Deep Dive

Sean Byerley, Head of Bank of Ireland, Cork City; Declan O'Mahoney, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Tyndall and Former CEO, Firecomms; and Carl Jackson, Former CTO, SensL at the launch of Deep Dive.

Through Deep Dive, we have worked with entrepreneurs who have identified a market opportunity that has needed a deep-tech solution.

Deep Dive has provided entrepreneurs access to:

Funding to take a Deep Dive into their market opportunity
A portfolio of high-value technologies with highly-defensible IP
Expertise from the researchers who developed the technology
Access to our state-of-the-art facilities
Links to an extensive network of private investors and venture capitalists following completion of this programme

At Tyndall, we have a history of successful tech spin-outs. Declan O’Mahoney, Joe O’Keeffe and Carl Jackson all led high-value spinouts based on Tyndall technology and were proud supporters of Deep Dive.

Carl Jackson, Former CTO, SensL; Joe O'Keeffe, Former CEO, InfiniLED; and Declan O'Mahoney, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Tyndall and Former CEO, Firecomms, supporters of Deep Dive.

Declan O’Mahoney, our Entrepreneur-in-Residence, was CEO of Firecomms, a high-tech compound semiconductor spin-out from Tyndall. Firecomms was Ireland’s first high-tech company to be acquired by a Chinese corporation when the company exited to ZJY Corp of Zhejiang in 2010. Declan was CEO of University of Ulster spin-out Heartsine Technologies which was acquired by Stryker Corp and is a private investor in a number of start-ups.

Joe O’Keeffe founded InfiniLED which commercialised a new generation of Micro LED technology developed at Tyndall. The technology significantly extends the battery life for portable devices such as cameras, mobile phones and laptops, as well as for various medical and analytical instrumentation. In 2016 InfiniLED was acquired by Facebook-owned Oculus.

Carl Jackson founded SensL, a spin-out from the CMOS-compatible, low-light sensor technology Carl’s PhD research was based on. SensL commercialised the technology for use in silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) and SPAD imaging arrays. Since being founded in 2004, SensL grew from start-up to multiple market segment leader in Medical Imaging and Automotive LiDAR and in May 2018, SensL was acquired by ON Semiconductor.

Deep Dive was part-funded by Bank of Ireland under its technology commercialisation programme with Tyndall National Institute.