The award winners from the newest cohort of New Frontiers founders embrace a start-up centered on microbiome intelligence and one creating merchandise with renewable supplies.
A recent batch of formidable start-ups have graduated from the New Frontiers programme at South East Technological College (SETU), with the highest expertise receiving awards.
The New Frontiers class of 2024 acquired awards at a showcase occasion at SETU’s Cork Street Campus in Waterford. Members of the area’s start-up ecosystem noticed the cohort’s thrilling ideas on show, corresponding to a digital identification system, a platform to get extra worth within the artwork market and a knowledge platform for microbiome testing.
The New Frontiers programme, funded by Enterprise Eire, goals to speed up early-stage companies with robust employment, progress and worldwide potential, which might contribute to job creation and financial exercise.
Members of the 2024 cohort acquired a number of prizes on the occasion. The Finest Enterprise Plan award went to Dr Rebecca O’Mahony of BiomiCare, a Waterford-based start-up providing microbiome intelligence to B2B shoppers.
O’Mahony mentioned the programme was “actually transformational” for her firm, being each “difficult and thought-provoking”.
“The outstanding skilled workshop presenters and the New Frontiers programme crew genuinely wish to assist and help you in a constant and actually non-judgemental method,” O’Mahony mentioned. “I discovered this most rewarding, because it permits for the time and house to experiment and iterate my enterprise idea.”
Different award winners embrace Fionn Rogers of RB3D Ltd, who acquired The Finest Enterprise Alternative award. This Wexford start-up makes use of additive manufacturing expertise to make merchandise from renewable supplies.
The Most Modern New Enterprise Thought award was given to Sue McLoughlin of Situation WorX, a Kildare-based firm utilizing studying expertise to assist organisations enhance the real-world abilities of their groups.
New Frontiers nationwide programme supervisor at Enterprise Eire, Paula Carroll, advised the award winners that the programme has a “robust file in supporting excessive progress start-ups”.
“Your exhausting work whereas taking part within the Enterprise Eire New Frontiers programme and your dedication in launching new companies deserves to be recognised,” she mentioned. “Nationally, Enterprise Eire continues to help entrepreneurial founders and we want the Waterford New Frontiers class of 2024 each success in additional creating their companies.”
Purposes for the subsequent programme at SETU Waterford open on 12 August and extra particulars may be discovered on the college’s web site.
Earlier this yr, a gaggle of entrepreneurs accomplished the six-month New Frontiers programme at Munster Technological College. Final yr, the programme noticed the highest variety of girls individuals because it first started greater than a decade in the past.
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