Pictured (L-R): Ciara Clancy from Beats Medical with Colin Goulding of Google Ireland’s start-up programme Pic. Shane O’Neill

Ciara Clancy’s Beats Medical has won €10,000 worth of AdWords credit after the Parkinson’s treatment company came out on top in Google’s Adopt a Start-up programme.

Seeing off competition from 31 other businesses – including the likes of CoderDojo and Glofox – Beats Medical took top prize after Ciara Clancy’s seven-minute pitch on her company’s developed digital strategy was judged the best of the bunch.
This isn’t the first time Clancy has been recognised for her achievements, she was named Laureate for Europe at the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards in October.

Clancy worked for several years with sufferers of Parkinson’s in Ireland, both as a physiotherapist and volunteer. She launched Beats Medical in 2012, which sports a smartphone app that provides ‘specialised cueing treatment’ for Parkinson’s patients, which is basically soundwave treatment that enables people to regain mobility.

Beats Medical was accepted to Enterprise Ireland’s High Potential Start Ups class of companies in 2013.

The story was first published on the Silicon Republic website. Read more here. 

Video: Ciara Clancy - Laureate for Europe at the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards in October 2015