NovaUCD Client Companies Aonta Technologies Aonta Technologies provides carrier grade voice conferencing solutions to conferencing service providers, telcos and enterprises. The solutions support all modes of conferencing including reserved, reservation-less, attended and unattended. Founders: Derek Moore and David Seavers. www.aonta.com AIB Seed Capital Fund The AIB Seed Capital Fund, which is located at NovaUCD, was established in 2007 to provide venture capital for companies at the seed and early stages of development. The Fund established under the Enterprise Ireland Seed and Venture Capital Programme 2007-2012 has a total of 30m under management with AIB and Enterprise Ireland both committing 15m. www.aibseedcapitalfund.ie APC APC provides pharmaceutical processing technologies and customised solutions to pharmaceutical companies that require the delivery of their medicines to the global market in a lean, reliable and robust manner. APC s unique solutions allow its clients to reduce the risk, cost and time to market for new and existing pharmaceutical medicines. Founders: Professor Brian Glennon and Dr Mark Barrett, UCD s School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering. Berand Neuropharmacology Berand is a pre-clinical drug research company that offers a full spectrum of in-vivo neuropharmacology and pre-clinical neurobiology services, resources and expertise. Founders: Dr Andrew Foley and Professor Ciaran Regan, UCD s School of Biomolecular ad Biomedical Science. www.berand.ie biomérieux biomérieux which develops and evaluates in-vitro diagnostic tests for use in food, pharmaceutical and veterinary microbiology laboratories, has its Irish headquarters based at NovaUCD. www.biomerieux.com August 2012 NovaUCD Client Companies 1
Biosensia Biosensia is a point-of-care, in-vitro diagnostics company that has a novel point-of-care platform, RapiPlex, available for licensing. RapiPlex combines highly innovative technologies to produce a practical, rapid, multiplexing point of care (POC) in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) platform, enabling access to a broad range of diagnostic applications. Founders: Dr Gabriel Crean and Dr Gareth Redmond. www.biosensia.com Cernam Cernam is a specialist digital investigations company focusing on online investigations. Founder: Owen O Connor. www.cernam.com Credit Expo Research Credit Expo Research is a credit risk management company which has developed a patented empirical credit risk management methodology. Founder: Pat Shallow. www.creditexpo.ie Crescent Diagnostics Crescent Diagnostics is developing a new prognostic test for hip fracture risk called BQT. The technique involves analysing a small toenail sample in the lab using Raman spectroscopy. CEO: Brendan Farrell. www.crescentdx.com DocoSoft DocoSoft develops document management software solutions for global markets. Founder: Aidan O Neill. www.docosoft.com EnBIO EnBIO provides innovative technology for medical implant surface modification and the application of drugs to such surfaces with the intent of delivering therapy directly to the surgical site leading to improved patient outcomes. Founder: Dr John O Donoghue. www.enbiomaterials.com Enzolve Technologies Enzolve Technologies develops and manufactures specially-designed enzymes, using proprietary technologies, for applications in healthcare, fine chemical and life science markets. Founders: Dr Suren Aghajanian and Professor Paul Engel, UCD s School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science. www.enzolve.com August 2012 NovaUCD Client Companies 2
Equinome Equinome is developing genetic tests to optimise decision-making in the breeding and racing of Thoroughbred horses. Founders: Dr Emmeline Hill, UCD School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine and Mr Jim Bolger. www.equinome.com HeyStaks Technologies HeyStaks has developed a patent protected, desktop mobile solution that allow users to harness their social networks as they search on their favourite search engines, and thereby get the benefit of their trusted peers searches. Founders: Dr Peter Briggs, Dr Maurice Coyle and Professor Barry Smyth, UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics and CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies. www.heystaks.com Incaplex Incaplex aim is to create an interconnected travel vaccine market. Its first application, Inca for Travel Clinics, will allow medics manage their travel vaccination clinics. Founder: Richard Boyd and Chairman Sean Baker. www.incaplex.com Innovois Innovois aims to become a global leader in the development of easy-to-use data capture solutions to seamlessly fit into organisations existing processes. Founders: Aaron Keegan, James Whelan and Conor Hoey. www.innovois.com Ionic Business Systems Ionic provides a range of technology products including website design, implementation and hosting. Founder: David Sharpe. www.ionic.ie LifeScientific Life Scientific is the only full service contract research organisation focused exclusively on off-patents. Founder: Nicola Mitchell. www.lifescientific.com Management Briefs Management Briefs publishes easy-to-read books for busy managers. Titles available cover a wide range of management knowledge and skill that is essential for managers. The books are all focused on practical content that can be used by managers in their day-to-day work. Founder: Frank Scott Lennon. www.managementbriefs.com August 2012 NovaUCD Client Companies 3
Mutebutton Mutebutton has developed a novel technology intended to alleviate the symptoms of subjective or permanent Tinnitus. The device synchronously presents sound using headphones and tactile representations to an intra-oral array on the tongue. The device presents sound to the senses of hearing and touch thus giving the brain a multimodal basis for sound discrimination to harness inherent neurological mechanisms that suppress illusory percepts such as the sounds of Tinnitus. Founder: Dr Ross O Neill. www.mutebutton.ie OncoMark OncoMark s focus is centred on the development and application of biomarker panels, particularly in the areas of oncology and drug development. Founders: Professor William Gallagher, UCD s School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science and Steve Penney. www.oncomark.com Orion Veterinary Orion Veterinary is a health technology company providing wellness and fitness monitoring applications. Orion Veterinary has developed a number of innovative sensors enabling remote monitoring of various clinical and pre-clinical conditions. Applications range from monitoring equine athletic performance to detecting herd health issues that affect food production economics. Founder: Michael O'Shea. Purtell Consulting Purtell Consulting, an internationally traded services and software company, working with North American Multi-Nationals in the ICT sector. They work in the area of Corporate Readiness Consultancy, supporting the implementation of global enterprise solutions. Founder: Anne Purtell. Q-Validus Q-Validus is a leading provider of international certification and management services. Founders: David Carpenter, Garry Cleere and Dudley Dolan. www.q-validus.com RendezVu RendezVu has developed a next generation learning platform to provide immersive education for languages and other subjects using virtual world and gaming technologies. Founders: Paul Groarke and Garrett Hussey. www.rendezvu.com August 2012 NovaUCD Client Companies 4
ServiceFrame ServiceFrame is an Outsourcing Relationship Management specialist company whose technology enables companies globally to effectively evaluate, manage and govern their strategic outsourcing environments. Founders: Traoloach Collins, Diarmuid Barry and Daniel Berman www.serviceframe.com SmartBuilder Software SmartBuilder Software is developing mobile software for use on building and engineering sites. Founders: Richard Mulcahy and Peter Daly. www.smartbuilder1.com Socowave Socowave is a leading innovator of wireless access technologies and products. Founder: Joe Moore. www.socowave.com Talentevo Talentevo has developed a suite of automated performance management and productivity tools to allow companies of all sizes to align their employees with their business strategies. Founder: Trevor Dagg. www.talentevo.com Sportora Sportora has just launched its mobile web app which allows fans to share their views with their friends around sport. Founders: Jim Reddy and Greg Curran www.sportora.com Tethras Tethras enables app developers to easily adapt their software into over 40 languages. Founders: Brian Farrell and Brendan Clavin. www.tethras.com VideoCrisp VideoCrisp is a cloud based video editing tool that allow users to upload, edit and share their videos on the browser itself. VideoCrisp is world s first and most advanced cloud based video editing software that empowers users to edit and change the background of videos and embed digital contents with great ease of use and without the need of a desktop based video editing software or any prior technical knowledge of video-editing. Founder: Abhinav Chugh www.videocrisp.com August 2012 NovaUCD Client Companies 5
Voucherpages.ie Voucherpages.ie is a discount voucher directory to find local vouchers, coupons, and buy deals across Ireland. Consumers can purchase deals on-site of deals can be accessed online or via their mobile applications with geo-location features. Founder: Ronan Hickey. www.voucherpages.ie Wattics Wattics has developed an innovative clever metering system to provides businesses with insights into their energy usage, per individual appliance. Using the resulting data businesses can identify energy inefficiencies within their organisation enabling them to take actions to significantly reduce their electricity bills. Founders: Dr Antonio Ruzzelli and Dr Anthony Schoofs, UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics. www.wattics.com August 2012 NovaUCD Client Companies 6