.
Company Achievements to Date
Bowsy is now working with over 90% of the third level institutes in Ireland and is expanding into the UK and Europe, where we are already working with universities such as the IE Business School in Spain and NEOMA Business School in France. At the same time, we are growing our customer base and have signed a 3 year agreement with a large UK based company which will give the Bowsy platform exclusive access to over 140,000 businesses across the UK and Ireland. Bowsy has also received significant external recognition for our progress and we were named as Tech Startup of the Year at the National Irish Start-up Awards, were a finalist in this years Irish Times Innovation Awards and recently won the National Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Award from Chambers Ireland. In line with our growth ambitions, Bowsy is now incorporated in three different countries: Ireland, the UK and the USA.
The Founder, Joe Cleary, is an experienced entrepreneur with strong networking skills developed over 20 years in business. Joe started his entrepreneurial journey as a teenager and has been responsible for businesses with sales of over €20m per annum. In one business, Joe built a consumer database of over 14,000 household monthly recurring revenue customers. With a background in logistics and sales, Joe has also worked on diverse projects on a national scale as a consultant. Joe went back to study LEAN processes in 2018 and graduated from the University of Limerick with Six Sigma Qualifications. He has been studying the system of queue management using these tools to develop this business. Joe is passionate about making life less complicated using technology and good processes.
Company Profile
Our vision is to dissolve queues in hospitality and retail using mobile technology. We provide jargon-free, hassle-free solutions for businesses who want to take online orders and payments without the need for consumers to download an app. We have customers across many spectrums from large stadiums to restaurants to small retailers selling bespoke products online.
Company Achievements to Date
Bumpey was born out of the need to give businesses a quick and easy way to sell online with minimal IT experience. Our platform is easy to set up but secure and we can have businesses selling online in 48 hours or less. We pride ourselves on being simple to use and keeping design functional so as to maximise sales. We see the customers we help being successful as our own success. Bumpey was supported in the Enterprise Ireland Competitive Start Fund and received investment on the back of that to develop the business. Bumpey has a growing customer database and has entered into the UK market also.
“We spend a lot of time getting our product roadmap correct so that we are providing solutions to customer pain-points. We thank our customers for their help in growing our business”
DCU Chemical Science graduate. IT, eCommerce & customer service experience.
Gary has 4 years’ experience working in a technical support role for Eir while studying for his Bachelors. Gary is focused on creating a brilliant customer experience for all subscribers to BusterBox through content creation, email marketing and social media management.
CMO – Liam Brennan Serial entrepreneur. Management and customer service experience.
Liam has 7 years’ experience working in a support centre for contracts such as Microsoft Surface and BT. Liam was promoted twice to team mentor and then team leader in his time with the company. Liam has also had a couple of previous online ventures, having launched a website bidding platform for jobs and an eCommerce store for Bowties before BusterBox. Liam is responsible for PPC ads in BusterBox.
COO – Paul Carrick
Product specialist. Merchandising and sales experience.
Paul had been working in the merchandising industry for several years for Bostik before BusterBox was launched. Paul has used his extensive experience in negotiating, product sourcing and supplier relationships to create the BusterBox product that customers love so much. Paul is responsible for products and fulfilment in BusterBox.
Company Profile
BusterBox is a monthly delivery of fun and healthy goodies for your dog. They’ll never bark at the postman again!
BusterBox delivers high quality, unique toys and delicious all-natural treats to thousands of dogs across the UK & Ireland. Each month you receive a new delivery of exciting goodies for your dog and some special finds only available for BusterBox customers. Soon it won’t be you that loves BusterBox, your dog will love us even more. Each month when it arrives, your dog knows it's for them and the excitement and tail wags have been known to go off the charts.
Company Achievements to Date
n Reached 10,000 monthly subscribers, €3M Annual Revenue, €200K MRR n Winner - Aer Lingus Startup Awards 2018
n Finalist – Outstanding Small Business - Small Firms Association Awards 2020 n Runner up – Fingal Enterprise Awards 2019. n Finalist – Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur 2019
Milestones
n April 2016 - First box sent to 12 subscribers. n July 2016 - 100 subscribers.
n December 2016 – Achieved €10,000 in monthly revenue n April 2017 – Dragons’ Den (Ireland) appearance n September 2017 – UK Website completed n November 2019 – €60,000 Monthly Revenue from 2600 subscribers (80% UK, 20% Ireland) n March 2020 - Reached €1M in Annual Run Rate
n July 2020 - Reached €2M in Annual Run Rate.
n July 2021 - Reached 10,000 Monthly Subscribers. n Oct 2022 - Reached €3M in Annual Run Rate. n Nov 2022 - Acquired Furrypaintings.com
Neil Brady is a journalist and academic researcher. He previously worked as Digital Policy Analyst with the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA). Prior to this, he worked for The Guardian and social media agency Storyful. He holds an MA in Political Science from University College Dublin and an MBS in Management & Organisation from the Smurfit Business School.
Company Profile
CaliberAI builds content and community moderation tools to help digital publishers manage risk of publication of defamation and hate speech. CaliberAI also offers compliance services in relation to the upcoming Digital Services Act, which will regulate content moderation and apply to digital services that store or transfer third party content, and internet regulation generally.
Company Achievements to Date
CaliberAI’s technology is powered by a unique, high-quality synthetic dataset, built out of Trinity College Dublin (TCD) during 2020. Since spinning out of TCD in 2021, the company has secured contracts with Mediahuis Group and The Daily Mail Group. CalberAI’s core accuracy is now 85% and its Application Programming Interface (API) is accessible via multiple product pathways (e.g. Twitter, Email, Content Management Systems etc.).
Company Profile
CarbonSpace is a satellite-based platform helping food producers to generate carbon claims on land-based operations and reach climate goals across their supply chains. The platform empowers unified, scalable, and cost-effective carbon footprint monitoring with carbon claims applicable to a broad range of ecosystems globally.
CarbonSpace disrupts the status quo via a unique blend of remote sensing and automated ground truth technologies. Unlike other startups, we directly quantify carbon stock changes on the whole ecosystem without using proxies and assumed emission factors. Through a unified tool with automatically validated accuracy, we can track the performances of almost any type of ecosystem, from agriculture to forestry setups, on a monthly and annual basis. Finally, in addition to CO2 data, we can provide CH4 data for large livestock producers.
Oleg
Company Achievements to Date
n €300k+ ARR from 20+ customers with supply chains in 25+ countries on 4 continents covering over 3M HA of land with our services.
n €1M seed round is attracted from the Yield Lab (Ireland), Rockstart (Netherlands), and a number of business angels (Europe).
n Technical feasibility is validated by the ESA AI Kickstart program, NASA CMS group, and a number of peer-reviewed publications; we recently won an award for the best product innovation of the year in EMEA.
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
NEXT YEAR: 600% 3 YEARS: 14000% 5 YEARS: 126000%
Dublin Est. 2021
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CEO and Co-Founder - Dr. Oleg Demidov (Spain): Serial tech entrepreneur, founder of several startups, 15+ years in international business development and top-management consulting. Ph.D. in Physics and Math with Applied Mechanics specialization. MA in Economics. 10+ scientific papers in physics and mathematics as well as economics domains.
Head of Innovations & Commercialization, Co-Founder - Ray Mercedes (the USA): CoFounder of several startups in technology and innovation consulting, including Pattern Group. 20+ years in international business development and top-management consulting. Former Head of Innovation Emerging Markets at Panasonic. Executive MBA at the Wharton School.
CTO and Co-founder - Igor Susman (Germany): 10+ years in IT. Vast experience in building complex systems in cloud environments gained during work for Walla! NEWS, IBM Israel, German Ad-tech startup LiquidM. Participated in IT infrastructure design and development projects for Conrad, Hermes, Bechtle, Adidas, Audi, Porsche, and Deutsche Telekom as an external consultant.
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CarbonSpaceTech
Company Profile
ClubSpot is a sports technology startup based in Cavan on a mission to grow the footprint of grassroots sport. We provide a cloud-based, complete club management system to clubs and organisations that reduces the workload placed on their administrators. Our product features include a white-labelled club app, efficient membership registration, automated notifications, club calendar and enhanced fundraising capabilities. Our system is easy to use and provides a range of features not matched in the marketplace. To date we have signed up 70+ customers in Ireland, Spain and Australia using our MVP and processed over €3m on our platform for clients.
Kilmore Business Park, Dublin Rd. H12 PD82
Est. 2021
Company Achievements to Date
n Signed up 85+ sports clubs across 3 countries (Ireland, Spain and Australia).
n Recently announced an investment worth up to €250,000 into Irish grassroots GAA sports. This consisted of offering Ladies and Mens Football, Hurling and Camogie Senior Club Champions in each county a free mobile club app and one year’s subscription to our management platform. We were joined by ClubSpot brand ambassador Tomás Ó Sé, and our strategic advisor Bernard Jackman to promote the announcement, which was reported in nationwide newspapers including the Irish Times and The Irish Sun.
n Partnered with Gowna GAA to rename their Sports Grounds as “ClubSpot Park”, a deal which is the first of its kind in Ireland.
n Helped clubs and county boards raise over €3,000,000 collectively, to date.
n Helped our customers achieve a 1 week average Return On Investment.
n Partnered with Mary’s Meals as our 2021 Charity Partner. This partnership allowed Mary’s n Meals to maximise their fundraising efforts through their vital Mega Raffle Fundraiser, as we supplied the technical capabilities needed for effective online fundraising through our ClubSpot platform.
n The number of unique purchasers on the ClubSpot platform since Aug 2021 reached over 110,000.
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
NEXT YEAR: 400% 3 YEARS: 1200% 5 YEARS: 3000%
John Hyland has completed a Masters in Sport Management in UCD and a bachelor’s degree in Business and Marketing in GMIT. Having worked in Asset Management, Sports Apparel Sales and within his family Sportsground Development business, John has gained insights into how sports clubs operate and what their buying processes are. John has professional experience in NAMA, Azzurri Sports and Hyland Turfcare. This has allowed John to develop professional skills and gain knowledge on how operations are run in organisations of differing sizes.
An avid GAA player, John also managed an under-20s GAA club in Cavan, and saw the opportunity to create a product designed around the core activities of different sports clubs. Thus, he developed ClubSpot in 2020. John plans to continue company expansion by entering new international markets in the coming months and creating more jobs in the digital sector to boost the local economy.
“When pregnant, I knew wanted to give breastfeeding a go. When my son was born he was tiny, (less than 5 pounds at full term!); weight gain suddenly became very important. The only way to check was week to week weigh in and pre- and post-feed weight checks. Waiting for results was extremely stressful for me and it was immediately clear that pre- and post-feeds weights varied wildly with little accuracy. My husband Jamie and I searched the market but no product existed to tell me how much breast milk my son was getting, I needed immediate and accurate information!
Jamie coincidentally had worked on flow monitoring in another sector; he had an idea of a groundbreaking technology that could be the answer. Rosanne, over many late dinners, listened to us and noticed many other friends with similar issues, she had a vision, saw an opportunity and an idea was born…” Dr Helen Barry, co-founder
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
NEXT YEAR: PRIVATE 3 YEARS: PRIVATE 5 YEARS: PRIVATE
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The WHO recommends mothers exclusively breastfeed to 6 months however only 13% of mothers in Europe reach this target, similar low rates are mirrored around the globe.
When studied, ‘concern regarding low supply’ is a main reason given by mothers for stopping sooner than they wanted to.
Coroflo have developed the world’s first accurate breastfeeding monitor, Coro.
Coro is a highly accurate microsensor within a standard silicone shield. Coro measures how much milk flows through it and the information can be tracked by mothers using the app on their phone. Mothers can now know exactly how much milk their baby is getting.
Company Achievements to Date
n Coroflo raised €900,000 for their seed round in 2017. This was followed by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 prestigious grant award of €2.1m in 2019.
n Coro is currently in clinical trials and aims to hit the Irish market in 2023.
Previous awards include:
n Winner ESB ‘Spark of Genius’, Winner Virgin Media Award, Finalist Irish Times Innovation Award and Finalist at Google ‘Adopt a Start-Up’.
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Oisín Lennon, CEO and Founder of Danu Sports, is an industrial designer with a passion for sports, healthcare and design. Building on concepts explored while completing his undergraduate Product Design thesis at TUD, Oisín founded Danu Sports to develop a wearable injury and performance analysis system designed to replicate the accuracy of lab-based analysis devices while removing the constraints of such equipment in real-world practice.
Oisín is the sole founder of Danu Sports. Creating the company in 2017, he has worked tirelessly to bring Danu Sports from a concept to a funded, growing start-up with a world class team. Oisín has so far raised over €4.5m of investment from a variety of sources including private investors, the European Space Agency BIC, and Enterprise Ireland. The product is currently undergoing final tests with a number of high-profile sports organisations in advance of its market launch in early 2023.
Company Profile
Injuries are the number one problem in sports, they cost teams success and money. Danu Sports strives to collaborate with the world’s best and most innovative teams to make the leading wearable available to reduce these injuries and even prevent them from ever happening in the first place. Our entire mission at Danu Sports is to do exactly that, remove the restrictive and subjective nature of analysis, and reduce the physical, emotional and monetary costs of injuries in sports. We are doing this by bringing wearable analytics to a ground-breaking new level in sports.
Company Achievements to Date
2022 is concluding with a private equity investment of €3.4m to fund the company’s commercialisation strategy and effectively get the product into the hands (feet) of customers in 2023. These funds also enable Danu Sports to grow its team to 10 full time staff by year end. This adds to the over €1.2m in investment from 2020-2021 through private equity and Enterprise Ireland.
Arguably the greatest company achievement to date, is that after years of work and significant R&D investment developing a complex and technologically advanced product, the company has moved to full production of a commercial product.
In 2022, Danu Sports received recognition by winning the STA Award for Best Technology for Injury Prevention or Rehabilitation, a RedDot Design Award, and an IF Deign Award 2022. Danu Sports has also received support from LEO South Co. Dublin and the European Space Agency, Space Solutions programme.
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San Gilbride has worked in Food Innovation for over 20 years.
Over his career, he has brought to market foods such as Starbucks Frappuccino in Europe, to McDonalds Ice Cream, to many local award winning foods such as Island Seafoods Atlantic Treasures in Killybegs.
He has lectured in Food Innovation for over 15 years, and has deep domain knowledge and understanding of the Food Innovation process and industry needs
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Coming from the food industry, we understand that without the right tools in place, keeping connected, up to speed and in control is painstaking, time consuming and costly.
My platform DigiFood NPD is an end-to-end solution designed specifically to address the pain points of food innovation and food product development for the prepared consumer foods (PCF) sector. The platform has been tested over the last 2 years and was launched to the market in August. DigiFood NPD accelerates innovation and reduces time-to-market while improving product quality and removing duplication
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Drive is an automotive technology company that has three brands within the group. TradeBid is a digital dealer to dealer auction platform, Sweep is a data driven vehicle classifieds platform and Nevo is an electric vehicle education and purchasing platform.
Conor O’Boyle spent seven years in the investment industry (Abbey Capital & Virtu Financial). He founded a sports management agency managing Ronnie O’Sullivan until 2019.
Shane Ennis spent six years in big tech (eBay) and six years in tech startups. He is a secondtime founder. Previously audio journalism app, Noa.
Company Achievements to Date
Sweep has over 130,000 email registered users in Ireland. 550 dealerships and over 30,000 vehicles live on the app.
TradeBid has sold over 2,500 cars in 2022 on their digital platform and has over 950 registered buyers on the platform.
Nevo launched in July 2022 and is responsible for connecting consumers with dealers for new electric vehicles. It has had over 100,000 unique visitors to the platform in the last two months and a large number of vehicles sold through dealers from test drive lead requests.
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Consisting of a content management tool, a courseware creation suite and a distribution API, Druid Learning is a complete content management solution for all things education. We allow for the automated: - Organisation, - Creation - Distribution of educational content.
Dublin Est. 2020
Company Achievements to Date
n Our beta product was tested across 4 learning institutions and with over 200 students.
n Ahead of our product launch in February 2023, we have secured 3 trial clients who are actively using and testing the product.
n From over 800 applicants, we received non dilutive funding through the EUs STADIEM initiative and also received funding from Enterprise Ireland
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Growth Rates in Revenue:
NEXT YEAR: 95% 3 YEARS: 350% 5 YEARS: 500%
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The team consists of Niamh Faller, Hilary Byrne, Niamh Keogh and David Gonzalez.
Niamh has spent over 12 years managing the global delivery of products like Amazon Music and Prime Video.
Hilary Byrne and Niamh Keogh are teachers and independent content creators David Gonzalez is a back end developer with over 30 years’ experience creating and launching educational databases for universities and publishers.
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Dynomed is developing management tools for best practice care, early detection and preemptive interventions. Focused on improving the long-term compliance and outcomes for patients using positive airway pressure (PAP) devices. Our platform allows patients who are being treated for ailments such as Sleep Apnoea, COPD and Motor Neuron Diseases to get most out of their prescribed therapy. Our precision augmented management tools offer healthcare providers and teams increased levels of data insights and possible interventions to help with their patient’s therapy adherence and success. Since launching in 2021, we have help manage over 150,000 hours of therapy time while improving patients’ daily lives, one night at a time.
Company Achievements to Date
n Irish Times AIB Start-up Academy Finalist 2017.
n Enterprise Ireland funded client via CSF2018 n IBYE Best Start up – County Winner 2019. n EIT Health Interseed Bootcamp Company 2022
Wexford
Est. 2016
Mark Rowe
Mark is the CEO and founder of Dynomed. As clinical scientist, Mark brings his scientific knowledge and care experience as well his drive for always seeking a more efficient way to make hard things easier. With 16 years extensive experience on the healthcare coalface and a specialisation & passion for sleep breathing disorders, Mark is motivated by the outcomes achieved from successfully implemented PAP therapies for those who desperately need it.
Miquel Torres
Miquel is the CTO and Co-founder of Dynomed. A MSc Physicist and IT professional with over 20 years of experience across all aspects of back-end design, programming and team leading. Miquel has worked at all levels of digital innovation, from ideation to prototyping and product launch. Miquel is perfectly placed to disrupt the status quo in this discipline of therapy care.
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EccoSpray Ltd is changing a healthcare sector that has seen very little innovation in the last 40 years with the development of a new ultrasound medical examination water-based coupling agent. EccoSpray uses 7 times less volume than traditional gels and up to 9 times fewer cleaning materials are required to clean up the gel mess post exam while at the same time improving the physician-patient user experience. EccoSpray will help solve an environmental problem around clinical waste and will contribute to EU healthcare net-zero commitments. Technology has reached the point where the hand-held ultrasound device will replace the stethoscope in this generation of medicine, this is called point of care ultrasound ( PoCUS) and hand in hand from this point on the journey will be EccoSpray.
Company Achievements to Date
While the EccoSpray formulation has a WIPO patent, the company has achieved CE mark approval through its manufacturing partner. The EU launch of EccoSpray was at Medica in Dusseldorf in November 2022. Distribution agreements are in place for Germany along with an ISO approved medical fulfillment centre. Project work is at an advanced stage with the Health Innovation Hub in Ireland and with the Small Business Research Unit ( NHS partner) in the UK, where the product will be tested in both an Irish and UK clinical setting.
The EdgeTier founders have worked as a team for almost a decade, and together they combine deep technical knowledge in machine learning with commercial acumen and startup experience in the customer experience industry.
Shane Lynn has a degree in computer engineering and a PhD for research in machine learning from Maynooth University in Ireland, and has worked professionally as a data scientist and machine learning consultant. Bart Lehane holds a degree in Electronic Engineering and a PhD in machine learning from Dublin City University in Ireland. Bart is an experienced product manager, software developer, and company founder. Ciarán Tobin holds a degree and masters in information science from Trinity College. Ciarán has over 10 years’ experience in building commercial software and AI technology using the latest in software development languages, tools and techniques to scale technology to millions of daily interactions.
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EdgeTier adds intelligence to customer contact centres, enabling a new generation of customer engagement teams to radically improve efficiency, turn agents into superstars, and make the unknown visible with near-magical ease.
At its core, EdgeTier builds machine learning systems that can watch every customer interaction with a brand, and, in real-time, alert to issues as they arise, coach customer service agents as they interact, and automatically categorise conversations as they happen.
EdgeTier work with household names in the travel, finance, entertainment, and retail industries, processing millions of customer interactions on a daily basis. Growing 300% YoY, EdgeTier is on course to become the standard for real-time intelligence in customer engagement teams.
Company Achievements to Date
n Winners of Ireland AI Awards for Innovation in 2018 and 2021.
n Winners of Google Adopt-a-Startup competition in 2019
n Winners of the Data Science Awards in 2018.
n Raised €1.5m in investment in 2019 from Uk-based Episode1 Ventures, ACT Ventures in Ireland, and Enterprise Ireland.
n Winners of Enterprise Ireland Digital Disrupter Awards in 2018
n Achieved >300% product growth over 2022 with customers across Ireland, the EU, and the US in multiple verticals.
Cork Est. 2018
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Emotionise - we put the EI into AI. In a world of hot take social media, emails sent in haste, the millions of digital communications that are mis-read and misunderstood every day, we have never needed emotional intelligence more. Emotionise prompts you to check, correct, substitute more emotionally engaging language, send or not send.
Our innovative technology identifies and generates your target audience’s concerns, desires and emotions, ensuring your content & communications - both written & spoken - always engage emotionally. Emotional Intelligence increases profitability and engagement across all verticals, from Employee Engagement to Customer Support to Sales & Marketing. Emotionise is the ONLY AI content & communications model trained with emotion at its core.
Company Achievements to Date
n Nov 22 - Emotionise was one of 5 EU start ups invited to pitch as part of San Francisco Technology at the Irish Consulate.
n We were chosen by Microsoft for Startups to be one of their showcase companies at WebSummit in Lisbon.
n Oct 22 - We secured our first Enterprise customer. We are building an AI solution that increases employee productivity and reduces churn.
n Aug 22 - We finished independent Beta testing of our MVP with Munster Technological University. They reported users are positive and excited with our technology. Dr Haithem Afli, one of Ireland’s leading AI academics joined Emotionise as our adviser.
n July 22 - Our MVP was finished. It is generating target audiences’ concerns, desires and emotions, starting the first sentence and creating emotional tool tips.
n March 22 - Marie wins the Startacus Pitching Competition in Derry.
Marie Toft - CEO & Co-Founder: A content & EI expert, Marie worked as a senior TV executive with RTE, BBC & SBS Australia. Her flagship series include Creedon’s Wild Atlantic Way and Today with Maura & Daithi, Ireland’s longest running TV show. Emotionise’s innovative technology is trained on Marie’s content experience along with her psychotherapy qualification from University College Cork.Company Profile
EnergyElephant helps businesses around the world make better energy decisions using their data. Founded by Trinity College Dublin engineering graduates with a passion for sustainability, EnergyElephant has grown to help organisations around the world have a single source of truth for their sustainability data. This helps them reduce time creating, collecting, analysing and reporting on data and focus on what matters, getting results!
Dublin Est. 2015
Company Achievements to Date
n Previous winner of Irish digital startup of the year.
n European startup award finalist for energy.
n Techcrunch disrupt battlefield finalist.
n Energy Show 2022 highly commended innovation award.
n Most importantly we have built an amazing and passionate team of sustainability advocates.
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
NEXT YEAR: 204% 3 YEARS: 1200% 5 YEARS: 2000%
Time and again our founders, Joe and Eoin, saw people and organizations spending too much time, effort and resources on creating, collecting, finding and analysing data, and not enough time on actions that deliver actual carbon reductions, energy savings and sustainability improvements. They felt that to make a real difference, people and organisations needed to move faster towards decarbonization and take action through small steps and giant leaps, starting with an analysis of their energy bills. From this initial insight, the idea for EnergyElephant was born.
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EudaOrg is an online management suite for an organisation's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) needs. It allows DEI Teams and their colleagues to set individual, team, and organisational DEI KPIs, collect and benchmark DEI data, and grow DEI across their organisation in an evidence-based, data driven way.
Our mission and vision reflect our commitment to transforming how companies grow inclusion. We envision a world where everyone can thrive and belong at work. Our mission is to build authoritative and adaptive tech solutions so all businesses can confidently grow their own uniquely inclusive organisations.
EudaOrg’s aim is to be the market leader in digital DEI (technology solutions to DEI) by offering organisations a 360 solution for DEI that serves as their DEI ‘one-stop shop’. With no clear industry leader in digital DEI (Mercer, 2020), we plan to target and meet the global demand in established and emerging DEI markets.
Cork Est. 2021
Company Achievements to Date
n New Frontiers Phase 1,2,3
n LEO funded feasibility study (feasibility grant) and product development (priming grant)
n Consultation and engaged with sectors in Ireland to progress DEI, including the first Industry Report by DEI in the BioPharmaChem sector
n Did user testing with some of the most innovative companies in the world across sectors including technology, biopharmachem, space, education, non-profit, public, and manufacturing.
n Nessa spoke on DEI at the Women in Tech Summit in Paris in May
n EudaOrg was an Alpha startup and Impact startup at this years Web Summit.
Nessa MaguireNessa has fifteen years of international experience working in DEI therapy, consultancy, and professional development. Nessa’s experience ranges from working with individuals in therapeutic settings, to consulting with large global NGOs and corporate clients. She holds two postgraduates in psychology, with a MSc in Applied Positive Psychology & Coaching Psychology. She has experience with multiple large-scale quantitative research projects and is a published researcher in diversity in well-being.
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With the number of CCTV cameras deployed globally set to double from 1 to 2 Billion in the next 3 years, enterprise organisations are increasingly surrounded by oceans of video. Yet, less than 0.1% of CCTV video captured is every reviewed by a human being, due to time and cost factors.
EVERYANGLE help enterprise organisations understand their visual world, rapidly and cost effectively at-scale, through the use of computer vision. Our platform delivers productised computer vision solutions to help Retailers, Hospitality Providers and Gas Station operators gain rich in-store customer insights, reduce loss and optimise their operations.
Dublin, Ireland and New Jersey, USA
Est. 2019
A serial entrepreneur, David has founded multiple start-up ventures across the franchise, healthcare, fitness, and technology industries.
David is a graduate of Technological University Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, the Irish Marketing Institute, as well as the Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
As a former lecturer in Quantitative Methods and Information Systems at University College Dublin, David has the very unique skill of being able to present highly technical and complex ideas in a very engaging and entertaining way
Education and experience count for a lot but they’re not the whole story. David is also an avid marathon runner, sea kayaker and aspiring cook.
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EVERYANGLE has developed strategic go-to-market partnerships with major vendors including Cisco and SAP, global distributors such as TD Synnex, as well as international reseller partners including CDW and WWT. These extensive partnerships enable EVERYANGLE to serve a range of sectors globally, including Retail, Hospitality and Convenience Service Stations, with customers including Mulberry, Peloton, Oxford Industries, Joey’s Restaurant Group, Vinfast and RaceTrac.
EVERYANGLE announced recently that it has completed a €2.7 million fundraise to accelerate sales, invest in ongoing product development and drive further expansion in the US and UK. The funding round was co-led by Sure Valley Ventures, Act Venture Capital and Furthr VC (formerly DBIC Ventures) and with participation from Enterprise Ireland.
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fiid helps you enjoy delicious, comforting, plant-based meals in minutes. Think less boring lastminute meals and more seriously tasty midweek eats with its convenient range of Veggie Bowls and Veggie Pots.
Launched in 2019, fiid is the future of convenient home cooking with a bold vision to transform the centre store aisles of the supermarket by signposting health across all ambient food categories.
In Ireland you’ll find fiid in Tesco, Supervalu, Dunnes Stores and Spar, in Ocado and Wholefoods Market in the UK as well as further afield in the UAE, Iceland, Sweden, Singapore and Hong Kong.
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Limerick born Shane founded fiid to solve a very personal problem when he struggled to find quick, convenient and good-for-you food on supermarket shelves. After a couple of failed attempts, fiid was born and what began as a solo project now has a team of 8 in Ireland and 1 in the UK.
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Born in the US, Ella Goddin, Founder and CEO of Fodder Box Ltd., is now proud to have been in business in Ireland since 2005: First on Barrack Street, Cork City, Utopianation, and now in Carrigtwohill, Co County Cork, Grown Nation, and FodderBox A Field In A Box.
An active member of the San Francisco Twinning Committee, Ella was responsible for the LIVE simulcast event where Grand Marshall of Cork’s St. Patricks Day Parade, “Technology Mayor” Ed Lee of San Francisco, was recognised by San Francisco TV, print, and online media as the first person to “virtually lead a parade” She was also the driving force to bring the Elizabeth Fort, Cork City, back into public use, with a 6 week market festival and an indoor ice rink.
Her passion, now, is to increase the profitably of livestock farming, while directly reducing livestock emissions, by integrating hydroponic fodder production into our grass-based system.
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Push the Button, Print the Grass: FodderBox Ltd produces large-scale fully-automated hydroponic fodder production equipment from 1,000kg/day to 100,000 kg/day. US research directly measured methane reductions of 24% in dairy cattle and 48% in beef. Utilising this technology will help Ireland reach our emissions targets without reducing our stocking rates. Sometimes to think outside the box we need to think inside the box: FodderBox A Feild In A Box.
Company Achievements to Date
n AgTechUCD’s Start Up of the Year. n Enterprise Ireland Innovation Arena National Ploughing Championships 2021. n Discovering confirmed in independent lab tests that hydroponic fodder has a significantly higher BMP (Biomethane Potential) than silage.
n First company in the world to test the automated sprouting of paddy rice for the Asian market.
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MyWordPal is a web-based reading intervention application for children with Dyslexia. The specialised reading programme and delivery method used in MyWordPal was created by Sarah Mc Guire & Sarah Watchorn, experts with 40+ years combined experience teaching children with dyslexia. Coupled with integrated children’s voice recognition software and ML technology to teach and assess reading, MyWordPal is a cutting-edge educational experience. An easy to access, easy to use and cost-effective training tool like MWP democratizes the support for people with dyslexia . With just six minutes a day, for 6 months, a child can improve their reading accuracy by 2 years.
Belmullet, Co Mayo
Est. 2022
Sarah Mc Guire holds an honours Master’s Degree in Teaching Special education. She taught in a special reading school for 17 years and was the Deputy and Acting Principal.
Sarah Watchorn holds an Honours Masters degree in Special Education. She has been teaching in a special reading school for students with dyslexia for 19 years.
Both Sarahs extensively researched and trialled reading intervention programmes before creating their own programme to teach children with dyslexia to read. Using their programme they have successfully taught more than 300 children. They also created a teacher training programme, training more than 30 teachers to date.
Sarah & Sarah formed Foglaim SDL, Ltd, trading as MyWordPal, to deliver cutting-edge reading intervention using their expertise, AI voice recognition and ML technology to create a globally accessible app.
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Gasgon Medical is an award-winning startup medical device R&D company, manufacturing AirVault, a device to remove air bubbles from intravenous (IV) infusion therapy. Founded in 2018, the company has been awarded grants by the European Innovation Council, EIT Health and raised a €2.25 million seed round in 2021 from a range of international investors that included Furthr VC, HBAN and Enterprise Ireland in Ireland. The HPSU company currently employs 6 full time at its Cork HQ, with plans to expand in the next year as products are launched into global markets. Gasgon’s product, AirVault, is designated as a ‘Top 20 Innovation in Healthcare’ project by Health Innovation Hub Ireland in 2021 and the company is working with healthcare providers and hospitals in several countries.
Cork Est. 2018
Vincent Forde - Founder and CEO: Vincent has 20+ years’ experience in senior management and founder positions across retail, design and engineering businesses, leading sales and strategy. He invented the AirVault technology, filing 4 patents to date. As solo founder he has raised in excess of €1.2m in non-dilutive funding and grants, including EIC SME Phase 1, EIC Fast Track to Innovation and EIT Health Headstart. In 2016 he was awarded Enterprise Ireland ‘National College Entrepreneur of the Year’. Since then he has led Gasgon Medical’s growth, securing €2.25m equity finance in April 2022. Other awards include EIT Health Catapult (Paris), Bridge to MassChallenge (Boston) and Intertrade Ireland’s Seedcorn competition overall winner for 2021. He holds a Bachelor’s degree and an Honours degree in Mechanical Engineering.
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giyst generates automated AI-powered video summaries to drive, discover and enable efficient consumption of the essence of content. giyst’s innovative summarisation engine, repurposes video content at speed and scale without the cost or time required for manual video summary production.
Company Achievements to Date
n We were one of 30 companies chosen to participate in Dublin Tech Summit’s emerging startup competition - where we made the final 5 companies to pitch to the audience and judges. n PCMA Conference is a global conference targeting one of our key go to market segmentsevents and conferences
n We were chosen as one of 5 innovative companies changing the future of conferences
n We were chosen as one of the participating companies for the 2022 “Entrepreneur Experience” led by Cork BIC.
Newcastle West, Co. Limerick Est. 2014
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The company is run by Founder and CEO Vincent Mc Cormack alongside Co-Founder and COO Roisin McCormack. The father/daughter duo have hit impressive milestones securing over €5 million in funding, delivering a market ready product and building out a dedicated, talented team as well as an ambitious international sales pipeline.
Vincent, an entrepreneur and project manager with over 30 years experience, is the inventor behind the patented concept that makes the turbines so efficient in average flow speeds. The leader and visionary behind GKinetic, Vincent mainly focuses on high-level strategy as well as the technical and R&D work.
Roisin comes from a Sales, Marketing and Business Development background with 10 years experience, a 1st class honours degree in Commerce and a HDip in the renowned Enterprise Ireland ‘International Selling Programme’. In her role as COO she manages and oversees all day to day operations including communications, project development and funding proposals with a proven high success rate.
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GKinetic wishes to become the go-to supplier of distributed hydro solutions that can unlock clean energy from free flowing water just about anywhere and within a matter of hours.
80% of the market for distributed-scale hydrokinetic energy generation remains untapped, representing a €3.9 billion market opportunity. GKinetic’s target of 0.6GW installed capacity by 2030 would displace 4 million tonnes of carbon and 75,000 tonnes of NoX per annum serving as a clean, sustainable alternative to the current stop-gap solution: diesel generators.
Innovative renewable solutions in the distributed energy space are essential to meet targets for carbon reduction and to help Europe reach its Green Deal targets.
Company Achievements to Date
n Market Ready Product
GKinetic has extensively demonstrated and tested its technology. Data and results show that the turbines can produce the same output of power as solar using only 1/50th the footprint of space with the added benefit of the predictability of supply
n €25 Million Pipeline
Live enquiries, contracts and projects from some of the world’s leading Energy Utilities looking to be leaders in distributed, decentralised energy by backing the most innovative clean technologies.
n Equity Investment Secured
In October 2021, GKinetic Energy was one of 10 global ocean impact tech startups to receive investment from the Katapult group. The startups selected represented the top 1% of all 2700 candidates who applied to the accelerator program from all around the world.
n 9 Patents Granted
An extensive patent portfolio protects the company’s core concept and ensures freedom to operate in key markets. Learnings from the demonstrations provided an opportunity to further optimise the design with a new patent family filed in April 2022.
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Gladcloud has developed the Complete Trade Marketing Platform on Social Media (B2B2C) for Global or National brands to Locally activate Trade Marketing campaigns at scale. The platform is specifically built for brands that sell products or services via large networks of independently owned trade customers, such as alcoholic beverages with bars, professional cosmetics with salons, food delivery with restaurants, and many other large relevant sectors.
Company Achievements to Date
Gladcloud has now proven its technology and secured global contracts with blue-chip clients in the Beverage/Hospitality sector, including Diageo and in Travel Retail with Puig, and is well on the way to securing similar deals with other Beverage brands as well as global brands in the professional cosmetics, food delivery, table booking and broadcast sectors
Dun Laoghaire, Dublin
Est. 2017
The co-founders met while working together for a year in another AdTech start-up, and have substantial combined experience across Location-based software & digital business development:
Tony Burke - CEO/CTO: Ex-Director of Microsoft International with 30+ Years in product development and a track record in emerging technologies incl. Location Marketing
Keith Curley - Chief Growth Officer: 15+ Years of growth hacking specifically in the digital advertising industry, with experience setting up and managing multi-market sales teams.
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Hugh Sheehy
Originally an offshore oil engineer, Sheehy had already done a lot of globetrotting before he did an MBA at INSEAD in France. After the MBA he lived in Spain, continuing to work all over the world – though now on telecom and internet projects. He moved back to Ireland to join Google in Dublin. After Google he migrated back to the energy business, but into electricity this time. University College Dublin approached him and Go Eve with the DockChain technology in 2021 and he’s been 100% on that since. Sheehy speaks English, Dutch, French and Spanish – and a variety of computer languages.
In his rare spare time he sails and kitesurfs.
John Goodbody
John has spent 20 years in automotive marketing at vehicle manufacturers and at fleet operators like Avis and Zipcar. He brings huge experience and understanding of the commercial and operational aspects of owning and running a large fleet under tight financial pressure and is one heck of a marketing guy!
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Go Eve is a spinout of UCD and Imperial College London. We are bringing the DockChain EV Charging innovation to the global market. DockChain is a ‘chargepoint multiplier’. The innovation allows multiple parking spaces to be ‘electrified’ from one base power source with a daisy chain of inexpensive and simple charging points.
Combined with a standard high power DC Charger, our technology significantly reduces the cost involved with charging large numbers of EVs. Plus you can charge any car at high power in any space without moving vehicles around chargers. Rapid vehicle turnaround whenever you need it. This is revolutionary for fleets, hotels, apartments, and many more.
Company Achievements to Date
n We won UCD Startup of the Year 2022.
n We won a grant from the UK Deptartment of Transport to build a demonstration DockChain system.
n We were invited as speakers to major mobility events like Move 2022 in both Europe and the USA.
n We were invited as speakers on a global Alliance Bernstein event about EV infrastructure.
n We have been nominated as one of Ireland’s most diverse companies.
n We have been nominated in the “Tech 4 Good” category at the annual Ibec awards.
n We built our system and demonstrated it in public at Imperial College London.
n We have secured manufacturing and installation partners across Europe and North America.
n We have secured offers of investment for our global expansion and are now deciding which investors to take on board.
n We have had discussions with global financial institutions about using our technology to speed electrification in emerging markets.
n We expect to get a US patent before the end of the year.
n We expect to be in the market in Europe in Q1 2023 and in the US in Q3.
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Graphite Note wants to make machine learning and analytics more accessible to businesses without coding.
It has built a no-code platform to build, visualise, and explain machine learning models that can be applied to various industries and business use cases. Clients primarily use it to predict customer behavior by increasing sales lead conversion and customer retention and forecasting future revenue and cost trends.
A key principle of the platform is that users do not need to write any code themselves.
Hrvoje Smolic, (46) Founder & CEO:
n Second-time founder.
n Masters in Astrophysics
n 20 years of experience in business intelligence and data visualisation
n CEO, Qualia Data Sciences, 2012 to 2021
n 4 SaaS products (including BusinessQ), 15,000 clients
Vinnie Lynch, (48) Co-founder & CRO:
n Second-time founder, experienced start-up entrepreneur, and sales scientist
n CEO of Donseed from 2007 to 2013, sold to Causeway Technologies in 2014.
n VP Sales, Taxback International, Jan 2018 to Jan 2020
n Sales Growth Consultant, Jan 2020 to Sept 2022
n 600 different no-code machine learning models created by users.
n Graphite Note Buzz newsletter on LinkedIn 500+ followers.
n 10 proof of value projects ongoing at the moment
n NDRC pre-accelerator, May 2021, Ireland ([ndrc.ie](http://ndrc.ie/))
n THE 2022 VENTURE ACADEMY March 2022, Ireland ([corkbic.com](http://corkbic.com/))
n EBAN Cork Annual Congress 18-19 May 2022 | Cork, Ireland.
n 2022 Entrepreneur Experience®, October 2022, Ireland ([corkbic.com](http://corkbic.com/)).
n Huawei International Scale-Up Programme, October-November 2022, Ireland
n Finalist, Tech startup of the year
n It@cork & Kerry SciTech Tech Start Up Award, Nov 2022
n Awards National Finalists, Emerge-Tech Company, National Startup Award Nov 2022
Company Profile
Bunratty, Co. Clare Est. 2018
Ivan has over 20 years’ experience within the hotel, visitor attraction and hospitality sector with 14 of those years in the position of general manager.
He graduated from the University of Limerick with an MBA in January 2019 and has since emergered as a leading entrepreneur within the tourism sector. His rapidly growing technology company focuses on content management, visitor mapping, storytelling and data analytics for visitor attractions, museums and destinations. He is currently also pursuing a PhD where the focus of his research is on co-creation and how to connect and inspire visitors while in destination to consume more experiences.
Ivan’s expertise relates to bringing stories of a destination to life through innovative technology, a deep understanding on the visitor needs, a respect for culture, people, place and history and bringing these factors to the forefront of product development.
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Carlow, Ireland Est. 2020
Company Profile
HaloCare is a clinicial led healthcare provider focused on community care, people living with a chronic illness, senior care or for those who wish to remain living independently in their own homes and require a little extra support. Our home-based model of care compliments traditional integrated care methods and functions as a safe, effective pathway for supported virtual care at home. Through supportive technology that works discretely in the background, our clients and patients have complete peace of mind. Should an emergency occur, real-time information is sent to our 24/7/365 Care Hub where trained specialists react, respond and reassure.
Company Achievements to Date
Since HaloCare was launched in the Irish market, our business strategy has been to demonstrate both the viability of the concept and impact our model has on the patient and the provider. HaloCare has been recognised by industry leaders both locally and internationally to be a thought leader in the virtual care sector, spearheading person-centred care in the community. HaloCare has been asked to present our solution to some of the World’s most pressing issues on global stages at the UN General Assembly in New York, the Smart Cities Summit in Davos and at the World Urban Forum. We have also acclaimed as one of the Top 25 Digital Health companies in Ireland and as a Finalist in the Furthr Ones to Watch.
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Sarah brings over 20 years’ experience in leading and advising international private and public health care organisations across Europe and the Middle East to The HaloCare Group. A native of Dublin, Sarah Jane's previous roles included COO with St James’s Hospital Group in Malta where she was responsible for a multi-million Euro budget and Transformation Programme Manager for Hamad Medical Corp, Qatar’s not for profit healthcare provider which manages nine hospitals and operates the national ambulance service and a home healthcare service. She has collaborated with Government and regulatory bodies across multiple countries in Europe and the Middle East. Her business acumen, medical background and international experience will be invaluable as she leads HaloCare in its next phase of growth.
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
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HaloCare empowers people to have autonomy over their care needs, while enabling care providers to prioritise patients on a needs basis. This model of care alleviates strain on our current healthcare system, while allowing the patient to receive the care they need, in the comfort of their own home.
HaloCare is truly a market maker and can revolutionise the existing traditional models of care leading to better health outcomes, enhanced efficiency, improved prioritisation of care and most importantly, making a real and tangible difference in the lives of people around the world.
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Company Profile
Head Diagnostics has developed an easy-to-use portable medical device to support the diagnosis and management of neurological conditions. The device has utility in assessing Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Coma, stroke and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Our hand-held technology provides a direct, quantitative and objective measure of brainstem function in just 3 seconds, capturing high-quality, enriched patient data to support improved decision-making. Additionally, we also offer an interoperable neuro platform to host our neuro devices as well as other third-party digital neuro devices, for use by hospitals, medical centres, physicians, neurologists, care homes for the elderly and community care centres.
Company Achievements to Date
Head Diagnostics has now developed its first high fidelity prototype for use in planned neuro studies and trials with medtech and pharma in 2023. Our team is continuously expanding and we are aiming for further growth in 2023.
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Huggnote was founded by award-winning Limerick sisters Jacqui and Perry Meskell.
Jacqui Meskell - Founder/CEO:Two time ‘Digital Trailblazer of the Year’ and ‘Female Entrepreneur of the Year’ finalist - Jacqui is a former broadcast journalist/producer (RTE/ Euronews) and senior management consultant, leading diverse teams on multi-million-euro projects for clients like the European Commission. She boasts a BA in Journalism and French (DCU) and an MPhil in International Peace Studies (Trinity). An exceptional strategist and communicator in multiple languages, she is the first Irish founder to win the top $50k prize on US TV Show ‘2 Minute Drill’ (Bloomberg TV).
Perry Meskell - Co-founder and COO: Perry has a background in corporate governance and two award winning 1st class honours post-grads in Tech Commercialisation and Business Administration and most recently a Masters in International Business. The founders are deeply passionate about women in tech and scaling Huggnote to become Europe’s first social-tech unicorn.
Company Profile
Huggnote is a category creating messaging app for emotion – so powerful it makes users cry. It harnesses the power of music to enable users to express complex emotions – sent as digital multisensory emotional experiences called ‘HUGGs’ - turning audio to audio-visual with the sender as content creator and exciting potential AR/VR potential. Huggnote’s primary focus is on viral global growth (1800% YoY) across 205 countries including the key markets in the US and UK and the sleeping giant, India. Positioned at the intersection of numerous multi-billion dollar markets, Huggnote has a TAM of $700billion and with projected B2C (premium features) and B2B (brands) revenue.
Company Achievements to Date
Huggnote has grown from idea to a globally scaling app with 350k users in 205 countries with 1800% average YoY growth. An Enterprise Ireland Competitive Start Fund Awardee, Huggnote has gone on to win numerous awards, nationally - Google’s Adopt a Start-Up, DCU Ryan Academy High-Fliers ‘Most Innovative Start-Up’, Limerick Chamber ‘Best Emerging Business’, National Start-Up Award (Social/Sustainable); National Digital Award (Digital Impact). Internationally, Huggnote won the Mozilla Builders Award for companies with the potential to ‘fix the internet’ and the top prize on US TV Show ‘2 Minute Drill’. Most recently Huggnote won both audience awards for ‘Best Pitch’ and ‘Product Most Likely to Use’ of 160 start-ups at the UK/Ireland Hotbed Seed Sprint accelerator. Huggnote has represented Enterprise Ireland at major international events including Slush, Helsinki and SXSW in the US and is regularly featured in broadcast media including 2FM, Today FM’s ‘Ian Dempsey’s Breakfast Show’ Newstalk, Irish Independent, Irish Times, Examiner, Sunday Business Post. Currently founder bootstrapped, Huggnote has launched its first B2B brand partnership in 2022 and will open its first external investment round in 2023 for its official 1.0 launch in key territories (US, EU, Ireland, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand).
Company Profile
inclusio is a science-based, data-led diversity and inclusion platform. Backed by Enterprise Ireland, inclusio spun-out of Dublin City University after four years in R&D. The platform combines technology, psychology and Artificial Intelligence to measure, track and action D&I. The platform engages employees confidentially, delivering personalised D&I Nudge learning and scientific data insights linked to business KPIs, delivering measurable culture change across the organisation. inclusio was shortlisted for the European Compliance and Ethics Award (ECEC,2020). In 2021 inclusio won the Knowledge Transfer Ireland Impact Award and has now been shortlisted for the 2022 AIIA award in start-up category.
Dublin Est. 2020
Company Achievements to Date
2020 - Shortlisted for the European Compliance and Ethics Award (ECEC,2020)
2021 - Won the Knowledge Transfer Ireland, Impact Award
2022 - Shortlisted for the AIIA award in start-up category
2022 - Launched VOiCE for Insurance, a sector-led, D&I benchmarking initiative
Sandra Healy - CEO and founder: Sandra is CEO and founder of inclusio. Sandra’s career spanned 20 years in the global telecoms industry and five years at Dublin City University where she established the DCU Centre of Excellence for Diversity and Inclusion. She is an Organisational Psychologist who over the last 15 years, has championed and driven diversity and inclusion practice across industry and is considered a leading expert in this space. In 2014, she provided critical expertise and sectoral knowledge establishing the EU Diversity Charter Ireland. Sandra is a member of the Expert Advisory Group for Ireland’s Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality and a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Council for An Garda Síochána (Ireland’s Police Force). Sandra won Entrepreneur of the Year at the Diversity in Tech Awards in 2021.
Deborah Murphy - COO and Co-founder: Deborah Murphy is COO and co-founder of inclusio. She has over 15 years’ experience working and leading in Global technology start-ups and has led large-scale projects in tool design, software development, M2M learning and Customer Delivery. Deborah holds an Honours Degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering and a Master’s in Entrepreneurship and E-learning. Deborah is passionate about promoting and supporting diversity and inclusion in the technology industry with a particular focus on STEM education.
Arthur Lubambo - COO and Co-founder: Arthur is the Director of Engineering and co- founder at inclusio. Arthur is an exceptional leader with 9 years’ experience in Software Engineering leading global technical teams. With a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a background in Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, Natural Language Processing, Data Science, Games, and Software Engineering, he is passionate about leading multidisciplinary teams to develop innovative and disruptive solutions which have a far-reaching impact in the world. Arthur believes Technology should be built for human, societal and environmental wellbeing. He thinks together, we can make a better world, where everyone feels respected and included.
Greg is a 19 year old founder from Ireland. After winning the BT Young Scientist he founded Inferex with the ambition of accelerating the global impact of AI. Aside from the Young Scientist he has been awarded 11 other prizes for projects in AI including from Stripe, Bell Labs, Intellectual Ventures, EUCYS, and Sigmoid Hacks. Before Inferex, Greg had built projects across a diverse set of domains including assistive technology, satellite imaging, large-scale bioreactors, autonomous navigation, renewable fuel liquefaction, computer vision, embedded devices, and HPC networking.
Company Profile
AI will cause some of the most significant technological revolutions we’ve seen in over a century. Inferex’s mission is to accelerate the global impact of AI by empowering engineers with the right tools and the right infrastructure.
Inferex’s first product is a model & framework-agnostic, highly-scalable, and efficient AI deployment platform. In just a few lines of code, ML teams can convert their pipelines into fullyfledged APIs, orchestrated across any compute provider, including across Inferex’s physical infrastructure. We automate the DevOps that make up 80% of production AI.
Company Profile
Instazap is Ireland’s very first Super App for instant needs, on a mission to make convenience more convenient while fostering hyperlocal microeconomy.
Our 3-tiered Super App empowers producers, businesses & service providers by connecting them with local customers in need of everything, from a breakfast roll to a toilet roll, on-demand smart phone repair to a babysitter.
In a world where autonomous vehicles & Metaverse are being realised, getting our instant needs fulfilled sustainably & on-demand shouldn’t be a luxury, but unfortunately that is the case today. To engineer that at Instazap we bring technology, infrastructure & communities together to disrupt how we fulfill those needs.
Mullingar, Westmeath
Est. 2020
Company Achievements to Date
n We are operational in several communities in Ireland with expansion plans to other countries in 2023
n We are raising our seed round in an industry which is forecast to be worth $6 Trillion by 2030.
Amin Shaikh is a seasoned serial entrepreneur, engineer, IT consultant, philanthropist, and coach. He is a highly skilled technology expert with over 16 years of experience building and leading teams in the software, e-commerce, retail, hospitality, BPO, sustainability tech, HR, and talent development industries for national & international renowned companies.
Company Profile
InVera Medical is an innovative clinical-stage medical device company advancing the minimally invasive treatment of all Chronic Venous Disease patients.
InVera provides a more effective, less invasive, and faster device treatment for varicose vein and venous ulcer symptoms. It is uniquely positioned to disrupt current treatment practices which have seen only medium-level innovation in the past decade.
InVera is based at ATU’s Innovation Hub, at the heart of Ireland’s MedTech cluster in Galway. The company is formerly known as Venari Medical.
Company Achievements to Date
InVera have developed a single-use medical device for the treatment of all Chronic Venous Disease sufferers, including the 3million underserved US & EU patients who suffer from debilitating and persistent advanced open sore symptoms known as chronic venous leg ulcers which significantly impact quality of life. The InVera device offers an unprecedented endoluminal mechanical ablation catheter treatment option by disrupting the vein wall at a micro-cellular level triggering the body’s natural healing response to cure symptoms. It offers class-leading efficacy potential with a less invasive method of action over the competitor burning, chemical or permanent glue implants.
InVera Medical recently announced that the first eleven CVD patients have been successfully treated with its minimally invasive mechanical InVera device offering a safe and pain-free treatment that improved the quality of life for all patients. This represents a major milestone on our pathway to bring the InVera device one step closer to millions of Chronic Venous Disease patients across the globe.
In 2020, InVera secured €4.5million in seed equity investment and €2.5million in European Innovation Council Accelerator non-dilutional grant funding in 2022. InVera plans €17million in Series A equity funding in 2023 to perform a larger US regulatory study for FDA submission in 2024.
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
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In 2016, InVera co-founders followed the Stanford Biodesign medical device innovation BioInnovate Ireland fellowship at Galway University where they focused on discovering unmet vascular needs head to toe.
InVera Medical was founded to exploit the identified unmet clinical venous disease need and the unique mix of clinical, technical and commercial founder backgrounds. Dr. Nigel Phelan (Chief Medical Officer) is a medical doctor and surgeon by training who has treated patients with venous disease. Sean Cummins (CTO) is an experienced R&D lead with experience in developing endovascular catheter medical devices. Stephen Cox (CEO) is an experienced leader of investor-backed technology companies.
The founding partnership utilises core responsibilities for building and sustaining clinical value creation within the business: Dr. Phelan is responsible for clinical research and product design inputs (the “why/what”), Sean Cummins is responsible for building the product (the “what”) and Stephen Cox is responsible for funding both (the “how”).
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Osvaldo Sousa (CEO/Co-Founder):
Prior to co-founding Kianda, Osvaldo has held a number of IT senior management positions. He has more than 20 years of technical experience in enterprise software industry as an engineer, helping all sizes of organisations streamline collaboration and remake their business processes. He is considered as a subject matter expert in collaboration technologies, digital transformation and business process automation technologies. Osvaldo is the visionary within Kianda with a great passion for technology and innovation. He leads Kianda’s technical and commercial growth, bringing his expertise and passion for digital innovation.
Derya Sousa (COO/Co-Founder):
Derya has more than 18 years of experience as an IT Consultant, specialising in user experience and user interface. She has worked across multiple industries, acting both in an advisory role, as well as building of digital enterprise solutions. Following her co-founding of Kianda, she is now focused on helping Kianda’s customers to accelerate their commercial success, through digital transformation, using the Kianda platform. She has won Entrepreneur in Residence with the NTMA (National Treasury Management Agency) and Women in IT – Entrepreneur of the year 2021.
Company Profile
Kianda provides a no-code/low-code application development platform for business process automation that helps organisations to bridge the digital skills gap and keep pace with new demands by allowing users with/without coding skills to digitise business processes in areas such as HR, Quality and other operations.
We’re delighted to announce our new Environment, Health and Safety Management Software built on Kianda’s lowcode technology for Construction and Engineering companies. Our flexible EHSQ product has already been helping companies to ensure compliance, streamline reporting and empower workers
Some of the awards Kianda won are Best Export Award at National Enterprise Awards ‘21, Fingal Enterprise Award ‘20, Best Start-up/ New Business Award ‘18, ISO 27001 Information Security Certification and National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) Entrepreneur in Residence Award’ 20/’21 and Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 in Women in IT awards.
Since its launch Kianda has bootstrapped and grown customer base in international markets successfully helping enterprises from all sizes and industries. In second half of 2021 Kianda has successfully raised €1.5M first round investment from Kernel Capital, alongside Enterprise Ireland. Also in 2022, Kianda was delighted to welcome Joe Hogan founder of Openet as the company chairman.
Kianda’s award winning, intuitive technology was built with a vision to help the world in two ways; allowing more people regardless of their programming skills to be involved in creation of technology and helping digitization and IT teams to increase their capabilities of delivering solutions faster and easier
Company Profile
LegitFit provides gyms, studios and independent fitness professionals with business management software that saves its customers up to €10,000 per year. Its core mission is to empower fitness entrepreneurs, to optimise their time so they can focus on what really matters to them - be that inside or outside the business.
The platform manages the core aspects of running a fitness business including member management, scheduling, payments and communications. The company has also more recently launched a website builder that helps its customers to attract and convert more inbound leads while ensuring costs for the creation of the site are manageable.
Company Achievements to Date
Ryan O’ Neill, Co-founder and CEO:
Before starting LEGIT FIT, Ryan previously worked as a laboratory scientist in a large multinational. He left that career to pursue his interests in fitness and business. He became a personal trainer and ran his own business before going into a Marketing & Management Masters in UCC - where he developed the idea for LEGIT FIT. Ryan also participated in the IGNITE Innovation programme whilst completing this masters in 2018, and furthermore was a participant of the New Frontiers Programme in 2019
Gearoid Collins, Co-founder and CTO:
Before LEGIT FIT, Gearoid previously worked with (and led) several different teams throughout his career developing world-class software. He previously started and ran his own web development business, and his most recent role was at SurveyMonkey’s EU HQ, where he was Engineering Manager for their International Growth Team.
Ian O’ Sullivan, Co-founder and CCO:
Before LEGIT FIT, Ian was a CIT Business major and Personal Trainer. He has worked with several fitness businesses in the industry and has learnt first-hand the challenges they face. LEGIT FIT’s main fitness and sports enthusiast, Ian makes sure to remind the team that he’s played for both county and country
Emmet, Jonathan and Clare have vast experience in Property, Technology and Operations. They have combined their skillsets to bring huge change to the way in which property is bought.
Company Profile
Lintil is a property tech company making it easier to buy a home. Lintil is a one-stop-shop for everything you need to buy your next home. Lintil's ultimate goal is to make home-buying completely online and as fast as buying a book off amazon.
Company Achievements to Date
Lintil has over 25,000 users and is growing into new markets including the UK and USA It has raised significant finance and has investors from Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong and the USA.
Dublin Est. 2016
He has built a company that works collaboratively with leading healthcare professionals to solve everyday problems, creating products that drive a culture of continuous improvement for hospitals. His passion lies in using technology in innovative ways to reduce the burden on frontline staff and improve patient safety
Company Profile
MEG is a digital quality management system for healthcare. Its suite of configurable mobile and cloud-based tools enables healthcare providers across the world to engage staff in care quality improvement, patient safety and manage compliance with accreditation or regulatory standards.
The easy-to-use modules can be used on any device by frontline workers to collect data from all over an organisation. Capture and manage incidents, audits, risk, patient experience feedback, and access information anytime at the point of care.
Management can collate, analyse and act upon real-time information and metrics across multiple sites, consolidating data into a centralised platform.
Company Achievements to Date
International expansion - MEG has continued its successful expansion into key international markets abroad with the addition of new customers in Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Australia, Argentina, and Mexico over the last 12 months.
Increasing ARR - In the past 18 months, MEG almost tripled its annual recurring revenue numbers through a combination of new customer acquisition and successful value-added expansion of existing customer accounts.
Team growth - This customer growth has led to increased investment into roles such as Sales & Marketing, Technical & Customer Support, and Product Development, with a 100% increase in staff numbers since 2021.
Product - Two brand new modules have been added to the extensive suite already available to customers of MEG’s Quality Management system, as the company continues to focus on delivering value through software products with a transformative impact on frontline workers and the delivery of care.
Investment - MEG graduated from the NDRC accelerator program in 2019, raising €535k in seed funding in 2020, which fuelled 100% YOY revenue growth and expansion of its team. It is about to announce a pre-Series A funding round with several well-known Irish funds. MEG is well-positioned for continued growth and a strong Series A in 2024
Awards - MEG was recently announced as one of Ireland’s First 25 Digital Health Solutions at the United Nations Science Summit in New York in October 2022 by Enterprise Ireland’s CEO, Leo Clancy, and Martin Curley from HSE Digital Transformation.
CoLab, Atlantic Technological University, Letterkenny, Donegal Est. 2011
Michael White – Co-founder & Managing Director:
Prior to founding Motarme, Michael was head of Marketing at multi-million software firm Singularity, a BPM software vendor. Before Singularity, Michael was Senior Product Manager at Siemens SSE which developed security software products. Michael also worked with Deloitte, Marrakech, Elavon, Misys Corporation and AIB. He holds a Computer Science degree from Trinity (1990) and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Computing (2004). He has worked in Europe, South America, Africa and the Caribbean.
Annmarie Doherty – Co-founder & Operations Director:
Prior to Motarme, Annmarie ran her own B2B marketing consultancy from 2006 to 2010, with clients such as Siemens, Mergon and Netfort Technologies. Previously she was Chief Executive of Blanchardstown Chamber of Commerce with members including 3Com, IBM and Bristol Meyers-Squibb. Annmarie holds a degree in Business Studies and Politics from Trinity College Dublin (1992) and an MA from UCD (1994).
Company Profile
Motarme provides sales prospecting and lead generation software and services to B2B companies. We help generate sales leads by identifying prospects that match an organisations’ target profile, automating sales outreach to those prospects, monitoring responses and generating reports. We are focused on a new approach called ‘Account Based Sales’ which generates higher value sales opportunities. We have also developed a Sales Engagement platform that allows users to create, save, send and track personalised emails.
We target B2B software, technology, manufacturing, and services firms. Our customers include TEKenable, Promtek, Principal Logistics and Stryve.
Company Achievements to Date
Growth:
We doubled sales in 2021 and are on target for significant growth in 2022. We have won new customers such as Leading Edge, Promtek and Dataconversion while expanding our relationship with existing customers like TEKenable, Stryve, Celtrino, PEMAC and Principal Logistics.
New Product Launch:
We have launched a new version of our Sales Engagement Platform. The web-based software system makes it easy for Sales teams to send business-to-business sales messages at scale. It is designed to help users connect with their target audience more easily. We have a roadmap of new features for 2023.
International Expansion:
In 2022 we have made our first direct sales in the US and Canada, delivering services for clients based in New York, Baltimore and Toronto. We have just been approved for the Enterprise Ireland Market Discovery grant to help with US market entry. And we have also acquired new customers in the UK.
Employee Growth:
Motarme has expanded to six employees after hiring two new graduates in Q2 of this year. One of our client services executives is now based in New York to support our new US and Canada clients. We plan to strengthen our presence in the US in the coming year
Company Profile
MoveAhead is the world’s first motion-tracking and movement anaytlytics engine built specifically for children. A spin-out company of Dublin City Univserity, MoveAhead brings to the table 15 Years of world leading research on children’s movement science, the largest data set in the world of children’s movement skills and state of the art computer vision techniques uniquely applied to children. The result is MoveAhead’s deep tech engine (SDK and API) which is already used by world leading brands and development studios to power digital play that ‘moves’ children, embedding meaningful movement experiences into digital games and apps for children and families.
Company Achievements to Date
n MoveAhead has arisen from 15 years of research in the fields of children’s movement science & movement data analytics.
n MoveAhead received commercialisation funding from Enterprise Ireland in 2020 and raised a seed round of €1.1M in late 2022.
n The company was the first university spin-out ever to be chosen to participate in the NDRC accelerator. n MoveAhead has built the largest data repository in the world of children’s movement skills, marrying this with rare expertise in children’s movement science n The company spun out of the university setting in July 2022 and has begun to commercially leverage their platform (SDK & API) to Tier 1 customers across the Kids App space
n MoveAhead has impressive governance (Chairperson Sean Mitchell, CEO of Movidius; NED Joe Concannon) and an exciting pipeline of customers. Early signs indicate that there is a significant market opportunity for the company to grow and expand quickly
Dublin Est. 2022
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CEO, Johann Issartel (Ph.D) is a world leading expert in children’s movement science with vast experiences in machine learning. He has coordinated the largest studies in the world on proficiency levels of children’s movement skills, revealing 90% of children and adolescents can no longer hop, skip, jump or even run properly.
CPO, Jamie McGann (Ph. D) has a Ph.D in computer science and computer vision. He is renowned for his work in translating CV techniques for children. Jamie has worked extensively with motion tracking technology and development of motion control games and apps to support children’s movement skill acquisition.
Company Profile
MyGug is a Cork-based “start-up” four years in the making. We manufacture micro scale anaerobic digestion units, and we are on a mission to enable micro renewable energy generation, help lower GHG emissions and reduce excess food waste worldwide. We want to empower individuals and businesses to reduce their fossil fuel reliance, monetize their food waste and join the cleantech revolution from the comfort of their kitchens. Our product is a genuinely sustainable solution for two of the most critical GHG challenges we face, that of food waste and fossil fuel usage.
Company Achievements to Date
Since inception, the MyGug design has been refined and tested and we now have a proven, market-ready product to sell. Over the last year MyGug has sold domestic and commercial units to Ireland, the UK, Germany and Portugal. Our goal is to ultimately sell globally as we are the only micro-scale biogas digester on the market that can work in both hot and cold climates. To date, MyGug has been self-funded with additional valuable Irish grant funding from the LEO and Enterprise Ireland. MyGug will soon be raising a seed round, which will allow us to unlock our growth potential by building inventory, hiring key staff and expanding our workshop to service our sales. Our website was recently upgraded to allow for direct online sales, the first order of which we received almost immediately when it went live. CE certification was also secured in 2022.
Company Profile
NewBridge is a Cork based startup that aims to digitize universities by creating a virtual ID cards that connect the public with the private sector and allow the user to identify themselves both digitally and in person.
Company Achievements to Date
So far the startup has been registered in the US and participated in Web Summit 2022, which took place in Lisbon from the 1st - 4th of November
Cork Est. 2021
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Laith Cesar Hatamleh, of Spanish-Jordanian decent, started a non-profit based in Spain that aims to re-develop public schools in developing countries and has recently joined the private sector by making it his mission to bridge the gap between public institutions and the private sector. Technology has been rapidly developing, however it relies on manual inputs that have been digitized from paper to paperless (digital formats), yet the process is still the same. As a result, NewBridge Technologies aims to start with the hospitality industry by digitizing the check-in process.
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Feargal is the co-founder and former CEO of Blueface Ltd, which was ultimately sold to Comcast in 2019. He is also a co-founder of VentureWave Capital Ltd, a private equity company focused on Impact Investing. He holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Trinity College, Dublin, a Higher Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from DIT and an MBA from HEC Paris. He is an active angel investor.
Aaron co-founded Blueface with Feargal Brady and was CTO until 2010. He has since been involved with other startups including QikID, a facial recognition technology business, where he was CTO and Lead Developer. Most recently he was responsible for building an industrial strength digital asset custody platform for Metaco in Switzerland. He is a current Bitcoin Core developer and holds a BEng in Electronics and Communications from the University of Tasmania.
Company Profile
Established in 2021, NoFrixion is a fast-growing digital payments provider headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, which specialises in Banking as a Service solution for businesses across the EU and UK. It’s award winning MoneyMoov API is powering a whole new generation of businesses to grow beyond the limitations of legacy banking and payments systems.
Company Achievements to Date
NoFrixion began 18 months ago, and has since raised 4M in funding, signed customers in 4 countries, and grown to 19 people.
Company Profile
Nory is the operating system the hospitality industry deserves. Smart, mobile and easy to use. Nory is purpose built to help venues control costs and perform better each day.
Dublin/London Est. 2021
Conor traded in a career in finance to found Mad Egg, one of Ireland’s fastest growing restaurant chains. Frustrated with the lack of proper technology to help scale his business, Conor founded Nory. The mission was to build the operating system he wished he had at Mad Egg.
Est. 2021
Neville - Co-Founder & CEO: Prior to Nurture, David and his co-founder, Pádraic, started a not-for-profit in Ireland that continues today to support students from less fortunate backgrounds through online tuition and feedback. This sparked the idea for Nurture; where they saw that a combination of research, technology, and a learner-first approach could have a substantial impact on student outcomes for teachers and learners globally. Today, Nurture is deployed across the UK & Ireland, Western Europe, the Middle East, and Australia - with ambitions to extend that growth to district and state-wide deployments in the coming 2 years.
Padraic Hogan - Co-Founder & CSO: He is also the CEO of jumpAgrade, the pair’s first company that has recently gained charity status as an extra tuition support service helping students from less fortunate backgrounds achieve their academic potential. jumpAgrade is supported by donors such as university access programmes, local development organisations, and philanthropists to fund its operations. Social Entrepreneurs Ireland and RETHINK Ireland have also heavily backed and been involved in expanding jumpAgrade as a social enterprise.
Company Profile
Nurture is a digital assessment and feedback platform built on bespoke research frameworks developed in collaboration with Learnovate in Trinity College, Dublin. Nurture is focused on closing the feedback loop between teachers and students, simplifying how teachers ascertain what students know so that students can receive personalised next steps for them.
Formative assessment is seen as one of the best bets to improve student achievement and this is what Nurture does best.
Company Achievements to Date
n Nurture was chosen at the e-Assessment Awards in 2022 as the ‘Best Formative Assessment Project’ for its innovative approach to pedagogically-informed assessment that leverages large technology partnerships such as Microsoft to increase access to Nurture.
n They have developed a seamless integration with Microsoft Teams, the virtual learning environment of choice for the majority of Irish schools. As a Certified Microsoft Education Partner, Nurture has run online events in collaboration with the Microsoft Edu team in both Ireland and the UK.
n Nurture has run webinars with world-renowned speakers such as Professor Dylan William, a prolific and well-cited educational researcher well known for his contribution to the research on assessment in schools.
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Big changes can often start with a small idea.
From conversations with our founder, Tom Cotter, we like to think this journey to reclaim our oceans dates way back to his childhood when his family would take an annual holiday to the Greek island of Lefkada. His experience there would inform his formative years – becoming an avid sportsman, a budding environmentalist, and water sports obsessive.
Tom spent the next two years researching sustainable production methods that would actively contribute to the reduction of plastic pollution in our seas. Wearing every hat he could, he immersed himself in the meandering complexities of the fashion industry, from sustainable production methods to supply chains. The resulting, colorfully designed rash vest made from recycled polyester was a success, but its journey to fruition showed Tom that this alone would not be enough to make lasting change.
Working together to help alleviate our world’s climate challenge & thus, OceanR was on its way to where it is today. Supporting companies around the world to achieve their sustainability objectives, we continue to challenge the ordinary, together.
Company Profile
We are a diverse group of highly skilled people who have come together from all over the world to help make a positive change to our oceans & planet. Through our sustainable products and services, we hope to inspire and enable others to live more Eco-conscious lives.
At OceanR we’re on a mission: to reclaim our oceans by removing as much of this plastic as we can and recycling it into something new: eye-catching, boldly designed clothing and product ranges for businesses and consumers. Our ranges are custom-designed in-house using Ecofriendly materials and plastic-free packaging.
OceanR supports companies around the world to achieve their sustainability objectives –from reducing their carbon footprint and encouraging responsible consumption practices to sustainable innovation with new products and services. We achieve this by designing custom apparel and product ranges for organizations that live active lives on or near the water – with small-volume production, using sustainable materials such as recycled polyester from reclaimed ocean waste, ethically produced organic cotton, and a closed-loop supply chain. Together, we are reclaiming our oceans for a better future.
OceanR also supports social & environmental partnerships around the world, such as Enaleia, which supports fishermen in the Mediterranean to fish for plastic in the fishing down season, thus for every product you purchase with us, you remove one Kilo of plastic from the Ocean.
OceanR also works with Batu-Batu in Asia, to aid them in their protection of marine life. As we grow, we are developing new, ambitious goals for the future and will expand our action plan for climate change, and marine life protection & continually helping world-renowned resorts, super-yachts & consumers achieve their sustainability goals.
Company Profile
Ochre Bio is a biotechnology company developing RNA therapies for chronic liver diseases. Using a combination of genomic deep phenotyping, precision RNA medicine, and testing in live human donor livers, Ochre is developing therapies for important liver health challenges, from increasing donor liver supply to reducing cirrhosis complications.
Oxford / New York / Taipei
Est. 2019
Company Achievements to Date
We have built the largest genomic atlas of the human liver to date, and used it to identify 200+ novel drug targets which we are now validating directly in discarded donor livers kept alive on machines. We have screened hundreds of novel targets in multiple in vitro screens in our labs in Oxford, and optimized several lead GalNAc-siRNA drug candidates which we are now perfusing in human livers.
We have raised approx. $40M in VC funding to support our work in developing novel therapies to treat liver disease and improve patient outcomes.
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
NEXT YEAR: PRIVATE 3 YEARS: PRIVATE 5 YEARS: PRIVATE
Jack has a background in biomedical engineering and a record of bringing new health technologies to market, including being part of the team at Avexis that brought the gene therapy Zolgensma through FDA approval. Jack’s experience also includes angel investing, digital health strategy, and co-hosting the “DNA Tie Club” programs on ClubHouse featuring conversations about new inventions in the life science industry.
Jack received his Bachelor’s degree from National University of Ireland, Galway and his Masters from Notre Dame.
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Ian is a paediatric ophthalmologist who has been involved with myopia research for over two decades. As well as clinical research, much of his work has been in computational and mathematical approaches to eye growth. He is the principal investigator on the multiple clinical trials currently being run at the Centre for Eye Research Ireland.
James is a Professor of Optometry and Vision Science with over 20 years of clinical, academic, research and management experience. His primary clinical interests are in paediatrics and ocular disease. He is founder and Director of the Centre for Eye Research Ireland, the largest myopia clinical trial centre in the world dedicated to providing state of the art solutions for blindness prevention.
Company Profile
OCUMETRA has created a data science platform that can power the evolution of ocular health management. Our innovative, trusted analytics are designed to deliver cutting edge solutions for business and health. Our mission is to unleash the power of big data for everyday clinical practice, to make bold new discoveries that deliver better health outcomes for patients and to unlock new business opportunities to fuel future progress and innovation.
Our long term vision is to make the OCUMETRA brand synonymous with cutting edge analytics for eye health (Powered by Ocumetra) and to establish our technology platform as the essential tool for personalised, progressive eye care.
Company Achievements to Date
Ocumetra was founded in June 2020, but our journey began in earnest in July 2021 when we recruited our first employee. Since then we have grown to an international (team members from Ireland, England, USA, Hungary, Croatia, Romania, Hungary, South Africa, Brazil and Russia) and multidisciplinary team of 15 and just established our first overseas office in the UK. Our key technical and commercial achievements to date include:
Key Technical Achievements
We are now ISO27001 certified for our information security management system and passed Stage 1 for ISO13485 certification for our Quality Management System.
We have developed a unique product portfolio which has been validated against international clinical trial data. Our first products have just launched in English speaking countries, and will launch globally as local language versions in January 2023.
We have extensive IP filings in place which are currently being nationalised in priority countries.
Key Commercial Achievements
Ocumetra has achieved HPSU status with Enterprise Ireland.
A variety of integration partnership contracts are already secured with global partners, including electronic medical record, pharmaceutical and medical device multinational companies.
Ocumetra successfully secured €500,000 in seed funding.
Ocumetra was awarded the Knowledge Transfer Ireland People’s Choice Award in 2021.
Karl Deeter is an expert in residential mortgages. He founded Irish Mortgage Brokers in 2003 and built a cloud based mortgage solution in 2007, that was the foundation for OnlineApplication.com, which switched the focus into a white labelled mobile based solution.
Company Profile
OnlineApplication.com are the leading loan advisor saas, used by brokers and lenders to help deliver accelerated mobile mortgages. It is integrated with the major banks and is the main tech used by the nations largest brokers.
Company Achievements to Date
From Q1 to Q3 of 2022, OnlineApplication saw more than 24,000 mortgage applications go across the collective platform representing more than €5,000,000,000 in loan applications.
Daniel spent a year prior to OpinionX in London as Digital & Innovation Lead for Ice Cream & Tea at Unilever, where he led data-driven marketing for the largest FMCG launch in the UK in 2019, launched his own ice cream brand, and built ecommerce strategies alongside £100M+ brands. He has also worked with Techstars as a Global Facilitator in Europe, and was part of the founding team at Dublin Tech Summit, where he was Head of Speakers & Startups for the first two years of the conference.
Darragh has been a Software Engineer at a range of organizations, from early-stage social enterprise startup GiveBack.ie (backed by Google.org) to scaling infrastructure company Cellusys to multinational tech giant Microsoft.
They started working on OpinionX while in their final year at DCU, where Daniel was finishing a degree in Marketing Innovation & Technology, while Darragh completed a Software Engineering specialism in Computer Applications.
Company Profile
OpinionX is a research tool for stack ranking people’s priorities. Over 3,000 teams use OpinionX to measure which problems, unmet needs and ideas their customers care about most, giving them real data for their big product decisions.
Product teams at scaling startups like Unbounce, Gnosis Safe and Labster use OpinionX to make their roadmap prioritization data-driven, create needs-based segments, and validate ideas for new features. Over 500,000 opinions have been ranked on OpinionX in the past 18 months.
Company Achievements to Date
We’ve onboarded 3,000+ teams to date ranging from national governments and international non-profits, to early-stage founders backed by some of the most prestigious investors in the world like Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz, to tech giants like Google, Amazon and Shopify.
Company Profile
We are a hybrid agency transforming e-commerce for retailers and brands. By fusing the best elements of Web 3 into Web 2 websites, we bring shoppers and brands into the Metaverse with our immersive virtual stores.
Our platform Enabes more meaningful consumer engagement, increased sales and better data, improving efficiencies throughout the retailer’s business.
We are the only hybrid agency fusing Web2 & Web 3 for global scale and mass consumer adaption in Europe.
We sell direct to brands, with strategic partnerships in retail tech platforms and trade organisations. We are revenue generating with recent projects for Brown Thomas and Burberry
Company Achievements to Date
n Bootstrapped to build our MVP in March 2020 for Vogue Business to demonstrate the compelling engagement stats and brand opportunities. https://www.orbmedia360.com/vogue/ (confidential industry information)
n Secured backing from Enterprise Ireland 2020.
n Won second place in Burberry innovation challenge 2021. https://www.orbmedia360.com/burberry/
n Nominated finalists in Enterprise Nation Start Up Of The Year, 2021 and 2020 UK & Ireland.
n Shortlisted by LEO South Dublin for Innovation and Start Up Of The Year award 2020.
n Created the first NFT for graduating student TUD Dublin 2022.
n Qualified for Microsoft for Start Ups 2022, engaged with their global lead in the US, pitching into large Canadian retailers.
n Our chief creative lead qualified as a Web 3 leader from Realm Academy, the first industry recognized certification backed by Outlier Ventures in May 2021. He was one of the first 500 students to qualify.
n Nominated to qualify as Metaverse Leader from Exclusible ( leading luxury Web 3 platform) https://metaverse.exclusible.com/ (Nov 2022)
n Currently in talks with a leading African airline to bring their duty free shop into Web 3. Recent funding round announcement https://www.businesspost.ie/post-plus/game-on-asorb-media-aims-to-combat-scrolling-fatigue-with-virtual-shopping/
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
NEXT YEAR: 300% 3 YEARS: 700% 5 YEARS: 2000%
Dublin Est. 2018
Ciara – Thought leader, panelist, metaverse advisor to universities, fintech and retail. Born story teller, property nerd with a vision for an immersive future.
Proven sales, marketing and media, professional, degree in Journalism from the University of Sheffield. Founded Integrity Property with Ian Walsh 2005. Ex Xerox, Canon, Dr. Solomon’s, RE/ MAX. Endorsed by Kelly Vero, industry legend, creator of Lara Croft, Farmville, Candy Crush & ShIsh Shrindar, Global Retail Lead at Microsoft for Start Ups.
Ian - Ex Trinity College with a degree in Computer Science.
Previously sales director of Midia Distribution. Built the sales team to fuel a €40M exit in IT sales. Built reseller channel for HP, Canon, Microsoft, Fujitsu Siemens, in various senior roles. Founded Integrity Property with Ciara Sheahan 2005. Ex chapter director of Business Networks International. Seasoned sales achiever, team builder, focused operations and compliance skills making Ian a well-rounded, experienced and reliable COO.
Ross Hunt
Ross is the co-founder of Cainthus, a computer vision company dedicated to bringing lowcost, high-frequency, passive measurement to Agriculture. He previously served as Finance & Operations Director for Comex McKinnon, sat on the Exponential Advisory Board of Singularity University and worked with organisations including ARPA-e, Otherlab and the EU Commission.
David Kelleher
David has 10 years of experience working with and growing early-stage technology companies. He started his career in Investment Banking in Toronto, Canada, before working with some of Canada’s leading tech startups in his role with Third Core Venture Expansion Partners. Since returning to Ireland he has spent over 4 years as Head of Revenue for Jobbio.
Company Profile
Founded in 2020, Outmin provides accounting, bookkeeping and CFO services to small businesses across Ireland and the UK. Our platform is powered by human expertise and leverages AI and cloud technology. Traditional accounting software and services are expensive, slow and often generates little or no value for small business owners. They need quick access to financial information in a format that gives actionable insights - Outmin solves this problem. Outmin provides business owners with a fully integrated and automated platform that delivers real-time financial analysis for to enhance decision-making, which also gives access to a human accountant who coaches for best practice.
Company Profile
Positive Carbon enables food businesses to reach net zero. Using LiDAR and Artificial Intelligence (AI) we enable real-time, actionable insights to reduce the environmental and economic impact of food waste. Our food waste sensors track and analyse commercial kitchen’s food waste, showing them exactly what food they’re wasting and how to reduce it. With our technology, kitchens can develop practical waste management strategies, plan lower-carbon meals and eliminate the carbon produced by unavoidable waste. As kitchens are extremely busy environments, we have ensured that our technology is autonomous, seamlessly integrates into the kitchen and requires no staff interaction.
Company Achievements to Date
To date we have already proven that our technology can alleviate the impact of food waste on the environment and economy as we found that early adopters of our technology foresee 600% return on investment and cut food costs in the hospitality industry by up to 8%. This translates to €80,000 in a kitchen with €1M in annual food purchases. Additionally, our clients have seen up to 42% waste-reduction, with the remainder of ‘unavoidable waste’ being removed using our carbon removal platforms. This has resulted in 350 tonnes of CO2 prevented and 483 tonnes of CO2 removed per site.
We are working with some of the largest enterprises in the world such as Twitter, KPMG and Airbnb in Dublin and in the supermarket chain, Esselunga, in Milan. We are also in operation in some of the most renowned hotel groups and catering companies, The Hayfield Collection, Gather&Gather and KSG. We aim to include the three largest catering companies in our portfolio; Sodexo, Compass and Aramark who collectively feed 300 million people daily. Decarbonising these three businesses would prevent 2.4mT of CO2 per day from entering the atmosphere, this would see 1% of daily greenhouse gases eliminated.
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
NEXT YEAR: 800% 3 YEARS: 2700% 5 YEARS: 5400%
Dublin Est. 2020
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Mark Kirwan - Co-Founder and CEO: Ex-Foodcloud, with eight years of food waste redistribution experience. Designed products for Tesco, Lidl, Aldi and built Australia’s first digital food redistribution application for OzHarvest.
Aisling Kirwan - Co-Founder and COO: Ex-Foodcloud, with expertise in finance and operations. Rolled out food waste solutions to 1000s of locations across Ireland, UK and Australia.
They took part in the 2022 PnP Italy Accelerator, the 2022 Bord na Móna Green Accelerator and the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Accelerator 2021-2022 (Impact Programme) where they became an SEI Impact Awardee. Together they won the 2022 Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenger, 2020 Business Spirit Award and the 2020 Intertrade Ireland Seedcorn competition.
Aisling was voted one of the 100 women changing Ireland in 2021 by the Irish Examiner and Accenture, one of the largest professional service networks in the world, shortlisted Mark as a leader of tomorrow.
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Company Profile
n Grew company from zero to five full-time and part-time employees.
n Recognised in Irish Times New Innovators column: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/ innovation/2022/07/21/start-ups-real-time-analysis-of-fitness-training-helps-improveperformance-and-reduce-injury/ n Recognised in PwC’s Sport For Business 30 Under 30 Future Leaders in Sport: https://sportforbusiness.com/30-under-30-for-2022-emma-meehan/ n Recognised in SportsTechX’s Top 35 European Startups to Watch 2022 https://sportstechx. com/estr/
n Selected for Enterprise Ireland and BICs Prep4Seed programme
n Developed five-year business plan, financial projections and investor-ready pitch decks.
n Completed SportX in association with Resolve Partners.
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
NEXT YEAR: PRE-REVENUE
3 YEARS: 7000000% 5 YEARS: 35000000%
Galway Est. 2021
Emma Meehan is a strong technical leader, with a First Class Honours degree in Computer Science & Information Technology. She has led development teams in Cisco Galway, delivering new features and maintaining code deployed to tens of millions of customers worldwide as a Software Engineer for almost four years.
Emma is also a qualified personal trainer and competitive Olympic weightlifter, and has experienced the pains and issues of remote coaching first-hand. A fitness fanatic, Emma has spent thousands of hours training in gyms over the past eight years since starting university
Emma has been working on the startup full-time for the past year, and was developing code for the idea four years previously on evenings and weekends. Emma’s passion for strength and conditioning, technical capability and past leadership experience make her the ideal candidate to lead this business.
Tara studied Science in UCD majoring in Statistics. She worked in Software and Quality before marrying a chef and opening up a fine dining restaurant (1998). That business is now nearly 25 years old and has evolved into a multi-site café operator and event caterer. Brian worked in Michelin star restaurants before opening Mange Tout and has grown the business through consistency as well as focusing on quality Irish Ingredients from the start. Richard is a Computer Science and Electrical Engineering student at MIT.
Company Profile
Prepsheets is a simple to use, chef focussed platform that maps recipes to ingredients, outlines accurate costs and supports in planning, preparing and purchasing just the right amount of food. We built Prepsheets as an internal tool to help us manage our business better and evolved it over the years to keep up with changing legislation especially regarding the allergen requirements. We have it set up to also give calorie information so that when that requirement also becomes law there will be no additional admin or cost on businesses using Prepsheets.
As our business grew our internal product had become cumbersome with Tara being the only person in the team who could use it and so we had stopped using it to it’s fullest capabilities. We used the lockdowns of Covid to digitise it and re-implement it in our business – Mange Tout –saving 4% the company on costs (or €85K).
Company Profile
ProMotion Rewards is a data-enabled consumer engagement platform that helps brands grow, by putting the consumer in charge.
We help Consumer Packaged Goods, Retail and E-Commerce Brands to outperform the competition and directly attribute marketing and trade spending to sales, by leveraging data and our closed-loop environment.
We believe that wherever value is created, value should also be received. That’s why we reward consumers for digitising their shopping data, in exchange for points that they can redeem for real-world rewards.
We also believe that consumer brands are missing a vital connection to the end consumer. In order to connect, brands need to understand what consumers are doing, and then need to be able to action those insights in a meaningful way. This is how we can build stronger brands, that serve the world better. Get in touch with our team today to discover how we can help your brand grow.
Company Achievements to Date
n Recently closed our fundraising round of €725k, led by Laidlaw Scholars Ventures, with participation from Delta Partners VC and Enterprise Ireland n Within 3 weeks of launch and with zero-marketing spend, were processing over 6,000 line items.
n We are already working with some of the top brands in Consumer Goods, and are receiving inbound interest from brands that want to leverage our platform to better understand consumers.
n We have started to expand the team, and will continue to do so over the coming months.
n TCD LaunchBox winners 2020.
n Listed as Ireland’s 30 under 30 in Tech (Business Post) and 30 under 30 in Business (Irish Independent).
n National shortlist for National Startup Awards 2022 - awards tbd.
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
NEXT YEAR: 100% 3 YEARS: 600% 5 YEARS: 1000%
Dublin Est. 2018
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Bidemi and Lauren are both qualified Pharmacists and graduates of Trinity College Dublin. Bidemi was a recipient of the Laidlaw Research and Leadership Scholarship while completing his studies in Trinity College Dublin, and is a self-taught software developer. He was also a former professional footballer. Lauren is a former Board Director of Junior Chamber International in Ireland, and leads the operations of the business. Together they have been recognised for their entrepreneurial efforts as winners of Trinity College LaunchBox Accelerator, listed as Ireland’s 30 under 30 in Business by the Irish Independent, as well as the Business Post 30 Under 30 in Tech in Ireland.
Alumni of: Trinity College LaunchBox Accelerator, NDRC Pre-Accelerator, Enterprise Ireland New Frontiers. Currently Enterprise Ireland High-Potential StartUp.
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Dublin Est. 2021
Dave founded ReaDI-Watch in February of 2021. Since founding ReaDI-Watch, he has focused on its scale & growth through a number of accelerator programmes: New Frontiers (Enterprise Ireland) Phases I - III, Web Summit Rise Programme, and Furthr Investor Ready Programme.
Prior to ReaDI-Watch, he led a team of 10 consultants working with some 100 companies over 7 years to implement lean Innovation & R&D management structures, strategies & processes in GB Innovation.
He helped grow GB Innovation into a successful RD&I consultancy firm since 2014 in the company leadership team. He studied at UCD, undertaking a BComm International followed by an MSc. Finance. Subsequently, he undertook an Alternative Investments Programme through Harvard Business School.
Last year, Dave was recognised as Ireland’s “30 under 30” 2021 (Irish Independent) and has been profiled on Silicon Republic, Small Firms Association Awards, the Irish Times & others.
Company Profile
Unlock your R&D and Innovation potential with ReaDI-Watch Digital Platform. Structure R&D to hit your Goals, win R&D Tax Credits & Grants, and Create Business Value from your Technology and IP.
ReaDI-Watch is an R&D and Innovation Digital Platform for companies who are investing into R&D and who have a strategy of Innovation for Growth.
ReaDI-Watch also partners with consultancy service providers who help these companies claim R&D tax credits, win grant funding, and establish their strategic direction.
We are seeking to become a global leader in the field of Innovation and R&D solutions, with a focus on management, funding, collaboration and investment.
Company Achievements to Date
Since founding ReaDI-Watch, the company has grown from 3 founders to 12 staff. We are active in Irish, UK and Canadian markets with paying customers getting daily value from our proprietary technology. We completed Phases I - III of New Frontiers Accelerator programme and are scaling at venture-level growth rates in our target markets. We have established channel partnerships with reputable R&D service providers, and have been listed as awardees and finalists of business innovation and product design awards (e.g. IMR Product Design Awards 2021).
Company Profile
RugbySmarts is a cutting-edge SaaS platform that uses AI and Computer Vision to provide coaches the power of video analytics to improve team performance. By leveraging automation, it is easy for teams to be better prepared by analysing competitors to gain new insights, informing preparation decisions and allowing teams to plan better and innovate faster.
The self-learning nature of the AI means, the more data provided, the greater the insights returned which is driven by each coaches unique style.
RugbySmarts provides an end-to-end coaching & communication solution that supports club revenue generation, injury prevention & fan engagement.
Est. 2021
Yvonne is a former International rugby player and will be the first female President of Galway Corinthians RFC next season, where she has been coaching and managing teams for the last 6 years. She is currently one of the Connacht reps to the IRFU Union. Yvonne has AIL League and Cup medals from her time playing with Corinthians and a BUCS medal from St. Mary’s University in Twickenham where she captained the team. She is also an experienced multidisciplinary team manager.
William has been at the cutting edge of digital technology since the 90s when he pioneered solution delivery in the emerging multimedia sector. From there his tech journey has seen him become a recognised leader in establishing, assembling and managing high performing global technology teams. In recent years, as well as a focus on video and AI technology he is also coaching with Corinthians and Connacht Rugby and doing analysis work.
Company Achievements to Date
n Completed New Frontiers Phases 1-3.
Regional Finalist Seedcorn 2021.
Won ‘Most Investable Company’ in the Sport X pre-accelerator Awards
Won the iTAG Best Emerging Technology Award 2022
Won Network Ireland National Businesswoman of the Year Awards 2022- STEM category
Finalist in the Diversity in Tech 2022- Entrepreneur Award
Accepted into the EU based, The Break Fellowship.
Have customers in 3 different sports across Ireland, Europe and the States.
John received a PhD in Machine Learning from UCD, is an avid craft brewer, married into a Whisky Distilling family in the US, and is a father to two boys. Prior to starting his own company, John worked at Zalando and Stripe as an Engineering Manager building out teams and products whilst expanding coverage across EMEA.
Company Profile
SalesTier provides the Visibility & Accountability missing in the US ‘Three Tier’ System. By providing advanced Account management (CRM), Team alignment (Performance) and Business Intelligence (Analysis) features. These are business necessities to grow your brand and ensure business success.
The core pain points that SalesTier tackles:
-Providing transparent access to critical data. -Presenting data in a user-friendly and consumable way. -Harnessing data to create valuable and actionable insights.
Company Profile
ServBlock allows for the automation of quality assurance tasks and processes through a unique blockchain solution that allows for a completely paperless process providing verified data that is automatically checked for compliance.
We are transforming how the pharmaceutical industry ensures quality compliance across the complete supply chain.
Servblock translates the current human to human based quality assurance process to a digital first trust system underpinned by machine to machine interactions and blockchain technology, providing verified data that is automatically checked for compliance.
Company Achievements to Date
As more and more, pharmaceutical & Biotech companies choose to outsource their manufacturing projects - companies must evaluate the performance of its contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) and determine whether it meets industry and regulatory standards. ServBlock can increase a manufacturers profitability by reducing the current inefficiencies in the system by eliminating the double and triple checking of data that can often occur. Automating the supply chain checks and verifications is the golden goose in the pharmaceutical industry resulting in reduced cost of manufacture, but more importantly the time it takes to get these life saving medicines into the hands of the people that need them whilst helping alleviate drug shortages to some of the most vulnerable in society.
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/servblock-microsoft-partnership-blockchain-nftpharma
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Est. 2021 ServBlock
John has a 10 year background in the pharmaceutical industry as a consultant at many of the world's leading biotech companies. Most recently as part of Pfizers Global Smart Factory team where he oversaw the development and implementation of software for use on the manufacturing shop floor
Thomas has a background in compute science along with a extensive experince in the tech industry leading teams as a principle cloud engineer in the likes of Oracle & Microsoft.
Kevin has a long track record within Sales and brought the last company we founded, which was fully bootstrapped, to become the largest manufacturer of its kind, culminating in a successful exit earlier this year
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue: serv_block
Alan Gormley, CEO:
For nearly 25 years, Alan has worked with retailers at the forefront of Advanced Analytics and AI to embed intelligence into business processes. Having led numerous initiatives for the SAS Institute, the most prominent AI technology provider globally, he has seen the impact of artificial intelligence across every discipline in retail.
In his time at the forefront of developing new technologies for retail, he has spoken on trends, biases and opportunities at expert events across over 30 countries, from Finland to South Africa, the US to Singapore.
Tariq Zaki, CTO:
Tariq is passionate about data and engineering and the innovations that can be delivered through them. He believes in rapid prototyping solutions and driving change through data driven insights. He has previously headed senior positions at high potential startups as CTO and Engineering Lead. He built these operations from the ground up, creating high performing teams.
Company Profile
Our mission is to bring Amazon-level AI to any online retailer large or small. Shopbox is an awardwinning AI-powered adaptive shopping experience platform. It transforms a generic online store into one that learns about each visitor. From their very first click, it constantly adapts in real-time throughout their entire shopping journey. By presenting infinite permutations based on their interests and behaviour it provides a uniquely tailored shopping experience. A better experience leads to happier shoppers and higher-order value.
Company Achievements to Date
The Shopbox AI journey began at the very start of the Covid-19 lockdown. Despite that uncertainty, in a little over two years it has grown as online retail made a step change in shopper adoption and sales.
Within two months of the company’s incorporation the first contract was signed. The Irish customer base continued to grow and in early 2021 the first UK retailer came on board. Later that year, Shopbox expanded into continental Europe and just 16 months after incorporation, Shopbox was running on schuh’s ecommerce store, supporting a €150M+ business. In 2022, customer numbers have doubled, with continued expansion in Ireland, The UK and Europe.
Building a product that provides a great experience for online shoppers while delivering results for retailers is our driving force. This started by creating something new in an AI powered curated shop assistant in mid-2020. By January 2021 the product was updated to be a mobile-first UI. Continuous product development has followed including the introduction of product carousels, a curated homepage grid as well as optimisation of onboarding from weeks to hours.
These efforts were recognised by winning eCommerce Software Tool of the Year 2022 in September and nominations for 2 AI Awards.
Dublin, Ireland Est. 2021
Sean & Patrick became close friends while at school together in Dublin.
Sean began his career at PwC Consulting and most recently worked with Ocado, the world’s top online grocery retailer.
Sean’s considerable passion for golf is most certainly not matched by his playing ability.
Patrick is the co-founder and CEO of First Circle, a financial technology transforming B2B commerce in SE Asia.
Patrick has been recognised by Endeavor, Forbes, and the World Economic Forum for his progress to date. Patrick is an avid sportsman, frustrated golfer, and fair-weather surfer.
Company Profile
shuppa is a shop in your pocket. An app that offers customers access to 2,000 of their favourite products, delivered in 15 minutes. Whether it’s a last minute bottle of bubbly for tonight’s party or fresh sourdough for an impromptu brunch, shuppa has you covered. Everything you need, just when you need it.
Company Achievements to Date
n Achieved >€800K revenue run rate with <€350K of invested capital.
n 5,000 customers, with 40% shopping once every 2 weeks.
n Marketing deals with multiple large FMCG players (Coca-Cola, Unilever)
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Rob has a BE in Civ. Eng. (UCD) and Post Grad Diploma in Project Management from TCD. 20+ years construction experience in Ireland and Australia with Tier 1 Man Contractors managing multiple, large scale, complex projects. Rob is also a member of the Engineers Ireland CPD Committee, the NSAI TC30 Risk Management Committee and the NSAI ISO TC 307 committee for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies. In addition, he is a member of the IDA Expert Group on Blockchain Technologies.
Company Profile
Site Passport is a next generation technology platform that provides smart, integrated and automated procurement & supply chain solutions to the construction and real estate markets. These solutions deliver increased competitiveness, enhanced reputation and reduced risk.
As the father of three young children, Alan Power is no stranger to the difficulties of buying children’s shoes. Having been frustrated by the buying process once too often, he decided to use his skills in engineering and mobile app development to create SizeWise, an AI-based sizing solution that allows parents scan their child’s foot using a smartphone.
Company Profile
SizeWise is a NovaUCD company, a recent spinout from UCD’s CeADAR centre, Ireland’s centre for AI and Machine Learning. A SaaS digital platform supporting the footwear industry in providing remote sizing and fitting. SizeWise's patent pending mobile technology enables a parent to scan their child’s foot using a mobile device for accurate foot sizing and footwear recommendations. It supports the consumer on the shopping journey, transforming the shopping experience, while supporting the retailer to provide a remote sizing experience. This reduces current unsustainable levels of returns (up to 40%) and boosts revenue and customer lifetime value through personalised customer engagement.
SizeWise offers the ability to transform the shopping experience, bringing the trust of the high street into a personalised online environment.
Company Achievements to Date
n Accepted into CeADAR, Ireland’s Centre for AI and machine learning n Secured Enterprise Ireland commercialisation funding in excess of €400,000 n Developed key commercial relationships with footwear retailers, footwear manufacturers and partners in the industry
n Launched new company SizeWise from the University with a new high performance technical and commercial team. n Secured a place and pre-seed investment with EIT Digital Innovation to support spinout company launch
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Smile Genius is an “All-in-one” platform for clinics and businesses with Clear Aligner workflow needs. The core value is that we deliver a platform that reduces time to market for clinics looking to introduce clear aligners and optimizes treatment management for existing businesses. It allows the clinical staff to focus on treating patients and not on admin tasks that technology can take care of.
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n We were part of NDRC pre-accelerator and AWS Loft Acceleator
n SG has been able to grow its team from 2 to 7 people across Ireland and India.
n We have a stong pipeline of clients form Ireland, UK, Israel, US and India.
n Smile Genius prides itself in being the only product focused on solving workflow needs for Orthodontics market.
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
NEXT YEAR: 100% 3 YEARS: TBC 5 YEARS: TBC
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Nipun has an Engineering and MBA dergree from Trinity College Dublin and has worked at various management roles in both Software and Retail companies. He has great insights into the customer segments and their needs.
Dr. Mark-Anthony practices at his clinic called Love To Smile in Finglas. He worked across various global clear aligner brands before starting Smile Genius
Dr Maimoona Azhar is a medical doctor with a background in software development, soft skills training. She has been a clinical educator for over a decade. Her first entrepreneurial venture was launched in the year 2002, when she was a 2nd year medical student. She founded and codeveloped MedInBytes - a medical e-learning platform that provided e-testing services and a digital learning resource centre for the medical fraternity, free-of-cost.
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Telegenz aims to to empower telehealth skills training for quality and safe remote patient care. Our solution is a fully customizable, purpose-built SAS platform, coupled with early adoption templates for training of healthcare providers in remote patient assessment skills. Our technology is versatile and scalable for use in other educational domains as well as corporate trainings.
Company Achievements to Date
n Six University programmes are on board as paid subscribers from within Ireland and abroad. n Finalist at 3 global competitions - She Loves Tech 2022 Europe Cohort, Med-Tech World 2022 - Best Healthcare Education using Technology App Category, and Reimagine Education 2022e-Learning Award Category. Awaiting results from last two
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At Thanks Plants, we believe in the power of plants to serve up mightier alternatives to meat. Our choices tingle the tastebuds, whilst looking after people’s wellbeing, our animals and our planet.
We pack our products with wholefood ingredients that our customers understand, and we have no hidden nasties or artificial additives.
The products are high in protein, a source of iron and low in saturated fat. Our products are available in supermarkets throughout Ireland including Supervalu and Tesco.
Our vegan range includes flavoured sausages, a NoMoooo Burger, Everyday Roast and our hugely popular Festive Roast.
Company Achievements to Date
n Since 2020, Thanks Plants has moved from a ‘rent by the hour’ kitchen, to a 500sq.ft facility and now to a 2,500sq.ft facility since Jan 2022. We are now on the lookout for a 10,000sq.ft facility to support our rapid growth.
n We aim to double our turnover this year.
n We have secured investment from Redesdale Food Fund, and match funding from Enterprise Ireland will shortly follow.
n We collaborated with Cali Cali, another leading Irish brand, for our Chipotle Salsa sausages. 10% of profits go to Belong To, an LGBTQI+ organisation.
n New products this year include - Spring Roast, NoMoooo Burger, Chipotle Salsa sausages. We have nationwide listings with Supervalu and Tesco, and we are now in over 280 stores in Ireland.
n Thanks Plants has started exporting to the UK, and has secured listings with Planet Organic and Cotswold Fayre, the UK’s largest speciality food distributor.
n We have achieved Origin Green status.
n We won the Green Food & Beverage Awards in 2021 and take our commitment to maintaining strong environmental credentials very seriously.
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
NEXT YEAR: 120% 3 YEARS: 600% 5 YEARS: 1200%
Aisling comes from a business background of leasing and marketing for major shopping centre developments in Ireland, UK, Malaysia and the Philippines. She understands how to bring a project to fruition and how to elevate the marketing of a brand. While working in the retail property industry for 17 years, Aisling also had a creative outlet in fashion and food, directing the shows at New York Fashion Week over a period of 10 years concurrent to her retail property job, and also by owning a café in Malaysia called Urbean.
Aisling started up Thanks Plants in 2020 after becoming a vegan herself, and finding there was a lack of healthier meat alternatives in the market.
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Tines is no-code automation for security teams. The world’s best companies — from startups to the Fortune 10 – trust Tines to powerfully manage their mission-critical workflows, automatically responding to and remediating alerts in real time.
Securely built by security practitioners, Tines integrates with any REST API or web application to fuse data from multiple locations into a single workflow.
The company first launched in 2018, and its current customers include Coinbase, Kayak, Databricks, Canva, McKesson, and Fenergo.
Company Achievements to Date
Tines has raised $96.2M to date. In October 2022, the company announced an extended Series B financing round with an additional close of $55 million led by Felicis. The initial Series B close of $26 million, led by Addition, was announced in April 2021. Since then, Tines has increased its revenue by 5X and its customer base has grown by 4X. The company currently employs more than 150 employees worldwide. Earlier this year, Tines was awarded Gold in the Rising Star category of the AWS Software Startup Awards, which recognizes early-stage startups that have demonstrated innovative tech solutions to support their customers.
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
NEXT YEAR: 220% 3 YEARS: PRIVATE 5 YEARS: PRIVATE
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Eoin Hinchy - Co-Founder and CEO: Prior to Tines, Eoin spent 15 years working in security at companies like eBay, PayPal, and DocuSign. He has two engineering degrees - a Masters in Security and Forensic Computing from Dublin City University and an MBA from Imperial College London.
Thomas Kinsella - Co-Founder and CCO: Before Tines, Thomas led security teams in companies like Deloitte, eBay, and DocuSign. As COO, Thomas is responsible for customer success, professional services, and more. Thomas has a degree in Management Science and Information Systems Studies from Trinity College in Dublin.
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Translit is the fastest growing RSI (remote simultaneous interpreting) provider in Europe. It is a remote interpreting platform that revolutionizes multilingual events. Translit RSI upgrades online, onsite, and hybrid meetings, conferences, events, seminars, and workshops. Certified remote interpreting allows organizers to grow their audience, increase communication efficiency, and enhance their content. Interpreting takes place on the cloud for more security and scalability.
It developed a one-of-a-kind interpretation-focused marketplace to translate any language using Computer Aided Translation tools. The platform provides 360-degree services such as website localization, document legalization, proofreading, and voice-overs to remove language barriers between companies and their partners, enabling business units to communicate effectively.
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Alex speaks six languages and has 20 years extensive experience in the Language Service, Events and IT industries along with hosting, speaking at, and attending some of the major conferences in Europe and around the world.
At Translit, he has built a one-of-a-kind interpretation-focused marketplace and subsequently, an RSI software that revolutionizes how event organizers run multilingual events.
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Trigr enables media businesses to stay on track and stay on budget. With Trigr’s platform, these businesses can efficiently manage projects, budgets and suppliers, and derive up to 9% cost savings in annual spend. The software solution uniquely provides media organisations with a realtime, centralised view for the latest round of project submissions, approvals, and spends - instead of tracking down the most recent spreadsheet version or trawling through email threads.
Company Achievements to Date
n Awarded a LEO Feasibility Study Grant to develop our MVP. n Participated in the NDRC's pre-accelerator and Enterprise Ireland's New Frontiers II. n Revenue generating since we incorporated in June 2022
n Leading media organisations including Virgin, Universal and Sony in our pipeline n Partnership secured with leading media trade bodies in the UK
n Recently announced at Furthr Festival as One2Watch - Ireland’s Most Scalable Startup.
n Nominated for National Startup Awards as one of Ireland’s best Tech Startups.
Gav Duffy previously ran a leading creative PR agency in London and regularly collaborated with major media outlets including BBC and Spotify. Gav recently graduated with an MBA at Trinity College Dublin where he also received the prestigious Entrepreneurial Scholarship Award.
Ben founded Global Business Register (GBR) in 2007. Within 3 years the GBR service was being used by 15 of the top 20 banks in the world. GBR was sold to Kyckr Australia in 2016 and is listed on the Sydney Stock Exchange.
Kyckr has developed API’s and cloud-based decision engines for Best in Class KYC due diligence and customer on-boarding. Since leaving Kyckr in January 2020 Ben has been focused on creating a reliable, accurate and current UBO declaration service.
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UBO Service provides an innovative onboarding service, specialising in providing Know Your Customer solutions through automated ultimate beneficial owner data and declarations, helping prevent money laundering and financial crime for large Financial Institutions.
Our approach is unique as we access live primary source registries at every search, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of the information we return. We then take this information and capture Beneficial Owner data and declarations within Application Programming Interface (API).
UBO Service has recently launched AML Pal, a simple portal that employs a risk-based approach to identify and verify new clients, conduct risk assessments and demonstrate due process. AML Pal gives professionals in the SME space in the UK and Ireland the ability to meet their duty of managing anti-money laundering risk and client onboarding. Whether their prospective client is a body corporate or an individual, our all-in-one solution covers every base. AML Pal can be found at www.amlpal.com
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UBO Service has had many great achievements since they launched in February 2021. They have recently launched their latest solution called AML Pal, an easy portal that simplifies the complex processes of Anti Money laundering compliance with one centralised system for all your client due diligence and onboarding needs.
“Client onboarding has never been easier with AML Pal, we are meeting the ongoing demands of anti-money laundering regulations, whist streamlining the compliance process for firms in Ireland and the UK” says Ben Cronin, CEO of UBO Service. “AML Pal is the start of a brand-new journey providing instant access to a full suite of AML tools, that is not only efficient but cost effective Our simple portal is designed to reduce the time, effort, and cost it takes to onboard clients, improving their experience and delivering the highest levels of regulatory compliance”
From announcing multiple partnerships with well-established companies like Rapid LEI, Corporate Access and Ubisecure, UBO Service has also been recognised for their innovative use of technology to generate efficiency improvements across the compliance function by many industry leaders They featured on the RegTech 100 2022 list and were also nominated for the RegTech Insight Awards Europe in 2022 for Best Data Solution for KYC and Best KYC Solution for Client On-Boarding.
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UNL is an Irish private R&D organisation aimed to advance knowledge and treatment of brain disorders by providing pre-clinical and clinical research services to pharmaceutical companies to accelerate their drug discovery programmes in neuropsychiatric, rare neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders.
We are committed to re-incorporating humanity into all aspects of how we do science.
The company is based on three core values which directly drive our research and interaction with pharmaceutical companies:
n Patient-Centricity
n Translational Research
n Social Responsibility
Our core values aim to lead a new journey against brain disorders which will eventually result in the realisation of the revolutionary concept of discovering new treatments “with the patients”
Dublin Est. 2019
Company Achievements to Date
n UNL has been recognised as a High Potential Start-up (HPSU) and has Trusted Partner status from Enterprise Ireland. It is currently in the process of acquiring campus company status in TCD.
n The company has currently two research sites located at i) Trinity College Dublin – Institute of Neuroscience (in-vivo behavioural neuropsychiatry research team; in-vitro human cell culture team for rare neurodevelopmental disorders and Parkinson’s disease (PD), pre-clinical and clinical biomarker team covering all our research indications) and ii) Maynooth University (in-vivo electrophysiology and behavioural neuropharmacology to assess the use of psychedelics in depression).
n The company has 13 staff (10 women; 3 men) representing 6 different nationalities.
n UNL clients are currently represented by 12 international pharmaceutical companies (US, EU, Japan and South Korea) which are using our research capabilities to advance innovative drug discovery programmes in rare neurodevelopmental diseases, neuropsychiatry and neurodegeneration.
n The company has an important presence in the US market which represents approx. 60% of our current sales. UNL clients are also present in Asia (Japan and South Korea), EU (Itay and France) and UK.
n UNL is exponentially growing, and the 2021 financial year had a turnover of €926,991.
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
NEXT YEAR: 150% 3 YEARS: 300% 5 YEARS: 500%
Professor Massimiliano Bianchi launched the patient-centric R&D company Ulysses Neuroscience Ltd. in 2019 following 20 years of international neuropharmacology R&D and executive management experience in industry and CRO including Transpharmation Ireland Ltd (Ireland), MAPREG (France) and GlaxoSmithKline (UK).
A native of Italy, Massi originally studied veterinary medicine in Sassari and Milan before obtaining his PhD in psychopharmacology at the University of Nottingham and embarking on a career in scientific research and the pharmaceutical industry. He is now a leader in the field of neuronal plasticity and cytoskeletal dynamics in psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders, has several patents and is an author on over 50 publications.
Massi is currently based at Trinity College Dublin as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Maynooth University. Here he continues to explore the role of microtubules in the pathogenesis and treatment of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Alan is a highly experienced cloud engineer previously working at AWS and JP Morgan Chase where he helped launch the Chase digital bank into the UK market. He is a web3, Data and DAO enthusiast.
Gerard is a seasoned software engineer and solutions architect, previously working at VMWare and Dell Technologies with over 10 years of experience.
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At Unbanx, we believe that personal data and its value belong to the people who create it.
That is why we are building a platform and community where people can take ownership and unlock the value of their own banking transaction data - by earning rewards from it. Thereby, redistributing the value of personal banking data from banks to the people.
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Vaultree has developed the world’s first fully functional data-in-use encryption solution that solves the industry’s fundamental security issue: persistent data encryption, even if there’s a leak. Vaultree enables enterprises to mitigate the great cyber, legal, reputational, and business risk of a data breach. With Vaultree, organisations process, search and compute ubiquitous data at scale, without ever having to surrender encryption keys or decrypt server-side. If a leak occurs, Vaultree’s data-in-use encryption persists, rendering the data unusable to criminals. Integrating Vaultree into existing database technologies is seamless, requiring no technology or platform changes.
Ryan Lasmaili, Tilo Weigandt, Shaun McBrearty & Maxim Dressler.
Company Achievements to Date
We’re pioneers in solving the industry’s fundamental security issue: persistent data encryption, even in the event of a leak with the world’s first fully functional data-in-use encryption solution. With Vaultree, companies now can encrypt data all-the-time, in use, at rest & in transit. We’ve launched the beta version of our SDK in June, 2022, and we’re successfully running POCs with clients from the financial services, technology and healthcare, among other industries. All that within just a year after our seed investment round.
Vaultree is also the first and only (Data-In-Use) encryption solution vendor to partner with Google’s AlloyDB for PostgreSQL. We’re leading a new era with a fully functional and sub-linear Fully Homomorphic (FHE) and Searchable Encryption (SE) solution in the cloud that protects against the threats of today and tomorrow.
We partnered with Qrypt to provide support for the only key generation algorithm on the market mathematically proven to be unbreakable. By enabling processing of atomic portions of data, Vaultree integrates into any common technical enterprise stack with the highest use case variety.
We registered a patent in the searchable encryption field to mark the beginning of many more to come to stay ahead of the innovation curve at all times.
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
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Ryan Lasmaili - For the last 12 years, Ryan has been involved with technology startups, developing solutions to major problems. Ryan’s background is in financial mathematics & statistics with a passion for finding solutions to problems through maths.
Tilo Weigandt - Tilo is a program manager, strategic tech marketer and business developer With more than a decade of experience in starting things from scratch on several continents with highly scalable tech products, business segments and brands in several industries, he found his passion in data protection.
Shaun Mc Brearty - Shaun is a Software Security Engineer with over 10 years of experience in designing, implementing, testing and deploying cryptographic solutions.
Maxim Dressler - Maxim is a project manager and sales leader with international experience in the software industry in leading commercial roles and has been fascinated by technology from a young age. Maxim’s background is strategic analysis and business administration.
Oran Mulvey & Shane O’Sullivan are originally school friends, both completing their Secondary Education in the King’s Hospital. Shane O’Sullivan went on to complete a Bachelors in Computer Science in Maynooth before working on Enterprise Architectures in Version 1. Oran Mulvey went on to complete a Bachelors in Economics and then a Masters in Marketing in UCD Smurfit Business School. Both Founders began working together again in 2017 when VisionR was originally incorporated under a different sales proposition – creating digital window advertisements utilising game engines and skeletal tracking cameras. In 2019, VisionR (formally, Glimpse) completed its first funding round of €550,000 and began to makes its switch towards utilising AI & Computer VisionR in retail. At the beginning of 2022 the team completed their second investment round of €1,500,000 with Delta Partners to vastly expand the sales effort (15% MoM in 2022) and the team.
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VisionR is a Next-Generation Shopper Insights Start-up that utilises AI & Computer Vision to anonymously break down in-store shoppers into actionable insights. VisionR is transforming brick and mortar retail by mimicking the eCommerce experience in-store through the installation of plug & play IoT hardware, the Scout ©. As shoppers enter the shop they are broken down into footfall, shopper profiles, shop duration, product engagement, and sales. All of this shopper data is then made available in real-time through the VisionR App. Google Analytics is a standard when it comes to eCommerce retail, now the same insights are available for stores.
Company Achievements to Date
VisionR has received strong market traction to date, after making its switch to the brick and mortar retail industry in 2020. Despite the effects of Covid-19, VisionR achieved 12% increases in sales with many of its Partners. Such studies caught the attention of SPAR International (13,600 Stores in 48 Countries) who have since signed up VisionR as its Global Preferred Supplier for in-store shopper analytics. VisionR now operates in Ireland, the UK, and the Netherlands while focusing on further markets in 2023. VisionR’s other customers include Diageo, the Daa, Maxi Zoo, and Anthony Nichols Jewellers.
VisionR has raised two investment rounds to date: a Seed which was led by Enterprise Ireland High Potential Start-up Scheme of €550,000 & a Seed Plus of €1,500,000 let by Irish VC Delta Partners.
VisionR has won several accreditations such as the PwC Bolton Trust Innovation Awards & National Start-up Awards Best Tech Company 2021.
Dr O’Donoghue is a PhD scientist who is shaping the world for the better. She is founder of Votechnik, an award winning company who has developed and patented the first ever automated technology for LCD recycling using robotics. Her fundamental understanding of materials systems is intertwined with revolutionary vision for the market to deliver the circular economy through technologies and business models. She contributes in a multifaceted approach to enable positive revolutionary change in the market from stents of fundamental research (University of Limerick), and business development with European Institute of Technology and Innovation on raw materials to policy impacts as a member of the EC’s Operational Expert Group.
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Votechnik is a university spin out company that emerged from research to find a solution to the problem of hazardous electronic waste. Each year over 200 million TVs are sold globally. Under EU legislation (WEEE Directive) these have to be depolluted to remove the components containing hazardous substances, liquid crystals and mercury. Traditionally, this is done with manual labour where 1 worker can process approx. 3-5 TVs per hour
Votechnik has developed a game changer robotic technology that can speed this up to a powerful 60 TVs per hour using a choreographed robot that lifts, scans and depollutes TVs all contained within a white armour housing to keep workers safe and protect them from the hazardous materials. Votechniks technology is designed to deliver a clean future, protecting our environment, people and liberating materials to be used again as part of the circular economy
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Votechnik has spent 10 years undertaking four technology development rounds to bring this state of art technology from the lab to the market. Votechniks achievements include:
n Spinning out and licencing the technology from the University of Limerick n Awarded Best High Growth Company by Intertrade Ireland and High Potential Start Up status by Enterprise Ireland along with €200,000 seed funding
n Awarded a €1.6million EU Eco-innovation project to develop the technology and integrate robotics
n Patents fully granted on the technology covering USA, EU and Asian markets
n Deployed the beta technology in 2018 with the national recycler in Ireland and was awarded the highest environmental certification capturing mercury and liquid crystal containing components.
n Awarded the London Rushlight award for best environmental technology. n Awarded €3 million EU funding under the EIC accelerator to upgrade the technology and enhance the functionality to process PC monitors.
n Deployed the upgraded technology in 2022 with the national Irish recycler where it is now processing 70% of Ireland's waste TVs and Monitors at a rate of 1 every minute.
n Exported and deployed the technology internationally in 2022 with recyclers in Sweden and USA.
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Vyra is the environmental sustainability learning platform for businesses. The mission of the company is to embed environmental sustainability into the culture and performance of companies worldwide.
Jack Dwyer - CEO: Having worked in creative teams in the eLearning industry and producing an award-winning documentary about forests in Ireland, Jack is driven to apply his skillset to solving climate change.
Eoin Le Masney - CTO: Having worked in the space and marine tech industries and previously qualifying in Zoology - taking a leadership role in Vyra was an obvious progression that aligned with Eoin's passion for sustainability and climate.
Luke Fagan - COO: Having worked in the Solar PV and Gas Industry, earning an MSc in Sustainable Energy and Greentech, being a published scientific author in Solar PV and also possessing a Zoology qualification - Luke has a life long commitment to learning about sustainability.
Company Achievements to Date
n Pre-platform launch event with Energia in January - ‘Ireland’s Greenest Fan’ was an original Vyra concept that seen us launch our brand to the world at all of the 6 Nations home games in the Aviva Stadium. n Platform Launched April 2022 n 1500 employees across Ireland, North and South, using Vyra in September 2022 n Intertrade Ireland Seedcorn Competition Finalists in October 2022.
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We2Sure is a company driven by strong ESG values, dedicated to strengthen our clients’ competitive advantage and ESG profile with paradigm-changing customized insurance benefits. Our co-design, micro-parametric approach and agile technology opens new markets, bringing tangible benefits, transparency, inclusivity, and sustainable affordability for all stakeholders. Our distribution model is to embed micro-insurances into a product or a service at the point of sale. This disruptive business model makes the insurance affordable and relevant for larger, often underserved communities. We2Sure offers insurance products (on a B2B2C basis) to a business or entity, who then use the benefits generated by these insurance products to enhance their offerings to their customer base. The insurance products are co-designed alongside our client so that they act as a business generator and bring real benefits to the end consumers. Our insurance solutions are targeting the Environment - initially the Carbon Credit Lifecycle - and Human Resilience.
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We2sure has developed the first integrated approach to Carbon Credits lifecycle insurance, initially covering nature-based solutions. Our product protects forest owners and developers by guaranteeing the generation of Carbon Credits with our parametric forestry insurances. We also protect the buyers and owners when transacting Carbon Credit Certificates that are traded and retired, by offering protection against Fraud, Theft, Duplication, and Re-Issuance, bringing securitization to these certificates. Our USP is supported by innovative technology that uses near real-time data feeds of the assets for MRV and advanced risk management.
We2Sure has also launched the first Financial Resilience Insurance product in Europe that mitigates specific fiscal death duties for a nominal fixed amount per annum.
We are currently working alongside clients in designing world first insurances in the Human Resilience space, targetting specific areas such as childhood poverty and domestic abuse.
We2Sure has been represented in the Lloyd’s of London Sustainable Market Initiative.
Expected Growth Rates in Revenue:
NEXT YEAR: 1400% 3 YEARS: 36700% 5 YEARS: 188000%
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Manuela has a wealth of experience gained from the financial sector, in start-ups and turnarounds, having spearheaded the successful launch of companies to profitable results several years before budget. She has a plethora of track records of success and a deep passion for innovation and disruption but always focused on delivering profitable returns.
Simon has over 30 years re/insurance experience and has developed a deep knowledge and passion for product design and innovation. He has a vast and varied background in underwriting and was recently a founding member and instrumental in building a €250M business from startup within 5 years.
Manuela and Simon have been working together for the last 6 years. They are sponsoring We2Sure together with an initial team of senior people, with considerable experience in Insurance and Data Science.
Criostoir O Codlatain Lachtna - IBM and Merrill Lynch alumnus, Criostoir brings deep technical insight into our modular product development.
Company Profile
The Wellola team believe that the future of healthcare is preventative, community-based and supported by digital tools.
Built by clinicians for clinicians and working with leading healthcare organisations in public and private sector across the UK and EU, we provide a highly modularised, highly-interoperable patient communication platform, designed to compliment existing systems in a given healthcare ecosystem.
Portasana provides a seamless and safe way to improve patient engagement, maximise operational efficiencies and drive down administrative costs whilst improving the flow of healthcare information between patients and their care-providers and shifting care out of the hospital setting into the community.
Company Achievements to Date
n Wellola was identified as a high potential company and invested in by Enterprise Ireland to scale globally. It also raised money through Spark Crowdfunding.
n Wellola began servicing GPs, allied healthcare providers and care homes in Ireland and the UK.
n Wellola established its UK base at the Nexus Leeds, serving large scale customers such as Acute and community NHS Trusts.
n Wellola raised €1m in funding from BVP
n Wellola continues to expand, with the view to becoming Europe’s most accessible patient platform.
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xWave Technologies is on a mission to save lives by ensuring that patients get the best test first. xWave have developed xRefer, a cloud-based clinical decision support system, to support referrers to order the best test first for their patients and to support radiology teams in vetting referrals more efficiently. xRefer has been developed in partnership with both the European Society of Radiology (iGuide) and the Royal College of Radiologists (iRefer) to enable referrers to access evidence-based guidelines in order to provide the best test for their patient at the point of care.
Company Achievements to Date
We went live in Ireland over 18 months ago and the impact we have seen to date has been incredible. On one hand, we have reduced the average time it takes to create and have a referral vetted by a radiologist from 7.5 working days to an average of just 15 minutes. This means that patients are getting scheduled a week-and-a-half in advance on average.
More importantly, a recent audit has shown that use of xRefer has reduced duplicate and unnecessary head and neck cancer referrals by more than 60%, resulting in an overall reduction of referral volumes of 8.2%. This might not seem like much, but it indicates a saving of €57m per annum to the Irish healthcare system and would free up enough capacity to eliminate the Irish radiology waiting list in 12 months. Based on this success, the Health Services Executive in Ireland is now supporting the roll-out of xRefer to GPs across Ireland and we have just announced our first UK partnership with the East Midlands Radiology Network and GE Healthcare.
Expected
NEXT YEAR: 2500% 3 YEARS: 56000% 5 YEARS: 225000%
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Mitchell O’Gorman - Chief Executive Officer:
Mitchell has over 15-years’ experience as an innovative business leader, with experience across fast-paced start-ups and large, complex multinationals. Prior to joining xWave Technologies, Mitchell was the Managing Director for Kantar Ireland, a global leader in research and data.
Prof. Ronan Killeen – Clinical Director:
Prof Ronan Killeen is a Consultant Radiologist with a specialist interest in Neuroradiology and a Nuclear Medicine. Prof. Killeen is currently the Chair of Radiology for the St Vincent’s Healthcare Group incorporating St Vincent’s University Hospital and St Vincent’s Private Hospital.
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Paul McSweeney - Founder/CEO: 25+ year career in IT sector – created ZeroNet model after 4 years research in circular economy (CE). Founder member of Ellen MacArthur CE100 circular economy networking platform, the leading thought leadership CE platform in the world. Designed/led technical development of ZeroNet platform (2016+). Considered a global thought leader in circular economy logistics.
Dr. David Greenfield (UK): 25+ years working in UK public sector and waste industry. CE authority & founder of Tech-Takeback in Brighton, ZeroNet’s UK launch customer. Widely regarded as one of the leading figures in the UK waste management and resource sector. Currently a visiting Professor (part time) of circular economy at the University of Brighton.
Andy Burdon - VP of Operations: CIO with 28 years corporate IT experience providing a high level of service to all staff levels up to board level, senior executives and managers. Excellent technical abilities especially in ITAD industry
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The ZeroNet is the world’s first cloud based technology platform designed around the ‘reverse’ or collection logistical requirements of the Circular Economy (CE), probably the biggest sustainability movement in the world today representing billions in growth opportunities.
The platform is designed to facilitate the smart domestic recovery of many different kinds of post-consumer products and materials
Endorsements received by many global brands inc. HP, H&M, Nespresso, Unilever, Dell, Apple.
The award-winning ZeroNet platform went live in Brighton (UK) in November 2020 – a worldfirst pilot of a CE domestic reverse-logistics platform. Major pilot for 80k new UK homes planned for 2023.
Company Achievements to Date
n Founder member of Ellen MacArthur CE100 circular economy networking platform.
n Significant corporate support from major global brands inc. Apple, HP, Dell, Nespresso, H&M (sample).
n EU Grant funding achieved from Zero Waste Scotland (Scotland’s government agency) to build and test ZeroNet platform in Scotland.
n First live urban pilot of platform in Stirling Scotland, March 2019.
n Second major urban pilot in Brighton, UK: live since November 2020. Supported by Material Focus, Brighton and Hove City Council (BHCC) and UK launch customer Tech-Takeback.
n Winner of UK ‘Circular Economy Project of the Year Award for 2021’ by Business Green.
n 2021: Joined national platform for circular economy development in Ireland – CIRCULÉIRE as part of their New Venture programme.
n Strong endorsement received from Wisetek, one of the leading global international ITADs (IT Asset Disposition) – Wisetek are actively seeking to pilot the ZeroNet platform
n Commercial letter of intent from Scipher Technologies in Australia for country-wide rollout of ZeroNet platform (8+ million homes).
n Commercial letter of intent (November 2022) from Podback consortium to involve entire coffee pod sector, the largest e-Waste recycler in the UK (REPIC) as well as the largest textile recycler in the UK (Wilcox).
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