LaunchBox Alumni
Each startup journey is unique and different, but every one of our LaunchBox teams has faced and overcome challenges, has learned from both successes and failures. We are proud of all of the startups that have grown out of LaunchBox. Read below to hear a selection of stories of some of our LaunchBox Alumni from the past few years.
- Equine MediRecord2017 Cohort Equine MediRecord develops, sells and maintains a mobile application and website to allow proper recording of medicines administered to racehorses and other bloodstock. This is the first application of its type. We aim to provide this digital service throughout Ireland before expanding into Europe and worldwide.
- Syze2017 Cohort Syze is an in-store and online service provider allowing clothing brands to accurately measure customers sizes. Through photo recognition and machine learning, Syze aims to reduce consumer anxiety and costly returns, whilst creating a more personalised shopping experience.
- Marsh Sisters2017 Cohort Marsh Sisters creates high end, hand crafted luxery marshmallows, set up by Christine & Bridget Butler. “We love all things sweet and have grown up baking together. After years of making marshmallows as gifts we decided to package them up and go to market so we could share them and others could enjoy them too. Our marshmallows are gluten and dairy free. They come in a variety of flavours that we are constantly updating. They are free from all artificial sweeteners and colours.”
- FRANC2017 Cohort FRANC was founded in 2015 to provide a view of fashion that is both intelligent and accessible. Briony Somers, having worked both as a model and in the design studios with designers such as Simone Rocha and Vivienne Westwood, felt her perspective of fashion underserved. FRANC’s first issue received immediate success selling out in two weeks and received industry support prompting a redesign and expansion for the second issue.
- Nu.2016 Cohort Nu. is an innovative ethical fashion community aiming to reinvent the way we shop. We believe in looking great without the environmental and social costs. Nu. runs creative and innovative events in Dublin with a focus on raising awareness of the harms of fast fashion, whilst providing a fun, stylish and affordable alternative. Our objective is to make ethical and sustainable fashion the norm.
- BetterExaminations2016 Cohort BetterExaminations came into LaunchBox 2016 as a really easy, clean and customer-friendly way to get past examination papers for Irish Government examinations, but has since moved into a number of new products and directions. Since finishing LaunchBox, they have been granted HPSU status by Enterprise Ireland.
- MatchDay2016 Cohort MatchDay is a free to play real time sports game that allows users to make in game predictions during live sports events in order to win prizes. They aim to add a competitive and social edge to watching live sports. What makes MatchDay different is that they collaborate with brands in order to provide prizes for their users. They believe their platform is a unique and engaging way for brands to connect with consumers.
- Neurobranch2016 Cohort Neurobranch is a cross-platform, cloud-based bio-research study platform designed for the small to medium sized bio/pharma institutions and academic use. The platform allows researchers unparalleled flexibility in data acquisition, qualification, and quantification retrieved from research candidates, as well as increasing retention rates of study candidates.
- SiteSpy2015 Cohort Developing a hardware device which relays information to telecom engineers. Sitespy seeks to procure efficiency in antenna repair through autonomous maintenance.
- UniTuition2015 Cohort Unituition is an open-network site where students can contact specified tutors based off their interests, availability and location.
- TouchTech Payments2014 Cohort TouchTech is a e-commerce payment processor for mobile shopping, that enables merchants to make Card Present transactions online.
- LapCup2014 Cohort LabCup is a chemical inventory management system for academic labs, with the goal of making research labs a more efficient and safer working environment.
- FoodCloud2013 Cohort Foodcloud brings businesses and charities together in order to reduce both food waste and food poverty.
- Artomatix2013 Cohort Artomatix is an early-stage company. Our mission is to develop the next generation of art tools.