Check out our past participants below!
The Wonky Woolins
The Wonky Woolins is a family-orientated business envisioned by Chloe Gardiner and inspired by her granny’s wonky, knitted toys that were passed onto her. Having survived through six generations before her, Chloe felt she should replicate these high quality toys for others to enjoy. At the age of 15, with €50 in her back pocket and a crochet hook, Chloe created The Wonky Woolins enabling many families to experience the everlasting connection her toys have established between her family members with a quality that will ensure it will maintain for generations to come.
Chloe’s creativity saw her take home the Goodbody’s Sustainability Award!
Pitseal
Created by Marion Cantilon, PitSeal is an eco-friendly solution for silage covering with the aim to provide long term sustainability for the farmers and their families. Pitseal is a biofilm comprising of unique strains of seaweed and nutrients that form an airtight and waterproof film on top of the silage pit completely replacing the plastic covering and weight. Marion saw first hand the dangers of farming when her uncle slipped and fell on wet plastic, breaking his leg preventing him from practicing farming for some time. Accidents like this are common in the farming world and so as a safer alternative, both environmentally and socially, along came Pitseal…
Cotter Agritech
Developed by sheep farming brothers Jack and Nick Cotter, the Cotter Crate was created having recognised the industry’s need for a handling system that focuses on making lamb handling easier, and also caters to adult sheep.
The result is a simple to use system, where the animal is comfortably held under its own weight at operator height, without any pressure being applied, resulting in a calm handling experience for both handler and livestock and reducing animal handling time by up to 50%.
FINALBEND
FINALBEND is an athleisure wear brand set up by Emma Coffey back when she was still in 5th year of secondary school. The idea to start the business came from her love of athletics. She had been involved in athletics pretty much all of her life and when an injury took her out of competing she focused on FINALBEND to keep a connection to the sport.
FINALBEND wants to be able to provide sustainably made products at sustainable prices. The ultimate goal is to be able to upgrade all of their material to sustainable eco materials without compromising on their ethos of being an affordable brand.
Recroot
Recroot is a video-based recruitment platform which focuses on hourly employment for the hospitality and retail sectors. Recroot simply replace the CV with a 30-second video.
Recroot found that the issue with hourly employment is not whether an applicant has experience, but whether they have an amiable personality. The 30-second video provides jobseekers with a means to convey their personalities and stand out to employers.
Inceno
Inceno is an Irish startup established in 2016 as a hospitality software firm. It was founded to solve consumer and hospitality sector needs. Their mission is to build an individually tailored, customer & food centred community that is brought together through mutual need for trust, transparency and pristine quality. Inceno offer consumers and managers a means of verifying restaurant reviews and will continue to produce new, innovative solutions to assist and aid the hospitality sector.
Delve
Delve is an emotional management app that helps people manage their emotions more effectively. This is delivered through on-the-spot exercises and workout programmes that are specifically designed to the user, suited for any situation during their demanding day.
Combining scientifically backed research drawing from the areas of mindfulness, cognitive behavioural therapy and emotional intelligence, Delve utilises technology to provide what the user needs, when they need it.
Delve changes perceptions, enhances understanding and stimulates action. Their mission is to make exercising your mind as universal as exercising your body.
GiveBack.ie is a social enterprise that aims to end homelessness in Ireland through passive crowd fundraising. Their online platform allows users to give back to Irish homelessness charities simply by shopping online, at no additional cost to them. When you make a purchase at any supported retailer, a percentage of your total spend will go towards helping homeless people in need. It's a fully automated, passive process that enables the everyday philanthropist from the comfort of their own sofa. Just shop online as you normally would, and GiveBack.ie will handle the rest.
Martin's Safety Equipment was founded in 2011 by a transition year student. Marie Martin's father had become ill spraying pesticides, encouraging her to invent the Safe Scrub Sprayer.
Marie went on to win the Young Entrepreneur Programme, receiving national attention for her product as well as mentorship from Denis O'Brien and Jerry Kennelly.
Marie is committed to her mission of promoting health and safety in the agricultural sector and providing farmers with innovative new products to protect their health.
Blazer is developing an airport security system for honeybee hives that uses image recognition technology to monitor, record and analyse honeybee health before take off and after landing. The device then reports back actionable information to beekeepers.
Real time data allows beekeepers to respond to threats in a proactive way using proven treatment methods.The longterm value in Blazer is the locally, nationally and globally aggregated data collected on honeybees.
NU.
Nu. is an ethical fashion community, aiming to reinvent the way we shop. They believe in looking great, without the environmental and social costs.
The FastFashion industry is cheap, unethical and highly profitable. Nu. will create a marketplace where fashion is both affordable and sustainable, whilst remaining profitable. Nu. runs eyeopening events throughout Dublin, with a focus on highlighting the harm caused by the current industry. In this respect they provide fun, stylish and affordable wardrobes without causing harm to the planet.
Their objective is to make ethical fashion the norm, while refusing to support unfair systems of production.
QuickSpot
QuickSpot was established out of pure frustration over something that we encounter nearly every day; the inability to find parking. By utilising a regular CCTV camera, their unique software, and combining it with an effective mobile application, they are able to identify and guide drivers to available car park spaces.
With the average price per space being significantly lower and less intrusive than any of their competitors, we believe QuickSpot have the potential to become a market leader in the smart parking industry. Using just a mobile app, QuickSpot could offer the overall solution for the parking industry.
Vital Fixies is a fixed-gear bicycle company. Designing from Dublin and manufacturing in Taiwan, they are are focused on quality, style and affordable pricing.
Dozens of dedicated designers and engineers work together to carefully construct every facet of the bikes. Their simple, elegant design costs less and ages gracefully. They eliminate waste, you save. Their bicycles are half the traditional retail price and because they sell direct to their customers and don't have expensive retail stores, the customer receives far higher quality bike for their money.
Their goal is simple; to offer high quality fixed gear bikes at an unbeatable price.
Cork Cares
Cork Cares is a social enterprise that enables consumers and businesses to give back to charity whilst also getting something in return.
They connect local businesses and charities by selling deals online. They then donate a percentage of sales, meaning the consumer is given a good deal whilst supporting their favourite charity. The business is also able to give back and receives a new customer. For charities, they provide a sustainable, regular source of income with no effort needed on their part.
Having launched in Cork and with ambitions to expand, their aim is to have consumers shop normally, but with far greater benefit to society.
AirCrewser
AirCrewser is an online platform offering tailored services to long-haul cabin crew and pilots with layovers in Dublin. Their mission is to maximise flight crew's layover experience by providing them value-added services such as: portable wifi rental service, deals and discounts in various restaurants, bars and shops and relevant information and local tips on what the destination has to offer. Their ambition is to work closely with major airlines and to operate internationally.
Picabrain
Picabrain is an online provider of tutors in all areas of education. Focusing on subject specific tuition, so if one is looking for help in a college module, wants to learn a new language or pick up a new instrument/hobby, Picabrain is the go to site. With a huge emphasis on review and with all tutors being subjected to pre screening, they take the worry out of finding quality tuition.
SimpliFly is a mobile shopping solution designed to make it easy to buy when you fly. SimpliFly is designed for travel retailers to maximise their sales and for passengers to have the best travel retailing purchasing experience possible. Their unique terminal delivery service delivers items to customers at their airport terminal upon arrival.
Popdeem was born out of the founders' frustration with existing social marketing tools for local businesses. Over the past 3 years, Popdeem has developed one of the most powerful pieces of social marketing software in the world and now stands at the forefront of a monumental shift in the advertising industry. Popdeem is a social engagement platform that enables location-based brands to identify their most influential customers and reward them for sharing brand experiences on social networks.
WattSpot offers free charging points for you devices which act as an incentive for customers to enter an establishment, increasing footfall and sales and the overall customer experience allowing customers to avail of the free charging service, for their more often than not, depleted smartphone batteries. Their goal is to make everyone's day a little bit easier and change the world of charging along the way.
At Restored Hearing, we aim to change the way the world hears by ridding it of avoidable hearing damage.
Founded by Rhona Togher and Eimear O’Carroll in 2009, Restored Hearing have developed a sound therapy for tinnitus, Sound Relief, which is financially and geographically accessible, as well as scientifically proven to alleviate tinnitus severity.
In addition to providing a treatment for tinnitus, Restored Hearing are committed to help prevent it with a hearing protection product called Sound Bounce. Sound Bounce combines the power of noise cancelling electronics with the competitive cost of foam hearing protection which has been independently verified to absorb sound up to 8 times more effectively than foam.
Vconnecta is a two year old Irish technology company that is working with organisations, businesses and leaders that wish to not just connect with local communities but learn from them.
At Vconnecta, we are passionate about helping businesses, organisations, and leaders improve their interactions with local communities by using the latest cloud and mobile technologies.
FoodCloud connects businesses that have too much food to charities in their communities that have too little. Using the FoodCloud app, or the website, participating businesses can upload details of their surplus food and the time period in which the food can be collected. This automatically sends a text message to the most appropriate charities in their community.
The first charity to accept the offer collects it directly from the business.
We are Dublin’s creative fine dining events company. Through dramatic appearance, technique, our appetite for design and shared-plates eating style, we bring an entirely new dimension to dining in Ireland. Having always put emphasis on Irish produce our company began by hosting supper clubs and guerrilla dining experiences using social media as a means to spread the good word of our food.
Along with the events we host and create, we have come to work with many food and drink companies to create innovative menus. We have tailored our food to accompany various events such as the Guinness Brewer’s Project, Heineken Dine in the Dark and the Lidl Secret Garden.