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ENTERPRISE IRELAND NEW FRONTIERS PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY 2014 DIRECTORY ENTERPRISE IRELAND NEW FRONTIERS PARTICIPANT NEW FRONTIERS PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY 2014 Enterprise Ireland The Plaza East Point Business Park Dublin 3 Tel: (01) 727 2000 Fax: (01) 727 2020 Website: www.newfrontiers.ie © Enterprise Ireland October ‘14 - (344) Contents Athlone Institute of Technology in partnership 4 with Maynooth University Institute of Technology Blanchardstown 12 Carlow Institute of Technology 20 Cork Institute of Technology 26 Dublin Institute of Technology 34 Dundalk Institute of Technology in Partnership 50 with Invent DCU Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology 58 Letterkenny Institute of Technology and 68 Institute of Technology Sligo Limerick Institute of Technology 76 Institute of Technology Tallaght 84 Institute of Technology Tralee 92 Waterford Institute of Technology 98 ENTERPRISE IRELAND NEW FRONTIERS PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY 2014 1 New Frontiers Entrepreneur Development Programme New Frontiers is Enterprise Ireland’s National Entrepreneurs Development Programme for early stage startups. Based in 14 incubation centres across the country, each year, we support 150 startups from a range of sectors including food, bio, engineering, and technology. 2 ENTERPRISE IRELAND NEW FRONTIERS PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY 2014 About the Programme State Funding Access: Enterprise Ireland is a chief source of funding for Irish Startups. The New Frontiers Programme gives founders access to some chief decision makers in the business development process as well as €15,000 for Phase 2 participants. Geographic Accessibility: New Frontiers has 14 centres across Ireland. Most other programmes are solely Dublin based. Equity Taken: Other programmes take at least 7.5% of the participant’s company. New Frontiers takes 0%. Campus Expertise: New Frontiers participants have access to campus expertise and R&D facilities that the colleges offer. Diversity of Participant Companies: Most private startup programmes are in the tech sector and focus exclusively on internet companies. New Frontiers takes startups from all industries. The New Frontiers Programme has launched a Blog! It will offer interesting and useful content to people in the Irish startup community from experts all around the country. Check it out at www.newfrontiers.ie ENTERPRISE IRELAND NEW FRONTIERS PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY 2014 3 INSTITUTE Athlone Institute of Technology in partnership with Maynooth University INCUBATION CENTRE Midlands Innovation and Research Centre and Maynooth University WEB SITE www.ait.ie/newfrontiers NEW FRONTIERS MIRC MANAGER: MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY PROGRAMME MANAGER: COMMERCIALISATION Michael Lonergan EXECUTIVE: Bert Farrell PHONE: Owen Laverty PHONE: 090 6471882 090 6483043 PHONE: EMAIL: 01 7086902 EMAIL: [email protected] EMAIL: [email protected] [email protected] 4 ENTERPRISE IRELAND NEW FRONTIERS PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY 2014 ATHlone Institute of TecHnologY in partnersHip WitH MAYnootH UniVersitY DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY AgManor brings the livestock mart to your mobile - it provides live and historic footage of mart sales direct to your mobile. Farmers can bid and buy online. Farmers save time and money and marts can reach a wider sales audience. PROMOTER NAME ABOUT THE PROMOTER Pat McNeill Pat has extensive farming and business COMPANY NAME experience. A lifelong farmer and son of a cattle dealer means livestock marts are like a AgManor second home. It is this experience that gave PHONE: 086 8356280 Pat the unique insight to help create the EMAIL: [email protected] AgManor solution. DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY BusOnline deploys software and e-commerce to create an online Platform to provide customers with a hassle-free solution to booking Group Transport through Innovation, Automation and Efficiency. ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME 6 years’ experience in Sales and Customer Brian O’Rourke Service with Home Retail Group PLC. I Completed a 12-month Finance Internship COMPANY NAME with Citigroup. Bachelor of Business Studies BusOnline graduate from Dublin City University. PHONE: 085 7125504 EMAIL: brian.orourke24@ mail.dcu.ie ENTERPRISE IRELAND NEW FRONTIERS PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY 2014 5 ATHlone Institute of TecHnologY in partnersHip WitH MAYnootH UniVersitY DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY ClearVision is an e-learning supplier, creating and using animation and whiteboard videos as a tool to assist in the Education and Business Management Development sectors through a process of online and blended learning. ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME Eoin has a Business Degree with Music and Eoin Costello Multimedia, and a HDip in Entrepreneurship. COMPANY NAME He has extensive experience in staff development and managerial roles in a large ClearVision Learning Solutions multinational. Eoin has held a number of PHONE: 085 3759008 different coaching and development roles. EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.cvls.ie TWITTER: @clearvision_ie @itsmeeoin DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Euro Stallions is a stallion semen agency and EU-approved semen storage centre. Our focus is to provide sport horse breeders access to the very best sport horse stallions and remove the limits of logistics in the sport horse breeding sector. Euro Stallions will expand to also provide advanced reproductive PROMOTER NAME techniques in creating a centre of equine Emma-Rose Conroy reproduction excellence. COMPANY NAME ABOUT THE PROMOTER Euro Stallions Emma-Rose has a Master’s Degree in Veteri- PHONE: 086 0746345 nary Medicine and has further specialization EMAIL: [email protected] from the leading equine reproduction centres WEBSITE: www.eurostallions.ie across the world. Emma is actively involved in the sport horse breeding sector and utilises advanced techniques in her own breeding programme. 6 ENTERPRISE IRELAND NEW FRONTIERS PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY 2014 ATHlone Institute of TecHnologY in partnersHip WitH MAYnootH UniVersitY DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY FindrsKeeprs is a virtual recruitment agency designed to empower jobseekers to find their ideal job while also improving the talent attraction, acquisition and retention processes for growing businesses seeking to hire. ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME Daniel is an experienced recruitment Daniel Dunne professional with an impressive track record COMPANY NAME in Technical and IT recruitment, both in Ireland and internationally. He has extensive FindrsKeeprs experience in B2C and B2B sales along with PHONE: 085 7509439 building and leading high performing sales EMAIL: danieldunnit@ teams. gmail.com TWITTER: @DanDunnIt DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY HD Tracking Systems have designed a unique tagging and labelling system for luggage, keys and personal possessions like gadgets, laptops, peripherals, tools, anything portable. We have called it the SQURL. We aim to supply the Luggage and Technology Sectors but also wish to license to the Promotional Gifts market PROMOTER NAME with specific focus on the Travel and Insurance Tommy Dunning markets. COMPANY NAME ABOUT THE PROMOTER HD Tracking Systems Tommy and co-promoter Franz Hajster have PHONE: 087 2731838 worked for leading names in the Semiconductor EMAIL: hdtrackingsystems and Automation industries for 30yrs between @gmail.com them. Tommy spent some time helping a new WEBSITE: www.squrls.net semiconductor equipment start up in Milan. Franz TWITTER: @squrltags is an avid inventor and has designed and built many items from 3D printers to unique toys. ENTERPRISE IRELAND NEW FRONTIERS PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY 2014 7 ATHlone Institute of TecHnologY in partnersHip WitH MAYnootH UniVersitY DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Innovative Products have designed and manufactured a Fire Hood product in Ireland to prevent the spread of fires in ceilings. The product also has the capacity to be used as an Airtight Unit to minimize heat loss through light fittings. PROMOTER NAME ABOUT THE PROMOTER Brendan Kelly Brendan is an entrepreneur who has gained COMPANY NAME valuable experience while working in the electronics and the construction industry. Key Innovative Products strengths are management, product design, PHONE: 086 8314581 manufacturing, program management and EMAIL: [email protected] continuous improvement. WEBSITE: www.lightcovers.ie TWITTER: @Innovatepro DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Invidico designs and manufactures video- based, stereoscopic microscopes. Containing two miniature cameras, processing electronics and an integrated display, the video microscopes are used for assembly and inspection in the electronics and medical industries. PROMOTER NAME Alan Johnston ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Alan is an Electronics Design Engineer with over twenty years’ business experience in Invidico the design and manufacture of video-based PHONE: 087 2327140 magnifiers, used by the visually impaired and EMAIL: [email protected] in industrial applications. The products he WEBSITE: www.invidico.com designed have grossed over €40m in sales and have won multiple iF and RedDot design awards. 8 ENTERPRISE IRELAND NEW FRONTIERS PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY 2014 ATHlone Institute of TecHnologY in partnersHip WitH MAYnootH UniVersitY DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Mimergy is a visionary company in the waste management sector, recovering high value resources from waste by utilising a unique advanced conversion technology. ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME Niall is qualified in Instrumentation & Control Engineering and has a strong technical Niall Mimnagh background. His expertise lies in the area COMPANY NAME of automated industrial system design and maintenance. Niall is motivated by a strong Mimergy desire to make the circular