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Showcasing the companies that have emerged from UCC Innovation over the years, illustrating a diverse range of technologies across a wide variety of areas.

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Spin-out Company: Exceedence

“UCC Innovation have continued to engage with us throughout our journey and have been open to hearing and learning from our lived experience as a University spinout. These learnings have often been taken on board by the UCC Innovation team, and we have continued to participate in their commercialisation support initiatives such as the SPRINT Accelerator program and the Digital Badge in IP and Innovation."

- Dr Ray Alcorn, CEO and Founder - Exceedence

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Spin-out Company: CergenX

“The licence negotiated with UCC Innovation gives us access to the world’s largest database of fully anonymised neonatal EEG recordings. This data bank is key to our algorithm development programme. We are using AI to identify infants that are most at risk of brain injury to allow hospitals refer these infants for further testing and treatment.”

- Jason Mowles, CEO - CergenX

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Spin-out Company: Neurobell

“UCC has supported us through every step of the journey, from early stage accelerators as a PhD student through to navigating the VC landscape.”

- Dr Mark O' Sullivan, CEO & Co-Founder - Neurobell

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Start-up Company: Telea

“There was quite a structure in IGNITE, that we learned how to develop our roadmaps and set ourselves small targets along the way, to hold ourselves accountable. I think that whole process of development and creating milestones definitely helped.”

- Clare Meskill, Founder & CEO - Telea

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UCC Consulting: CTCHC Reports

“Having UCC Consulting on-board on these projects was very valuable as they undertook the contract negotiations with the client and streamlined the processes. This allowed me to focus more on the consultancy itself, ensuring that my MPlan students were availing of a rich learning experience while building strong relationships with the project stakeholders.”

- Jeanette Fitzsimons, Lecturer - UCC’s Centre for Planning Education & Research Centre

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IGNITE UCC alumni named in the Sunday Independent's Thirty Under 30 List

Two IGNITE alumni have been named in this year's Sunday Independent Thirty Under 30 List. Shannen O' Reilly of TrustDish and Elvis Seporaitis of Volta Robotics have both been selected by the Sunday Independent as young business trailblazers to look out for in 2025.

UCC’s Entrepreneurs in Residence appointed as Adjunct Professors in the College of Business and Law

University College Cork (UCC) has appointed its five Entrepreneurs in Residence as Adjunct Professors within Cork University Business School (CUBS) in the College of Business and Law.

IGNITE Start-Ups: 300+ Jobs Created, €66M in Salaries Generated

UCC celebrated graduate founders at the Autumn 2024 IGNITE showcase, featuring pitches from 20 start-ups. IGNITE-supported ventures employ 300+ staff, contributed €66M in salaries, and raised €27M in funding. Graduate founders have been celebrated at University College Cork (UCC) with an event to showcase the innovation and entrepreneurship of founders and promoters undertaking the start-up programmes at the university.

UCC spin-out company CergenX wins Irish Times Innovation Award in Life Sciences & Healthcare

UCC spin-out company CergenX has been awarded the prestigious Irish Times Innovation Award in the Life Sciences & Healthcare category, sponsored by Research Ireland. This award celebrates their innovation in neonatal brain health, particularly with their new, easy-to-use brain-monitoring technology called Wave. The Wave device helps identify newborns in need of extra support or treatment, with the aim of reducing the impact of brain injury on their lives.

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UCC Innovation is co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Union through the ERDF Southern, Eastern & Midland Regional Programme 2021-27

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