Venture Academy Pitching Companies
Please find below the list of 8 companies – selected from 30+ applications – that will pitch during the AxisBIC Venture Academy™ on Thursday October 1st from 11:00 – 13:00 with the support of Cork City Council and Cork County Council. Also included are 3 companies who were shortlisted from all applications.
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Course Ranger - Peter Dunlea Course Ranger is an innovative, cost-effective and efficient Pace of Play system which helps solve the problems of slow play in Golf with minimal disruption to the golfer. It gives players and course staff the real-time information they need to solve problems before they arise, This allows courses to generate greater revenue. Investment Sought: €1.25 million Location: Killarney, Co. Kerry Website: www.courseranger.com |
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Equidaq - Michael Young Equidaq is a revolutionary financial services platform that leverages blockchain technology for the fractionalization, tokenization and trading of bloodstock. Equidaq makes bloodstock ownership more accessible and affordable to a much wider audience while enabling industry partners to automate and securely manage shares, payments, benefits, and communications with their clients. Investment Sought: €210,000 Location: Cork, Ireland Website: www.equidaq.com |
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LEGIT FIT – Ryan O’Neill LEGIT FIT helps Health & Fitness Businesses to Manage Less and Earn More. The online platform supports businesses to increase earnings by up to €10k/year through its multi-functional portal that saves the average business over 200hours/annum. Most recently, the company has been helping fitness businesses to go virtual with its new interactive video integration. Investment Sought: €500,000 Location: Cork, Ireland Website: https://legitfit.com/ |
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Lintil - Emmet Creighton Lintil simplifies the purchasing of property by allowing the homebuyer to do the entire transaction on their phone. By facilitating the buying of property Lintil is the gateway for every service the homebuyer needs to get the deal done. Investment Sought: €500,000 Location: Cork, Ireland Website: www.lintil.com |
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OaCP IE Ltd - Enrico Di Oto OaCP provides patented reagents that reduce times (-97%) and costs (-50%) of DNA tests for cancer diagnosis. OaCP addresses the molecular IVD market, reaching USD 100K in sales in 2019 to hospitals. Driven by a team with complementary skills, OaCP is looking for Euro 1.2M to consolidate the market presence. Investment Sought: €1.2million Location: Cork, Ireland & Bologna, Italy Website: www.oacp.it |
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PixQuanta - Kevin O'Neill PixQuanta is a fabless semiconductor sensor company that has developed a new and proprietary light-sensing technology platform that will benefit multiple image sensing applications across markets. The range of applications include smartphone/tablet /AR glasses e.g. face ID, gesture recognition and AR/VR, self-driving cars, and ultra-low dose imaging X-ray systems. Investment Sought: €1.8million Location: Cork, Ireland Website: pixquanta.com |
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SymPhysis Medical - Tim Jones, Co-Founder & CEO and Michelle Tierney, Co-Founder & CSO SymPhysis Medical's goal is to develop technologies that put the patient experience at the forefront of their solutions’ design to improve their quality of life. Their emergent technology, releaze, is a drainage technology to treat a complication of cancer, ‘fluid on the lung’, which causes significant shortness of breath, distress, and chest pain. Investment Sought: €2million Location: Galway, Ireland Website: www.symphysismedical.com |
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Zendra Health - Thomas Coleman Zendra Health is a Dublin and Fermanagh based MedTech company founded by Corconian twin brothers David and Thomas Coleman. Zendra Health has developed a no-code platform that makes building medical-grade apps easy and accessible and provides tools to track performance and outcome measures. Investment Sought: €550,000 Location: Dublin, Ireland Website: www.zendrahealth.com |
Also Shortlisted for the Venture Academy from all our Applications were: |
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Banba - David Alton Banba is an app which allows customers to order and pay for drinks directly from their phone. Banba enables mobile-contactless-ordering, which they believe will be an integral part of the bar of the future. They are seeking an investment of €500K for 25% of the company. Investment Sought: €500,000 Location: Cork Ireland Website: www.banba-app.com |
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Milis Bio - Mike Sheehan Milis Bio is a biotechnology company with a ground-breaking platform to design low calorie, protein based sweeteners, salt substitutes and umami flavours. The company is presently codeveloping a baked goods sweetener in partnership with the world’s largest baked goods company, Grupo Bimbo, ahead of a Spring product pilot. Investment Sought: €50,000 Location: Cork, Ireland Website: www.milisbio.com |
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Eden Robotics – Patrick Kedziora WE MAKE FARMERS MORE PROFITABLE! In the US and Europe: there is a shortage of farmworkers and 20% of apples go unpicked, chicken processing plants have suffered because of COVID, and wages are too high. Our Lego style remote controlled 100% human intelligence robotic solution reduces the need for local labour, reduces the cost to under €4/hour, reduces the number of humans in chicken plants and lets you pick all the apples. Investment Sought: €3m Location: France & US Website: http://boilingice.com |
