Congratulations to the LaunchLoop team on winning first place at the National AI Challenge. The team included three New Frontiers participants on our programme at IADT/NovaUCD – Kevin Collins of echofold.ai, Alwin Stephen of neuramodal.com, and Daniel Smyth of tendr.ie. Over a two-week sprint, they built GradGenie (gradgenie.net), a production-ready platform for grading Leaving Certificate exams.
Congratulations to alumna Dora Jean Gillespie and the Starilum team who won the national competition of the global Creative Business Cup, a competition is creative and innovative startups.
Watch Meg Brennan, founder of Polliknow, on RTÉ News. Polliknow’s devices streamline the monitoring of wild pollinators, empowering efforts to foster greater biodiversity.
Congratulations to New Frontiers participant Sadhbh Wood and the Bean Around team on winning the Biobased Product of the Year award at the All-Island Bioeconomy Summit.
Founded by alumnus Conor Duggan and co-founder Aaron Hickey, TaxZap uses AI and open banking technology to automate the tax return process. The company has raised £2.2 million (€2.6 million) in a funding round led by Affinity Ventures. They will use the new financing to aid expansion in the UK market. Read more on businesspost.ie.
PR company Everhaze, a startup co-founded by alumnus Cormac Glynn and James McCann, has launched its new real-time radio and online media monitoring platform for Ireland and the United Kingdom. Learn more at irishtechnews.ie.
Seán Boyle is a New Frontiers alumnus and founder of UnitMode, a startup combating greenwashing by evaluating the overall performance of a company, the sector relevance, and the greenwashing trends most associated with that sector. Read more on irishtimes.com.
Fed up with waiting in long lines for drinks at music festivals, New Frontiers alumnus Daniel Coen set out to create a tech solution for the problem. Read more on businessplus.ie.
Co-founded by Pierre Yimbog, SoloBook is an AI-powered and community driven travel platform that aims to help solo travellers with planning and booking trips safely. Read more about the startup on siliconrepublic.com.
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Congratulations to New Frontiers alumnus Daniel Coen on raising €540,000 in seed funding to bring his fan experience platform overseas. The Dublin-based startup, Skippio, aims to improve fans’ experiences at large events by reducing long queues at food and drink stands.
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Skippio won the Best Pitch award after pitching to a panel of angel and VC investors at Enterprise Ireland, while autotech start-up Hibra Design was awarded the One to Watch prize at the Investor Pitch Day. Read more about them on siliconrepublic.com.
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Daniel Coen is featured in Silicon Republic's Start-up of the Week column. He founded Dublin-based Skippio last year to increase efficiency at venues. The app can reduce queueing times by 92% compared to the global industry average.
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An interview with Aisling Cullen, CEO of Thanks Plants, which produces a range of meatless meat products available across Ireland in Supervalu, Tesco and independent stores. Read on checkout.ie.
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Aisling Kirwan, co-founder and COO of Positive Carbon: ‘Our device, which sits above the bin, tracks and logs every single new piece of food that’s added to the bin.’ Read more on BusinessPost.
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In a deal that values the company at €7.56 million, shift work marketplace Gigable is aiming to raise €800,000 through an equity crowdfunding campaign as it plans growth overseas. More on irishtimes.com.
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Overall exports by client companies of Enterprise Ireland grew by 19% last year, with significant growth in both Eurozone and UK exports. Read more on siliconrepublic.com.
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Congratulations to Gráinne Mullins, founder of Grá Chocolates, and Aisling Byrne, founder of re-commerce app Nuw, on being named in the Forbes 30 under 30 recently! More on independent.ie.
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Huge congratulations to all the New Frontiers alumni who took home a National Startup Award this year: Gold (Early Stage Tech): Heidi Davis - Identify Her; Bronze (Early Stage Tech): James Power - Agri Guardian; Gold (Tech): Pierce Dargan - Equine MediRecord; Silver (Emerging Tech): Emma Meehan - Precision Sports; Bronze (Emerging Tech): Stephen O'Dwyer - Trojan Track; Gold (eCommerce/Retail): Alan Power - SizeWise; Bronze (eCommerce/Retail): Erica Hargadan - Babogue; Gold (Social/Sustainable): Aisling Kirwan - Positive Carbon; Gold (Food/Drink): Gráinne Mullins - Gra Chocolates; Silver (Food/Drink): Aisling Cullen - Thank Plants; Gold (Fintech): Alva Horgan - Valid8me.
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New platform connects budding tech entrepreneurs with potential collaborators, employees and investors. An interview on irishtimes.com.
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Dublin-based marketing solutions company, GladCloud, which counts Diageo among its clients, helps brands provide targeted local advertising. Founders Keith Curley and Tony Burke plan to hire 90 new staff over the next two years. Read more on businesspost.ie.
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Cian O'Flaherty, CEO of the Convex Lens and founder of Safecility, has raised €110k in funding from the European Space Agency and EU Horizon 2020 to develop Safecility - a product designed to cut the cost of maintaining emergency lighting in buildings while upholding the high standards of compliance that are required. Congratulations!
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Snapfix, founded by New Frontiers alumnus Paul McCarthy, has closed a €1.5 million funding round. Snapfix bills itself as "the world's task management and teamwork platform" with clients in construction, airports, hotels, facilities and property management sectors. The company plans to raise a Series-A investment in 2021 as it seeks to become a billion-dollar business.
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