GatewayUCC has announced the winners of its 6th SPRINT Awards for 2022. 40% of participants are founders who are women, which represents the largest intake of women in the programme’s history
The accelerator programme is designed to support early stage start-ups, entrepreneurs and UCC-based researchers, including those from Tyndall.
In the past nine years, GatewayUCC has supported over 70 start-ups and pre-start-ups based on IP from the university and those companies have raised in excess of €50 million of public and private investment since foundation.
Prof. William Scanlon, CEO, Tyndall National Institute,
Dr Vitaly Zubialevich, Researcher, Tyndall National Institute,
Dr Felipe Murphy-Armando, Researcher, Tyndall National Institute,
Dr Xing Dai, Researcher, Tyndall National Institute,
Myriam Cronin, Head of GatewayUCC,
Leo Clancy, CEO, Enterprise Ireland.
The winners of the 2022 GatewayUCC SPRINT Awards are:
- SPRINT Investor Ready Award 2022 – Prof Deirdre Murray, Mike Cunneen, Liltoda Ltd.
- INFANT · SPRINT Sustainability Technology Award 2022 – Dr Xing Dai, Fast Photonics, IPIC, SFI Centre for Photonics, Tyndall.
- SPRINT Clinical Impact Award 2022 – Dr Florence Herisson, Functional Food - Synbiotic functional food supplementation to improve key cardiac risk in metabolic syndrome patients, APC Microbiome Ireland.
- SPRINT Disruptive Technology Award 2022 – Dr Felipe Murphy-Armando, Ultra-Sensitive Nano Material for Minimal Invasive Surgery, Tyndall.
- SPRINT Teagasc Innovation Award 2022 – Dr Maria Hayes, Pet Aging Wellness (PAW), Teagasc Moorepark.
- SPRINT One to Watch Award 2022 – Dr Vitaly Zubialevich, GAINABLE – Virtual and Augmented Reality Gadgets, IPIC, SFI Centre for Photonics, Tyndall.
- SPRINT Public Welfare Impact Award 2022 – Dr Miguel Fernandez De Ullivarri, Novel Antifungal Peptides for Treatment Candidiasis, APC Microbiome Ireland.
The SPRINT Programme was developed to help spin-out and start-up companies overcome challenges they may encounter when starting their businesses. On the programme, pre and early stage startups work with business mentors who help the researchers and founders to bring their business from idea stage through to the eventual commercialisation of their product or service.
The SPRINT programme is sponsored by Enterprise Ireland, Bank of Ireland, Local Enterprise Office Cork City and Cork City Council.