2011 Press Releases
07.10.2011
InfiniLED Limited, a spinout from Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork (UCC), has won the International Technology Leadership Group University Challenge. Congratulating InfiniLED on their success, Professor Roger Whatmore, Tyndall CEO said: “This is a really excellent win for the InfinLED founders, Bill Henry and Joe O’Keefe. It brings with it a wonderful opportunity for them to showcase the company’s technology in Silicon Valley at the Annual ITLG - Irish Times Innovation Awards event at Stanford University to be held in Spring 2012.
InfiniLED
is taking to the marketplace a new generation of light emitting diode (LED)
technology which was invented and developed at Tyndall. It produces more
usable light with less electric power than conventional LEDs and will extend
the battery life for portable devices such as cameras, mobile phones and
laptops by up to six times. It also has a wide range of other
applications such as medical and analytical instrumentation and direct-write,
high precision printing.”
The Micro LED technology was invented by a team of researchers led by Mr Brian
Corbett at Tyndall National Institute, supported and funded by Enterprise Ireland.
Serial-entrepreneur Joe O’Keeffe, who has already spun out other successful
companies, evaluated the commercial potential of the micro LED under the
Enterprise Ireland Business Partners Programme. This led to the
establishment of InfiniLED Limited and today’s win.
“This is an excellent example of a successful collaboration between the researchers,
Dr Anthony Morrissey of UCC’s Technology Transfer Office, and external entrepreneurs.
We are delighted that Dr Bill Henry, who as a Tyndall employee worked on
indentifying commercial opportunities for the technology, has now joined
InfiniLED as Chief Commercial Officer. InfiniLED continues to access our
facilities and expertise in the further development of the Micro LED technology
under an access agreement between InfiniLED and Tyndall” explained Professor
Roger Whatmore, CEO Tyndall National Institute.
For more information in InfiniLED got to http://www.infiniled.com
Picture L-R: Mr John Hartnett, President of the Irish Technology Leadership Group; Mr Joe O’Keeffe, InfiniLED Limited and Mr Richard Stokes, DCU Invent.