INDUSTRY NEWS
The Galway man using gaming tech to liven up business data
Consumer insight and quality key to the success of two Food brands
Enterprise Ireland and UCD launch new Innovation Partnership in Food Quality & Safety
Salesforce founder backs Dublin start-up Nuritas in €2m funding round
We need to study the Silicon Valley playbook
Aromatherapy device has sweet smell of success
Accelerating help to ensure startups succeed
      
 
Meabh Conaghan, Food Works, Enterprise Ireland
Meabh Conaghan, Food Works, Enterprise Ireland
Enterprise Ireland's Meabh Conaghan talks to Mary Kennedy about the Food Works programme
Mary Kennedy speaks with Meabh Conaghan about the Food Works programme which was developed to foster and promote Food Enterprises in Ireland. The Nationwide team also meets chocolatiers Bean and Goose to learn about the herbs they grow and use to create a uniquely Irish product.
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EY Entrepreneur of the Year: 24 firms shortlisted for award
Sponsored by Enterprise Ireland, the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award is now in its 19th year. The programme works to recognise, promote and build a supportive community around Ireland’s high-growth entrepreneurs representing the full spectrum of industries. This year’s 24 finalists employ almost 3,000 people and generate annual revenues of €450 million.
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The Galway man using gaming tech to liven up business data
Irish Independent

Kevin McCaffrey helps businesses bring complex data to life visually so the message can be more easily understood. Having moved back to Ireland to set up his company Tr3Dent McCaffrey says "Ireland punches well above its weight when it comes to creating an environment that enables start-ups to succeed".

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Consumer insight and quality key to the success of two Food brands
Irish Times

The holy grail of all new brand builders is to create a disruptive innovation that sets a new agenda and sparks sustained category growth. In the food sector, the most commercially successful of such innovations are often not original scientific breakthroughs, but clever re-presentations of existing product types based upon a deeply understood consumer insight. 

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Enterprise Ireland and UCD launch new Innovation Partnership in Food Quality & Safety

The €1.7 million Enterprise Ireland and industry funded programme, Sequencing Alliance for Food Environments (SAFE), aims to develop a new predictive software toolbox to enhance food quality and safety approaches, using environmental intelligence data. 

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Salesforce founder backs Dublin start-up Nuritas in €2m funding round
Silicon Republic
Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff is reportedly one of the latest people to invest in Enterprise Ireland client Nuritas, which specialises in artificial intelligence to reinvent therapeutics.
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We need to study the Silicon Valley playbook
Originally published in the Sunday Business Post
The youngbloods behind emerging startups don't just want to be better - the want to be the best. If we want them to stay, we must do more.
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Aromatherapy device has sweet smell of success
Irish Times

The Petalwell is a portable, rechargeable device which uses heat technology to disperse natural essential oils for use in a therapeutic setting or for personal use. Made in Carlow, the company is owned by sisters Jacqueline Oglesby and Rachel Purcell.

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Accelerating help to ensure startups succeed
Irish Examiner
A common model of developing and supporting new business ideas is through an incubator or accelerator programme. The recent announcement by Enterprise Ireland of a €3m programme for industry accelerators that focus on financial services, clean energy, life sciences and food, indicates the growth of Irish accelerator programmes shows no sign of slowing.
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