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Ayda, a fertility tracker, was founded in early 2015 by Sligo native James Foody. Last December, Foody won Best Young Entrepreneur for the app and wearable monitor, and he and his team now divide their time between Ireland and San Francisco having been accepted onto the PCH Highway1 hardware start-up accelerator program. “2016 will see us launch both our app and manufacture our wearable device – all with the goal of making stress- free, natural pregnancy planning easy and accessible.”
ayda.co
Blurring the lines between fantasy and fact, Ourobotics’ 3D bioprinter can print with materials like collagen and gelatin, and its applications are as diverse as pharmaceuticals, food and even human tissue. A winner of the Silicon Valley Open Doors start-up competition, founder Jemma Redmond began by building 3D printers on her kitchen table: “I attempted to grow human fingers.” She is currently working on a modular open source bioprinting platform from her base in Summerhill, Cork. “We came back to Cork as it was affordable. We are now ready to start working on human organs.”
weare3dbioprintinghumans.org
The brainchild of a professional rugby player turned entrepreneur, Conor O’ Loughlin, Glofox is a booking, payment and membership management platform for gyms and fitness studios. “We can provide SAAS (software as a service) delivery of both the web app dashboard and the custom branded mobile
app for each client, giving them the ability to self-configure their settings and branding.” With a client portfolio across six countries, the US market is next on the agenda thanks to a €500,000 fund injection. “We are excited about what this business will look like in the next 12 months given our current rate of development and growth.”
glofox.com
Conor O’Loughlin
If you can’t beat them, buy them. The Soundwave app tracks what music users are playing and shares it with friends, and was acquired by Spotify in December, 2015. The app, which was founded in Dublin in 2012 by Brendan O’Driscoll, Aidan Sliney and Craig Watson, was voted by Apple as Best Innovation in Music and has been permanently positioned by Google in the Android Editors Choice sections out of 1.5 million apps. The brains behind the brand were Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalists.
soundwave.com
Mark Roden was inspired to establish Ding after a conversation in 2005 with an Indian waiter in Dubai. Adding minutes to his wife’s mobile phone back home in India was slow and expensive, he was
Mark Roden Paul O’Hara
James Foody
Jemma Redmond
Brendan O’Driscoll, Aidan Sliney and Craig Watson
told, prompting Roden to look for technology to allow instant delivery of minutes to mobile phones across the globe. Now the world’s largest international top-up network, Ding is connected to 350 mobile operators that support four billion mobiles.
ding.com
ChangeX is a non-profit platform of proven innovations across health, education, the environment,
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for people who want to strengthen their community by bringing together the best ideas and the people who make them happen. Founded by Paul O’Hara, it has attracted heavyweight backing, raising €400,000 from investors like Storyful founder Mark Little and John O’Farrell of Andreessen Horowitz, the US firm which has backed Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
changex.org
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