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NovaUCD is the hub of commercialisation, consultancy, entrepreneurship, knowledge transfer, innovation and start-up related activities at University College Dublin.

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OcuHealth, an emerging eye therapeutics start-up, has been named overall winner of @ucddublin.bsky.social 2025 VentureLaunch Accelerator Programme.

This programme is delivered by @novaucd.bsky.social to support the creation and launch of new start-ups emerging from UCD.

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Pictured is Dr Alison Reynolds, Assistant Professor, UCD School of Veterinary Medicine and a fellow of the UCD Conway Institute, and a member of the OcuHealth team, winner of the 2025 UCD VentureLaunch Accelerator Programme Award.
December 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Registration is open for the 2025 UCD VentureLaunch Accelerator Programme Showcase and Awards event on 26 Nov where the latest research-backed start-ups will be pitching their businesses to a panel of leading investors.

All are welcome to register to attend.

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November 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Congratulations to TrojanTrack, an Irish start-up transforming equine performance and welfare using advanced AI motion analysis, on being named the One to Watch at the conclusion of UCD's 2025 AI Ecosystem Accelerator programme.

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Pictured at NovaUCD is Stephen O’Dwyer, Founder and CEO, TrojanTrack, winner of the One to Watch Award at UCD’s 2025 AI Ecosystem Accelerator.
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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QUBIC, a quantum computing project led by Equal1, the Irish quantum computing company and a @ucddublin.bsky.social spin-out, has successfully secured €13.7 million in funding under Call 7 of the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund.

Find out more - www.ucd.ie/innovation/n...
Jason Lynch, CEO, Equal1.
October 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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LirOptic, a UCD spin-out, has been named winner of the Audience Choice Award & a $10k prize at the final of 2025 Luminate Accelerator Programme final in Rochester, New York.

LirOptic is currently raising €1.5m in seed funding to grow and scale operations.

Find out more: www.ucd.ie/innovation/n...
Pictured (l-r) Rochester, New York are; James Senall, President, NextCorps; Simon Forsyth, CEO and co-founder, LirOptic and Dr Sujatha Ramanujan, Managing Director, Luminate NY.
October 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Leapifai, an Irish fintech start-up, has launched a novel AI-powered digital tax copilot - designed to provide instant tax insights with statutory-backed compliance guarantees.

Find out more: www.ucd.ie/innovation/n... or visit www.leapifai.com
Pictured at NovaUCD is Dr Beibei Flynn, Founder and CEO, Leapifai.
October 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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LaNua Medical, an Irish medtech device start-up and a UCD spin-out, has successfully secured €6m in DTIF funding for a medtech project to be carried out in collaboration with Integer Holdings and @ucddublin.bsky.social.

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The ECORE project is focusing on developing and clinically validating an embolisation device that simplifies procedures and provides interventionalists with more options to treat their patients.
October 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Licovolt, a UCD spin-out company, has appointed Ken Hoffman, a global battery industry leader as a special board advisor, as the company develops its strategic R&D roadmap and prepares for Series A funding round.

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Kenn Hoffman, Special Board Advisor, Licovolt.
September 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa and Gov. Laura Kelly of Kansas visited NovaUCD last week during the One Health x AgTech Summit organised by Enterprise Ireland and UCD to foster links between researchers, academics, policymakers, and industry leaders from Ireland and the US.

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Pictured (l-r) at NovaUCD are; Kim Reynolds, Governor of Iowa; Minister Peter Burke TD; Laura Kelly, Governor of Kansas and Professor Orla Feely, President, UCD.
August 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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NovaUCD-based Sports Impact Technologies secures €650k in pre-seed funding to accelerate the beta roll-out of its sports wearable that detects head impacts in real-time to enhance player safety and performance by eliminating undetected concussions.

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Pictured are Eóin Tuohy, CEO and founder, Sports Impact Technologies, and Keith Brock, Senior Client Advisor, Enterprise Ireland.
August 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Great to see NestiFi, a new AI-powered platform investment platform allowing parents, grandparents, relatives and friends to invest in a child’s future as a group, feature as today Innovator to Watch via The Irish Times.

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Pictured at NovaUCD is Niall Dennehy, CEO and Founder of NestiFi. NestiFi is a current participant on the AI Ecosystem Accelerator Programme being delivered by NovaUCD and CeADAR.
August 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Head Diagnostics, an Irish medtech company headquartered at @novaucd.bsky.social, has signed an exclusive global licence with Philips for a novel digital cognitive assessment platform developed by the health conglomerate.

Find out more - www.ucd.ie/innovation/n...
Pictured at NovaUCD in Dublin is David van Zuydam, CEO, Head Diagnostics.
July 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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ODOS, a joint UCD-TCD agtech spin-out, has closed a €680k funding round, to drive sustainability in the agri-food sector and expand its technological capabilities and enter new markets.

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Pictured are Alejandro Vergara and Cian White, co-founders, ODOS.
July 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Licovolt, a UCD spin-out, is set to create 10 new jobs following seed investment from Davencor Holdings.

This will enable the company to rapidly advance its technology development roadmap given the scale of the global opportunity for Licovolt's technology.

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Clint Zahmel, Executive Director, Licovolt.
July 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Congratulations to Athena an early-stage start-up developing an AI coaching tool to help candidates perform confidently and authentically at job, or other high-stake, interviews, on winning the 2025 @novaucd.bsky.social Student Enterprise Competition.

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Pictured at NovaUCD is Zander Deans-Xiao, founder, Athena, winner of the 2025 NovaUCD Student Enterprise Competition.
June 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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We are delighted to welcome Liam Cronin to @novaucd.bsky.social this morning as he takes up the role as @ucddublin.bsky.social’s new Director of Innovation who will be responsible for driving innovation, entrepreneurship and commercialisation of research outputs within the University.
Pictured at NovaUCD is Liam Cronin, UCD's newly appointed Director of Innovation.
June 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Thrilled that our second 6-month AI Ecosystem Accelerator Programme kicked-off @novaucd.bsky.social yesterday with 9 exciting start-ups, Ailtir, Leapifai, NestiFi, PacSana, Reactable AI, Run Audit, TrojanTrack, UniDoodle and UnitMode.

Exciting few months ahead.

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Pictured are Prof. Kate Robson Brown, UCD Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact and Dr John Lonsdale, CEO, CeADAR with participants on the AI Ecosystem Accelerator Programme .
May 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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We were delighted to welcome Niamh Smyth TD, Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation to @novaucd.bsky.social earlier this week as guest speaker at the GenAI: From Prototype to Scalable Adoption event.
May 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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During a visit to CeADAR, Ireland’s Centre for AI, yesterday, Minister Niamh Smyth TD was briefed on CeADAR’s plans to accelerate AI adoption among Irish businesses.

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Pictured at NexusUCD (l-r) are Dr John Lonsdale, CEO, CeADAR; Professor Kate Robson Brown, UCD Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact; Minister for Trade Promotion, AI and Digital Transformation, Niamh Smyth TD; Laura Plunkett, EDIH Programme Manager, CeADAR; Nathalie Norton, EDIH Marketing Lead, CeADAR and Dr Ricardo Simon Carbajo, Director of Innovation & Development, CeADAR.
May 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Prof. Kate Robson Brown, UCD's Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact, has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the @nhm-london.bsky.social.

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Pictured at NovaUCD is Prof. Kate Robson Brown, UCD Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact.
April 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Congratulations to Tracy O'Rourke, Founder & CEO, Vivid Edge, a climate action impact company, named a 2025 Impact Awardee by the Cartier Women’s Initiative.

Tracy is one of 9 Awardees from around the world and the only Awardee from Ireland.

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Pictured is Tracy O’Rourke, Founder and CEO, Vivid Edge.
April 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Assiduous headquartered at @novaucd.bsky.social has secured €1m in funding from private investors & Enterprise Ireland, & launched the Corporate Finance Autopilot, a virtual service-as-a-software solution, that bridges the gap between business owners and capital markets.

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Pictured are Assiduous co-founders, Fergal Meegan and Barry Murphy with Conor O’Donovan, Head of Start-ups at Enterprise Ireland.
April 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Congratulations to Better Futures, an AI-focused start-up headquartered at @novaucd.bsky.social, among 5 pioneering global start-ups, and the only one from Ireland, to have been named Award winners at ABB’s 2025 Startup Challenge.

Well done Anthony and the team.

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Pictured in Bilbao, Spain is Anthony Mc Loughlin, CEO and founder, Better Futures winner of the Distribution Solutions Award category at the ABB 2025 Startup Challenge.
April 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Congratulations to our 2025 @novaucd.bsky.social Innovation Awardees who were presented with their Awards by Prof. @orlafeely.bsky.social, President, UCD during an event held at the UCD University Club.

Find out more about the Awardees via www.ucd.ie/innovation/n...

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Pictured (l-r) are Prof. Kate Robson Brown, UCD Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact; Mike McGearty, Dr Cormac Farrelly; Dr Emer Doheny; Dr Jayne Carberry; Prof. Orla Feely, President, UCD; Prof. Wenxin Wang; Dr Siobhan Mullan; Prof. Kevin O'Connor; Prof. Peter Kennedy and Dr Ciaran O'Beirne, Head, Knowledge Transfer Services, NovaUCD.
April 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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UCD and Teagasc have announced that applications are now open for the second specialist Food and Agriculture Sustainable Technology Innovation Programme which begins this September at UCD Lyons Farm.

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Pictured at the AgTechUCD Innovation Centre at UCD Lyons Farm are participants in the inaugural Food and Agriculture Sustainable Technology Innovation Programme (FAST-IP).
April 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM