State agency Enterprise Ireland is showcasing Ireland’s best start-up companies at an event today in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.
The event features the start-up ‘Class of 2021’, ranging from High Potential Start-ups to ventures that competed for and secured public funding from the Competitive Start Fund.
Last year 43 companies benefited from the Competitive Start Fund, of which 16 are led by women. CSF companies are at the early stage of development, and some of them will progress to qualify for HPSU funding.
So what are the best new business ideas emerging from Irish entrepreneurs. Listed below are enterprises that received Competitive Start Fund investment in 2021.
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3Scribe is an automated speech transcription service that delivers the world’s most accurate transcripts to users globally, in 11 different languages. Companies can interact with 3Scribe directly via its API or through its integrations with leading SaaS services like Zendesk, Zoom or Zapier.
Back To Work Connect is an education and employment career hub, specifically designed to help people get back to work after a career break. It connects this talent source with employers who are open to age and gender diversity.
Amplify empowers sustainable brands to personalise their donation experience to every customer, allowing conscious consumers to turn their sustainable spending into free, high-impact climate donations for causes they care about.
BiaSol is a family-run company creating a range of innovative food solutions. BiaSol strives to make highly nutritious, zero-waste food products easily accessible in Ireland. The company’s first range of products is made from upcycling brewers’ spent grain.
Babogue is a digital child sleep consultancy service. The company offers a suite of online sleep programmes, called the Sleep Series, to families who are struggling with their children’s sleep from birth to 10 years of age.
Botfiler is an automation and integration technology platform that helps accountants around the world to manage local and cross-border VAT and sales tax.
Boundary Blade is a unique patented 5 Level Fence Tester and Pocket Knife Agricultural Tool sold globally. It allows farmers to easily check electric fence current and “walk away with their mind at ease”. V2 functions as a tracking device for farm safety and monitoring.
Social media marketers’ biggest problem is generating enough engaging content and posting it on the right platform, at the right time, for the right audience. Connect Mór solves this problem with automated competitive analysis, and AI; saving time, increasing engagement, and helping win more clients.
ByoWave has developed a fully modular, accessible and customisable video game controller, along with a suit of companion software solutions for disabled and non- disabled gamers. Enabling everyone to build their own way to play.
Ctrl.io is a platform for sales managers in B2B SaaS companies to manage all their coaching activities, to provide visibility on impact of their efforts, and to improve sales team performance.
Carbon27 creates blockchain IOT hardware that monitors carbon as it’s being offset, turns those offsets into carbon credits, and sells those carbon credits to large polluters.
Every dog, everywhere, has the right to play outdoors. DogDry makes it easy, because DogDry takes care of the mess. DogDry makes super-absorbent, leak proof, and comfortable drying coats for wet dogs to help you keep wet dog mess out of your car and home.
DropzApp is disrupting how information is created, curated and consumed. Droppers® around the world are joining the information revolution by simply tapping RECORD to create and share location-based proximity-triggered audio Dropz®, feeding their followers’ curiosity and demand for instant information at locations, events and experiences.
Elevator Program is an e-learning platform for music production and music technology, founded by internationally acclaimed music producer and sound engineer, Will Kinsella.
An IT platform that helps educational publishers unlock new digital revenue streams from existing content. Without changing their content files or their IT infrastructure, publishers can digitise, distribute and monetise their existing content, and sell it directly to their consumers.
EON Bullion allows customers to buy and sell bullion on an open online market. EON Bullion provides unique testing equipment that is effective, affordable and beautiful, complementing their service offering of affordable and secure escrow exchange facility for buying and selling bullion.
Founded in 2019, FlexiDrive is an app-based platform that connects learner drivers with local driving instructors. Learners can browse instructor profiles and filter using a range of criteria to find the best instructor for their needs and book a lesson. Driving instructors can use the platform as a marketing and management tool to connect with local students.
HomeBidding is a real-time AI-driven bidding solution for buying and selling property online for estate agents internationally. Homebid’s technology streamlines the complexities of the selling process for all parties involved in a fast, efficient, and transparent manner.
hconnect is a cloud-based toolkit, enabling hotel operators and owners to better leverage their technology investment. Using their integration platform as a service (iPaaS), hconnect’s platform will allow hoteliers to take control of their digital transformation to cloud and beyond.
Indee Retail is a SaaS platform with simple automation tools designed to make life easier for small retailers and brands.
Izario supplies cost-saving robotic solutions for commercial layer and breeder poultry farms. Izario automates mundane and laborious tasks, such as daily egg collection, along with monitoring bird welfare and environmental outputs.
Oat in the City drinks retain oats’ natural beta glucans, fibre and protein, are gluten- free, low in natural sugars, and have no added sugars. The natural oat milk is a sustainable option, freshly ‘milked’ from gluten-free Irish oats. Available in original and barista.
Meld Apparel create sportswear that you can trust. Trust to perform in any environment, look stylish and to be made sustainably. Meld Apparel inspires better livelihoods for all! Technical clothing for our collective future.
Oideachas SDL specialises in reading intervention through their child companies, The Reading Academy and MyWordPal. The Reading Academy centres teach children with dyslexia how to read and trains teachers to do the same. MyWordPal is a web-based app revolutionising the delivery of reading intervention.
Peckish enables restaurants to market the right dish to the right customer, based on their dietary or personal preferences, through a tailored menu search engine. Peckish directs customers to the restaurant’s preferred ordering platform, so they can retain the most profit.
Prepsheets.com is a spinout of Mange Tout Ltd, a multi-million euro hospitality group. It helped them grow and enter new markets, and remain profitable. It is a simple tool to ensure in-house recipes have accurate costs, allergens and calories for each portion of each dish.
SafeScore is a B2B, SaaS solution which allows businesses to effortlessly track country entry requirements. Engineered to make travel easier and expedite the recovery of the travel and aviation industry, SafeScore is designed to provide clear and accurate data in just a few clicks.
Receipt Relay is a digital receipt software for retailers. The company reduces operating costs and increases customer loyalty through their e-receipts.
SalesGem is an enterprise SaaS solution that helps salespeople to customise every sales call, by organising a company’s dialogue and case studies into a dynamic script. This helps salespeople (particularly new hires) to close more deals and companies to win more business.
RugbySmarts is an innovative sports technology company specialising in automating video analytics for sports, starting in the rugby union market. The company’s mission is to improve team and individual performance by providing tailored analysis that will enhance coaching intelligence.
Making learning visible. Spotlight’s learning platform provides students with expert content and the tools to identify, plan and demonstrate the development of essential skills. Grounded in evidence- based research, Spotlight’s framework is developed in collaboration with Learnovate of Trinity College Dublin.
Telegenz provides live tele-skills training SaaS that is customisable to each user’s training needs. Primarily facilitating training of healthcare providers in the area of remote patient assessment skills or telehealth, Telegenz is customisable for soft skills training in any other educational or corporate domain.
Ciara Winkelmann is the creator of TheCrib™. A simple, smart and stylish solution to support for the phone, Kindle and iPad/Tablet. Whether working, studying, browsing, streaming or simply video-chatting, TheCrib™ provides the perfect viewing angle, screen-tapping stability, and absolute user comfort with style.
Photo: Taoiseach Micheál Martin at the Start-up Showcase event at Aviva Stadium
