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NEW FRONTIERS 2019 PARTICIANT DIRECTORY
newfrontiers.ieENTERPRISE IRELAND NEW FRONTIERS PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY 2019 A Our Partners
New Frontiers is fully funded and managed by Enterprise Ireland and is delivered nationwide by the following Institutes of Technology Technological Universities and partnering Universities.
Colab
Regional Innovation Development Centre Centre Dublin City University Innovation Hubs Invent DCU
LINC TU Dublin Midlands Innovation Blanchardstown and Research Centre Maynooth University Maynooth Works Hothouse TU Dublin Grangegorman
Innovation Hubs Synergy Centre TU Dublin Tallaght
Enterprise and Research Incubation Media Cube Campus IADT Hartnett Centre Dun Laoghaire
Tom Crean Business Centre Waterford Rubicon Centre Institute of Technology Arc Labs Innovation Centre
Web: Newfrontiers.ie
B ENTERPRISE IRELAND NEW FRONTIERS PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY 2019 Contents
Introduction to New Frontiers 2
About the Programme 3
New Frontiers and Enterprise Ireland 4
The MIRC, Athlone Institute of Technology in partnership 5 with Maynooth Works, Maynooth University
The LINC, TU Dublin, Blanchardstown 13
ERIC, Institute of Technology Carlow 21
Rubicon, Cork Institute of Technology 28
Hothouse, TU Dublin & The Media Cube, Institute of Art, 35 Design & Technology Dún Laoghaire
RDC, Dundalk Institute of Technology in partnership 52 with DCU Invent
Innovation Hubs, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology 58
CoLab, Letterkenny Institute of Technology 65 & The Innovation Centre, Institute of Technology Sligo
The Hartnett Centre, Limerick Institute of Technology 73
Synergy Centre, TU Dublin, Tallaght 80
Tom Crean Business Centre, Institute of Technology Tralee 88
ArcLabs, Waterford Institute of Technology 94
ENTERPRISE IRELAND NEW FRONTIERS PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY 2019 1 New Frontiers Ireland’s National Programme For Developing Entrepreneurs
New Frontiers is delivered at local level by the Institutes of Technology and the Technological University of Dublin in partnership with Maynooth University, University of Limerick and Dublin City University. Over three phases, the programme equips individuals, who have an innovative business idea, with the skills and confidence to develop their business idea within a supportive and encouraging environment. Consisting of practical and interactive workshops, personalised one-to-one mentoring, financial support and free co-working space, New Frontiers is a game changer for anyone serious about developing their business idea into a successful start-up. The programme supports over 500 entrepreneurs each year across all phases of the programme with business ideas from a range of sectors including food & consumer products, information & communication technology, engineering & electronics, medical devices, biotechnology, pharma, digital media, cleantech/renewable energy and eligible internationally traded services.
CONTACT DETAILS: Email: [email protected] Website: www.newfrontiers.ie Blog: www.newfrontiers.ie/blog Twitter: @EI_NewFrontiers Linkedin: New Frontiers Programme
2 ENTERPRISE IRELAND NEW FRONTIERS PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY 2019 About the Programme
Financial Support: Participants on Phase 2 of the programme receive funding of €15,000. Further funding may also be available in Phase 3.
Geographic Accessibility: The programme is run across 16 centers nationwide making it accessible to individuals from every county in Ireland.
Equity: No equity is taken from the participant’s company.
Campus Expertise: Participants have access to expertise and support from experienced programme teams, business practitioners, investors, mentors and R&D facilities that the Institutes & Universities offer.
Diversity of Business Sectors: New Frontiers is open to individuals with business ideas from across all sectors.
ENTERPRISE IRELAND NEW FRONTIERS PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY 2019 3 NEW FRONTIERS NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR DEVELOPING ENTREPRENEURS
Enterprise Ireland
NEW FRONTIERS NATIONAL NEW FRONTIERS PROGRAMME
PROGRAMME MANAGER: COORDINATOR:
Paula Carroll Robyn Cosgrove
PHONE: EMAIL: 01 7272561 robyn.cosgrove@ enterprise-ireland.com EMAIL: Paula.carroll@ enterprise-ireland.com
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INSTITUTE Athlone Institute of Technology in partnership with Maynooth University
INCUBATION CENTRE
Midlands Innovation and Research Centre and Maynooth University Business Incubation Centre
WEBSITE www.newfrontiers.ie/locations/athlone
NEW FRONTIERS INCUBATION CENTRE MANAGER,
PROGRAMME MANAGER: MANAGER: MAYNOOTHWORKS BUSINESS INNOVATION CENTRE:
Nick Allen Michael Lonergan Joe Moore PHONE: PHONE: 090 6483043 090 6471882 PHONE: 01 7086902 EMAIL: EMAIL: [email protected] [email protected] EMAIL: [email protected]
ENTERPRISE IRELAND NEW FRONTIERS PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY 2019 5 ATHLONE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Seahorse is a WordPress Managed Hosting Provider who specialize in integration software; connecting the WordPress platform with Amazon Web Services. Seahorse allows SMEs to grow by offering a simple method to transfer their WordPress site to the AWS Cloud and manage their hosting within
the cloud. PROMOTER NAME
Alan Bracken ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Since its inception in 2011, Alan has successfully stewarded Echo Media into an established Seahorse Accredited Software and Technology company PHONE: +353 1 442 8449 operating in both the public and private sectors. EMAIL: [email protected] This success has been built on a solid foundation WEBSITE: www.seahorse-data.com of nurtured customer relationships, a strong TWITTER: @SeahorseData understanding of customer needs and delivering results.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Tempo is a white label measuring app for relocation companies that enables homeowners to conduct pre-move surveys unassisted through the use of Artificial intelligence. Tempo saves relocation companies both the time and financial costs associated with visiting a home to calculate the total volume of a job before sending a quote, while enhancing communication between the mover and PROMOTER NAME the user. Adam O’Neill ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Adam has a strong background in sales where he outperformed team members in premium Tempo moving Ltd. companies such as BMW. He transitioned to the PHONE: +353 87 179 7727 moving industry in America where he worked for one of the largest moving & storage companies in EMAIL: [email protected] the city he was based, before co-founding his own WEBSITE: www.tempomoving.com moving company. His track record for developing leads, driving sales and profitability within businesses has given him the foundation to help grow Tempo.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY We design and manufacture stylish and innovative assistive products, to make people’s lives easier. Our primary focus is people with limited mobility, strength or dexterity.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME I’ve been involved in quality control, assurance and regulatory compliance for 21 years, with 15 of Darragh Lynch those working internationally, based in Australia, COMPANY NAME Middle East, Caribbean, Central & South America and all across the EU. I’m a recent graduate of the Uccello Designs University of Western Australia, achieving an MBA. PHONE: 087 951 7266 EMAIL: darragh@uccellodesigns. com WEBSITE: uccellodesigns.com TWITTER: @UccelloDesigns
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY A creative social map app to Drop & share audio messages publicly with groups, or privately. Dropz are only available where they’re recorded. Users can record and leave public Dropz describing amazing landmarks, or leave a group Dropz about fabulous experiences, or record Private Drops for friends.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Donal Fennell Donal is a veteran of the digital and entertainment COMPANY NAME space and has been involved in a number of startups and digital enterprises related in particular to music DropzApp and video distribution. PHONE: 0862430860 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.dropzapp.com
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Biltong Chief make snacking convenient, healthy and satisfying. Biltong is a high-protein, low sugar, ready-to-eat snack made using grass-fed Irish beef to give you a nutritious product to power your lifestyle, guilt free.
PROMOTER NAME ABOUT THE PROMOTER Dylan Rogers Dylan is from South Africa, he played professional rugby for 10 years, including for Connacht and COMPANY NAME Hong Kong. Dylan founded a biltong company in Biltong Chief Hong Kong in 2015 which is currently the number 1 PHONE: +353 87 3923732 biltong brand in the region. EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.biltongchief.ie TWITTER: @biltongchief
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY This company is working on extracting energy from hot/warm waste water before it cools down. The energy recovered will be used to re-heat water and on the air condition system from before entering the public sewer system.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME
Eamonn has been an entrepreneur from an early age. Eamonn McShea From opening a tuck shop in secondary school to establishing his first business in 1997. Eamonn studied COMPANY NAME computer programming facilities management in Greenday Energy Services Bolton Street DIT. Eamonn first business was in the PHONE: 086 7802805 drainage sector where he added a F.M. division. EMAIL: eamonnmcshea@gmail. Eamonn has sold and bought different business in the F.M, Drainage and Pest Control to SEO/Web Design. com He has also started a drainage business in Kenya. Eamonn has been studying small business ownership (2010-to date) to help owners to earn more money in less time.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Johnny Magory Business exists to provide a character that will inspire parents and children to connect with nature and enjoy Irish heritage, culture and wildlife globally. We have developed the Johnny Magory children’s book series. In addition our toys, clothing range and online
offerings will be landing in 2020 and our animation PROMOTER NAME series will launch in 2023. Emma-Jane Leeson
ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Emma-Jane is the CEO of the Johnny Magory Johnny Magory Business Business and author of the stories; on a mission to PHONE: 00353 87 942 9989 bring Irish heritage and wildlife to children across EMAIL: [email protected] the globe in a fun way. EJ left her full-time career WEBSITE: www.JohnnyMagory.com in the corporate world in March 2019 to pursue her TWITTER: @Johnny_Magory passion. A wife and mother of 3, she knows the importance of children spending time outside and reading.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY PGT is an Irish based start-up developing an innovative air plasma technology called HEAL AIR. Heal Air provides a comprehensive solution to combat airborne bacteria, viruses, and odors in presence of vulnerable. It uses novel approach that can confidently clean air in multiple environments;
safely and effectively. PROMOTER NAME
Dr. Gurusharan Singh Gogna ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Dr. Gurusharan Singh Gogna received a PhD in Plasma Physics from Dublin City University. He is Plasma Green Tech Limited the founder Director of Plasma Green Tech. Dr. PHONE: + 353 868682323 Gogna, has long recognised the capabilities of EMAIL: gurusharan.singh@ Plasma Technologies in providing clean solutions to plasmagreentech.com the factors contributing to air, surface, and WEBSITE: www.plasmagreentech. water borne diseases. com TWITTER: @plasmagreentech
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Linkalist empowers Entrepreneurs to build web and mobile apps themselves - quickly, at low cost and with little or no code. Our mission is to revolutionise the development of online services making it dramatically easier for Entrepreneurs to bring their ideas to market. We start from the
principle that the best amount of code for your PROMOTER NAME application is no code. James Howard
COMPANY NAME ABOUT THE PROMOTER Linkalist James has worked in software development in PHONE: 086 8175378 industrial, media and mobile applications for the EMAIL: [email protected] last 25 years. His experience covers software WEBSITE: www.linkalist.io development, team-building, project management TWITTER: @linkalist and managing the customer relationship.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY VivHydro Ltd is fundamentally changing the way industry processes waste water by harnessing a natural biological process to make waste water treatment more environmentally friendly, more sustainable and more effective at lower cost.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME
Margaret Cullen has held senior sales and Margaret Cullen management positions in major technology companies. She also has considerable COMPANY NAME entrepreneurial experience running successful VivHydro Ltd small businesses in retail and aviation. PHONE: 087 6979727 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.vivhydro.com
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Mactec is a CNC and robotic manufacturing specialist, we design and manufacture our own range of CNC equipment and robotics. We aim to bring high end manufacturing equipment to start ups and small manufacturers - bringing greater speed, accuracy, and reduced waste, to
the manufacturing process - whilst significantly PROMOTER NAME lowering costs. Michael Casey
ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Michael Casey, founder of the company is an Mactec industrial automation designer and has worked in PHONE: +353 87 398 36 99 this field since completing his Beng (hons) degree in EMAIL: [email protected] electromechanical engineering in 2013. WEBSITE: www.MacTec.ie
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY EV Energy Empowers, Educates & Assist Drivers in their Transition to Electric Mobility. EV Energy aims to become the AirBnB of the Electric Vehicle Charging Market and build the smartest Electric Vehicle Charging Network for the drivers by the drivers.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Raj Lyons Chohan Raj Lyons Chohan has over 15 years’ experience COMPANY NAME in the Automotive Industry working in Ireland and the UK with brands such as Hyundai, Volkswagen EV Energy & BMW. He believes with a strong strategic PHONE: 089 49 666 11 approach EV Energy can be perfectly placed EMAIL: [email protected] to take an opportunity in this technological & WEBSITE: www.evenergy.ie environmental revolution that is the uptake of
Electric Mobility.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Dr. Suraya Diaz Committed to Health specialises in the development and manufacturing of a wide range of organic certified products in eco friendly packaging for the whole family. This includes food products, supplements, herbal products, probiotic drinks and cosmetics.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Suraya Diaz Founder of drsurayadiaz.com, nutritionist, COMPANY NAME herbalist, naturopath, biochemist and scientist. Dr. Suraya Diaz is dedicated to the formulation and Dr. Suraya Diaz Limited development of organic certified products and PHONE: +353 (0) 9180 4998 services for best natural health solutions for the EMAIL: [email protected] whole family. WEBSITE: www.drsurayadiaz.com TWITTER: @DrSurayaDiaz
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INSTITUTE The LINC, TU Dublin, Blanchardstown
INCUBATION CENTRE The LINC
WEBSITE www.newfrontiers.ie/locations/blanchardstown
NEW FRONTIERS INCUBATION CENTRE
ENTERPRISE MANAGER: MANAGER:
Colm Ó Maolmhuire Claire Mac Namee
PHONE: PHONE: 01 8851372 01 8851502
EMAIL: EMAIL: colm.omaolmhuire@ claire.macnamee@ tudublin.ie tudublin.ie
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY E-Peak Painting Systems produce professional cordless power rolling machine designed for professional painters. This machine produce high quality results more easily than traditional methods and up to 50% faster = make up to 50% more money.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME
Adam Rajba has over 9 years experience in running Adam Rajba small businesses. For the last 3 years Adam is COMPANY NAME working as a professional painter in Dublin. E-Peak was started in 03.2019 and it’s still a startup. E-Peak Painting Systems
PHONE: 0877654445 EMAIL: [email protected]
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY SmartMargins is an AI powered bi-directional repricer Evocco empowers food companies to capitalise on that enables merchants to automate price changes on conscious consumerism. Marketplaces, as well as own ecommerce websites.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER AhmadAnastasia is aNegru recent is mechanical the CEO and engineering Founder of graduate fromSmartMargins. Trinity College The business Dublin with has abeen passion set upfor in PROMOTER NAME sustainability2018, aiming to and allow using ecommerce technology sellers for responsible to stay profitablecompetitive growth. and enable these sellers to build a brand AhmadAnastasia Mu’azzam Negru outside the Marketplaces. Anastasia has two kids and COMPANY NAME is utterly passionate about people and technology. EvoccoSmartMargins
PHONE: 08766515930877209888 EMAIL: [email protected] [email protected] WEBSITE: www.Evocco.comwww.smartmargins.ie TWITTER: @evocco@smartmargins
14 ENTERPRISE IRELAND NEW FRONTIERS PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY 2019 TU DUBLIN, BLANCHARDSTOWN
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY SmartMargins is an AI powered bi-directional Sharo is an enterprise platform to manage all repricer that enables merchants to automate the mobility of a company. It learns how all the price changes on Marketplaces, as well as own employees commute and then offers better options ecommerce websites. to get improve their mobility by becoming more sustainable and efficient. ABOUT THE PROMOTER Anastasia Negru is the CEO and Founder of ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME SmartMargins. The business has been set up in 2018,Carlino aiming is a mobility to allow enthusiast ecommerce and sellers entrepreneur. to stay AnastasiaCarlino Gonzalez Negru competitiveThe business and was enable set up these a year sellers ago and to buildit has COMPANY NAME arecently brand outside received the a lotMarketplaces. interest from Anastasia corporates SmartMarginsSharo Technologies hasaround two Ireland kids and and is utterlyEurope. passionate about
people and technology. PHONE: 0877209888(83) 803 7972 EMAIL: [email protected] [email protected] WEBSITE: www.smartmargins.iesharo.io TWITTER: @sharotech @smartmargins
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY ProjectOneSkySharo is an enterprise is an online platform wellbeing to manage company all for schools,the mobility that of delivers a company. content It learns including how a all series the ofemployees expert led commute video workshops and then hostedoffers bybetter the options teacherto get improve in the classroom. their mobility The by workshops becoming approach more wellbeingsustainable in and terms efficient. of the physical, psychological and social or environmental aspects, interweaving
mindfulness,ABOUT THE PROMOTER ethical wellbeing and intelligent PROMOTER NAME smartphone use throughout. Carlino is a mobility enthusiast and entrepreneur. Dr.Carlino Colm Gonzalez Fallon The business was set up a year ago and it has COMPANY NAME ABOUTrecently THE received PROMOTER a lot interest from corporates COMPANY NAME Colmaround developed Ireland and both Europe. his technical skills and his ProjectSharo Technologies One Sky interest in philosophy while studying physics in PHONE: 085(83) 8448475803 7972 DCU, being awarded his PhD in late 2013. He EMAIL: [email protected]@sharo.io approaches wellbeing not only as an individual WEBSITE: www.projectonesky.comsharo.io effort but as how the individual can best serve his/ TWITTER: @project1sky @sharotech her community. ProjectOneSky is his fulfilment of this duty..
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY ProjectOneSky is an online wellbeing company for schools, that delivers content including a series of expert led video workshops hosted by the teacher in the classroom. The workshops approach wellbeing in terms of the physical, psychological and social or environmental aspects, interweaving
mindfulness, ethical wellbeing and intelligent PROMOTER NAME smartphone use throughout. Dr. Colm Fallon
ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Colm developed both his technical skills and his Project One Sky interest in philosophy while studying physics in PHONE: 085 8448475 DCU, being awarded his PhD in late 2013. He EMAIL: [email protected] approaches wellbeing not only as an individual WEBSITE: www.projectonesky.com effort but as how the individual can best serve his/ TWITTER: @project1sky her community. ProjectOneSky is his fulfilment of this duty..
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY OpinionX is an online platform for large scale public consultation, identifying rough-consensus and clear insights that represent the views of the majority of participants. A new method of market research, OpinionX improves the quality of strategic decision making by engaging participants in informed digital
deliberation prior to decisions being made. PROMOTER NAME
Daniel Kyne ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Daniel is a Techstars Global Facilitator and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. He has OpinionX represented Ireland twice at the Enactus World PHONE: 087 746 4998 Cup for Student Social Entrepreneurship and has EMAIL: [email protected] been listed twice in the Sunday Business Post 30 WEBSITE: OpinionX.co Under 30 Ireland list. TWITTER: @MyOpinionX / @daniel_kyne
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Freestanding Exercise Bars Ireland (FEBI) is the all- in-one solution to people’s play and exercise needs. FEBI’s novel range of monkey bars, climbing frames, pullup bars and dip stations enables individuals, families and fitness professionals to play or exercise at a time and location that suits their busy schedule.
PROMOTER NAME ABOUT THE PROMOTER Desmond Seepersad Desmond Seepersad is a mechanical engineer and athlete specialised in bodyweight training. COMPANY NAME Desmond was declared one of the brightest students Freestanding Exercise Bars Ireland in Ireland by GradIreland. He went on to win RTE2’s PHONE: 0872138907 intense physical endurance program ‘Special Forces: EMAIL: [email protected] Ultimate Hell Week’ earning the title of Ireland’s WEBSITE: febi.ie toughest civilian. TWITTER: @DesNumber4
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Business Karma creates valuable and meaningful human connections between top tier digital-savvy leaders at events.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Georgie Browne is a specialist in mindful based PROMOTER NAME leadership training, she has more than 15 years of experience in sales management and consulting. Georgie Browne
COMPANY NAME Business Karma
PHONE: 00353834860064 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.georgieandme.com TWITTER: @GeorgieandMe INSTAGRAM: @mindfulnesshub
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Leaf Linens utilises a common weed, the stinging nettle, to produce sustainable home textiles. By partnering with a social enterprise in Kenya, we’re engaging in environmental conservation of formerly barren land and creating Fair Trade income for farmers to produce a sustainable crop that require
95% less water in its production compared to PROMOTER NAME cotton. Hannah-Clare Gordon
ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Hannah-Clare graduated from Trinity College Leaf Linens Dublin with a degree in History of Art. She worked PHONE: 0851232434 in the UK’s advertising industry for the next 6 years EMAIL: [email protected] specialising in sales & marketing. Refocussing her WEBSITE: www.hcgordon.design career to one of creativity led her to retrain in areas TWITTER: @hgordondesign of design including pattern making and printed textile design at Chelsea College of The Arts & NCAD.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Best Fed Ltd has a range of prenatal and postnatal cookies and bars for pregnant and breastfeeding women. They are made with natural ingredients, based on ancient wisdom backed by new medical studies. The products have been developed to achieve better outcomes in labour, delivery and
breastfeeding. PROMOTER NAME
Máire McGucken ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Máire studied Business and Economics at Trinity College and completed a Masters in Food Best Fed Ltd Marketing (Bord Bia) in UCD Michael Smurfit. She PHONE: 0833487003 has worked in various roles the food industry over EMAIL: mairemcgucken@gmail. the last eight years. com
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY snaggletooth is a premium toothbrush innovation company empowering consumers to maximise their oral health, while minimising plastic waste.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Michelle Galvin is a dentist with a passion for PROMOTER NAME oral health. She started snaggletooth to bring innovation to oral care, supporting oral health and Michelle Galvin as a result, overall health, while reducing plastic COMPANY NAME waste. snaggletooth
PHONE: 083 350 9777 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.snaggletooth.co
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Sensibin is an autonomous IoT-based smart bin that uses a combination of sensors, computer vision and artificial intelligence to recognise and separate general waste from recyclables. In short, Sensibin decides where you should put your rubbish.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME
Nathan Misischi is a dedicated entrepreneur with Nathan Misischi a Business and Economics background. He is COMPANY NAME accomplished in representing both Trinity College Dublin and Ireland internationally. Aside from Sensibin Ltd. business, Nathan is a devoted singer and fitness PHONE: 0862400296 enthusiast. EMAIL: [email protected]. WEBSITE: www.sensibin.com TWITTER: @sensibin
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY HealingHand.Tech is developing a hand & arm rehabilitation game for stroke survivors. A game controlled with muscle movements is easy-to-use and can be used by patients without any 3rd party assistance, while covering all stages of therapy and providing detailed data analysis for therapists and
patients. PROMOTER NAME
Raisa Pokrovskaya ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Raisa Pokrovskaya is a business psychologist from Russia passionate about digital innovation and HealingHand.Tech behaviour economist by belief. With experience in PHONE: +353 83 8052848 business development and customer success, she EMAIL: [email protected] is currently a CEO and co-founder at HealingHand. WEBSITE: HealingHand.Tech Tech, a medical device startup supported by EIT TWITTER: @HealingHandTech Health.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Puff ‘n Craftster is an Irish Artisan Needle Art Company designing and manufacturing beautiful Irish needle art and cross stitch kit themed collections in Ireland for the international craftster market.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME
Siobhán Olofsson is an avid craftster and a Siobhán Olofsson participant on the New Frontiers Entrepreneur COMPANY NAME Development Programme. She set up Puff ‘n Craftster in July 2019. Puff ‘n Craftster
PHONE: +353 87 2313590 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: craftster.ie/puffncraftster. com TWITTER: @puffncraftster
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INSTITUTE Carlow Institute of Technology
INCUBATION CENTRE
Enterprise & Research Incubation Campus
WEBSITE www.newfrontiers.ie/locations/carlow
NEW FRONTIERS PROGRAMME NEW FRONTIERS
MANAGER: ADMINISTRATOR:
Peadar Casey Mary Beck
PHONE: PHONE: 059 9175208 059 9175220
EMAIL: EMAIL: [email protected] [email protected]
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY A compact and versatile piece of fitness equipment with a small footprint, capable of performing multiple exercises.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER I am the Director of 360 Fitness based in Kilkenny PROMOTER NAME City and have been for the past 6 years. I also hold a degree in Structural Engineering from Ciaran Clear Dublin Institute of Technology. I am a keen fitness COMPANY NAME enthusiast and in my off time I enjoy playing golf and cycling. N/A
PHONE: 0870620176 EMAIL: [email protected]
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY True Fitness is a Sports Science and Health company based in Portarlington, Co. Laois. We are experts in designing, implementing and evaluating evidence-based weight loss and health interventions for individuals and groups. We are researchers in the area of metabolic health in
Ireland and in Europe. PROMOTER NAME
Dr Diane Cooper ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Dr Diane Cooper is a Clinical Exercise Physiologist with a PhD in the treatment and management of True Fitness obesity and insulin resistance. Diane continues PHONE: 087 2388748 her human health research through True Fitness EMAIL: [email protected] and in association with other bodies including the WEBSITE: www.truefitness.ie European Space Agency. Diane has been a director TWITTER: @truefitnesstrx of True Fitness for 12 years. Diane is currently working on developing a novel point-of-care device to assess metabolic health.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Garden Help (gardenhelpjobs.com) is a digital technology platform which connects consumers to individuals and corporate companies looking to outsource their gardening and landscaping requirements. We also provide consultation, design and other similar services related to the industry
such as tree surgery and fencing. We aim to further PROMOTER NAME develop our business offering in the months ahead Edmund Hart and launch into new markets including oversees markets such as the UK COMPANY NAME Garden Help ABOUT THE PROMOTER EMAIL: [email protected] Has Experience working in marketing, finance, and WEBSITE: gardenhelpjobs.com Landscaping which is my passion. I was working as a sole trader in the landscaping industry before spotting an opportunity to develop a digital technology platform which connects consumers to professional contractors in the landscaping industry. I have been developing this idea for several months now and aim to reach product launch stage by late 2019 early 2019.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Mannequin provides A.I. styling services to fashion retailers looking to target next-generation shoppers, helping them address the needs of 1 in 2 people that are looking for styling advice online or in-store. We do that by creating outfit recommendations for clothes that their customers already own or want to buy though our consumer- PROMOTER NAME centric platform. It is a social, shoppable platform Helen Doyle designed for digital natives that uniquely blends innovative technologies with relevant and fun social COMPANY NAME features, setting the standard for how all major Mannequin brands and retailers will connect with Gen Z and Millennials shoppers. This allows retailers to scale EMAIL: Helendoyle1105@gmail. their human styling services, increase order value, com gain brand exposure, and create personal online WEBSITE: www.mannequin.ie experiences at a fraction of the cost. One size does TWITTER: @Helen_Doyle123 not fit all - Tailor your style! LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/ in/helen-doyle-8b1b89120/
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Helen has over 9 years of experience in omnichannel marketing, working with companies such as Accenture, Range Rover, Volvic and Cadburys. Helen also has experience of buying clothing wholesale from China, the USA and the UK, importing them to Ireland and re-selling them on-line since her early teens.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY It’s a platform which will incentivise drivers to purchase a more premium brand of tyre and maintain them regular, this data will be shared with their insurance company to reduce their premium. This is enriched data which insurance companies will pay for.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Jason Maher My 1st job was in a tyre garage there I Iearned the COMPANY NAME importance of tyres, I spent 8 years working as an Autobehave Ltd electrician, and spent the last 13 years running a successful pub, restaurant and recently opened a PHONE: 0876674683 health shop last year. EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.tyresafeapp.com
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY We help insurers modernize their IT landscape by providing innovative solutions that helps insurers handle their information better. We have the 1st Insurance master data management software aimed to manage and distribute data within the organization and 3rd party partners.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Jay Antonio Jay worked in the field of Insurance and COMPANY NAME progressively moved up in leadership position during the past 20 years. In his role as Chief CJ Cube Technologies Architect at AIG, he has led successful strategic PHONE: +353834346372 programs globally. He is now chasing his dreams. EMAIL: jay.antonio@cjcubetech. com WEBSITE: www.cjcubetech.io
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Beara Bitters is a cocktail bitters brand that will provide Irish flavours and aromas to the national and global mixed drinks marketplace.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER After working for the past six years in technical PROMOTER NAME product development with Teagasc, Mary intends on bringing an inspiring and thoughtful food Mary O Sullivan business to market. COMPANY NAME Beara Bitters
PHONE: (+00353)874144671 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.bearabitters.com TWITTER: @patrickbramley INSTAGRAM: beara_bitters
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Machado Men’s Grooming produce high quality male grooming products including beard care, shaving products and grooming accessories.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Síle has a background in Natural Science and PROMOTER NAME cosmetic formulation. She worked with start-ups over the past 10 years before setting up Machado Síle Headen Men’s Grooming to focus on the male grooming COMPANY NAME market. Machado Men’s Grooming
PHONE: 087-7704946 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.machado.ie TWITTER: @MachadoGrooming
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Hire Hub is a peer-to-peer, on-demand SaaS company. We enable users to rent out their belongings to others nearby and connect people who need things, with others who have them. Our users earn money from items they own, saving costs for others who do not have to purchase the
item and case use it on-demand. PROMOTER NAME
Stephen Dwyer ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Stephen Dwyer is the CEO of Hire Hub. With 20 Hire Hub years of IT experience, he is a qualified project manager and a two-time industry award winner. PHONE: 087 9089156 He is Cloud Certified, holds a BSc in Computer EMAIL: [email protected] Science and an MBA. His specialties include WEBSITE: www.hirehub.ie innovation and risk management.
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INSTITUTE Cork Institute of Technology
INCUBATION CENTRE
Rubicon Centre
WEBSITE
www.newfrontiers.ie/locations/cork
NEW FRONTIERS NEW FRONTIERS
PROGRAMME MANAGER: PROGRAMME COORDINATOR:
Alison Walsh Maria Horgan
PHONE: PHONE: 021 4928916 021 4928900
EMAIL: EMAIL: [email protected] maria.horgan@ rubiconcentre.ie
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Perkforce is an enterprise software application that helps companies attract, retain and delight employ- ees through optimising their benefits and perks. Utilising innovative AI and compelling benefit strat- egies, perkforce nurtures a positive company cul- ture and promotes core company values. Employee
engagement is increased, and the company’s PROMOTER NAME Employee Value Proposition is strengthened. Albert Williams
ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Albert has a career of 20+ years technical, project perkforce and people leadership. Set up in 2019, Perkforce PHONE: 0861523332 Ltd. already has many companies actively engaged EMAIL: [email protected] with Albert and the team. Albert welcomes WEBSITE: www.perkforce.com companies with challenges around attraction, TWITTER: @perkforce retention and employee engagement, to contact him. He has a MSc in Cloud Computing.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Aquila Education is an education technology company partnered with Google that focuses on virtual and augmented reality. We provide an all in one solution to schools and industries on using AR/ VR in order to engage and increase learning and training.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Amy DeMarco Amy DeMarco is a former educator and instructional COMPANY NAME specialist with the New York City Department of Education. She currently owns a US company, Aquila Education which is focused on AR/VR hardware, and an PHONE: 083-856-9266 Irish company, which focuses on AR/VR app EMAIL: [email protected] development. TWITTER: @aquilaeducation TWITTER: www.aquilaeducation.com
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY PluAlto© provides HR technology solutions to organisations to help with the service delivery of employee relations. PluAlto’s first solution, SolveSmart©, automates conflict resolution processes, providing the necessary information, support and training to management and teams
to effectively respond to and resolve issues in the PROMOTER NAME workplace, increasing productivity, efficiencies and Clíona Murray revenues. COMPANY NAME ABOUT THE PROMOTER PluAlto Ltd. Having worked as an investigator, mediator and PHONE: 0212339351 / 0863051636 facilitator on complex organisational issues across EMAIL: [email protected] a broad range of industries, Clíona brings valuable WEBSITE: www.plualto.com experience, skills and insight to the creation of TWITTER: @PluAlto innovative technology solutions to help companies
to effectively manage employee relations and conflict management.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY NetRev improves hotel Ebitda by 40% + through releasing the power of the data trapped in their computer systems. Competitive insights are derived through Automating and Visualising the hotel’s Revenue and Customer data. This data is automatically benchmarked against competitors
and gaps in the hotel’s markets are identified and PROMOTER NAME actioned. Colin Donovan
ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Colin has 20 years of experience working in the NetRev hospitality sector, most recently as MD of Mount PHONE: 0868138027 Juliet. He combines his training as an accountant, EMAIL: [email protected] his hospitality background and his knowledge of WEBSITE: www.netrev.ie data analytics to help hotels improve their Ebitda
significantly, all through an intuitive, easy to use, BI platform.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY We design, manufacture and install small- scale, energy efficient housing. Our homes are transportable and designed to live in year-round. Their compact footprint allows people to utilise small areas of land for housing.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME
Colla is a Social Science graduate from UCC and Colla McMahon has a background in Carpentry. He co-founded the COMPANY NAME company with his father who has worked in the construction sector for decades. Together we are Tiny Homes Ireland. taking an innovative approach when it comes to PHONE: 0838116025 tackling some of Ireland’s housing issues. EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.tinyhomes.ie TWITTER: @TinyHomesIRL
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Heel Turn Games is a game design and publishing company based in Cork. Founded in 2018, Heel Turn Games specializes in the creation of original board and card games for sale to the global hobby games market.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME
Jack Murray is a game designer, lecturer and Jack Murray researcher with over seven years’ experience of the COMPANY NAME games industry. He is a graduate of UCC and King’s College London. He has taught game design at Heel Turn Games diploma, bachelor’s and master’s level for colleges PHONE: 0876852545 in Dublin and Cork. EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.heelturn.ie TWITTER: @jackem
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Strongbó aims to increase economic efficiency within the livestock industry, while minimising the environmental impact of beef production. By providing innovative, practical technologies, Strongbó supports Irish farmers in making smarter, more strategic livestock management decisions
and enables institutions to design more effective PROMOTER NAME policies and processes. Michéal McInerney
ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Mechanical Engineer aiming to increase economic StrongBó Agritech Limited & environmental efficiency within the livestock PHONE: 0876204007 industry. 5 years industry experience, with 3 in EMAIL: [email protected] additive manufacturing in the medical device WEBSITE: www.strongbo.ie sector. Michéal grew up on a farm and his key
strengths are: Innovation, Problem Solving and Strategy.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Yooni uses AI to help second level students find the best-fit education pathways for them. With college dropout rates at an all-time high (25% of students dropout before completing their degree), Yooni is addressing the need for an additional resource to help the right students get into the right courses.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Nathan Mayes Nathan and his co-founder Darragh graduated COMPANY NAME from the same Electrical & Electronic Engineering UCC class in 2017. They then spent time working in Yooni Tyndall and Macom respectively, before spending PHONE: 0857152860 a year backpacking around the world. Having seen EMAIL: [email protected] the college dropout problem first hand themselves, WEBSITE: www.yooni.ie the lads returned in 2018 and started Yooni to help TWITTER: @YooniIreland Leaving Cert students find the right college course for them.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY BusinessReEnvite softwareSolutions for Limited Health is &an Fitness Irish company Professionals. offering guest engagement devices and ABOUTtechnologies, THE PROMOTER such as in-room tablets to service- oriented hotels & resorts. We create measurable Ryan attended University College Cork where he value for our clients by significantly increasing attained both a BSc. & MSc. He has worked with the guest loyalty & ancillary revenue, decreasing a wide variety of companies over the past several the operating costs and improving the work-life years, and came up with the idea for Legit Fit when PROMOTER NAME balance for the employees. he became a Personal Trainer. RyanSachin O’ Saxena Neill
ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Sachin Saxena has an MBA with over 15 years of LegitReEnvite Fit Solutions Limited tech industry experience in different global regions. PHONE: 083+353 1821218 87 7390 241 His industry experience includes working for Apple EMAIL: [email protected] sachin.saxena@reenvite. where he played key roles in launching its best- WEBSITE: www.legitfit.iecom selling products. He is a graduate of University TWITTER:WEBSITE: @LegitFitcomwww.reenvite.com College Dublin (UCD) and the Indian Institute of TWITTER: @reenvite Technology (IIT).
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY AIP is a revolutionary platform that automates website maintenance for web developers worldwide. This means that companies can save thousands of euro on labour costs or free up solo web developers to spend time on building new websites and attracting new customers. AIP saves
time and money. PROMOTER NAME
Stephen Wilson Downey ABOUT THE PROMOTER Stephen developed a huge passion for business COMPANY NAME at a very young age. Stephen has developed AIP [A.I.P Technology Limited] a wealth of skills from his involvement in the PHONE: 0860348106 entrepreneurial ecosystem in Cork. Stephen EMAIL: [email protected] is a business graduate and holds a first-class WEBSITE: getaip.ai honours MSc in Marketing Practice. TWITTER: @AIPTechno
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY SplitShare is a mobile application to be used by people living within a house share. It creates visibility and transparency surrounding financial transactions, which gives people security and awareness when considering their financial involvement in the house. It enables people to pay, split and track expenses and PROMOTER NAME co-ordinate tasks effectively in the house thus, creating a conflict free environment and Yvette McCann leading to longer retention rates in the home. COMPANY NAME SplitShare ABOUT THE PROMOTER PHONE: 0873945634 Yvette McCann is a graduate of UCC with EMAIL: splitsharelimited@gmail. a degree in Criminal Justice. She is a young ambitious sales professional with international com experience working in competitive environments. She is a self-starter with skills in networking and negotiation.
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INSTITUTE Technological University Dublin
INCUBATION CENTRE
Hothouse TU Dublin Grangegorman
WEBSITE
www.newfrontiers.ie/locations/dublin
INCUBATION CENTRE MANAGER, NEW FRONTIERS PROGRAMME NEW FRONTIERS PROGRAMME
TU DUBLIN HOTHOUSE: CO-ORDINATOR, OFFICER TU DUBLIN HOTHOUSE: TU DUBLIN:
Bernadette O’Reilly Michelle Moloney Emma Dunne
PHONE: PHONE: PHONE: 01 4025330 01 4025328 01 4025327
EMAIL: EMAIL: EMAIL: bernadette.m.oreilly@ michelle.moloney@ [email protected]
tudublin.ie tudublin.ie
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INSTITUTE Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire
INCUBATION CENTRE The Media Cube
WEBSITE
www.newfrontiers.ie/locations/dun-laoghaire www.mediacube.ie
ENTERPRISE AND INNOVATION MEDIA CUBE ADMINISTRATOR,
MANAGER: IADT:
Ann Marie Phelan Fionnghuala Ní Néill
PHONE: PHONE: 01 2394625 01 2394750
EMAIL: EMAIL: [email protected] [email protected]
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Ausar Geophysical applies machine learning to automate steps of seismic data processing, so that subsurface geologic structure can be determined in days rather than months.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER:
Alan studied Theoretical Physics at TCD, obtained PROMOTER NAME a Master’s in High Performance Computing at the Alan Richardson University of Edinburgh, and a PhD in Geophysics from MIT. He has worked in the research centres COMPANY NAME of five major oil companies and published several Ausar Geophysical research articles. EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: ausargeo.com
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY LoanGuru.ie is an online platform that provides SME businesses with a smarter way to access alternative funding options.By using technology, our platform can help businesses search the market to find the right funding options for their business from over 40 alternative lenders. It takes minutes,
and it’s easy and free to use. PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER: Alva Horgan
Alva Horgan brings with her over 18 years of COMPANY NAME experience in the full spectrum of product and LoanGuru.ie technology. She has held leadership positions in both country and roles in various multinational PHONE: +353 87 140 0026 businesses across Asia including PwC Singapore. EMAIL: [email protected] Alva has extensive experience in the online WEBSITE: www.loanguru.ie marketplace and media businesses having worked TWITTER: @LoanGuru_ie on some of the market leading vertical businesses in property and financial services industries in Asia.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Trustfy helps non-technical business owners and founders specify their technical ideas, making sure the project is a success the first time around. We work with you to translate your ideas into clear software requirements and prototypes, prioritizing resources and removing ambiguity from the
process. PROMOTER NAME Anika Riley ABOUT THE PROMOTER: Anika graduated from Trinity with a MSc. COMPANY NAME in entrepreneurship. She managed sales Trustfy and partnerships in a previous startup and brings commercial and project management PHONE: 0830 4215 97 experience to the table. She balances out EMAIL: [email protected] the more technical side of the team with her WEBSITE: gwww.trustfy.io commitment to making software development more transparent and accessible.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Aeroforms ltd is Inspection and Snaglist Software. Aimed at the rental sector. USP is we have closed the communications loop between Agent, Tenant and Maintenance repair streamlining the maintenance request process.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER: PROMOTER NAME Billy O’Neill is a graduate in Accounting from Billy O’Neill NCI and had worked in sales for the past 6 years. Won the Wicklow IBYE award for Best idea with COMPANY NAME Aeroforms. Aeroforms Ltd
PHONE: 083 160 3445 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.aeroforms.io
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Arcology® System LTD is a Contech company that manufactures a patent pending modular, flexible interior building system which future proofs interior spaces by integrating walls, ceilings and services with plug-and-play electrics.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER: PROMOTER NAME An Interior Architect with 20 years’ experience Colette van Jaarsveld in South Africa, Europe and the Middle East in Design, Design and Build; sustainable construction COMPANY NAME and Building systems; Colette (Co-Founder and Arcology System LTD CEO) now extends the vision and Arcology brand PHONE: 0870657450 (Architecture and Ecology) with a system allowing EMAIL: [email protected] users to ‘do more with less’. WEBSITE: arcologysystem.com TWITTER: @arcologyint
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Gausscientific Ltd. is manufacturing Nitrogen Generators, Nitrogen is produced on demand eliminating the hazards and inconveniences associated with handling gas cylinders. The gas is used in beverage systems and food preservation. Our Generators are consistent and reliable with
constant gas supply, short payback, long life, low PROMOTER NAME energy use, and reduced CO2 footprint. Dan Bandol
ABOUT THE PROMOTER: COMPANY NAME Dan Bandol is a graduate of Stefan cel Mare Gausscientific Limited University, Suceava, Romania, with a degree in PHONE: 0871272222 Electrical engineering. The business was set up EMAIL: [email protected] in 2018, with resellers in UK, France, Germany, WEBSITE: gausscientific.com Netherlands, Belgium, Mexico, and our list is growing.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Vitropics are the creators of Triumph®, a range of next generation supplements which solve problems, delivers results and amazing customer experiences.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER:
Donna Ledwidge co-founder and CEO, has PROMOTER NAME founded 4 startups, created over 10 brands Donna Ledwidge ranging from skincare to medical devices. In 2017 Donna assembled a team of industry experts to COMPANY NAME create Vitropics, she mapped out the vision of the Vitropics Triumph range and drives the team collectively PHONE: 0872278075 forward. EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: vitropics.com TWITTER: @vitropics
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Effective, natural anti-ageing skincare, handmade with Carrageen Irish Moss.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER: Emer set up the business in 2019 after 5 years R&D, selling online and in a bricks & mortar shop in Dublin. Before that, Emer ran her own PROMOTER NAME drama school for 30 years. She is a facilitator, Emer Halpenny communicator, writer and teacher. COMPANY NAME ANU Earth
PHONE: 0862663164 EMAIL: emerhalpenny@ gmail.com WEBSITE: www.anuyou.ie www.emerhalpenny.com TWITTER: @anulovesyou @emerhalpenny
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY The Pod Collection designs stylish solution led maternity clothing that can be worn throughout pregnancy and beyond. Provides an interactive, informative platform and hosts supportive connective events, all to empower confidence in the Modern Mama.
PROMOTER NAME ABOUT THE PROMOTER: Emma Arblaster Emma Arblaster co-founder and CEO has over 10 years experience in design and buying, most COMPANY NAME recently working as a global buyer for Primark. The Pod Collection Skilled in developing product from idea generation PHONE: 086 8830604 to shop floor, negotiation, customer engagement EMAIL: info@ and driving sales. Highly experienced building, thepodcollection.com leading high performing teams to exceed company WEBSITE: thepodcollection.com targets. TWITTER: @thepodcollection
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Eating Freely provides expert training programmes for mental health professionals to work with adults with Eating Disorders.
PROMOTER NAME Emma Murphy
COMPANY NAME Eating Freely
WEBSITE: www.eating-freely.com
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Lintil brings the entire property purchase journey online. Lintil’s suite of tools and services supports the home buyer and reduces the buyer’s frustration with the process to provide an unparalleled property purchase experience.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER: PROMOTER NAME Emmet’s deep domain knowledge comes from Emmet Creighton a lifetime in property, I’m not only the son of housebuilder but he has also worked in a bank and COMPANY NAME then as a corporate and property lawyer. Flawless Technologies Limited
PHONE: 0860791052 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.lintil.com TWITTER: @lintilhomebuyer
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Porter and Nash are manufacturers of Plant Based Gravy and Sauces made with roasted root vegetables and Irish seaweed, created by two professional chefs with 50 years combined experience including Michelin training, suitable for all cuisines and diets made with NO Fat, Low Salt,
Low Sugar and Gluten free. PROMOTER NAME Gavin Cassidy ABOUT THE PROMOTER: Gavin Cassidy is a graduate of TU Dublin Tallaght COMPANY NAME Campus with a degree in Culinary Arts. The Porter and Nash Business was set up in 2019 and is presently PHONE: 0872230146 supplying 180 supermarkets and independent EMAIL: [email protected] stores nationwide. Gavin loves fly fishing in the WEBSITE: porterandnash.ie west of Ireland and Equestrian when he gets the TWITTER: @porterandnash opportunity.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY The first stock article library of its kind in the world.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER: Greta Dunne is the former owner and creator of CollegeTimes.com and TeenTimes.com, two hugely
successful online magazines that had a combined readership of 4 million views monthly and PROMOTER NAME hosting content for the likes of Netflix, Universal, Greta Dunne Paramount and RedBull. Both sold in 2016. COMPANY NAME Marker Content
PHONE: 0863847504 EMAIL: greta.dunne@ markercontent.com WEBSITE: www.markercontent.com TWITTER: @content_marker
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Smart PMO is an artificial intelligence company with a mission to reimagine what is controllable in project management. It uses AI to help avoid unforeseen risks, eliminate delays, save cost, and provide assurance from project planning to closure. The platform saved 68% delays and 7.2% cost
across government infrastructure projects. PROMOTER NAME Dr. Houssem Jerbi ABOUT THE PROMOTER: Houssem is an international AI and data COMPANY NAME analytics expert. Over the last 14 years, he led Smart PMO Ltd. high-impact AI and data projects in different industries across the globe. Houssem worked EMAIL: [email protected] at Facebook, Insight and different consultancy WEBSITE: www.smartpmo.io practices. He holds a Ph.D in Artificial TWITTER: @Houssem_Jerbi Intelligence from the University of Toulouse, @smart_pmo France.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Creating Personalised Ecommerce Websites for small to medium sized businesses.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER: With a BSc in Enterprise Development Jack is
experienced in starting and developing businesses. PROMOTER NAME Jack Quinn
COMPANY NAME Masterbooker
WEBSITE: masterbooker.com
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY XR Concepts is an eLearning business specialising in the Sports Tech sector. The company is revolutionising training and performance improvement in Sport using a combination of immersive, mobile and IoT technologies.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER: PROMOTER NAME Jerry Foley is a Trinity College Computer Science Jerry Foley graduate and has worked with a number of digital media startups throughout his career. He has COMPANY NAME extensive experience in the development of B to C XR Concepts Limited and B to B sports training products with a number PHONE: 087 236 2067 of Global Sports Stars and International Sports EMAIL: [email protected] Organisations. TWITTER: @jerryxrfoley
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Gigable is the platform for short-term, independent contract work or “gigs”. Businesses and Freelancers in the Gigable community can easily engage with each other in a model that gives them true independence, and provides the basis for transparent and fair gig economy work.
PROMOTER NAME ABOUT THE PROMOTER: John Ryan John Ryan is Founder and CEO of Gigable. He holds a BSC Finance and an MBA from Smurfit COMPANY NAME GBS. He worked previously as an Equity Analyst Gigable before serving 9 years with the Irish Defence PHONE: +353879791818 Forces, retiring as an award-winning Army Captain. EMAIL: [email protected] John is passionate about work, personal and WEBSITE: gigable.com physical development. TWITTER: @gigablework
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Wendevr has developed a real-time global public alerting solution allowing Governments, their acting emergency responding agencies and utility providers to alert threatened communities in a highly accurate, efficient manner.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER: PROMOTER NAME Linda has a background in Remote Sensing & Image Linda Farrelly Analysis and is passionate about improving disaster communications around the globe. COMPANY NAME Wendevr Ltd
PHONE: +353879808709 EMAIL: linda.farrelly@ riscalert.com WEBSITE: www.riscalert.com TWITTER: @riscalert
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Change Donations helps non-profits fundraise in the digital age. Their platform allows donors to link their credit or debit cards, round their purchases up to the next euro, and donate their digital spare change to the causes they care about most. They are building a community of everyday
philanthropists and helping individuals inspire PROMOTER NAME positive change through their everyday spending. Lizzy Hayashida
ABOUT THE PROMOTER: COMPANY NAME Lizzy is the Co-founder and CEO of Change Change Donations Donations. Prior to co-founding Change Donations, PHONE: 0897078762 she was an early employee of Milo.com (acquired EMAIL: lizzy@ by eBay) and went on to launch the first same-day changedonations.com delivery pilot, eBay Now. Lizzy left eBay to join WEBSITE: changedonations.com early-stage Y Combinator startup, Shoptiques, TWITTER: @changedonations before joining Affirm, where she launched the first in-store virtual debit card.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Applaud is building tools to empower independent musicians with two products released to date: Applaud.live, a bookings platform for event organisers and musicians, and TuneRelease.com, a distribution service for newly released music to be sent to radio, media and other content curators.
PROMOTER NAME ABOUT THE PROMOTER: Luke Rynne Cullen Luke Rynne Cullen is the former President of Trinity Orchestra and Live Music Officer of Trinity COMPANY NAME Entertainment. He is an alumni of Google Adopt Applaud Technologies Limited a Startup, New Frontiers TU Dublin, HubSpot PHONE: 087 236 2067 Elevate, Startup Boost and Trinity LaunchBox. Luke EMAIL: [email protected] supports the no code movement and is a freelance WEBSITE: www.applaud.live violinist. www.tunerelease.com TWITTER: @applaudlive
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY MedVault is a healthcare analytics solution focused on the primary care sector. We help doctors and practices to unlock the value in the mountains of data they collect every day. Our software enables staff to use these new insights to increase revenue, reduce admin and improve patient care.
PROMOTER NAME ABOUT THE PROMOTER: Tony Ryan Tony Ryan holds a masters in business admin from UCD Smurfit Business School and an honours COMPANY NAME engineering degree from NUI Galway. Prior to MedVault Health Ltd MedVault he worked as a derivatives trader in the PHONE: 0874175938 financial sector. EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.medvault.ie TWITTER: @med_vault
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Syncoach is a communication and training platform that helps coaches and athletes share training plans and training outcomes for endurance sports. We help athletes and coaches concentrate on what matters: feeding back, learning, and progressing together.
PROMOTER NAME ABOUT THE PROMOTER: Nicolas Mejri Nicolas is graduated in IT, Applied Mathematics and Finance. He worked for 15 years in quantitative COMPANY NAME finance in France and Ireland. He is a proficient NM Sport Technology Limited runner and benefits from an extended network in PHONE: +33 7 81 05 23 71 the French sport ecosystem. EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.syncoach.net TWITTER: @SyncoachSport
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Snapfix is the world’s simplest photo-based teamwork platform, for managing buildings, infrastructure and equipment. We use photos, tags and messaging (just like WhatsApp) to make individuals and teams more organized and efficient, using their mobile phones.
A photo speaks a thousand words. PROMOTER NAME A photo speaks every language. Paul McCarthy
ABOUT THE PROMOTER: COMPANY NAME Paul is passionate about simplicity. He has over Snapfix Ltd 25 years international experience in software PHONE: 086 239 2339 product development. In parallel, Paul has EMAIL: [email protected] considerable experience with building and facilities WEBSITE: snapfix.net management, and Paul brings this combined TWITTER: @SnapfixApp experience to Snapfix. Paul’s focus is to always deliver overwhelming value, with an exceptional user experience.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY A range of healthy, vegetable-based cook in sauces with no added sugar, oil, water or preservatives. The sauces are almost entirely plant based and have fully recyclable packaging. Rohan’s Sauces create guilt free meals, in minutes.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER: PROMOTER NAME Rohan has been a chef for over 20 years, while Rohan O’Duill he has worked in almost every area of the catering industry his recent focus has been COMPANY NAME on healthy food. In 2018 he set up Rohan’s Rohan’s Sauces sauces to make it easy for people to get more vegetables in their diet. PHONE: 0868801444 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: rohanssauces.ie TWITTER: @rohanssauce
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Chi Fit’s product range includes seven original tea & coffee blends. Ingredients are ethically sourced and sustainability produced keeping in line with Chi Fit’s environmentally friendly values. Chi Fit is stocked in leading pharmacies and retail outlets across Ireland and has customers in over 10
countries around the world. PROMOTER NAME Dr Rosalind Beere ABOUT THE PROMOTER: Dr Rosalind Beere. Founder and CEO of Chi COMPANY NAME Fit. Ros is a serial entrepreneur she has a PhD Chi Fit in Business (TCD) and a MBS in Strategy (UCD Smurfit) MA in Economics (TCD) coupled with PHONE: 0868395563 15 years’ experience lecturing in Strategy and EMAIL: [email protected] Entrepreneurship, Program Directorship & [email protected] Business consulting as well as being an author WEBSITE: www.chifittea.com from an entrepreneurial family. TWITTER: Chi Fit Tea
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Beatspeaks unique software solution tracks a user’s heart rate using only a webcam to an accuracy comparable to ECG readings. The software is available on operating systems and for embedded hardware.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER: PROMOTER NAME Shane is a Physics graduate from DCU with Shane Hamilton experience working for organisations such as the ESA and Bell Labs. Voted Meaths best COMPANY NAME young entrepreneur in 2019 and a member of Beatspeak the og the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers. PHONE: +353877112667 EMAIL: shane.hamilton3@ mail.dcu.ie WEBSITE: www.beatspeak.ai
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Anti-Money Laundering Software for Banking & FinTech sectors.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER: Former-Head of Compliance and AML,
significant startup experience from growth through to exit. PROMOTER NAME Simon Dix
COMPANY NAME DX Compliance
PHONE: 0868152112 EMAIL: simon.dix@ dxcompliance.com WEBSITE: www.dxcompliance.com TWITTER: @ltddx
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY We provide Video Evidence Management solutions which help businesses to maximise the potential of their CCTV system as an asset.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER:
Bsc in Business & Law from TU Dublin. Komply was established in October 2018 and is now PROMOTER NAME working with government bodies and large Wesley O’Brien scale organisations in Ireland and the U.K. COMPANY NAME Komply Privacy Limited
PHONE: 0877553502 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.komp.ly
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY A diabetes management system aiming to put the patient’s wellbeing and life first - in development.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER: William is a graduate of product design at
DIT and a Type 1 diabetic. These two things allowed Will to begin the Stack venture PROMOTER NAME immediately after graduation. William D’Arcy
COMPANY NAME Stack Devices Ltd
PHONE: 086 898 6412 EMAIL: will.stackdiabetes@ gmail.com WEBSITE: stackdiabetes.com
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY SparroWatch design intelligent, battery-powered camera systems for remote locations that don’t have an existing Internet connection and/or power supply. The system operates ‘on the edge’; using computer vision and artificial intelligence to only transmit interesting data over a secure, cellular
connection. PROMOTER NAME
David Tunney ABOUT THE PROMOTER David has a bachelor’s degree in marketing from COMPANY NAME DIT and has graduated from DCU with a master’s SparroWatch degree in management strategy. David co-founded PHONE: 085 223 9037 SparroWatch after winning a small business EMAIL: Dave@SparroWatch. innovation research (SBIR) contract from Smart com Dublin to develop a low-cost, innovative solution to WEBSITE: www.SparroWatch.com combat illegal dumping TWITTER: @SparroWatch
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INCUBATION CENTRE Regional Development Centre
WEBSITE www.newfrontiers.ie/locations/dundalk https://www.newfrontiers.ie/locations/dublin-city
NEW FRONTIERS PROGRAMME ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT INCUBATION CENTRE
MANAGER: MANAGER, DCU INVENT: MANAGER, RDC DKIT:
Martina Goss Maria Johnston Garrett Duffy
PHONE: PHONE: PHONE:
042 9370481 01 7007597 042 9370427/ 087 2477155
EMAIL: EMAIL: EMAIL: [email protected] maria.johnston@ [email protected] invent.dcu.ie
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Setanta Nutrition Science formulate convenient, research-based, natural, plant-based, whole-food products to help maintain health in terms of blood sugar, blood pressure, brain health and much more. Our products will be available as capsules and 100% natural, flavoured powders and are designed to provide benefit, even without other lifestyle PROMOTER NAME changes. Conor Kerley
ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME A diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, led me to become Setanta Nutrition Science interested in health/nutrition, inspiring me to PHONE: 0831458796 complete a degree and PhD in nutrition, publishing EMAIL: [email protected] my research in >20 scientific/medical journals WEBSITE: conorkerley.com and winning national/international awards. I’ve TWITTER: @conorkerley formulated several nutraceuticals based on my own research/expertise, providing convenient ways to help maintain/improve health.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Valmeego is a platform for professional travel planners. It enables tour operators, tour guides, travel agents and travel advisors to co-ordinate and communicate all aspects of a trip with individuals or groups.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME
Qualified stonecutter. Founded and co-founded Gerard Butterly several businesses. Project managed large COMPANY NAME construction developments. Qualified diving and S&R instructor. Valmeego Ltd
PHONE: 00353878206452 EMAIL: Gerard.butterly@valmeego. com WEBSITE: www.valmeego.com
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY ValmeegoStreetDock is is a buildingplatform a for network professional of micro- travel planners.warehouses It enables that make tour the operators, delivery oftour cargo guides, travelin cities, agents more and efficient travel advisors and environmentally to co-ordinate and communicatesustainable. Our all initialaspects customers of a trip withare online individuals orshoppers groups. and SMEs. We make the delivery of packages more convenient, with an eco-delivery service that allows customers to choose when they ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME want their delivery. Qualified stonecutter. Founded and co-founded GerardIan Richardson Butterly several businesses. Project managed large COMPANY NAME constructionABOUT THE PROMOTER developments. Qualified diving and S&RIan Richardson instructor. has an environmental background, ValmeegoStreetDock Ltd having completed a Bachelor’s and Graduate PHONE: 003538782064520044 0 7872050034 Diploma in Landscape Architecture from Leeds EMAIL: [email protected] Gerard.butterly@valmeego. Metropolitan University. With over 16 years’ WEBSITE: www.streetdock.comcom experience in urban planning, design and WEBSITE:TWITTER: @streetdockwww.valmeego.com infrastructure projects, Ian has a solid foundation in project management and the myriad skills necessary for building a modern start-up.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY ClubSpot is an end to end membership management system for volunteer run sports and social clubs. Our product enables clubs to reduce the burden on club administrators, increase engagement with club members and sponsors, and grow their recurring revenue streams.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER John Hyland John Hyland is a graduate of UCD with a Masters in Sports Management. The business was set up COMPANY NAME in April 2019 and will begin a pilot study with 5 ClubSpot customers in January 2020 before a full product launch in April 2020. PHONE: 087-1091523 EMAIL: johnhyland@ ottsoftwaresolutions.com WEBSITE: www.clubspot.app TWITTER: @ClubSpotEU
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Kasia Foods is an artisan food company, located in Dundalk county Louth. The company’s main offer are sweet chocolate bars made from 100% natural ingredients, without preservatives, dairy and refined sugar.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME
Katarzyna Becmer – Economist, Public relations Katarzyna Becmer specialist. Last 12 years dedicated to raising a family and developing unique food recipes. COMPANY NAME Kasia Foods Limited
PHONE: 089 4197287 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.kasiafoods.ie TWITTER: @KasiaHappy
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY HealthcareRoutes is an online platform navigating you to faster access healthcare solutions. Public, private and cross border options are displayed on one platform providing transparency to access. Features include: search by condition, filter by location, referral type and sort by wait times and
price. PROMOTER NAME
Mairead Fagan ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Mairead is a qualified radiographer and is a graduate of DCU with a degree in Computer HealthcareRoutes Applications. Mairead is passionate about providing PHONE: 0876752344 better health services for citizens. Her interests EMAIL: info@healthcareroutes. include sport, oil painting and travel. com WEBSITE: http://healthcareroutes. handydemo.com/ TWITTER: @HealthcareRout1
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY The Kick Company, a sports equipment & technology company. Our first product SideKick, a vertical 12ft rebounder, engages most ball sports practice games. Ultimately, we will be integrating technology with our products including online coaching at thekickcompany.com. We promote
personal development and participation in sport PROMOTER NAME with fun interactive skills development. Mark Kelly
ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Mark Kelly, a hospitality consultant. Coaching The Kick Company Gaelic Football for 30 years. Co-founded the PHONE: 0877730988 business with Gerry McElligott in 2018. Trading EMAIL: [email protected] since September 2019 with 150 SideKick sales in WEBSITE: www.thekickcompany.com Ireland, Northern Ireland. Cycles with Emyvale CC,
a coach with Gaeil Triucha CLG. Believes tackling sedentary lifestyles is pivotal for future health.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Eclypse Gelato is a premium range of ice creams infused with essential nutrients. The nutrients are carried in a high protein, low calorie ice cream. Each gelato in the initial range of five has a unique nutritional offer, and are individually flavoured with superfoods, further enhancing both taste and
nutrition. PROMOTER NAME
Rhonda Tidy ABOUT THE PROMOTER Rhonda TIdy BA, H.Dip. MSc. has developed the COMPANY NAME range with son Tom, who has a background as a Eclypse Gelato Ltd. Personal Trainer and Dietary Advisor. At the time of PHONE: 087 1957512 this publication they are in the process of securing a EMAIL:: rhonda@eclypsegelato production partner for their ice creams. .com
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Xiotec provides connected cloud-based access control solutions for shared spaces and facilitate integration with other smart home products. The IoT based innovative design is affordable for everyone and addresses the human need for security and convenience in a connected society.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Siva Periasamy Siva has extensive experience in product COMPANY NAME development, supply chain management and quality systems. He has a M.Phil. degree in Xiotec Limited Engineering. PHONE: 086 3202170 EMAIL: sivaperiasamy@xiotecltd. com WEBSITE: www.xiotecltd.com TWITTER: @xiotec1
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Acidose is a water pH control system, designed for poultry farmers, allowing them to adopt an alternative method to using antibiotics as a disease control technique. Antibiotics are set to be banned from agriculture in the EU in 2022 amid growing concerns of antibiotic resistance in humans.
PROMOTER NAME ABOUT THE PROMOTER Warren Stevely Warren Stevely is a graduate of D.k.I.T with a degree in both Engineering & Entrepreneurship COMPANY NAME and is involved in the poultry industry from a Acidose farming background. Warren has received two PHONE: 0862029776 national awards for his business idea and the D.k.I.T EMAIL: [email protected] President’s Prize for Enterprise Student of the Year.
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INSTITUTE Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
INCUBATION CENTRE
Innovation in Business Centre Galway & Castlebar
WEBSITE
www.newfrontiers.ie/locations/galway-mayo
NEW FRONTIERS HEAD OF INNOVATION INCUBATION CENTRE MANAGER,
PROGRAMME MANAGER: & ENTERPRISE: CASTLEBAR:
Tony O’Kelly George McCourt Maria Staunton
PHONE: PHONE: PHONE: 091 742858 091 742822 094 9043198
EMAIL: EMAIL: EMAIL: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY We create offline resource packs for children with additional needs to help better prepare them for commonly stressful experiences. Our interactive web platform will allow a user to create personalized resources to best meet the needs of their focus child.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME
Caitriona has worked in the disability sector for 20 Caitriona Watters-Crehan years supporting children, adults and their families COMPANY NAME across all areas of need and ability. Her particular area of interest is autism and sensory processing Prepare Me differences. Prepare Me is a Social Entrepreneurs PHONE: 0879777774 Ireland Awardee 2018. EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.prepareme.ie TWITTER: @prepare_me
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Sui Mindfulness offers a common sense approach to living with contentment and ease in the midst of chaos. We offer practical workshops, courses and presentations for businesses, conferences, schools and other groups. We facilitate effortless personal practice though mesmerizing guided audio and
visual tracks and unique handcrafted meditation PROMOTER NAME stools. Derval Dunford
ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Derval Dunford is a Mindfulness Based Stress Sui Mindfulness Reduction Teacher and Breathwork Coach. Her PHONE: 087 2888740 life’s challenges ignited her passion, she is teaching EMAIL: [email protected] since 2006. Derval’s extensive training and personal WEBSITE: www.sui.ie / practice is enhanced by her easy and fun way of www.Mindfulness teaching. 9000 primary school teachers have taken Matters.ie Derval’s Mindfulness online course for schools. TWITTER: @suimindfulness
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Clock.ie accepts employee clock in/out using any method on any internet enabled device, and saves the data to the Cloud – facilitating Timesheet Automation & Attendance Tracking.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME John Gannon owns iClinic.ie & WeFIX.ie (a small chain of PC, Notebook & Phone Repair/Sales John Gannon shops in the West of Ireland). John Qualified as a COMPANY NAME Programmer in 1975. John Currently codes in Perl, CSS, Javascript, HTML …. And previously used Clock.ie Cobol, VBScript, Basic & Assembly (Binary). PHONE: 0949631983 / 0899768666 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: Clock.ie
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY My company is a tool for website personalization using information like the device and location of your user to tailor what they see. This will improve visitor to sales conversion.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME I’ve been doing ecommerce website development for the past 5 years and that’s what made me see the Ken Kinneen need for this plugin. COMPANY NAME Growww
PHONE: 0851633920 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: growww.ie TWITTER: @ballinakaffa
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY We innovate in the delivery of Conflict Management training using immersive technology to prepare employees for highly charged situations.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Mark Toner is a successful founder of several PROMOTER NAME companies. Based in Galway he is an avid outdoor enthusiast and has climbed some of the worlds Mark Toner highest mountains. COMPANY NAME Conflict Management VR/AR
PHONE: 0876649980 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www. conflictmanagementvr. com
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY OK Who’s Next? provides B2B software giving service based companies the ability to promote their business and sell availability to consumers to increase business revenues. Business’ simply and quickly update their personal web profile calendar and consumers can book available slots 24/7 on
IOS and Android apps. PROMOTER NAME
Martin Flynn ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Martin Flynn is an Engineering and Business graduate of GMIT. His Business was set up OK Who’s Next? in 2019, initially launching in Ireland before PHONE: +353 (0)87 982 5915 expanding to the UK and rest of Europe. Martin EMAIL: martin.flynn@okwhosnext. is a keen runner and enjoys travelling as well as com learning to play the guitar…still! WEBSITE: www.okwhosnext.com TWITTER: @okwhosnext
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY AllChinese Natural language cosmoceuticals e_Learning: to address Using Animation inflammatory skinand mnemonicsand joint diseases. to become Unlike the steroid only company creams andto NSAIDssuccessfully our productsdeliver both have the no spoken side effects and the and written cansystem be usedof Chinese continuously. in a single CaReh’s animated products lesson. are available through their webportal at www.careh.ie ABOUTor in selceted THE PROMOTER shops in the Galway/Mayo area.
PROMOTER NAME Richard Mc Curry is a well-travelled Polyglot on a missionABOUT THE to PROMOTERsave 300 million children and adults from NilsRichard Rehmann Mc Curry Dr.the Rehmannboredom isof a a pharmacologist traditional education... and natural learning COMPANY NAME productby rote. chemist with extensive experience in natural product manufacturing and formulation. CaRehTBC Biologics Ltd. Him and his wife have relocated to Ireland after PHONE: 0838725956085 7444194 spending 10 years in Canada where they worked in EMAIL: richardmccurry@[email protected] different sectors spanning biotechnology, natural WEBSITE: www.careh.iehotmail.com products and regulatory compliance. TWITTER: @Richardmccurry @carehbiologics
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY The Ami Platform connects health and social care organisations seeking to support older people and those with disabilities in community settings. The first version of the software was developed through funding from a Small Business Innovation and Research challenge set by Enterprise Ireland and
Cork County Council. PROMOTER NAME
Patrick Mulvihill ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Patrick Mulvihill is a graduate of Trinity College Ami Platform with a degree in Information Systems. He worked as a front-end web developer with startups and SME’s PHONE: 0879742409 before establishing his first business in 2012. Since EMAIL: patrickindependent then he has designed and delivered technologies to livingireland.ie support the health and social care sector. WEBSITE: www.amiplatform.org
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Ovis AgTech are developing an IOT device and software that accurately monitors animals’ physiological signs in order to predict birth in real time to reduce on farm mortality rates of livestock.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME
Raymond Heneghan a graduate of NUIG where Raymond Heneghan he studied Law. He formed Ovis Agtech due to COMPANY NAME the frustration of losing high value pedigree and commercial animals whist away from his family Ovis AgTech Ltd farm that had a knock on effect on his farm PHONE: 0851565985 profitability. EMAIL: raymondheneghan @outlook.ie
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY APS is a bio-photonics company that removes parasites without harming the host. The initial design project is around removing sealice from farmed salmon.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME Rory Casey graduated from NUIG as a Mechanical Engineer. He founded Fibrepulse Rory Casey Limited, a photonics company which continues COMPANY NAME to trade successfully after 21 years. He completed a Masters in International Sales in Atlantic Photonic Solutions Limited DIT. Rory loves sport in general, but particularly PHONE: 087-2860235 rugby and sailing. EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.zaps.ie
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY TectionChinese Sports language are e_Learning:a Galway-based Using startup Animation developingand mnemonics novel to protection become the & performance only company to sportswear,successfully initiallydeliver forboth GAA the &spoken rugby andmarkets. the written The firstsystem product of Chinese in development in a single animatedis a high-performance lesson. sports glove with patent-pending finger protection ABOUTtechnology THE PROMOTER and superior performance materials for
increased grip and durability. PROMOTER NAME Richard Mc Curry is a well-travelled Polyglot on a mission to save 300 million children and adults from SeánRichard Hehir Mc Curry theABOUT boredom THE PROMOTER of a traditional education... learning COMPANY NAME Seánby rote. Hehir graduated from NUIG with a degree in Science and a master’s in engineering. Seán worked TectionTBC Sports for 8 years as a medical device engineer in product PHONE: 0879335416085 7444194 design and development. The business was set up EMAIL: richardmccurry@ sean.hehir@tectionsports. over a year ago and is currently focused on product hotmail.comcom R&D. Seán is a keen sportsman and plays football WEBSITE:TWITTER: @Richardmccurry www.tectionsports.com for his local Galway GAA club Milltown.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Digital Doors uses its innovative technology platform to source, edit and publish captivating content on social media on behalf of our B2B clients to help those businesses engage with potential customers leading to growth in sales and acquiring new customers.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Tony Geraghty As a serial entrepreneur Tony Geraghty has many COMPANY NAME years of experience in building and managing Digital Doors Limited excellent sales teams. He has a thorough understanding of the sales function across a variety PHONE: 0949010160 of business sectors including software, pharma, EMAIL: [email protected] FMCG and media. WEBSITE: www.digitaldoors.ie TWITTER: @tonygeraghty
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INSTITUTE INSTITUTE Letterkenny Institute of Technology Institute of Technology Sligo
INCUBATION CENTRE INCUBATION CENTRE
Colab Innovation Centre WEBSITE WEBSITE
www.newfrontiers.ie/locations/letterkenny www.newfrontiers.ie/locations/sligo
NEW FRONTIERS INCUBATION CENTRE MANAGER, INCUBATION CENTRE MANAGER, PROGRAMME MANAGER: LETTERKENNY: SLIGO
Michelle Connolly Patsy Donaghey Janette Gillen
PHONE: PHONE: PHONE: 071 9137378 074 9186703 071 9155315
EMAIL: EMAIL: EMAIL: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY HotelDeskDirect is a travel ad platform that helps hotels increase their profit margins by streamlining customers to book direct via the platform. It combines technology and data with a customer service driven approach to develop direct partnerships between hotels and their customers.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Andrew Carr Andrew is now on Phase 3 and has pivoted away COMPANY NAME from the hotel industry for reasons beyond his control. Hotel Desk Direct
PHONE: 0838622282 EMAIL: andrew@hoteldeskdirect. com WEBSITE: hoteldeskdirect.com
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY SIDEWAYS TIGER is a Fashion Experience Design Lab operated by a tribe of Creative Savages. Combining expertise in Fashion and VFX / CGI, SIDEWAYS TIGER leverages technology to create “virtually enhanced” and “augmented” Fashion Products that meet growing consumer demand to
experience MORE fashion, whilst simultaneously PROMOTER NAME
making LESS environmental impact. Harry Aslam
ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Sideways Tiger Harry Aslam is a designer and entrepreneur building the future of fashion. With an academic PHONE: +44 7484607713 background in Environmental Sustainability EMAIL: [email protected]
(University of Leeds, 2010) and experience working WEBSITE: www.sidewaystiger.com
in Europe, Asia and Brazil. Harry is committed to TWITTER: @sdwystgr
making the textile industry work more positively for
people and the environment.
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ABOUT THE PROMOTER I have developed a fashion brand called Bernie Murphy Designs, which features high-end tailored garments manufactured from locally sourced materials, such as Donegal Tweed and Irish Linen. Both of which are produced in Donegal. The authenticity of the brand, products and their heritage
qualities are essential to the marketing platform that PROMOTER NAME I have developed. The Homelands and Belonging Bernie Murphy collections were inspired by the heritage and tradition of Irish fashion design, my garments are an COMPANY NAME expression of contemporary luxury and style. Bernie Murphy
PHONE: 086 375 0889 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.berniemurphy.com TWITTER: @BernieMurphyID
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Modern Auditor is a paperless and automated Supplier Management platform removing all the paperwork around documentation and reducing the workload for supplier audits and product Inspections. Modern Auditor can also be used for Internal Auditing and Product Inspection removing
even more paperwork. PROMOTER NAME
Conor Mc Ardle ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME I’m a highly motivated and driven Sales Professional with 20+ years’ experience. I have worked in Modern Auditor a variety of industries selling various different PHONE: 074 9116000 products ranging from Food, Luxury goods, Leisure EMAIL: conormcardle@ products and garden equipment. I have worked modernauditor.com in B2B sales all of my life and have a strong work WEBSITE: www.modernauditor.com ethic.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Our software solution enables businesses to build workplace cultures that champion resilience and positive mindsets through a proactive measurable approach to mental fitness. Designed by experts, our in-app mood monitoring technology and CBT based exercise programmes offer users the ability
to manage and understand stress and anxiety. PROMOTER NAME
Denise Mulvaney ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME With almost 20 years of UX design experience, Denise has worked with start-ups, SMEs and some Mood.ology of the fortune 500 companies including Microsoft, PHONE: 085 1672352 Citibank and Universal Music. Denise believes in EMAIL: [email protected] humanising technology by incorporating a User TWITTER: @denisemulvaney Experience strategy to any digital solution for a
greater synergy between human and machine.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY MediPlex enables collaborative, patient centric healthcare, leading to better patient outcomes. The patient is informed and has ownership of their data, and health. We have started by addressing the Patient, GP, and Pharmacist relationship with an ePrescribing product, but have taken a holistic
approach, with other product offerings to follow. PROMOTER NAME
Jag Gunawardana ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Jag Gunawardana has over 20 years’ experience in financial services, management consulting, media, Teorainn Nua and technology. Much of that time spent leading PHONE: 0861 707507 teams to deliver solutions to problems as global EMAIL: [email protected] scale. Prior to New Frontiers he led engineering [email protected] teams to stream sports and other entertainment WEBSITE: www.mediplex.io to a global audience. TWITTER: @UnrealJagG
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Ippon Labs help sports medicine departments capture key player-assessment data that compliments their current athlete monitoring software stack. It eliminates the manual process of documenting hard-to-capture physical markers and presents data back to medical departments to
enhance their decision making. PROMOTER NAME
Kevin Finn ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME A physiotherapist by trade, Kevin worked in Premier League and Olympic Games medical Ippon Labs departments before returning home to Ireland PHONE: 0894500922 and setting up his business. Kevin is a MSc Sports EMAIL: [email protected] Medicine programme tutor and continues to train in WEBSITE: Ipponlabs.com combat sports where he earned his black belt and TWITTER: @kevinfinnphysio international championships.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY UNICAM provide everything video for third level educational institutions. Lecture capture, virtual classrooms, meetings, all recorded, broadcast and shared with value adds like captions, translations, AI and watermark.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME
Noel is a seasoned entrepreneur, having started and Noel Mulkeen grown a number of companies, with one successful COMPANY NAME exit to a Nasdaq listed company. UNI.CAM Ltd
PHONE: 085 7611811 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.uni.cam TWITTER: @UNICAM6
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY PerOxiGen Limited is a Clean Tech company established in 2019 to exploit a novel water sanitising technology. We produce Ozone, a sustainable, environmentally friendly disinfectant directly in water with nothing more than low voltage power and water itself.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Owen Leonard Owen Leonard is an engineer with 20 plus years’ COMPANY NAME experience in the water industry with a primary focus on treating water with ozone. Owen has been PerOxiGen awarded a number of patents for his work with PHONE: 086 3817226 ozone and water. EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.peroxigen.com TWITTER: @oxi_per
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY FleetCompliant is a Cloud-based all-in-one Software for Transport & Construction sectors needing a simple & affordable compliance solution tailored to their specific needs that can reduce cost by 90% of traditional methods. Some of the compliances include Driver & Vehicle Road Safety, Plant/Machinery Staff &
Operation Safety, Food/Feed Transportation Safety. PROMOTER NAME
Prakash Kamat ABOUT THE PROMOTER Prakash Kamat is a full-stack developer & has years COMPANY NAME of experience in guiding many complex software Fleet Compliant projects from inception to delivery, using different PHONE: 353 (0)86 3 100 900 languages & platforms. He holds a Bachelor’s degree EMAIL: [email protected] in Electrical & Electronics from IISc, Bangalore, WEBSITE: www.fleetcompliant.com Master’s Degree in Computer Science from IIT,
Chennai & MBA from Ulster University.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Carhunt is an online platform where car dealers and car buyers can negotiate car sales and compare multiple deals through a web application, eliminating the need for face to face negotiations. Carhunt aims to simplify the car sales market for dealers and customers alike.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Ronan Hunt Ronan Hunt is a graduate of IT Sligo, BBS 2004. COMPANY NAME Since then he has worked extensively in the motor industry in Sligo and will bring his domain carhunt knowledge to the market with carhunt.ie to PHONE: 087 3884400 capitalise on the digitalisation of the motor EMAIL: [email protected] industry. Carhunt.ie will launch in March 2020. WEBSITE: www.carhunt.ie TWITTER: @ronanhunt
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY BillinkDúlaBio developed are harnessing the ParkHere the potential smart of parking seaweed systembiotechnology which collect for people, real-time planet parking and profit spaces - to usagepromote information. rural regeneration This system and canenvironmental help drivers find availableresilience. parking Our product spaces is around a feed supplementthe destination for andlivestock, pay parking containing fee by natural phone, bioactive and can compounds help parking managerand prebiotics easily present find illegal in macroalgae, parking and that improve reduces the
management.GHG output from ruminants and promotes livestock PROMOTER NAME health and efficiency. RuifengDanielle ZhangGallagher ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Dr.ABOUT Ruifeng THE PROMOTE Zhang hasenvironmental 14+ years’ R&D benefit and for coastalmanagement regions experience globally. on Internet of Things. BillinkDúlaBio Information Technology Ltd. He built an international team and setup the PHONE: 0863633968083 4336182 headquarter in Ireland and a R&D company in China EMAIL: [email protected] daniellefgallagher@gmail. for his business. One customer in China and one in com Ireland are on the trial of the system. TWITTER: @dula_bio
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Sculpt Cosmetics, owned by Siobhan Boyle, offers customers the very best in makeup and beauty through four divisions, its own branded makeup Sculpt Cosmetics, website selling must have brands, physical store selling our own goods as well as must have makeup and skincare and
VTCT academy. PROMOTER NAME
Siobhan Boyle ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Siobhan Boyle is a make-up artist and UCD business graduate, with ample experience in the Sculpt Cosmetics industry she combines make up excellence, with PHONE: 0852468706 what customers want from their products. EMAIL: siobhan@sculptcosmetics. com WEBSITE: www.sculptcosmetics.com
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY We’re building a software platform called Fete, which brings festivals and venues together in one app, allowing users to find the events that interest them most. We’re also building Source, a platform which allows educational institutions to easily share news and content, and book meetings between
staff and students. PROMOTER NAME
Stephen Coyle ABOUT THE PROMOTER Stephen Coyle is a PhD graduate from Queen’s COMPANY NAME University Belfast. With a background as a N56 Software composer and pianist, he made the move towards PHONE: 087 695 6973 software development in recent years. He founded EMAIL: [email protected] N56 Software with his brother Christopher in 2018, WEBSITE: www. n56.ie and clients to date have included Belfast City TWITTER: @stephencoyle Council and Culture Night.
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INSTITUTE Limerick Institute of Technology
INCUBATION CENTRE
Hartnett Enterprise Acceleration Centre
WEBSITE
www.newfrontiers.ie/locations/limerick
NEW FRONTIERS PROGRAMME INNOVATION AND ENTERPRISE
CO-ORDINATOR: MANAGER:
Mary Casey Gillian Barry
PHONE: PHONE: 061 293830 061 293151
EMAIL: EMAIL: [email protected] [email protected]
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Lingweezy is an online language learning program which gets primary level children speaking foreign languages within the first minute. Children are immersed in the target language and progress through the game, interacting with digital avatars through speech. Lingweezy is aligned with the
European Framework of Languages. PROMOTER NAME
Aisling Finn ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Graduate of Bordeaux Business School, France & the University of Limerick Aisling is a French and Irish Lingweezy teacher with international experience in IT sales PHONE: +353 85 1705735 and Account Management. She is passionate about EMAIL: [email protected] language learning and loves using technology to WEBSITE: www.lingweezy.com make it fun and interactive. She is driven to bring this TWITTER: @lingweezy value to the educational sector.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY AAMcEvoy is an award-winning luxury Irish organic clothing & accessory brand for children & adults. AAMcEvoy products are designed and crafted in Ireland using certified organic cotton. The majority of our products are unisex. We focus on quality, craftsmanship and an ethical and traceable
production process. PROMOTER NAME
Alison McEvoy ABOUT THE PROMOTER: Alison McEvoy has a design background with COMPANY NAME a BA Hons in Fashion Design from LSAD at LIT AAMcEvoy (2009-2013) and a Postgraduate in Bespoke Fashion Tailoring from the National Tailoring EMAIL: [email protected] Academy at Louis Copelands, 2014. From WEBSITE: www.aamcevoy.com there, Alison worked in tailoring manufacturing TWITTER: @AAMcEvoyIreland in Hungary and UK.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Your Virtual Race is a platform that enables companies to run workplace wellness programmes where all employees can take part in one event regardless of location, time zone and ability. The platform will register, track and rank all participants on a global basis in real time.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Brian Cox Brian Cox is a highly experienced business COMPANY NAME professional with extensive experience in business startup and growth. His entrepreneurial knowledge Your Virtual Race and practical experience, especially in this digital PHONE: +353 83 4240625 world of ours, means he is ideally placed to EMAIL: [email protected] understand the challenges that face companies TWITTER: @yourvirtualrace in today’s changing environment and to build a
successful strategy to thrive.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Tornoc Industries specializes in mixed reality gaming content, providing our customers with immersive and disruptive gaming technologies.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Eoin Keane is an agronomist by trade but has PROMOTER NAME recently up skilled into the world of disruptive gaming technologies. Eoin is the founder of Eoin Keane the gaming tech company Tornoc Industries COMPANY NAME which specializes in augmented reality, creating immersive gaming solutions for their customers. TorNoc Industries
PHONE: +353 85 1358134 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.tornoc.ie
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Profitgrow simplify the management of beverage stocks for the hospitality trade with innovative cloud-based solutions we pinpoint stock discrepancies as they materialise while compelling bar staff to be directly accountable with the monitoring of dispensed alcohol against registered
sales in real-time thus providing greater control, PROMOTER NAME accuracy and cost savings over all other stock Ger Nunan systems on the market today COMPANY NAME ABOUT THE PROMOTER Profitgrow Limited Graduate of the Marketing Institute of Ireland with PHONE: +353 87 3680934 a proven B2B track record within Logistics and ICT EMAIL: [email protected] sectors. Ger previously co-founded an alternative WEBSITE: www.profitgrow.ie lending provider (Moneybush) which funded 250+ TWITTER: @ProfitGrow_ie projects. With the experience of several start-ups, Ger is fully conversant as to the intricacies required to launch his start-up Profitgrow.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY A management platform for flexible workspaces, BaseWorx seamlessly manages your venue with a comprehensive suite of tools. This centralised system handles memberships, payments, meeting rooms and event management. It’s private social network module and internal messenger fosters
collaboration and strengthens community from PROMOTER NAME within. Graham Clarke
ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Graham has background in food business having BaseWorx initially co-founded Kooky Dough which achieved PHONE: +353 87 9111145 listings across Europe. In 2016 he joined Bank of EMAIL: [email protected] Ireland and ran the bank’s co-working space and WEBSITE: www.baseworx.ie corporate incubator in Galway. Graham’s exposure TWITTER: @baseworxteam to the tech scene in Galway has inspired him to co-found BaseWorx this year.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY We provide a fast and easy way for businesses to use their data to improve quality and automate tasks. Zerve is a platform for automatically creating Artificial Intelligance Solutions from images and tabular data. Its user-friendly interface lets you do what used to take month in an afternoon.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Jason Hillary Jason Hillary received a PhD from the University of COMPANY NAME Limerick before pursuing a career as a R&D machine learning engineer. He went on to start his own Zerve artificial intelligence software consultancy where PHONE: +353 87 1263222 he led the development of an AI platform for a data EMAIL: [email protected] intelligence company. Jason is now dedicated to WEBSITE: www.zerve.io developing software products that make Artificial
Intelligence accessible, enabling people to realize its benefits.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY iDyslexic is the worlds first social network for people living and working with Dyslexia and ADHD with built-in secure classrooms where a student, parent, teacher, caseworker interact with one another on IEP’s, homework, calendar and activities. Using artificial intelligence to measure
the interaction we will improve how people learn PROMOTER NAME and teachers teach. Mark Culleton
ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Mark Culleton is COO at iDyslexic and an iDyslexic experienced entrepreneur. He has become a leader PHONE: +353 86 3983602 in the social tech space. Brendan Morrissey CEO EMAIL: markculleton.mc@ co‐founder is one of the leading tech investors gmail.com across Europe. Anthony Morrissey is CTO co- WEBSITE: www.idyslexic.com founder and creates and manages all the tech TWITTER: @idyslexicapp developments.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Thomond Gate vision is to distill our efforts to restore a local heritage craft, that delivers a uniquely pleasurable experience for our consumers, that enrich their senses and take them on a journey through time, by curating a spirit with depth and complexity beyond it’s years.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Nicholas Ryan Nicholas Ryan is a qualified spirits specialist and COMPANY NAME educator, approved by Wine Spirits and Education Trust. He has lived abroad for a number of years Thomond Gate Whiskey being involved with some of London’s most PHONE: +353 83 460 7757 innovative startups and multinationals. He has UK +44 7401 676077 developed a wide set of skills in his past roles which EMAIL: info@ he is now applying to his new venture Thomond thomondgatewhiskey.com Gate Whiskey. WEBSITE: www. thomondgatewhiskey.com TWITTER: @ThomondW
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY We give consumers the choice to customise their nutritional beverage on-the-go. We are the world’s first custom nutritional beverage, utilising a globally patented, tubeless dispensing system. So, whether it’s 90% protein with 10% immunity or vice versa, the consumer decides!
PROMOTER NAME ABOUT THE PROMOTER Padraic Hayes Padraic grew up in the food industry with both his parents manufacturing entrepreneurs. After COMPANY NAME completing his degree in Economics and Finance, MyBev Ltd he went on to work at a multi-national food PHONE: +353 87 1698730 company, based across Europe & the United EMAIL: padraic.mybev@gmail. States for six years working in areas such as; com Manufacturing Operations Finance and Business WEBSITE: mybev.ie Development. After spotting a gap in the market,
he Founded MyBev as his own venture.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Deviate redefines the way students prepare for exams. A focus on content delivery has led to a lack of focus on teaching students how to learn and develop expertise. Deviate is an online resource that teaches students how to develop strategies to become a skillful learner and promote lifelong
learning. PROMOTER NAME
Patrick McCarthy ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Patrick is a chartered accountant with an MSc in sports, exercise and performance psychology. He Deviate previously worked as an audit associate with KPMG EMAIL: [email protected] Dublin and most recently held the role as the Head WEBSITE: www.deviate.ie of Finance at First Circle, a FinTech start-up ($26m TWITTER: @deviate_ie Series A) based in the Philippines.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY What’s The Scor is a Live Score Gaa App for clubs, county, schools and colleges. What’s The Scór have designed a user-friendly platform for PRO’s/Club Officials that update games regularly. What’s The Scór will be the One Stop Shop for all Gaa Live Scores, Fixtures and Results.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Paul Flaherty Paul has been involved in club hurling and football COMPANY NAME from underage to Senior Level. He has always had a keen interest in GAA and won All-Ireland Hurling What’s The Scór medals with Galway. Having identified a need for a PHONE: +353 87 2402248 Live Score Gaa App he created What’s The Scór. EMAIL: [email protected] TWITTER: @WhatstheScor
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UNIVERSITY Technological University Dublin Tallaght
INCUBATION CENTRE
Synergy Centre
WEBSITE
www.newfrontiers.ie/locations/tallaght www.synergycentre.ie/programmes/new-frontiers
NEW FRONTIERS INCUBATION CENTRE ENTERPRISE SUPPORT
PROGRAMME MANAGER: MANAGER : OFFICER:
Laura Enache David McDonnell Rory McNeill
PHONE: PHONE: PHONE: 01 4042025 01 4042221 01 4042083
EMAIL: EMAIL: EMAIL:
[email protected] david.p.mcdonnell@ [email protected]
tudublin.ie
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Fox Family Games creates table-top games to encourage friends and family back around the table, face-to-face. Our games are plastic free and are designed for varying numbers of players, of varying abilities, so no-one gets left out. Most of all, our games are fun!
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ABOUT THE PROMOTER Caroline Fox Caroline Fox is a visual designer with and COMPANY NAME background e-learning and usability testing for start- ups. She has also illustrated for the Irish Times, Irish Fox Family Games Independent, Himself Magazine & Woman’s Way PHONE: 0831072775 Magazine. EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: foxfamilygames.com TWITTER: @foxfamilygames
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Disruptive ad tech. We are revolutionizing the brand - consumer relationship by creating immersive, invitational ads with engaging 360 experiences. Our ads increase brand awareness, deliver transparent ROI and consumer data, enabling brands to reach new target markets and
increase revenues. PROMOTER NAME
Ciara Sheahan ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Ciara Sheahan has been in disruptive content since 2017, creating 360 experiences for events, festivals, Orb Media news, venues & hospitality. With a degree in PHONE: 0868096283 Journalism and years of media experience Ciara set EMAIL: [email protected] up Orb Media in 2018. Her mission: to change the WEBSITE: www.orbmedia.ie way we see the world with 360. TWITTER: @Orb_Media
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY A web platform to make home buyers smile by crowdsourcing info from buyers and up-ending centuries old processes around how property is sold.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME Lifelong techie; former estate agent; champion of underdogs! Colm Casey
COMPANY NAME HonestyHub
PHONE: 087-7529313 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: honestyhub.com TWITTER: @ColmCasey
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Shuffil is an online platform connecting companies and their employees with expert led wellness solutions both onsite and offsite.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Dairine holds an Int. Degree in French and Classics PROMOTER NAME from UCD and a HDip in Business and IT from the Smurfit Business School. After leaving college she Dairine Clinton worked in Marketing and opened her own business COMPANY NAME in the Drinks Industry in 2007. Shuffil Ltd.
PHONE: 0877954680 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.shuffil.com
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Atmos Q is a leading provider of cutting-edge technologies and intelligent services, offering scalable solutions designed to optimise indoor air quality. Founded by a unique combination of skills, today we are pioneering smart, innovative and highly compatible platforms and devices
that promote wellbeing and productivity through PROMOTER NAME enhanced indoor air quality. Dr. Diane Tangney
ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Diane Tangney spent 18 years in internationally- Atmos Q aligned advertising agencies in America and PHONE: (086) 3835929 Ireland, holding Planning Director, Board Director EMAIL: [email protected] and Chief Strategy Officer roles. In 2010, Diane WEBSITE: www.atmosq.com established a creative strategy consultancy,
providing design thinking and insight-led innovation services to corporates, semi-states and military. She has a PhD in Creative innovation.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY 3Scribe is an automated text transcription service that is bringing a human level of accuracy but at automated prices. We help video-editors, journalists, researchers, podcasters and academics to transcribe their content interviews in minutes at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Eddie Gahan After nearly 30 years as a developer, technical COMPANY NAME architect and CTO Eddie Gahan decided to set up 3Scribe in 2018 to raise the bar on transcription 3Scribe accuracy levels. Launching this year, Eddie is PHONE: 0872388673 looking forward to an exciting and interesting time EMAIL: [email protected] as a tech founder. WEBSITE: 3scri.be TWITTER: @threescribe
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Hygiene Audits is a unique healthcare quality improvement management platform. A professionally nurse- led solution offering digital oversight around hygiene practices and process mapping for the whole healthcare team. We enable care environments to manage infection prevention and control, measure compliance and improve PROMOTER NAME patient safety at point of care. Glenda Hahn
ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME With many years’ experience working as a theatre Hygiene Audits nurse and as a healthcare business owner, Glenda PHONE: 0874172011 is passionate about patient safety and supporting EMAIL: [email protected] nurses. She has developed a superb solution WEBSITE: www.hygieneaudits.ie to automate healthcare workflows and reduce TWITTER: @HygieneAudits healthcare costs.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY My Little Wonderful is an e-commerce store selling clever, helpful family products. Parents all over the world face the same challenges on a daily basis. Through our content and products, My Little Wonderful helps parents overcome these common challenges to live a less stressful, organised and
happier life. PROMOTER NAME
Jennifer Lawlor ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Jennifer Lawlor studied Early Childhood Education in DIT and Social Studies specialising in Early My Little Wonderful Childhood Education in Marywood University, PHONE: 0876166206 Pennsylvania. The company was set up in 2018 and EMAIL: jen@mylittlewonderful. has gone from strength to strength with over 1,000 com customers to date and sales throughout Ireland, WEBSITE: www.mylittlewonderful. Europe, Australia and the U.S.A. com TWITTER: @MyLittleWond
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY SUBSNINJA.COM is a low cost, easy to use Club Management web application built for small club owners/managers to help them run their clubs more efficiently from their phone.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME Jer Ryan is a web technology specialist with many years’ experience building web applications. Jer Jer Ryan is also the membership officer/administrator of a COMPANY NAME couple of small clubs in his local community. VOSOFT t/a SUBSNINJA.COM
PHONE: 01 5611917 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: SUBSNINJA.COM TWITTER: @subsninja
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Megafab Ltd is launching a new innovate plastic Meal Bin – branded the ‘Tipsy’ bin - for the Agri community specifically targeting the beef, dairy, & sheep industry. The design of this product helps reduce back injury as it makes it easier to access the feed.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Michael Egan Michael Egan is the CEO and is from a farming COMPANY NAME background where he recognized the need for the Tipsy Bin. He been working in the plastics industry Megafab Ltd at a senior management level for a global PLC PHONE: 0876624582 company for over 25 years. EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.megafab.ie TWITTER: @MegaFabLtd
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY biologit is an early stage technology company, developing software using artificial intelligence to tackle the cost and complexity of clinical safety and pharmacovigilance. Our vision is to help to keep patients safe by simplifying the detection of adverse events from drug development to post-
market. PROMOTER NAME
Nicole Baker ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Experienced life sciences professional with broad experience in Medical and Regulatory Affairs, biologit Pharmacovigilance, Research and Development, PHONE: 0861233903 gained by leading and managing global, multi- EMAIL: Nicole.baker@biologit. disciplinary teams in Pharma/Biotech, CRO and com Academia. Holding a Professional Diploma in WEBSITE: www.biologit.com Strategic Growth/Biotech and Pharma Industry TWITTER: @biologit_com (UCD) and a PhD in Medicine (UC
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY The Spinery is an ergonomic design company that creates products for what people do most, sitting, standing and sleeping. Products are designed using 25 years of experience in spinal healthcare. Our solutions can be seamlessly integrated into modern living. All promote better posture, reduce
spinal stress and provide support where it is PROMOTER NAME needed most. Sinead Moore
ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Dr. Sinead Moore( BSc and PhD DC). Together The Spinery with Dr. Lawrence Woods Sinead has worked PHONE: 012844093 in spinal healthcare for 25 years. 2018 saw the EMAIL: dr.sineadmoore@gmail successful launch of The foundation, a portable .com ergonomic seat. Since then the company has WEBSITE: thespinery.com developed four more ergonomic products that are now available on the market.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Swyg is creating a new way to hire great people. Swyg’s novel peer-to-peer interviewing solution helps companies identify great candidates that are missed by traditional approaches. We reduce time to hire which dramatically improves the ability of our customers to compete for talent.
PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Vincent Lonij Vincent has a background in software development COMPANY NAME and machine learning. After completing a PhD in physics, he worked at Bloomberg and IBM before Swyg starting Swyg. He has a keen interest in how people EMAIL: [email protected] work together and how AI can help people without WEBSITE: www.swyg.eu replacing them.
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INSTITUTE Institute of Technology Tralee
INCUBATION CENTRE
Tom Crean Business Centre
WEBSITE
NEW FRONTIERS NEW FRONTIERS PROGRAMME
PROGRAMME MANAGER: ADMINISTRATION:
Sarah Flaherty Eve Savage
PHONE: PHONE: 066 7191895 066 7144229
EMAIL: EMAIL:
[email protected] [email protected]
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Smart-C is a software solution that reduces workload and protects businesses against the risks of statutory non-compliance. It is particularly designed for the retail, healthcare and hospitality sectors.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER
Caroline Sugrue, a Chartered Director with over 15 PROMOTER NAME
years’ experience in business. She set up Smart-C Caroline Sugrue over a year ago when she saw the real need for a solution to help business owners and compliance COMPANY NAME managers who were struggling under the burden of Smart-C recording and demonstrating statutory compliance PHONE: 087-9406368 across multiple industries. The onus on businesses EMAIL: [email protected] to prove they are compliant has become more and WEBSITE: www.hardman.ie more transparent as insurance companies leave
Ireland.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Fox in a Box Design is a sustainable design firm, creating flat-pack furniture that’s built to last a lifetime. Operating on a Direct-to-Consumer basis through an e-commerce platform, the company’s carefully considered design approach ensures the delivery of timeless furniture that will live, work and travel with you- for good. PROMOTER NAME
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Chris Barrett
Having worked for Circular Design Europe and COMPANY NAME Johnson & Johnson, with a University of Limerick Fox in a Box Design degree in Product Design & Technology, Chris has also received awards from Enterprise Ireland PHONE: +353879266928
EMAIL: info@foxinaboxfurniture SEA, OrangeBox Design and Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur (Kerry). A lover of the outdoors, Chris .com
spends his free time hiking, climbing and cycling. WEBSITE: foxinabox.ie
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Nonna Diary is an eCommerce retail brand which offers goal orientated, productivity diaries to assist people on their health, fitness & wellbeing journey. With an extensive diary portfolio to target various health & fitness markets, as well as a subscription box service to assist the customer to reach their
goals. PROMOTER NAME
Clodagh Shannon ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Having developed high quality skills from vast experience in areas like Customer Service, Sales & Nonna Diary Marketing. Administration and Design, along with PHONE: 0870530216 a personal interest in health, fitness, wellbeing EMAIL: [email protected] and a love for stationery; Clodagh combined all of WEBSITE: www.nonnadiary.com these elements to create and successfully grow the INSTAGRAM: @nonnadiary business Nonna Diary.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Rawmation is a company that designs, promotes and sells tabletop dice board games. Rawmation’s flagship board game is called ‘Marathon X’ and it is available in Toymaster, World of Wonder and independent toy stores throughout Ireland. Rawmation is developing further line of board
games for the market with the addition of ‘Junior PROMOTER NAME Marathon X’. David Lyons
ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME David Lyons has a leisure and media background Rawmation with both a Bachelor of Science Health & Leisure PHONE: 085 1321590 and Bachelor of Art Interactive Multimedia EMAIL: [email protected] degrees. A recent IBYE Young Start-up WEBSITE: www.marathonx.ie Entrepreneur of the Year winner and a ILDN’s TWITTER: @Marathon X Regional & Enterprise winner for 2019.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Vertical farming enterprise who will grow fresh sustainably produced perishables, offer courses on vertical farming techniques and perform R&D on various vertical farming with minimal electricity and water at our agri/eco-tourism destination. We will offer glamping, courses and demonstrations on
sustainable practices and growing techniques, and PROMOTER NAME business incubation activities. Krista Clem O’Sullivan
ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Krista Clem-O’Sullivan has a varied and successful Emerald Isle Growers and Valentia background in Project Management of sustainable Island Sustainability Centre “green” projects in the northern California region, PHONE: 087 965 9158 including business incubation and local business EMAIL: emeraldislegrowers@ relationship optimization. Her breadth of knowledge outlook.com and experience will help these projects identify opportunities and grow quickly based on early successes and market analysis.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY We at Hydrogen Power Ireland will System Integrate and manage your backup and CHP needs combining renewable energy sources to achieve self-sustainable carbon free energy and fuel for our clients in the Domestic and Commercial Markets and create extra income through Demand Side
Management and sale of excess Hydrogen PROMOTER NAME
Lorraine Hanly ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Lorraine Hanly is a graduate of the Grafton Academy and mother of seven who successfully Hydrogen Power Ireland ran her own Detox and Design businesses in the PHONE: 0861738195 past. The business was started 6 months ago and EMAIL: lorrainemhanly@gmail. is developing partners across Europe and the USA com to establish a carbon free, self-sustainable Green WEBSITE: www. Economy in Ireland. hydrogenpowerireland. com
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Dedicated to providing innovative and effective tools for education systems to teach young people through STEAM which include Workshops in Robot Building, 3D Pen Design, VR, Coding, Computer Lessons and Internet Safety. E-Commerce selling Kits, Step by Step Instructions teaching young
people about Homemade Circuit Projects, Battery PROMOTER NAME Alternative Science, Art and Crafts, Electronic Nicholas Lucid Invention, Gears and Motors, Pulley Systems Hydraulics etc. COMPANY NAME DigiWiz ABOUT THE PROMOTER PHONE: 087 3981691 Nicholas Lucid is Director and Manager of finances. EMAIL: [email protected] Nicholas has worked in numerous Departments WEBSITE: www.onceuponacheese. within the Civil service in the past 19 years amassing com a vast knowledge in all aspects from Revenue, Social FACEBOOK: @onceuponacheese Welfare and Statistics. Nicholas has completed INSTAGRAM: @onceuponacheese Certificates in Digital Marketing, Bookkeeping & Accounts, and Analytics.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Style Search is an intelligent fashion search engine that gathers the best of what’s out there in your size, for your occasion and budget all onto one platform. It is designed to personalise the hugely impersonal online shopping world, enabling consumers to make inspired fashion choices and
spend their time and money wisely. PROMOTER NAME
Shauna Cashell ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Shauna Cashell is an entrepreneur with a keen sense of fashion. In less than two years, she has Style Search accumulated over 55,000 followers on social PHONE: 087 6154183 media, positioning herself as an expert in her field. EMAIL: [email protected] She has developed a distinguished brand and those WEBSITE: stylesearch.ie who follow her, do so exclusively for her style and
unique approach.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY My company is focusing on developing an online platform to educate consumers in relation to their data privacy rights specialising in the financial services sector. This will be achieved via a membership site that will have a monthly subscription.
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ABOUT THE PROMOTER Sinead O’Connor Sinead O’Connor is a straight talking, solutions COMPANY NAME focused, creative woman who is capable of getting a business up and running on a boot strap basis. She Mindful Mediation Limited. is an excellent networker and has built up a solid PHONE: 0876187316 base of business contacts. EMAIL: sineadoconnoronline @gmail.com
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Bear Cart Limited is a website/service that allows company directors to make declarations/ attestations on behalf of their companies that are current, legal, GDPR compliant and verified.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER PROMOTER NAME Ben Cronin is a serial entrepreneur. Ben founded GBRDirect in 2007 which was sold to Kyckr Ben Cronin Australia in 2016. Kyckr has since listed on the COMPANY NAME Sydney Stock Exchange. Ben is interested in company data, GDPR, AML/KYC and all things Bear Cart Limited compliance. PHONE: 0872467470 EMAIL: [email protected] TWITTER: @Ben_Cronin
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Suir Analysis is a football data analysis company that collects & collates leading League of Ireland player performance data. This data is then targeted at the Talent ID analysis operations at professional football clubs & football agencies, alongside offering leading statistical content for TV broadcast
companies. PROMOTER NAME
Colin Brett ABOUT THE PROMOTER COMPANY NAME Colin is a graduate of WIT with a BBS degree & MBS post-grad degree. The business was set up Suir Analysis in 2018, after Colin returned home from London PHONE: 083-8727899 where he worked as a football analyst. Colin is a EMAIL: [email protected] keen football player & passionate supporter of all WEBSITE: www.suiranalysis.com things Irish football. TWITTER: @SuirAnalysis
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY An independent whiskey company who procure new make spirit and aged whiskies from distilleries and apply our own maturation and finish preferences. We source our own casks and mature and bottle the finished whiskies when they are ready.
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ABOUT THE PROMOTER Daithí O’Connell After 20 years in the FnB sector Daithí launched COMPANY NAME the company in November 2019 to a fantastic response from the Irish marketplace and industry W.D. O’Connell Whiskey Merchants colleagues. A private pilot and keen outdoor PHONE: 0876677799 enthusiast with a love of travel and food thrown EMAIL: [email protected] into the mix. WEBSITE: www.wdoconnell.com TWITTER: @oconnellwhiskey
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Specialised skincare products that keep patients comfortable during cancer treatment.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER Denise O’Connell is a clinical aromatherapist, working with cancer patients since 2003, through massage and reflexology. PROMOTER NAME
Denise O’Connell
COMPANY NAME myskin.ie
PHONE: 087 1315947 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.myskin.ie
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY OcuDel is an innovative and dynamic company focused on revolutionising the animal health ophthalmic market using a range of drug delivery solutions designed to minimise the dosage burden on patients, increase compliance and enhance quality of life. PROMOTER NAME
Laurence Fitzhenry ABOUT THE PROMOTER Larry’s technical background stems from a PhD in COMPANY NAME polymeric drug delivery. Since 2012, he has led a OcuDel research group in Waterford IT and secured €5.5 PHONE: +353 86 3997298 million in funding. Recently, Larry has developed EMAIL: [email protected] and led the €4m EU-funded international
consortium, ORBITAL, which has an exclusive
focus on translational drug delivery.
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Certified TR19 cleaning of kitchen extracts systems in the hospitality sector. We have developed an automated cleaning system that will keep the kitchen extract systems free from grease 24/7. The automated system significantly reduces the risk of fire in the kitchen extract system.
PROMOTER NAME ABOUT THE PROMOTER Martin Phelan Martin Phelan received a Post Graduate Certificate in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise COMPANY NAME (Level 9) from UCD in 2015 and won the Victoria Duct Cleaning Ireland Award for the most entrepreneurial student on the PHONE: 0874333347 programme. Martin set up the business in 2015 and EMAIL: [email protected] since then has been driven to lead the way with WEBSITE: www.ductcleaning.ie innovation within the industry.
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DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Designed by professional buyers, Buyerpix is a dedicated platform to digitise every stage of the buying process. Assisting in managing suppliers, orders, budgets, photographing, categorizing, and filtering of all items you buy, Buyerpix is your ultimate buying partner.
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ABOUT THE PROMOTER Niamh Byrne Niamh previously worked in marketing for COMPANY NAME an eCommerce start-up before establishing Ruby Rouge, one of Ireland’s most successful Buyerpix independent boutique and online store. Seeing PHONE: 0863823595 the real need in the fashion industry for a digital EMAIL: [email protected] solution to capture and assist in her buying, WEBSITE: www.buyerpix.com Niamh built Buyerpix. TWITTER: @buyerpix
DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY Allowing parents to maintain vigilance and understanding over their children’s online and mobile activity with an Affordable, easily managed, simple, home based solution.
ABOUT THE PROMOTER
I have been actively involved in the Digital and PROMOTER NAME
Mobile marketplace since the first mobile devices Richard Schumann arrived with a focus on Big data adoption and application-based revenues. This company has COMPANY NAME been born from the concerns I have encountered BraSCh Mobile during this journey. PHONE: 0863833970 EMAIL: [email protected]
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