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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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(L-R): Dr Sally Cudmore, Director of UCC Innovation; Eamon Curtin, Director of IGNITE Programme; Dr Gillian Barrett, Cork University Business School (CUBS); Professor John Cryan, Vice President for Research & Innovation at UCC. Photo: John Allen.

IGNITE start-ups shine a light on sustainability, women's health and technology

Technology to improve rowing athletes performances, zero waste clothing design, and a safer and more comfortable Intrauterine Device (IUD) were among the start-ups highlighted at this year’s University College Cork’s IGNITE Autumn Showcase.

(R-L): Darren Cunningham (CFO ArrayPatch), Waleed Faisal (CEO ArrayPatch), Richard Kennedy (Chair, InterTradeIreland), Caroline Blackshields (QA Scientist, ArrayPatch), Ziad Sartawi (Scientist, ArrayPatch) and Fatma Farag (UCC).

UCC spin-out ArrayPatch announced as winners of 2025 InterTradeIreland Seedcorn Awards

ArrayPatch, a spin-out company from University College Cork’s (UCC) School of Pharmacy has been announced as overall winner of the all-island final of the InterTradeIreland Seedcorn Investor Readiness Competition 2025.

(L-R): Prof. John Cryan, Vice President Research and Innovation at UCC; Sean O' Driscoll, Chair of UCC's Governing Authority; Prof. John O' Halloran, President of UCC; Rachel O' Leary, Director of Business Engagement at UCC and Prof. Barry O' Sullivan, Director of UCC Futures in AI and Data Analytics. Image credit: Provision

“AI optimism has turned into an over-hyping of the technology that is misplaced”

"AI optimism has turned into an over-hyping of the technology that is misplaced” warns Professor Barry O’ Sullivan, Director of UCC Futures in AI and Data Analytics. His remarks were delivered on Tuesday evening at University College Cork's (UCC) second annual Business Engagement event, which brought together just under 300 attendees from across Ireland’s business community.

(L-R): Dr Waleed Faisal, CEO ArrayPatch, Áine Denn, Co-Founder, Altify and Darren Cunningham, CFO ArrayPatch.

UCC spin-out awarded €50K by InterTradeIreland to scale microneedle technology

ArrayPatch, a spin-out company from University College Cork’s (UCC) School of Pharmacy has been announced as a Regional Winner in the InterTradeIreland All-Island Seedcorn Investor Readiness Competition 2025.

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