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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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Main Photo (L-R): David Hall, Carbery CogniMed, Ruth Hendrick Target Alert Group, Dr. Eliana Monteiro PhD. Image credit:

IGNITE Spring Awards and Showcase 2026

Technology to improve how schools operate incident management and alerts, an AI-powered system to speed up Clinical Trial Agreements and a platform to help people overcome challenges in their relationships were among the start-ups highlighted at this year’s IGNITE Spring Showcase and Awards.

Dr Waleed Faisal, CEO ArrayPatch.

UCC spin-out ArrayPatch expands microneedle patch technology for delivery of peptide-based medicines

ArrayPatch, a spin-out from UCC’s School of Pharmacy, has acquired new microneedle patch technology to support the delivery of peptide-based medicines. The acquisition strengthens the company’s drug delivery platform and complements its existing DerMap technology, which delivers medications via a pain-free, dissolvable microneedle patch that releases medication under the skin.

New Irish Spin-Out HyperPath Enables Uninterrupted Connectivity on the Move

HyperPath, a recent spin-out from Tyndall National Institute, based at University College Cork, is addressing one of today’s biggest mobility challenges: ensuring reliable, always-on wireless connectivity for systems on the move.

Photo: Dr Gillian Barrett, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship & Management in Cork University Business School.

Researching innovation to empower an entrepreneurial ecosystem

Goal 1.5 of UCC’s strategic plan 2023 – 2028 is to ‘Create an innovation culture and entrepreneurial campus, underpinned by an ethos of creativity and discovery’. Central to this, is research informed teaching to develop future entrepreneurs from UCC’s diverse student population.

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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

Our technology transfer process is ISO9001:2015 certified

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