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HIGH POTENTIAL START UP SHOWCASE
Class of 2012
CONTENTS
Part 1 – HIGH POTENTIAL START- UPS
Section One – Software & Services
Section Two – Industrial & Lifesciences

Medical Devices & Pharmaceuticals

Cleantech & Engineering
Section Three – Food & Consumer Products
Part 2 – COMPETITIVE START FUND
Part 3 – NEW FRONTIERS
Introduction
Frank Ryan, Chief Executive Officer
Enterprise Ireland
Entrepreneurs and start-up businesses are right at the heart of the drive to create jobs and
economic prosperity. Their major contribution to economic and regional development cannot
be overstated. Start-up business activity in Ireland is one of the strongest in the world, and
Irish entrepreneurs could give a master class in getting it right. The environment for new
business is one of relentless change and challenge, but once again Irish entrepreneurs have
persevered, embraced these challenges, sought out new opportunities, set up new businesses,
and gone out into new markets.
There is no let up in the appetite and ambition of entrepreneurs to set up new businesses. In
2012 alone, Enterprise Ireland invested in more than 150 high potential start-ups and early
stage businesses, a record figure. As part of the Government’s Action Plan for Jobs, our
promise and our commitment in Enterprise Ireland is to ensure that these innovative
businesses are supported in every way possible. Our priority is to provide a seamless route to
support for them to start up, grow and develop their business.
Let there be no doubt of our
commitment on this.
In direct response to the demands of entrepreneurs and client companies, we have continued
to introduce new initiatives to augment support at critical points along the start-up
development path. Competitive Feasibility and Competitive Start Funds provide young
companies with vital early stage funding to test the market for their products and ideas.
During 2012 Enterprise Ireland launched a major drive aimed boosting the number of
innovative, export-oriented businesses being set up and led by female entrepreneurs. We
have had a tremendous response from entrepreneurs to these initiatives and new funds, all of
which will in turn lead to a strong pipeline of new and innovative job-creating export-led
businesses.
Irish exports are at an all time high as demand for Irish products and services grows. This is a
time of great opportunity for ambitious entrepreneurs. Enterprise Ireland’s funding and
development supports, along with our network of overseas offices, are focussed on helping
young start-ups to scale and grow the business. The overall seed capital and VC funding
environment for new business has never been stronger.
This showcase of new entrepreneurs and high potential start-up companies is a mark of the
creativity, dynamism and quality of the Irish entrepreneurial community. We look forward to
working with them as they grow their companies and assisting them compete anywhere in the
world, winning new business and creating jobs in Ireland.
Foreword
Greg Treston
Head of High Potential Start-Ups
Enterprise Ireland
The ‘Class of 2012’ Showcase puts the spotlight on the 97 High Potential Start-Up companies
that have successfully established new businesses in Ireland over the course of the past year,
with funding and support from Enterprise Ireland. Alongside them is the crop of 60 early stage
entrepreneurs who have been supported by the Competitive Start Fund to test the market for
their products and services and progress their business plans for the international
marketplace.
There are also supports and funding available at all stages along the start-up journey from
initial steps, developing the idea, testing the market, and on to raising HPSU funding, ensuring
that Irish entrepreneurs are supported while they build strong and innovative new businesses.
Of the 97 companies that received HPSU investment in 2012, 16 are past participants of
Enterprise Ireland’s Enterprise Platform Programme (predecessor of the New Frontiers’
programme). And six of the 2012 New Frontiers participants have already progressed to the
Competitive Start Fund. New Frontiers, the Competitive Start Funds and Feasibility Study
supports are all instruments in driving the HPSU agenda. Representatives from the 2012 New
Frontiers Entrepreneur Development Programme are also in this year’s showcase.
This year’s showcase provides an opportunity to applaud entrepreneurs from across the
country for their courage, foresight and commitment in starting a business in these testing
times. Their timing may actually be perfect as they will be well positioned to catch the
upcoming recovery in world markets. The innovative and ambitious business ideas on show
here today are the result of painstaking preparation and market testing and will go on to build
competitive, export-oriented business that can compete with the best and succeed across
world markets.
Enterprise Ireland is committed to supporting these entrepreneurs to ensure that emerging
technologies and business ideas with export potential become a commercial reality. The Irishowned enterprise sector is critically important for the economy and jobs. The Government’s
Action Plan for Jobs places innovative entrepreneurs and businesses right at the heart of the
drive to accelerate jobs growth and economic prosperity. Ambitious, export focussed projects
like those featured at this Showcase and supported by Enterprise Ireland are central to this.
We wish them every success as they continue to grow their international business.
Part 1 – High Potential Start-Ups
CONTENTS
Part 1 – HIGH POTENTIAL START- UPS
Section One – Software & Services
Section Two – Industrial & Lifesciences

Medical Devices & Pharmaceuticals

Section Three – Food & Consumer Products
Software & Services
Company Name
Main Activity
County
Website
10N2
Technologies Ltd
Software product installed on
mobile phone networks to disable
phone use when driving
Dublin
www.10n2tek.com
Wicklow
www.actusmobile.com
ACTUS MOBILE
SOLUTIONS LTD
AKARI SOFTWARE
LTD
AXONISTA LTD.
BALCONYTV
GLOBAL LTD
BOXEVER LTD
CAMBA TV LTD
CLICKANDGO.com
Proprietary secure mobile
transaction platform, m:
CypherTM, providing the secure
payment standard for
frictionless mobile commerce.
Curriculum management
software for the education
sector.
Development of second screen
and show metadata
management software for the
TV broadcast industry.
Daily Internet live music
broadcasts from around the
world.
Software to analyse
customer/client profiles for
companies.
Hosted security camera
software.
Online travel company and
booking engine for the sale of
holidays.
Cork
www.akarisoftware.com
Dublin
www.axonista.com
Dublin
www.balconytv.com
Dublin
www.boxever.com
Wicklow
www.camba.tv
Dublin
www.clickandgo.com
Software & Services
Company Name
Main Activity
County
Website
CLUEY LTD.
Electronic point of sale (EPOS)
system.
Dublin
www.cluey.com
CONNECTEDTRIPS
LTD
DAY TOURS WORLD
DIGIT GAME
STUDIOS LTD
Global travel website for
holidays, retreats and courses
in areas of spiritual and
personal growth.
Website for booking day trips,
excursions and activities in
tourist destinations globally.
Video games developer and
publisher.
DIGITAL
MARKETING
INSTITUTE LTD
Digital marketing and social
medial courses and
certification.
DIMENSION MEDIA
IT LTD
Advertising platform using face
recognition technology.
EMPOWERTHEUSER
LTD
Soft-skills simulation software
for training, assessment and
talent development.
EVERSEEN LTD
FINANCIAL SATNAV
INTERNATIONAL
LTD
Dublin
Dublin
www.connectedtrips.com
www.daytoursworld.com
Dublin
www.digitgaming.com
Dublin
www.digitalmarketinginstitute.com
Cork
Dublin
www.dimensionadvertising.com
www.etu.ie
Video analytics for retail
sector.
Cork
www.everseensolution.com
Web-based guidance tool for
personal saving and
investment decisions.
Dublin
www.fsatnav.com
Software & Services
Company Name
FULL HEALTH
MEDICAL LTD
GEOPAL
HEALTH &
SPORT
TECHNOLOGIES
LTD
Main Activity
Convert medical test results
into health reports that
patients love and understand,
at the click of a button.
Software to create world-class
field workforces. GeoPal is a
web and mobile application
for locating mobile field
workers, scheduling their jobs
and receiving accurate job
reports from the field in real
time.
Individual athlete and coach
monitoring system.
County
Website
Galway
www.fullhealthmedical.com
Dublin
www.geopal-solutions.com
Louth
www.healthandsporttechnologies.com
Dublin
www.heystaks.com
Engaging fans beyond the
event.
Dublin
www.huggity.com
iCABBI
Cloud-based taxi dispatch
systems.
Dublin
iHOTELLIGENCE
Hotel management software.
HEYSTAKS
TECHNOLOGIES
LTD
HUGGITY LTD
Collaborative search software.
Wicklow
www.icabbi.com
www.ihotelligence.com
Software & Services
Company Name
INCIDENT
CONTROL
ROOM
ITRAC GLOBAL
SOFTWARE
SOLUTIONS
LTD
KEELVAR
SYSTEMS LTD
LINGLEONLINE
LTD
LINKED
FINANCE
LOGENTRIES
LTD
MULLEADY
POLYMERS LTD
NASC
TECHNOLOGIES
LTD
Main Activity
“Real Time” cloud and mobile
software applications designed
to manage business continuity
and crisis management in
large
manufacturing/pharmaceutical
facilities.
Cloud-based software system
for shipping and trade
compliance.
Procurement software for
tendering.
Web-based software service
designed for teachers and
learners of English language.
Person to Person (P2P) lending
With LinkedFinance lenders
can lend directly to small
businesses looking for funding
Cloud-based service for
managing log data.
Recycled plastic film pellets
from waste to be used in the
manufacture of new products.
Telecom software solutions.
County
Website
Cork
www.incidentcontrolroom.com
Limerick
www.itracglobal.com
Cork
www.keelvar.com
Dublin
www.lingleonline.com
Dublin
www.linkedfinance.com
Dublin
www.logentries.com
Longford
www.mulleadypolymers.com
Cavan
www.nasctech.com
Software & Services
Company Name
NOMOS Software
OMNIMOTION
TECHNOLOGY
LTD
ONELOOK
SYSTEMS LTD
OPERTUNES LTD
Main Activity
Licensed software as well as
hosted services for testing
financial and other data.
Creation of motion control
simulations, services and
games.
OneLook Systems develops
SafePermit, a software system
designed to enhance the permit
to work and contractor
management process used in
manufacturing, public utilities
and the oil and gas sectors.
Music licensing platform and
search engine.
PBXWALL LTD
Pbxwall is an innovative antifraud technology that blocks
PBX hacking and stops toll
fraud.
PENSION
SOURCE
Online pensions scheme
administration and investment
platform servicing the
intermediary market.
County
Website
Cork
www.nomos-software.com
Dublin
www.omnimotion.ie
Cork
www.onelooksystems.com
Dublin
www.protunes.com
Dublin
http://www.pbxwall.com
Dublin
www.source-company.ie
Software & Services
Company Name
Main Activity
County
Website
QSTREAM INC
Enterprise eLearning.
Dublin
www.qstream.com
SALES6.COM
SMART sales forecasting.
SALONADDICT
LTD
Online booking platform for
appointments in hair and
beauty salons.
SANCTUM
TECHNOLOGIES
LTD
SARSOL LTD
SCURRI WEB
SERVICES LTD
SMARTBUILDER
SOFTWARE LTD
Sanctum is a solutions
provider of high-performance
multi-core processor
platforms and systems that
support high compute
applications in the domains
of cloud computing, software
defined networking (SDN)
and virtualization.
Redeem & get: service that
enables merchants running
group offers (deal sites like
Groupon or Living Social) to
manage their deal customers
online.
E-commerce shipping
management platform
Web-based tablet and PC
software for use in
construction, engineering
and infrastructure.
Dublin
Dublin
Louth
Dublin
Wexford
www.salesystem.com
www.salonaddict.ie
www.sanctumnetworks.com
www.redeemandget.com
www.scurri.com
www.smartbuilder1.com
Dublin
Software & Services
Company Name
Main Activity
SOUNDWAVE
ANALYTICS LTD
Consumer-facing music
discovery platform and
smartphone application offering
real-time, location-specific
market insights for the music
industry.
SOURCEDOGG
TRANZAURA LTD
UPFRONT
ANALYTICS LTD
VIDEO ELEPHANT
LTD
VITAR SOFTWARE
INTERNATIONAL
LTD
E-procurement software and
procurement consultancy
services.
Tachograph analysis and
mobile workforce solutions for
the transport industry.
Market intelligence for
enterprise via casual mobile
games.
Online B2B marketplace for the
buying and selling of long and
short-form audio-visual
content.
On-site visitor management
system.
County
Dublin
Website
www.soundwave.me
Galway
www.sourcedogg.com
Limerick
www.tranzaura.com
Dublin
www.ufa.ie
Dublin
Dublin
www.videoelephant.com
www.vitarsoftware.com
Software & Services
Company Name
Main Activity
County
Website
WATTICS LTD
Energy management software
solution.
Dublin
www.wattics.com
WHOLE WORLD
BAND
Interactive music/video app
and platform.
Dublin
www.wholeworldband.com
WORLDIRISH
Social networking, content, ecommerce platform for
worldwide Irish community.
Dublin
www.worldirish.com
Dublin
www.xcelerator.ie
Dublin
www.zapatechnology.com
XCELERATOR
MACHINE
TRANSLATIONS
LTD
ZAPA
TECHNOLOGY
ZINC SOFTWARE
LTD
SaaS-based machine
translation platform.
Customer experience
management, enabled by
cloud-based loyalty, couponing
and closed loop payments.
Developer of sensor technology
for medical and wellness
applications.
Dublin
www.zincsoftware.com
10n2 Technologies Ltd markets mobile
applications to prevent texting, phoning
(unless hands free), emailing and Internet
browsing on a smartphone while an
individual is driving a vehicle.
It has
developed an enterprise and consumer
solution and is initially targeting the
enterprise market: employers supplying
smartphones for staff in the US, UK and
Ireland.
It works by using the GPS function on a
smartphone to detect the speed of the
vehicle. Employees traveling above a
threshold speed will have their texting
capabilities suspended unless the individual
can pass an “Attention Verification Test”,
which is practically impossible to complete
if driving at the same time. In this way the
application differentiates between a driver
and a passenger when the vehicle is
traveling above the threshold speed.
The incentive for enterprises to deploy the
solution is to reduce accident damage
claims of employees, reducing insurance
premiums and liability costs associated with
law suits, in addition to lowering employee
and vehicle downtime costs.
For information contact:
Mr Ciaran Hynes
T: 01 5143780
E: [email protected]
W: www.10n2tek.com
Actus Mobile Solutions has developed inhouse the m:CypherTM Secure Mobile
Transaction platform, the secure payment
standard for frictionless mobile commerce.
m:Cypher transforms mobile payment,
providing
a
secure
and
frictionless
experience for consumers, increased mobile
conversion for merchants and simple
implementation for developers.
Incorporating m:Cypher into any mcommerce
app allows the merchant to
drive revenue via the mobile channel and
avail of the explosion in mobile commerce
activity by reducing mobile abandonment
and increasing the opportunity for secure
end-user engagement.
Actus Mobile is working closely with key
partners
in
the
technology
and
payments industries on the integration
of m:Cypher with their solutions,
including
AIB
Merchant
Services,
Microsoft and Casio.
Clients who have deployed m:Cypherbased mobile applications to date
include Dundrum Town Centre, Tote
Ireland, Liverpool John Lennon Airport,
Multi Mall Management Europe and
Dubai International Airport.
Mr Tony Burke
T: 01 9023966
W: www.actusmobile.com
Akari Software designs and develops
curriculum management software for thirdlevel institutions, allowing for efficient
planning, editing and management of their
course modules and academic programmes,
creating a single trusted repository of
module and programme information.
Accurate and timely course information,
available across all administrative and
academic departments throughout the
entire institution, ensures modules and
programmes are consistently performing to
prescribed national standards and are in full
compliance with the European Credit
Transfer
and
Accumulation
System,
allowing
for
mutual
recognition
of
comparable and compatible degrees across
European third-level institutions.
Akari Software is currently active within the
Irish and UK higher education markets, and
has a potential market of about 1,000
universities across Europe.
Mr Eoghan O'Leary
T: 021 4520700
W: www.akarisoftware.com
Axonista was founded in 2010 by Claire
McHugh, CEO, and Daragh Ward, CTO.
Whilst working as a programme manager
with Setanta Sports, Claire McHugh spotted
a niche in the growing market for an online
platform that manages and distributes TV
show metadata for broadcasters to multiple
platforms and devices.
Claire participated in the EI-funded Propel
programme to develop the concept into a
start-up business. Daragh Ward came on
board as the CTO of the company.
The company’s current paying customers
include ESPN America, Setanta Sports, TV3
and MTV Networks. Axonista also received
“preferred supplier” status from BSkyB in
2012, which means that Sky recommend
Axonista’s product Ediflo to broadcasters
joining the BSkyB platform.
Ediflo is an online platform developed
by Axonista. It is used by the editorial
department of a broadcaster to manage
and distribute TV show information to
multiple platforms including to second
screen viewing companion apps.
For 2013 Axonista is building out a set
of
APIs
[application
programming
interfaces] that will enable other app
developers to license Ediflo to power
second screen and VOD [video on
demand] apps.
Ms Claire McHugh
T: 01 4789628
W: www.axonista.com
BalconyTV was founded in June 2006 when
three Dublin friends began filming an
internet show from their apartment balcony
on Dame Street in Dublin.
BalconyTV began filming local bands who
wanted to appear on the music show.
Today BalconyTV is produced in 43 cities
around the world.
Over 8000 videos have been archived
and these have been watched over 40
million times.
Mr Stephen O'Regan
T: 086 8613374
W: www.balconytv.com
Boxever is a “big data” platform for airlines.
It's a real-time customer intelligence
solution that enables airlines to leverage
their online, offline and offsite customer
data to create stronger, more profitable
customer relationships.
Our single customer view and analytics
engine delivers unparalleled insight into
how each traveller searches, shops and
books travel across every channel and our
behavioural marketing platform allows
airlines to segment and target each
customer individually in real time.
Boxever was founded in 2011 and launched
in third quarter 2012 after securing €800k
in seed funding from Delta Partners, Bloom
Equity and Enterprise Ireland. A graduate
of the NDRC [National Digital Research
Centre] Launchpad program, they currently
reside in Dogpatch Labs in Barrow Street,
Dublin 4.
Their current airline customers include
Atlantic Airways and Widerøe.
Mr David O'Flanagan
T: 01 4433103
W: www.boxever.com
Camba TV Limited (www.camba.tv) is an
overseas start-up which was based in
Berlin,
Germany.
Through
detailed
discussions with Enterprise Ireland, the
company relocated its headquarters to
Ireland in September 2011. The promoters,
Marco Herbst and Vinnie Quinn, are both
Irish.
Camba.tv is a hosted video management
system for IP cameras where users pay a
monthly fee for a range of features such as
secure, remote storage of video footage
and access for any web-enabled device,
including mobile phones.
The company’s system works with any
IP camera and can be accessed via any
web browser. The product is sold
directly and via resellers and is fully
customisable.
Mr Marco Herbst
T: 0404 67164
W: www.camba.tv
ClickandGo.com is an online travel and
technology company which provides a
booking engine to airlines for the sale of
holidays. The holiday model is built around
selling package holidays, sun holidays, city
breaks, ski holidays and cruise holidays
using scheduled flights.
The company has already secured a
contract with Aer Lingus to provide
holiday
packages
to
visitors
of
aerlingus.com.
The
ClickandGo.com
booking engine has been live on the Aer
Lingus website since September 2011
(www.aerlinguspackages.com).
The ClickandGo.com booking engine allows
customers total flexibility in designing their
own holiday, as they can depart on any
day, for any duration, to any route on the
airline’s network.
ClickandGo.com provides the added
benefit of customer protection, as it is a
licensed and bonded travel company.
Mr Paul Hackett
T: 01 6371691
W: www.clickandgo.com
Cluey has developed the world’s first fullyfeatured browser-based hospitality point of
sale (POS) system. Cluey’s interactive point
of sale is cloud based and so is very
scalable and can be sold worldwide. The
system works instantly in the browser and
continues to work when there is no Internet
connection. It is platform independent so a
business owner can choose from PCs,
mobile phones, iPads and other tablets,
which reduces costs.
The world of Electronic Point of Sale (EPoS)
is changing and Cluey is an award-winning
platform driving that change. Up until very
recently the only choice a business owner
had was to purchase a complicated and
expensive Windows-based system.
The Internet and browsers are so fast
now that online EPoS has begun. Cluey
can provide an online system to
business owners with all the features of
a traditional system, plus some new
features, but with considerable cost
savings.
Cluey won the Best New Technology
Award for 2012 which was adjudicated
by Bord Fáilte and the Hospitality
Institute. Cluey has sold and installed
their
system
in
many
locations
throughout Ireland and the UK.
They are currently processing over
€15m worth of transaction per annum.
Cluey has developed an integrated
loyalty and customer engagement
system that helps the proprietor to
increase sales and loyalty.
Mr Gavin Lynch
T: 01 4893600
W: www.cluey.com
Connectedtrips is a global travel website
aimed at anyone who is interested in
holidays, retreats and courses in the area of
spiritual and personal growth, such as
yoga, meditation, nutrition, healing and
self-help.
Connectedtrips.com sees an opportunity
to bring the wellness market to the
mainstream and hopes to become the
global resource for this area.
Connectedtrips.com allows users search
locally and internationally with focused and
relevant
segmentation
(for
example,
Christian retreat, Dublin; raw food course,
California; or yoga holiday, India) and a
tailored appropriate rating system. In
addition users can book online.
Mr Alan Wyley
T: 086 2324646
W: www.connectedtrips.com
Day Tours World was established in
September 2011 by Cathal O’Connell and
Stephen
O’Sullivan.
O’Connell
is
founder/owner of Paddywagon Tours and
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur finalist in 2009
and O’Sullivan of Splash.ie was winner of
the 2011 Website of the Year in the Travel,
Tourism & Hospitality Category at the
Eircom Spider awards.
Based on their extensive experience in
tourism, both promoters identified a
business opportunity to develop a web
portal exclusively geared towards day
tours: activities, excursions or day trips in
any location around the world of less than
24-hour duration. Day Tours aims to be
“the HQ for things to do” aimed in
particular at small/medium-sized tour
operators. On the back of this, they have
developed a plug-in booking engine –
dayrez.com – that day-tour operators can
easily integrate into their own websites,
allowing them to take online bookings
directly.
Mr. Cathal O'Connell
T: 066 976 3650
W: www.daytoursworld.com
Digit Game Studios was founded in 2012 by
game industry veterans and has since
become Ireland’s largest game developer.
Digit is leading the industry with a new
generation of seamlessly cross-platform
games that work on any connected device.
Digit’s first game, “Kings of the Realm,” is a
fantasy themed, multiplayer strategy game,
which goes live mid-2013 along with the
first book in the series by Penguin.
To date, Digit has raised $3.75m in
funding.
Mr Richard Barnwell
T: 086 7956000
W: www.digitgaming.com
Recognised as the leading industry body
within the field of digital marketing, the
Digital Marketing Institute is providing the
most relevant, up-to-date and valuable
education and qualifications in digital
marketing across the world.
Today, the most exciting innovations and
thinking in marketing are happening
through the digital medium. At a time of
uncertainty in the global economy, now is
the time to develop skill sets and
qualifications in a field that is truly
recession proof. The Digital Marketing
Institute offers the most widely recognized
professional
qualifications
in
digital
marketing available anywhere.
Developed in association with digital
leaders including Google, Facebook,
LinkedIn and Microsoft, to name but a
few,
Digital
Marketing
Institute
qualifications are recognized as the
global industry standard. Our global
partner network of learning providers is
thriving and we are experiencing rapid
growth in every market.
Ms. Ellie McHugh
T: 01 5311200
W: www.digitalmarketinginstitute.com
Dimension Media IT Ltd are developing an
innovative advertising metrics and content
management system for the digital out-ofhome advertising market. Their solution
combines facial recognition software with a
camera to assess the age and gender of a
face looking at a digital sign. This data
combined with their content management
system will allow advertising to be tailored
specifically for the target audience in real
time.
One of the additional benefits of the system
is that advertisers will have access to realtime metrics around age, gender, location,
time and length of engagement of the
audience with their ad over the course of
their ad campaign.
Dimension’s
solution
will
allow
any
advertiser to download content (for
example, a JPEG or video file) over the
Internet onto their content management
system. Using the management system the
advertiser will profile their target audience,
location and budget (that is, how many
impressions they want).
A typical example would be a perfume
company running an ad for a fragrance
targeting women between the ages of 20
and 35 looking for 20,000 impressions over
a period of a month.
Mr Ian Gallagher
T: 021 2397043
W: www.dimensionadvertisng.com
EmpowerTheUser Limited (ETU) is a leading
provider of soft-skills simulation software to
the training, assessment and talent
development industries.
ETU's software empowers training providers
(commercial training vendors and corporate
academies) and assessment providers
(psychometric test publishers, Development
centres) to realise:
• significant cost reductions in delivering
RolePlay training and assessment.
• increased effectiveness and efficiency of
training and assessment programmes.
ETU’s software consists of three core tools:
• A rapid development tool which provides
an intuitive interface allowing subject
experts
to
quickly
build
branching
multimedia (video, audio, avatar, images,
text) RolePlay simulations.
• A RolePlay simulator where the
RolePlays
are
delivered
online
concurrently to thousands of end users.
• An analytics dashboard which provides
real-time
and
actionable
skills,
behaviours and performance data on
individuals,
groups
and
whole
organisations.
With these tools, our clients can rapidly
design, develop and deliver adaptive,
video/audio/image/text-based soft-skills
simulations for both assessment and
training.
EmpowerTheUser Ltd (ETU) was spun
out of Trinity College Dublin in late
2010.
Dr Declan Dagger
T: 086 4076201
W: www.etu.ie
Everseen was established in 2008 to
research and design a video platform to
assist retailers in the efficient execution of
their business. It employs a large team of
engineers and scientists dedicated to
providing innovative solutions for business
intelligence applications. Everseen’s current
product offering is a cloud-based virtual
retail manager.
Our system is seamlessly installed as it
integrates readily with existing CCTV
systems with minimum disruption to the
retailer or its customers. It delivers a
solution that provides business owners with
uncontaminated information that will allow
for a clearer assessment of the reasons why
certain stores are poor performers and why
strategies
designed
to
performance may be failing.
improve
Until now Everseen’s business has been
based in Ireland and the UK. With the
aid of funding from Enterprise Ireland, it
will be able to further develop these
markets and expand to mainland
Europe, America and ultimately the rest
of the world.
Mr Alan O'Herlihy
T: 086 8452184
W: www.everseensolution.com
Around 15 million consumers in the UK
need inexpensive help to plan their savings
and pension requirements around the
benefits supplied to them by their
employer. This has created a market
opportunity for a low-cost, web-based
guidance tool for individuals who currently
receive no professional help with their
savings and investments and who will soon
be prompted by their employers to think
about this aspect of their lives.
Financial SatNav intends to satisfy this need
with its unique Software as a Service
product, which automates and links
together the early stages of the benefits,
savings and pension planning process. Our
online
“dashboard”
tool
guides
the
employee using techniques and fact finding
which are similar to those employed in a
professional face-to-face investment and
pension review. It does this without
requiring the user to have any knowledge
of the financial sector or of investment
theory.
Mr Jeremy McGahan
T: 01 4885830
W: www.fsatnav.com
Full Health Medical Ltd (Full Health) was
established in Galway in 2010 to develop a
health interpretation and reporting solution
that
dramatically
improves
the
communication of medical test results to
patients.
The Full Health system automates the
process of creating a uniquely personalised
doctor's report following a preventative
health screening. It also creates powerful
group reports instantly. The current process
of report writing is time consuming and is
an inefficient administrative process.
In the majority of cases the resulting
feedback to the patient is poor. A Full
Health report can be reviewed and
approved in less than 3 minutes. It
provides uniquely personalised reports
that patients love and understand, using
plain English and clear, simple graphics.
Mr Paul McCarthy
T: 353 (87) 9471255
W: www.fullhealthmedical.com
GeoPal was founded in 2007 by Gerard
O’Keeffe, CEO, and Paul Coyle, Commercial
Director.
GeoPal aims to create world-class field
workforces by eliminating paper. GeoPal is
a web and mobile application for locating
mobile workers, scheduling their jobs and
receiving accurate job reports from the field
in real time.
Workers carry a GPS enabled smartphone
and use the GeoPal mobile app for receiving
jobs, filling out digital forms and capturing
field information, such as text, photos, bar
codes, signatures or voice notes.
All information captured on the phone is
automatically synchronised with the GeoPal
website. Managers use the GeoPal website
to locate workers, schedule jobs and review
reports.
GeoPal provides customers with an easy-touse, low-cost service with features that are
integrated within CRM and ERP systems.
GeoPal is currently rolled out to Dublin City
BID, Ericsson, Morrison Utility Services,
Traffic Solutions and several Irish and UK
local authorities.
Mr Gerard O'Keeffe
T: 086 2492401
W: www.geopal-solutions.com
Health and Sport Technologies, a Dundalkbased company, has developed a system
which allows an athlete/player to collect
and collate key information across four
different areas: psychological, physical,
technical and emotional, encompassing
health
indicators,
training,
tests,
competitions, injury and rehabilitation and
nutrition.
These in turn are integrated with goal
setting to provide a platform for the
athlete/player to develop and strive to
become the best that they can be. Coaches
and staff can access athlete information,
plan training and competitions and provide
feedback and motivation. Medical staff and
physios can track injury and rehabilitation.
The system is based on a modularised
platform and includes a communication
function to allow coaches and staff to
upload video clips, review performances
and communicate at a group and individual
level.
In-depth statistical analysis can be applied
against high-quality historical data and the
potential to predict outcomes and peak
performances can be greatly enhanced
using the system.
Mr Peter Larkin
T: 042 9324504
W www.healthandsporttechnologies.com
Based in NovaUCD, Co. Dublin, HeyStaks
Technologies Ltd was founded in 2008 by
Professor Barry Smyth, Dr Maurice Coyle
and Dr Peter Briggs.
Heystaks represented Ireland at the
Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2011 Final and they
were a finalist in the Appys 2012
competition in the "Best Social App"
category, which was ultimately won by
Skype.
The collaborative search solution offered by
HeyStaks harnesses latent expertise within
organisations to optimise knowledge and
information flow and enable zero-effort
collaboration.
With its patented behavioural indexing
and
reputation-aware
solution,
HeyStaks can automatically detect and
create communities of interest that
facilitate frictionless collaboration and
provide faster, more relevant access to
information that saves organisations
time and money.
Dr Maurice Coyle
T: 01 7163565
W: www.heystaks.com
Huggity developed a post-event marketing
tool, which allows advertisers, brands,
event organisers and sponsors to increase
their return on marketing investment. It
was launched at the 2011 World Street
Performance Championships in Dublin and
featured at MTV’s biggest party of the year
in Malta. It has also been used at the Aviva
and Wembley Stadium and during the
Premier League for soccer and rugby
games.
We have developed the application,
which
is
based
on
360-degree
panoramic, multibillion pixel crowd
images taken at a venue during an
event: FanPicsTM. Once a FanPic is
posted online, users can zoom into a
crowd photo to find themselves and
their friends. They can then share a
sponsor branded message with friends
and family on Facebook, twitter or email
through our “tagging” feature.
The technology behind Huggity allows
brands and sponsors to engage directly
with their audience at concerts, sporting
events,
festivals
and
other
public
gatherings using viral marketing through
social media platforms, with Facebook
being the primary focus. It does this by
recreating the excitement of a fan
experience online, using a social media
environment and encouraging fans to share
branded content. It results in the brand
being exposed to an extended audience
that is several times the size of the
audience attending the event.
We have proved that there is a demand
for our solution and generated revenue
by working with the some of the largest
brands and clubs in the world Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Swatch,
Aviva, Chevrolet, Qatar Foundation,
Manchester United, Liverpool, Bayern
Munich and LA Lakers amongst others.
We are a true international company
with sales being generated in Ireland,
the UK, the US, Germany, Saudi Arabia,
Qatar, Norway and Poland.
Mr Michael Sikorski
T: 01 4100600
W: www.huggity.com
iCabbi provide revolutionary cloudbased taxi dispatch systems that
integrate seamlessly with websites,
booking engines and mobile booking
apps.
The feature rich, user-friendly iCabbi
dispatch system was built with taxi
companies, for taxi companies and will
match the offerings of any of the
market leading dispatch providers and
more. As a new player entering the
market, they have identified the
common
difficulties
facing
taxi
companies in recent years and have
focused on these areas to offer a
product which stands out from the
competition.
The dispatch system can be tailored to
suit startup fleets, SMEs and large-scale
fleets.
Mr Gavan Walsh
T: 01 5413040
W: www.icabbi.com
iHOTELLIGENCE was founded in 2011 and
has developed a ground-breaking Hotel
Management Software suite – iHOTEL.
iHOTEL is a scalable, affordable and reliable
integrated hotel management solution
incorporating
reservation
management,
accounts and billing, integrated booking
engine and channel management, CRM,
rate and yield management, business
intelligence and reporting functionality. The
system helps hotels improve sales, reduce
costs and eliminate inefficiency.
The SaaS model is very cost effective as
hotels pay monthly for the use of the
software license which includes technical
support, remote backup and updates. Our
training is delivered via eLearning which
creates more savings.
iHOTEL is available in 4 versions:
•
iHOTEL
manages
reservations,
reception,
guest
billing,
guest
history, financial records, CRM,
marketing and reports.
•
iHOTEL
CONNECT
also
seamlessly communicates rates
and availability with 70 of the
most
popular
online
travel
agents such as booking.com and
Expedia, which creates huge
efficiency within the hotel and
will help to increase sales due to
more online exposure.
•
iHOTEL RESORT is suitable for
properties offering spa, golf and
other activities.
•
iHOTEL ENTERPRISE is suitable
for hotel chains and hotel
groups.
Mr Keith Slowey
T: 01 2811960
W: www.ihotelligence.com
Target Environmental Health & Safety Ltd,
trading
as
Incidentcontrolroom.com™
(ICR), was established in 2010 by David
McCarthy and Shane Mooney, who both
have a combined environmental health and
safety (EHS) management background,
totalling 22 years. In 2011, ICR completed
the Endeavour Platform Programme and
secured
a
€50k
investment
under
Enterprise Ireland’s Competitive Start Fund.
This is a real-time crisis management
platform for large organisations delivered
via mobile technology. It is cloud managed
and will cover explosion, chemical leakage,
fire, electrical/IT outage, etc.
Mr David McCarthy
T: 021 230 7165
W: www.incidentcontrolroom.com
iTRAC Global develops 21st century cloud
applications for business and enterprise. We
innovate with Web 3.0 technologies to solve
complex,
multi-dimensional
business
problems. Our first product provides an
Automated Global Trade Compliance and
Logistics System.
Dynamic Tiling User Interface: Provides
users with a highly productive environment
where needed information is presented on a
single screen.
Adaptive Privacy and Security: Permits
today’s
dynamic
global
network
environment to collaborate using an
adaptive work space, which allows instant
access to needed data in a controlled
environment, but without intervention from
a system administrator.
Business Social Collaboration: Users can
communicate through instant message (IM)
and
a
highly
collaborative
private
messaging system that permits sharing of
data and documents in a well organized
fashion.
This
avoids
emails
that
“overshare” data and prevents loss of data
control.
Chain-linked Data Management: Maintains
single point data coherency and uniformity
of documents, while permitting global
sharing of documents. This allows the data
owner to prevent “unauthorized” sharing at
the press of a button, while still maintaining
a collaborative environment with instant
access to “authorized” sharing.
Mr Tony Leto
T: 01 - 554 7837
W: www.itracglobal.com
Keelvar Systems Ltd is a software company
formed by Dr Alan Holland, a former
Research Fellow of the Cork Constraint
Computational Centre (4Cs) in University
College Cork.
It is a VC-backed company with €750k
in seed funding led by ACT Venture
Capital,
with
co-investment
from
Enterprise
Equity
and
Enterprise
Ireland.
The company specialises in next-generation
e-procurement software that gathers more
pricing information from potential suppliers
and computes the optimal outcome in large
procurement exercises.
Mr Alan Holland
T: 086 8828395
W: www.keelvar.com
Lingle was established in October 2011 to
commercialise research conducted by
Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) and
the National Digital Research Centre
(NDRC)
under
the
NDRC
Catalyser
programme.
Lingle provides web-based resources for
English language teachers and schools
which enables rapid development of
customized lessons and activities from
current, authentic text, such as today's
news.
Teachers currently use either course
books whose content can be stale,
stagnant and unmotivating for the
learner or they spend hours searching,
analysing and editing newspaper and
magazine articles to produce their own
engaging, relevant authentic materials.
Lingle provides up-to-date materials
and activities in just a few minutes.
Mr Ian Butler
T: 01 8958978
W: www.lingleonline.com
LinkedFinance offers a new and painless
way for Irish businesses to borrow money
from a large group of real people, including
their own customers. Crowd Funding is the
new way for companies to borrow, bankers
get bypassed, the wheels of business keep
turning and everyone wins!
Person to Person (P2P) lending or Crowd
Funding is simple. People with money to
lend can lend it directly to people who need
it. With LinkedFinance lenders can lend
directly to small businesses looking for
funding. Crowd Funding provides complete
transparency to both the lender and
borrower and it brings lending back to
basics where a lender simply deposits funds
and when there are enough funds available
loans can be made to credit worthy
borrowers.
How it Works - Businesses looking for a
loan can apply at Linkedfinance.com for
funding. The loan required and full details
of the business are posted in our market.
Potential Lenders can participate in an
auction process where they bid on how
much of the loan they are prepared to fund
and the interest rate they require. The
lowest rate bids are accepted so the
borrower secures the best interest rate
possible
Mr Peter O' Mahony
T: 01-8783003
W: www.linkedfinance.com
J Lizard Limited, trading as Logentries, is a
UCD spin-out company providing a cloudbased service for managing log data. Log
information is recorded as an IT system
runs. It is used to record the state of a
running system and is analysed frequently
(by
system
administrators,
testers,
developers)
to
understand
what
is
happening in a system: for example, in the
case of security threats, performance
issues, or when a system crashes.
The level of log information that is taking
place continually is of enormous scale. Log
data can be difficult to understand due to
the huge volume of data produced, and due
to its complex nature. Ignoring log data or
not managing it properly can lead to
system crashes, hacked systems or slow
websites
costing
organizations
large
amounts of money. Log data is a rapidly
growing data source in large organizations.
Cloud and Platform as a Service (PAAS)
providers are not providing sufficient
logging infrastructure for their users.
Mr Trevor Parsons
T: 086 8651709
W: www.logentries.com
Nasctech is on course to become the world
leader in the newly emerging area of “field
operations support systems” (FSS) within
the
telecommunications
industry
by
developing innovative solutions, which
transform the management of mobile telco
field operations.
FSS, an extension of the established area of
operational support systems (OSS), is a
new market area pioneered by Nasctech. It
is the extension of OSS into field operations
that allows an operator to:
• Tightly manage their OPEX spend.
• Ensure quality work, leading to a quality
network.
• Drive operational efficiencies and best
practice business process management
(BPM) into field operations.
• Mobilize critical application.
• Improve and optimize business decisions
and performance via the STREAMLINETM
business intelligence (BI) platform.
Nasctech is addressing a previously
underserved area which is only now
becoming feasible thanks to the availability
of highispeed mobile broadband, powerful
smartphones, and the growing complexity
of mobile networks.
The solution is currently generally focused
on developing countries where the logistical
and organizational challenges are greatest.
Nasctech is operating in over 20 countries,
including the Philippines, the US and Haiti.
Mr Peter McEntee
T: 087 9785135
W: www.nasctech.com
Nomos is a niche software company
specialising
in
solutions
to
assure
compliance
of
business
data
with
international standards such as the
ISO20022 and XBRL financial standards.
The testing solutions support financial
institutions and corporations migrating to
new standards such as the Euro-wide SEPA
payments scheme.
The aim is to simplify the test process,
providing IT teams with easy-to-use cloud
test services to detect and resolve quality
and compliance issues with files and
interfaces. Testing is more essential than
ever as the increasing volumes of online
transactions makes manual intervention to
recover
from
transaction
failures
impossible.
Nomos Software builds and hosts test
services for clients, and licenses the
framework to companies that wish to
build and host their own test services.
The software is used by US and
European banks, as well as a number of
US aerospace companies. Nomos has a
distribution agreement with NoMagic,
one of the leading vendors of software
modelling products in the US.
Ms Tricia Balfe
T: 021 4928945
W: www.nomos-software.com
OmniMotion Ltd (www.omnimotion.ie) is an
award-winning
entertainment
and
technology company specializing in the key
emerging category of “motion control.”
OmniMotion has developed a disruptive,
patented, multi-platform technology that
brings
motion
control
and
gesture
recognition to any device with a basic frontfacing camera — mobile phones, tablet
computers, laptops.
This technology, which comes as an openstandard plug-in that compliments a host of
developer engines and operating systems,
means that users no longer need to buy a
console,
expensive
peripherals
and
premium software to discover and enjoy
this more immersive and engaging interface
experience.
Apart from being hardware-independent
and backwards compatible, OmniMotion’s
solution is more versatile and resilient,
operating at multiple distances, in changing
lighting conditions and tracking multiple
objects, all delivered with lighter processor
demands.
Finally, in addition to its R&D functions,
OmniMotion offers content development
services to the games, health, education
and display advertising industries, creating
games, simulations and applications for
clients, including the Olympic Movement,
News Corp and Adidas.
A beta version of the technology is also now
available to developers in an SDK [software
development kit] for integration into their
own projects.
Mr Niall Austin
T: 01 6334674
W: www.omnimotion.ie
OneLook Systems develops SafePermit, a
software system designed to enhance the
permit to work and contractor management
process used in manufacturing, public
utilities and the oil and gas sectors.
Advanced
reporting
and
mapping
functionality allows our customers to
have complete visibility on what work is
taking place on their site or across an
entire business region.
By deploying this lean electronic system,
companies
dramatically
reduce
time
consuming and error prone paper processes
while ensuring each permit and contractor
coming on site is fully compliant with the
customer's safety rules and regulations.
SafePermit
is
used
by
global
multinationals
and
public
utilities
located in Ireland and has a rapidly
expanding customer base in European
and North American markets.
SafePermit monitors each permit created
and contractor coming on site, alerting the
customer to potential compliance issues
and safety hazards, and identifying
scheduling conflicts before they occur.
Mr Pat King
T: 021 4883084
W: www.onelooksystems.com
Opertunes Ltd, trading as Protunes, is a
B2B music service, that combines many
sources of music available for the music or
media professional into one indexed supply.
Protunes is a 360-degree solution for the
music industry linking the global supply of
licensable music content to thousands of
Protunes professional users in advertising
agencies, broadcast, post-production and
more.
Protunes is independent of any music or
media organisation, label, publisher or
content provider.
Labels, libraries, songwriters and music
artists get instant global exposure and
opportunities.
Music
and
media
professionals get direct access to
millions of tracks and can now find
relevant music.
Mr Declan Mohan
T: 087 2529215
W: www.protunes.com
Pbxwall
is
an
innovative
anti-fraud
technology that blocks PBX hacking and
stops toll fraud. Our mission is to protect
the enterprise from toll fraud and empower
the value-added resellers (VARs) of PBX
systems to retain and acquire customers by
installing a Pbxwall on their customer's
voice network. Backed by our world-class
R&D division, we have developed the first
anti-fraud firewall system of its kind for
real-time detection and automated blocking
of toll fraud.
Pbxwall protects businesses from the
significant financial consequences and
reputational losses associated with PBX
hacking. Unlike existing preventative
solutions, Pbxwall guarantees that all
fraudulent call activity is in real time
automatically detected and blocked.
Often referred to as the “telecom’s
industry’s
dirty
little
secret,”
PBX
hacking/telephone system fraud allows
hackers to easily breech a PBX if not
protected. The intention of a hacker is to
generate thousands of calls from premium
rate numbers for personal financial gains at
the expense of the compromised business.
Mr Paul Byrne
Pbxwall is the global solution to a global
problem.
T: 01 2057999
W: http://www.pbxwall.com
Pension Source is focused
occupational
group
pension
market in the UK and Ireland.
on the
schemes
Pension Source is targeting the SME market
in Ireland and the UK. Specifically it is
targeting occupational pension schemes for
companies with between 10 and 100
employees. This service is not currently
available to small pension schemes.
More generally, Source believes that its
product is cost effective, and that it will
allow small pension funds to be effectively
“self-administered,”
that
is
managed
independently, where in the past they
would have been subsumed into larger
pooled funds.
Mr Adrian Daly
T: 01 6318540
W: www.source-company.ie
Qstream is a real-time learning analytics
platform developed at Harvard University; it
is designed to improve the retention of
skills and knowledge. Qstream is a mobile
project led by an Irish expat based in
Boston.
The company provides a proprietary and
patented
sales
performance
solution
delivered via the cloud to mobile devices
that is fun to use and takes only minutes a
day.
Today Qstream is in use by tens of
thousands of users around the world in
a dozen languages.
The company focuses predominantly on
large salesforces in the life sciences and
high-tech sectors.
Mr Duncan Lennox
T: 01-687-7004 ext. 7001
W: www.qstream.com
Sales6ix.com provides sales people and
managers with a proven tool that within 48
hours puts the entire sales team in control
of the three things that really drive sales —
activity, pipeline and forecast. These are
the universal sales challenges and to date
there has been no single, and certainly no
proven, smart tool that puts the sales
person in firm control of their activity,
pipeline and forecast.
Now there is a tool. It’s smart. It’s
simple. And it has 30 years of on-theground application behind it. It just
works.
Visit
the
product
http://go.sales6ix.com/
Mr Patrick Cody
T: 01 6518860 or 086 8217150
W: www.salesystem.com
live:
SalonAddict
is
a
Dublin-based
web
technology start-up which develops and
markets an innovative online service which
allows users to find and book hair and
beauty appointments online.
SalonAddict provides salons with an online
platform
to
receive
and
manage
appointments
made
by
users
on
SalonAddict.ie and SalonAddict.co.uk. Users
benefit from a search by area and service
layout and from helpful third-party salon
reviews made by other SalonAddict users.
Appointments can be made online by
choosing a suitable salon, service, date and
time and by paying a reservation deposit on
the website. Salons use the platform to
entice additional bookings and often
provide exclusive discounts on their
services for sale on SalonAddict.
The company was founded in Dublin in
2011 and expanded its service to the
much larger UK market in mid-2012.
SalonAddict focuses on providing the
best online booking technologies to
salons and in 2013 the company
launched its “Reservation Widget,”
which allows salons to manage and
receive online bookings made on their
own websites. The new product has had
a very successful launch in Ireland with
some
top
salon
names
already
subscribing to the technology. UK
launch of the “Reservation Widget” is
slated for March 2013.
Mr Cormac McNamara
T: 01 2938827
W: www.salonaddict.ie
Sanctum Technologies develops highly
disruptive software systems and platforms
aimed at the software defined networking
(SDN) and cloud computing markets. Its
products are based on next generation,
high
performance,
low-energy
consumption, multi-core processors from
US company Tilera. Sanctum has just
released its latest product which is the first
NetBSD operating system built for the
world’s highest performance/watt multicore processor.
Sanctum will also soon be announcing
their new SDN-based cloud controller
product, Jupiter, built over NetBSD and
Tilera’s 36 core processor.
Sanctum Technologies is establishing a
new development centre in Dundalk,
Co. Louth, and is looking to recruit
talented engineers to join its existing
team of world-class software and multicore systems engineers.
Mr Paul O' Callaghan
T: 01 4575000
W: www.sanctumnetworks.com
Sarsol Ltd, trading as Redeem&Get, has
developed an online platform, which allows
businesses or merchants that run daily deal
voucher
campaigns
manage
these
campaigns more efficiently.
The Redeem&Get platform offers daily
deal publishers a solution for their
customers. The solution allows the deal
buyer to schedule their appointment
quickly and efficiently.
Since the launch of the most successful
daily deal site Groupon, there has been an
explosion of websites offering time-limited
vouchers with up to 80% price reductions
for local business services, including
hairdressers, beauty saloons, restaurants
and hotels. Daily deal campaigns are an
effective marketing tool used to attract new
customers.
It allows merchants capture redemption
voucher details, schedule appointments
during downtimes, capture contact
details and utilise a marketing layer,
which offers database management for
later stage email or mobile marketing
campaigns.
An acknowledged problem has been the
ability of merchants to effectively manage
the influx of new customers as deals must
reach a minimum of 100 sales, and to
capitalise on converting these first time
customers to repeat customers.
- 2011 Winner of the Spark of Genius
Award at the Dublin Web Summit.
- 2012 Winner of Irish Internet
Association Most Indispensable Cloud
Service for SME's.
Mr Gene Murphy
T: 086 2810608
W: www.redeemandget.com
Scurri.com (Scurri Web Services Ltd)
gathers, manages and measures delivery
data for e-commerce merchants. Reducing
shopping cart abandonment, increasing
customer satisfaction ratings and saving on
delivery costs. Scurri improves the world of
e-logistics by taking the complexity out of
managing the delivery of goods for ecommerce merchants.
Scurri reduces the complexity of connecting
e-commerce merchants who are shipping
physical goods with a wide range of parcel
carriers. By using the Scurri cloud-based
platform e-commerce merchants use the
technology
to
apply
rules
that allow them to pick the optimum carrier
for each individual shipment, significantly
reducing
shipping
costs.
Deep integrations for domestic and
international carriers to the Scurri platform
allows e-commerce merchants to also
monitor status of parcels, improving
customer
service
and
enabling
management to measure carriers against
key delivery KPIs [key performance
indicators].
Mr Rory O'Connor
T: 051 596044
W: www.scurri.com
SmartBuilder Software Ltd sells a webbased tablet and PC software system called
SmartBuilder1 for use in construction,
engineering and infrastructure. The system
is used in-field for accessing information
and for capturing and communicating
information to others.
Inspections are
carried out on touch-screen tablets, defects
are captured and subcontractors are
actioned from in-field.
The system cuts the cost of managing
subcontractors
and
writing
reports,
eliminates costs involved in repeated return
visits to the site office, speeds project
delivery and helps firms hand over projects
with minimal defects. It provides access to
cross-project data from any location as it is
cloud based.
SmartBuilder1 provides a
valuable audit trail of all defects and issues
including delays and also a set of analytical
reports that help improve quality of the
supply chain.
Mr Peter Daly
T: 01 7163585
W: http://www.smartbuilder1.com
Soundwave Analytics Ltd has developed a
music analytics platform which gathers
valuable data for the music industry,
allowing them to see who is listening to
what music and where in real time. The
free smartphone application allows music
enthusiasts to discover music and keep up
with latest trends and releases whilst
extracting data that will empower the music
industry with actionable insights.
Digital music sales are set to exceed
traditional music CD sales for the first time
in 2012/13, with estimates that they will
reach £5bn sales. The rise in smartphones
is a catalyst behind the digital music surge.
Apple’s 99 cent songs on their iTunes store
and a host of streaming, discovery and
sharing products such as Spotify and
Deezer
have
dramatically
changed
traditional music purchasing habits.
With estimates that significant levels of
music continue to be downloaded
illegally and with streaming services and
sales set to grow as a leading music
revenue stream, the industry can no
longer rely on physical music sales,
either as CDs or digital downloads, to
track the true popularity of particular
artists or singles.
Music enthusiasts can see in real time
the music that their friends or favourite
musicians are listening to and can also
see real-time trends by
plugging into
different locations.
Users can then
access a 30 second preview within the
Soundwave app and are given a link to
direct them to purchase the song.
Mr Brendan O'Driscoll
T: 087 2631943
W: www.soundwave.me
SourceDogg is an easy to use e-sourcing
software application that gives B2B buyers
the information and tools to find, evaluate,
negotiate with and manage suppliers. It is
sold on a software-as-a-service (SaaS)
basis.
SourceDogg is a new breed of
software for business procurement, with
simplicity, affordability and transparency at
the heart of the procurement user
experience.
The company offers a mix of software and
value-added services such as spend
analysis and outsourced procurement.
Although an early stage company, it has
unusually high employment potential
and is growing fast.
The company was established in 2009
and has been part of the Nucleus VP
holding group since 2011. Alan Phelan is
the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and
Emmet Donnelly is Chief Technical
Officer (CTO). They have assembled an
impressive management team which is
scaling the company significantly in
2013.
Mr Alan Phelan
T: 01 9015093
W: www.sourcedogg.com
Tranzaura provides innovative technology
solutions to the transport and distribution
sector. The company’s award winning
TranzTacho and TranzSafety software
solutions allow transport companies to
manage their tachograph compliance and
daily safety check obligations in real time
resulting in greater driver efficiency, up to
75% lower administration costs and
reduction in vehicle downtime.
The Tranzaura vision is to become a
world leader in the supply of driver
management software to the transport
and logistics industry. The company was
founded in 2009 and is backed by senior
software
and
transport
industry
professionals.
Mr Mel Hurley
T: 0818 287387
W: www.tranzaura.com
Upfront Analytics (UFA) delivers timely
market intelligence by mining specially
designed gameplay. As players play our
mobile app, The Pryz Manor, we gather
data on their awareness, sentiment and
behaviour towards products and brands at a
level of continuous engagement and scale
impossible
with
traditional
research
methods. The games are engaging and
entertaining (90% of gameplay is unrelated
to market-intelligence gathering) and
players may win real-world prizes.
Interactive reports based on player
responses are then generated to help
companies effectively plan and forecast.
UFA is targeting companies with major
brands in competitive industries with
large market-research and social-media
budgets.
Mr Joe Marks
T: 086 2515417
W: www.ufa.ie
VideoElephant Ltd was founded in 2011 as
an online B2B marketplace to buy and sell
both long- and short-form video content.
VideoElephant
allows
professional
producers to sell their content to web
publishers, mobile operators, video on
demand (VOD), internet protocol TV (IPTV),
the
specialist
market
such
as
inflight/instore displays, and broadcasters.
For buyers, VideoElephant provides a
centralised marketplace to cater for all their
video content requirements, reducing the
need for lengthy negotiations and contract
exchanges. For producers, VideoElephant
offers both the platform to sell their content
online and the tools to market and promote
it. This provides an extra revenue stream
as all content is sold on a non-exclusive
basis.
Web publishers, mobile operators and
VOD platforms need professionally
produced video content. Currently,
buyers have to deal through offline
distributors or with individual producers
to try and find the appropriate content.
In order to purchase video content, the
current process is to source the content
from a multitude of available producers,
wait
to
receive
screeners/DVDs,
negotiate pricing and sign written
contracts. The current process is almost
entirely offline and can take up to three
months or longer to complete.
Mr Stephen O'Shaughnessy
T: 01 9022511
W: www.videoelephant.com
Vitar Software International Ltd was formed
in February 2010 by Peter Plant, CEO. The
company has developed an award winning,
cloud-based enterprise software application
called “Vitar Visitor Manager”. A single
instance, multi-tenant, multi-lingual webbased SaaS solution. Pricing is based on a
pay-as-you-go, visit credits system. The
Vitar solution includes Vitar Express self
check-in
for
touch
screen.
Paying
customers include Ford Motor Company,
Smurfitt Kappa and Imperial Tobacco.
As pioneers in cloud-based visitor
management, the Vitar VM product was
designed from a clean sheet of paper to
include the best parts of both paperbased and locally installed electronic
solutions, with a SaaS application in
mind. It is hosted on the Amazon EC2
platform.
Mr Peter Plant
T: 01 4016780
W: www.vitarsoftware.com
Wattics software as a service has patented
and commercialised a unique solution that
tracks, manages and benchmarks the cost
of electrical machines and appliances in
industrial and commercial sites.
Wattics has developed a solution for
businesses
to
identify
appliances
consumption directly from the electricity
panel and identify savings opportunities
instantly.
The solution has offered major savings,
25% in some cases. Wattics provides its
cloud-based solution to blue chip clients in
the manufacturing, hospitality and public
building sectors. The company today has
been trading successfully in Ireland and the
UK, and has recently started selling in the
Middle East, South Africa and Switzerland.
Mr Antonio Ruzzelli
T: 353 87 4105486
W: www.wattics.com
WholeWorldBand
Godley in 2011.
was
set
up
by
Kevin
WholeWorldBand is a platform where
anyone can earn money by recording their
own music or adding to someone else's in
sound and vision. Through the app and
platform, fans are able to collaborate with
their favourite artists by purchasing a
recording session with the artist.
An artist will contribute a “seed track”
(audio and video) to the WWB platform.
Through the audio and video capabilities of
mobile and other devices users can record
and film themselves adding their own
contribution to this track, the outcome
being a video montage or mosaic of the
user playing alongside the artist.
To illustrate, an artist could upload
vocals and guitar to one of his
unfinished tracks to the WWB platform.
Users upload their contribution to the
track by playing an instrument or by
singing lead or backing vocals. Users
can also use the contributions of other
artists/users to create a video montage
of up to 6 contributions. Users keep
their montage private or publish it to a
social platform, such as YouTube or
Facebook.
Mr John Holland
T: 01 4433488
W: www.wholeworldband.com
WorldIrish has developed a secondgeneration niche social network. It provides
a content platform which connects the Irish
diaspora worldwide in one location on the
web.
Aside from the growing group of Irish-born
living abroad, the broader, 50-million online
Irish diaspora is widely dispersed. Until
now, they have had no virtual home and
there has been no direct route for brands to
reach this market. WorldIrish is bringing
these groups together and are partners
with the leading organisations in this space
like the GAA, the FAI and Leinster Rugby.
WorldIrish is a place for people with a
strong common interest in Ireland and
Irishness to come together, read stories,
watch videos, share their own stories and
connect with each other.
Based on semantic technology,
WorldIrish recognises a user’s
interests to direct relevant content to them.
WorldIrish offers a unique opportunity
to connect with this previously difficultto-reach group of Irish people and those
who have a strong affinity to Ireland, its
music, literature, dance, sport, food,
culture and people.
The platform will also showcase Irish
crafts and products, tourism, travel and
genealogy services in conjunction with
select partners.
Mr Michael Branagan
T: 01 8044725
W: www.worldirish.com
Kantan is a subscription-based, highly
secure,
personalised
MT
[machine
translation] service. Our members are
localisation service providers that want to
use MT to increase productivity, improve
quality and earn more money!
Using machine translation improves the
productivity of our members, helping them
improve their margins and be more
profitable.
KantanMT is a cloud-based platform and is
a
statistical
machine
translation
environment. While traditional machine
translation systems are complex, costly and
challenging to use, Kantan is simple, easy
to access and inexpensive to subscribe to.
KantanMT.com launched in September
2012 and currently has over 400 active
members.
Mr Tony O'Dowd
T: 01 7007874
W: www.xcelerator.ie
Founded in 2009, Zapa Technology
provides a full customer experience
management (CEM) solution that enables
retailers and mobile operators to engage
with their customers and personalise their
experience of brand and value.
Zapa's CEM solution is designed to
empower retailers and mobile operators to
increase revenue through customer insights
that enable the delivery of timely,
personalised communication of offers,
enhancing customer loyalty and increasing
customer lifetime value.
Zapa Technology has a proven track record
of
providing
customer
experience
management solutions which deliver a
minimum five-times return on investment.
Zapa’s uniquely innovative solutions help
their clients to increase revenue and margin
by:
•
Creating a unique activity profile for
every customer in real time across
all touchpoints.
•
•
•
•
•
•
Measuring
and
increasing
customer lifetime value.
Retaining and growing highvalue customers.
Managing customer defection or
lapsing behaviour.
Personalising targeted and timely
offers to drive and influence
customer buying behaviour
Personalising
the
Customer
experience of value through
regular
individualised
communication of the value
experience
Attracting the customers of
competitors.
Mr Brendan Walsh
T: 01 2134700
W: www.zapatechnology.com
Zinc Software Ltd develops and markets
mobile healthcare products. The company
has developed a series of mobile games
based on the measurement of a person’s
heart activity. The measurement is made
with a small pulse-oximeter that is
connected to the user’s earlobe. The pulseoximeter uses Bluetooth to send signals to
a smartphone. The hardware has been
designed by the company and is being
prepared for full manufacture at this stage.
Zinc Software’s ZSensor™ is a wireless
biosensor
that
uses
pulse
oximetry
technology
to
measure
heart
rate
accurately at the ear. Pulse oximetry is the
difference in absorption of light by
oxygenated
and
non-oxygenated
haemoglobin in blood and it allows blood
flow to be tracked by shining infrared light
through
blood
vessels.
The ZSensor clips onto an earlobe and,
once powered on, it immediately starts
transmitting heart pulse data to a
Bluetooth-enabled
smartphone.
The
ZSensor has broad application, ranging
from
heart
arrhythmia
detection
to
biofeedback games. Zinc is targeting
licensing partners in a number of vertical
markets.
Mr Darran Hughes
T: 087 2646640
W: www.zincsoftware.com
Industrial & Lifesciences
Medical Devices and Pharmaceuticals
Company Name
Main Activity
County
Bioplastech Ltd
Manufacture of
bioplastics
Dublin
Blueacre
Technologoy Ltd
Laser Machining
Systems,
Contract Laser,
Micromachining,
Product
Engineering
Louth
Clinical
Reasearch Tcjw
Ireland Ltd
Clincial research
organisation for
clincial trials and
biorepository
Dublin
Inflection
Biosciences Ltd
Cancer drug
development
Dublin
Ithree Sixty
Medical Ltd
Medical device
innovation
generation &
development
Dublin
Oncomark Ltd
Cancer
companion
diagnostics
Dublin
Profector Life
Sciences Ltd
Provider of a
specialised
scientific
research device
Dublin
Suas Hoists
Design &
manufacture of
compact portable
medical hoists
Cavan
Website
N/A
www.blueacretechnology.com
www.clinicalresearchireland.com
www.inflectionbio.com
www.i360medical.com
www.oncomark.com
www.profector.com
www.suashoists.com
Bioplastech Limited is a spin-out from UCD. The
firm has developed a method to produce
biodegradable plastic from a range of waste
streams.
Bioplastech has licensed production techniques
and polymer blends from UCD to produce
plastic packaging and other higher value
applications in medical devices.
Mr Alexis Pacquit
T: 01 7161515
W: N/A
Blueacre Technology is specialised in the
development and manufacture of dedicated,
highly
accurate,
laser
micromachining
equipment used to process various polymers,
metals, ceramics and glass, primarily for the
medical device industry.
Blueacre Technology was founded in 2006 by
Dr. David Gillen, providing a dedicated, highquality laser processing and consulting service.
Through continuous investment in research and
development
and
engineering,
Blueacre
Technology now provides laser micromachining
systems that are among the most advanced on
the market.
With extensive design experience in lasers,
micromachining, vision systems and software
interfacing, Blueacre Technology is able to offer
its customers highly sophisticated solutions to
the most demanding engineering problems.
By combining its interdisciplinary knowledge
and passion for quality, Blueacre Technology is
ideally placed to advise its customers on the
optimum laser manufacturing processes and
machine configurations for their products.
Blueacre's areas of expertise include lasers and
optics; machine vision control and inspection;
machine integration; interfacing of software and
hardware, automation and customised part
handling; and the design and supply of OEM
solutions.
Dr. David Gillen
T: 042 9386922
W: www.blueacretechnology.com
Clinical Research Ireland was founded in 2012
to aid the therapeutic, diagnostic and
biotechnology research communities in the
execution of clinical trials and the acquisition of
human biological specimens.
Our mission is to be an international centre of
excellence in the delivery of clinical trials and
provision of high-quality specimens and data
while assisting pharmaceutical and diagnostic
companies in bringing new products to the
market in a professional manner. Together with
our public and private partners, we hope to
catalyse research that translates today’s
discoveries
into
tomorrow’s
healthcare
solutions.
Clinical Research Ireland is an independent
Clinical
Research
and
Biorepository
Organisation. Our expert team specialises in the
site-sourcing, planning, management and
execution of Phase II–IV clinical trials, ranging
from small studies to supporting larger clinical
research organisations in the running of more
complex, multinational projects.
We collect and store biological samples and
associated data, which are then made available
to research organisations investigating new
diagnostics and treatments for diseases.
Clinical Research Ireland provides customised
services, which can be deployed on a
standalone basis or as part of an integrated fullservice solution.
Mr Ted Cannon
T: 085 8700317 / 086 8548566
W: www.clinicalresearchireland.com
Inflection Biosciences is an early stage, drug
development company with a focus on
developing
innovative
small
molecule
therapeutics that address major unmet needs in
cancer.
With bases in Dublin and London, the company
is dedicated to identifying excellent early stage
cancer research from academic institutes and
companies
around
the
world.
Inflection
Biosciences will use its expertise to progress the
most promising programs through pre-clinical
and early clinical stages, partnering with larger
pharma for later stage clinical development and
commercialisation.
The company’s founders, including CEO Darren
Cunningham and Director of R&D Dr. Michael
O’Neill, bring over 60 years of industry
experience along with access to a global
network of potential partners and service
providers.
Mr Darren Cunningham
T: 01 4003615
W: www.inflectionbio.com
i360medical focuses on improved healthcare
outcomes
arising
from
the
conception,
development and commercialization of new
medical device technologies. The company
networks with clinicians, medical professionals,
academia and engineers to source new unmet
clinical needs and new ideas for medical
devices.
The company also conceives and develops new
medical device ideas in-house.
i360medical provides its own 6 phase process to
global medical device companies and SMEs on a
professional fee basis.
i360medical intends to harness and leverage its
extensive and relevant contact base of industry
experts, influential clinicians and global medical
device players to forward Irish-based initiatives
and
medical
device
inventions
through
development, clinical trial to CE mark and FDA
approval and commercialisation, both in the US
and EU markets.
i360medical differentiates by looking to all
specialties and brings all specialist supports for
the inventor and invention specifically in clinical,
technical, academic, market and financial
sectors. i360medical leverages its international
client base to pre-sell and promote projects
from the outset.
Mr Derek Young
T: 01 4022709
W: www.i360medical.com
OncoMark Ltd is a UCD spin-out that develops
companion diagnostic tests to support cancer
drug development. Companion diagnostics allow
pharmaceutical companies to select patients for
which a drug may be particularly effective
(patient stratification).
The company has a portfolio of diagnostic tests
in development, covering some of the key
cancer types (breast, colorectal, prostate,
melanoma), supported by €3.9m in EU R&D
funding. There are currently 12 employees
funded through 6 grants.
The test can also be used during clinical trials to
help reduce the numbers of patients required to
complete a clinical trial and its duration, while
also increasing the likelihood that the trial will
be successful. The end result is improved
outcome for cancer patients.
The company was founded by Prof. William
Gallagher in UCD and is led by Dr. Mairin
Rafferty, the CEO/COO. The company has a
strong advisory board, which includes Prof. John
Crown and Prof. Bryan Hennessy.
Dr Mairin Rafferty
T: 01 7163668
W: www.oncomark.com
Profector Life Sciences (PLS) was established in
2012 as a development stage life sciences
business focused on leveraging its patent
pending
and
transformative
electrospray
platform
technology
to
develop
and
commercialise a range of best-in-class cell
transfection device solutions.
Transfection is the term used to describe the
process of introducing nucleic acid (DNA, RNAi,
siRNA) into cells and is a core activity carried on
in
commercial
and
academic
research
laboratories. The technology, which is the result
of seven years of primary research funded
through academic grants, was licensed from the
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM)
in 2012.
PLS
has
developed
three
products
—
Sprayfector™, Spraycell™ and Spraybase™ —
that are variants of the electrostray platform
technology and are targeted at different
customer needs in the cell transfection market.
PLS has already commenced sales of Spraycell
and Spraybase and is optimising its key product
Sprayfector, expecting to commercially launch
the product in third quarter 2013.
Dr. Michael Maguire
T: 087 8260763
W: www.profector.com
Atlas Portable Compact Hoists (APCH) was
established in 2011 by Kieran Byron and
Michael O’Rourke to design, manufacture and
supply portable compact hoists for the
immobile, disabled and aged markets primarily.
The brand and website name used is SUAS.
Mr Kieran Byron
T: 049 9524922 / 083 3000040
W: www.suashoists.com
Industrial & Life Sciences
Company Name
Activation
Energy DSU Ltd
Adaptive HVM
Ltd
ALR Innovation
Ltd
Main Activity
Software & systems
to facilitate
electricity supply
demand needs
Solutions and
services across a
range of strategic
areas including:
Search, Placement,
Quality, Engineering,
Manufacturing,
Supply Chain,
HR, Finance,
Administration and
Training
Automated recycling
technology for Liquid
Crystal Display
(LCD) units
County
Web Page
Dublin
www.activationenergy.ie
Dublin
www.adaptivehvm.com
Limerick
www.ALR.ie
Company Name
Automation
Technology
Symmetries Ltd
Boru Stoves
Edenshelters
Products Ltd
Exergyn
Galu Ltd
Main Activity
County
Web Page
Sligo
www.automationtechnology.ie
Manufacturers of
multi fuel stoves
Tipperary
www.borustoves.ie
Transitional
shelter solutions
Carlow
N/A
Dublin
www.exergyn.com
Dublin
www.galu.ie
Robotic/servo
based equipment
for Medical divice,
Automotive,
Electronic and
Manufacturing
sectors
Waste heat
recovery and
conversion to
power greentech/industri
al power sectors
Manufacture of
innovative
accumulator tanks
Company Name
Gesaky
GrassOmeter
Greentecch
Plastics Ltd
Infiniled Ltd
Kerry
Abrasives Ltd
Main Activity
Development of
a new
interactive
mirror for the
retail sector
Innovative
equipment for
measuring and
recording grass
growth
Recycling and
manufacture of
plastic products
The design,
manufacture &
sale of LED
based optical
and illumination
modules
Manufacture of
bonded
abrasives
County
Web Page
Dublin
www.gesaky.com
Mayo
www.grassometer.com
Limerick
greentechplasticsltd.com
Cork
www.infiniled.com
Kerry
www.kerryabrasives.com
Company Name
KLIXXN
Noviled High
Technology
Lighting Ltd
ODG
Technologies
Ltd
Main Activity
Design of
enclosures for
multiple uses,
eg in electrical
& electronic box
manufacture
LED Luminiare
design and
production for
general
lighting
applications
An innovative
developer of
accessories for
the public
safety industry
Sunengen Ltd
Refrigeration
Process R&D
Wood Energy
Solutions
Biomass Pellet
Boiler
Manufacturer
County
Website
Westmeath
www.benedictresearch.com
Meath
www.noviledlight.com
Cork
www.odgtechnologies.com
Dublin
www.sunengen.com
Tipperary
www.woodenergysolutions.co.uk
Activation Energy DSU (AE) was established in
2010, and offers a demand response (DR)
service to grid operators like Eirgrid by reducing
the energy consumption of large industrial users
— typically mines and refrigeration facilities —
at peak times.
AE uses technology to identify, forecast,
aggregate and manage the dispatchable
(reducible) capacity of large users in response
to demand from Eirgrid.
The
business
was
founded
by
former
Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)
consultant and chartered energy manager
Patrick Liddy. CEO Aidan McDonnell was the
founder of F4 Energy, the largest installer of
combined heat and power (CHP) in Ireland
before he sold the company in 2010.
Mr Patrick Liddy
T: 01 4428801
W: www.activationenergy.ie
Founded in November 2009, Adaptive HVM is a
professional services business offering a range
of services to the ICT, semcionductor,
healthcare and pharma industries. This includes
change
implementation,
IT
project
management, talent search and placement, as
well as contracting expert resources and Lean
Six Sigma productivity consulting.
Customers include Global Foundries, Amgen,
SolarPrint,
Alta
Devices,
Allergan
Pharmaceuticals and Trinity College Dublin.
Mr Patrick Hickey
T: 01 4498140
W: www.adaptivehvm.com
ALR Innovations Ltd is a spin-out from the
University of
Limerick. The company has
developed an automated recycling technology
for Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) units.
The technology is the first of its kind and is a
fully automated solution to the problem of
removing hazardous materials from waste
LCDs. The opportunity is directly driven by
international regulatory directives on the
mandatory removal of hazardous materials from
LCDs.
ALR Innovations won the Best High Growth
Company at the InterTrade-Ireland Seedcorn
Competition in 2011. In 2012, ALR won the
Limerick Enterprise Accelereation Award from
Limerick Institute of Technology.
Dr Lisa O'Donoghue
T: 087 7420639
W: www.alr.ie
Automation Technology Services Ltd is a
dynamic automation company based in Sligo.
Its specialist area is in the production of
robotic/servo based equipment for medical
device,
automotive
and
electronic
manufacturing sectors.
APS produces a range of specialist technology
which has global applications in RFID inlay
manufacture for smart card manufacturers.
Mr Garreth Finlay
T: 071 9118808
W: www.automationtechnology.ie
Righpur Ltd, trading as Boru Stoves, was
established in 2007 in Golden, Co. Tipperary,
for the manufacture of solid multi-fuel stoves
for home and office heating.
Boru Stoves can burn logs, turf or coal. They
show a flame through a glass front and emit hot
air. They capture up to 83% of heat generated,
compaired to 15%-30% for open fires and as
such are highly efficient. Cost-conscious
consumers are making the changeover from
open fires to stoves.
The owners are Dermot and Edward Fitzgerald,
a father and son team. Prior to start up both
promoters had extensive careers in the heating
and plumbing industry in manufacturing,
installation, retailing and distribution.
Mr Dermot Fitzgerald
T: 0504 42272
W: www.borustoves.ie
EdenShelters Products Ltd (EPL) founded in
2012 is developing a modular shelter structure
for use in disaster relief by international aid
agencies. The system has been designed for
fast deployment and has an innovative
framework enabling easy conversion from a
tent into a permanent structure if required.
The United Nations estimates that there will be
375 million people rendered homeless by
natural and man-made disasters by 2015, with
an annual estimated spend of $200m by
governments and NGOs on tents and housing
for people affected by disasters, poverty and
conflicts.
This functionality of the product has been
designed to support disaster-affected people
from initial emergency to when they are able to
rebuild longer term housing. The EPL framing
system can be re-used for housing.
Mr Immanuel Darkwa
T: 087 7469283
W: N/A
Established in February 2012, Exergyn is an
early stage R&D company which is developing
technology to recover energy from low-grade
waste heat, below 100°C.
The technology is expected to produce high
power-density output at a low cost, making it
highly commercial and reducing end-user fuel
usage and carbon emissions. Initial prototype
results are promising.
Potential markets include: combined heat and
power (CHP), geothermal, power plants, cargo
shipping, solar thermal, data centres, nuclear
and autos.
Excluding autos, these markets have a global
installed capacity of c.6.2m MW.
If Exergyn's planned technology were applied to
this output in its entirety, the potential (carbon
free) increase in output would be c.165,000
MW. At a (standard) price per kW of €1,000,
this suggests a potential global market of
€165bn.
The initial target market will be large-scale CHP
units, which can lose up to 25% of fuel energy
via low-grade waste heat.
Mr Alan Healy
T: 086 8361331
W: www.exergyn.com
Galú designs, manufactures and supplies
innovative,
high-quality
thermal
stores/accumulator tanks throughout Ireland,
the UK and beyond.
Thermal stores differ from conventional hot
water tanks as they are considerably more
thermally efficient, as well as being capable of
accepting energy from several heat sources
such as solar, heat pumps and biomass.
Mr Cormac McHugh
T: 087 2361212
W: www.galu.ie
RFID Technology Ltd, trading as Gesaky
Interactive, was established in April 2011 by
Alan Kearney to commercialise its new product,
the Gesaky Interactive Mirror.
This mirror combines multiple types of
technologies working together, including RFID,
facial recognition, TV/mirror technology, remote
access communication and database building.
The Gesaky Interactive Mirror is targeting a
niche market in the fashion sector. The mirror
is primarily used by retailers as a tool to
increase their turnover through cross sales and
allows their customers a unique interactive
shopping experience in store. The mirror will
also determine the customer demographics
within the retail store and use all the data
collected to produce daily retail analytics for the
store.
This data is then used by the stores for product
launches and social media campaigns.
The mirror is designed to interactively display
all images of the clothes worn by a customer
and
to
produce
real
images
of
the
recommended accessories that can be worn
with that piece of clothing.
The mirror was showcased at the London
Olympics in 2012 and was launched in Arnotts,
Ireland's largest department store, in October
2012. The company is currently working with a
number of companies internationally to roll-out
the Gesaky Interactive Mirror.
Mr Alan Kearney
T: 01 5240034 087 2523838
W: www.gesaky.com
Monford Ag Systems Ltd is a new company
whose initial product, the Grassometer, is an
innovative device for measuring and recording
grass growth.
The Grassometer, which can be worn on a boot
or mounted on a stick, uses ultrasound to
measure grass height and density. Linked to an
accelerometer, the device takes a sweep of
measurements which are then linked back to
the cloud via an app on the farmer's mobile
phone.
Measurements are automatically linked to a
social data network allowing farmers and
corporate customers to share the collected
data, benchmark performance and improve
efficiency and profitability.
Mr Steven Lock
T: 086 1730787
W: www.grassometer.com
Greentech Plastics Ltd is a new innovative
company
providing
advanced
engineering
solutions to complex problems relating to
plastics reuse & remanufacture.
Greentech has set up a state-of-the-art facility
at the National Technological Park, Limerick,
employing exceptional technology processes in
its production operations.
Greentech will expand its business into the
manufacture of plastics, using its enhanced
design and injection moulding expertise to
produce various types of plastic products, such
as containers for use within the pharmaceutical
industry, manufacturing or the food and
agricultural industry.
Mr Ian Barry
T: 061 331792
W: greentechplasticsltd.com
InfiniLED Limited is a spin-out from the Tyndall
National Institute at UCC. It targets high-value
niche markets which benefit from the unique
performance of the patented MicroLED platform.
Its core competence is the design and
manufacture
of
modules
incorporating
MicroLEDs,
optics
and
the
appropriate
packaging.
The MicroLED is a next generation light source
technology which delivers light efficiently and
accurately into miniature applications.
The MicroLEDs produce a collimated light beam
directly from the chip. They allow 10 times the
coupling efficiency to fit into miniature
applications and are 13 times more power
efficient when compared to a conventional LED
chip.
An individudal pixel is 20 µm in
diameter and the devices are available as single
emitters,
large
clusters
or
individually
addressable
arrays.
The
arrays
enable
applications such as printing, lithography and
DNA synthesis.
The MicroLED technology has been developed
for more that 10 years at the Tyndall National
Institute. The company has obtained a
worldwide
exclusive
license
from
UCC.
InfiniLED have access to the semiconductor
fabrication facilities and expertise of Tyndall,
which allows for fabrication of custom LED
designs.
Mr Joseph O'Keeffe
T: 021 2439222
W: www.infiniled.com
Kerry Abrasives, specialist manufacturers of
bonded abrasives, is committed to creating
customised solutions for its clients. By
incorporating innovative solutions to difficult
metal finishing problems, Kerry Abrasives has
the capability to design, engineer and
manufacture custom-engineered solutions in
their Listowel, Co. Kerry–based production
facility.
The precision engineered cut-off, grinding and
polishing wheels are custom-designed for
specialist applications on all kinds of metal –
from alnico to zirconium to brass, copper, glass,
gold, irridium, nitinol, molybdenum, silver,
tantalum, titanium, tungsten and various exotic
materials.
Over 99% of Kerry Abrasives’ products are
exported to over 30 countries worldwide across
a wide spectrum of precision engineering
industries ranging from automotive and
aerospace to cutlery and hand tools, as well as
medical devices and textiles.
Kerry Abrasives has an established customer
base
supplying
all
types
of
precision
engineering businesses, from family-owned
enterprises to large multinational blue chip
engineering corporations such as Rolls-Royce,
Pratt & Whitney, GE, Victorinox, Saint-Gobain
and Siemens.
Kerry Abrasives is committed to expanding its
customer base by further developing its
products to enter the bearings and glass
industry.
Mr Liam Brosnan
T: 068 23766
W: www.kerryabrasives.com
Benedict Research Company Ltd (BRCL) was
established
in
2009
in
Mullingar,
Co.
Westmeath, to develop an innovative assembly
system of joining rigid sheets of metal together,
called KLIXXN.
KLIXXN’s unique selling point is a method
whereby flat metal sheets simply click together
without the need for nuts, bolts, screws, rivets,
welding or assembly tools and are as easy to
dismantle as they are to assemble.
The initial KLIXXN product, currently being
developed, is the KLIXXN electrical/electronic
enclosure; however, the KLIXXN concept can be
applied to a multitude of end products. The
electrical enclosure market is estimated at €6bn
in Europe alone.
KLIXXN is a generation ahead of its
competitors. The technology enables speed and
simplicity of assembly and disassembly, flatpack
shipping
and
storage,
tailored
interchangeable components and materials,
excellent sealing options and an extremely
robust and aesthetically pleasing system. A
unique and wide range of KLIXXN accessories
allow for a fully integrated system, and with its
efficient
and
eco-friendly
low
cost
manufacturing, KLIXXN has had nothing but
positive feedback from industry experts across
the UK, Ireland and Europe.
Mr Ben Barrett
T: 087 1458573
W: www.benedictresearch.com
Founded in 2012, NoviLED has designed and
put into production its own range of LED
lighting luminaire systems for sale to new build
and retrofit projects in Ireland, the UK and
northern Europe.
Despite the overall market for lighting having
decreased significantly over the last 5 years,
the LED segment is now growing rapidly due to
legislative pressures and an enhanced return on
investment profile due to falling prices as this
technology matures.
In response, NoviLED has developed new LEDbased lighting units to replace fluorescent
lighting assemblies in the ceilings of commercial
offices, retail spaces, industrial areas and
institutions. NoviLED’s products offer significant
performance, economic, energy savings and
carbon reduction advantages over fluorescent
products.
The company continues to add to its product
portfolio and has already completed projects
showing the extent to which its products exceed
the performance levels of traditional lighting
systems.
Mr Dermot Dungan
T: 046 9481872 / 087 2716592
W: www.noviledlight.com
ODG Technologies Ltd was established in 2010
to supply portable radio accessories for sale to
the global public safety market.
The company’s first product is an active noisecancelling handset (speaker microphone) for
mobile radios.
ODG's primary market is first
responders — firefighters and police — in the
public safety industry, particularly in the US.
There are 480,000 handsets sold annually in the
US, which equates to a $33m market. That
does not include an installed base of 4.4 million
users, which offers a significant upgrade
market.
Active noise-cancelling speaker microphones
are new to the industry.
ODG, using "the
world’s most intelligent voice processor"™, can
achieve
unparalled
noise-cancelling
performance when connected to any public
safety radio.
Mr Mark Griffin
T: 021 4928922
W: www.odgtechnologies.com
Sunengen has developed a significantly
improved ammonia absorption refrigeration
process. This enhanced process, called EARS™,
can be driven by a variety of thermal sources
and produces refrigeration output down to -18°,
with a CoP (coefficient of performance)
approaching 0.96, comfortably outperforming
traditional systems.
This performance breakthrough has been
achieved by combining process expertise with
technology from the petrochemical industry and
applying it to the traditional absorption
refrigeration process. This combination has
enabled the technology to operate a leaner
absorption system and thereby achieve a higher
ratio of converting heat into effective
refrigeration.
The process is undergoing patenting worldwide
and the European Patent Office recently
confirmed positive preliminary findings for the
patentability of all of Sunengen's refrigeration
process patent applications.
This technology uses surplus process heat to
generate refrigeration where cooling is required.
The company is now commencing the assembly
of a demonstration unit in Ireland in order to
showcase the technology to prospective
commercial users and licensors. Potential
customers already include those in mining,
power generation, petrochemical and shipping.
Mr William Nesbitt
T: 087 6314429
W: www.sunengen.com
Suirvale Developments trading as Wood Energy
Solutions (WES) is an award winning designer
and manufacturer of biomass boilers.
The company manufactures wood pellet boilers
and already exports 95% of its products to the
UK, Canada, the US and New Zealand.
Boilers manufactured by WES provide carbon
neutral heating through biomass wood pellet
technology.
Mr Gerard Crosse
T: 062 74007
W: www.woodenergysolutions.co.uk
Food & Consumer Products
Company Name
Main Activity
County
Delicious The
Gluten Free
Bakery
Specialist gluten
free bakery
products
Cork
Easy Dry Ltd
Manufacture &
sale of
disposable, ecofriendly,
recyclable &
biodegradable
towels
Louth
Arklu (Ireland)
Ltd, the
company which
has developed
the Lottie brand,
is developing
their own
children’s
entertainment
brands and
bringing them to
market through
product,
publishing,
virtual worlds
and animation
Donegal
Lottie
Website
www.delicious.ie
www.easydry.com
www.arklu.com
Food & Consumer Products
Company Name
Savano
The Handmade
Soap Company
Ltd
Main Activity
County
Design,
manufacture
and installation
of commercial
window blind
systems for
domestic and
overseas
projects
Dublin
Manufacture of
handmade
soaps, body
lotions, bubble
baths, shower
gels etc ....
100% natural
bodycare
products
Meath
Website
www.savanogroup.com
www.thehandmadesoapcompany.ie
Delicious the Gluten Free Bakery (Delicious)
was established in 2008 by Denise O’Callaghan
after her father was diagnosed as coeliac and
she realised that there was a gap in the glutenfree market for a high-quality, tasty bread and
cake offering. It specialises in gluten-free
confectionary
catering
for
coeliacs
and
consumers suffering from food allergies.
Products include a range of premium gateaux,
single portion desserts and a Christmas range.
Gluten-free foods are no longer only for people
with coeliac disease, food allergies and food
intolerances. More and more people who want
to follow a healthier lifestyle are choosing to
eliminate gluten from their diets.
This is evident in recent consumer and retailer
trends, and satisfying the needs of this market
demographic (and their families) is becoming a
higher priority for the main retailers.
The company has built up a strong product
range and customer base and has outgrown its
current premises. It now plans to move to a
larger 7,500 square-foot facility in Little Island,
County Cork, which will enable it increase its
production capacity significantly. Funding is
required to facilitate this move, recruit key hires
and build its UK export business.
Ms Denise O'Callaghan
T: 021 4919583
W: www.delicious.ie
Since it was established in October 2003 by
Anne Butterly, Easydry has revolutionised
industries across the globe that depend on a
constant supply of clean towels such as
hairdressing,
beauty,
gyms,
hotels
and
healthcare.
Super-absorbent
and
hygienic
Easydry
disposable towels are recyclable, biodegradable
and made using eco-friendly processes,
providing
an
affordable,
environmentallyfriendly and convenient alternative to cotton
towels and the relentless grind of laundering
them.
Innovation lies at the heart of the company,
driving forward advances in high-tech fabrics
and developing green and sustainable solutions
for businesses and consumers. The company is
now run by Anne and her brother, Gerard
Butterly, and both have extensive experience in
product
development,
manufacturing,
distribution, international trading, marketing
and branding.
Ms Anne Butterly
T: 042 9394318
W: www.easydry.com
Arklu (Ireland) Ltd is the company which
developed the Lottie brand. It is an innovative
consumer goods business based in Letterkenny,
Co.
Donegal,
which
specialises
in
the
development and sale of children’s toys. This
high potential start-up was registered in Ireland
in 2012.
The business is already trading and has just
launched its second line of dolls which has won
12 international awards and received worldwide
press and social media coverage. Lottie targets
a market niche driven by parental concerns
about daughters being prematurely sexualised,
having negative perceptions of body image and
missing out on essential childhood experiences.
The company’s Managing Director, Ian Harkin,
is a Ballybofey native and qualified accountant
who is returning to Ireland having had previous
founder/director level experience in a rapidly
growing UK-based toy company. Ian is joined in
the business by Creative Director Lucie Follett,
who is FSA qualified and who worked in
investment banking before starting her own
online marketing consultancy, and a panel of
highly experienced advisors.
Arklu
is
establishing
its
operations
in
Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, and will hire a team
of marketing and technical people to drive the
growth of the business through sales and
marketing and product development activities.
Mr Ian Harkin
T: 0044 773923150
W: www.arklu.com
Prism Screens Ltd, trading as Savano, was
originally established in October 2006 to design,
manufacture and install high-end window blind
systems for commercial building applications in
Ireland and abroad.
The product range includes all commercial
grade solutions, motorisation programmes,
black-out programmes, interfacing with building
management systems, energy efficient solutions
and personalised light control solutions.
The company has developed a comprehensive
range of system solutions and has secured
significant contracts against the market leaders
and brand names. Customers have included
John Sisk & Son, Google, the HSE, the
Department of Defence, Ericsson, Trinity
Biomedical Sciences Institute and National
University of Ireland, Maynooth. Recent projects
completed, for example, included Ernst & Young
and the new BSkyB office fit-outs.
The company is currently finalising its UK
contract strategy with key customer and
industry partners and will commence the
programme in the second quarter 2013. In
addition, participation in its first construction
industry exhibition in Kiev takes place at
InterBudExpo between 26th and 29th March
2013.
Significant overseas contracts have been
secured in the UK for specialist materials and
three project have been completed in Kiev,
Ukraine, for window systems.
Mr Terry Egan
T: 01 4105833
W: www.savanogroup.com
At The Handmade Soap Company not
only are we squeaky clean but we
also have a clean conscience. All of
our products are 100% natural; free
from sodium laurel sulfate, parabens
and petrochemicals; and handcrafted
in Co. Meath.
Mixing new cosmetic savvy and
traditional
formulations,
The
Handmade Soap Company offers
one-of-a-kind beauty treats, which
perform and pamper.
Some things are best done the old
fashioned way and The Handmade
Soap Company is based on good oldfashioned values: using only the
finest quality natural ingredients,
avoiding modern chemical nasties
and wrapping everything up in
standout, vintage packaging.
“Little House on the Prairie, meets
Paris, somewhere north of Dublin.”
Mr Donagh Quigley
T: 046 9293838
E:
[email protected]
W:
www.thehandmadesoapcompany.ie
Part 2 - Competitive Start Fund
Part 2 - Competitive Start Fund
Company Name
Main Activity
County
ACCESS LEGAL
Legal document preparation
software and services for
small businesses.
Dublin
Rapid detection of food
allergens and
contaminants.
Dublin
BatCat Games are building
a brand of high-quality,
franchisable games for
digital distribution to the
core console, PC and
handheld-gaming markets.
Dublin
Technology solutions for
people with Parkinson's
disease.
Dublin
Video game development
for tablet devices: iPad,
iPhone, Windows 8 and
android
SaaS platform to assist in
all aspects of running a
business
Dublin
ALLOGEN BIOTECH
BATCAT GAMES
BEATS MEDICAL LTD
BITSMITH
BIZIMPLY
Website
www.lawsimply.com
www.allogenbiotech.com
www.batcatgames.com
www.beatsmedical.com
www.bitsmithgames.com
Dublin
www.bizimply.com
Company Name
Main Activity
County
BOSS METRICS
Social media analytics
platform to report, analyse
and plan social media
marketing.
Dublin
CARGO DEFENDERS
LTD
Security solutions for the
logistics industry to reduce
theft of cargo.
Donegal
CLEVERMILES LTD
Cloud-computing platform
and app that connects cars
to the Internet, allowing big
brands to advertise rewards
to you for driving safely.
Sligo
COMMUTABLE LTD.
Software and services for
transport companies.
Dublin
DRS.IE
Production of drag
reduction systems for the
articulated truck industry in
Ireland and Europe.
Galway
EMERGENCE LTD
Environmental
sustainability software.
EQUINICHE SCIENCES
LTD
Manufacture of specialised
horse feeders for the
racehorse and general
public horse stable
markets.
Website
www.bossmetrics.com
www.cargodefenders.ie
www.clevermiles.com
www.commutable.ie
www.drs.ie
Dublin
www.emergence.ie
Westmeath
www.vetphysio.ie
Company Name
Main Activity
County
EUROPEAN DIGITAL
MEDIA CONCEPTS
Producing digital online quiz
formats.
Dublin
EX ORDO LTD.
Web-based conference
management tool.
Galway
SAAS-based farm
management system.
Donegal
FLIPIQ
Online private tutoring
platform.
Dublin
FROZEN PET-ZERTS
LTD. T/A YOGIES
Manufacture, sale and
distribution of a new range
of innovative frozen pet
foods called Yogies.
Roscommon
GETHEALTH LIMITED
Online tool to help drive
user engagement in health
management.
FARMFLO LTD
GIANT CREATIVE
Animated content and
graphics.
GNARLY ADVENTURE
LTD.
Online marketplace and
enterprise content
management platform
offering SaaS solutions for
the adventure tourism
market.
Website
n/a
www.exordo.com
www.farmflo.com
www.FlipIQ.com
www.yogies.ie
Dublin
Dublin
Limerick
www.gethealthapp.com
www.giant.ie
www.gnarlyadventure.com
Company Name
Main Activity
County
GONE GAMING LTD
Production of original
mobile gaming apps for the
Android, iOS and Windows
smartphone platforms.
Dublin
Providing telecare solutions
for care in the home.
Electronics device and
associated software for
health management and
disease control.
Kildare
HEALTHSENSE LTD
INSTANT OPINION
LIMITED
ISOLVE CNC
SOLUTIONS
KELADA
PHARMACHEM
Provider of a real-time
private communications
platform used for instant
customer feedback and
Q&A sessions at events.
Website
www.gonegaming.ie
www.healthcomms.com
Kilkenny
Software solutions to
reduce manufacturing and
overhead costs in woodbased manufacturers and
plastic fabricators.
Cork
In-license and development
of novel chemistry into
scalable cost-efficient
manufacturing processes
which are out-licensed to
major pharmaceutical
companies.
Dublin
www.instant-opinion.com
www.isolvecnc.com
www.keladapharmachem.com
Company Name
Main Activity
County
KITMAN LABS LTD
Sports science software
designed to assess the risk
of injury in an athletic
group.
Dublin
Cloud-based learning
management system
designed specifically for
training companies and
SMEs.
Dublin
MDG WEB LTD
Product and services in the
music and data domains.
Dublin
MICROTRIN LTD
Microfluidic chips/disks for
blood diagnostics in life
sciences sector.
Dublin
Web-based SaaS marketing
automation software and
services.
Donegal
MR FOOD
INNOVATION LTD
Development of innovative
scientific ingredients and
product solutions for the
food industry.
Wexford
MYCLUBSHOP
Online trading platform for
sports clubs and players to
sell sports equipment and
merchandise without
running the business, by
promoting clubshop and
facebook shop.
Clare
LEARNUPON
MOTAR
Website
http://kitmanlabs.com
www.learnupon.com
seevl.net
www.microtrin.com
www.motar.me
www.mrfoodinnovation.com
www.myclubshop.ie
Company Name
Main Activity
County
MYPP MEDIA LTD
Database of planning and
building permit data,
presented by geolocating
onto one map.
Dublin
NEVERMIND GAMES
LTD.
Computer game
development.
Tipperary
NICHE PROTEIN LTD
Production of quality control
material for blood tests: invitro diagnostics sector.
Kerry
NIS NATURAL IRISH
SKINCARE LTD
Manufactures a range of
natural skincare products.
Dublin
ORION VETERINARY
LTD
Sensor platforms for health
and performance
monitoring.
Dublin
PARKBYTEXT
Metering network for
vehicle parking.
Dublin
PHARMAPOD LTD
Incident management and
compliance software for the
pharmacy sector.
Dublin
POPDEEM
Word-of-mouth marketing.
Dublin
RESTORED HEARING
LTD.
Hearing research and
development.
Sligo
Website
http://www.buildingeye.com
www.nevermindgames.com
www.nicheprotein.ie
n/a
www.orionveterinary.com
www.parkbytext.ie
www.pharmapod.ie
www.popdeem.com
www.restoredhearing.com
Company Name
Main Activity
County
SAASASSURANCE
We make cloud standards
simple for humans and cost
effective for business.
Dublin
SALES CLOUD LTD
(T/A SALESGEO)
Salesgeo is a sales
management system
optimized for businesses
with field sales.
Galway
SENDDR SOFTWARE
LIMITED
Development of software
that allows invoices to be
instantly transferred
between accounting
systems.
Dublin
The design, manufacture
and sales of innovative
sports equipment.
Limerick
Technology for advertising,
customer information and
asset protection in the retail
environment.
Dublin
Cloud-based system to
monitor educational iPad
apps usage in classrooms.
Dublin
Games-based learning for
creative skills such as
drawing aimed at the K-12
education market.
Dublin
SHADOWMAN SPORTS
SIARTECH LTD
SLATE STATE LTD.
SNEAKY VEGETABLES
LTD
Website
www.SaaSAssurance.com
www.salesgeo.com
www.senddr.com
www.shadowmansports.com
www.siartech.com
www.slatestate.com
www.sneakyvegetables.com
Company Name
Main Activity
County
SPRAYCLOUD LTD
Development of machine
vision technology,
Texteyel™, for monitor and
control of cloth density in
fabric manufacture.
Dublin
Manufacture of selfcontained vacuum
appliance.
Laois
Next generation predictive
analytics platforms for
business.
Dublin
Manufacture of combustion
grate systems for biomass
boilers with thermal output
capacities of 40kW to
2000kW.
Wexford
We give you the tools to
connect to your customers
via any phone.
Mayo
Online trading software for
trading in the financial
markets.
Dublin
SWEEPOVAC LTD
SYNFERENCE
TARTARUS ENERGY
LTD
TEQNOCO NET LTD
TRADERSNOW LTD
Website
www.spraycloud.com
www.sweepovac.com
www.synference.com
www.tartarus-energy.com
www.messaging365.com
www.tradersnow.com
Company Name
Main Activity
County
Webseam
Web-based service enabling
a web development
company's clients to record
feedback on designs and
content to minimise cost
and time of applying
amendments.
Dublin
Innovation, manufacturing
and commercialisation of
DIY products under the
SureStep brand.
Galway
Multivendor refrigeration
management systems.
Cork
WeSolve Ltd
Zeto
Website
n/a
www.wesolve.ie
www.zeto.ie
Lawsimply improves upon legal
document software by simplifying the
document creation process and
allowing small businesses to find and
access the right documents with
ease. Lawsimply is the first to
market in Ireland and will be the first
in the UK and the US to create the
“Master Info” document creation
process.
Mr John Gleeson
P: 01 6779414
W: www.lawsimply.com
Allogen Biotech is developing a
device
that
will
enable
food
manufacturers check, quantify, and
manage levels of allergens or
contaminants in their products.
Allogen Biotech’s mission is to
provide manufacturers with the
ability to inspect their products for
potential allergens, in a quick, easy
to interpret and reasonably priced
way, via a portable handheld device.
Testing of foods to control levels of
unwanted
ingredients
or
contaminants
is
becoming
commonplace
among
food
manufacturers and food processors.
With the increase in food-borne
illnesses from contaminated food,
governments
and
food
manufacturers alike are striving to
produce safer foods. In the US alone,
food-related
illnesses
affect
an
estimated seventy-six million people
annually.
Allogen Biotech has identified a
breakthrough in this area of food
contamination testing. Using sensors
that are primarily developed for the
medical diagnostic industry, Allogen
Biotech is developing a “point of
testing” device.
Mr Ben Teeling
P: 087 6354974
W: www.allogenbiotech.com
BatCat Games is building a branded
range of high-quality, cross-platform
games for digital distribution to the
core PC, console and handheld
gaming markets.
Mr Andrew O'Connor
P:
087 9618320
E:
[email protected]
W: www.batcatgames.com
Beats Medical is a pioneering
medical
start
up.
We
are
revolutionising how people with
Parkinson’s are treated, assessed
and monitored. Our pioneering
mobile app and hardware solution
helps
reduce
treatment
costs,
improve
mobility
and
increase
significantly the quality of life of a
person with Parkinson’s.
Ms Ciara Clancy
P: 087 9191756
W: www.beatsmedical.com
bitSmith Games is a new studio
focusing on the development of highquality, deeply engaging games for
tablets and online distribution. Their
first game, “Ku: Shroud of the
Morrigan,” is an Action-RPG [roleplaying game] for iPad, based on
Irish mythology.
the top 100 in the US. They are
currently working on bringing “Ku:
Shroud of the Morrigan” to Android
and Windows 8 and developing their
next title.
It launched to number 1 game in the
Irish App Store and has broken into
P : 087 7908492
Mr Owen Harris
W: www.bitsmithgames.com
Bizimply is a new web tool for
restaurateurs and retailers. The
product allows managers replace
their current end-of-shift reporting,
with a cloud-based solution that
allows the business owner track
what's happening in their business
anytime and anywhere.
Mr Gerard Forde
P: 087 7785623
W: www.bizimply.com
BOSS Metrics is a “sat nav” for
social
media
marketers.
Our
analytics platform for businesses
helps them report, analyse and plan
their social media marketing.
BOSS Metrics offers unique insight
through our digital and social media
audits, competitor analysis and social
media monitoring.
Mr. Conor Lynch
P: 086 8118833
W: www.bossmetrics.com
Cargo Defenders has developed a
new security system for curtain sided
trailers used by the logistics industry
to transport goods. The system is
designed to tackle the growing
problem of curtain slashing which is
the main method used in cargo theft
by thieves that is costing billions of
euro across Europe every year.
The security system’s smart sensors
monitors the trailer curtains to detect
any attempted tampering such as a
knife cut. The system also monitors
unauthorised opening of the back
door and side curtains.
Mr Aidan Robb
P: 087 9669076
W: www.cargodefenders.ie
CleverMiles is a rewards platform
(cloud based) for the 18- to 30-yearold
demographic.
Users
earn
CleverPoints by driving safely, which
they redeem against rewards from
six different categories, including
tech and travel.
A small wireless device connects to
each
user’s
car
and
sends
information about their driving style
via GPS/GPRS to their CleverMiles
account. Users login to their account
online or via an app to access the
information.
The app also educates drivers on
how they can improve and become
safer drivers through a series of
CleverTips and videos. Users can
compare
their
driving
against
Facebook friends or in fact any other
CleverDriver in the world.
The platform is built for advertising
so big brands such as Samsung,
Hyundai, Vodafone, and Microsoft
pay to specifically target users.
Our mission is to fill the world full of
CleverDrivers and make safe driving
the new social norm for this
particular demographic, and in the
process help significantly reduce the
amount of accidents and road deaths
globally.
Mr John Quigley
P: 087 9909966
W: www.clevermiles.com
Commutable
develop
software
systems
for
operators
in
the
transport industry, with a focus on
real-time passenger information and
journey planning systems.
Our real-time timetabling system is
used to keep track of a bus or coach
service, showing its position on a
map and its expected time of arrival
at each stop on its journey. The
system delivers a constantly updated
schedule of a vehicle’s movements,
and can be deployed for large bus
fleets, as well as for smaller
operators with a handful of routes.
We recently launched the coach
tracker service for National Express’
coach division in the UK. Our journey
planner can search across multiple
public and private transport networks
simultaneously, and quickly and
intuitively
calculate
the
fastest
journeys that a user can take to get
to their destination. These routes can
be tied in to ticket-booking engines
to allow for a seamless travelplanning experience. This product is
appropriate
for
cities,
local
authorities
and
large
transport
networks, and an example of the
planner for Dublin can be seen at
http://HitTheRoad.ie.
Mr Ross Shannon
P: 087 9022951
W: www.commutable.ie
DRS.ie The production of Drag
Reduction
Systems
for
the
articulated truck industry for supply
in Ireland and Europe.
This
product
reduces
fuel
consumption by up to 15%, equating
to about €10,000 savings per truck
per annum.
It
can reduce carbon
dioxide
production by 15 tonnes per truck
per year. At €20 per tonne in carbon
tax for the Irish Government per
truck per year this will work out at
€300 in savings per truck per year
for the Irish Government.
This will help to bring about a cleaner
environment in Ireland and across
Europe. The price is increasing to
€38 per tonne by 2020, which will
allow this product increase savings to
€570.
Mr. Justin Conboy
P: 087 7621612
W: www.drs.ie
Emergence was founded in 2008 as
an environmental consultancy. As
our business grew, we looked for
tools to help us scale quickly. We
searched for a clever way to manage
the vast amounts of environmental
data that we were handling on behalf
of our clients.
Biome was immediately embraced by
our clients, looking for an easier and
better way to manage environmental
systems. Today, Biome serves the
software needs of environmental
professionals around the world, from
boutique consultancies to Fortune
500 companies.
We wanted well-designed software
that put the user first. We wanted a
service that treated environmental
accounting with the same diligence
and accuracy as financial accounting
practices.
Emergence is headquartered in a
Georgian office building in Dublin.
Everyday we work together to design
and develop the best products to
deliver environmental intelligence for
business.
We couldn't find such software. So
we decided to invest our own time,
energy and money into creating
software that provided a smarter
way for environmental professionals
to manage the environmental impact
of doing business — Biome was
born.
Mr. Gary Morgan
P: 087 2749669
W: www.emergence.ie
Equiniche
Sciences
Ltd
was
established to bring new and
innovative solutions based on sound
scientific principles and practical
knowledge to the global equine
sector. The first product is a novel
hay feeder, the Harmony Equine
Feeder, that mimics natural grazing
by feeding hay at ground level in a
controlled
manner.
It
will
be
launched this year with a particular
focus on the racehorse market.
Over 96% of racehorses in training
suffer from stomach ulcers caused by
a lack of availability of hay
throughout the entire day. Ulcers can
be managed naturally by providing
small amounts of hay all day/night
with this new feeder which only
needs to be filled once daily. This
represents a significant saving both
in terms of treatments for ulcers,
time spent feeding and hay wastage.
There is no comparable product on
the market. Patent and design
applications have been filed for the
product.
Dr Michelle O'Connor
P: 087 6862399
W:www.vetphysio.ie
IQ is an entertaining
downloadable
fundraising
solution.
turnkey
events
It is a celebrity presented quiz in full
HD video that allows a quiz organiser
design, download and then play at
their event in their own venue. IQ
breathes
new
life
into
quiz
fundraising events, ensuring a sellout occasion and an evening to
remember.
Mr Stuart Switzer
P: 087 2610210
W: n/a
Ex Ordo is a Galway-based software
company whose web applications
enable
research
conference
organisers to manage successful and
career-enhancing events at which
researchers can publish papers and
collaborate together.
Our web applications automate the
mundane, time-consuming tasks,
saving organisers an average of 15
days, €5 to €15k, over the life of a
conference.
Mr Paul Killoran
P: 091 730805
W: www.exordo.com
Farmflo is an easy to use and cost
effective
web-based
farm
management application that allows
farmers to capture information on
their farm.
This information is then transformed
into a format that helps them farm
more efficiently.
It allows farmers use an Internetconnected device to capture the
information real time in the field,
yard or barn, rather than in the
evenings after a hard day’s work.
Mr Gareth Devenney
P: 086 3261533
W: www.farmflo.com
FlipIQ is a powerful platform that
connects learners with expert tutors.
Sessions are conducted live over the
Internet on a one-to-one basis using
a shared interactive whiteboard.
Students can vet prospective tutors
for free in the online study room. The
tutor and student can hear each
other and write on the screen with
supporting learning material such as
past exam papers, images and study
notes. Students can then decide
whether they wish to proceed with a
paid session or receive another free
intro.
Tutors can extend their reach and
reputation and even bring their own
students to the platform, where
FlipIQ takes care of scheduling,
payments
and
promoting
their
profile.
FlipIQ will be initially launched for
the Irish schools grind market in
early 2013, broadening its curriculum
support for third level and global
markets on a country-by-country
basis.
For more information contact:
Mr. Gerald O'Sullivan
P: 087 9598589
W: www.FlipIQ.com
Yogies is a specially formulated,
fortified and healthy frozen yogurt
for the pet food industry, primarily
targetting sales in export markets.
Dogs lick the frozen yogurt directly
from the
tub, absorbing all the
goodness. Our flavours are original,
blueberry-vanilla,
and
bananapeanut butter.
Our target market are discerning dog
owners who will purchase a premium
healthy treat for their dogs; we see
Yogies as a product that can be very
successful in the export markets like
the UK, Germany and France. We
manufacture
yogies
through
a
number of dairies in Co. Donegal.
Mr Seamus Sheeran
P: 086 8324498
W: www.yogies.ie
GetHealth is an online and mobile
tool which makes getting healthy
fun. The application allows users to
check in to daily health tasks and
earn points for themselves. The
users can then compete against their
friends in a private leaderboard.
GetHealth is aimed at employers as
an app for boosting employee
engagement in corporate wellness
programmes.
Mr. Chris Rooney
P: 085 1307934
W: www.gethealthapp.com
Giant Creative creates premium
animated content, graphics and
solutions
for
entertainment
companies. Giant Creative aims to be
an international dynamic force within
the entertainment industry.
Mr Daniel Spencer
P: 086 3678654
W: www.giant.ie
Gnarly Adventure is an online
marketplace and enterprise content
management
platform
offering
Software as a Service (SaaS)
solutions for the adventure tourism
market. It had identified a need in
the business-to-business (B2B) and
business-to-consumer
(B2C)
segments. Typical customers include
small businesses offering adventure
experiences and related activities;
public and private sector tourism
bodies requiring a comprehensive
database and management solution
for adventure activity content in their
region; and consumers wanting to
easily find, book, share and manage
adventure products and itineraries.
Gnarly Adventure’s technology allows
SMEs publish, update and manage
their adventure products across the
web from one central place. The
company’s suite of SaaS solutions
will be rolled out internationally and
will allow Gnarly Adventure to
become the global repository for the
management and distribution of
adventure tourism content and
information.
Mr Albert Quigley
P: 353 (0) 61 518 352
Mob: 353 (0) 86 331 6502
W: www.gnarlyadventure.com
Gone Gaming is a mobile games
and apps company, which develops
for Apple, Android and Windows
phones
and
makes
engaging,
beautiful games specialising in 3D
graphics and great soundtracks.
The first game, "The Jump" has
been
released
worldwide
and
features a soundtrack by DJ Poet
from the Black Eyed Peas.
The company is currently working on
the second game and consulting with
companies on mobile strategies.
The management team consists of
people
with
backgrounds
from
Boards.ie to Paddy Power to Disney.
Mr Tom Murphy
P: 087 9819096
W: www.gonegaming.ie
HealthComms
is
a
software
company
focused
on
the
development of technology and
software facilitating in-home care for
aging populations.
MyHomeReach™
is
a
SAASbased application
designed
to
support communication and social
interaction between care recipients
and individuals in their community of
care. These can include formal care
providers, informal carers, family and
friends, general practitioners or
emergency services.
The
application
is
preferably
delivered via a touch-screen device.
MyHomeReach captures activities of
daily living, wellness data, as well
as medication reminders
HealthComms is partnering with
healthcare providers and social
monitoring service providers to
deliver MyHomeReach.
The company is currently working
with state and private organisations
to deliver MyHomeReach in Ireland,
France and Australia.
Mr Paul Mooney
P: 01 6275146
W: www.healthcomms.com
Instant Opinion has developed a
platform
that
enables
service
providers to connect with their
customers while they are still
experiencing their service, in private.
Customers
can
give
real-time
feedback that is delivered to the
service provider instantly, so the
service provider can take immediate
action, resolving customer issues
before they are broadcast on social
media.
Instant Opinion also offers their
“QnA”
product
which
allows
conference delegates to submit
questions at events as they think of
them. All approved questions are
displayed on screen during a Q&A
session,
improving
delegate
engagement and creating a new
premium sponsorship opportunity for
event organisers.
Mr Aidan Kenny
P: 056 7783571
W: www.instant-opinion.com
iSolve EzBuild is a software system
targeted at furniture manufacturers
that will increase their productivity
and reduce CNC [computer numerical
control] manufacturing costs.
Mr Mark Collins
P: 086 8343372
W: www.isolvecnc.com
The model of Kelada Pharmachem
is to in-license and develop novel
chemistry into scalable cost-efficient
manufacturing processes which can
then be out-licensed to major
pharmaceutical players.
Dr Brian Kelly
P: n/a
W: www.keladapharmachem.com
Kitman Labs is bringing scientific
analysis and predictive analytics into
one of the most challenging areas of
professional
sport
–
injury
occurrence. Its product, Profiler, is
designed to predict the risk of injury
and likely performance decrements
in an athletic group. It is a tool
which uses real data to help key
decision makers make the right
decisions about athletes who need to
perform.
Kitman Labs are industry experts in
the area of injury rehabilitation and
strength and conditioning with a
combined expertise of 17 years in
professional sport.
They have
experienced
first
hand
the
detrimental
effect
that
injury
occurrence can have on professional
athletes.
The information gathered by Profiler
will
provide
a
real-time
categorisation of each athlete in your
group, highlighting those athletes
who are considered to be a “high
injury risk” and those considered to
be “ones to watch”.
P: 085 7343118
Mr. Iarfhlaith Kelly
W: http://kitmanlabs.com
LearnUpon is an affordable cloudbased learning management system
(LMS)
designed
specifically
for
professional training companies and
SMEs. With LearnUpon you can set
up your learning portal and be
delivering your courses online within
an hour of sign-up.
LearnUpon currently has customers
based in Ireland, the UK, the US,
Canada and Spain and the platform
is available in English, French and
Spanish.
There are no implementation fees or
additional hardware or software
costs. Designed and developed by a
team with over 20 years e-learning
experience, LearnUpon is the most
intuitive LMS on the market today.
P: 087 6478508
Mr Brendan Noud
W: www.learnupon.com
Online music is a huge and growing
market. Recent statistics show that
58% of the US population has a
digital music collection. Yet finding
new and relevant music becomes
challenging for users, while artists
struggle to get more fans and
revenue.
To overcome those challenges, MDG
Web developed seevl, a music
discovery assistant, which constantly
crawls the web to get information
about artists, bands, labels and
genres. It aims to deliver the best
possible user experience to music
lovers, and ensure that artists get
exposure and new fans.
seevl is
currently available as a
browser extension acting on top of
YouTube, and will soon be released
as a Deezer application.
Dr. Alexandre Passant
P: 086 7936500
W: seevl.net
Microtrin
offers
catalogue
microfluidic chips and disks — labon-chip and lab-on-disk — for the
microfluidic life-sciences markets.
Microtrin will also offer custom
tooling and moulding of same, as
well as thin-film microfluidic chips
and
implantable
amperometric
biosensors for the medical device
markets in the coming months.
Dr Colm McMahon
P: 086 7958147
W: www.microtrin.com
Motar offers marketing automation
technology. It is developing a web
system to manage online marketing
and lead generation for business-tobusiness companies.
The system includes lead capture,
email notifications and social media
integration.
We also provide
supporting consulting services for
lead generation campaign design and
execution.
Mr Michael White
P:074 9381986
W: www.motar.me
Mr Food Innovation Ltd develops
innovative scientific ingredient and
product solutions for the food
industry.
The initial focus is on
bread and confectionery, including
gluten free,
where we have
developed market-leading solutions.
We want to work with ambitious food
companies to help them increase
profitability by offering bespoke
solutions in:
•
•
•
•
Extending shelf life
Reducing input cost
Enhancing taste and texture
Improving product stability
and nutritional content
Mr Eamon Murphy
P: 021 4322791
W: www.mrfoodinnovation.com
Myclubshop is an online trading
platform which allows sports clubs to
sell equipment, sports gear, gifts and
merchandise to club members and
supporters, based in Ireland and
abroad. It offers suppliers a window
through which they can partner with
a club.
Mr Daithi O Regan
P: 087 2582759
W: www.myclubshop.ie
At
Buildingeye
we
visualise
planning and building permit data
from different cities in different
countries
by
geolocating
this
information onto one map.
Service and product suppliers can
search for new business in their
chosen location through mapping
filters or planning lists; we generate
revenue by offering a monthly
subscription
business
model
to
customers seeking access to this
data.
Mr Ciaran Gilsenan
P: 01 2844909
W: www.buildingeye.com
NeverMind
Games
is
a
development studio creating fun and
immersive games not only for mobile
devices but also for PC and Mac.
Their two released titles are "Solar
Sprint," released on Windows Phone
7, and "TroubleSUM," released on
Windows Phone 7 and iOS. They are
currently working on a title which will
be released for PC and Mac later this
year.
Mr. Alan Boyce
P: 0504 49150
W: www.nevermindgames.com
Niche Protein is a biotechnology
company
which
manufactures
recombinant proteins which are used
as components of quality control
materials in the diagnostics sector.
C reactive protein is our lead
product; it is routinely measured by
doctors as it is a marker of
inflammation.
Dr Caroline McCarron
P: 087 7764154
W: www.nicheprotein.ie
Natural Irish Skincare Ltd is
launching a skin care range, specially
formulated for dryer, weaker skin
types, prevalent in people of Celtic
and northern European origin. The
company was founded by Attracta
Burke, pharmacist and owner of
Premium Distribution, and Barry
Brennan, marketing consultant.
The
brand,
Rd8
Skincare
—
“Discover, Enhance, Radiate” —
presents a face and body product
range based on a unique formulation
of ingredients, using a combination
of oils with superior absorbency and
consistency to ensure skin retains
moisture.
Key ingredients in Rd8's unique
formula combine to create a fast
absorbing,
non-greasy,
highperformance
product
range
to
effectively target dry skin, leaving it
wonderfully soft and radiant.
The product range will initially
consist of eight products each
delivering eight key benefits to
dryer/weaker skin. Early target
markets include Ireland, the UK,
northern Europe and the US through
a combination of e-commerce and
retail channel initiatives.
Ms Attracta Burke
P: 086 2424180
W: n/a
Orion Veterinary is a medical
technology development company
that has designed a wireless healthmonitoring platform for animals. The
company
is
in
the
precommercialisation
phase
of
development.
It
is
based
in
NovaUCD, where it is developing its
product line.
Orion has developed a number of
innovative
sensors
along
with
analysis software. Initial applications
for the technology focus on clinical
monitoring, gait analysis and preclinical mastitis. Orion is also
collaborating
with
universities,
nationally and internationally, on the
development of sensors and novel
biomedical applications for both
humans and animals.
Mr Michael O'Shea
P: (0)1 716 3550
W: www.orionveterinary.com
parkbytext™ is the trading name
for Mobile Research Solutions Ltd
and is a “Metering network for
vehicle
parking”.
This
scalable
product relates to a method of
metering vehicle parking across a
proprietary communications network,
capitalising on the growing market
and future of mobile payments.
Parkbytext is the parking payments
technology platform of choice for its
ease of use, and it provides
efficiency and cost savings to the
parking administration company and
the driver.
Ms Caitlin O'Connor
P: 086 8364042
W: www.parkbytext.ie
Pharmapod™ is Ireland's first
national incident management and
learning system for pharmacists. It is
a cloud-based platform that offers a
full suite of compliance software for
both the hospital and retail pharmacy
sectors.
Pharmapod contributes to patient
safety and drives excellence in
pharmacy practice by developing
innovative solutions which improve
performance
and
business
efficiencies as well as facilitating
compliance
with
legal
and
professional obligations.
Pharmacists can now record and
manage risks to patient safety as
well as deliver structured clinical
services
and
share
valuable
knowledge amongst their peers. The
application collates data at both a
national and international level,
developing an evidence base for
pharmacy practice and the expansion
of the role of the pharmacist in the
community. Pharmapod has been
developed
by
pharmacists
for
pharmacists.
Ms Leonora O'Brien
P: 087 7730896
W: www.pharmapod.ie
Popdeem is a mobile application
that brands use to reward their
influential customers and drive
positive word of mouth.
The more influential the customer,
the bigger the rewards they’ll earn
from the brand. In exchange for a
reward, a customer must share their
experience with their network.
This
creates
brand
advocacy:
trustworthy recommendations from
friends. We track how people engage
with these recommendations and
how they lead to increased footfall.
Mr Gavin Hayes
P: 086 3412878
W: www.popdeem.com
Restored Hearing Ltd offers a new
hearing protection technology. This is
an
intelligent
sound
absorbing
material
that
is
capable
of
proportionally responding to many
different frequencies and amplitudes.
Potential customers include the
construction, music and aviation
industries
with
a
focus
on
construction industries in the US and
Australia to take advantage of their
ongoing boom.
This hearing technology has the
capabilities of existing electronic
products;
it
is
much
more
inexpensive
to
manufacture,
however, due to the innovative
application of materials physics.
Ms Rhona Togher
P: 083 4243761
W: www.restoredhearing.com
SaaSAssurance
provides
highly
scalable and easy-to-use cloud
software and digital media training
that help SME software companies
obtain difficult cloud standards such
as ISO 27001.
What makes SaaSAssurance unique
is that you do not need to be a
specialist to use our software and
training.
One of your operations
staff can simply login and work step
by step through the requirements of
the standard.
Every software company should be
looking at a cloud version of their
software right now and if they are
not they will simply be left behind. If
there is data in the cloud software of
a confidential nature, the software
vendor will simply have to provide
some form of security or assurance
to their customer that their data is
safe and secure.
SaaSAssurance provides the vehicle
to make that assurance as quick and
as simple as possible, while reducing
cost
by
70%.
SaaSAssurance
software and media are built on
robust
Microsoft
technology
in
conjunction with certified instructors
and ISO 27001 lead auditors.
Mr Mark Dunne
P: 01 6854660
W: www.saasassurance.com
Salesgeo is a sales management
system
that
specializes
in
management of remote workers
and/or field sales teams.
Salesgeo
combines
the
latest
advances in geographic and mobile
technology with CRM/HCM [customer
relationship
management/human
capital management] to provide
businesses with the insight and
visibility to better manage sales.
Mr Gary Stewart
P: 086 7849475
W: www.salesgeo.com
Senddr transfers invoices from one
accounting system to another. Using
Senddr, suppliers can instantly
transfer
invoices
from
their
accounting systems to that of their
customers, reducing errors and
helping them to get paid quicker.
Senddr also pre-validates invoices
before submission to the customer
and will notify the sender when their
invoice has been approved or paid.
Mr Morgan Lynch
P: 087 2858875
W: www.senddr.com
Shadowman is the first moving
tackling system for contact sports. It
is used by the San Jose State
Spartans, Military Bowl Champs
2012.
“Shadowman has increased the
quality of our practice in lots of
ways. It has provided our coaches
and the players with many new
applications, but for me the primary
thing is that it allows players to
practice tackling in a realistic and
safe way. Another thing is that it’s
easy to set up, and when it’s deflated
it makes it easy to transport and
store."
-Charlie McMillan, Head
Football Equipment Manager of the
San Jose State Spartans.
Shadowman Sports is a young and
vibrant sports design company that
is dedicated to creating beautifully
designed,
problem
solving
and
thoughtful products for today’s
sporting needs. Shadowman is our
first product.
Mr. John Paul Hartigan
P: 061 490159
W: www.shadowmansports.com
SIARTECH
is
developing
a
technology platform for use in a
retail environment that will provide
in-store brands with an effective
means of advertising to potential
customers at the point of purchase.
The technology platform will also
provide benefits to the retailer in the
form of tools for asset protection and
can be used to enhance the
customer’s shopping experience.
SIARTECH was incorporated in July
2012 and awarded the Enterprise
Ireland Competitive Start Fund in
November 2012.
Mr Dinesh Vather
P: 087 9798353
W: www.siartech.com
More and more schools are replacing
textbooks
with
tablet
devices.
SlateState aims to provide teachers
with the real-time dashboard that
they need to teach in the classroom
of the future.
Our API [application programming
interface] provides an always-on
connection between students and
teachers, improving the classroom
experience and enabling a new
generation of connected classroom
apps. Our business model is based
around
licensing
our
API
to
publishers and app developers, while
providing a basic teacher dashboard
for free.
We are developers with a passion for
EdTech who have a vision of tablet
devices being in the hands of every
student in every classroom.
The founders first worked together
as developers in AOL 12 years ago.
Since then, Neil Buckley has built
several systems for the education
market and solutions for many top
brands, while Rodhán Hickey has
worked on several internationally
successful software products and
until recently was lead developer of
Microsoft’s Education Products Group
in Dublin.
Mr. Rodhán Hickey
P: 087 2380599
W: www.slatestate.com
At Sneaky Vegetables.com our
business is based on the creation of
independently-developed games for
tablet devices that supplement
mainstream education in the spirit of
game-based learning.
We are focused on delivering creative
skills,
utilising
the
Montessori
method, to children aged four and up
and aim to sell to their parents
through app stores.
Mr Shane Whelan
P: 086 1744694
W: www.sneakyvegetables.com
Spraycloud is a machine vision
technology development company.
Spraycloud's first product in a
portfolio of products — Texteyel —
is a stitch density monitoring and
control system, a.k.a. counts per
inch (CPI) or counts per centimeter
(CPCM) system, which is used in the
finishing process of manufacturing
knitted tubular fabrics such tee-shirt
fabric.
Mr Donald Hickey
P: 086 8391435
W: www.spraycloud.com
Sweepovac has developed and is
manufacturing a new self-contained
vacuum device. Its unique method of
disposing of floor sweepings offers
consumers instant convenience and a
compelling value proposition.
The
product, which
is
patent
pending, fits in the void space under
the cupboards and behind the kickboard in any work unit.
Versions of the appliance can be
used in numerous applications,
domestic and commercial. It could
used be in a domestic kitchen, a
retail coffee shop or a hairdressers.
The product could be positioned as a
luxury addition to upmarket kitchens,
a
necessary
tool
for
mobility
challenged
householders
or
an
efficient way to control nuisance pet
hair.
The product makes a unique claim:
“The easiest way to gather up floor
sweepings in the world”. It will be
targeted at the UK and European
new kitchen market, which counts
5.6 million kitchens purchased every
year.
Mr Henry Fingleton
P: 057 8627048
W: www.sweepovac.com
Synference makes it easy for
businesses to use sophisticated
predictive analytics techniques to
predict the behaviour of individual
customers, and to predict the impact
of business decisions on a percustomer basis.
Our platform also allows businesses
to automatically make decisions that
optimise the metrics they care about,
and provides easy-to-deploy modules
to automatically improve customer-
retention,
segmentation,
crossselling,
and
CRM
[customer
relationship management].
Synference is a cutting edge hightech startup, run by a founding team
with PhD experience in data analysis
technology.
Mr Fergal Reid
P: 086 8139612
W: www.synference.com
Tartarus Energy manufactures two
types of combustion grate systems
for biomass boilers with thermal
output capacities of 40kW to
2000kW. The combustion grate will
burn biomass fuels, ranging from
wood
chip,
wood
pellet
fuel,
miscanthus and many agricultural
by-products.
The new E-Grate system can be
integrated into many types of heat
exchangers.
Also,
we
will
manufacture fuel-feed systems for
both wood chip and wood pellet
fuels. Currently we are designing a
new
innovative
containerised
packaged plant room.
The E-Grate is designed to yield
customers: high efficiency; safety,
with our patent pending 'Safety
Gate';
and
additional
technical
features, including a state-of-the-art
control system that offers ongoing
customer support with its TTP (Total
Tracking Program).
Mr Sean Gilbride
P: 053 9136364
Mobile: 087 2507202
E:
[email protected]
W: www.tartarus-energy.com
At Teqnoco.com we provide the
platform that allows businesses to
reach, engage, and interact in real
time with 100% of mobile phone
users
in
addressable
markets,
irrespective of handset or network,
and via a single platform.
Our platform enables the building
and provision of simple but really
effective mobile applications, without
a need for any technical expertise.
Applications are text-based, similar
to
SMS,
but
with
significant
advantages.
It is interactive; more secure and
cost effective; free to mobile end
users; and supported by all mobile
phones.
The platform provides you with a
single and universal access point to
most mobile networks worldwide
and a straightforwardand intuitive
mobile service builder.
Mr Stan Kuznetsov
P: 949 067077
W: www.messaging365.com
TradersNow is a financial software
development
company.
Our
predictive decision neural network
produces signals that indicate to
financial traders when to enter or
exit a trade. These signals give
traders a statistical advantage in the
marketplace. Different variations of
these trading signals will be licensed
to either institutional or retail
traders.
Mr Kieran Murphy
P: 086 0871150
W: www.tradersnow.com
We provide a web-based service that
enables
a
web
development
company's clients to record feedback
on designs and content and minimise
the cost/time of applying the
amendments to gain client sign-off.
Our clients will see savings of 5% to
10% on their project costs and may
increase revenue with better billing
and audit.
Mr Richard Pike
P: 087 2301601
W: n/a
P: 093 42766
The focus of WeSolve Ltd is on
innovation, first stage manufacturing
and commercialisation.
The company develops patented
products for the consumer market
worldwide.
The SureStep range of attachment
accessories was only launched in late
2012,
yet
already
they
have
attracted huge interest for their
innovation, convenience and quality.
With
the
SureStep
attachment
accessories, a worker is free to use
their hands whilst working on a
ladder, allowing for greater safety
and productivity.
WeSolve Ltd has exported the
SureStep product range to the U.K.
and the U.S. and the company is
hoping to develop the brand further
with additions to the product range
in 2013.
Mr. JP Prendergast
W: www.wesolve.ie
the manufacturing process or retrofitted by
engineering companies.
Mr. Stephen Slattery
P: 085 7429133
W: www.zeto.ie
The
Zeto
platform
is
an
innovative
management
solution
for
operators
of
refrigeration equipment in the food display and
storage sectors. By subscribing to this platform
all users have the opportunity to increase their
sales, reduce their operating costs and gain an
analytical insight into the workings of their
freezer capital equipment operations.
There
are
numerous
problems
in
the
refrigeration industry at present that the Zeto
platform is designed to address. Original
equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are operating
in a highly competitive industry and constantly
need to innovate.
Maintenance companies’ callout overheads are
rising. Refrigeration users are spending an
increasing number of man-hours complying with
food safety regulations and high energy costs
are making refrigeration equipment more
expensive to run.
Zeto’s solution to these and others issues is to
provide wireless hardware to communicate with
the equipment. This can either be fitted during
Part 3 – NEW FRONTIERS
New Frontiers
Company Name
CGA Software Ltd
Main Activity
County
Health &
Safety,
Facilities &
Equipment
Management
Systems
Galway
Research,
development,
manufacture &
bring to market
innovative
agricultural
machinery
Meath
Fonesense
Mobile
Advertising
Waterford
Garbh Software
Solutions
Garbh Software
Solutions
provides a
complete
administration
and
management
software
system aimed
at national and
international
governing
bodies of any
sporting
organisation
Wexford
EZY Technology
Innovation Ltd
Website
www.cgasoftware.com
www.ezytechnology.com
www.fonesense.com
www.garbh.ie
New Frontiers
Company Name
Main Activity
County
GreenEgg
Technologies
Energy
Management
Hardware and
Software
Dublin
Nualtra Ltd
Special medical
purposes
provision
Limerick
Makes Wi-Fi
Work: - Better
Quality for
Users - Realtime Self
Optimising
Solution - &
Autonomous
Quality
Management
on Wi-Fi
Networks
suffering
congestion Up to 100%
Capacity
Enhancement
Dublin
Intelligence
training for
Children
Kildare
OptiWiFi
RaiseYourIQ.com
Website
www.greenegg.ie
www.nualtra.ie
www.optiwifi.com
www.raiseyouriq.com
New Frontiers
Company Name
Main
Activity
County
RigBag
Global social
platform
Kerry
SafeCare
Technologies
Assistive
Living
Technology
(ALT)
Solutions
Cork
Uppiddee Inc
Social HR
Software
Donegal
ZooDazzle
Game tools
and
middleware
Dublin
Website
www.rigbag.com
www.safecaretechnologies.com
www.uppiddee.com
www.zoodazzle.com
CGA provides software solutions for training,
health and safety, and equipment management.
Our lead product FlexMMS allows businesses to
manage high risk and heavily regulated
business
activity,
within
the
facilities
management, health, biopharma, construction,
and utilities sectors.
FlexMMS provides proactive risk management
for employee health and safety and equipment
compliance and certification, over a local and
wide demographic. Whether an organisation is
based on single or multi-site locations, is
national or multinational, the key to managing
high risk and safety in heavily regulated
industries
FlexMMS was designed to address a wide
business process spectrum. We have developed
a number of management processes that can
be interlinked, allowing secure sharing of
company
information
among
multiple
departments. At the core of our technology is
leading edge Software as a Service (SaaS) or
Platform as a Service (PaaS) with mobile
technologies and near field communications
(NFC).
Mr George Curley
is to have a central system where all
documentation and information is integrated
and available 24/7. FlexMMS proactively
supports safety management in the work place.
T: 091 796090
W: www.cgasoftware.com
To support more food production globally,
farmers need to receive the maximum output
possible from their crops, while applying the
minimum chemical input to their farmland. Ezy
Technology identified a business opportunity
here and has created a range of innovative
machines.
These machines will make farming operations
more efficient, increasing yield potential and
reducing wastage in harvested crops.
There are currently two machines in the range.
The award winning Ezy Crop Trailer is a 12-ton
non-tipping trailer; it minimises crop damage
from trailer tipping by easing crops from the
trailer, using its patented discharge system. The
Versatile Ezy Fill Bulk Hopper is a machine
which allows a simple mounted spreader to
become a bulk fertiliser spreading solution.
The company is already exporting to the UK and
plans to export across Europe in 2013.
Ms. Deirdre Cogan
T: 087 9035777
W: www.ezytechnology.com
FoneSense is the app that pays every time your
phone rings. FoneSense is a mobile advertising
channel that allows advertisers to reward
mobile phone owners for selecting a branded
advertising tone as a ringtone. The phone
owner gets paid for allowing their mobile device
to become a micro broadcasting device, whilst
advertisers can place targeted advertising
campaigns with one guaranteed listener.
Mr Christian Ryder
T: 087 612 9852
W: www.fonesense.com
governing bodies of sporting organisations in
the international market.
Garbh Software Solutions is currently working
on its first system, the Garbh Sport™ service,
which is a complete administration and
management software system aimed at the
It is a collection of web, PC, mobile and cloud
applications that takes care of all the needs,
wants and desires at each level within a
sporting organisation in a single and secure
place.
subscriptions, internal communications and
policies, all in a single and secure internet
environment.
All levels within the organisation benefit from
the up-to-date suite of software applications
provided by Garbh Software Solutions, thus
reducing the need for different software
packages and the disconnected and insular data
typically provided.
Garbh Software Solutions
Great Ideas. Clever Software.
Mr Damien McCleane
T: 087 677 2874
By using the Garbh Sport service, a governing
body can organise and manage all the
administration aspects of tournaments, results,
leagues,
rankings,
grades,
memberships,
W: www.garbh.ie
GreenEgg
Technologies
is
a
product
development company based in Dublin city. The
company’s flagship product is Nexus a Smart
Home System aimed at energy utility
companies.
Nexus
enables
the
utility’s
customers to manage energy costs and access
new and existing utility services on a range of
devices — their smart phone or PC and uniquely
view an energy management interface on their
TV.
GreenEgg Technologies also develops energy
management hardware and software for
commercial applications, including remote
energy monitoring and analysis, as well as
building energy use displays for schools,
businesses and public spaces.
GreenEgg Technologies products change how
people think about, use and interact with
energy in their homes and businesses.
Mr Rob Merriman
T: 01 410 0600
W: www.greenegg.ie
medical purposes” to the market under the
medical card scheme/drug payment scheme
and long-term illness scheme. By doing so we
launched products in four key areas at up to
40% lower cost, reducing the cost to the HSE
by €10m euro per year.
Nualtra Ltd launched in November 2012 and
brought a new range of “food for special
Nualtra includes Sean Corkery, Leslie Buckley,
Dan Byrne, Rachel Gubbins and Margaret Doyle
as its non-executive team.
Nualtra Ltd will be a new private limited
company set up to formulate, manufacture and
sell specific oral nutritional supplements for the
treatment of patients with and at risk of
malnutrition through liquid and powdered sip
feeds classed as Foods for Special Medical
Purposes (FSMP).
Mr Paul Gough
T: 086 8252648
W: www.nualtra.ie
OptiWi-fi is a dynamic, young Irish software
company, based in Dublin, that produces highly
innovative software for the telecommunications
industry. Its solutions are targeted at the high
growth area of mobile internet data.
Our patented innovation uniquely monitors and
optimises Wi-Fi hotspot performance in real
time and autonomously in areas with a high
density of smartphones or tablets, which cause
congestion on the network.
OptiWi-fi is capitalising on this market by
offering a solution that answers to specific
needs. It delivers next-generation Wi-Fi
monitoring and self-optimising solutions to WiFi service providers, mobile network operators
and Wi-Fi original equipment manufacturers
(OEMs).
Mr Marcus DeBurca
T: 086 8231258
W: www.optiwifi.com
RaiseYourIQ.com provides an online SMART
training programme that helps 8 to 17 year olds
get smarter, using intelligence training that's
proven to work. SMART (Strengthening Mental
Abilities
with
Relational Training)
is
a
revolutionary behavioural teaching tool that
helps the user to become expert in the most
basic cognitive skills, called relational skills.
SMART is based on the scientific discovery that
relational skills underlie most forms of
intelligence,
encompassing
just
about
everything we do with our minds in daily life.
Improving these skills helps to improve
functioning in school, at work and in normal
day-to-day
decision-making
and
problem
solving.
SMART training enhances your relational skills
and in turn raises your IQ. The training has
been proven in published scientific research to
raise IQ by 10 points or more.
We have not borrowed the SMART science from
the experts. We are the experts who have
helped to develop this software and training
delivery system over the past decade.
We
provide a specially developed assessment of
your general intelligence. No IQ test needed!
Mr John Chambers
T: 085 7728137
W: www.raiseyouriq.com
RigBag is a subscription-based, global online
platform that brings the action sports
community together to leverage value and
share information.
We provide action sports athletes with a
platform to buy, sell, or swap, new and secondhand
equipment,
get
information,
read
equipment reviews, share experiences, arrange
holidays and events, trade tips, keep in touch,
find jobs and get to know other athletes.
For the price of a magazine subscription, it
offers them a sports website, a low-cost,
managed trading platform with an existing,
focused audience.
Equipment manufacturers and retailers can
develop personal customer relationships, gain
market insights, and open up new routes to
their markets.
If you love action sports you need RigBag. It’s
the essential resource for snow, surf, sail, jump,
tri, bike, fight and speed enthusiasts.
Mr Randall Wharton
T: 087 9804155
W: www.rigbag.com
Safe Care Technologies provides solutions for
the emerging assisted living market. The
company creates software for existing hardware
that allows the disabled, impaired or elderly live
a more independent life within their home.
Depending on their disability a user can control
many aspects of their home (lights, open/close
doors, turn on/off TV, etc.) by a variety of
methods: eye gaze, voice activation or the use
of a touchscreen.
To give peace of mind to relevant family
members or carers the company has also
developed a remote monitoring system to keep
track of events and movements within the living
facilities and alert them to any possible event
instantly.
Mr Conor Quigley
T: 087 2777959
W: www.safecaretechnologies.com
Uppiddee has developed a software platform
that is helping HR managers and CEOs to
improve human capital management.
It is clear that human capital management is
changing. Social recognition was the big
disruptor in the HR market in 2012. This is
clearly evident through recent acquisitions of
Rypple by Salesforce.com and Success Factors
by SAP.
Uppiddee reveals new data sets that provide
pivotal insights into the workforce, uncovers
value leaks and influences behavior change.
The company is targeting mid-sized companies
in the financial services and IT sectors in
Ireland and the UK.
Uppiddee recently completed phase 2 of
Enterprise Ireland's New Frontiers programme.
The team is based at CoLab, the innovation
centre on the campus of Letterkenny Institute
of Technology.
Mr David O' Neill
T: 086 7394326
W: www.uppiddee.com
Zoodazzle has developed a technology to
address a need in the rapidly expanding gaming
market. Our technology, GameCarver, is an
innovative piece of software that vastly
simplifies gaming production, resulting in
shorter development cycles, with a lower risk of
overruns.
With GameCarver, customers build games for
all major smartphones and social media sites
using technology (patent pending) that allows a
completely visual design process. Our focus is
on providing users of all technical levels, both
artists and software engineers, with a common
platform to collaborate on game design.
The online games market has had phenomenal
35% year-on-year growth over the previous 3
years, with predictions that the market will
double to US$12bn by 2014.
Zoodazzle is well positioned to exploit
outstanding growth in the gaming sector with a
product that offers strong value propositions for
developers for both app stores and social media
sites.
Mr Ciaran Davies
T: 086 124 0955
W:www.zoodazzle.com
No other tool exists that allows game authoring
with the same collaborative workflow.

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