LaunchPad
NDRC’s LaunchPad is Ireland’s first accelerator programme, focused on supporting the next generation of digital entrepreneurs to accelerate good ideas to sound start-ups.
Participating in NDRC’s LaunchPad will give you validation and access to help you with every aspect of your business, as well as a fast track to attracting investment.
Targeted at emerging start-up promoters in the digital space, LaunchPad provides:
- A three month programme alongside other start-ups, innovators, engineers and investors
- Expert mission guidance and hands-on support from experienced entrepreneurs
- Weekly workshops and meetings with the right people in the right networks
- Micro-seed investment of up to €20,000 per project*
Explore these pages to learn more about the LaunchPad experience, with information about those who have gone before. LaunchPad will be open for applications in May 2012.
Our Present Startups
Adjuno
Adjuno is a daily deals community that employs dynamic targeting to help students and young professionals automatically identify relevant offers across different daily deal sites. Users can rate, compare, and exchange deals all from within a single web or native mobile app.
Adaptics
Andrometer is an inexpensive, portable hardware accessory which transforms an Android ‘smart-phone’ into a fully featured, standards certified electrical testing instrument. The Andrometer app allows measurement of voltage, current and resistance with graphing and logging facilities, and audible output allowing unobtrusive operation. The product will be aimed at electronic and electrical professionals, field engineers and hobbyists.
Boxever
Boxever enables B2C companies to increase revenue by helping them make better decisions. We do this by providing software that improves the timing and quality of opportunity-based marketing such as what price to offer a high-value customer, what product a customer is most likely to buy or what retention offer to make to a customer that’s about to leave.
Buttrr
Buttrr is a unique online platform that enables brands to truly engage with their users using a combination of competition & social media. Offering key insights and analytical tools, we provide an extremely cost effective service that focuses on helping businesses to build their brand and online presence.
Fixational
Fixational measure how people look at online advertising, providing a new way for brand advertisers and agencies to measure the performacne of their digital display campaigns. Eye-tracking data is crowdsourced from volunteers through the broswer using regular webcams. This data powers an analytics service for the advertising industry to measure and optimise display campaigns.
getHealth
getHealth is a simple, intuitive and engaging multi-platform service offering a fun personal health management system. getHealth aims to tackle the extensive problem of medical noncompliance which faces millions of people throughout the world in a unique way. By embracing technology, our team aims to provide an innovative service that will inform and connect people.
HushVine
The firehose of social media like Twitter and Facebook has gotten out of control. There are over 200 million Tweets a day and people are sharing twice as much information on Facebook per day compared to 12 months ago. HushVine gives you back control by providing a Platform which dynamically shows you exactly what you want, when you want it.
iCabbi
iCabbi is developing a range of products targeting the taxi industry. Our business has two sides to it, 1. Developing dispatch systems for taxi companies and 2. Developing consumer facing products such as websites, affiliate booking engines and in particular mobile applications – “Taxis at the touch of a button”. Our aim is to link independent taxi companies through our technology and market them under the iCabbi brand.
bitSmith
An episodic, gesture based adventure game for iPad, based on Irish mythology, with a rich atmosphere and hand-drawn aesthetic
Neurohero
Neurohero is developing a range of games to help rebuild family relationships after a stroke, brain injury or dementia. These apps will be available for iPhone, iPad and iTouch. Each game addresses a specific deficit in one area of the brain. For example, damage to the temporal lobe can make it difficult to place a picture into the correct category. We are creating several entertaining, interactive games to address this difficulty. We intend to produce games for a variety of symptoms caused by injury to each region of the brain.
NewsWhip
NewsWhip is the social Google News. We check Facebook and Twitter to find the stories that are the most popular in the world, right now. Want to know what’s everyone’s talking about and sharing in politics? Fashion? Rugby? The stories on NewsWhip are always the best, because they’re the one’s that people have picked to share. Request an invitation to take a look at NewsWhip.com.
Redeem&Get
Redeem&Get is the painkiller for the headache of a daily deal gone wild. Sure you have lots of new customers, so make sure they arrive at your business when you need them and turn them from one time customers into repeat customers with our daily deal management tool.
VideoElephant
VideoElephant is an online video marketplace for short-form professionally produced audio-visual content. The VideoElephant platform connects professional video producers with commercial web publishers, mobile operators, IPTV and broadcasters.
Von Bismark
Von Bismark is dedicated to creating reusable augmented reality applications that allow consumers to interact with their favourite brands and products in a physical way. Using the latest in motion tracking technology Von Bismark will allow users to interact with virtual objects as if they were holding the real thing in the palm of their hand.
ThoughtBox
ThoughtBox = education + games = play + discovery: an equation the founders, Cristina and Claire are very passionate about. We believe that rules are meant to be discovered rather than taught and this means breaking them first. What better way to learn anything than through gaming? Our first product will be Numerosity which is a math app for children aged between 11- 15. We are appealing to innocent naughtiness that parents support because it makes math something that children want to do. What makes us different is that we are not taking a game and layering math on top rather transforming maths into the game.
